Baechle, T.R. and Earle, R.W. ed. (2000). Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers.
Recommended additional materials:
Fleck, S.J., and Kraemer, W.J. (1997). Designing Strength Training Programs. 2nd ed. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers
A study of the applications of anatomical, physiological, neuromuscular, and biomechanical to the design of strength and conditioning programs to enhance human performance in sport and fitness.
Several videos will be available. The student will watch each video and write a paper concerning that video. This paper will be written by hand and will consist of outlining the video, identifying the various aspects of the video and defining the various lifts and concepts presented.
This paper will be due on Monday, April 23. The student will present a sport, including the position or functions of the sport that will be the focus of the Sports Specific Conditioning Program (i.e., high jump, shot put, defensive tackle in football, guard in basketball, pitcher in baseball, soccer player, etc.) to the professor for approval. This must be presented by January 26th at the latest. You may present your sport before that time.
The paper should include a review of related literature that pertains to the training and conditioning for your sport. This should be organized according to a topical arrangement (i.e. strength, speed, needs analysis, etc.). A needs analysis must be based on a kinesiological analysis of the skills used in the sport. Anatomical, neuromuscular and physiological considerations are incorporated in the development of the conditioning program. A full macrocycle should be the scope of the program. As the program is developed, support and substantiate the aspects of your program. Without literature support for a method or technique of training substantiate this aspect with your own rationale for why you would include the aspect. Include a Selected Bibliography which includes the references used in your paper.
The format for this paper is the APA Manual for writing professional papers. A chapter arrangement could be similar to the following:
Title page
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Review of Literature
Chapter III: Needs Analysis
Chapter IV: Strength and Conditioning Program
This chapter should probably be divided into aspects of the macrocycle and subdivided into the strength, conditioning, flexibility, etc. aspects.
Chapter V: Summary
Selected Bibliography
Three abstracts will be written on relevant topics from the research literature in the sport that you
are writing your Sport Specific Conditioning Program. The length of the abstracts will be 200 to 300 words.
Research articles are those written by the author(s) who did the research. Review articles are not considered
research articles, in that they review other people's research. A review article can help you to locate
the research articles that pertain to your topic. However, when a review article comes out in print it is
about 3-4 years old or more. A research article that comes out in publication is about 1-2 years old.
The research articles used for the abstracts must not be older than 1993.
Articles must be approved before abstracts are written. Some of the journals that are relevant to
this course are as follows, but there are many more:
An abstract is a short, comprehensive summary of the contents of an article. Normally the abstract
is about 100-120 words and is put in the journal article when it is published. The abstract for this
class needs to be a bit more detailed as if you were going to use it for writing a paper based on many
such articles. One abstract is due on 1/25, 2/8, 2/22.
Type of Evaluation |
Points |
|---|---|
| Video Assignments (3 at 10 points each) | 30 |
| Mid term I & II (75 ea) | 150 |
| Final Exam | 100 |
| Quizes (25 points each) | 25+ |
| Abstracts (3; each worth 20 points) | 60 |
| Presentation of SSC program | 75 |
| Sports Specific Conditioning Program | 75 |
| Total | 515+ |
The university requirement is that the student fails when the
number of absences exceeds 15%. That would be 7 classes. Since there are
3 classes each day, two days of absences would constitute 6 classes. If you
are late for class it will constitute 1/2 of an absence.
All medical excuses should have infirmary validation. Late attendance and
early departure will be prorated according to the time missed.
See catalogue for other exceptions.