Eight Ways to Improve Performance for Touch Football Player

There are eight physiological adaptations that a touch football player would experience in response to training; these include a change in stroke volume, heart rate, cardiac output, oxygen uptake, lung capacity, hemoglobin levels, muscle hypertrophy and the effect on slow- and fast-twitch muscle fibers.

A touch football player would expect to experience the benefits of training after ten weeks. The first of these many benefits includes a change in stroke volume. An athlete’s stroke volume is the amount of blood that is pumped around their body in one beat. In response to training a touch football player’s stroke volume will increase both at rest and during exercise.

This increase is a result of the increase in the size of the heart, which is most noticeable in the increased thickness in the ventricle walls. This allows more blood to enter the heart on the diastolic beat, and then more blood to be pushed from the heart as a result of the more powerful contractions.

In response to training a touch football player would experience an increased stroke volume both at rest and during exercise. This increased stroke volume allows for a greater volume of blood to be pumped around the body in one beat, which in turn further improves the future performance of the player.

Secondly, a touch football player’s heart rate would adapt in response to training. The athlete’s heart rate would decrease, both at rest and during exercise, as a direct result of the increased stroke volume and improved efficiency of the cardiorespiratory system.

For example, before the touch football player began to undergo training his heart rate may have been around 75 bpm at rest and 90 bpm during exercise. After about ten weeks of regular training the touch foot...

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...ymes as a result of aerobic training. As a result of anaerobic training the touch football player would see some different changes, such as; better ATP/PC supply, increased glycolytic enzymes, hypertrophy and a higher lactic acid tolerance.

As a result of training a touch football player would experience many adaptations in relation to slow- and fast-twitch muscle fibres. The effect of this physiological adaptation is very positive, and would greatly improve the performance of the athlete’s future aerobic and anaerobic work.

All in all, there are many physiological adaptations that a touch football player would experience in response to training. These adaptations range from lung-related adaptations to muscle-related adaptations, and not only are they the result of regular training, but they improve the physical performance of the touch football player for the futu