Summary: The Importance Of Strength Training

The enjoyment of running is not completely tied up in winning or losing; however, nothing motivated me more to become a better runner than not being able to represent my school at the state meet during the 2014 cross country season. I joined the team in 2013 during my sophomore year, and I enjoyed early success as I made the varsity squad. Our boys’ team entered regionals with a chance to run at state, but we missed it by a few points. Soon, it was my second season of cross country running. This year was different from the previous season. We had new runners that were stronger, faster, and more experienced. I was not fast enough to be on the boys’ varsity team. With mixed emotions, I watched on the side as my friends went to regionals and were

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These include countless hours of practice and even losing a few extra pounds just to have the muscular advantage over your opponents.”

Professional athletes have it all with the money and their favorite sport as a career, but college athletes have what it really takes: the passion, the motivation, and the drive. Have you ever watched a college sport? Have you ever watched a professional sport? Do you notice the difference between their motivation and drive for the sport? This difference is what sunders the professionals and the amateurs of the athletic world.

According to Angela Lee Duckworth, grit is defined as having passion and perseverance for long term goals. This trait shows strength in one’s character and the resolve necessary to overcome challenges and achieve an end goal. I displayed this definition of grit whenever I lift weights at the gym. My goal for exercising nearly every day is not only because I want to be healthy or fit; rather, I want to be a stronger person than I was the day before. This mindset of constantly putting in work and sticking with a future goal will help me succeed in finishing a four year optometric program.

Weightlifting has become increasingly more popular as the years go by. The first record of someone using weight training dates back to ancient Greece. Many different people used resistance training, people like the Egyptians, ancient Chinese, the Indians, and many others but the first were the Greeks (Todd). Stories say that the great wrestler Milo of Croton would train by running with a newborn calf every day until it was fully grown. In the second century a Greek physician who went by the name Galen, used halteres. A haltere is an early form of the dumbbell. These halteres that they used were usually a piece of wood with lead inside, a rock with a wax coating, or a piece of wood with lead inside and a wax coating. These halteres were used for a variety of exercises. Galen made an article on what the halteres could be used for, he wrote a lot about jumping exercises, such as broad jumps, high jumps, and jumping from low to high places. The Greeks were not very knowledgeable

During my 2nd year of high school, my family moved from Illinois to Kansas because of my mother’s job. As I was registering for classes at my new school, I told my counselor I wanted to try out for the cheerleading team. In response, she told me the cheerleading coach likes to see the cheerleaders complete a weightlifting class to become stronger for the season. At first, I didn’t want to take this class because I never liked traditional workouts, but decided to take it, for one semester, to become stronger for the cheerleading season.

By knowing when to go further and when to slow down, risks of permanent damage decrease significantly, allowing you to improve your strength indefinitely without suffering a crippling injury that will force you to recover while your muscles

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Strength training is commonly associated with large-muscled men grunting and lifting performing in sports or muscle shows. This stereotype does nothing to encourage women to lift weights and says nothing about a moderate lifting style. Strength training, also called resistance training, is the process of applying weight to muscles requiring them to work harder than ordinarily achieved through activities of daily living (ADL). This process creates micro-tears in the muscle, which are then rebuilt by proteins in the body (Harvard Health Publications [Harvard Health], 2013). This creates a stronger, denser muscle, which is capable of handling increased loads. Power training is performing quick motions that utilize the strength of the muscle combined with speed to create power (Harvard Health, 2013). As an example, a person may have the strength to rise from a chair without assistance, but not the power to do it quickly. Focusing on strength training that incorporates power training creates a body capable of handling extra loads and reacting to stimuli quickly. Both types of training will be referred to as strength exercise, or SE.

Since muscles are metabolically active, more muscles mean burning extra calories without any extra effort. In simple terms, muscles help you in burning calories even when you are not exercising. And one of the best ways to develop more muscle mass is to lift weights.

With the increased interest in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) as a sport and method of fitness training strength & conditioning within combat sports has rightfully become more accepted. Gone are the days where your old school boxing coach will tell you not to lift weights as it will make you bulky and slow. Evidence based strength & conditioning works hand in hand with combat sports performance. Combat sports include boxing, kickboxing, MMA and various traditional martial fighting styles. In this article we merely scratch the surface of combat sport strength & conditioning.

Besides a coach an athletic trainer is the right hand man to an athlete. As an athletic trainer there are many tasks that keep us going. One is the athletes themselves and all of the requests they come in and demand. From recovering from an injury to preventing a life long injury from reoccurring trainers are always on the move. Prioritizing, viewing a wide variety of injuries, and differing work fields are just a few of the benefits that you get when you are a trainer.

Nowadays, whereas bodybuilding once ruled the roost, Powerlifting is instead looking at taking the number one spot when it comes to popular gym activities. Rather than simply looking to improve the way their bodies, look, people nowadays are instead training for form and function, which is part of the reason why Powerlifting has become so hugely popular over the last decade or so.

Muscular strength, power, and speed are defined as the three vital skills needed by taekwondo players in their sport, as stated in Physical Training in Taekwondo: Generic and Specific Training (Haddad, 2014). Muscular strength is defined by Hall, E. (2003) as the ability of a muscle group to develop maximal contractile force against a resistance in a single contraction. Greenfield, B. (2016) suggests that power and speed goes hand-in-hand with strength. Greenfield (2016) defined power as the ability to generate high amounts of force over a period over a short time, while defining speed as the ability to travel a set distance over as short a period of time as possible. These vital skills allows a taekwondo player’s muscular units in the lower extremeties the ability to kick, jump, and maintain stances. According to this study, their hasn’t been a consensus about the different investigative studies done on the effect of muscular strength training in taekwondo, and only one study investigated speed and agility in low frequency taekwondo training measured through 50m shuttle run test (Kim, 2011). The study suggests that the findings are the result of low number of training sessions or non-sufficient stimulus eliciting speed and