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Great Family Activity
Do you and your family love to snow tube, ski, or snowboard? Well, winter season is now in the air and visitors who are wondering where to go skiing or snowboarding also wonder what to bring. The good news is that you don’t need to worry about carrying lots of heavy equipment as you can have ski racks installed at your car. Snowboarding and skiing is a great family activity and riding down slopes is a great equalizer. Even young children will be delighted to race down the hill with the mist from the slope keeping them cool, after all, an experience of personal challenge and accomplishment that can be shared.
Could Soccer Help Improve Health in the Homeless?
Playing a pickup soccer game two or three times a week could improve health among homeless men, a new study finds.
Because of the many hardships and disadvantages associated with homelessness, those without a home typically have poor health and low life expectancy. Along with lack of access to proper health care, contributors to illness include cigarette smoking, alcohol and drug misuse and lack of physical fitness. Although most homeless people actually get large amounts of low-intensity physical activity — simply from having to walk the streets all day — they don’t engage in high-intensity exercise, the study noted. (See pictures of the World Cup.)
So, for the new study, researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Copenhagen tried recruiting homeless men off the streets of Copenhagen to see whether they could get the men to play soccer and improve their health. [Read more...]
Strengthening Your Golf Game
You may be a seasoned golfer or just starting to learn how to play golf, you will always be on the lookout for golf tips. This is especially true if you have a problem area that you would like to improve upon, or if there is just something you can’t quite seem to get right. Though balance is quite important when it comes to playing a good round of golf, especially when executing your golf swing, but getting a competitive edge and strengthening your golf game with the garmin golf gps systems would be much better. It’ll measure your shot distances, tracks how far you have walked on the course, and features alarm clock to ensure you’re always on time for tee off.
What The Circus Can Teach Us About Sports Injuries
Can the tears of a clown contribute to the twisted ankle of a clown? According to an offbeat new study of the psychological underpinnings of sports injuries, the answer is a guarded yes, depending on just what occasioned those tears.
For the study, appearing in the April issue of The British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers turned to a unique population of 47 athletes. Each had been, until recently, an elite competitor in gymnastics, trampoline, swimming or diving. But all were now retired from competition and hoping to join the circus. They had, in fact, entered a rigorous, specialized training program that could, if they succeeded, earn them a slot in a Cirque du Soleil troupe.
Cirque du Soleil shows are exemplars of the modern theatrical circus, with the human body providing the magic, in lieu of elephants. Performers tumble, clown, dangle, contort and dance. “It requires great athleticism,” said Madeleine Hallé, a senior performance psychologist with Cirque du Soleil. [Read more...]
Manny Pacquiao Wins Eighth World Title
Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao won a unanimous 12-round decision over Antonio Maragarito on Saturday night, giving him the eighth world title of his career.
Despite concerns about his training and the significant size differential between him and his opponent, the smaller and quicker Pacquiao dominated the fight from start to finish.
The fight was not without controversy however. The weight loss supplement Hydroxycut was discovered in Margarito’s dressing room before the match, but despite protests from Pacquiao, the fight was allowed to go on.
Elena Baltacha Stuns French Open Champ Francesca Schiavone
Elena Baltacha Elena Baltacha stunned Francesca Schiavone as she moved into the quarter-finals of the Istanbul Cup with a 6-4 6-2 victory. Photograph: Serdar Yildiz/EPA
Elena Baltacha pulled off a superb straight sets win over top seed and French Open champion Francesca Schiavone to move into the quarter-finals of the Istanbul Cup in the Turkish capital today.
Having battled past Turkish wild-card Cagla Buyukakcay in the first round, Baltacha looked a different player as she took the game to the stunned Italian and triumphed 6-4 6-2 in one hour and 25 minutes.
Baltacha stretched the Schiavone serve throughout, breaking five times on her way to securing her third WTA Tour quarter-final place of the year, where she will next meet the German sixth seed Andrea Petkovic. [Read more...]