Improving Performance requires you to look at the use of technology to improve performance as an ethical consideration. GPS devises are used expensively as a piece of technology that can improve performance. GPS devises provide trainers and coaches with objective data to help analyse an athlete's performance both during training and during competition. GPS devises [...]
Cancer risk factors are a hot topic in the media since the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the World Health Organisation did a press release on cancer risk factors (26 October 2015) . This release on cancer risk factors has caused a great stir in the media, particularly amongst the Meat Corporations. The press release [...]
Sandor Earl is a great example to use in examining the ethical considerations for return to play and the pressures on athletes to return quickly. In 2013 Sandor Earl was charged with the use of an illegal substance and trafficking that substance. Sandor Earl speaks out in his interview on the Footy Show giving us [...]
Gymnastics is a great sport to be used as an example in HSC PDHPE. Gymnastics requires excellent psychological strategies, superior muscular strength, flexibility and balance along with excellent planning and focused training. Gymnastics is also full of injuries and rehabilitation. Training Gymnastics requires long term focused periodisation training that is sectioned into its various phases [...]
One of the key things in Sports Medicine is to provide examples in your answers. Hard tissue injuries are one type of injury and an example from this year could easily be Ben Ross, who broke his arm during an arm wrestle with Wendell Sailor. This injury is classified as an indirect hard tissue injury, [...]
Recently I sat through a great workshop on metabolism (energy systems connection with source of fuel) at the PDHPETA Conference. Though this does not sound like it is connected with the HSC PDHPE syllabus, there were some great points made, I thought I should share with you. Metabolism refers to the energy burnt by your [...]
In HSC PDHPE it is vital to use examples. This post is designed to help HSC PDHPE students apply the principles of training in exams. The principles of training are: progressive overload specificity reversibility variety training thresholds warm up and cool down These principles of training need to be applied to aerobic training and resistance training for [...]
On Sunday we witnessed a great example of psychological strategies being used during a high pressure moment in the NRL Grand Final between Cowboys and Broncos. After the last try from the Cowboys, scored after the final hooter, Jonathan Thurston took about 5 minutes to set himself before taking the all important kick from the [...]
Training types and methods vary and are grouped as: aerobic, anaerobic, flexibility, resistance or strength, and skill training. I thought it would be good to apply training types to the great sport of rugby league, given this is the Grand Final weekend. So what type of training best suits rugby league? Training type The training [...]
The use of painkillers in sport is very common, but a highly debated ethical issue. Last Friday night I watched as Justin Hodges fell awkwardly in a tackle. Hodges then struggled to continue playing as he has injured his lower back. He then went off the field to the dressing room where he was given a [...]