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Strength and Conditioning

1. Agility training progressions consist of technical skill training, pattern running/moving, and reactive agility training. Please describe what each is and give an example of an agility exercise that accurately reflects your description.

2. The required reading for speed mentioned five things influence speed. What are three of these items and provide a brief explanation as to how that factor impacts speed?

3. With regards to resistance training for aerobic athletes, describe proper recommendations related to Training volume and intensity and Exercise selection.

4. Explain the potential benefits of utilizing form of aerobic training with anaerobic athletes like volleyball, baseball, or softball? If you explain a physiological/anatomical benefit you need to somehow relate it to greater performance for the anaerobic athlete.

5. Explain the possibility that aerobic training for anaerobic athletes may compromise performance. If you explain something physiological/anatomical you must some how relate it to a decrement in performance.

6. Describe the essential of the stretch-shortening cycle with regard to muscle action.

7. Describe the role of the stretch-shortening cycle in plyometric exercise.

8. With regard to plyometric training, outline four leves of plyometric training skill progression from lowest to highest intensity. Be sure to give an example of an activity (exercise) that Corresponds with each of the four levels should your progression be started as a category rather than an exercise, and be sure to tell what performance characteristics differentiate the intensity level making it more challenging than the previous exercise.