The current research proposal dwells on the significance of conducting investigations on college athletes, their strength, and the ability to respond to different stressors. This research will focus on how college athletes tend to train resistance and physical performance in an attempt to improve their health outcomes in addition to successes in sports. This is a critical issue because most of the existing approaches to college athletes have not been highlighting the importance of supplements and training adaptations.
At the moment, the majority of research articles that tried to touch upon this subject mostly covered the significance of muscular strength and the link between strength and other general sport skills. For example, Jung et al. (2017) note that superior performance can be achieved only in the case where athletes are focused on specific tasks and not superficial all-around training. It is also evident that college athletes could avert risky injuries and ensure they could utilize their strength to a greater extent while in training adaptations and intaking supplements (Swart et al. 2015). Therefore, college athletes are responsible for making all the right choices when looking into available options in terms of improving physical performance and working out more effectively.
Based on the existing information, the research gap that is going to be addressed is the possibility of engaging college athletes in practices that would reduce the risk of injury. Since training is an essential element of an athlete’s daily schedule, muscular strength could be associated with sport specific skills and improved quality of life. At the end of the proposed research project, the fundamentals of long-term training strategies will be highlighted in order to ensure that muscular strength of college athletes could be manipulated for their benefit.
References
Jung, Peter, Conrad P. Earnest, Majid Koozehchian, Minye Cho, Nick Barringer, Dillon Walker, Christopher Rasmussen, Mike Greenwood, Peter S. Murano, and Richard B. Kreider. 2017. “Effects of Ingesting a Pre-Workout Dietary Supplement with and without Synephrine for 8 Weeks on Training Adaptations in Resistance-Trained Males”. Journal of The International Society of Sports Nutrition 14 (1): 1-18.
Swart, Karin M. A., Annelies C. Ham, Janneke P. van Wijngaarden, Anke W. Enneman, Suzanne C. van Dijk, Evelien Sohl, and Elske M. Brouwer-Brolsma et al. 2015. “A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Effect of 2-Year Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid Supplementation on Physical Performance, Strength, and Falling: Additional Findings from the B-PROOF Study”. Calcified Tissue International 98 (1): 18-27.