Strength & Conditioning Program for the Elderly Academic Essay

Final Project Instructions

After completing the 5 assignments, you must select a population and write an outline for a strength and conditioning program (your program must be at least 12 weeks). Once approved by the professor, students will design the specific training program. The training program requirements are below.

Training Program Requirements

The following should be included in your scientific rationale for your program:

Introduction

Identify the need for creating a program, why are you writing this program?
You may identify your population here
Purpose

What is the overall purpose of the entire program?
State your population
Movement analysis

Just like your biomechanical assessment lab
What movements are associated with your population?
Physiological analysis

What are the energy requirements of your population?
Be specific to positions if your population is a team sport
Nutrition Factors

Briefly address caloric demands
Talk about nutrient timing
Identify any special needs
Injury analysis

Identify the major and minor injuries associated with your population
Special concerns

Does your population have special needs (hypertension, diabetes, orthopedic etc.)
Training status

Define the training level of your population (Need to Make Some Assumptions)
How many years have they trained?
High school, college division, pro, 50 year-old non-athlete, etc.
Physical testing and evaluation

What aspects will be evaluated?
Primary resistance training goal

What is the goal of your strength training program?
Test selection and administration

What tests will be used to evaluate your population and why?
Be specific
Program design

Stick with training goal and include

Specificity
Overload
Progression
Etc.
Warm-up and stretching

Identify the warm-up and stretching you will be utilizing for your population, be specific.
Agility

What type (if any) of agility training will be utilized and why?
Plyometrics

What type (if any) of plyometric training will be utilized and why?
Resistance training program

Briefly describe your strength training program.
The meat of this should be in a table or chart and should include:
Exercise selection
Choice, frequency, order
Load
Volume
Intensity
Rest periods
Identify variations
Stamina/bioenergetics

Refer back to your Physiological analysis
What will you do to train all the energy systems?
What energy systems are needed the most?
Program application

Describe how your program should be followed
Be very detailed here, this should explain all your charts and or tables
Discussion

Why did you create this program? Follow up from introduction
Justify (using science and research) your reasoning for doing what you’re doing
This should include the majority of your references
Conclusion

What does your program do for this population?
Why is your program better than any other program?
Make a powerful and concise conclusion

 

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