Essay about Warming Up and Warming Down

for a number of tests, including flexibility and power and strength tests, a full warm-up should be conducted to reduce the possibility of injury

Some of the health benefits are cardiovascular fitness, body composition, flexibility, and muscular strength and endurance. Since soccer requires continuous running, it is an aerobic exercise, which helps build cardiovascular fitness. It improves body composition by burning fats and building up muscle. It also improves muscular endurance and strength because of the shifts from speed (running, walking, sprinting) that occur throughout a game. Lastly, soccer improves flexibility through dynamic, ballistic, and static stretching. Dynamic stretching is featured in soccer warm-ups, ballistic stretching is used during the game when the players move about the field (jump up, lift their legs, or use arms for throw-ins), and static stretching is used to stretch the quads when one bends the leg up at the knee in famous flamingo

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Anthony Blondell Baseball Biomechanics 12/27/17 I enjoy playing baseball, I played 2 seasons of baseball so far. I played multiple positions while I was playing including short stop, second base, outfield, and pitcher. Before every practice and every game we would warm up by stretching running and throwing. We would do toe touches, jumping jacks, push ups, leg stretches and lunges to warm up all our muscles and to keep from getting muscle cramps.

This is seen when the player begins the game at a HR of 110bpm (Appendix 1), significantly higher than the average resting HR of 70bpm (lower for elite athletes). Consequently, the athlete feels less fatigued once the game begins as fatiguing by-products, such as lactate, would not accumulate as quickly due to higher available oxygen levels. It is recommended that an active recovery post game, like walking or jogging be performed to keep the HR elevated, enabling increased blood flow to the muscles and hence supplying oxygen to clear accumulating blood lactate. Male Touch Football players have a higher relative VO2 maximum (55.8ml/kg/min) compared to females (49.1ml/kg/min), therefore have greater oxygen supply which can be utilised by the muscles during recovery, resulting in a faster recovery (Appendix 2). This is evident as immediately post game males had a higher blood lactate level (7.9mmol/L) compared to females (7.6mmol/L) yet 20 minutes post game, males had a lower blood lactate level (3.2mmol/L) than females (3.3mmol/L) (Appendix 2).

Athletes need to cool down and stretch after a workout because otherwise their muscles will stay

3-5 minutes cool down activities: I will review the importance of a proper cool down to students after any workout. The cool down will include static stretching that will be held for 15-30 seconds. I will demonstrate a few full body that target both upper and lower body stretch such as the shoulder stretch and hamstring stretch. Finally, I will also remind the students/ athletes the benefits of a cool down such as lowering your heart rate and reduce potential

Physical and mental strength plays a major role in a football player’s life. Football is a twelve month process, which consists of off- season (six months), in -season (five months), and the Transition (one month). During off-season the football player’s main goal is gaining strength, size, and much power, in-season they continue to practice and work on maintaining the gains in strength during the off-season, and the transition is when they rest and recuperate their body from the physical exercise. Football players are constantly bumped and knocked down during practices

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muscles before working out to prevent a cramp (DJO Global Inc., 2017). The active recovery

muscles and more strength. As an athlete you want to be bigger, faster and stronger and with

NGS integrates greenhouse into other major policy initiatives, such as the Natural Heritage Trust, and launches new measures to increase greenhouse emission reduction activities across the Australian community. It provides the strategic framework for an effective greenhouse response and for meeting current and future international commitments. It will provide a fresh impetus for action by governments, stakeholder groups and the broader community and set directions for that action into the next century.

Range of movement- This is linked to muscle pliability as the warmer the muscles get, the better the elasticity which enable the body to move easier and have a better range of movement around a joint. Exercise increases the production of synovial fluid at a joint, therefore keeps the joints lubricated and makes them suppler. Consequently, allowing a larger range of movement throughout the body. For example if an individual went on the cross trainer for 10 minutes and then went on to the rowing machine; they would have an increased range of movement at their joints, making it easier to exercise on that machine due to the muscles already being warmed up.

Global warming is an increase in the temperature of the earth's weather. Global warming is also known as the green house effect. Global warming is a very serious world issue. Most humans are trying to do as much as they can to help stop global warming. Global warming has caused many problems to the earth in addition to the humans that live here on the earth. A problem caused by global warming is very hot summers. Some summers have had days that the temperature had reached 30*C. Another Problem that global warming has caused is the melting of polar ice caps. Global warming caused the polar ice caps to melt which will cause the ice to break free as well as melt in the sea, sea levels all over the world will rise. Lastly,

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