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Misguided Recommendations for Parents of Children
CNN.com recently published a health article urging children with heart risks to be placed on cholesterol lowering medication. The article discusses the recently reformed guidelines published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Now, it is recommended that children as young as 8 years old be placed on cholesterol lowering drugs, especially those who have high LDL cholesterol levels. What happened to behavioral modifications including increased physical activity and healthier eating habits?
Dr. Stephen Daniel supports the recommendations because they are based on “mounting evidence showing that damage leading to heart disease, the nation’s leading killer, begins early in life.” He is correct that heart disease is a chronic disease that begins developing early in life, but he jumps to... (more)
Coaches have often debated about the best way to improve sprint start speed, which is defined as the product of stride frequency and stride length. In most cases, coaches look for ways to increase stride frequency, without reducing stride length. Two of the more common ways to improve sprint start speed by altering stride frequency is by resistant ground-based training and by inclined treadmill running.
In a 2007 study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Myer et. al. tested 31 female high school soccer players who were divided into one of two training groups: resistive ground-based training and inclined treadmill training. Prior to training, the groups were tested for sprint start times over 9.1m, as well as stride... (more)
