Course Description:
Science of Strength is a physiology course offered at Lynchburg College for the 2014 Summer Residential Governor's School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology. This course features using sports psychology and other scientific and theoretical constructs to develop a strength and conditioning program. This program is designed to maximize an individual's athletic potential while also reduce the risk of injury. Students are able to use the information they learn in class and apply it to the physical workouts they perform. Some of the subjects students learn about include muscle physiology, biomechanics, psychological components for optimal sports performance, nutrition, and various applications for fitness testing.
Other aspects covered in class lectures include sport and exercise psychology, observational learning and modeling, agility and speed training, feedback and reinforcement research, nutrition and performance enhancing drugs, social learning theory, resistance training, and competition and coaching behaviors.
In addition, students were taught how to administer a Bod Pod Test, which calculates body mass and percent fat of an individual. Later, students completed a resistance training workout with sleds, parachutes, and bungees. Lastly, students had the opportunity to learn Olympic weightlifting techniques in the gymnasium.
There were three major projects throughout the course of the four week-long Governor's School. The first project students completed was a ten-minute PowerPoint presentation on their sociology before, during, and after playing a sport. The second project was to create a twelve-week-long strength and conditioning program for a specific sport. The last project was to research and then write a persuasive paper on a sports-related topic.
In the last week of Governor's School, students visited Liberty University's strength and conditioning weight center and watched the football players' test in cleans, bench press, vertical jump, and horizontal jump.
Science of Strength is a physiology course offered at Lynchburg College for the 2014 Summer Residential Governor's School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology. This course features using sports psychology and other scientific and theoretical constructs to develop a strength and conditioning program. This program is designed to maximize an individual's athletic potential while also reduce the risk of injury. Students are able to use the information they learn in class and apply it to the physical workouts they perform. Some of the subjects students learn about include muscle physiology, biomechanics, psychological components for optimal sports performance, nutrition, and various applications for fitness testing.
Other aspects covered in class lectures include sport and exercise psychology, observational learning and modeling, agility and speed training, feedback and reinforcement research, nutrition and performance enhancing drugs, social learning theory, resistance training, and competition and coaching behaviors.
In addition, students were taught how to administer a Bod Pod Test, which calculates body mass and percent fat of an individual. Later, students completed a resistance training workout with sleds, parachutes, and bungees. Lastly, students had the opportunity to learn Olympic weightlifting techniques in the gymnasium.
There were three major projects throughout the course of the four week-long Governor's School. The first project students completed was a ten-minute PowerPoint presentation on their sociology before, during, and after playing a sport. The second project was to create a twelve-week-long strength and conditioning program for a specific sport. The last project was to research and then write a persuasive paper on a sports-related topic.
In the last week of Governor's School, students visited Liberty University's strength and conditioning weight center and watched the football players' test in cleans, bench press, vertical jump, and horizontal jump.