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Cause for Celebration—and Concern

Stanford Childrens

A martial arts mom gets a one-two punch when she learns that she has a heart condition—and that she’s pregnant. Sometimes, a pregnancy-related arrhythmia might unmask a cardiac condition that had been there before but wasn’t detectable. An avid rock climber with a martial arts black belt, Cheryl Cordova was the picture of health.

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NHL, Recovery, and a Mountain of Data – Training Insights with Minnesota Wild’s Matt Harder

First Beat

In this Firstbeat webinar, special guest Matt Harder, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Minnesota Wild, will join us live to discuss how he uses Firstbeat Sports to help manage training load during the NHL season in order to maintain optimal performance, avoid injuries, and support long-term player development.

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High School Strength and Conditioning Curriculum

PLT4M

Therefore, high school strength and conditioning curriculum plays a pivotal role in students’ long-term development in physical education. This article explores specific programs and approaches for the different levels of students in a high school strength and conditioning program.

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A Joyful Pause for Premature Baby on Heart Transplant List

Stanford Childrens

Hearing hard news during pregnancy When Britt was pregnant, she and Adam found out from specialists near their home in Mill Valley, California, that Sky had a heart condition, along with other health conditions. It’s a rare condition that heart doctors describe as unpredictable. He was given a 1% chance to live.

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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), helping you keep track of athletes conditioning without having to spend valuable training time on maximal testing protocols.

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Small Sided Games as a sport coaching training and conditioning tool

Learning Through Sport

It seems apparent that SSGs can be used as a deliberate pedagogy to elicit physiological responses for a training effect. The instructional consideration arising from this is that coaches are able to purposefully frame the dimensions of the playing field to teach for specific tactical outcomes and/or train for specific conditioning effects.

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Why Female Footballers Suffer More Knee Injuries Than Men

The Sporting

Good muscle strength can be aided by good conditioning and stretching sessions, but don’t forget that muscles are still susceptible to pain, fatigue and injuries. Because of the number of knee injuries in women’s football, many experts have been looking at the physiology of female athletes.