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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Join A Climbing Gym For A Special And Tough Workout by Jeremy S. Abrahamson

Are you tired of the same old fitness gyms that provide countless machines and free weights that half of them you have no idea how to use? Are you tired of seeing the same people doing the same workouts? Don't you want a new setting, with a new workout, and one that provides both an aerobic and an anaerobic workout for a well balanced fitness program? Well, your search is finally over.

Climbing gyms are popping up all over the country due to the popularity of this great and challenging workout activity. Climbing provides everything your body needs to get a great workout. You get the aerobic benefit from the climbing process and you get the anaerobic benefit from the strength it takes to reach the summit or whatever climbing goal you've set for yourself. So walk into a climbing gym today and sign up for a membership.

What You'll Expect

When you sign up at a climbing gym, you are no longer in the same old, typical gym atmosphere. You are with likeminded climbers who are constantly challenging themselves. And you'll see that climbers are in great shape. Even if you're not in great shape now, you soon will be after spending a while at a climbing gym. If you don't know how to climb, don't worry as they'll teach you everything you need to know.

Ask For Instructions

When you join a climbing gym, they'll ask you if you've ever climbed before. Even if you say yes, they'll probably provide you with instructions just so that you do things the right way and don't hurt yourself. Most climbing gyms will provide all the climbing equipment you'll need, such as shoes, a harness, rope and more.

You can rent the equipment if they don't provide it or you can buy your own; especially if you plan on sticking with climbing for a long while. Buying your own climbing equipment will ensure that it's always available and will ensure a perfect fit, which is great for anyone who is a member of a climbing gym.

There are likely several climbing gyms in your area, as many people are finding this workout unbeatable compared to the other typical ways of working out. Compare prices, the atmosphere and the current member population and make sure you're happy with the climbing gym you choose so that you'll continue to stick with it and get into the best shape of your life.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Tips in Safety in Gymnastics by isshmen

With the current interest in safety in the United States, the safe conduct of a sport like gymnastics is essential to its very existence. It is a basic assumption that gymnastics can be conducted safely. To make safety a reality students and teachers alike must be alert. Teachers must explain hazardous qualities of every stunt, and students must take their role as spotters (helpers) seriously.

Every participant can have fun, but no participant should ever fail to carry out his responsibilities as a spotter. Likewise, if a student does not fully understand his spotting assignment, or has not been taught the spot in question, he should inform his instructor promptly so that no unnecessary hazard need be overcome by his buddy.

If a student discovers a potentially hazardous situation relative to the condition of apparatus or other equipment, he should be encouraged to report the condition promptly. The class should recognize that some risk is inherent in any activity, but that needless risk is foolhardy. Needless risks should never be tolerated. The activity is by nature daring, and as such, even under ideal conditions, will test the mettle of any male.

Selection of Apparatus

The selection of apparatus and equipment for gymnastics activities is a very complex undertaking. It is perhaps sufficient to say that quality gymnastics apparatus must be considered a long-term investment. All effort and attention should be directed toward obtaining the best quality material and workmanship. There is no real need to seek a bargain in this area, because the equipment will still be in use 25, 35, even 50 years after the original purchase - if quality materials are selected initially, and effort made to maintain the apparatus.

Care and Repair of Apparatus

There are numerous reasons why equipment should be cared for and maintained in top condition. The foremost reason, of course, is that students would be needlessly injured if allowed to work on faulty equipment. This same consideration might become a financial one if needless injury occurred and a lawsuit developed.

The other chief consideration is that it is financially much more prudent to maintain any sort of equipment in top repair than it is to allow it to depreciate. For instructional purposes, equipment should always be in good repair. In general, it is an excellent policy for the instructor to examine all equipment at least once each week, and for maintenance or engineering personnel to examine the structural aspect of the equipment once each year. Any needed repairs should be made promptly.

Use of Mats for Protection

Mats are much less costly than doctor bills or the inconvenience of injury to students. Sufficient mats should be available to place under the apparatus being used and around the area if dismounts are likely. Wherever possible, the mats should be cut to fit the apparatus and protect the student from making contact with the apparatus itself, in the event of a miscalculation when dismounting.

The Use of Mats for Spotting

Ropes and web belting materials are frequently interlaced beneath mats which are held by six students to provide a pliable landing surface for the student who is attempting a difficult or dangerous stunt, such as the front somersault. Under these circumstances, the mat is usually held about waist high and allowed to descend to approximately six inches above the floor upon contact of the participant.

Protecting the Hands

It is recommended that beginners be introduced to the use of palm protectors early because often the condition of the hands limits the workout period. It seems that boys who work as beginners without protection find it difficult to utilize palm protectors when they become competitors. With particular reference to the horizontal bar, use fine memory cloth to keep the bar free of caked chalk. Always provide plenty of hand chalk, and insist that it be used to keep the hands dry.

Take these few safety precautions and all your gymnasts will be much less likely to be injured.

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

A Brief History of Gymnastics by Dragomir Vasile

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 practiced gymnastics to prepare for war. Activities like jumping, running, discus throwing, wrestling, and boxing helped develop the muscles needed for hand-to-hand combat. Additional fitness practices used by the ancient Greeks included methods for mounting and dismounting a horses and a variety of circus performance skills.

