Sentences with phrase «not track athletes»

Not exact matches

Wall Street traders aren't moving the stock because of how Nike - endorsed athletes are performing on the track field or in the pool.

This isn't a new thing for exercise earphones, but if it works as intended, it could be useful for athletes without a traditional chest strap or wearable to track how hard they're pushing themselves.

Unless a former University of Oregon athlete teamed up with his track coach to launch your company from the trunk of his car, your story doesn't match the Nike story.

Because track and field athletes aren't paid by a team or part of a draft, they rely heavily on shoe and apparel sponsorships to make a living.

I saw how we could beat the Ohio States and Michigans and Penn States by being more physical, controlling the football and giving yourself a chance to win in the fourth quarter and not trying to get into track meets with them because we don't have all those kinds of athletes.»

There are some really solid athletes on the Sammy squad and I would be shocked if they don't get back on the winning track within the next couple of weeks..

Seventeen - year - old Tracy Austin isn't just your normal student - body president, straight - A student, accomplished pianist, soccer player, track and field athlete and placekicker on the varsity football team.

In the meantime, if you see your favorite local athlete at the horse track with a limping dog on a leash, he's not there to bet the trifecta, he's looking for the vet.

The athletic director, football and track coach at Vacaville knows how special it is to have this many elite athletes — not only on one team, but in one specific speciality like hurdles.

But even in track, there are reasons for coaches to make adjustments that athletes might not care for.

The simple fact of the matter is that athletic directors are not charged with the easy task of tracking one athlete's physical.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

Certain blood manipulation methods, such as administration of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) and homologous blood transfusion, are currently tracked through a longitudinal profile called the athlete biological passport (ABP); however, there is not yet a test available for ABT, which is reinfusion of the athlete's own blood or red cell concentrates.

The findings suggest that athletes who don't receive immediate treatment for concussion risk further insult to the brain and may take longer to recover, said Breton Asken, the study's lead author and a student in the neuropsychology track of the clinical psychology doctoral program at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, part of UF Health.

How could I be a Division I athlete and not be able to finish a lap around the track?

Well the answer is just about every successful athlete and sports person in the world and the reason they do so is not because they have aspirations to write future classics — at least I don't think they do — but because keeping an exercise journal is the only way you can keep track of your progress or your lack of it.

Even bodybuilders and athletes often lose track of their food intake and body fat levels when they're not preparing for a specific event, and in some cases gain a lot of fat without noticing.

A track athlete in the off - season would be encouraged to AVOID track workouts for a month or two, and instead engage in a completely different sort of sport, whether it be tennis, basketball, recreational weightlifting, bocci (ok, perhaps not bocci, but you get the idea), and so forth, the objective being to clear the individual's head and both mentally and physically allow him or her to completely recover from the stresses of heavy training and competition.

However, many of these investigations used small sample sizes and they also often noted that other strength and power athletes such as powerlifters or track and field athletes were prone to the same conditions, albeit perhaps not always to the same extent (Aggrawal et al. 1979; Fitzgerald & McLatchie, 1980; Rossi & Dragoni, 1990).

Kyle was always an athlete, setting the Pole Vault record in high school and earning a scholarship to college for his track and field prowess, and he brought that same athleticism to the gym — it was an awesome workout right off the bat, and he said he hadn't used free - weights in a workout for years because he owned a Bowflex, but it was hard to tell by watching him throw the weight around.

Running is rarely a controlled environment - every step represents an opportunity for the unexpected to happen, and if a runner is not a complete athlete, he or she increases the opportunity for injury every time he or she hits the trail, track, or road.

Sesser, who now spends her time in sunny California, caught the athlete itch at a young age, first taking on skateboarding and surfing and going on to play competitive wheelchair basketball, not to mention almost representing Team USA on the track at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

Told in pseudo-mockumentary style, Gillespie's slick, too - soundtracked, and often stressful imagining of Harding's hard - won life begins in Portland, Ore., tracking her ascent as an athlete not just to watch, but an athlete whose rise unsteadied the prim nature of the sport and culminates in the attack on Kerrigan.

While it may not be able to compete with rear - wheel drive athletes on the track, the TLX can handle all comers on the ordinary suburban streets like a champ.

But if you're a more serious athlete that needs something a bit more powerful — something that can track your long runs and not skimp on the handy watch features — what are your options?

The Fitbit Alta HR isn't the end - all be-all of fitness trackers, but its heart - rate monitor and sleep tracking make it a great fit for casual athletes.