PEDS240 Lecture Notes - Contact Sport, Overtraining, Hypertrophy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS240
• Professor: Brad Kern

Document Summary

Jan 23: chap 4 preventing injuries through fitness training: teams usually judge the work of strength and conditioning coaches by man games lost. Fitness is critical for performance: each sport has different optimal levels of flexibility. If you are too flexible, you can also injure yourself. Improper conditioning is a major cause in sports related injuries. Flexibility: muscular strength, endurance, power, cardiorespiratory endurance. If we were working with an olympian who competes every 4 years as compared to a nhl player, their periodization would be different. Follows last competition (early off season: unstructured (escape rigors of training) In this period, we want the athlete to just do nothing so they can recuperate physically and mentally: the transition period should last a few weeks up to a month. After 3-4 weeks of doing nothing, the athletes usually come back to the coaches and want to get back to training.