Running Head: IMPACTS OF DEHYDRATION IN ATHLETES 1
IMPACTS OF DEHYDRATION IN ATHLETES 2
IMPACT OF DEHYDRATION IN ATHLETES IN HIGH INTENSITY AEOROBICS, ENDURANCE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORTS
by
Michael Harris
5346
A Literature Review in Kinesiology
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
PED 598
Research in Physical Activity and Sport
Alabama A. & M. University
Health Sciences and Human Performance Department
Dr. Terry Conkle Supervising Professor
October 29, 2019
Impact of Dehydration in Athletes in High Intensity Aerobics, Endurance Physical Activity and Sports
Introduction
Athletes partake in intensive training exercises or sports that influence their body metabolism and alters their body functions. The athletes take in numerous activities that focus on their endurance during their sporting activities with the intention of achieving positive goals during the competitions. The need for the push does not only originate from their personal motivation, but their body performance, and thus, they expose themselves to intense physical activities to make sure that they stay ready for their competitions. The high-intensity aerobics involve high cardiovascular exercises with minimal recovery durations in between the exercises, thus resulting in high exhaustion rates. The exercises range from jogging, long-distance running, walking, cycling, among others. The forms of exercises appear fit for the trainees because they have the intention to push the limits of their bodies to create endurance such that they can perform the same or even more during their competitions. Dehydration has a major impact on the athletes because it influences the entire body and all the functioning down to the blood flow and the heart rate. The impacts of dehydration might include an increased rate in the consumption of glycogen, a reduction in blood volume, higher chances of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, failing concentration, an imbalance in body water, and electrolytes among others.
Water is essential in maintaining the volume of blood, regulation of the temperature, and also aid in muscle contractions in the body. The move is essential because it increases the proper functioning that would oversee the productivity that will ensure that they function in the normal sense. The measures prove that water is an essential material in the human body, and thus athletes that are pushing their bodies out of their normal routines to extreme measures lose lots of water. The measure might result in general body weight loss because water is approximately 2% of the general body composition. Dehydration contributes to the massive loss of the water, making it a challenge for an athlete to maintain or experience similar body functions. Water aids in the blood composition; thus, it is essential in the blood amount in the body; thus, the strenuous activities an athlete endures within a short duration might not be healthy for the individual since they will lose part of their blood component. The composition of water in the body helps regulate the body temperature through the liver and general body parts, including the muscles, but dehydration contributes to poor regulation standards that affect the body functions. There are many muscles in the human body; thus, it is essential for the muscle movements, and thus cutting away the water leaves the tissues dry, and this affects their functioning that then limits their performance and endurance.
Literature Review
Numerous athletes endure strenuous physical activities for prolonged durations that influences their daily functions because it alters their normal body functions. The participation in numerous activities results in higher body temperatures that then influence the rate of sweating, losing the bodily fluids, and higher body temperature (Wright, Collins & Schwellnus, 2009). It is essential that all the athletes understand the exercises and the pressure that they put on their bodies during such exercises and pushing them to perform well. Finn & Wood explained that it is essential for athletes to read and understand their bodies because failure to do the same might result in the collapse of some of the body functions (2004). It is proven that at the end of some of the vigorous activities or the demanding sports, some of the participants tend to collapse or faint, or even in some cases, it becomes serious until they die. According to Casa (2018), some of the sports activities such as the marathon requires adaptability that does not involve waking up in the morning and choosing to take part in the marathon but to endure years of training and adaption. The concept has made numerous changes to the performance and outcome of the sports because they increase the participation and dominance of the players that would increase their functioning and performance. Sports science indicates that it is important for a player to try and understand their bodies and ensure that they train well and slow before pushing their bodies all at once to adapt to the extreme exercises.
People should always start with fewer exercises before starting to push and adjust their body functions to extreme sporting activities because the body has to learn. The body also has to have time to adjust to performance and endurance levels that make it easy for them to adapt to the dehydration and how to adjust and behave during such situations (Goulet & Hoffman, 2019). It is not possible for someone to wake up in the morning and start training for a competition later in the day or the following week. The body will not adjust in time for such a competition, and pushing it harder might result in collapse or failure in body parts. It is evident that majority of the professional boxing fighters such as Anthony Joshua, sportsmen such as Lebron James among others all have to train across the calendar year to make sure that when they get to their activities, they have the endurance that comes from their body instead of last minute pushing of their bodies to perform. Most of the boxers tend to have single or double matches in a calendar year because of the training and the energy that they will need to undertake such activities (Mckenna & Gillum, 2017). The people have to train their bodies, starting with minimal routines at the gyms before following up with intense routines that push their productivity. The concepts prove that dehydration is a major problem for athletes, and it is their bodies telling them to respect its operations and thus have to live with the consequences. According to Love, Baker, Healey & Black (2018), numerous sportsmen tend to have short-lived careers because they tend to have exhausted their bodies, and they only have careers lasting five years, such as Usain Bolt, the record holder in Athletics. The move is a result of working their bodies through extreme exercise routines and without respecting them enough to understand that they are burning the body fuses and dehydration is a major contribution accumulating over the years.Can you do a 10 minute power point presentation on my paper? i do have the paper to go off of as well
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