newest yet most pressing issues of the most recent years. Concussions, a potentially fatal outcome from high impact collisions in aggressive sports. At a professional level, competitors are at an all time high in their athletic ability. Although there are much worse and life threatening injuries in sports, concussions are a common injury that can happen multiple times. With these types of forces and pressures on the head athletes become prone to a number of impairments directly effecting how…
childhood obesity can lie within infancy. According to Birch and Ventura, they suggest infants pick up quickly on anything you show them which is why having them develop good eating habits while they are young seems like it can really work in terms of getting them used to good portions of food and healthy choices that prevention and treatment programs that need to be reversed. They believe that by using where the children live, it can be a possible setting for intervention efforts, for…
talks about how some colleges do not put much work into their approach to drug education and use a simple boring presentation that only bores the student-athletes during the presentation. Drug education can also help those student-athletes that have used drugs and help them understand they need help. The last main point is also found on page 6, “Recommendations for Athlete Drug Education Programs.” This last main point did not have much information; it gave a generalization of what schools…
reality, bodybuilding has nothing to do with masculine and feminine, it has to do with loving your body and wanting to change it just how you may want it (Scott-Dixon). It is to empower women and give them something to look up to, along with the multiple health benefits that keeping in shape can do (Brabazon…
The words strategic and tactical are similar in terms of meeting a goal but, opposite in the approach in which they are achieved. The word strategic relates to the identification of long term goals and how to achieve them. The word tactical refers to carefully planned actions to meet a specific goal. For example, in the context of global competition, the strategic approach…
overweight and obese African American children from an inner city in the US. In contrast, the PPLI has not been further tested in the literature, and may require redevelopment of a new scale for a US population. The methods used by Sum at al. (2015) to develop a perceived PL scale could be used to guide the construction of a new scale for PE teachers in the…
things that Babolat could be doing better. One thing I think they could work on is posting a little more frequently. There are some days on their social media pages that go without a post while some of their competitors, like Wilson tennis, post multiple times a day (Wilson Tennis). With the low volume of posts it is possible that their tweets will go completely unseen by many of their followers and will just get lost. I also think they could get more involved in community events, like hosting…
There is a new term called “e-sport” which is the abbreviation of electronic sport. This means you play a game in a competition and people call this e-sport. When we look at the video game market the best sellers for last 5 years the type of game is only one. The action games which you kill online opponent. This way of games is evolved…
immediately taken to the hospital and was diagnosed with a concussion and at least two weeks rest from football. Little did I know, this would be the last game of my life. With my prior history of multiple concussions I understood that I would have a lengthy recovery process; but I never predicted the long term effects it would have on my life. For weeks, I couldn’t think clearly and struggled…
different source materials and situations. Being able to define and find strong points of literacy within is sometimes difficult. The best way to tackle this question is to find out who is one’s main literary sponsors. Literary sponsors are defined as “a term coined by Deborah Brandt to describe people, ideas, or institutions that help others become literate in specific ways” (Brandt 47). Literacy was taught to me at a very young age by my mother, teachers,…