. Yet, according to previous literature, mostcoaches do not have specific or formal training in nutrition,and their knowledge (and thus psychological capability) maybe insufficient to accurately guide their athletes (Couture etal., 2015).
This can be a reason why athletes are not able to get the right nutrition and have poor knowledge themselves in what is best for them. So, training for coaches can help even a tiny bit on what might be best for the coaches players.
Sports nutritionists expressed concerns that limitedresources in the sporting system for the nutrition servicemade it difficult to sufficiently support their athletesand meet the high service demands of sports.
This is true and can be truer for lower level sports or lower divisions of sports. Not being able to have the funding to help the athletes get the right nutrition can be a huge detriment to the athletes demands of their sport(s).
Motivation
As I mentioned in the previous annotation, that having people around you to not only support you but motivate you is key in helping make crucial decisions. Especially with nutrition, not everybody is willing to go with what somebody else says, but having those people around you to motivate and push you forward can help massively.
(C) to engage in the behaviour con-cerned, the social (e.g., support from others)
This model is and can be a big factor in terms of people actually wanting to better themselves. Having support from not only their teammates but others around them, i.e. coach, nutritionist, parents, and others can greatly impact the way that an individual would look at bettering themselves.
For example, factors influencing malehockey players food selection include health beliefs, timeavailable to eat, taste, quality, and cost (Smart & Bisogni,2001).
These factors would work for lots of different sports and athletes, especially the time available to eat because not many athletes have a good amount of time available to them to eat good food. Taste and quality of the food is a huge factor, because as an athlete you want the food to be good quality, but more importantly you want the food to taste good and know that it is also good for you.
However, the weak relationshipbetween knowledge and healthier food choices (Heaney,O’Connor, Michael, Gifford, & Naughton, 2011) demonstratesthat delivering educational workshops alone is insufficient tochange behaviour (Abood, Black, & Birnbaum, 2004).
I think it should be key for athletes to be taught and learn about the proper food intake and the benefits that it can give those athletes.
Collegiate student-athletes represent a unique population of young adults who, because of the demands ontheir time associated with their sport, may be at particular risk for disordered eating and compulsive exercise(32).
This is true because athletes need the nutrition and protein to be able to maintain the demands of their particular sport and be able to keep their performances at a top level. With eating disorders and risks to not eating, these things can hinder an athlete's success.
Similarly, Greenleaf et al. (2009) found no differences in athletes'eating disorder status (i.e. symptomatic vs. eating disordered) based on their age. These findings suggest thatthe age variable may not be an influential factor on collegiate athletes' disordered eating symptomology (24).
This is very interesting to see, how people have found that there is no eating disorder difference between ages in collegiate athletes. It's surprising as well to think that there can be an age gap from 17 to close to 26 for collegiate athletes.
Disordered eating can have an effect on athletic performance (18).
If an athlete is not eating properly, it has a major effect on the athletes performance. Eating at irregular times is not good for athletes, looking into not only games but practices as well.
Some collegiate athletes suffering from disordered eating are known to engage in compulsive exercise as astrategy to compensate for excessive caloric intake (33).
This is quite true for some athletes; I can't speak for all. Athletes eat and various different times throughout the week/day, we hardly ever eat at the same time of day for each day of the week. Also with having potential late night practices, some food options on campus are not open. So we are left with going off campus and eating even later, thus potentially leading to disordered eating.
Subclinicalsymptoms or those that reach diagnostic criteria may contribute to poor physical and mental health, as well assuboptimal athletic and academic performance (29).
As a student-athlete myself, I can attest to this because for optimal physical input for an athlete we need to have the right amount of food and nutrition going into our bodies. Which can be tough sometimes, thus leading to poor performance in the sport that an athlete plays.
More recently, arm care programming has expanded beyond thenarrow focus of 1 or 2 injury risk factors by evolving intocomprehensive programs that target multiple impairmentsthroughout the entire body.
Having specific tests is great for all around, but having specific tests for each and every pitcher would be even better. This is because no one pitcher pitches the same as the next person, and each individual would be better suited to a personal care program than one overall program.
The Thrower’s Ten exercise program is a commonly usedshoulder and elbow strengthening program,60,62 which has beenrecommended as an injury prevention program.
Having the strength to throw fast is very important for a pitcher, but to have the strength to go 7 or 8 innings every time you pitch is great. This can be skewed because it also depends on the amount of pitches a pitcher throws on the given day/night.
After substantialefforts from researchers, pitching volume has been shown to bea fundamental risk factor for throwing-related injuries.
A second note on pitching volume, could also come with the way that the pitcher throws the ball and the motion that the arm, shoulder and elbow going through the entire sequence of the pitching motion. As many pitchers have very different throwing motions.
Shoulder StretchingAs one of the most commonly studied areas, shoulder mobilitydeficits or adaptations to throwing are commonly observed andmay be risk factors for injury.
Stretching is a great way to figure out what hurts and where it hurts. But stretching has to be done properly, to help reduce the risk factors for the potential injury that can occur with those specific muscle groups.
Thus, solely focusing on pitch volume managementis likely not sufficient for effective injury prevention.33
Pitch volume management, in my opinion is till one of the better ones to look at because the more a pitcher throws the more that he or she gets tired. Then they have to put more effort into each put. thus putting more strain on the shoulder and elbow muscles, potentially causing more damage.
Nearly 50% of adolescent baseball pitchers report pain in theshoulder or elbow while throwing during the season31
This can be due to a high volume of pitches thrown at anytime, but the coaches also have to be aware of that as well, because if an injury happens the coach may take some blame for it happening.
When students are not cleared to participate in student ath-letics, the decision can have significant consequences in theirlives.
Trying to force playing or participation when the athlete is not fully fit, can make things for them 10 times worse, thus potentially leading to not being able to play sports again, this would be one the worst outcomes that could occur.
Of importance, before resuming play, the injured playerapparently reported symptoms consistent with a head injuryto other players (that he suffered a collision to his head, hadblacked out, and had a headache)
Head injuries are one of the biggest topics in sport injuries and are now taken very seriously. A normal head injury can be quite dangerous, but if the athlete were to continue to play with the injury, it could cause the injury to get way more severe.
In return-to-play cases, student-athletes usually allege thecoach or trainer negligently allowed the athlete to return toa game after suffering an injury.
This is another reason why I said in another annotation that coaches should have some voice in whether an athlete is ready to participate or not. Because of a coach and trainer are not on the same page than it can lead to an injury getting worse.
No national standard of care applies to healthcare pro-viders covering athletic events; hence, healthcare providersshould be aware of the standard of care applicable to themin their particular state as defined by the courts in that stateand under applicable regulations and statutes.
Regarding this statement, as an athlete myself, I feel as though there should be a national standard of care to athletes because athletes are more likely to have injuries - severe or not, and should be able to get care for it, even if they are not insured.
and offer some “real life” examples of how courtsin various jurisdictions around the country have applied theseprinciples with a goal of bringing about awareness and furtherdiscussion.
Having real life examples of legal liabilities in a paper is great because then a coach or trainer is able to see what happen, and then take the best course of action on how to prevent it from happening to one of their athletes.
Unlike professional sports and to a lesser degree colle-giate competition, where team physicians are uniformly onthe sidelines, one could question why coaches should even beinvolved in such a “medical” decision.
I think a coach can be involved because he/she want what is best for the athlete that has been injured.