Sports & Fitness: Performance Training, Rules & Recovery

Elite athletic performance and general fitness are sustained through structured hypertrophy strategies, sport-specific conditioning, and rigorous adherence to injury prevention protocols.

How to Start to Do Pushups

Pushups help strengthen your shoulders, arms and chest muscles. This exercise also works secondary muscles like the abs, glutes, quadriceps, lower back and deltoids.

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Olympic Weightlifting Diets

Diets for Olympic weightlifters mirror the diets of non-Olympic weightlifters. Olympic weightlifters compete in two events: the one-movement jerk and the two-movement snatch. Both Olympic and non-Olympic weightlifters need technical skills, flexibility, speed and strength to succeed and improve in your sports.

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What Are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Wrestling?

To succeed in competitive wrestling, you need to nurture a rare blend of functional strength, speed, endurance, technical skill and mental fortitude. On the other hand, injuries are commonplace, making wrestling one of the most difficult sports in the world.

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Chest Workouts and Sore Shoulder Joints

The flat bench press exercise is one of the most common exercises that is performed in the gym to strengthen chest muscles. However, over-training and/or improper form and technique can lead to sore shoulder joints, which might lead to plateaus in your progress or injuries.

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How Tight Should Your Basketball Shoes Be?

You might want the newest and trendiest looking basketball shoes, but fashion should never trump fit. Basketball shoes should fit differently than non-sports shoes, giving a snug fit in some places, but leaving room in others to help you move better on the court.

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How to Choose the Right Size Longboard

As opposed to the difficult flip tricks and aerial maneuvers of extreme skateboarding, longboarders prefer to navigate steep hills with a surf inspired style. While the skateboard commonly measures 30 inches in length, the longboard can reach a size of 5 feet or more.

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Workouts to Run 1600 Meters Faster

The 1,600-m run, or metric mile, is a blue ribbon event in athletics. For many years, it was a race to see who would break the four-minute barrier, a feat eventually achieved by Briton Roger Bannister in 1954.

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The Best Workout Equipment for an Apartment

If you have an apartment, then it is not likely you have enough space to include large pieces of fitness equipment, such as elliptical machines, steppers and nonfolding treadmills. If you don’t live on the first floor, getting large workout machines into your apartment also can be difficult.

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Lumbar 1 & 2 Exercises

The lumbar region of your back is the lower area just above your sacrum. This portion of your back makes up part of the S-shape your spine creates naturally. The lumbar vertebrae consist of five individual vertebrae known as L1, L2, L3, L4 and L5. The size of these vertebrae increases as the number increases.

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Pain After Shoulder Presses

Physical exercise is an important part of maintaining your health. However, performing these exercises improperly can lead to an injury. One such exercise, the shoulder press, helps to strengthen your shoulders, but it can also cause neck pain. To prevent this, make sure to perform the exercise correctly.

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Tips on Soccer Training Alone

All great soccer players spent much of their lives training alone, in addition to practicing with a team, even before they ever joined one. To improve at the game of soccer, not only do you need to practice with a team, you also need to focus on developing skills on your own in your backyard or on an empty pitch.

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Firming Upper Arm Exercises for a 60 Year Old Woman

You can't stop father time, but you can reduce to some extent the effects he has on your body. Perhaps the biggest effect is that your once-firm skin loses its elasticity and tends to hang under your chin and at the tops of your arms.

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How to Strengthen Your Jaw Muscles

Workout regimens usually focus on weight loss or building muscle mass in the limbs. However, facial muscle tone shouldn't be overlooked. Toned jaw muscles help tighten your facial skin and define the jawline. Your jaw muscles also impact your ability to eat harder foods without discomfort or strain.

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How to Practice Boxing at Home

The best training for boxing -- or any other martial art -- is live instruction from a qualified trainer. However, not everybody has access to a boxing gym. If you're on your own, you can still get started with your boxing skills by practicing in a home workout space you set up on your own.

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The Average Bike Riding Speed

Bike riding speeds vary widely depending on your riding conditions. When you are zooming down a paved hill, your speed may increase to over 20 mph, while you may slow to only a few miles per hour when you are climbing a steep or rocky grade.

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How to Lose Love Handles With Free Weights

Love handles consist of excess body fat that collects on the sides of your waist. Combine fat-burning workouts with a nutritional plan that induces a calorie deficit to lose your love handles.

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Workouts to Gain Speed & Agility for Soccer Players

Soccer is an anaerobic sport that consists of rapid bursts of activity followed by short periods of rest. To be successful, a soccer player must have pure sprinting speed but also the ability to dodge other players and make tackles, which requires agility.

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Best Fold Away Exercise Equipment

Most exercise equipment tends to be big, bulky and takes up a lot of space, which might turn off some consumers who are looking to build a home gym. There are foldable exercise equipment options available if you're tight on space.

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Why Do Football Players Tape Their Wrists?

If you watch football regularly, you may have noticed that players traditionally tape their wrists. Although a small amount of tape around a player's wrist appears to have very little function, this tradition has multiple uses and may be an important part of a player's pregame preparation.

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