The purpose of this assignment is to provide an appropriate fitness assessment for a rugby union player. An effective fitness assessment should provide essential information regarding players’ match fitness and reveal what fitness programs need prescribing. In order for a test to be effective it must reflect the specific demands of the sport. Each test was chosen due to its specificity in relation to the demands of rugby union competition. An understanding of the client will be made clear through a PAR-Q which will provide the relative information for both personal and medical.
Rugby consists of two forty minute halves played with some injury time (Nicholas, 1997). The ball remains in plays for only 25 to 29 minutes, and physiological demands of rugby are of an intermittent nature, and vary depending on the position played (McLean, 1992).
Body size influences the speed, power and endurance of rugby players (Withers et al., 1987). Forwards also require greater body mass than backs; players involved in the scrum need to be strongly built and heavy to withstand and apply forces while scrummaging (Milburn, 1990). Body composition is measured due to the belief that excess body fat is associated with negative performance. This is based on Newton’s second law, which specifies, increases in fat mass without increase in muscle force will reduce acceleration. Furthermore, the displacement of fat mass requires extra energy, causing an increase in the cost of exercise (Duthie, 2006). Therefore, excessive body fat can negatively affect speed, acceleration and economy of movement. The Durnin and Womersley skinfold technique (1974) provides the most valid and reliable method of assessing an individual’s body fat compared to the gold stan...
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...res and poor foot to ball contact, these issues could be focused on rather than repeating practice trials on their strengths. Adding leg strength workouts and foot to ball placement drills would focus on these lacking kicking skills. It would be important to re-test the team at regular intervals to track their progress. This would provide the team members with feedback and allow their training schedules to be adjusted accordingly to meet their individual needs.
In many cases, young athletes playing minor sports are eager to perform like the professional athletes they idolize. While this can be beneficial to the learning and understanding of the sport, unlike professionals, minor players do not know how to use physical contact appropriately. This raises a major issue because the weight and size of players in minor sports are all different. In hockey, players who are inexperienced with physical contact and move up levels are able to play in the same division as players who are experienced in checking and body contact. Different coaches teach how to hit and receive hits differently. Different weights and sizes of hockey players who do not know how to properly utilize body contact is a recipe for disaster because a larger player who cannot deliver a hit safely really endangers smaller or weaker players. This was the case for minor rugby player Mike Le Bourgeois who was left on the field with bruised ribs and a bout of amnesia after being ...
Various sports have been shown to help develop higher bone masses at loaded bone sites. For example, high-impact and odd-impact loadings produce the strongest bone structure in the lower extremities, such as the legs; and high-magnitude loading produces the strongest bone structure in the upper extremities, such as the arms and torso. The lower extremities have the weight-bearing component, which is needed for the dynamic loading required, and muscle performance is primarily focused in the lower extremities. The upper extremities contain the nonweight-bearing component, but unlike the weight-bearing bones, no bone loss has been found (Nikander et al. 2006).
High school football players sustain a major proportion of season injuries. A major part of these regions are due to ligament sprains, targeted stretching exercises may be beneficial. The most injured players were those with the position of running back and linebackers. In the 2005-2006 season there were more than half a million injuries nationally of high school football players. This data was collected from over 100 high school football teams.
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The problems and injuries that come with playing football have been obvious since the beginning, and to this day are still being discovered and researched in hopes of finding solutions so that the sport is not so dangerous. Malcolm Gla...
To sum it up if a player was fitter they perform more effectively than they would have. Therefore if a player was to improve aerobic capacity then overall fitness would boost performance on the football field. Team sports like football make it even harder to determine what areas of fitness are required. The types required will depend upon positions. and role in the team, but one key area is skill and specificity.
This game requires immense amounts of exercise and cardiovascular activity. In an article on Youth Football Online.com it states, “Football is a physically demanding sport that will have the kids exercising every practice and game.” Football is filled with physical activity from running sprints, to lifting weights, to just simply playing the game. It is one of the best sports to get physically fit from. I feel myself working the hardest I ever have when I’m on the field. You endure multitudes of different types of training during football making it great for your health. Compared to other sports, it by far requires the most work all
1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Definition and Description: Rugby league is a contract sport and it takes a team to play this sport and there is a lot of running tackling. It’s form of player in a team a thirteen. The goal of the sport is to try a get threw the opposite teams defence to score a try at the other end of the rugby field and don’t let the other team threw your defence and to try and slow the play down so your team can get back on side and you have to be back 10 metre every set when your on defence but when you attacking you can stand where ever you want just not in front of the ball play you always have to be behind the person with the ball if not its called a ford pass which isn’t aloud so you will have to hand the ball over to the other team. One try is worth 6 point’s and a conversion ( kick the ball threw the goal post) is worth 2 point’s. The game goes for 80 minutes 40 minutes each half or some times when it hot we have a bit more breaks so we don’t get heat stress so we play 20 minute for 4 set.
Creative new training methods, developed by coaches, athletes and sport scientists, are aimed to help improve the quality and quantity of athletic training ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). However, these methods have encountered a consistent set of barriers including overtraining ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). Due to these barriers, the need for physical and mental recovery in athletics brought an increasing attention in practice and in research ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1).
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Sports professionals consider core training crucial for increasing performance in elite athletes. Programs traditionally include exercises enhancing development of power, maintenance of stability, and improvement of coordination, whilst absorbing and transmitting forces. ….identifies power as a predominant component of many sports. Golf, tennis, football, and track and field events are power related sports where culmination of speed and strength make substantial difference in performance outcomes. …. Implies a strong and secure core permits increased power production and transportation across the kinetic chain. Furthermore, major muscles of th...