Weightlifting

Our skeleton is a critical component to human physiology; it is what supports us during our everyday activities. Our bones specifically are unique in nature; they reconstruct themselves in a process where cells called osteoblasts regulate bone formation while another pair of cells called osteoclasts regulate resorption of minerals such as calcium and vitamin D. Deterioration of the skeleton is due to enlarged bone weakening by osteoclasts and decreased bone development by osteoblasts, resulting…

A College/University education is important because it gives students the chance to learn more about themselves while learning applicable skills and knowledge for the workplace. Postsecondary is where one learns the most about oneself; their interests and preferences, their skill level, their choice of friends, because of the increase of options in everything from high school. It is also where students learn skills that will shape their career and life, and create connections that will benefit…

‘New Year’s Resolutions’ is to get fit. Depending on the person, this can mean losing weight, gaining muscle or just being active. The podcast Barbell Shrugged, hosted by Mike Bledsoe and Doug Larson, is updated weekly with new content related to weightlifting and training. The topics vary greatly, ranging from How to Fix Your Lower Back to The Pros and Cons of Scaling Workouts. For each week’s topic, the hosts bring a special guest with an expertise in the area to be discussed. For the episode…

must be organized to keep track of assignment due dates to stay on the right path. Maintaining a planner for assignments helped this organization. Additionally, time management is key for me. As a college athlete, baseball practices, games, and weightlifting involve a significant time commitment. Thus, it is necessary to have established study times every day…

For lab 2.1 Safety of exercise participation my PAR Q had no changes, therefore I am still safe to workout. The biggest differences in Lab 2.1 is in the lifestyle information. I am now consuming the proper amount of fruit and vegetables, compared to what I was consuming originally. I have reduced and cut many high fat foods. I have not been able to adjust my sleeping cycle, because I already struggle to accomplish all my daily activities within my original schedule. The adjustments that I made…

Cheer teams compete for national titles just as football, basketball and baseball. There are many activities in today's industry that many people commonly debate whether such is a sport. In order to justify if this activity makes it on the list, we need to incorporate and further provide a clear definition of what makes up a sport. There are numerous definitions online that provide us with a set of criteria and one is, “An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set…

Analyzing the “Freak Show” Reebok’s Be More Human Ad Campaign Reebok’s television advertisement “Freak Show” begins with people doing various CrossFit recreational exercises such as flipping tires, running through mud, and climbing ropes while a voice over talks about being obsessive, fanatical, extreme, and crazy. Workout music plays in the background as well. It shows both mean and women around the age of 30. “Freak Show” isn’t just selling a shoe: the company wants us to believe that it’s…

weight), then the body tends to metabolize adipose tissue to supply the energy,” says Dietician Shail Yadav. In essence, our bodies adapt to stress. The higher the stress the bigger the adaptation. This is why higher intensity protocols such as weightlifting get stronger adaptations to them than lower intensity such as cardio or very light weights. The regulation of body composition operates according to the law of diminishing returns (aka logarithmic scale). This means that the improvements…

In swimming and weightlifting sports, doping issues became a matter arouse people’s attention. According to Aisch and Lai, the journalists of the New York Time, Two of the more prominent athletes, Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova who have been suspended…

The world of sports places an emphasis on an athlete 's appearance. The typical athlete strives to appear lean and fit. Because of the added emphasis on the body and its appearance, studies have shown that an athlete has a higher risk of developing an eating disorder than that of other non-athletes. (Lawton 131) There was a research project done by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The project focused on the number of student athletes who had experienced an eating…