Category: Athletes

Whilst females in sport are becoming a lot more common and accepted, female athletes must take into consideration many aspects when preparing or training for fitness. These considerations include; eating disorders which affect energy levels, iron levels which get altered due to menstruation, and bone density due to the amount of calcium in the bones.…

To run faster than anyone ever before, is the dream of every athlete& To hold a medal and to stand on the podium built from hard work, sweat and tears. Although this may never be possible for us with the new and existing athletes that are distressing our competitive and elite scene in various world-class…

Nutrition plays a key role in building muscle and enhancing athletic performance, as athletes will utilize different diets that they see as the most optimal [1]. However, the health benefits of meat and plant diets have not been fully elucidated to weightlifting athletes. This review analysis focuses on the ideal and healthiest diet for strength-based…

Kobe Bryant defined the Los Angeles sports culture. His legacy brought people of all races, ages, and genders together as one to enjoy the sport of basketball. At just 18 years old his career in the NBA kickstarted where he played for the Los Angeles Lakers for twenty years following his retirement. He was recognized…

The key idea for my intertextual study is about breaking the colour barrier in American sport and that that people were being judged by the colour if there skin but should be judged by who they are as a person and that it only takes a few people to make a difference which is a…

Kobe Bryant was and still is a worldwide known NBA Player to several people all over the world. In fact, Kobe Bryant wasnt just an NBA Player, he was much more. A father, a husband, a loved one, a mentor, an idol and a hero. Kobe Bryant was an American professional basketball player who helped…

When considering an elite 100m sprinter’s anaerobic capacities, the success of the athlete is dependent mainly on their alactic and lactic anaerobic metabolism (Legaz-Arrese et.al, 2007) . The source of fuel sprinters use is the ATP/PC energy system (pdhpe.net, 2015); this is due to the duration of the event not lasting long and ATP only…

The Principles of Training help to guide athletes and coaches in creating training sessions that meet both athlete and competition needs. The principles of training are specificity, progressive overload, reversibility, variety, training thresholds, and warmup/cooldowns. When the training principles are thoroughly applied and followed regularly, the body responds by adapting or adjusting to the new…

As a college Athlete Student, I notice that it is Special privileges taking hold in colleges now. You may have seen about it on sports channels, around the media, television set, or the school they attend, and some may have received at first hand. College athletes can bear out the regulations in not being reprimanded…

Athletes all across the world have or had some type of motivation during their road to success. Motivation, in my own words, is something that drives you and push you harder so you can accomplish your goal. Every athlete should have motivation. It drives you and gives build confidence in yourself, so you can perform…