Archive for January, 2008
What Are Fat Burners?
The term fat burners refer to pills, also known as supplement pills that have certain herbal contents like Ephedra (ephedrine), Chitosan and Pyruvate. Fat burners are supposed to increase energy, boost metabolism and/or suppress appetite.
January 14th, 2008 | Posted in Diet and Nutrition | No Comments
Fluids are essential for proper body temperature regulation and healthy functioning of body cells. Even a minimal fluid loss of 2-3 percent of the body weight can seriously affect performance. If the loss is 7-10 percent of body weight it can lead to heat stroke. The loss of fluid via sweat during a physical activity [...]
January 14th, 2008 | Posted in Diet and Nutrition | No Comments
High paychecks for top athletes and pharmacological advances have conspired to increase the prevalence of performance enhancing drugs in sports in recent years. Individual athletes face tough ethical choices about how to get ahead amid systematic cheating and gross pay inequities among athletes. Performance-enhancing drugs pose a significant risk to the health of athletes, especially [...]
January 14th, 2008 | Posted in Diet and Nutrition | No Comments
The term dietary supplement refers to the extra components of nutrition added to the diet to balance the diet or mitigate the deficiency of some components. It may include vitamins, minerals, amino acid, and some herbs. One characteristic feature of the supplements is that they involve highly concentrated quantity of the one or more of [...]
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What are Diet Pills?
Diet pills are chemical substances similar to diuretics which assist body in scaling down excess fluids and thus aid in weight loss. However, unlike diuretics, they target the part of the brain responsible for the sensation of hunger. Diet pills function as an appetite suppressor, and trick the brain into thinking that [...]
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Debates have been going on for a long time on the benefits of tea and coffee. Owing to their antioxidant levels they are promoted as healthy drinks for athletes.
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For most of human history, sports and competition in sports has been regarded as an exclusively masculine affair. The male origins of competitive sport carried over into the early Olympics, where women were not allowed to watch competitions, let alone compete.
January 13th, 2008 | Posted in Starter's Guidelines | No Comments
Sports equipment includes any object used for sports or exercise. Examples for sports include balls, goals, hockey sticks and lacrosse, bats, wickets and bails for cricket, nets for tennis, volleyball and badminton.
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The transition from a Miss to a Mrs in the field of sports is absolutely not easy. Women in sports have struggled to carve a niche for themselves after their marriage. It is a difficult balancing act for them: at one hand are the demands of the family and society, and on the other are [...]
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Body image is how one perceives, thinks and feels about their body. Usually this type of thought process may have no bearing at all with the actual appearance. For example, it is common in Western nations for women to believe they are larger and fatter than they really are. Even the sports women are not [...]
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