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Monthly Archive for February, 2008

When most people decide to get into a fitness regimen, they are happy enough with themselves just because they got themselves to the gym or motivated themselves enough to workout at home. While that’s a start, it’s good to eventually focus on what they are wearing. Fitness apparel is a pivotal part of your workout. [...]

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Most people want to look their best, especially during the warmer spring/summer months where most people dress on the lighter side. To look your best, many people focus on strengthening and tightening up their stomach muscles. If you look even a little bit, you can find many stomach muscle exercises to consider for your exercise [...]

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The Science of Arm Training

You know the world has changed when the average lifter wants a baseball player’s physique. A big chest, a thick back, and jacked arms pretty much completes the wish list for most. Now whether or not all of these players achieved their results with steroids, I don’t know. The fact is, they sure as heck [...]

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Left Arm Stability
The stability of the left arm (right arm for lefties) is one of the most critical areas of the golf swing for generating swing consistency and producing torque during the backswing.
One of the most common faults experienced by golfers of all levels is the break down of the left elbow during the back [...]

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We all know there are so many different coaching methods, training programs, and coaching personalities. Many gymnastics coaches successfully get their gymnasts stronger, but they do not necessarily incorporate enough sport specific training into their programs. I have seen gymnasts benefit from the general strength exercises such as push ups, but when it comes time [...]

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A Guide To Gymnastics

Gymnastics is arguably one of the world’s oldest sports. It is also a very natural sport involving activities that people would normally do outside gym class or gymnastic competitions such as jumping, running, climbing, swinging and tumbling. Modern gymnastics as a sport involves the performance of a series of movements.
These activities and movements require flexibility, [...]

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Posture and Gymnastics

For athletes participating in sports like swimming and gymnastics, there is a need to assume a totally different body posture compared to other sports to be able to complete well. This posture can carry over to their personal lives as well, and one can easily identify a swimmer or gymnast by the particular way they [...]

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A Brief History of Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a graceful and artistic sport that requires a combination of strength, balance, agility, and muscle coordination, usually performed on specialized apparatus. Gymnasts perform sequences of movements requiring flexibility, endurance, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels.
Gymnastics as we know it dates back to ancient Greece. The early Greeks [...]

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Balance beam is the most critical competition event for women because of the relative ease of falling off and the harsh deductions for a fall. A single fall can eliminate gymnasts from winning a medal in the beam event and often also in the All-around. Beam medallists are often the All-Around winners.
Complete Beam Basics in [...]

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Commercial Gymnastics Summer Camps?

Just What is a Commercial Gymnastics Camp?
There are two types of Commercial gymnastics camps. There are the large commercial camps that only operate in the summer and are designed to attract large numbers of gymnasts for huge profits. There are also other gym programs, ranging from YMCA programs to regular gyms to college programs, that [...]

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