Ideafit.com Spotlights Sports Conditioning
TUESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2021
IDEA Health & Fitness Association (
www.ideafit.com), the world's
leading
membership organization of health and fitness professionals with more
than
21,000 members in over 80 countries, takes a closer look at the latest
sports conditioning education along with what it takes to identify,
understand and train youth athletes in the latest issue of IDEA Fitness
Journal.
Almost daily, people ask fitness professionals about the latest and
greatest dietary supplements. While this subject is beyond their scope
of
practice, it's important to keep up with the news and scientific
research
on every supplement that makes performance-enhancing claims. By doing
so,
fitness professionals can be a worthwhile source of current and
accurate
knowledge. At the same time, recreational exercisers or athletes may be
involved in "concurrent training," meaning they perform both endurance
and
strength training as part of their daily regimes. While some research
has
found that concurrent training may hinder endurance and strength
training,
personal trainers can offer advice on certain protocols that can be
beneficial, such as rotating the order in which the two approaches are
completed.
Also in this issue: how sports conditioning coaches play major roles in
helping young athletes perform at their peak. While the odds of any
youngster being the next Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm or Tiger Woods are as
good as winning the lottery, there are strategies that fitness
professionals should follow to help all aspiring athletes—no matter
their
degree of accomplishment—reach their "A" game. These goals should
include
encouraging healthy activity in all children while teaching life skills
and developing a long-term enjoyment of sports while giving the
naturally
gifted athletes the tools that will help them perform at elite levels.
Additional Issue Highlights:
--Pears are a powerhouse of vitamins and nutrients. One pear a day
satisfies 24 percent of the recommended daily dietary allowance for
fiber.
--Researchers at the Mayo Clinic developed a vertical
workstation-treadmill for people to use in their offices while working.
The results: while burning only 72 kcals/hr seated at their computer,
191
kcals/hr were burned walking at just one mph.
--According to researchers at Boston, women who consumed high-fat
products
were less likely to experience fertility problems.
--Working out to music can help exercisers reduce their feeling of
fatigue
and increase levels of psychological arousal while improving motor
coordination.
--Computer operators can reduce office stress by practicing qiqong at
the
workplace, according to a small study published in Complementary
Therapies
in Clinical Practice (2007; 13[2], 78-84).
Inspire the World to Fitness®
To inspire the world to fitness requires the motivator to stay
motivated.
This can be accomplished in myriad ways, according to Carol Murphy of
FitLife in Rochester, N.Y. She likes to mix things up by switching her
environment, attending conferences, going to workshops or seeking
something new outside her comfort zone. She also says that if you teach
to
truly help people, you will be rejuvenated everyday by your work and
their
progress. "My hope is that as an industry, we will create fitness
experiences in which all participants find hope, energy, peace of mind,
friendship, wellness and more," Murphy adds. "In turn, I hope people
find
themselves forever changed in the way they view exercise."
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