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    Question 1: The National Physical Activity Guidelines for Australians outline the minimum levels of physical activity required to gain a health benefit and ways to incorporate incidental physical activity into everyday life. My own physical activity habits are at the average level but I they could be a lot better. At home I play a lot of computer games and at school I sit down and talk to people during lunch and recess. I could improve my physical activity if I cut down on the computer games and

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    Athletes use recovery strategies to resume normal training and competition within the time span of the training program. By using appropriate recovery strategies athlete can maximise gains from training and improve quality in every session‚ improve consistency of quality performance and minimise and remove injuries‚ overtraining‚ illness or burnout. Recovery strategies can be categorised as physiological‚ neural‚ tissue damage or psychological. Physiological strategies I believe that physiological

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    physical activities reduces blood flow gradually to the working muscles. It also reduces the heart beat‚ blood temperature and muscle temperature. A cool down can also help with recovery and alos prevents injury later on. Gentle static and dynamic stretching could be a cool down. A slow gentle cool down help the muscles get rid of lactic acid and waste products and yeah. 3. describe how to prevent or manage injuries when conducting warm up and cool down exercises. What might be the contraindications

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    been able to stretch more efficiency. I’ve also found I have better lower body strength than upper body strength. My body composition has been improved‚ finally a better ratio of muscle to fat. Section 3: Flexibility Workout Log Perform and log stretching exercises for all eight muscles listed below at least three days per week‚ but you may stretch every day. You may add muscle groups and

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    Module One Wellness Plan Fill in all logs and answer the reflection questions completely with supporting details. Section 1: Goals Include your goals for each area of wellness before completing the reflection question. 1. Physical: I will go to bed by 11 every night. Deadline:7/14/14 2. Social: I will hang out with my friend this Thursday. Deadline: 7/10/4 3. Emotional: I will write in my journal about my favorite books. Deadline 7/15/14 4. Academic: I will finish this course by the end of the

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    injuries take place during exercise or sport activity and can result from several factors. Among the factors are accidents‚ poor training techniques‚ over training‚ improper equipments‚ lack of sequential conditioning and insufficient warm-up and stretching. There are countless types of sports injuries. However‚ I’m going to do a research on one of the most common and alarming sports injury which is the injury of the soft tissues. Anatomically‚ soft tissue refers to tissues that connect‚ support or

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    Like I said previously‚ I also used the back of my throat often instead of using the resonance of my mouth. In one of the first practicals‚ we learnt the four pillars of warm up; body‚ breath‚ voice and articulation. We would warm up our body with stretching to a yawn or playing a game to get us moving. After this we would focus on breathing with a variety of warm ups such as: “smelling the flower” and breathing in‚ holding it and letting out our breath for a set number of seconds. Warm ups for our

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    The scalpelling method is the use of a scalpel to cut the edge of the fistula to expand its diameter (“Stretching (body piercing)”). This method is often used for ear piercings. It is used to alter the placement of a large piercing‚ to combine two existing piercings into one‚ and to achieve a higher gauge piercing when scar tissue or the tissue is too thin to stretch (“Stretching (body piercing)”). The scalpel and taper method takes place after a piercing or a scalpelling. A large taper is inserted

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    BALLISTIC STRETCHING Ballistic stretching is a form of passive stretching or dynamic stretching in a bouncing motion. Ballistic stretches force the limb into an extended range of motion when the muscle has not relaxed enough to enter it. It involves fast‚ "jerky" movements where a double bounce is performed at the end range of movement. Examples: An example of ballistic stretching is bouncing up and down repeatedly to touch your toes. * SLOW-SUSTAINED STRETCHING Proper stretching involves

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    Article 2 If you must use static stretching in a warm-up it should be immediately followed by a sport-specific dynamic warm-up. (2009). NSCA’s Performance Training Journal‚ 8(6)‚ 4. The purpose of the study by the author was to examine whether the protocols of the static stretching and dynamic stretching increased the performance of an athlete in the tests created. The article highlighted the importance of warm up in sports and examined if static and dynamic stretching can ensure better results and

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