Sports Training: Principles and Benefits
Training: Modifying Buffering for Performance
Training involves well-planned activities or exercises to improve performance (i.e., it costs less effort to achieve the objectives), develop new skills, and enhance capabilities. Matveev includes physical training, technical-tactical training, and mental and moral development of the athlete using physical exercises.
Aspects of Training
- Physical Aspect: Improving physical abilities.
- Technical Aspect: Perfecting gestures and movements.
- Tactical Aspect: Making
Understanding Common Medical Emergencies: Symptoms and First Aid
Understanding Common Medical Emergencies
URGENT ACTION: These situations pose no immediate risk of life.
Loss of Consciousness: This refers to a person’s inability to respond to external stimuli or their own mental processes. It resembles a state of deep sleep.
Coma: A coma indicates a serious underlying disorder. A person in a deep coma has a higher risk of mortality compared to someone in a shallow coma.
Situations That Can Cause Coma: Concussion, fainting, hypoglycemia, and myocardial infarction
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Orthopedic Conditions: Symptoms & Diagnosis
Regarding ankle and foot amputations, choose the INCORRECT answer. Lisfranc amputation is a disarticulation of the talonavicular and calcaneocuboid joints.
A patient with shoulder adhesive capsulitis is receiving physical therapy. Measurements of the abduction range of motion at each visit are 81 degrees, 87 degrees, 83 degrees, 86 degrees, and 88 degrees. Months
According to Cobb’s method, scoliosis can be classified as mild if it has an angle of: 14°
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Tactical Principles in Team Sports
Principle: A general rule that you try to obey in the way that you behave and in the way that you try to achieve something.
Tactical principles: Basic guidelines or directions that may guide most of the tactical actions in order to coordinate the players of a team during a match. Tactical principles will facilitate decision-making of players.
We need to identify clearly defending and attacking phases of the game.
Principles of Attack
- Keeping possession of the ball
- Progressing
Tennis Origins, Rules, and Techniques: A Comprehensive Look
Tennis: Origins and History
1. What Game is Believed to be the Most Direct Antecedent of Tennis?
Jeu de Paume, originating in France, is considered the most direct antecedent of modern tennis.
2. When Was the ATP Formed?
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) was formed in 1972 to control men’s tournaments and competitions. It was not founded in 1912 (that was the International Tennis Federation).
3. Tennis at the Olympic Games
Tennis was initially included in the Olympics as a demonstration sport.
Read MoreMastering Motor Skills and Rhythm in Sports
Understanding Specific Motor Skills
Specific skills involve physical movement. Their key characteristics include:
- Great efficiency in physical movements
- Economy of movement
- Specificity
- Complexity
To improve specific skills, we must:
- Gather the necessary information
- Try out the new task
- Make informed decisions
Mechanisms Involved in Motor Tasks
Three mechanisms are involved in a motor task, following this process:
- Perception
- Decision-making
- Execution
Categories of Specific Skills
Specific skills can be grouped into
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