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it causes a great amount of increased pressure inside the compartment and it can cause ischemia of the muscle and loss of a limb. This condition is known as Compartment Syndrome (Nielson & Whelan). Case Study During a baseball game at an athletic training clinical site, a baseball player got hit with a baseball…

Muscular endurance is key to may sports, sports where intermittent exercise is performed, such as rugby or basketball, intermittent training is appropriate. Sports where a continuous exercise output is required, such as a marathon, continuous training is appropriate. Exercise has beneficial effects in patients with cardiovascular disease, even for those with severely impaired cardiac function, and that physical inactivity accelerates the severity…

Exercises and Natural Remedies for Musicians With Chronic Pain Musicians with chronic pain due to overuse, inflammation, and repetitive stress injuries suffer both physically and emotionally. After all, it is debilitating to experience such pain while performing your passions. It’s also frustrating to visit with multiple medical professionals, only to hear that you will need costly surgeries, or worse, they recommend you give up what you love! Fortunately, there are a number of natural…

For the love of the sport, athletes often put their physical wellbeing at risk. While injuries are not always avoidable, professional and recreational athletes alike can stand to benefit from preventative maintenance. For example, Twin Pine Family Chiropractic in Fonda, New York, provides the vital sports injury treatment and preventative chiropractic care for every athlete. Sports injuries are rampant. Caused by everything from cross-country to volleyball, these injuries are often sparked by…

Lesson #4 Negative sets Specific short term goals for the lesson plan: In this lesson I will teach students/ athletes about the importance of changing up your lifting routine in order to see progress in their muscle strength. Negative training or sets focuses on the eccentric part of a particular exercise that is only when you are lowering the weight. This action should also be slower and more controlled because you are resisting the weight instead of pushing it. Though this full body…

Unilateral exercise seems to be more beneficial in comparing with bilateral exercise. However, according to Fleck and Kraemer (2004), both training need to be use to allow the diversity effect to take place in a training program that being designed to facilitates athletes to have a variety of different stimuli after they begin to have an adaptation towards a training and progress to the next…

Tracking my physical activity this semester has impacted how I look at physical activity. Before this class I never planned my workouts I just worked out. During this process of tracking my physical activity I have learned to be detail oriented when planning my workout session. I also learned that being detail oriented helps me understand what I’m capable of doing physically and what I can work on. The data helped me understand how I progressed during the process of tracking. I noticed that as…

For example if I start with 10 reps at 60%, I would by the third week want to be doing 15 reps with 60%.The purpose of doing this is to slowly progress the volume of your program.Our next focus, after 2-3 weeks of endurance training are over, would be 2-3 weeks of strength training with a focus on hypertrophy.To build strength and make the muscles grow in size we would have to train at a higher intensity with slighly less volume than we were doing before. Focus on using 75-85% of your max for…

HGH and Sports HGH means Human Growth Hormone. HGH is a hormone that the body already produces. “It is a hormone secreted by our pituitary gland, which is near the base of the brain, and it helps with cell reproduction and promotes physical growth” (Peterson). HGH was made in 1981 to help people who did not produce enough HGH naturally (Peterson). Doctors also use HGH to help children who are smaller than normal (HGH). Depending on what you are using it for, HGH can be good or bad for the body…

When people think about building muscle, the idea of lifting weights and working out in the gym comes to mind. This is the common way to build muscle but it is certainly not the only way. Building muscle without weights may be a slower process than the standard way of creating muscle mass but it can be done. The brilliant thing about building muscle without weights is that it is capable of applying to all the muscle groups. Not only but the exercises and routines involved are very easy to…