The article starts off by talking about how strength training benefits a person physically and mentally. Strength Training can help build your physique and overall cardiovascular. It also helps to boost your mood, your morale, and thinking. The article goes into detail about how to begin strength training. You should have a medical exam to make sure that there is no underlying health problems or any existing medical conditions that can be aggravated or affected by strength training. You should start off with a simple strength-training regimen that takes as little as fifteen minutes, twice a week. Strength training will in turn help to prevent age-related decline in muscle mass, to prevent osteoporosis, and to increase the rate of fat loss and enhance mobility. This in turn will help to make it easier to participate in aerobic exercise and other sports. The article details four different exercises that will help to get you started. Two are for the lower body and two are for the upper body. The first one that is mentioned is the dumbbell squat or leg extension machine; the next one is the dumbbell lunge or leg curl machine. Then the dumbbell chest press or chest press machine and the dumbbell row or lat pull-down machine are mentioned. The article tells how to do the exercises that are mentioned. This article is very helpful if you are trying to learn how to begin a program for strength training.
Even though I found this article very informative I was already acquainted with strength training before I read the article because I played basketball and I was on the marching band. I had to learn how to strengthen myself before I could even participate in any sport or activities that were very physical. I thought that the article was very accurate because I remember doing the same exercises and taking the same precautions before starting to exercise.
Muscle endurance is the ability to perform a lot of repetitions against a given resistance for a long period of time. The combination of strength and endurance results in muscle endurance. Muscle endurance is used in may sports such as rowing, swimming, cycling, distance running, field hockey and American football. Normally, an endurance muscle program involves lifting about 12-25 repetitions of moderate loads. In some cases, this is inadequate for many sports such as boxing, canoeing and x-cross skiing.
“Accept the challenge so that you can feel exhilaration of victory”. This quote was said by George S. Patton is discussion the important role that Athletic trainer should work and work until they win. Who are we are highly qualified multi skilled health care professionals. Also Athletic trainer prevent diagnosis treatment and rehabilitation of emergent acute or chronic injuries. Were also known for being high qualified multi skilled health care professional. Being and athletic trainer is a great and hardworking career. That involves meeting new people, dealing with different challenge each day, Also it has moderate schooling.
O’Brien, Vincent. “Athletic Training.” Career information. Wellness consumer Health Information, 8 Aug. 2014. Web. 19 Nov. 2015.
I have many goals as an Athletic Training Student, and continuing my education is the biggest goal in order to be successful in my career and future goals. Eventually, I will earn a doctorate and go on to work at a professional level with a major league soccer team. I also aim to increase the knowledge and awareness of mental health within the field of athletic training.
Physiologically there are many benefits to consistent weight training. This includes muscle size, tone, and overall strength. Not only this but lifting weights has also been shown to improve psychological health as well. This is done by increasing self-esteem, conf...
Due to the strong and growing evidence in scientific literature on the beneficial effects of physical activity on health and well-being, the importance of Clinical Exercise Science has increased. Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. Exercise, is a subcategory of physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and purposeful in the sense that the improvement or maintenance of one or more components of physical fitness is the objective (http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/pa/en/; last accessed on 30 April 2016). Generally speaking, Clinical Exercise Science is an applied clinical branch which deals with the application of various exercise modalities for
Bodybuilding Workout Schedule - Crazy Mass Review! Having a bodybuilding workout schedule is a great way to plan your workouts and ensure that you remain committed to your bodybuilding program. Bodybuilding Workout Schedule A good bodybuilding workout schedule will include every exercise necessary for full body development and also provide each muscle group with enough time off to recover.
The health benefits can be categorized into two categories; physical health and mental health. Physical health starts with losing excess fat or gain muscle, to helping with endurance/stamina, preventing disease and muscle loss, and strengthening bone and muscle density. Mentally strength training can help with anxiety and depression, and it even helps with your thinking skills. Overall it can also help increase your life expectancy by years (McMullen 1).
Strength is an abstract concept with various meanings. Some meanings are more complex than others. Many people when they hear the word strength think of muscular men who can lift cars or comic book heroes that fly around their city saving people. More exists to the concept than just being muscular. Strength is also shown when one goes through something tough but stays positive and pushes through it anyways. Having strength can mean possessing the ability to accomplish hard tasks because of muscles, being firm or solidly planted in something, or withstanding your own and not giving up or giving in to the opposing force.
What is Athletic training, and what could someone do with an athletic training degree? Athletic training is a unique field because it requires a strong mental and physical ability. These trainers go by many different titles such as: physician extender, wellness manager, rehab specialist, etc. Many trainers do not work under anyone, as they have their own office outside of the athletic setting. However, these trainer also work in many other places, such as: universities, hospitals and clinics, professional sports fields, military bases, etc. With a degree in this field, one might want, for example, to work in a hospital or clinic, as stated above. What would he/she be responsible for in this particular setting? A trainer working in a hospital would try to ease the pain of the injury and help move the patient through the process of the treatment.
I was able to gain knowledge about the different parts of the body which are important in the field of bodybuilding. I discover that there are main muscle groups and each of these muscle groups have different parts. For example, the main muscle groups would be the chest, back, arms, shoulders and legs. Now each of these main muscle groups have more that one part, your arms has biceps, triceps and a forearms. Each of these parts are made up or many more segments that can construct a list that can go on for a while. Gaining such a vast understanding of my body was thrilling. I was able to understand all the parts of my body. I am confident that I know almost every muscle group that is in the known human body. After learning about each individual muscle, I was then able to move on to the next step understanding how to train these individual muscle groups. I figured out that there are different routines that you have to follow in order to train each muscle. For example, your legs can be split into different muscles segments such as the quads, calves, and hamstrings. Once I isolated each muscle segment I was able to find workouts for each of them. For the quadriceps you would do workouts known as a barbell squat, lunges and reverse leg curls. Then after finding this out I had to
Michli, L.J. Strength Training in the Young Athlete. Competitive Sports for Children and Youth. 96-97. 1988.
Weight lifting is a broad term used to represent a vast number of actual exercises and styles. Weightlifting can be broken down into weight training, bodybuilding, fitness lifting, isometric training, resistance training, and athletic training. Although they posses similarities, often their objective separates them. Weight training generally means the pursuit of getting as strong as possible, and uses dead weight such as dumbbells and barbells. Bodybuilders have the goal to get the largest muscle mass and often times have a very small percent body fat. Fitness training or endurance training is often performed with low weight and high repetitions to build muscular endurance and general, non-athletic fitness. In isomeric training, the muscles and joints don't...
Resistance training is very important in all ages because resistance exercise prevent chronic disease like diabetes mellitus, obesity and osteoporosis. Resistance training increase the bone mass and bone density. Thus, gradually it prevents bone mineral density and reverse the osteoporosis.
Proper action plus proper timing equals desired results. Physical training is a lifestyle that requires commitment, determination, and discipline. If you already eat well and exercise, using this system will feel natural. If you do not already eat well and exercise, using this system will take some adjustment. Commit to your execution of the nutrition...