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Promoting the Health Benefits of Strength & Conditioning

You are required to undertake an Investigation into Strength & Conditioning on yourself and others at your school, by developing a Magazine Feature Article that investigates the Health Benefits of taking part in this activity, recommendations for improving participation and strategies for increasing long-term health. Remember: your feature article should be aimed at your peers and younger students to encourage them to increase their level of physical fitness.

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Promoting the Health Benefits of Strength & Conditioning

Resistance Training - Health Benefits A useful website to assist you in researching the health benefits of resistance training.
Why Strength Training Is Important Recognizing the importance of an all inclusive, overall balanced (buzzword of the day: holistic) approach to health and fitness.

Designing a strength and conditioning program The purpose of this article is to explain the training principles that need to be followed when designing a program, different types of training for strength and when a program needs to be assessed and changed.
Strength & Conditioning AIS website provides a lot of of useful information and links relevant to the assignment
Weight training - Pre-adolescent strength training - Just do it! Putting an end to the myths and look at the facts of pre-adolescent strength training.
STRENGTH TRAINING IN JUNIOR HIGH ATHLETES The issue of strength training: 1) Does strength training place undue stress on the musculoskeletal systems of young athletes?, 2) Can prepubescent youth make significant strength gains through strength training?, 3) How should strength training programs for youth be designed to maximize possible benefits and minimize the risk of injury?
Weight training for young athletes Strength and conditioning is a key element of technical training for adults and there has been much debate about whether weights or resistance training is appropriate for young people.

Strength Training in Children and Adolescents Raising the Bar for Young Athletes? Strength training in children, in combination with plyometric and/or agility training, has become an increasingly popular tactic for athletes to gain a competitive edge during the off-season. The present review clarifies some common myths associated with strength training in children, and it outlines the most current recommendations.
Improving health through youth sports: Is participation enough? An interesting article by Michael F. Bergeron about how participation in youth sports can provide a wide range of health-enhancing benefits & gains in health-related fitness; however participation alone may not always meet the physical activity & energy expenditure requirements to achieve these expected results.
Sport and Children 25 per cent of Australian children and teenagers, aged five to 17 years, are overweight or obese. Regular exercise is also known to reduce the risk of emotional problems such as anxiety and depression. Habits are established early in life and evidence suggests that physically active children are more likely to mature into physically active adults.

A Healthy and Active Australia This website provides links through Australian Government Department of Health for organisations to access options for promoting a healthy work environment
Healthy Eating Local Policies and Programs (HELPP) The Healthy Eating Local Policies and Programs project or HELPP is a statewide project that has been running since 2011 – led by the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Flinders University and funded by SA Health.
A Guide to Promoting Health & Well-being in the Workplace An initiative designed to provide both businesses and workers around the ACT with guidance on how to promote and implement physical activity and wellbeing initiatives within their workplaces.
Healthy Eating at Work Although this is a Canadian website, the ideas are still the same in Australia for organisations to employ healthy living standards.
Why a Healthy Workplace? Aust Govt. Department of Health website that promotes the benefits of a healthy workplace for both employers and employees.
Five Health Benefits of Standing Desks This article looks at the benefits of standing desks in the workplace especially given the obesity epidemic of adults and children in society
Health benefits of standing desks: separating hype from reality More information about the benefits of standing at your desk for periods of time rather than sitting all day. An interesting article.
Researchers: Standing at your desk could have health benefits Youtube clip promoting the benefits of standing at work.

How to Write a Great Feature Article for Essays, Assignments, Blogs More tips for writing your feature article
How to Write a Great Feature Article Tips for writing a great feature article.
Characteristics and Structure of a Feature Article Explore the language and structure of Feature Articles

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