Medical Aspects of Athletics in Preparatory Schools

Medical aspects of competitive athletics.

In longer races an increasing proportion of the energy for running comes from the aerobic mechanism of energy liberation. Aerobic mechanisms contribute just over half the total energy required in running a mile but more than three-quarters of the energy required in running three miles. In the presence of adequate supplies of oxygen, pyruvic acid is not converted to lactic acid but itself underg...

Aspects of Strength Training in Athletics

As any voluntary movement depends on the contraction of muscles, the different techniques in the running, jumping and throwing events are very closely related to, and even depend on, neuro-muscular activity. Generally speaking,‘speedstrength’ or ‘power’ is the main form of strength required. As far as the character of muscular tension is concerned, in the sprints speed-cyclical contractions wit...

Olympic athletics medical experience, Seoul--personal views.

The medical team to look after 107 track and field athletes and 23 officials consisted of two doctors and four physiotherapists. After two years' prior fact-finding, detailed planning for the games started many months in advance. With final team selections only four weeks before travelling, all hopefuls had to complete appropriate immunizations, fitting in with training schedules and competitio...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC FASTING