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Gymnastics for HSC PDHPE

By Dan Jackson|2015-11-02T12:35:54+10:00October 24th, 2015|Articles, Factors Affecting Performance, How can psychology affect performance?, how does training affect performance?, How is injury rehabilitation managed, HSC PDHPE, Improving Performance, Sports Medicine|0 Comments

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 [...]

Hard Tissue Injuries Example

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, [...]