The Relationship Between Strength and Cardiovascular Capacity: A Personal Wellness Project
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Title
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The Relationship Between Strength and Cardiovascular Capacity: A Personal Wellness Project
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Creator
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Dane Kiger
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Exit Requirement
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Honors Thesis
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Date of Award
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Jun-23
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15 June 2023
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Honors Program Director
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Gavin Keulks
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Faculty Advisor
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Dave Plotts
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Abstract
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The relationship between strength and cardiovascular capacity is often counterintuitive. A focus on one will, generally, lead to a decrease in the other. There are sports, however, that require a balance between strength and cardiovascular endurance. Finding this balance is a very difficult and fragile task due to the differences in body type and function required for both of these fitness modalities. To explore the relationship between these two aspects of fitness, I will undertake a wellness training plan to uncover how to maximize my strength and cardio concurrently and efficiently. Since strength and cardio can counteract each other, there has to be a knowledgeable plan in place to increase both at the same time. This project will require outside research that will inform the best practices of my training plan. To implement a research-based training plan, I will need to discover the movements and time domains that will produce the most out of my cardiovascular and strength potential. This will require me to find the scientific basis behind strength training on its own, cardiovascular capacity on its own, and how they interact together. Along with this, finding examples of athletes, who have been successful in the fields of both strength and cardiovascular capacity, will provide real world examples for me to learn from. To physically test this information I will be competing in a real life CrossFit competition which tests both strength and cardiovascular capacity. This competition will begin on February 25, 2023, and go on for three weeks. There will be three to four workouts released over the three week period, and they will either test maximum output strength, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, or a mixture of these. The workouts are scored by measuring total weight, time completed, or reps completed. My scores from these workouts will be compared to the rest of the field, which is worldwide in scope. The top ten percent will move on to quarterfinals, and the top ten from quarterfinals will move on to semifinals. From this point, the most elite CrossFit athletes in the world move on to the CrossFit Games. This year I will be able to make it to quarterfinals, so my comparative data will be representative of the first two stages of this competition. My research-based training plan will hopefully put me on the right track to improve my strength and cardiovascular capacity and prepare me for success in this CrossFit competition. Will implementing the information of the research into my training benefit the results of my competition? If not, what are the reasons that things didn’t go as well as I had hoped? The goal is for this wellness project to give me insight into the relationship between strength and cardiovascular capacity and, subsequently, help me to improve at both aspects. Lastly, the results of the competition should allow me to make some final conclusions about this tricky relationship. This project should be able to shed some light on the relationship between strength and cardiovascular capacity so that they are no longer seen as counterintuitive, but as counterparts instead.
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Type
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Text
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Language
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eng
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Rights
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