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The Commodification of Breath: Parsing Fact from Fiction in the Gilded Age of Breathwork and Breathing Influencers

AASP

The consequences, they argue, are a cascade of severe health conditions ranging from asthma and facial malformation to ADHD and depression. Let your chest move naturally as a byproduct of belly movement. According to authors and influencers, modern humans have “forgotten” how to breathe. Their solution? How Does It Work?

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Managing Training Load Year-Round: Through Off-Seasons, Breaks & Beyond

First Beat

Are we preparing our players well enough over the summer to ensure their bodies are in the best possible condition when pre-season begins? Ideally, this requires annual data for each player, as every athlete has a unique physiological fingerprint. Is it even possible to mimic the demands of the regular season with off-season training?

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High School Strength and Conditioning Curriculum

PLT4M

Therefore, high school strength and conditioning curriculum plays a pivotal role in students’ long-term development in physical education. This article explores specific programs and approaches for the different levels of students in a high school strength and conditioning program.

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Small Sided Games as a sport coaching training and conditioning tool

Learning Through Sport

It seems apparent that SSGs can be used as a deliberate pedagogy to elicit physiological responses for a training effect. The instructional consideration arising from this is that coaches are able to purposefully frame the dimensions of the playing field to teach for specific tactical outcomes and/or train for specific conditioning effects.

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Sport Specific Training

PLT4M

Some of the major factors driving this movement are: Competition Money Social Media Lack of Education Competition: What drives athletes at almost any age is the desire to be the best. When athletes want to improve specific on-field tasks, they believe these movement patterns need to be replicated, exactly, in a strength training program.

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Mind The Gap: Internal Training Load During Practice vs. Competition

First Beat

When comparing team practices from the early weeks of pre-season to the start of the regular season (6-7 weeks later), it’s common to see lower TRIMP scores with similar Movement Load (ML) values, assuming athletes remain healthy during this period. The gap between TRIMP & ML increases, which is a highly desirable outcome.

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How I Use Firstbeat in Professional Sports to Identify Trends in Players’ Fitness

First Beat

If a player makes it through this period without sustaining an injury, I think it is safe to say that his physical condition will be better than it was at the start of the pre-season. I like to use TRAINING IMPULSE (TRIMP), MOVEMENT LOAD (ML), MOVEMENT EFFICIENCY (ME) and HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (HIT) for fitness trend recognition.