Weightlifting

that needs to be made, is the lack of air conditioning. The Knott Central Gym is an important place not only to the school, but to athletes, as well as the community. The students of Knott Central service this gym daily for physical education and weightlifting. Athletes, such as myself, use this gym almost every day for a game, practice, or conditioning. The community also uses this gym often, especially during basketball season. People from Knott County and the surrounding counties come to this…

Over the course of aging, the main physical change involves sarcopenia; it is the decrease in muscle size and fiber number, which affects an individual’s aerobic capacity and strength as a result of the change in muscle composition. With decreased aerobic capacity and strength in muscles, this causes detrimental effects on performing any activities or tasks that consist of running, walking, moving or carrying objects, and activities required for daily living. Muscles consist of two different…

Tell people to think of trend and they might give you an answer like Kylie Jenner lip challenge or twerking. Not all trends are good and many are just people trying to fit in. A new trend that has been on a steady rise is CrossFit, but this isn’t a dance or a new lipstick. CrossFit is a workout regime that has burst onto the scene in recent years. CrossFit is constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity, basically a high intensity workout that has you constantly moving.…

Subject Line: Sit down. This is going to take a minute. Hi _____________, On Thursday November 19th, 88 days from now, I will fight in my first sanctioned amateur boxing match. Here’s how this happened: Over the course of my twenties and into my mid-forties, I gained an enormous amount of weight. You know I was a big guy. Even as a vegetarian, and then vegan, I touted the healthfulness of my no-meat lifestyle but ignored the quantities food I consumed. I was…

Imagine yourself living in the White House, leader of our country. What furniture would you have in the White House? Would you keep any pets in it? Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. had a family zoo in the backyard of the White House? And, the six Roosevelt children treated all of their animals like pets. Therefore, they gave all their pets names. Just a few of the animals that they owned were thirteen dogs, two cats, six horses, two hens, one macaw, one pig, one rabbit, one bear, and…

Are there more boys that play or coach sports than girls? In the article “Women and Sports” by Susan Morse, she states “The number of boys to girls in high school athletics is two to one and for coaches the ratio is four to one” (Morse 13). This means more males either play or coach a sport. For some of us sports are a big deal and a great part of our lives, but for others it might not be and that’s totally okay. we will first start off by introducing the back round of sports, then we will look…

An experience of mine that changed my life, was in 6th grade. At the time I only did baseball, football, and wrestling. Then one day I went on YouTube just to watch whatever I found. I ended up coming upon an inspirational video of what was like athletes and how they push themselves type video. How they power through stuff that hurts and makes them want to quit but they keep pushing even though. It’s not a easy smooth road either, it is rough and isn’t for everyone. That hit me like getting…

The topic I chose to write about for my process essay is a Cesarean section commonly known as a C-section. Women sometime struggle to have a natural birth. Everyone is not able to carry out a full term pregnancy. The Cesarean section allows for fetal distressed babies or any unborn baby to be safely removed from the womb. This medical process dates back to the first successful recorded C-section in 1500. A C-section was originally intended to be used when it is impossible or dangerous to deliver…

contact, the physicality of it, and how it is a team sport. He made the decision around the end of his high school athletic career that football would be the sport he went to college for, but Coach Korn did play other sports he mentioned Olympic weightlifting, baseball, track, and…

Ad Analysis Essay There are many stereotypes about females. People think that women aren’t as strong as men, and aren’t as good at sports. Girls are never supposed to be the hero of the story, they are supposed to be the ones being rescued. It is hard enough for teenage girls who are going through puberty, but even harder when they are exposed to certain biases throughout the media. In an ad by Always, they ask a group of average male and female teenagers to run like a girl, fight like a girl,…