Riding a bicycle is excellent cardiovascular exercise and a workout that can help you lose weight. At just 10 miles per hour an individual who weighs 200 lbs. burns over 360 calories in an hour of riding. Most people find tracking their exercise helps in achieving exercise goals.

Parkour is more than a fitness or health program, and it has origins that have ties to the military. It's classified as an extreme sport called free running and requires participants to avoid and overcome obstacles using nothing other than their own body and physical capabilities.

Increasing your sprinting speed improves your performance, allowing you to finish the race faster. Sprinting faster requires an athlete to have explosive power and good form.

Swimming in the ocean at night might be on your to-do list and can be accomplished if you follow safety swimming guidelines. Not all beaches are open to nighttime swimming.

High school can be tough, and helping your child prepare to try out for any of school athletic team is filled with unknowns, even if she's played that sport at lower levels.

It is easy to believe that gymnasts use every muscle in the body. They leap, spring, bound, flip and handstand. They not only use every muscle, but also use them in every way a muscle can be used.

The DCI line was the flagship series of irons from Titleist from 1990 to 2003. DCI is short for Direct Central Impact. The design of golf clubs is high tech.

Riding a bike is a low-impact exercise, but knee pain for cycling enthusiasts is common. The health concern that readers of "Bicycling" most frequently write to the magazine about is knees. This could lead you to think that cycling is bad for your knees, but that's not necessarily true.

It's a dramatic moment in a soccer match when the referee calls for a penalty kick. When a defender commits a foul in the penalty box, play is stopped and an offensive player is given a shot on goal with only the goalkeeper playing defense.

Bicycling-related tailbone pain can be more than just irritating; it can prevent you from continuing your bike routine and even dissuade you from future cycling. It can be caused by a variety of riding errors and environmental conditions.

While many people believe a tennis racket vibration dampener absorbs ball/racket impact shock and helps decrease the effects of tennis elbow, physics reveal this isn't true.

Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wresting both involve grappling with an opponent, but the two sports have their differences. Although it has an ancient-sounding name, Greco-Roman wrestling originated in France in the 19th century; the name comes from a desire to incorporate ancient values.