A Scientific Approach to Fitness
Sports Podiatry specializes in the diagnosis, management and prevention of foot and lower limb injuries and disorders. These conditions range from arch pain, heel pain and shin splints through to anterior knee pain and lower back pain. Podiatric treatments focus on improving the function of the lower limb and reducing an excessive load on injured …
As an athlete you spend countless hours perfecting your physical training in preparation for a competition, but are you ready to face the challenge mentally? Leading up to a competition, it is important to provide athletes with the mental tools so that they can learn to manage their own performance and create their optimal level …
Sports nutrition is a fast-growing industry. Sports foods and supplements can play a small but important role in the sports nutrition plans of high performance athletes. Sporting organisations, sports science and medicine practitioners, coaches and athletes all contribute to a pragmatic and transparent approach that balances the pros and cons of supplement/sports food use by …
Fat Though it gets a bad rap, fat is an important nutrient that the body needs in order to function. Eating the right amount — and the right form — of dietary fat is key to maintaining good health. However, consuming too much fat or too little may cause health problems. Function of Fat Fat …
Proteins Protein is a macronutrient that is essential to building muscle mass. It is commonly found in animal products, though is also present in other sources, such as nuts and legumes. There are three macronutrients: protein, fats and carbohydrates. Macronutrients provide calories, or energy. Each gram of protein contains 4 calories. Protein makes up about …
What is nutrition? Welcome to the world of nutrition, where we will help you discover what is nutrition and its role in your active and healthy lifestyle. We will provide you with simple explanations on how to stay healthy with nutrition, and how the choices you make everyday influence your body’s health. Carelessness about food …
A successful program needs to be designed with this balance and the goal in mind. A program that is too general will not properly prepare the athlete, and a program that is too specific (or attempts to be too specific) will also not properly prepare the athlete (an additionally runs the risk of overtraining certain …
Cricket presents physiological, metabolic, physical and psychological demands which can deteriorate players’ performance due to fatigue. The high variability in physiological, metabolic, physical and psychological responses also influences the magnitude of exercise-induced muscle damage, with symptoms negatively affecting neuromuscular function during recovery or subsequent training sessions or matches. Consequently, more precise and consistent knowledge is …
Sport specific training is fitness and performance training designed specifically for athletic performance enhancement. Training programs for athletic performance enhancement could include such areas as: strength, speed, power, endurance, flexibility, mobility, agility, mental preparedness (including goal setting), sleep, recovery/regeneration techniques and strategies, nutrition, rehabilitation, pre-habilitation, and developing healthy training programs to reduce and prevent injury. …
Everyday exercisers, weekend warriors and sportsmen often suffer injury due to a few common mistakes that can be prevented with careful attention. Injuries are an unfortunate risk that comes with playing sports. After an athlete suffers an injury, many times they don’t treat the injury properly which causes a delayed or incomplete recovery and more …