Fun Facts for Kids About Ice Skating
If ice-skating is the latest sporting interest in your household, plenty of history, technical terms, world records and sporting facts can entertain your budding skater when she's not on the ice.
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Leisure activities like kayaking or rock climbing provide significant wellness benefits when coupled with proper gear maintenance and safety skills.
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How to Manually Sharpen Ice Skates With a File
The sharpness of your skates can affect both speed and agility, so you'll need properly sharpened skates for top performance on the ice. You can manually sharpen your skates with the right tools, but doing a good job requires a precise level of skill and technique.
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Spacers vs. No Spacers for a Skateboard
Spacers, often referred to as bearing spacers, are sometimes installed in skateboard bearing setups to increase the life and performance of your bearings. A spacer's primary purpose is to stabilize the bearing, reducing excess movement on sharp turns and curves.
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How to Learn to Roller-Skate
Roller skating is a fun, fast activity, and you can move forward, backward and even pair up with a partner once you have enough experience. Learning to roller-skate can be a daunting challenge; you are going to fall before ultimately gaining firm footing.
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Fun Places to Take 3-Year-Old Kids
As much as you love your kid, filling the days with fun activities when you stay home can sometimes be a challenge. Fortunately, 3-year-olds make good companions who are generally up for anything, at least in small doses.
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What Are the Health Benefits of Longboarding?
Longboarding is the sport of riding a longboard, a skateboard variant related to a surfboard or snowboard. Longboard skaters use their boards for cruising, racing, transportation and stunts. Some skaters would say it is addictive.
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How to Store Flours & Grains Without Getting Worms
No matter how clean you keep your kitchen, pests cans still cause problems in your pantry. They enter your home in a variety of ways and seek out improperly stored foods to lay eggs in. The eggs hatch into larva that look like worms, and they can spoil your food as they grow into full-fledged insects.
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How to Toughen Up Your Hands for Rowing
Rowing is a demanding sport that requires substantial upper body strength. Because it also requires repetitive hand movements while gripping the oars, it can wreak havoc on the hands. Blisters and cracked, bleeding skin are common, especially among novices and after a return to the sport.
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The Effects of Exercise on the Oxygen-Hemoglobin Dissociation Curve
Your body requires oxygen to turn fat and sugar into energy, as well as to carry out many other biochemical reactions necessary for life. Oxygen is carried through your body by a protein in your blood called hemoglobin.
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What Are the Top 10 Most Physical Sports?
There are several variations of the top 10 most physical sports; each variation depends on the criteria used to compile the list.
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Running vs. Longboarding
Whether on a college campus or in a city park, runners and skateboarders abound on a warm summer day. While runners still use the same basic equipment -- running shoes, shorts and headphones -- the sidewalk surfer's skateboard has evolved into the longboard.
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Rock Climbing Shape vs. Bodybuilding
Rock climbing and bodybuilding are two professional sports that share few similarities. While a rock climber focuses on performance, a bodybuilder focuses on aesthetics.
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What Muscles Does Kayaking Work?
What is not to love about kayaking? Out in nature, potentially experiencing marine life depending on where you are, it's beautiful. And as if that wasn't reason enough to get after it, your upper body is in for one heck of a workout.
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How Much Should You Cycle a Day to Stay in Shape?
Riding a bicycle is not only fun, itβs an excellent form of aerobic exercise. A regular routine of cycling will get you in shape and keep you that way. You can achieve cardiovascular fitness, improved heart health and improved muscle strength and tone.
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Occupational Therapy Activity Ideas for CVA
The mountain of deficits to overcome through occupational therapy after a CVA, also known as a cerebrovascular accident or stroke, can be daunting.
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The Differences Between Pendlay Rows & Barbell Rows
The Pendlay row is named after Glenn Pendlay, an Olympic weightlifting coach. The Pendlay version of the row is very similar to a standard barbell row, but there are some important differences. Your back is more horizontal during a Pendlay row and you set the weight down after each repetition.
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Cycling & Patellar Tendonitis
Cycling provides a low-impact -- or non-weight-bearing -- exercise. Still, it's possible for a cyclist to suffer from a weight-bearing type of injury. It's just caused by a different mechanism of injury. Tendonitis can occur at any tendon site in your body -- areas that anchor muscle to bones.
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Active Gymnasium Games for High School Kids
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that only 19 percent of teens are active in physical education classes across the country. Some teens simply don't participate in class, while others opt out entirely when P.E. is an elective. To entice more teens to come to and actively participate in P.E.
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Hard Vs. Soft Soles in Hiking Boots
The key difference between hiking boots at your local retailer is the soles. Although they may all feel similar, there are significant differences. The secret to hiking soles lies in the midsoles. Between the rubber bottom and the inside of the boot are layers of protection that vary based on your activity.
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Muscles Worked During Rock Climbing
While some climbers prefer steep outdoor crags with tough-to-negotiate overhangs, other climbers prefer the relative safety of indoor climbing. Whichever type of climbing you prefer, the muscles used are very similar.
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