Sentences with phrase «long as an athlete»

As long as the athletes take the time to get educated on what's happening and they are willing to put their careers at risk for what they believe in, I'm all for that.

This is a 16 week progression, and just the beginning for a high school athlete, as the athlete gets stronger we continually progress to higher boxes and hurdles starting over with the same 16 week progression as long as the athlete continues to show proficiency.

Anabolic steroids work by helping the body's muscle cells produce more protein which, as long as the athletes works out, leads to increased muscle size and strength and, at the same time, also allows the body to produce more ATP, the «fuel» muscles need to move.

As long as an athlete eats within the proper time frame pre and post exercise food is just as effective as any other supplement.

Many activities can qualify as aerobic training, as long as the athlete's heart rate stays elevated, but below their anaerobic threshold (or the heart rate / line where you stop utilizing oxygen for exercise).

From my 25 years plus in the fitness industry and longer as an athlete, I have discovered that losing weight (looking better naked!)

That is as long as the athletes can tolerate and recover properly (nutrition, sleep, and moderate training intensity, especially with more compound movements like deadlifts and squats).

Not exact matches

This is not another self - absorbed athlete — not as long as he ventures into monologues about the «deep responsibility» that comes with being an Irish champion, or talks with humility about «showing up to the gym every day as a white belt.»»

It has been suggested taht some of the long - term contracts for aging athletes are intended as a form of deferred compensation scheme on the theory it spreads out their income over more years (instead of earning very high income in their peak years, and lower incomes as they get older).

In a lot of ways, salespeople are treated like elite athletes: as long as they're performing, they're pampered.

The professional athlete is a player according to our description only so long as he or she finds the nature of the sport complete and satisfying apart from the money and fame.

Hence, its NOT a sin, (as the article states) for these travelling athletes should they choose not to fast so long as they make it up before the arrival of next Ramadan the following year.

I have read a lot about how a keto diet could be beneficial for endurance athletes like me who race long - distance triathlons (Olympic and Half - Ironman distances), and I have already experienced this during my training sessions over this past couple of weeks, as I started doing some fasting and training in a fasted state: my energy levels are just never - ending, I can bike or run for hours, and there is no «hitting the wall» feeling anymore!

Los Angeles Business Journal Monday, March 11, 2013 (173,820 daily online readers, 24,434 weekly readers of printed version) Rice Is Nice By Deborah Crowe Whey has long reigned supreme among body builders and other athletes as a nutritional supplement that both builds muscle and helps prevent muscle breakdown as -LSB-...]

His bailiwick as a money manager has long been billionaires, hundred - millionaires and CEOs — a club that, the Steinbrenners» pen be damned, still doesn't include many athletes.

He's tall and lithe, but also built like a house and has long been well - reputed as one of the best athletes to ever take up golf.

I wouldn't go quite that far, as there are great athletes who played for a long time with outsized personalities in other sports, too.

When we investigate an alleged crime involving an athlete at UT, as a professional courtesy, our long standing practice has been that we alert the head Coach and staff.

But suddenly the young man who says that he set his watch and dorm - room clock 10 minutes ahead to try to stay on schedule, who served as the Chiefs» co-captain, who spent time volunteering at last summer's Special Olympics and who had just appeared as one of nine varsity athletes on the university president's Christmas card, was being described as the instigator of a scuffle during an intrasquad scrimmage — a bad actor no longer wanted by his coach or teammates.

Top athletes also have a common life with family and friends and as long as they are doing it moderately unlike iwobi it is and should be completely fine and acceptable.

No clue where you came up with the stuff about money or going to the gym as he is an incredible athlete with a successful career long before the WWE (and the WWE played that up).

Determined not to be an ex-jock who revels too long in old glories, Bradley downplayed his status as a former athlete, barricading his past from public view.

Female athlete triad is commonly seen in endurance female athletes who try to keep their body composition lean and light, such as long distance runners, cyclists, gymnasts and figure skaters.

