Australia Chooses Men’s Gymnastics Competitors
from Radio Australia Australia has chosen Sam Simpson to compete in Artistic Gymnastics in Beijing, and Ben Wilden for Men’s Trampoline. [...more]
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Men’s Gymnastics: The World’s Toughest Sport
by Michael S. Yessis reprinted from Men's Fitness , March 1996, page 105 [3(f+s) + 2b] (v+c+i) * ÷ 3p = TOTAL SCORE Deciding which sport is the world's toughest is difficult. It requires knowledge and research. Time and patience. Science and the kind of math skills rarely seen outside a ninth-grade algebra class. Well, we have all of that, and we did our homework. We logged hours playing in the field. We interviewed elite athletes from former Soviet-bloc nations. We spent countless hours watching ESPN2. Eventually, we developed an exclusive formula - the formula - to determine the planet's toughest sport. [...more]
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Alternate or not, Raj Bhavsar shines
June 29, 2008 Bhavsar makes a big impression, if not the team By DAVID BARRON Houston Chronicle Barring an injury to another athlete, Raj Bhavsar of Houston won’t be on the U.S. men’s Olympic gymnastics team in Beijing. But he can take solace in his role as the star of the Olympic trials, and that’s […] [...more]
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Britain Chooses Men For Olympic Gymnastics Team
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jun/29/olympicgames2008.olympicgames2 The Observer Anna Kessel Sunday, June 29, 2008 LOUIS SMITH Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Britain had not won a world championship medal in men’s gymnastics for 13 years until Smith’s pommel horse bronze last year. Just turned 19, Smith already has golds at the Commonwealths (2006), and Youth Olympics (2007). Initially feted as a hope […] [...more]
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Brazilian Gymnast Trains Amid Children and Cats
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7613181 From guardian.co.uk By Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO, June 27 (Reuters) – Brazil’s only male Olympic-bound gymnast shares his training facilities with cats and children and has just recovered from a bout of dengue fever. [excerpted from above link] [...more]
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Grading the U.S. Men’s Olympic Team
2005 U.S. National Champion and former World team member Todd Thornton was a part of the Inside Gymnastics team that brought you coverage online of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for gymnastics. Following the announcement of the men’s team, Thornton compiled his thoughts on the team, event by event. Now, Thornton grades the strength […] [...more]
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Check Out This Great Bodyweight Exercise Resource
The following is a link to a great post we found on a forum at Fighting Arts. It contains a very comprehensive list of bodyweight exercises. The list contains workouts for novices and advanced exercises for seasoned veterans. Check it out — it is very impressive. Bodyweight Exercises [...more]
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Bodyweight Exercise is Key to Functional Strength
Bodyweight exercise is strength training using only the body as resistance. The word "only" hardly conveys how much power is possible: the athletes that use "only" their bodies for their resistance training are pound for pound the strongest athletes in the world. Bodyweight exercises get you in shape to do things. It doesn't pump your arms into Sponge-Bob-inflatable biceps that look good oiled in a calendar photo. What it does is give you the strength and flexibility at once that will power you into moves and activities at your top potential. Gymnasts know this from the bottom of their strong, pumping hearts. [...more]
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