Powerlifting

Performance Enhancing Drugs Performance enhancing drug abuse is a growing problem in adolescents and athletes. According to the Partnership for Drug – Free Kids, more than five percent of teens use performance enhancing drugs, or steroids to increase muscle. Performance enhancing drug abuse creates addiction, the mental tension and pressure that coaches and peers bring to inferior athletes this draws teens and athletes to engage in these products, further encouraging teens to partake in the use…

How Social Constructionism Theory Affects Disabled Sport Programs Social constructionism is a method of ability of society and correspondence that inspects the advancement of collectively developed understanding of the world (Galbin, 2014). Social constructionism theory claims that due to socialization and experiences, people conclude certain meanings of others, objects and incidents (Young & Collin, 2004). Subsequently the nature of social blend and a social set of rules, shows that the…

Disruption Which Saved a Lot of Space! Storage devices crucial to keep corporates nimble, data management making claims on big I.T dollars The start-up about which I am going to write about is a company which work’s in a very high end and highly competitive market of storage virtualization it has risen through ranks since its establishment and has survived this highly competitive market segment since 2009. If we give a close look to this industry we will observe that this industry comprise…

Body image has a large impact in society, and not only affects women but affects men as well. The ideal body image is often enforced by media and it affects how we view ourselves. Many individuals are unhappy with their own body and feel uncomfortable in their own skin due to misrepresentations of beautiy in the media. In the bodybuilding community, males are constantly dissatisfied with how they view themselves. They do not feel like they are strong, big, or manly enough and therefore try to…

Field Observation KINE 100-008 Throughout this paper, I will be summarizing both my observation and interview with a personal trainer at Tysons Sport&Health. The reason I chose to interview a personal trainer is because becoming a personal trainer is the next step in my career path. This allowed me to get an inside look on how business runs and what kind of environment I will be working in. I gained a great insight into how much time and effort is put in outside of training clients in order to…

Drug Abuse in Sports The nature of sports is the passion and desire to win, the habit of competition is second nature to us humans and many athletes would do anything to come out on top of their opponents. However, the decision is up to us to choose whether we want to make the right decision or wrong. Majority of athletes would take the time and improve by working hard this being mentally and physically, however, there are some athletes who would rather take the easy way out and use drugs to…

TIP 21 Get Off Your Backside “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” ~Zig Ziglar Study after study tells us that sitting is making us fat, sitting is making us sick, sitting is taking years off of our lifespan. Well, do something about it! Get out of your chair and take a walk out in the sunshine. “The sun’s not shining,” you say? Go for a walk anyway. I don’t have to tell you what you already know, but I’ll do it anyway. Regular moderate exercise burns…