YNG10 Exercise for the Young: Case Studies, Assessments, and Exercise Programs

YNG10 Exercise for the young
Assignment v1.1 (2018/01/30)
YNG10 Exercise for the young
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Case study 1 – Jenny
Jenny is 17 years old. She is a junior professional tennis player who has been performing quite
well winning three of her last four events. However, she has noted that she has had continuous
disruptions to her menstrual cycle that has caused it to cease over the last four months. She has
also indicated that she has been putting herself on a strict diet to cut calories so that she can lose
weight. She has also admitted to taking diet pills to help this process.
Jenny has been feeling very fatigued since the last tournament she played in. She informed her
doctor of what has been happening with her. The doctors and coaches are very concerned with
her health and have indicated that she may have female athlete triad.
Jenny recently completed the 20-metre Multistage Fitness Test (Beep test). Normally, she
performs at a very high standard. However, she performed poorly in this test.
Beep Test Fitness Result Norms
Men Women
Excellent > 13 > 12
Very good 11-13 10-12
Good 9-11 8-10
Average 7-9 6-8
Poor 5-7 4-6
Very poor < 5 < 4
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1. Describe what female athlete triad is. Ensure that, in your answer, you cover the three main
aspects of this condition: disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. You should also
outline the treatment objectives of women with this condition.
As mentioned above it is a syndrome that presents with three symptoms; a disorientation in
eating, amenorrhoea and osteoporosis. It is as a result of caloric deficit or energy drain. The
low energy is as a result of underfeeding which is done consciously or unconsciously. This
causes a disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis that causes a reduction in the
gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), follicle-stimulating hormone and the luteining
hormone. This causes a decrease in estrogen production which inturns causes menstrual
dysfunction. Low estrogen affects the calcium resorption and the bone accretion which inturns
reduces the bone health. The treatment modalities include a diet regime that aims at
increasing the caloric intake by 20-30% and raising the weight by 0.5kg to 0.7kgs per week.
Patient education is also important as she needs to understand the importance of her caloric
intake as her caloric expenditure is high.
2. Outline the impact of the female athlete triad on physical, social, and emotional aspects of
growth and development.
Growth and
development Impacts
Physical One symptom is disoriented eating. This causes Anorexia Nervosa in which the
expected body weight is not attained. The body weights less than 85% of the expected
body weight. This slows down growth rates.
Due to lack of energy, as a result of reduced body intake, this makes the person to get
fatigue easily.
Osteoporosis is another symptom to the syndrome. The weakening of bones makes the
person prone to fractures which takes long to heal. This causes physical disabilities.
Social With anorexia the female feels and looks thin and wasted. This makes them to be
isolated and withdrawn.
The lack of energy and easy fatigued makes them anti-social and disengaged with
others as they cannot tolerate activities.
The lack of energy and intolerance to activities makes them not participate in sports as
they used to. This affects their social life.
Emotional There poor performance in sports frustrates them as they used to perform exemplary.
As a results of anorexia, their body images gets disfigured. This affects their self-image
and self-esteem.
They get depressed as a result of anorexia, disrupted menstrual cycles and they easily
get fatigued.
3. Describe what the beep test is and why it is useful in the sport of tennis.
Beep test is the multistage fitness level test that is being performed for measuring the fitness of
cardiovascular as well as the maximum amount of oxygen uptake in the human body. It is also a
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20meter shuttle run test that is being performed for the tennis players. Beep test is useful in
the tennis because it provides 20meter shuttle run test which is helpful to determine the
aerobic power of the tennis player. The primary reason for the use of beep test for the tennis
player because the movement that is involved within this test are quite similar to the tennis in
the respect of the stop, then start as well as the change within the direction.
4. Outline the reasons for Jenny’s poor performance in the beep test as based on her case.
Jenny poor performance in the beep test is due to the female athlete triad. Age of Jenny is only
17 years old and at this age it is quite possible to become the patient of female athlete triad
due to the body fitness as well as performance level in the field. It can be clearly seen that in
the case of Jenny, she used to take pills to reduce her weight and also maintain a fit body for
providing high performance level. These are all the facts which create female athlete triad
within Jenny and this is the major reason for her poor performance level.
5. Based on Jenny having female athlete triad, describe what type of exercise program she
could do at home after her condition has improved. You should focus on preparing her for
professional competition.
Remember to keep his resistance activities as bodyweight. Include flexibility movements.
Program one – Home program
Client name: Jenny Client age: 17yrs Session length: 30 min
Goal: Improve confidence and self-image, improve aerobic fitness.
Warm-up
Activity: Jumping jacks
Duration: 5 mins
Intensity: 10% intensity on body
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