Cintron Starts Training At Historic Ali Camp by: Jeff Julian on June 20, 2004 Welterweight contender Kermit 'The Killer' Cintron started his training camp on June 14th at the site of Muhammad Ali's former training camp at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania. For the first time in 23 years, a ring takes center stage in the same rustic gym that saw 'The Greatest' work his magic. Once again, the walls echo with the sounds of leather meeting leather and trainers shouting instructions. Cintron becomes the first ...
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Copyright 2005 Adam Waxler It's a fairly accepted 'fact' among college age women that they will gain weight their first year away from home. It's so well accepted, in fact, that nearly anyone will know immediately what you mean when you refer to the 'Freshman 15'. However, the research doesn't quite agree. One study conducted 15 years ago found that incoming freshman did gain weight at higher rates than their peers who did not attend college, but the average weight gain for the stressful ...
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Most sports come with injuries to accompany them. Although swimming is, by most standards, not a sport associated with high risk of injury, it does have it's own problems. By far the biggest source of sidelining swimming injuries is the shoulder. I was a competitive swimmer for 14 years, sometimes doing double workouts and 15,000 meters per day. I swam mostly freestyle and backstroke. I never had a shoulder problem until my college years. I had been training with pull buoy and paddles ...
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The math is pretty simple. One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Want to lose a pound a week? Then you need to consume 3500 calories less per week than you use. That's about 500 calories a day. By cutting out 500 calories a day from your normal daily diet, while keeping your activity level the same, you can lose approximately one pound a week. All right - that doesn't sound like much, especially if you're more than 25 pounds overweight. Study after study has shown, though, that those people ...
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/p> Gyms seem to be relatively safe places, we frequent them often and walk out the front doors without any complaints other then the normal soreness brought on by a hard workout. But unfortunately for some of us we actually do not make it out of the gym uninjured, usually the injuries are nothing serious but can still really kill our workouts. Now the most common gym injuries are not serious but they still keep us from what we love. Here is a brief description of the most common injuries and ...
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What is a typical lifestyle of a proffesional soccerpunter? Well, simple and carefree.I am most busy during the weekends with the standard domestics leagues and during midweek where there are cups fixtures.On days where there are no match i tend to be more relax , spending time playing some sports game or surfing net.basically,out of 7 days in a week i am busy about 4 days leaving me plenty of time to spend with my families or playing some sports game. Why choose to lead a lifestyle as a ...
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/p> One of the fastest growing sports around is indoor rowing. Whether its for competitive reasons or fitness reasons or both, the advantages of indoor rowing are clear. You are indoors. You probably haven't had to travel more than a few yards from one room of your house to another. It's convenient, location wise and you can make it fit your lifestyle. It is a simple thing to schedule an impromptu 30-minute session on your rowing machine. The alternatives to home indoor rowing are obviously ...
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Nutrition for Your Young Athlete Nutrition is extremely important for any young person, especially an athletic one, and even more so during the developmental years of their life. Whether your child is involved in soccer or football, gymnastics or swimming or Little League, he or she needs a good nutritive balance in order to be successful in any endeavor. It cannot be stressed enough that anorexia and bulimia, chronic malnutrition, are absolutely devastating not only to an athlete's career, but ...
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Exercise is easier than ever. Fitness can be fun, summer or winter. Here are 20 easy and fun ways to start. 1. Take a walk. On a warm summer evening, take a walk with someone you love. Walking slowly, or briskly, can help burn calories from a big dinner. 2. Get up earlier than everyone else. Do some aerobic exercise by yourself. Use a workout video or walk the dog. 3. If you have a pool, play basketball or volleyball in the pool. Try kicking, it tones your butt. 4. Garden. Digging in the dirt ...
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Copyright 2005 Internet Publications Although creatine offers an array of benefits, most people think of it simply as a supplement that bodybuilders and other athletes use to gain strength and muscle mass. Nothing could be further from the truth. A substantial body of research has found that creatine may have a wide variety of uses. In fact, creatine is being studied as a supplement that may help with diseases affecting the neuromuscular system, such as muscular dystrophy (MD). Recent studies ...
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