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500 wd post #3: CrossFitting the market
Once a sport has hit the popularity mark among mainstream media, there is bound to be a wave of businesses that open up and or company partnerships that emerge to specifically cater to the new found...
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Week1: Eating Healthy living large
Athletes don’t go on diets; they live by rituals that cater to their particular sport. One main ritual crucial to an athlete’s performance is their diet; however the eating habits of an athlete is not...
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Week 2: The non-self conscious lifter
North Korea’s Jong Sim Rim competes on the women’s 69Kg If I was a weightlifter, an Olympic weightlifter at that; a female olympic weightlifter who is being watched by millions of people around the...
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Week 4: Yoga forever
Yoga + Cross-fit Training Since yoga has hit the workout scene, yoga mats, bags and all types of yoga gear have been flying off the shelves especially among women consumers/gym rats. But with the new...
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Week 3: The suffering athlete
Us lazy, nonathletic couch potatoes can finally be happy, athletes suffer from health problems too and their health problems might just be worse. Aside from the rigid diet that overloads their system...
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500 wd #1: Women’s Olympic Weightlifting
Qualified: Sarah Robles and Holley Mangold Weightlifting has always been a male dominated sport. It started in the 1800’s and has lasted for centuries and has increasingly become popular through...
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Let’s start with the basics so that we can understand what we are seeing when we watch an Olympic weightlifting match and what the announcer is saying while reporting: Format- according to official...
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Week 2: China dominates
Wang shows off her first gold medal The weightlifting competition started off small but strong for China’s Mingjuan Wang who brings home the gold in the 48kg match leaving Japan’s Hiromi Miyaki with...
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Week 3: Where’s the Mangold?
With all the hype that surrounded Mangold before the Olympics started, I was really hoping for some truth to the hype. Instead, China dominated once again and Zhou Lulu took home another gold medal for...
View ArticleWeek 4: still a woman
Most female weightlifters are not as “in shape” as one might think considering the amount of working out that they do. For the most part, the most powerful weightlifters do not have a typical workout...
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