Sentences with phrase «able bodied athletes»

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A majority of the winter Paralympians now have corporate sponsors, representing a sea change, especially compared to the deals Olympians and other able - bodied athletes have long enjoyed.

Inside, he wheels past a heavy elevator door and then, with the aid of the students, attempts to negotiate the maze that is a magnificent building constructed on the assumption that everyone using it would be not only a spiritual and intellectual giant but an able - bodied athlete as well!

I'm afraid that what Oscar's doing will hurt the chances of Paralympians competing against able - bodied athletes, because people will say the prostheses are an advantage — and they're not.»

Kadeena and her incredible story about transitioning from an able - bodied athlete to a para-athlete in two sports also featured on the front cover of MS Matters magazine, and earned her a nomination for the UK Sport Inspirational Performance of the Year.

While decreasing the effects of gravity during jumping drills, athletes are able to re-pattern inefficient body mechanics that are slowing them down and dampening their power.

His body has now gone past being able to sustain the rigours of being a full - time professional athlete.

So it basically comes down to how well the system of an athlete's body is able to create the energy their muscles need to perform the skills of their sport throughout a game.

Inspired by young wounded veterans, federally funded labs are creating artificial limbs that may soon blur the distinction between disabled and able - bodied athletes

Storey has also competed against able - bodied athletes riding for England at the Commonwealth Games and won medals at UCI Track Cycling World Cup meetings with the able - bodied squad.

In 2007, South African double - amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius became the first disabled athlete to compete against able - bodied runners, placing seventh in the British Grand Prix.

Until recently, athletes like Carson — alive and able bodied — were of little interest to scientists.

The official recognition doesn't mean that cheerleading will become a sport at the Olympics, but rather that cheerleading's governing body (the International Cheer Union) will be able to receive more funding to better support its athletes.

Research from the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism [3] shows that even in a calorie restricted state, a group of resistance trained athletes were able to drop up to 6.6 % body fat whilst gaining muscle.

Another is simply that running is harder on the body, so older athletes have to spend less time running to avoid injuries, while cyclists are able to maintain higher training volumes as they age.

As a combat athlete I need to move well and be able to control my own body before I can hope to control someone else's.

As an athlete, I want to be able to move efficiently and have my strength and power to flow throughout my entire body.

However, the InBody was able to clearly show the body water differences in the athletes, making it the clear winner against all the other devices.

With ProLon, athletes are able to maintain lean body mass while lowering their body fat percentage to significantly improve athletic performance.

Chu also points out that dietary protein helps keep an athlete healthy and able to withstand the stresses that repeated exercise places on the body's musculoskeletal system.

ME makes a feeble step in the direction of getting the body to be able to burn more fat relative to an athlete on a high carb / low fat diet but it falls far short of the true fat - adapted state of an athlete following OFM or Nutritional Ketosis.

Athletes looking to improve their strength and competitive performance will be able to reach new levels when their bodies are transformed by this steroid.

I'll get in a second to why this could be important for you if you're trying to boost your sports performance or to figure out what you're supposed to eat you know, during endurance but the other thing that was interesting was that there was another study that looked at basically how your body taps into this intramuscular triglyceride and it was found that the, when your body is tapping into intramuscular triglyceride sources, your intramuscular triglyceride pool to use that stuff as an energy source during exercise, it can actually cause a little bit of an insulin response and cause your pancreas to have to work a little bit, to churn out insulin in order for you to be able to effectively tap into this adipose tissue and so it's one of those things where there is a little bit of stress on the pancreas when you're tapping into these intramuscular triglycerides even though they're used as a really really potent source of fuel for you when you're out there performing specifically endurance exercise and in this case, for this fasted, male endurance athletes, 60 - 70 % intensity.

You have probably read, that athletes should be able to Back Squat two times their body weight.

Athletes will want to be able to consume more energy while choosing more low energy dense foods will help you lose body fat.

«This will help me become a better athlete conditioning - wise, because I have something to push for,» said Followay, who filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Civil Rights in 2011 asking that he be allowed to run alongside, but not against, the able - bodied.