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    discussing injuries in endurance athletes. Professor Ben Router is also strength and conditioning coach and a Associate Professor at Cal University in Pennsylvania. According to Dr. Router, endurance training has increased over the years, stating that more Americans are becoming more physically active. Also, organizations are creating fund raising activities to involve athlete participating in running marathons and other physical activities. Dr. Router defines endurance sports into two…

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    frequent in endurance athletes while the RR genotype is more frequent in power athletes. The R allele produces a lot of the α-actinin-3 protein and the X allele puts a premature stop to the growing protein chain resulting in a non-functional α-actinin-3 protein. α-actinin-3 is not necessary in normal muscle function, but it is associated with muscle strength. The X allele, on the other hand, can give an advantage on slow, efficient muscle performance, which may make it enhance endurance…

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    body muscular endurance this year in Wellness & Fitness. Something that showed my growth was the 30 Day Challenge. We did the 30 Day Challenge in first quarter. The 30 Day Challenge took place in September and October. The 30 Day Challenge was created so we could increase our endurance in either, upper body, core, or cardiovascular endurance. Upper body endurance is your muscles from your arms to your chest, and is demonstrated by how many pushups you can do. Cardiovascular endurance is how…

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    Muscular Strength

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    strength, and endurance deficits are some of the causative factors given for increased risk of shoulder injury/pain. Arm pain and fatigue has also been identified as a common risk factor regarding shoulder and elbow pain. Adolescent pitchers who have a reported history of shoulder pain also demonstrated significantly less relative supraspinatus and middle trapezius strength as well as an increase in internal rotation strength and a decrease in external rotation strength. 2. Muscular endurance…

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    required improvement included muscular power, muscular strength, agility, and all-round cardiovascular endurance. Based on this information, the redesigned program was constructed with three different sessions, Interval, Circuit and Endurance training. Interval training, takes place three times a week, with a 15-minute warm up, and sprints, designed to increase speed and cardiovascular endurance. Circuit training, also takes place three times a week and includes dead lifts, sit-ups, push-ups,…

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    Endurance has been respected in many professions and activities for the longest time. Most physical jobs have an aspect of endurance to them and because of this the people with the better endurance are more likely to succeed. Ernest Hemingway was a proponent as it fit his code hero. He believed that in order to be the best man one must have excesses of endurance. In Old Man and The Sea , Santiago is the perfect image of endurance with his long arm wrestling match…

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    10-12 times. Muscular endurance: The capacity of a muscle to exert a submaximal force through a given range of motion. It’s a combination of strength and endurance that creates muscular endurance. In sports, muscular endurance is essential for you in order to play for a very long time. Muscular endurance is determined by how well your muscle fibers are developed. Cardiovascular endurance: The maximum strength your heart contains and doing exercises related to cardiovascular endurance can…

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    Skeletal Muscle Training

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    Skeletal muscle is needed to complete each type of approach. However, depending on the specific training being done, the skeletal muscle will adapt differently to each type. The two most basic types of exercise are endurance and resistance training (Knuiman, 2015). The goal of endurance training is to improve aerobic power by conducting submaximal muscular contractions. Adversely, resistance training involves approximately maximal contractions occurring in short bouts. It also focuses on muscle…

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    Throughout my paper I will talk about the fundamental basics of fitness; cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular fitness, muscular flexibility, and body composition. Before going over the fundamental basics of health related fitness, let 's start by defining fitness. According to Merriam Webster, fitness is defined as ' the quality or state of being fit '. Though this definition doesn 't give the…

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    a lower-extremity injury exhibits atypical muscle activity and movement patterns measured by range of motion and endurance [2]. Due to their high intensity training method, requiring immense amounts of strength, control, and endurance, dancers are at a high risk for lower- extremity injuries due to the demand for precision and accuracy [3, 4]. The decreased range of motion and endurance contribute to the development of lower-extremity injuries that may impact the future career outcome of the…

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