Gymnastics became a central component of ancient Greek education and was mandatory for all students. Gymnasia, buildings with open-air courts where the training took place, evolved into schools where gymnastics, rhetoric, music, and mathematics were taught. The ancinet Olympic Games were born near this time.

As the Roman Empire ascended, Greek gymnastics for was more or less turned into military training. In 393 AD the Emperor Theodosius abolished the Olympic Games completely. The games had become corrupt, and gymnastics, along with other sports declined. For centuries, gymnastics was all but forgotten.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries two pioneer physical educators, Johann Friedrich GutsMuth and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn created exercises for boys and young men on sseveral apparatus they had designed. This innovation ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics. As a result, Friedrich Jahn became known as the "father of gymnastics". Jahn introduced the horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse with pommels, balance beam, ladder, and vaulting horse.

In the early nineteenth century, educators in the United States followed suit and adopted German and Swedish gymnastics training programs. By the early twentieth century, the armed services began publishing drill manuals featuring all manner of gymnastic exercises. According to the US Army Manual of Physical Drill, these important drills provided proper instruction for the bodies of active young men.

As time went by, however, military activity moved away from hand-to-hand combat and toward fighter planes and contemporary computer-controlled weapons. As a result of the development of modern warfare, gymnastics training as the mind and body connection, so important for the Greek, German, and Swedish educational traditions, began to lose force. Gymnastics once again took on the aura of being a competitive sport.

By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics was popular enough to be included in the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896. The sport was a little different from what we currently know as gymnastics however. Up until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises the modern gymnast may find a bit odd such as synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder just to name a few.

Women first started to participate in gymnastics events in the 1920s and the first women's Olympic competition was held in the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, although the only event was synchronized calisthenics. Combined exercises for women were first held in 1928, and the 1952 Olympics featured the first full regime of events for women.

By the 1954 Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in modern format, and scoring standards, including a point system from 1 to 10, were implemented. Modern Men's gymnastics events are scored on an individual and team basis, and presently include the floor exercise, horizontal bar, parallel bars, rings, pommel horse, vaulting, and the all-around, which combines the scores of the other six events.

Women's gymnastic events include balance beam, uneven parallel bars, combined exercises, floor exercises, vaulting, and rhythmic sportive gymnastics.

Until 1972, gymnastics for men emphasized power and strength, while women performed routines focused on grace of movement. That year, however, a 17-year-old Soviet gymnast named Olga Korbut captivated a television audience with her innovative and explosive routines.

Nadia Comaneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Olympic Games held in Montreal, Canada. She was coached by the famous Romanian, Bela Karolyi. Comaneci scored four of her perfect tens on the uneven bars, two on the balance beam and one in the floor exercise. Nadia will always be remembered as "a fourteen year old, ponytailed little girl" who showed the world that perfection could be achieved.

Mary Lou Retton became America's sweethart with her two perfect scores and her gold medal in the All-Around competition in front of the home crowd in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

These days gymnastics is a household name and many children participate in gymnastics at one time or another as they grow up. Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, and Mary Lou Retton, along with all those gymnasts since, have helped popularize women's competitive gymnastics, making it one of the most watched Olympic events. Both men's and women's gymnastics now attract considerable international interest, and excellent gymnasts can be found on every continent.

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Basic Facts About Tumbling Mats by Lynn Taylor

Once you start looking you realize tumbling mats come in a lot of different shapes and sizes and depending upon what you are going to use them for will help determine the thickness and the style and the length that you want. If you seen any of the high level gymnast doing their tumbling routine it's quite amazing and you can see why they need the mats for protection as well as the spring and jump ability that they offer to the high level athletes. American Gymnast is one of the top names when it comes to the standard tumbling mat for gymnast but anyone who is in martial arts cheerleading or general exercising no about American Gymnast.

The amount of softness and the shock absorbing is always important, and if you are using the mats for some more lightweight exercise or just general physical education then you may not require the more heavy duty mats that are offered to the high-end tumbling gymnast. You can get a lightweight mat that fold into 2 foot stacks for transportation and storage to any off-site activities. Most mats come with Velcro fasteners on the ends to help with the carrying and storage.

Just like most other products you can get different colors that include the brightly colored Rainbow Mat. This popular style of mats is used for tumbling, exercise programs, stretching, for yoga and the martial arts. Most of these models come with a vinyl finish that is resistant to water, rot, and mildew. All the mats are required to be flame retardant that meet at predetermined standard and usually can come clean with just a little bit of mild soap and water.

Another big name in tumbling mats is Alex Toys. They promote a lot of mats for the youngsters and is considered pretty safe for children. Their mats are considered great for indoor or outdoor use and are encouraged to be used in a cooperative group play that helps to build muscles and helps to teach kids to socialize with others. Most of their mats are very lightweight and easy to store and some parents have been known to use them for baby yoga, which seems to be catching on for people who want to get the children started early on maintaining a good physical health.

