Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Assignment 1

The sport I have choose is Boxing.
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art when two people fight with there fists. There are four ways to win in boxing: knockout, technical knockout, judge points decision, disqualification: if the opponent is knocked out and unable to get up before the the count down (ten seconds) is called a knockout or KO or if the opponent is injured this is called a Technical knockout or TKO.

In Boxing you need:                                                                                                                                   Health Related Components of Fitness such as:
  • Cardio vasculaer (CV) Endurance: This is the most important Health Related Component because you need it to carry on to beat you're opponent. 
  • Muscular Strength: You my need this for hard Punches. 
  • Flexibility: You have to be flexible to dodge punches    
Skill Related Components of Fitness:
  • Speed: you need speed to hit the other person before you get hit, the faster you are the less chance you're going to be hit. You also need speed when dodging.
  • Agility: You need this if your opponent punches you, you can dodge it without losing balance. 
  • Power: This is very important in boxing because you need power for punching. 
    Exercise
Press ups: when you do a press ups, youre back should be straight and hands shoulder width apart, then  extend your arms then put your arms straight to go back up stay there for two seconds and repeat.

Part 2
Power: Rocky Marciano was the most powerful boxer because he was found to carry the same amount of energy needed to spot lift a 1000 pounds 1ft into the air.
Speed: The fastest and most powerful heavyweight was Mike Tyson.    

Assignment 2.1

Lifestyle factor that can affect a sports performer
Stress:
  • Media because the Media tells people about whats happened to people in the last week and it will bring them down, they also change the story so it sounds more interesting and they don't just talk about sport they talk about there personal life's as well
  • Fans because you may lose fan if you don't succeed.
  • Sponsors because you could lose you're sponsors
Smoking:
  • Bad for you're health
exercise:
  • You need to exercise for stamina 
Alcohol:

  •  Not good for you're health and could get hang overs.
Sleep:

  • Sleep is needed for the body to recuperate.
  • Sleep is needed for growth and development
  • Sleep affects metabolism
  • Sleep affects our ability to perform
  • Sleep influences our ability to learn and our memory
  • Sleep affects mood


Diet

a healty diet makes a sports performer