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Ford and colleagues (2005) assessed unanticipated cutting patterns and found that female athletes had significantly greater knee abduction angles when readying themselves to execute a cutting maneuver when compared with males. Ford reports that these gender differences in knee abduction angle during dynamic cutting movements, and even when adapting the ready position, suggest that women employ an altered muscular control of the lower extremity in contraction patterns (motor control) of the ...
The 63rd NATA Annual Meeting & Clinical Symposia is right around the corner and Human Kinetics is excited to once again join the NATA Trade Show, the largest exhibition of athletic training products and services in the world! As the information leader in physical activity and health, Human Kinetics appreciates and commends the profession of athletic training in keeping athletes worldwide both healthy and safe. Susan Hillman’s Core Concepts in Athletic Training and Therapy is the new standard...
See how dietary guidelines have developed to help promote health, decrease the risk of chronic disease, meet nutrient requirements, and support active lives. This is an excerpt from Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance, Second Edition. By Melinda M. Manore, Nanna L. Meyer, and Janice Thompson
Learn how to recognize a potential fad diet or nutrition program. Consumers must remember that if the claims associated with the diets were true, there would be no need for people to continue dieting and no need for the next fad diet! For example, if the Dr. Atkins diet, popular in the 1970s, had worked, there would be no need for the "new and improved" Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution in the 1990s and 2000s.
Because of the many potential risks associated with supplements, it is important to critically evaluate ergogenic substances prior to using or recommending them. Several organizations now offer third-party evaluations of dietary supplements. In recent years, the Australian Institute of Sport has implemented a sport supplement program to ensure that athletes are using sport foods and supplements safely.
Once enrolled in the program, individuals are periodically asked to fill out detailed questionnaires about their successful weight loss, current weight maintenance strategies, and other health-related behaviors for the purpose of determining the behavioral and psychological characteristics of weight maintainers, as well as the strategies they use to maintain weight loss. Comparison of the levels of physical activity between successful weight loss maintainers and people who had always ...
This chapter introduces a basic screening model to teachers, choreographers, directors, and health professionals who care for dancers’ well-being. Physical screening is the process of evaluating dancers for general health and anatomic parameters and for existing and previous injuries that might eventually affect their dance career. The screening program in dance at the University of California at Irvine was developed to reduce dance injuries and teach student dancers more about their bodies...
Use track 1 to explore curved, circular, and spiraling shapes and traveling movements, then track 2 to explore angular, pointed shapes and traveling patterns. Apply the movement vocabulary from the internal exploration to an external exploration focusing on angular shapes in the air and curved shapes on the floor. Change the timing, the angular shape, and the curved shape; find new ways of traveling in the curved shape.
A recent study found that participants in a high-calorie-expenditure exercise program actually grew to like exercise more than those who took part in a standard exercise program. Even small weight losses of 5 to 10% have been shown to result in increased physical function and health-related quality of life, yet standard exercise programs for older adults often do not result in any weight loss. However, a study recently published in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity found that ...
