Topic: Watch a diabetes educator and/or nurse perform a blood glucose test on a diabetes patient. How could you use this in your exercise practice? Take your own blood glucose after intense exercise. What is the number? What does it mean for you?
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Type of document: Essay
Academic Level:Undergraduate
Category: Education
SAMPLE QUESTION:
Perform the experience below as instructed and write an essay (250 word mini- mum) describing your experience and what you gained from participating. You may need to do additional outside research in order to define terms associated with each experience. Provide comprehensive explanations of your findings.
1. Theoretically plot the strength curve of a beginning, intermediate and an advanced weight trainee while performing a squat. Explain the differences in the shape of the curve. What are the seven factors of the strength curve? Pick an exercise and alter two of the seven factors in order to improve upon the strength curve.
Sample Learning Experience Response
The strength curve is the human movement broken down and put onto paper in an attempt to analyze the components of strength. It is a graphical representation of movement, where force is the vertical axis and time is the horizontal axis.
The seven factors of the strength curve are as followed:
1.Angle of Q: Starting strength (your ability to activate/recruit as many muscle fibers as possible instantaneously); the steeper the line, the greater the angle of Q
2.Angle of A: Determines the acceleration (or deceleration) in your application of force by comparing the successive angles of A
3.Force: Fmax = Maximum amount of force output you produce during any given movement
4.Time: Tmax = Time of concentric movement until reaching Fmax
5.Relationship between Time and Force: Fmax/Tmax = explosive strength
6.Relationship between limit strength and Fmax: Relates to functional strength (the amount of limit strength necessary to maximize Fmax without causing an increase in the difference between Fmax and limit strength)
7.Amortization Phase: Transition phase between the eccentric and concentric phase
A beginner trainee's strength curve is going to essentially look like a drawn out wavy line. Fortunately, there is hope and a proper way to train the individual. When attempting to alter a beginner's strength curve you have to start with their foundational strength, which is their limit strength, along with the consistency of using proper form. I would recommend air squats and dumbbell snatches as well.
The squat is a multifunctional movement that requires strong legs, back and core muscles as a foundation. The stronger each muscle group becomes, the more the limit strength and Fmax will increase in the squat movement exercise.
Next, as an intermediate trainee, their strength curve will not be as elongated as it was earlier before and timing between lifts are shorter. This is acceleration improvement. They will have a significant increase in their limit strength and Fmax. Since the foundational-limit strength-has improved the trainee can now focus more on their "explosiveness" or explosive strength. This is done by increasing their Angle of Q, which in turn decreases the trainee's Tmax.
For the level of fitness the trainee is at, they should have the squat movement exercise and assistance movements down with proper form and technique. Some exercise movements that I would recommend to improve their explosive strength would be Olympic lifts.
Finally, as an advanced trainee, their Strength Curve should almost look like a fully developed check mark. As the trainee's strength curve begins to look like this all seven factors are almost fully developed. The Angle of Q (starting strength) is almost a near straight vertical line and the Tmax has shortened dramatically.
The amortization phase of the trainee is at the point where it's literally nonexistent and they just explode out of "the hole" in the squat exercise. To improve this phase, I would recommend box jumps and speed and agility drills, like sprints, cones, and ladder drills.
If an athlete wanted to improve their strength curve for a deadlift, they would want to build a good foundation first by increasing their one-rep max in order to build this foundation.
The limit strength for each athlete is difficult to determine, but it should align with sport specific goals. Another area of improvement is the starting strength (which improves Fmax, Tmax, and F/T). This can be done through plyometric training, Olympic lifts, and running drills among other activities. Each factor of the strength curve is interrelated, and improving in one area will help to improve in the others.