Significant advances
have been made in the process of physical conditioning for sport over the past
years. To be in optimum physical condition for competitions, an athlete has to
go through an extensive programe of physical fitness training, which consists
of regimes of various exercise methods, and systems base on the intergration of
various sports science sup-disciplines. A comprenhensive program, with addresses
each ascept of athlete’s physical and mental capabilities, is imperative for
total success. As such developing sports-fitness base is important for both the
performance and the health of the athlete in attaining total conditioning. A
needs analysis for any sports conditioning program evaluates the demands of the
sport. Which include the range of metabolic requirements, the injury potiental
for different parts of the body, and the types of muscle actions or
biomechanical characteristics involved in sport.
Physical conditioning
refers of the development of physical fitness through the adaptation of the
body and its various systems to an exercise program. The bottom line in
physical conditioning and fitness training is stress, not mental stress, but
adaptive body stress. Sportsmen and women must put their bodies under a certain
amount of stress (overload) to increase physical capabilities. One of the
misconceptions in the sports world is that a sports person gets in shape by
just playing or taking part in her/ his chosen sport. If a limited skills is
your goal, then engaging only in your sport will keep you there. However, if
you want the most efficiency, consistent improvement, and balanced abilities
sportsmen and women must participate in year round physical conditioning
programs.
The coach can evaluate
and understand the physiological needs of his/her sport by the means of the
time, motion, and intensity analysis (tima). ‘tima’ is a useful method to
quantify the physical demands of individual athlete during match play or
competation. The main advantage of the method is the production of data
concerning durations, frequencies and perecentage of various modes of motion
and distances covered by athletes of players. It also provides cure
measurements of energy expenditure through determining exercise-to-rest ratios
and intensities of play as well as direct match involvement. The analysis can
also determine different physical, physiological and bio-energetic requirements
experienced by athletes or players of different position in a sport or of different
sport.
