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Essentials of Athletic Training, 5/e
Daniel Arnheim
William Prentice, University of North Carolina
Preventing Injuries through Fitness Training

Review Questions and Class Activities

  1. Why is year-round conditioning so important for injury prevention?
  2. In terms of injury prevention, list as many advantages as you can for conditioning.
  3. How does the SAID principle relate to sports conditioning and injury prevention?
  4. What is the value of proper warm-ups and cooldowns to sports injury prevention?
  5. Critically observe how a variety of sports use warm-up and cooldown procedures.
  6. Compare ways to increase flexibility and how those ways may decrease or increase the athlete's susceptibility to injury.
  7. How may increasing strength decrease susceptibility to injury?
  8. Compare different techniques of increasing strength. How may each way be an advantage or a disadvantage to the athlete in terms of injury prevention?
  9. Discuss the relationship between maximum aerobic capacity and heart rate.
  10. Differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic training methods.
  11. How is continuous training different from interval training?








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