To excel in basketball you need agility and focus, but you also need a great deal of strength. Basketball works most of the muscles in the body, but when it comes to taking a shot, the arm muscles are most heavily relied upon.

A bike seat that moves when you ride can mean only one thing -- a loose fitting. The fix will depend on the style saddle you have and how the seat moves. A saddle that swivels from left to the right requires a different approach than one that changes tilt.

Asking how long a softball game is a bit like asking how long a piece of string is. It’s as long as it is. Softball is different from some other sports in that it’s not broken down into specific blocks of time. If the defense is good and can quickly eliminate the other team, the game will be over quickly.

Although both sports take place on either grass or artificial turf, soccer and football fields have many differences. The size of the fields and the markings on them are different. In fact, the size of a soccer field can even change from game to game.

Steel is the classic bicycle frame material. It's strong, inexpensive and well suited to modification through alloys and other chemical treatments. When choosing a frame, the various steel types offer an array of choices.

With more than 30 years of orthopedic history guiding its development, the Stryker Triathlon knee was released in 2005 as a single radius, high flexion knee replacement system.

Sunless tans seem like the perfect answer to looking tan without risking your skin. If you’re a frequent swimmer, however, sunless tans are not the most convenient option. Natural tans are not affected by pool elements as sunless tans are.

Swimming pools are a big part of summer fun with family and friends. Swimming is an effective form of exercise and a way to relax and relieve the stresses of the day. To safely enjoy these benefits, you need to swim in a pool that will not put you at risk for recreational water Illness, or RWI.

The football visor became popular in the early 1990s for practical reasons: it helped to protect a player's eyes from becoming injured on the field. However, football visors soon became a point of fashion with players using different facemasks to individualize themselves during the game.

A properly sized basketball rim is integral to the play of the game. When a shot makes its way through the rim, the shooting team scores points based on where the shot came from on the court. Consistent measurements are used for basketball rims across all levels of play and between genders.

The sight of a kickstand on a road bicycle is bound to annoy a cycling purist. “A racing cyclist would never have any kind of kickstand,” wrote noted cycling author Eugene A. Sloane in “Popular Mechanics,” capturing the snobbery against kickstands that was well under way in the 1970s.

The Ironman is a particular type of triathlon, an endurance competition involving swimming, bicycling and running. In an Ironman competition, participants must swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run 26.2 miles in 17 hours.