Essays on Physical Performance

The health-conscious individuals tend to concern about the right amount of calorie intake, followed by lean meat, minerals and vitamins. However, the individuals with athletic objectives tend to use additional “supplements” to boost their energy to perform better ensure consistency in their performance. Researchers have indicated that the diet enriched with carbohydrates helps in increasing the extent of performance than the diet that is enriched with protein and fat content (Noakes, 2003). Carbohydrates help in developing sugar storage and helps in reducing the extent of hypoglycemia during the exercise. The carbohydrate intake in the pre-exercise phase can help in ...

Introduction

One could hardly imagine a resident of the developed country who has never delved into such aspect of popular culture as sport – either by buying a soccer ticket, buying exactly the same sneakers model David Beckham was wearing in that Adidas commercial, following the Olympics on TV or hunting some rare baseball cards. In the modern world, sport activities have become extremely different from the leisure games they used to be as they were invented. In the recent decades, significant societal, economic, political and cultural transformations turned sport not just into a socially meaningful phenomenon but rather in an ...

1. Introduction: Concussion occurs from traumatic injury to the brain and results in a temporary disruption of brain function or loss/altered consciousness for a short period (Moser, 2012). Concussion is common in contact sports, where there is a collision between players. It is expected to have an adverse cumulative effect on the persons cognitive and mental functioning (Moser, 2012). With course of time, this could adversely affect once athletic career. Identifying incidence of concussion in a particular sport, will help to determine risk and initiate preventive measures. Rugby is a full body contact sports and there are high chances ...

Introduction

Every year, new records on different sports are broken by athletes. That is, they set new records on the previous limits of human performance in their respective sports. For example, a previous lap record in a sprint may easily get broken by another individual who can simply run faster and complete the same lap in a significantly shorter length of time. This is, in fact, one of the reasons why most people and experts in the field of sports ask if there is ever a limit to human performance. Some would answer yes and some would answer the opposite. This also raises ...

Abstract

Caffeine is a widely-used drug that modifies the psychological condition of the consumers. At high doses, it causes various caffeine-related symptoms such as agitation, as well as the restless legs syndrome. Since caffeine is a habit forming drug, it allows the development of tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. It also alters sleep patterns in accordance with the consumed daily caffeine dose. Although its arousal of the central nervous system can induce pleasant effects at relatively lower doses, caffeine can impair concentration and attention at increased doses. The present study, therefore, examines the various adverse effects of consuming caffeine at high doses. The ...

Article review: Creatine supplementation with specific view to exercise/sports performance: an update Robert Cooper, Fernando Naclerio, Judith Allgrove, and Alfonso Jimenez

Currently, a lot of research exists on creatine supplementation, the protocols involved administering it, forms in which it exists and its potential side effects. In spite of these, there is uncertainty concerning the mechanisms through which creatine acts while in the human body to improve cognitive and physical performance. This review had a main objective of analyzing some of the more recent findings on the various effects and the mechanisms applied in creatine supplementation in health and sports. A secondary ...

Description of the study

Soccer players in English premier League are some of the wealthiest sportsmen in the world. However, the wealth of individual soccer players in the English premier League differs with some players having a higher net worth than others. An article by Sunday Time listed David Beckham as the wealthiest soccer player with a net worth of 249 million dollars. The list was based on identifiable wealth, property, land and other assets excluding bank account balances. It stated that the wealth of soccer players could be determined by their physical performance, annual income and education level. To this end, this study seeks ...