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Helping Student Athletes Avoid Vaping

SHAPE America

The effects of vaping on youth is a focus for researchers, youth sports coaches, federal government agencies, and the media. A review of published literature focusing on the effects vaping on athletes noted that routine e-cigarette use may have an impact on cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. Study the opposition. Study the film.

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New Heart Rate Recovery Feature from Firstbeat Sports Provides More Insights for Coaches

First Beat

The new Heart Rate Recovery (HRR) feature from Firstbeat Sports provides an additional tool for coaches to assess the status of their athletes, giving further insights into conditioning and recovery status. 2016); an individual with greater cardiovascular fitness is able to recovery quicker than someone of lower fitness.

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Webinar Wrap-Up

Montessori Physical Education

Third, we want to be as disease free as possible from cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, cancer, and metabolic diseases. As adults, we want to coach and work side-by-side with our teens instead of using the top-down approach if we want the teen to have these exercise behaviors lifelong. Some modes of exercise try and combine the two.

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Time to Get Off the Couch Again

Montessori Physical Education

Always the weapon of choice for anything punitive, my football coaches did not hold back. However, during my studies It was not lost upon me that cardiovascular exercise was important. Used primarily as a character builder through the perseverance of sheer torture, running at the end of practice was the bane of my existence.

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Sports and Stimulants: A Brief History

The Sporting

An English cyclist named Linton died during a race between Paris and Bordeaux, probably from an excessive dose of ephedrine given to him by his coach. Theoretically, from a physiological viewpoint, it should work, by increasing the effectiveness of the cardiovascular system to transport oxygen and remove waste from muscles.

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In Season Strength Training

PLT4M

As coaches, we all want to win. Time on the field is already training repetitive, sub maximal power movements, muscular and cardiovascular conditioning, as well as sport-specific energy demands. We implore our athletes to spend the off-season training to become bigger, faster, stronger. This is dangerous.

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Using Firstbeat Sports Training Effect During Return-to-Play

First Beat

So by matching normal training demands, we can minimize any such losses, or even use this time as an opportunity to develop VO2max by increasing cardiovascular demands during a time when normal musculoskeletal demands are potentially reduced. The post Using Firstbeat Sports Training Effect During Return-to-Play appeared first on Firstbeat.

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