Download or read book Longevity in Athletics written by Morgan Mason and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sport specialization is defined as intense, year-round training in a single sport with the exclusion of others (Jayanthi et al., 2012). Current research has shown that there has been a dramatic increase in youth sport participation over recent years, with a coexisting increase of early sport specialization (ESS). The overall effect of ESS on longevity in athletics is not yet fully understood. Studies in current academic literature have not definitively established that ESS is either beneficial or detrimental to an athlete’s physiological and psychological health (LaPrade et al., 2016; Mattson and Richards, 2010). However, some available evidence suggests active participation in ESS may lead to higher rates of physiological and psychological issues, including: overuse injuries, burnout, and emotional distress (DiFiori et al., 2014; Jayanthi et al., 2012; LaPrade et al., 2016). The objective of this research project is to provide an understanding of the factors that influence an athlete’s appeal to specialize (coaches, parents, school size, choice of sport, etc.) and to determine the effect ESS has on longevity in athletic participation. A survey was developed utilizing Qualtrics (2015, Provo, UT), and participants of the study included current students and student-athletes at a Midwest Division III college. This survey employed the use of multiple choice and open-ended questions. Results showed that a majority of participants specialized in sport (68.03%), with a majority beginning to specialize at age 11 or younger (23.49%). Participants who specialized reported high numbers of chronic injuries, yet they argue that specializing in sport was beneficial to their athletic success. With this information, recommendations can be made to the sporting public regarding early sport specialization."--Abstract.

Download or read book The Relation of Athletics to Longevity written by Earl Robert Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Longevity of Athletes written by Anthony P. Polednak and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1979 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Competitive Sports as a Factor in Longevity written by David Joseph Ansfield and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Play On written by Jeff Bercovici and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.” Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors. How much of the difference is genetic destiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine, and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill that can be taught or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending injuries be predicted and avoided? Journalist Jeff Bercovici spent extensive time with professional and Olympic athletes, coaches, and doctors to find the answers to these questions. His quest led him to training camps, tournaments, hospitals, antiaging clinics, and Silicon Valley startups, where he tried cutting-edge treatments and technologies firsthand and investigated the realities behind health fads like alkaline diets, high-intensity interval training, and cryotherapy. Through fascinating profiles and first-person anecdotes, Bercovici illuminates the science and strategies extending the careers of elite older athletes, uncovers the latest advances in fields from nutrition to brain science to virtual reality, and offers empowering insights about how the rest of us can find peak performance at any age.

Download or read book The Longevity and Morbidity of College Athletics written by Henry Joseph Montoye and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Longevity and Morbidity of College Athletes written by Henry Joseph Montoye and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Athlete s Simple Guide to a Plant Based Lifestyle How to Easily Improve Your Health Performance and Longevity Works for Non Athletes Too written by Suzanna McGee and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people are adopting a whole foods plant-based diet to improve their health and longevity. Now, the athletes are joining the movement to maximize their performance. For athletes, recovery after exercise is one of the major determining factors of athletic success. Reducing the recovery time between your workouts will make a big impact on your overall performance. Using nutrition to your advantage is something you need to think about daily, and adding more vegetables and fruits into your diet is one great step toward to your athletic goals, as well as your health and longevity. The fast food and junk food industries sponsor many of the national food campaigns. Just because you see tempting foods on TV doesn't mean that they are good for you. Animal products together with refined and chemically altered foods are detrimental to your health and athletic performance. It is difficult to know what is healthy for you and what is not because you are constantly bombarded with wrong and often contradicting messages. Ultimately, it is on you to educate yourself and find the truth. Whether you are an elite athlete, a weekend warrior, or a non-athlete wanting to live healthily, "The Athlete's Simple Guide to a Plant-Based Lifestyle" will teach you how to maximize your genetic potential for athletic performance, health, and longevity. Based on reliable scientific research, yet simply written, you will find this straightforward guide easy to read and learn the techniques and tricks to master the transition to the amazing and rich world of plants where you will attain a lean and healthy body with everlasting energy.

