Sport Science: Understanding the Effects of Exercise on Athletes

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Introduction
Sports science is a discipline that is involved in the study of how the human bodies works
during exercises and how the physical exercises and sports enhance health and the performance
of the whole body. An athlete is a person can either be a male or a female in sports who
participates in one or more sports that are of physical strength endurance or the speed.
These people have well-developed physiques that are generated from the prolonged
physical training and are severe exercises that are accompanied by a firm nutritional regimen
(McArdle, Katch, and Katch, 2009). An exercise at any level needs a diet that is well-balanced to
ensure that the good health is maintained and that the performance of the sports is successful.
The use of biomechanics has helped it possible to calculate a pattern that is most effective in the
movement and the tactics of sporting.
Effects of exercise on the effectiveness of an athlete
The main aim of this discipline is to promote the physical and mental health of the people
and help them in changing their health behaviors so as to ensure a healthier lifestyle thus
becoming more active in their lives. This also helps in ensuring that the opportunities people are
protected, enhanced and provided so as to meet the present and the future generations on the
field of sports. The needs of the people are understood so as to meet the planning and the
objectives of the athletes effectively and formulate a strategy that will meet the needs of the
athletes positively by planning for the future and developing the aspects of management.

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Clark, Reed, Crouse, and Armstrong, (2003) indicates that the discipline is also aimed at
recognizing the health practices that are harmful and ensure that effective intervention is made or
behavioral and attitudinal change for ensuring effective adoption of the health services. There are
also educational programs that ensure that the participants achieve the safety benefits and the
conduct of the activities during exercises. The other aim is to develop and maintain the physical
fitness programs that meet the needs of the individuals.
The fitness of the client may be hindered by many factors. These factors may include the
human, organism and the athlete factors. In order to ensure the fitness of the client, the coach
needs to grasp the motivation of the client for fitness and the goals they need to achieve.
However, beliefs and the manner in which the clients speak of themselves can determine the
spirit and the essence of the clients in ensuring fitness (Thompson, and Manore, 2015). The
coach should ensure that he or she assesses and analysis the daily activities and the biological
function of the client, for example, the sleeping habit, eating habit, and the frequency of
exercises. The athlete can be accessed through benchmarking, performing the metrics and also
getting to know of the physical capabilities of the client.
When determining the appropriate testing for my client I will use the Army Physical
Fitness Test (APFT). This test is designed to measure the fitness of the soldiers in the army by
testing their endurance, muscular strength and the fitness in the cardiovascular respiratory. This
test will be conducted in regards to the standards that are detailed in the army FM 7-22. This
testing will involve three activities that are push-up, sit-up, and the two-mile run.
Push-up is for measuring the endurance of the client’s shoulder, chest and the muscles of
the hand. According to the words of McGuine, and Keene, (2006) the set-up exercise will be