What Sports requires the most energy.
Category: Sports
Physical activity guidelines for adults for aerobic and resistance training
What are the general physical activity guidelines for adults for both aerobic training and resistance training?
What are the dietary carbohydrate recommendations for the general population?
What are the dietary carbohydrate recommendations for athletes? How do these differ from the general population?
What factors influence how much fat is used during exercise?
Describe the cardiovascular benefits associated with fatty fish and fish oil supplements.
How would you begin to recommend protein intake for a sedentary, active, and extremely active individual? Explain the steps you would take.
List some of the signs and symptoms associated with vitamin C deficiency.
How does vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency affect athletes?
Sport governance agencies in the US
In addition to the governance structures described in Chapter 14, most nations also have a governmental agency that oversees all sports, including professional sport, in that nation. Sometimes this agency is named the Ministry of Sport. Research Ministry of Sport agencies in at least three foreign countries prior to answering the following questions:
- If such a structure were created in the US, who would serve on the Ministry and how should it be organized?
- How would such an agency interact with current sport governance agencies in the US? Make sure you think about all levels of sport participation in the US including amateur, interscholastic, intercollegiate, professional, and Olympic sports.
- Do you think a Ministry of Sport would improve sport in America? Why or why not? Base your decision on the research you have completed about similar agencies outside the US.
Unbecoming Conduct in Youth Sport
As the Director of Children’s Sport Programming for you home town, you are tasked with organizing a new soccer league for girls and boys from six to ten years old. Experience tells you that the parents and kids in your town are very competitive. For example, in the winter hockey league, several groups of parents were banned and suspensions for poor sportsmanship were common for participants. In order to be proactive and eliminate such behaviors in the new soccer league, you have developed a Code of Conduct for all stakeholders.
- Describe your Code of Conduct for directing the behavior of (a) participants, (b) parents, and (c) general spectators.
- How will you communicate the Code of Conduct to the stakeholders?
- How will the Code of Conduct be enforced?
- How will you go about getting all stakeholders to buy into the Code?
A minimum eligibility requirement based on age for sports
Should sport impose a minimum eligibility requirement based on age (e.g., in women’s tennis, 14 yr. old’s can compete against 30 yr. old’s.)?
What strategies would you suggest keeping kids involved in sport or otherwise physically active throughout their teenage years and early adulthood?
What four or five changes would you make to youth sport programs as they exist today. Explain reasons for each change as an interactionist theorist would be likely to do?
List 4 current coaching scandals and explain how each of these scandals hurt the young people involved, the university and cast a doubt on the integrity of coaches?
Taking the position of a feminist theorist, research possible reasons for the low percentage of female coaches and suggest strategies for improving the situation. In other words, what is the cause and what are some possible solutions?
List the standards, certifications and continuing education for prospective coaches?
The original Greek Olympics compared to today’s modern Olympics
What are the differences between the original Greek Olympics compared to today’s modern Olympics? Are there any similarities?
Title IX in College Athletics.
Researched argument about Title IX in College Athletics.
The purpose of this assignment is to craft a claim-based academic argument. In doing this, you will engage in a rhetorical process in which you take up a research habit of mind. This means that you will select, evaluate, and integrate 2-3 appropriate outside sources that help you develop your claim.
Topically, you will identify how an issue, challenge, or problem informs the space of college athletics. Similarly, it is your task to address how your meditation on the subject contributes to a larger public or scholarly conversation.
Successful Researched Arguments:
Posit, develop, and support a claim with reasons about an issue informing college athletics
Present a complex, thoughtful, and persuasive view of this issue
Position and frame the issue and the claim in such a way that it matters to readers
Effectively incorporate outside research in a way that attends to others’ viewpoints (i.e., consider and deal with possible objections to the claim)
Demonstrate awareness of the conventions of academic writing, particularly:
Introductions that connect with readers & appropriately frame the issue
Clearly stated claims with reasons (these can be longer than one sentence)
Well-developed reasons that support the claim
Strategic incorporation and analysis of other authors’ ideas and outside information
Proper in-text and end-text citation of these authors
Strategic use of the rhetorical appeals where appropriate
Conclusions that summarize the argument, provide further reason for readers to care about the claim, and/or leave readers with something to consider.
How play techniques can assist assessment and treatment of the children with language deficits
1. Discuss how play techniques can assist assessment and treatment of the children with language deficits and developmental coordination disorder.
2. Provide example of play techinques, supporting your response with at least three sources within the last 5 years
“Puma’s Basketball Reenty”
Read the attached case study “Puma’s Basketball Reenty”
In particular, think about the following areas:
1. Discuss Puma’s environmental analysis (especially the exteranal analysis of the U.S. market)
2. What was the value added proposition in focusing on the ‘growth, activism, and culture of NBA Basketball’
3. Although the pandemic probably disrupted Puma’s strategy, do you think they had it right? did they understand their environment?
Is cheerleading a sport
Prompt 1
Is cheerleading a sport? How about skateboarding? What about a video game, such as League of Legends? For this topic, choose an activity that some people consider a sport and argue whether or not that activity counts as a sport.
Prompt 2
Many fans of independent music are saddened when their favorite musicians sign to major record labels, appear on radio or TV, or become widely popular. They call these musicians “sell-outs.” What is a sell-out? Should musicians (or artists, scholars, scientists, or politicians) “sell out”?
Prompt 3
Cult films have been around for a long time, but what exactly makes a film a cult film? Define what the term “cult” means in reference to films and use a film as an example to support the criteria that make up your definition.
Prompt 4
As scientists continue to study plants and animals, it becomes more and more likely that human beings are not the only living beings to communicate, think, and feel. Some animals, like dolphins and orca whales, have complex languages, evidence of culture, and even self-awareness. Plants, too, have been discovered to have complex systems for communication and fit some scientists’ qualifications for consciousness. Some people propose designating dolphins and other advanced animals as “non-human people” and giving them rights similar to those we recognize for humans. What makes someone, or something, a person? Could a dolphin meet the criteria? How about a whale? Dog? Gorilla? A redwood tree? Do some research and argue whether or not an animal or plant fits the category “person.”
Prompt 5
Each of the readings in Unit 2 defines a term to make an argument. Clinton defines women’s rights, Wiesel discusses indifference, and Emerson elaborates on self-reliance. This final prompt is more open-ended; to write your essay, choose a term or concept you believe is essential to maintaining a free, just, and ethical society, do some research, and write an essay that makes an definition or evaluation argument to explain what makes that term or concept essential.