Download or read book Longevity and Causes of Mortality in Elite Athletes written by Juliana Antero-Jacquemin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background and objectives: along their careers, elite athletes are subjected to specific constraints that distinguish them from the general population. Such constraints, related to the high intensity of their physical activity, their overexposure to injuries or particular lifestyle, may have long-term consequences on the athletes' health, and ultimately on their longevity. Thus, the main goals of the present study are the following: 1) to describe and analyze elite athletes' longevity and specific causes of mortality in comparison with the general population and according to the type of effort they performed; and 2) to investigate their lifespan trends in comparison with the longest-lived humans in order to apprehend the current scenario of human longevity trends. Methods: we collected data on the biography and the athletic performances of all the French athletes who participated in the Olympic Games (OG) from 1912 to 2012 (n = 4708), and all the French cyclists who participated in the Tour de France (TDF) from 1947 to 2012 (n=786). Then, we verified their vital statuses through the National Registry of Identification of Physical Persons (RNIPP). For the deceased athletes, we obtained the causes of their deaths through the Centre for epidemiology on medical causes of death (CépiDc). We compared the athletes' overall and specific mortality (according to the main chapters of the International Classification of Disease) with the French civilian life tables using Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR) and the Kaplan-Meier methods. We adapted and applied the life years-lost method under the competing risk model to quantify differences on longevity due to major causes of death according to the athletes' type of effort. Furthermore, we collected data on worldwide deceased Olympians participating in the OG from 1896 to 2012 (n=19 012) and on worldwide supercentenarians (>110 years) deceased between 1900 and 2013 (n= 1 205) in order to analyze their lifespan trends using a density analysis tool (total number of life durations per birth date). Findings and conclusion: French elite athletes show consistently lower mortality (≈40-50% lower) in comparison with their compatriots, whether female or male Olympians, or professional cyclists, mostly related with a lower cardiovascular (≈ 40-60% lower) and cancer mortality (≈ 45% lower). No excess mortality was observed in elite athletes for any of the specific causes of death we studied. French Olympians' lower mortality results in an average of seven years of life saved in relation to the general population. This gain partitioned according to specific causes of deaths shows that cardiovascular longevity benefit is associated with the type of sports practiced during the Olympic career, favoring combined type of effort over very short- or very long-duration effort. In relation to cancer mortality, all types of effort studied were associated with better longevity. Despite their survival advantage, no Olympian in the world, up to date, has ever reached the status of a supercentenarian, as the longest-lived was 106 years old. The common lifespan trends between Olympians and supercentenarians indicate similar mortality pressures over both populations that increase with age, a scenario that is better explained by a biological “barrier” limiting further progression. The supercentenarians' density trends show a current stagnation of the human longevity.

Download or read book Sports and Aging written by Gerald R. Gems and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sports and Aging a wide-ranging group of physically active people, including many scholar-athletes, fifty years and older, discuss sports in the context of aging and their own athletic experiences. This collection of personal accounts includes a spectrum of contributors across genders, social classes, and racial, ethnic, national, religious, and educational backgrounds to determine whether there are any common characteristics that can promote long, happy, healthy, and meaningful lifespans. In this fresh look at the role of sports in the process of aging, contributors range from a ninety-six-year-old great-grandmother to a former Olympian. Many contributors have used education to better their lot in life or to find solace and meaning in the service of others. For all, sports or physical activity has enhanced their health and temperament and provided a sense of community.

Download or read book Peak written by Marc Bubbs and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a new revolution happening in sports as more and more athletes are basing their success on this game-changing combination: health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset. Unfortunately, the evidence-based techniques that the expert PhDs, academic institutions, and professional performance staffs follow can be in stark contrast to what many athletes actually practice. When combined with the noise of social media, old-school traditions, and bro-science, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction. Peak is a groundbreaking book exploring the fundamentals of high performance (not the fads), the importance of consistency (not extreme effort), and the value of patience (not rapid transformation). Dr. Marc Bubbs makes deep science easy to understand, and with information from leading experts who are influencing the top performers in sports on how to achieve world-class success, he lays out the record-breaking feats of athleticism and strategies that are rooted in this personalized approach.Dr. Bubbs expertly brings together the worlds of health, nutrition, and exercise and synthesizes the salient science into actionable guidance.

