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.

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What is Mat Pilates

Mat Pilates is an exercise system designed to strengthen your core. It's a functional, accessible program that offers benefit to all sorts of people.

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Yoga Block Substitute

No yoga block? No problem. Improvise with any number of household items. Which you use depends on what you need the block for.

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What Is the Difference Between Pilates & Stott Pilates?

The Pilates method of exercise was developed in Germany in the early 20th century. There has been almost 100 years of research since the original technique was created, but Pilates purists believe that it should still be taught without variation or modification. Others, such as Moira Stott disagree.

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Why Do I Get Dizzy on the Treadmill?

You're engaged in a heart-pumping treadmill session when suddenly the room seems to spin around you. This dizziness, which may even make you feel nauseous, can keep you from exercising on the treadmill. Understanding why treadmill-related dizziness occurs can help you prevent this condition from recurring.

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Yoga Poses for Babies

Babies are eager to learn how to move their bodies. A playful, non-pressured yoga practice helps.

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What Are the Benefits of Martial Arts for Kids?

Martial arts are an ancient method of training your mind, body and spirit to act as one. Martial arts practitioners strive for harmony, but also learn effective and often devastating self-defense techniques. Children who get involved in martial arts reap many benefits in several areas of life.

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How to Get a Feminine CrossFit Body

The CrossFit training method, as its official website notes, is known for having no limits. CrossFitters do not adhere to any one training system, but incorporate them all to ensure that you increase your endurance and flexibility as well as your strength and speed.

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How to Remove Oblique Fat

How to Remove Oblique Fat

Oblique fat can't be directly targeted. You must lose fat all over to slim up the sides of your waist.

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Hip Stretches for Runners

Your hips are just one of the areas of your body that are prone to tightness and injury if you are a runner. Every stride that you make requires your hip joint to pull forward, and every time that you plant your foot on the pavement, your hips feel the impact.

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Negative Feedback Exercise & Heart Rates

Whether you are at rest or exercising, physiological functions must remain within a narrow range for you to survive. Negative feedback loops work to keep physiological parameters such as heart rate within this target range, or homeostatic set point.

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Spine Stretch and Sciatica Exercises for the Elderly

Sciatica can make it hard to sit, stand or walk. Symptoms of sciatica include sharp pains running down the back of the leg that starts at the buttocks. The sciatic nerve branches off from the lumbar and sacral spine and runs through the pelvis and down the back of the leg.

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