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This program gives instruction on choosing and using the right training strategies to ensure maximum performance during physical activity. Topics for discussion include: the three energy systems in the body and each one's involvement in athletic exertion; types of continuous, interval, and resistance training methods and each one's effect on the energy systems; and the specificity, duration, frequency, intensity, and diminishing return principles...
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An exploration of life in orbit. A day in a space station consists of 16 dawns and 16 dusks. However, unlike the cycle of the Earth, life in a space station is never so predictable. Utilizing unseen footage filmed by astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and interviews with astronauts and their psychologists, we discover what it's like to go to space. Combining the domestic with science, this revelatory film digs deep into the daily challenges astronauts...
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Environmental health goes beyond monitoring and managing the physical environment. It spans areas of public health issues, such as noise and visual pollution, waste disposal and pest control and is a major, yet often subtle influence on the health and wellbeing of a community. Living in a rundown, neglected and unhealthy physical environment, can impact directly on individual and community health. Other factors relating to the physical environment,...
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Are e-cigarettes one of the greatest breakthroughs of the modern age? Or just another way to keep us addicted to nicotine? In the last ten years, e-cigarettes have exploded into our lives. Because of their rapid rise, science is scrabbling to keep up with their effects, and the experts are bitterly divided. This BBC Horizon program investigates this new phenomenon with a unique experiment on a group of heavy smokers who are desperate to quit. How...
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A competent coach challenges and inspires athletes to achieve their personal best. This program analyzes the nuanced art of coaching by examining three popular coaching styles: authoritarian, distant yet approachable, and friendly; vital coaching skills in the areas of leadership, management, and communication; essential coaching qualities such as enthusiasm; the wide knowledge of athletics, sports psychology, sports medicine, and other disciplines...
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So much of our health and wellbeing comes down to how we treat our bodies every day. With the pace of life in our modern day society increasing all the time, it is often easy to overlook how our health might be suffering as a consequence. This interview based program explores the key areas of modern lifestyles that potentially can take the most toll on our health and wellbeing, including diet, exercise, smoking and other drugs, as well as stress....
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Presenter Kathriona Devereux meets with Irish researchers who are working in sustainable seaweed cultivation to find out how important this crop could be for functional foods, biofuels and cosmetics. In tonight's episode, Dr Maria Hayes and Ciaran Fitzgerald, based at Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin speak to Kathriona about developing seaweed bread products with heart health benefits for the consumer.
8) Keeping fit
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Sedentary jobs and pastimes. Foods high in sugar, fat, and cholesterol. A superabundance of labor-saving technologies. Is it any wonder that a recent study by the Mayo Clinic shows that more than sixty percent of all adult Americans are statistically overweight? This program describes the basic components of physical fitness and the numerous health benefits that derive from regular physical activity while explaining why exercise is helpful in reducing...
9) Tobacco
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Growing up in the streets of Dundee, actor Brian Cox was surrounded by tobacco. His entire family either smoked it or chewed it and yet Brian reveals, he never took up the habit. To find out why not, Brian travels to Virginia in the US to discover how the habit of smoking kick-started the British Empire and created a global market of addicts. Brian discovers how manufacturers conspired to make cigarettes the optimal nicotine delivery system and that...
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This Science Screen Report explores the growing importance of science in sports and recreation. The program shows how technological research fuels athletic achievement and profoundly influences equipment and facility design, and the ways in which robotics, computers, and high-speed cameras are enabling humans to interact with our planet's different environments. Clearly demonstrating a wide range of advances, The New World of Fitness and Recreation...
11) The Performer
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Every goal, every touchdown, every home run is the product of years of arduous training-and, in most cases, a scientific strategy that melds the power of body and mind. This program explores the methods that help athletes become the competitors they long to be. In addition to weight training concepts, viewers learn the basics of a warm-up/cool-down system, focusing on decreasing the chance of injury as well as muscle development and increased vascular...
12) The Coach
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Smart athletes put their trust in their coaches. So what do smart coaches do to earn that trust? This program offers detailed suggestions, examining the physical and mental areas of a player's development in which a successful coach operates. Using interviews with professional coaches, training experts, and student athletes, the film explores various aspects of the coach's responsibilities. These include organizing an effective training session; setting...
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Athletes of all levels require training programs that take into account the specific needs of their sport as well as their own individual strengths and weaknesses. What makes a successful athletics training program? This video identifies the key components and investigates the methods used to evaluate, modify, and improve training programs. From the goal-setting and motivation required for success to the analysis of fitness components and the application...
14) Full Signal
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As our obsession with mobile technology has taken hold, cellular antennae have sprouted up like forests and scientifically-backed concern about health risks can no longer be ignored. Speaking with leading scientists, activists, and the businessmen who hold the decision in their hands, this documentary captures a battle to take on the mobile phone companies and covers the debate surrounding global health risks they pose.
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This program examines the role of exercise, dieting, and other weight control strategies in attaining optimal health while skewering fad diets and risky or useless products, which only serve to undermine healthy weight management. Psychosocial factors that distort views on what constitutes a healthy look and weight are also considered, as young adults explore the dynamics of body image and the issues involved in eating disorders.
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The life of a high school student can be quite adventurous, whether it's happening in the hallways, on the school grounds, or in the classroom. What helps make the adventure of high school smooth and pleasant? Respectful manners. In this video, good manners guide students through the maze of classroom expectations, hallway behavior, lunchroom etiquette, bully prevention methods, and peer interaction. Energetic visuals and entertaining dramatizations...
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This video follows a group of middle-schoolers as they embark on a school project that's all about making healthy food choices. By focusing on how to use the USDA's MyPyramid, how foods affect the body, and how to use food labels to make healthy choices, Project Nutrition for Life shows that good nutrition is a lifelong project. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act.
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Depending on who's doing the talking, the messages about food and nutrition that students hear can be confusing and even outright contradictory. In this video, the host and two teens take a closer look at controversial nutrition topics to get the straight facts on food safety, organic foods, genetically engineered foods, food allergies, MSG, functional foods, dietary supplements, and more. An entertaining and enlightening video! Correlates to all...
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Fast food often gets a bad rap-and for good reason! High amounts of saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, and sodium, plus a lack of fruits and vegetables, make most fast foods a great choice for flavor but a questionable choice in terms of nutrition. In this video, Rickey and Genevieve explore the world of fast food with humor as they help viewers learn how to make the healthiest choices when eating on the go at fast-food restaurants. Correlates to all...
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Help students make a good impression with proper etiquette for special occasions. In this video, four high-school students seek the advice of a FACS educator and etiquette expert as they prepare for a formal dinner and dance. Topics include etiquette basics, seating, formal table setting, soup, bread, cutting, serving styles, seasoning, passing dishes, posture, dealing with nervousness, conversational etiquette, and paying the bill. The program's...