Sentences with phrase «number of athletes who»

I had made the trip to Lake Placid to interview a number of athletes who were practicing and / or trying out for various teams.

I'm very grateful to be one of a number of athletes who receive support from the Virgin London Marathon which allows me to travel to Kenya to train with some of the best athletes in -LSB-...]

However, when we compare the number of athletes who do specialized technical and / or strength and conditioning programs, mental training is still far behind.

As fall sports are in full swing we unfortunately see a large number of athletes who tumble to the ground; grabbing a knee in severe pain.

Not exact matches

But critics point to the high numbers of one - and - done players — who declare at the earliest opportunity under the rule — as evidence that the rule is not working as intended to prepare young athletes for life as an NBA player.

Following this formula, we have welcomed MaiTai Global — a non-profit community of extraordinary entrepreneurs, innovators and athletes, who pool their energy, networks and resources to help each other achieve professional success — to Necker Island for a number of years.

What about any number of beloved athletes who endorse products we buy, but have been accused of doing terrible things to others?

In 2013, research published in the British Journal of Nutrition confirmed this and also found it may boost post-exercise immunity.4 Athletes who ate three - quarters of a teaspoon of a type of fiber found in nutritional yeast per day ended up having higher amounts of circulating monocytes two hours after intense exercise — higher, in fact, than their pre-workout numbers.

They specialize in finding great, undersized athletes, and get a fair number of hard - nosed guys who could compete at a higher level somewhere if they chose to.

These changes have allowed physicians to effectively treat the growing number of young athletes who present with these injuries.

From a personal standpoint, I have seen an increasing number of athletes coming to my clinic with strained calf muscles, Achilles tendonitis and metatarsal stress fractures who have made too quick a transition to barefoot running.

A top student and football star in South Central L.A., Kitam Hamm is one of a growing number of high school athletes who face life - and - death decisions every day as they try to survive in gang - infested communities

Ponderosa senior pole vaulter Kylee Trageser's season exemplified the ups and downs felt by a number of student - athletes who experience the thrill of victory and agony of defeat on the sport's biggest stages.

Durant joins a growing number of professional athletes who have spoken out against racism and disagreed with President Trump's comments on white supremacists and Confederate statues in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

The coach of the Soviet basketball team, Aleksandr Gomelsky, is Jewish — and, in fact, there are a number of Jewish athletes on national teams and those of the various Soviet republics — but Max, and others, believe that Jews who are allowed to travel abroad are told that if they don't return, they will be denied further contact with their families.

Those athletes who do not consume appropriate food in sufficient amounts may experience excessive fatigue and may pre-dispose them to a number of illnesses and injuries.

That said, there are still vast numbers of athletes, parents and coaches who are still in the dark about how mental training complements and enhances all the other physical training athletes do.

As well as the household names, a number of athletes make their debuts in this year's Championships: these include Mazyar Ossmiasaeed, an Iranian born rider who has recently taken up a British passport; Rob Yeatman who won the national BTTC Paracycling time trial championships earlier this month and at 17 years old is an outstanding young talent; and even younger, there's Sophie Thornhill, a 15 year old rider will team up with 16 year old pilot Jessica Anderson in an exciting new tandem pairing.

Sayers was among a number of big - name British athletes who were dropped from funding for 2013 - 14, with Jenny Meadows, Yamilé Aldama and Lisa Dobriskey among those to miss out.

Unfortunately, there has been during this same period, and especially in the last five to ten years, a substantial increase in the number of reported cases of second impact syndrome (SIS), which occurs when an athlete who sustains head trauma, i.e. a traumatic brain injury - often a concussion or worse injury, such as a cerebral contusion (bruised brain)- sustains a second head injury before signs of the initial injury have cleared.

The King - Devick (K - D) test measuring the speed of rapid number naming is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes who should be removed from a game or practice for further evaluation, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found.

said sensors are helping coaches and other personnel at UNC identify athletes who are sustaining a high number of high force impacts, especially to the top front of their helmets which appear to be the most worrisome from a brain trauma standpoint, as a result of poor tackling or blocking technique.

Likewise, in her practice, Elizabeth Pieroth, Ph.D., Associate Director of North Shore University Health System's Sports Concussion Program, says she has seen a number of youth patients (athletes and non-athletes) who have sustained a concussion and believe they now have or are going to develop CTE.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

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.

The number of calories contained in them are for athletes who are very active.

A: I wanted to show in a tangible way that the number of adults out there who support youth athletes the right way do, in fact, outnumber the crazies.

Science weighs in: De Vany and other Paleos are in direct opposition to a growing number of scientists and athletes who believe that running long distances can be healthy, and that humans may have evolved doing just that.

That translates into a large number of positive tests — but contrast that figure with the 29 percent of athletes at a major international meet who, when promised anonymity by researchers, admitted to using PEDs.

The high number of false negative results found in the study implies a risk that athletes who use rHuEpo will avoid detection and damage the fundamental goal of fair competition.

While these shakes are convenient when time is of the essence for your muscles, they are generally more detrimental to your health in the long run (take if from someone who lived on those things for two years as a collegiate athlete and only experienced an increasing number of health problems — anemia, asthma, allergies, etc.).

The animal proteins, Whey & Egg Whites are currently the favorites used by strength athletes while a multiple of plant proteins from Soy, Peanut, Corn, Rice and Wheat sources are the favorites of a number of endurance athletes who advocate as health the prime pillar supporting their performance.

That's why a skinny kid who can contract a lot of muscle fibers can be stronger than a big bulky athlete who can't contract large numbers of fibers.

Ever wondered how athletes get so ripped and look so good in their game, you might think they have been better access to gym, training plan, diet plan, supplements yes its true but there is one thing you missed out is that they train for more number of hours and eat more than any normal human who trainings.

This type of throwing often reveals a startling lack of athleticism in athletes who can snatch and clean and jerk astonishing numbers, but can barely sequence a medball toss against a wall.

One only need look at the wide variety of athletes and professionals who regularly run a variety of distances (from military special forces, to police forces, to football and rugby players, to marathon runners) to see the huge number of body types that can reasonably run.

Indeed, endurance athletes, who are generally able to perform a higher number of repetitions to failure in comparison with strength athletes (Desgorces et al. 2010; Panissa et al. 2013; Richens & Cleather, 2014) also tend to display a greater proportion of type I muscle fibers (Gollnick et al. 1972; Costill et al. 1979; Harber et al. 2004a).

February 25, 2018 • The 2,920 athletes who participated set a new record; so did the number of nations — 92 — they represented in South Korea.

My guess is that a number of adults will also assume that students who take a knee are just copying the professional athletes — although in my experience, even very young children who take a civic or political stand are usually quite thoughtful about their reasons for action.

As with lawyers, priests, doctors, soldiers, professional athletes, or people in a great many occupations there are a relatively small number of bad apples who can have a very - outsized impact on the general reputation of those who work in the occupation.

The new law calls for an annual review of concussion awareness resources available to coaches and educators; a strict removal - from - sport and return - to - sport procedure to ensure athletes who have suffered a blow to the head have the time to heal and recover; and a code of conduct for athletes to minimize the number of concussions that occur in youth sports.

Student Sarah Chadwick famously edited herself into a National Rifle Association public service announcement telling the gun rights group their time was running out — a riff on NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch's warning that «time's running out» for a number of other groups, including the «lying media, every Hollywood phony, to the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents.»