Download or read book A Study of the Longevity and Morbidity of Track Athletes at Michigan State University written by Herbert W. Olson and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effects of Activity Patterns on Longevity of Athletes and Non athletes written by Kenneth Ellis Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of the Longevity and Morbidity of Football and Basketball Athletes at Michigan State University written by Andrew Joseph Hudec and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of Longevity and Morbidity of Football Athletes at Michigan State College written by Mark Hauser O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 12 Minute Athlete written by Krista Stryker and published by Tiller Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock your athletic potential and get into the best shape of your life with Krista Stryker’s HIIT and bodyweight workouts—all of which can be done in just minutes a day! If you’ve ever thought you couldn’t get results without spending hours in the gym, that you’d never be able to do a pull-up, or that it’s too late to get in your best shape ever, The 12-Minute Athlete will change your mind, your body, and your life. Get serious results with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts that can be done in just minutes a day. Give up the excuses and learn to use your own bodyweight and a few basic pieces of portable equipment for short, incredibly effective workouts. Reset your mindset, bust through mental blocks, and set meaningful goals you’ll actually accomplish. You can finally ditch the dieting and enjoy food as fuel with simple eating guidelines to the 80/20 rule. In The 12-Minute Athlete you’ll also find: –A guide to basic calisthenics and bodyweight exercises for any fitness level –Progressive exercises to achieve seemingly “impossible” feats like pistol squats, one-arm push-ups, pull-ups, and handstands –More than a dozen simple and healthy recipes that will fuel your workouts –Two 8-week workout plans for getting fitter, faster, and stronger –Bonus Tabata workouts –And so much more! The 12-Minute Athlete is for men and women, ex-athletes and new athletes, experienced athletes and “non-athletes”—for anyone who has a body and wants to get stronger and start living their healthiest life.

Download or read book The Exercise Cure written by Jordan Metzl and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple approach to weight loss and better health, with an exhaustive (and exhausting) collection of fun, fat-torching, life-changing workouts that can be tailored to any fitness level “This is a must read for everyone who wants to live a long and active life.”—Robert Sallis, MD, former president, American College of Sports Medicine What if there were a drug to treat every illness, across all body systems, proven potent against heart disease, depression, arthritis, PMS and erectile dysfunction—even in chronic diseases such as asthma, dementia, and certain types of cancer? What if it had no side effects, was completely free, readily available, and worked for everyone? Every single person who took it decreased her risk of premature death and raised his quality of life. Would you want it? In a healthcare system that spends 17% of GDP, roughly $2.7 trillion, mostly on disease treatment, how do we save money and prevent illness? By increasing the use of the world's most effective preventive medicine: exercise. In The Exercise Cure, Dr. Jordan Metzl—nationally renowned sports medicine physician—offers malady-specific and well-researched exercise prescriptions to help readers stay healthy, heal disease, drop pounds, increase longevity, and transform their lives. Dr. Metzl knows that exercise is inexpensive, powerful medicine that has benefits in prevention and treatment of disease without disturbing side effects. Even in older adults, daily exercise has been found to prevent dementia by generating neuron development in the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain. Combining the latest data and his proven motivational skills, Dr. Metzl addresses the common maladies troubling millions. He discusses our cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neurologic, reproductive, and endocrinologic body systems, with special sections on sleep problems and cancer prevention, presenting the science behind the role of exercise as medicine. Then, he details workouts that can be tailored easily to any fitness level, beginner to advanced, and provides nutritional information, including meal plans for healthy eating and disease prevention.