Dr. Sherman, PhD, is an exercise physiologist who works with the college athletes; he has presented many topics that are associated with competitive swimming. The most essential parts to excelling in any competitive sport are training, practice, and nutrition. When it comes to strength training for competitive swimmers, I believe Dr. Sherman would have stressed that it takes strength to swim, Perfecting your technique is important, but its not the sole reason for speed. They might be efficient, but probably not fast. Swimmers need to develop strength so they can apply force to the water, using their good technique, moving them forward. Without strong shoulder muscles, a competitive swimmer’s time would suffer immensely. The muscles help the swimmer in many ways. More muscle means more surface area for the swimmer to push the water below and behind him, causing him to propel forward and stay afloat. More muscle also means the water can be pushed harder and faster, causing the swimmers to move faster while staying afloat. (Garrido, Marinho, Reis, Van Den Tillar, Costa, Silva, & Marques, 2010). More muscle means more energy to do the various things in order to swim. When it comes to Mitchell’s transition from the 200 meter butterfly events to the 50 meter freestyle, strength training for the 50 meter freestyle would involve low repetition with heavy weights to build power and explosiveness. This type of training will be utilized effectively during the races that require short bursts of energy. Synchronizing dry land strength training with swim training requires a balance between the two, and done properly, can reap major positive results. (Garrido, Marinho, Reis, Van Den Tillar, Costa, Silva, & Marques, 2010). Some effective tips ar... ... middle of paper ... ...t pulling the water with their arm. In freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, it’s all too easy to start the pull while your arm is in a high-risk position. (Wolfe, Ebinger, Lawler, & Britton, 2009). If you’re experiencing pain at the beginning of your stroke or as you’re pulling through, you need to be aware of where your arm is when you’re feeling the pain. If your upper-arm (from your shoulder to your elbow) is behind your back (from shoulder to shoulder), it tends to be bad for most people. (Wolfe, Ebinger, Lawler, & Britton, 2009). Your upper-arm and back have to line up if you want to protect your shoulder. In butterfly, the potentially painful position can happen if the swimmer presses deep with their chest and the hands stay high at the surface. If you feel pain, press forward with the chest and have a flatter stroke. (Wolfe, Ebinger, Lawler, & Britton, 2009).
There are different types of muscle because each sport has various needs. “Power endurance is typically characterized by intense, repeated efforts for a relatively short period of time (less than 30 seconds)”(1). Sports such as sprinters, wrestlers, fencers and tennis players need to produce powerful movements and repeat them with several times with little to no rest. This training involves lifting about 15-30 reputations of moderate loads, about 50%-70% 1RM per lift.
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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.
At 5 A.M., swimmers around the world get up to go to practice or are already jumping into the pool. Later on that day, swimmers will get into the water again and practice for another couple of hours. In addition to that, there are always weights and some sort of dry land activity. Some teams even include yoga and Pilates for added flexibility. Having a social life beyond seeing the people on your swim team is near impossible. With school work, high physical demands at practice, having to eat almost every three hours, and trying to maintain a normal life, the weeks are exhausting. It is no wonder why the NCAA has set a maximum number of hours to train each week in regards to college swimming. All of these factors play into the hopes that when a swimmer tapers, or rests for a meet so that they are in top condition to compete, they will be able to swim faster than they ever have before and hopefully achieve a best time or get a new “cut”. The same process has been happening year after year, and then 2008 came around and one of the biggest headaches for the swimmers and all of their supporters was created: the LZR ( pronounced lasar) Racer. This suit has been one of the largest controversies swimming has had to face. In swimming, technology, technique, and conditioning are key to success, but when technology becomes the main factor, the sport of swimming is lost in the turmoil. If suits keep becoming faster and more technologically advanced, the only thing left to do will be to jump into the pool, and where is the sport in that? All suits manufactured with a non-permeable material should be banned from all competitive swimming events; in addition to that, the suits should not be longer than the knees, no higher than the waist for men,...
Lungs burning, muscles screaming out in pain, the symphony of cheers reduced to a mere whisper, the rush of water like a typhoon in your ears. The body in the lane next to you, the moment they become your sister or brother, the moment they become your worst enemy. The hundredths of a second ticking by as if they are trying to race you; they will seal your fate. An entire world reduced to nothing but a black line, the path to success, the road to the all important goal: getting a P.R. “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time,” Michael Phelps, an Olympic gold medalist, once stated. This is the life of a swimmer. We train hard to swim hard, and we swim hard for ourselves and ourselves alone. We push past our own limits to reach out to our dreams, and then we push harder to grasp them.
iving up my week and weekend nights for swim practice was something I was used to by the time I started high school. Swimming, was my calling, and with that came many sacrifices. Practices were everyday, Monday through Friday and sometimes on Saturdays, and consisted of countless sets of sprinting, kicking and pulling. The only thing that kept us stable during practice was counting down the time on the clock, “Just thirty more minutes, and I can relax for another twenty hours.” From there I would go home in time to shower and finish homework. Finishing what I needed to do before midnight was considered luck. The cycle repeated itself as I would get up the next day and do it again. However, there are many other aspects to this sport besides
Swimming is an activity that’s been around for a long time. Some of its first forms have been in ancient caves that have illustrations of people swimming. Some others include in the Greek epic poems “The Illiad” and “The Odyssey.” During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, swimming began to be a structured activity and later on in history became a popular sport. In 1896, it was a portion of the Olympics in Athens, Greece and it continues to be part of the summer Olympics. Currently, swimming is the second most popular exercise in the United States with millions of people partaking in it.
In contemporary nursing practice, nurses need to integrate scientific knowledge and nursing theories prior to providing optimal health care. Nursing theories guide nurses to treat clients in a supportive and dignified manner through client centred approaches. However, it is challenge for nurses to practice client centred care in daily realities due to heavy workloads. In order to assist nurses to decrease the gap between ideal and real practice, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) develops Best Practice Guideline of Client-centred-care (Neligan, Grinspun, JonasSimpson, McConnell, Peter, Pilkington, et al., 2002). This guideline offers values and beliefs as foundation of client-centred care, and the core processes of client-centred care can facilitate provision of optimal nursing care. These four core processes of client-centred care include identifying concerns, making decisions, caring and service, and evaluating outcomes. According to RNAO (2006), ongoing dialogue with clients and self-reflection are essential for nurses to develop their nursing skills and knowledge on client-centred care. As a nursing student, I reflected on written transcripts of interactions between patients and me, so that I could gain insights into client-centred care for further improvement. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss importance of the core processes of client-centred care in nursing practice through identifying and critiquing blocks to conversation. Based on the guideline of RNAO (2006), respect, human dignity, clients are experts for their own lives, responsiveness and universal access will be elaborated in each core process of client-centre care as reflecting on three dialogues with patients.
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A committed athlete devotes a great deal of time to practice. They arrive early in order to get in a better warm-up, give more than their best effort during practice, and stay after practice to repeat what they went over. Also, they p...
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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).
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...
Before engaging in the debates with Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln was relatively unknown in the political world and was just beginning his career in politics. Abraham Lincoln’s reputation was just starting to grow, and his life was about to make a drastic change. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a turning point in Abraham Lincoln’s political career.