Weightlifting

Hearts beating faster than ever, blood flowing throughout my body, lusting oxygen. Breath in and out. Realizing the amount of weight above me, I freeze. Knowing that if I was to drop the weight it would crush me. A rep I do is like a crusade for victory between my mind and body against the weight above me. Chest burning while gasping for breath I push the weight up. Continuously repeating the process knowing it'll only get harder and harder; my body screeching like tires on a road when stomping…

doors for the first time, you don’t see a normal gym; there’s no treadmills everywhere…”. Xavier Woods mentions that he is thankful that John would give out his gym. John Cena gives out this gym for others to achieve their goal in wrestling or weightlifting. Though John Cena does not mention it, all wrestlers’ goals are mostly to be the best in the WWE history, but they also may want to be good parents. Lee 2 Though it is unclear if John Cena has kids, according to…

Does Smoking Marijuana Enhance Athletic Performance? The thought of smoking marijuana and working out in the same scenario is very unlike and unheard of. Those that work out on daily bases focus their attention on either losing weight, increasing body mass, and eating healthy that the thought of marijuana is to the lease of their attention. Marijuana is categorized as a gateway drug, a substance that makes you lazy, uncoordinated, and increases appetite. So how can a substance that has the…

exercise-induced sexual pleasure (EISP). Ages ranged from 18 to 63. 51.4% of the orgasmic women admitted to experience 'coregasms' more frequently with abdominal exercises. Other arousing types of exercise that were reported included cycling, climbing, weightlifting and yoga. Even the very act of walking could trigger almost one in 10 women surveyed. Not only is exercise-induced pleasure prevalent in different types of workout, as it is also a relatively common occurrence. 40% of the women…

CrossFit is a fitness regime created by Greg Glassman. It is a facet of my life that I have fallen in love with and would recommend to others. CrossFit adds balance and consistency to my fitness routine, as it is an intricate combination of Olympic weightlifting, plyometric, calisthenics, powerlifting and gymnastics, these movements build not only strength but endurance. Each day is a new challenge and an amazement of how much our human bodies are capable of. This variability also keeps…

The amount of cases regarding steroid use and abuse has skyrocketed in the past ten or so years, most prevalent in athletes! Steroid use is illegal but those athletes who do decide to abuse them receive an unfair advantage over those who have made their progress legally and without the use of performance enhancing drugs. Very few efforts have been made to change this or decrease that number in the least way. Future laws and actions regarding steroid abuse should be strengthened and more enforced…

The different types of muscle fibers are incredibly important when it comes to all things exercise. Designing programs related to the clients’ needs may be the most important factor. Without the knowledge of which fibers do what, we wouldn’t be able to design effective programming to help clients reach their maximum potential. Let’s start with type 1 muscles fibers. Type 1 muscle fibers are slow twitch and used in endurance activities. They are the main workhorses in activities that require a…

Theodore Roosevelt As a child Theodore Roosevelt was very sick. He was homeschooled because of his illness and asthma. Being homeschooled allowed him to study animals. By the time he was a teenager he started getting into weightlifting and boxing something his father encouraged him to do. Theodore Roosevelt went to Harvard College and while he was studying there his father died. He graduated college and went to Columbia law school and got married to Alice Lee Hathaway. He wasn’t at law school…

The structure of the essay, “Crossfit: The new fitness craze has a lot to tell us about late western capitalism,” by Eleanor Robinson follows a simple two part division of comparison and factual data that efficiently coincide with one another to create an argumentative essay. This essay is split into several paragraphs, however many of the paragraphs pair up with one another to capture the same central idea. The introduction of the essay introduces the writing style of the author, which is very…

United States Military Academy at West Point. As a wrestler, I am not stranger to difficulty and grind, and it is because of this that I welcome the challenges and adversity that will face me at West Point and the Army. At every practice and weightlifting session, my coach tries to instills the quote…