Having a tumbling mat that covers a hardwood floor or even a rug is a great way for adults or children to get in some physical activity and if you are exercising at home while watching TV or video of your favorite workout guru they offer nice protection for your body from the exercising.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

10ft Trampolines-Ideal For The Young Ones by Paul Garnett

The 10ft trampoline is ideal for children up to the age of 6 years. Not only do they give the child a lot of fun, they also assist in the teachings of balance and co-ordination as well as providing soft exercise that is not strenuous on joints such as the knees. When you have you child at home how often do you catch him or her jumping up and down on your couch or bed? Quite a few times I would say. That is because the child has a lot of expendable energy and jumping up and down with the bounce factor is a lot of fun for the child.

So it's not such a bad idea to protect your expensive household furniture and buy a trampoline for your child to play with. The size of the 10ft trampoline is ideal for any small yard and can give years of use. Now the thing is there is a safety element with the trampoline. You don't want your child over jumping the trampoline and flying through the air to land on the hard ground and maybe doing some serious damage. So when you buy your 10ft trampoline buy one with a mesh enclosure included or if your desired trampoline does not have an enclosure then buy one separately. This mesh enclosure envelopes the trampoline preventing the child from over jumping.

Other safety measures you can also consider are additional foam mats to surround the trampoline on the ground and also a small ladder to enable to the child to easily mount or demount the trampoline. With these extra safety measures and of course yourself on hand for any unforeseeable occurrences the trampoline experience should be a lot of fun and very safe.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Pacific Edge Climbing Gym: The Best Indoor Rock Climbing Gym by Jeremy S. Abrahamson

Pacific Edge Climbing Gym is situated on Santa Cruz's east side and very close to Seabright Avenue and in fact, it has the honor of being the tallest of all indoor climbing gyms in the entire West Coast. It offers good services to all types of rock climbers - from the beginner to the expert and for beginners there is special training as well as personal assistance provided. For the expert, the opportunities to climb indoors are virtually limitless and thus they can climb for as long as they have the strength to climb one more step up the climbing wall.

A Premier Facility

Pacific Edge Climbing Gym is certainly a premier facility that provides alternate health club service to its members and among the services that are provided is rock climbing and yoga as well as mats Pilates and a lot more as well. As far as rock climbing goes, Pacific Edge Climbing Gym offers balance and flexibility as well as strength training and its main focus is to give its members the best in physical as well as mental workouts.

To be sure, there is no better indoor rock climbing facility than the Pacific Edge Climbing Gym which boasts of as many as it is believed fourteen thousand square feet of the very best in climbing terrain and the height of the climbing wall is all of fifty feet and in addition there is also a huge lead cave. Whether you are interested in bouldering or classic crack climbs, Pacific Edge Climbing Gym has the facilities for you and in addition, there is also the very best in cardio and weight training facilities as well as saunas and showers available as well.

If you need to buy climbing equipment, and then the Pacific Edge Climbing Gym also has a fully stocked Pro-shop where you can buy shoes, ropes, harnesses as well as guide books for the state of California. The climbing terrain is world class and the atmosphere is both relaxed as well as supportive, and there is even a beach just a few blocks away.

In fact, the building that currently houses Pacific Edge Climbing Gym was at one time a fish cannery and so, you will find that there are cavernous spaces that help to create an ideal indoor mountain and once you have had your fill of going up the climbing wall, you can then take a short walk to the Seabright Brewery and enjoy a pint of local brew. All in all, the Pacific Edge Climbing Gym provides a complete rock climbing experience and is certainly worth visiting.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

PROGRAM INSTANT CALORIE BURN by Made

How to quickly get rid of fat covering your body muscles bulge Owner initiated routine Indianapolis Fitness and Sport Training, Mike Robertson, will force half of the muscles in your body works. This will provide an opportunity these muscles recover while you train the other half of the muscle. Not hard to do. Simply do the exercises shown in the guide below, one-minute rest between each movement, and repeat again until you reach 15 minutes duration exercise. 1. Lunge. Stand up straight, holding dumbbell on the outside of your body. Make sure your palms facing into. Contract your abdominal muscles as you step forward with your right leg. Use the heel first time right foot landed on the floor. Lower your left knee almost touching the floor. Return to starting position by using the energy from the heel push. Perform 8-12 reps for each leg.

2. Dumbbell Row. Grasp the dumbbell in your right hand. Put your left hand and knee on the bench. Make sure your spine flat and your upper body parallel to the floor for your right hand hung. Use your upper arm to lift the dumbbell toward your rib cage, press the shoulder blades back, and then lower the load to the starting position. Perform 8-12 reps for each hand.

3. Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift. Stand with your left leg as a pedestal. Hold the dumbbell with your right hand in front of the thigh. Position your palms facing you. Make sure chests and back flat. Bend your hips, lean forward, and lower your right arm. Immediately returned to the starting position at full stretch your hamstring. Perform 8-12 reps for each side of the body.

4. Pushup. Lie down facing the floor with palms slightly wider shoulders. The position of the finger pointing toward the front. Push your body upward until your body weight resting only on palms and toes. Lower your body slowly until your chest position almost touching the floor. Perform 8-12 reps.

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