ATHLETE/PARENT MEETING

Life of an Athlete

Life of an athlete

John Underwood Life of an Athlete promotes the character

development and accountability among young athletes that builds better teams, better athletes and ultimately better adults. Two states, New York and New Mexico, have made it part of the athletic program in every public high school in the state

John Underwood John Underwood is a former NCAA All-

American, International-level distance runner and World Masters Champion. John has coached or advised more than two dozen Olympians, including World and Olympic Champions. He holds three International Olympic Solidarity diplomas for coaching and has been a crusader for drug-free sports at all levels. John’s innovative program, “PURE PERFORMANCE,” has gained international prominence. He is the Master Trainer for the New York Public High School Athletic Association Chemical Health program, which educates over 750 school districts and over 500,000 athletes yearly. He has conducted the only physiological case studies of the residual effect of alcohol on elite athletic performance. He has appeared as a guest commentator for ABC Wide World of Sports and has worked with nearly all sport federations, including the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL, the U.S. Olympic Committee, Sports Canada, the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Navy Seals

Who is involved???

Megan Heinrichs Carlece Kenner Jana Tietjen Dan Desmond Fred Kluck Kurk Wiedel Bryan Solomon Josh Lanik Andy Long Clayton Hintz

Who am I???

Fred Kluck 9-12 History Teacher at Bruning-Davenport

USD Head Boys Basketball, Head Track, Junior High

Boys Basketball Why am I doing this?

1. I care about my students and athletes.2. I think we have some good athletes and teams

in the Bruning-Davenport-Shickley co-operative.

To the athletes

How many of you are excited for this upcoming year in sports?

How many of you enjoy sports more than school?

I want you to think about the first couple weeks of practice, are the coaches taking it easy on you or is it HELL? (I will get back to this)

Remember when you are not training… Somewhere, someone is training…

and when you meet them…

They will beat you.

MATVEEV USSR

Why Life of an Athlete?

To develop better students/athletes To develop leaders on the playing field To develop the athletes as role models for

elementary students To get alcohol/drugs out of the school

system.

The Last Huddle

How quickly it will pass by… How unknowingly it will come to

an end.The game will be over and you will

not even realize the magnitude and significance of what has just

ended.

Later you will wish that you had called for a last huddle, to say to

all your teammates that this is the last time we will be together like

this… as a TEAM, as TEAMMATES…

One of the most special times and experiences of your life will pass

by.

It will never be the same after this

Just like youYou are our heroes… We watch you and wait for the day we will be just like you. Teach us how to live the life of an Athlete

and be champions. Set the example for us, because we are the future of this program.

Life of an Athlete

It is not just that you put on uniform, or show up every day at practice or for the

games…You are an athlete all the

time, on and off the field.

You represent your family, your community, your school

, your teammates, your coach and YOURSELF.

The American Athletic Institute began an initiative in the year 2000 to impact the

use of social drugs by athletes at all levels of sport. The Life of an Athlete© program has been utilized in 39 states and by thousands of school districts.

The program has been presented at the Office of Juvenile Justice National

Leadership Conference for the past eight years. This promising

prevention/intervention program focuses on all stakeholders in a community to

help create a vigilant approach to insure programs of excellence and reduce drug

use by athletes.

Visit americanathleticinstitute.org

AAI has researched the effect of alcohol on elite athletic performanceProven Scientific Facts:

Alcohol increases the time for recovery of androgenic training hormones (Up to 96 hours- 4 days) Alcohols diuretic effect diminishes water soluble vitamins required for hormone catalytic/conversion actions

HGH (Human Growth Hormone) release is reduced up to 70% during the sleeping hours when release is at peak levels

Alcohol greatly increases the release of cortisol (the stress hormone)  Cortisol negates training effect Alcohol decreases the protein synthesis for muscle fiber repair Alcohol can impair the blood glucose system for up to 36 hours

Alcohol reduces the immune system capability - Athletes who drink get sick more often. Drinkers are twice as likely to become injured as non- drinkers

Alcohol reduces performance potential by up to 11.4% in elite athletes and perhaps by as much as 15-30% in h.s. athletes

Alcohol disturbs the REM sleep time, reducing the CNS restorative/recovery ability Alcohol impairs reaction time up to 12 hours after consumption

Alcohol negatively affects heart lungs and muscle performance (<VO2 > Lactate < Ventilation >H.R.) Heavy episodic drinking results in projected losses of up to 14 days of training effect

SUMMARY:Alcohol is a metabolic poison that crosses all barriers and negatively affects all systems of the human physiology

simultaneously

Nearly 60% of H.S. Athletes use alcohol

Time to educate your Athletes, Parents, Coaches…

We lose more people to fatal accidents during this time than

during all other ages.

Thayer county statistics

Statistics cont.

Where are they getting it???

Statistics cont.

ATHLETE

John Underwood

The Life of an ATHLETE /LOA

LOA is a systemic community approach to: 1. reducing risk2. increasing protective factors in student athletes while 3. setting clear consistent boundaries for behavior 4. increasing consequence beliefs, 5. teaching appropriate athlete lifestyle 6. establishing a process to identify and help those involved in drug use or behaviors of concern.

An eleven year study of the effects of drugs on high level physical

performance

You cannot achieve in competition, What you have not achieved in

training.

 

PriorityImportantFocusDedicatedMotivated

Pay the price…Live the Life of an Athlete©

Amen Clinics

Surface View: This

smooth view shows full activity

Bumpy areas and places that do not ‘fill in’ are

areas of low or decreased

activity.Teen heavy weekend user

of AlcoholAmen Clinics

What kind of performance will you have?

Your brain runs your body

Alcohol ruins your chances

Scans by Amen Clinics

HEALTHY NORMAL BRAIN

HEAVY TEEN ALCOHOL USER

What kind of performance will you accept?

BRAIN ACTIVITY DURING THROWING

FRONTAL

CEREBELLUM

American Athletic Institute has studied the impact of alcohol on condition in elite athletes. Impact has shown significant projections in lost

physiological condition that correlates to as much as 14 days of lost training effect…for each time

drunk…AMERICAN ATHLETIC INSTITUTE 2005

What are the

AFFECTS?

Start Up Speed 0-10 YDS. < 8%

Agility Reaction < 8%

Acceleration 0-20 YDS. < 6%

Explosive Power < 11%

LOST PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL

100%90%88.6

% -11.4%-15-20%-20-30%

American Athletic Institute

Elite level athletes lost an average of 11.4%

from their median performance level as a result of the residual

effect of alcohol…NCAA

High School

Injury Rates >

Injury rates for drinkers 54.8% Injury rates for non-drinkers

23.8%

DRINK

GET SICK

Alcohol decreases immune

capability

Some teen males who drink heavily & regularly have testosterone levels similar to female levels.

10:1 or 1:10

FEMALES TAKE A BIGGER HITFROM HEAVY DRINKING

Alcohol stays in the female body longerFemales have less of the enzymes to breakdown alcohol

1:10

Healthy Brain Marijuana Brain

Amen Clinics

16 yr. old daily user

16

Amen Clinics

It doesn’t affect me at all…

Healthy Brain Marijuana Brain

ADULTLIFELONG

Healthy 16 Heavy Lifelong

KEEP SMOKIN…

NON USER

SIMPLE HAND SKILL

MARIJUANA USER

SIMPLE HAND SKILL

Note: Subject not under influence during scan.

POT OR NOT? YOUR CHOICE YOUR GAME

A Shadow of YourselfAre you at your best or

are you just a shadow of what you could be?

Are you really an ATHLETE?

Is the life you are living conducive to being at

your best?

Live the Life of an Athlete