1. a) Name 3 main fitness components this program is aiming to improve providing evidence with your reasoning? Aerobic power- An C player must be able to run for long periods of time while being able to still keep a fast pace. By improving their aerobic power, they will be able to keep of with the high demands of the sport. Through the long distance runs and circuit training, it’s clear to see this is a main fitness component the coach is targeting. Muscular endurance- As the player must continue running, their muscles will begin to tire and lactic acid will build up in their muscles. To ensure the players muscle don’t fatigue, the coach of this elite athlete has clearly targeted their muscular endurance. Shown through the multiple resistance trainings and circuit training, the athletes muscular endurance will be sure to improve. Agility – A C player must ensure they are able to sprint during a game at random points. To help ensure the player has the quickest reaction time when taking a sprint, they need to improve their agility. The coach of this elite athlete has ensured agility is a key focus with various sessions made to improve agility such as the Illinois …show more content…
A GK would need to focus more agility based training as they must be very agile to comply with the quick and dynamic movements made by the GS. To include agility based training with their training program, they may include interval raining, fartlek training etc. In addition, to agility, a GK training program must focus on muscular power to assist with their constant jumping for intercepts and rebounds. To include this in their training program, they may choose to include plyometric training which will not only help with their explosive jumps, it will also help with their agility and short sprints down the
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The use of the six principles of training by a 100m sprinter would greatly improve the athlete’s performance. This is because the progressive overload, specificity, reversibility, variety, training thresholds and warm up/cool down principles all greatly affect the performance of any athlete. The principles of training can be employed in order to improve all aspects of fitness, from flexibility to strength and aerobic endurance.
Imagining myself as a high school soccer coach, I would like to optimize my team’s kicking performance. Some players consistently kick the ball successfully with the correct use of power and accuracy. To ensure that all players are able to achieve the same optimal kicking habits, this paper will document (1) the effective and ineffective habits of kicking, (2) describe biomechanical based kicking assessments, (3) describe how these assessments will measure the effective aspects of kicking and expected findings, and (4) provide suggestions on how I may modify programming based on the insights gained from these assessments.
Athletic staleness and burnout is a big problem for many of today’s athletes whether they are at the amateur or professional level. The good thing about this problem that ends up in total and complete physical and emotional exhaustion is that it can be recognized when it is taking place. It can also be treated if the recognition comes at too late of a stage of the onset of staleness and burnout. But the best remedy for athletic staleness and burnout is prevention of it in the first place. There are three different models that have been used to explain the causes of athlete burnout.
Pressure is placed on athletes to perform better. The fierce competitive nature of the real sports world in with the peoples excellence has caused athletes to seek alternative means to ...
...ging or weaving to avoid the oppositions, or sometimes when recovering quickly from a collision or fall. Therefore in terms of fitness tests I am doing reasonably well however there are a few areas that need attention to.
These results will indicate how aerobically fit/unfit each player is. Individual training programmes can be developed accordingly with some players needing more aerobic training than others. It is important to note that not all players need to be at the same level of aerobic fitness. However midfield players may need to be in the “excellent” category of normative data.
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.
In order to fully understand the impact and effect of overtraining, defining and establishing the difference of what overtraining is from other conditions, such as overreaching, is necessary. Overtraining is defined as the accumulation of both training and non-training stresses producing a long-term effect on the athlete’s performance capacity, with or without physical and psychological overtraining signs and symptoms in which recovery of the performance capacity will take weeks to months (Halson, 2004 p. 969). Overreaching, however, is defined by the accumulation of training and non-training stresses with a short-term effect on the a...
comprising, among other things, muscles that can be trained to a peak of fitness and
Previous research into the area of sprint performance has focused on what type of training can be done to improve performance (Whitney et al., 2005). A common method used is repeated practice of the performance of a sprint (Edge et al., 2005). This induces a learning effect; this learning effect is the improvement in performance through continued repetitions (Gibala et al., 2006). An alternative training method used by coaches for training purposes is the use of resistance training to increase skeletal muscular strength, the hamstring group, gluteus maximus and adductor magnus are considered the most important skeletal muscles in speed production (Delecluse, 2006). High velocity strength training uses exercises that train the muscles to recruit the fastest motor units (Delecluse et al., 1998). The motor units that can produce the most rapid contractions are the neuromuscular pathways that will become developed to allow a rapid response to signals inducing muscular contractions (Wilmore et al., 2008).
Soccer is a complicated sport with an even more complicated history. Indeed, many underestimate the stamina required to be successful, as players commonly run an average of six miles in an individual game (“soccer facts”).
What makes champions in sport? At the end of the day, it is the moment when one stands at the top of the podium, holding up their well-deserved medals and trophies that all elite athletes strive for. Thus, experts have studied this question extensively to see which programs, or by what means, are elite athletes developed to achieve this goal. One of the many aspects to athlete development is the controversial topic of deliberate practice versus deliberate play. Deliberate practice can be defined as “any training activity (a) undertaken with the specific purpose of increasing performance, (b) requiring cognitive and/or physical effort, and (c) relevant to promoting positive skill development” (Cote et al., 2007, p. 185) On the other hand, deliberate play is defined as “a form of sporting activity that involves early developmental physical activities that are intrinsically motivating, provide immediate gratification, and are specifically designed to maximize enjoyment” (Cote et al., 2007, p. 185-186). The phrase “deliberate practice versus deliberate play” is a common misnomer, since the terms are portrayed as the only two options; however, this is a false dichotomy. Empirical evidence supports the fact that both aspects are essential for the development of athletes; therefore the phrase should be correctly cited as “deliberate practice and deliberate play”. This commentary will focus on discussing the importance of both deliberate practice and deliberate play for elite athlete development as well as pose some questions on talent identification and early specialization in sport.
Motivate the motivation, simple words that can mean some much to an athlete, but what is motivation really? In the games and sports, psychological and physiological factors play an important role in determining the performance level (Grange & Kerr, 2010; Schilling & Hyashi, 2001). Motivation also plays an important role in determining the performance level an athlete, but plays a role in the psychological and physiological factors as well. Motivation is more than a behavior or idea, it is an impact on how we interact with others, how we process defeat, feel, and how we play. Motivation will not only help an athlete get the starting position or gain an award but more importantly, help an athlete reach their potential. Motivation like most things