Athlete Culture

Athletic Science: Permanent Injuries

2014-04-27T19:32:00Z

Most of us will get some injury or another during our lives. It might be falling off our bicycle as kids and hitting our knee, or we might do a sports class and hurt our shoulder. The problem begins when these injuries become permanent and are impossible to cure. Living with a permanent injury takes [&hellip

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Exercise Spotlight: Water Skiing

2014-04-27T19:30:45Z

Strapping two skis on your feet and sliding over the waves can be an immensely fun and liberating experience. Water Skiing is a very recent sport, which was born in 1922, when Ralph Samuelson first used two pine boards and skied on Lake Lepin. Since then the equipment has been upgraded and the boats have [&hellip

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Exercise Spotlight: Scuba Diving

2014-04-25T15:41:01Z

Diving underwater has been something humans (and many land animals) have done since prehistoric times and before. There are so many interesting and often tasty things to discover underwater, that it was absolutely natural for many creatures to explore the sea and lakes. In our days, scuba diving has become more of a leisure hobby, [&hellip

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Athletic Science: Bodyweight Training

2014-04-25T15:39:39Z

If you’re no fan of weights and exercise machines, but you still want to have awesome muscles, then bodyweight training might just be the perfect thing for you. When doing bodyweight training, you use minimal to no equipment and train your muscles only with your weight and strength alone. The simplicity of bodyweight training is [&hellip

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Exercise Spotlight: Wrestling

2014-04-16T20:16:37Z

Wrestling is one of the most innate sports there are. Every human being, be it woman or man, tried at some time to test their strength against another. We wrestle as kids with parents, sibling and friends. Wrestling, as a sport, is first documented in Sumerian scripts, over 5000 years ago. We see it later [&hellip

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Eat That! Liquid Diets

2014-04-16T20:15:16Z

Most of us will at some time be told by our doctors to go on a “liquid diet” for a couple of days so that we can do tests and undergo various procedures. Colonoscopies and blood tests are among these tests. It is guaranteed that anyone going on a liquid diet will lose weight, because [&hellip

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Working Out and Pregnancy

2014-04-12T09:39:41Z

Exercising during those special nine months is not a clear cut matter. There are dangers with some choices of exercise and there are great benefits if you know to choose your regime widely. Women used to avoid most exertion during this sensitive time, but studies have shown that fitter moms-to-be have easier pregnancies and often [&hellip

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Exercise Spotlight: Taekwondo

2014-04-12T09:37:51Z

The roots of Taekwondo can be traced back in 2300 year old Korean martial arts. The name of this sport on the other hand is quite new, given in 1955. In Korean “tae” means foot, “kwon” means fist and do is “the way of”. So, Taekwondo literally means “the way of the foot and fist”. [&hellip

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Athletic Science: Sweating

2014-04-04T15:57:12Z

Sweating, also known as Perspiration is a natural reaction of our bodies to various factors, both environmental and internal. Exercising is one of the most surefire ways to get sweaty very quickly, but there are plenty more reasons why people do sweat. Sometimes the mechanism that makes us sweat isn’t working right and we might [&hellip

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Exercise Spotlight: Fencing

2014-04-04T15:55:59Z

Fencing is arguably one of the most elegant and sophisticated sports. It has a romantic side, reminding us of medieval duels and honor. On the other hand it is also an exciting sport to watch at the Olympics and in various tournaments. It was the Germanic tribes, who took over Europe after the Roman Empire, [&hellip

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