Even if you, like me, eat an ungodly amount of bacon for breakfast when you're roommates aren't home, if your idea of exercise is walking to a bagel shop, you too can be a professional athlete — as long as you're one of the best NBA 2K players in the world.

Speed work for endurance athletes, or really for anyone just wanting to be fit and get faster, is not «work out at top speed for as long as you can every day.»

Yes, swimming at the highest levels is an individual sport, and as athletes start to separate themselves from the pack, it makes complete sense to swim the events that a) you enjoy the most (because in the long run you'll most likely do better at them), and b) suit your skills — but in case you haven't noticed, you're in high school.

Chris Long on show of support during anthem: «Malcolm is a leader and I'm here to show my support as a white athlete» pic.twitter.com/UibiR9ut 6Y

This new partnership reflects the long tradition of cooperation between Puressentiel and the Team Puressentiel ®, bringing together top - level athletes and performers in a variety of disciplines: basketball, surfing, dance, boxing, swimming as well as the Paris Saint - Germain football club and the High Mountain Guide teams from Méribel and Courchevel.

UCLA's Kolton Miller is a big, long tackle as well as one of the best athletes in this year's offensive line class.

Tianna Bartoletta needed to do no more after her world leading 7.02 m in the second round of the long jump competition as no other athlete could also break the seven metre barrier.

Some top pole vault and long jump athletes will compete as the specially designed «FlySwat» — a mobile athletics facility — brings spectators right up close to the action.

There are still, however, a number of experienced athletes such as Hitchon, plus long jumper Jazmin Sawyers, Luke Cutts in the pole vault, Jade Lally in the discus and in - form 1500m man Jake Wightman.

Competition was fierce in north Birmingham as athletes could guarantee their selection by placing first or second as long as they had gained the British Athletics qualification standard twice during this year or last summer.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoverAs a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoveras a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

Like her, we look forward to the day in the not - to - distant future when whether an athlete is black, white, gay, straight or transgender won't be described as an «openly gay» athlete or a «black athlete»; as Caitlin so eloquently put it in her Today Show interview, to a «tomorrow when these classifications no longer exist.»

The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

A month ago, a couple of weeks after posting an article about Caitlin's long road to recovery, with the help and support of her mom, Barbara, from post-concussion syndrome, and after Caitlin came out as gay, I asked her whether she would help MomsTEAM develop out the section of our site on parenting LGBT youth athletes.

Our mission now, as it was in 2000, is to do everything we can to minimize the short - and long - term risks that concussions, if not properly managed, pose to athlete, and to provide objective and practical concussion information to parents, coaches, and athletic trainers that reflects the latest consensus of medical experts and advances in research and technology on best concussion safety practices, all in the direct, concise, easy - to - read, practical format that has always been MomsTeam's hallmark.

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

[2] «The reluctance to report concussion symptoms and to follow protocols [were] likely results from certain cultural factors such as athletes asserting their masculinity by playing through the discomfort of an injury, and a belief that winning is more important than an athlete's long - term health,» said lead author, Paul Echlin, M.D..

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

Studies show that saccadic movements - the quick eye movements used in reading - are frequently abnormal following concussion and may predict whether an athlete will suffer from postconcussion syndrome (e.g. symptoms which persist over a long period of time, instead of clearing within the first 7 to 10 days, as in the vast majority of cases)(over 90 % in one recent study).

No longer is a young athlete with a «ding» or mild concussion allowed to return to play as soon as 15 to 30 minutes after his or her symptoms had cleared.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Drinking may help maintain the link to sports and identity as an athlete for those that simply can no longer compete.

An athlete's psychological readiness is just as important for a return to sports as their physical recovery from injury, says Eric Laudano, M.H.S., ATC, head athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania, especially for long - term injuries.

As any athlete knows without question, if you were about to embark on a long and arduous physical event like running the 26 mile marathon, for example, you do not go without oral fuel and hydration.