Within the past few decades sports have experienced major revolutions. These major changes have resulted in new and more intense uses of the human body. More has become expected of athletes in professional sports. They are expected to be bigger, faster and stronger than those that played before them. Nonetheless, not all sports require the same abilities from their athlete's. High speed sports such as soccer and basketball depend upon different athletic abilities than sports such as tennis and bowling. Due to these differences, every sport should develop its own pre game “warm-ups”in order to properly loosen up and make ready their athletes.
Basketball is a sport dependent on many different attributes. Players need to be agile, strong, balanced, …show more content…
Unlike in basketball bowlers are not as active during their match. Bowling does not demand speed or agility but it does have it’s own unique demands. Upper body strength and muscle endurance is a necessity for bowlers (Wood) . Flexibility is also a necessity as bowlers are constantly rotating their shoulders and back muscles (Woods). Unlike in soccer or basketball where players need to be moving and loosening up such as jogging and running, it is not necessary to bowlers. Before matches bowlers should stretch to loosen their arm and back …show more content…
Tennis, which is an anaerobic exercise, is played with a short breaks between each volley (Ashe-Edmunds). Due to these short breaks and the number of match wins required to win the overall game, tennis games can be drawn out for many hours. For this reason tennis players must have great endurance to make it through the game (Ashe-Edmunds). During the short bursts, players are constantly running back and forth across the court which leads to a demand of not only agility and speed but great footwork (Ashe-Edmunds). Competitors also depend on their upper body strength to continually hit the ball with tremendous speed to beat their opponents. Using these demands, a unique workout can be created to get a tennis player fully warmed up in every way they will eventually need. Exercises such as speed ladders and sprints can be performed to work on speed and footwork while side lunges along with lunges can be performed to warm up the participants explosiveness
Basketball is a sport dependent on many different attributes. Players need to be agile, strong, balanced, …show more content…
Unlike in basketball bowlers are not as active during their match. Bowling does not demand speed or agility but it does have it’s own unique demands. Upper body strength and muscle endurance is a necessity for bowlers (Wood) . Flexibility is also a necessity as bowlers are constantly rotating their shoulders and back muscles (Woods). Unlike in soccer or basketball where players need to be moving and loosening up such as jogging and running, it is not necessary to bowlers. Before matches bowlers should stretch to loosen their arm and back …show more content…
Tennis, which is an anaerobic exercise, is played with a short breaks between each volley (Ashe-Edmunds). Due to these short breaks and the number of match wins required to win the overall game, tennis games can be drawn out for many hours. For this reason tennis players must have great endurance to make it through the game (Ashe-Edmunds). During the short bursts, players are constantly running back and forth across the court which leads to a demand of not only agility and speed but great footwork (Ashe-Edmunds). Competitors also depend on their upper body strength to continually hit the ball with tremendous speed to beat their opponents. Using these demands, a unique workout can be created to get a tennis player fully warmed up in every way they will eventually need. Exercises such as speed ladders and sprints can be performed to work on speed and footwork while side lunges along with lunges can be performed to warm up the participants explosiveness