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Article #157: Sports Science & Improving Sporting Performance

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Sport science is a collection of They have addressed the mental challenges
scientific disciplines that work together to endurance as well as the physical
to improve the performance of a given challenges to endurance.
athlete. This can cover the way an Qualifications involved with sports
athlete sleeps to the food they eat and science
when they eat it. It can also cover the The people that are involved in sport
cloth they wear and the manner in which science are all professionals at what
they train and how often they train. they do. They may be doctors of various
Sport science covers the facilities that clinical specializations. They can also
they perform in and how they are designed be dietitians, physical therapists,
and built. psychologists and physiologists.
Finally, sport science also includes the Many will be engineers that focus on
mental needs of the athlete. There can different areas of the athletes
be great strides on the physical front to performance and find ways to get a little
allow the athlete to go beyond what they bit more out of the athletes efforts.
think they can. The mental barriers also Some will design the training equipment
have to be moved to allow the athlete to or the actual equipment used to compete
move that imaginary point they see as with or the facilities they compete in.
their limit. The one thing that all these
Top consultants in the world professionals have in common is a love
Currently the following people are listed for the sport they are involved in and a
as the top consultants in the world on desire to see it go to the next level
the subject of sports science. They are Benefited from sports science
Dr. Filippo Ongaro (Italy), who works There have been many benefits for the
with endurance performance enhancements general public because of sports science.
for elite athletes and astronauts, Dr. Some of these advances have included the
Jacques Dallaire (USA/Canada), who works way shoes are designed and the way they
with mental and physical testing and are built. We have seen changes in
performance for athletes and professional bicycle designs that have made them
racecar drivers and Ric Charlesworth (New lighter and stronger. We have even seen
Zealand), who works with high-performance changes in the types of snacks that have
management. been made popular over the years.
Each of these people brings to the field The benefits of sport science have also
of sport science a wide range of impacted the way our every day injuries
experience and techniques that help to are treated. There are new methods for
increase athletes abilities to perform at physical therapy that were developed to
their peak. They have, in fact, worked help elite athletes heal faster and
to keep moving the point at which the better. The cloths we wear are warmer,
athlete reaches their peak. This effort lighter and brighter because of the
allows the athlete to perform faster, advances in sports science.
better and for longer periods of time.






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