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A demonstration that illustrates the effectiveness of enhancing elastic energy through plyometric training.

Humans can generate six times the force needed to break a board with their hand, but training is vital to ensure this force is directed correctly.
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Breathing pure oxygen won'?t speed recovery time after hard exercise. Instruct athletes to concentrate on deep, slow breathing instead.

A simple test using stairs that will help you estimate the amount of horsepower your students can generate.
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Two-legged stationary jumps and single legged running jumps require entirely different types of strength.

The muscles of the human body that are the strongest, slowest, longest, fastest and smallest

Heart rates measured after exercise under-estimate the levels actually reached during exercise. Add 10 bpm for immediate measurements and 20 bpm if measured after a 15-second delay.
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Shivering is an efficient way of warming the body and can produce enough heat to boil a quart of water for an hour.

Donating blood will decrease both maximal V02 and physical performance. Its not recommended for aerobic athletes during their competitive season.

Twenty minutes of aerobic activity is a false threshold. In fact, even 10 minutes of exercise will improve aerobic fitness.

Why people often sweat immediately more after exercise than during.
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An exercise using Swiss balls that strengthens the gluteus medius muscles for the prevention of running injuries.
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The breaststroke, not the butterfly, uses the most calories of all the swimming strokes.
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