Athletes/Sport Conditioning Articles

exercise rx By Catherine Fiscella, MS Golfing After Total Hip Replacement Understanding this surgery and how to tailor a postrehab training program for it will prepare you and your active client for success. E ach year, more than 850,000 total hip replacements are performed worldwide. The number continues to grow, and the patient population continues to diversify. According to the American Ac...

OOne of your clients, a recreational runner, tells you that she has just registered for a 10K road race and would appreciate your input in designing a training program. Wanting to optimize her endurance training, you do some background research and discover that lactate threshold is the best predictor of endurance performance. However, in your reading, ventilatory threshold, anaerobic threshold and other obscure terms are cited as the same physiological event. Intrigued but confused, you wonder what all of these terms mean.

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What are the physiological limitations of the human body? How much are your clients capable of doing?

It is estimated that 3 to 5 million people in the United States are injured from recreational, exercise and sport-related activities each year. While the primary causes of these injuries are physical, psychological issues can also contribute—and impact recovery as well.

exercise rx By Steve Rhyan, MA Conditioning for the Ride Help your clients improve their crosscountry mountain biking skills and race times. A s word spreads about the thrill of mountain biking, more enthusiasts are taking up the sport. In fact, the number of participants exploded 419.4 percent from 1987 to 2000, according to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA 2001). These mou...

program trends S P O R T- S P E C I F I C C O N D I T I O N I N G F O R T E E N S With high-school sports becoming more competitive, the pressure is on for student athletes to excel. To help their teenagers, parents are seeking sport-specific training as an adjunct to team practices and physical education (PE) classes. And to gain an edge over their peers, more and more average teens, following th...