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The grip on your tennis racquet is too small, or there's too much tension on the strings. Or you're gripping a golf club or baseball bat incorrectly. Another possibility: You're bending your wrist when performing biceps curls and upright rows.What's going on is the tendons in your elbow have been stretched beyond their capacity and are starting to pull away from your elbow. |
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Pay attention to the amount and color of your urine. You should excrete a large volume that is nearly colorless. Small amounts or dark colored urine can indicate dehydration. |
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Replenishing fluids lost to sweat is the primary concern during an athletic event. Drink 3 to 6 ounces of water or dilute sports drink every 10 to 20 minutes throughout competition. To avoid running out of carbohydrates for energy, some endurance athletes like long-distance runners, swimmers and bicyclists load their muscles with glycogen by eating extra carbohydrates in combination with doing depletion exercises several days before an event: First exercise to exhaustion. |
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Stretching |
Like it or not, some sports injuries are out of your control. There is not much you can do to prevent some guy on the opposing soccer team from kicking you in the thigh and sending you home with a nasty swollen quad. |
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Level of fitness: Physically active people need more protein compared with those who don't exercise. You also need more when you start an exercise program. Exercise type, intensity and duration: Endurance athletes often burn protein for fuel, as do body builders and others doing intense, strength-building activities. |
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Stretch your shins by sitting on your knees, back on your heels, with your toes pointed. When your foot hits the ground, you feel like you're landing on hot coals or tacks. The symptoms of Plantar fasciitis symptoms are worse when you're warming up than when you're working out. Say, you are hiking long distances, running or playing tennis with a tight Achilles tendon and tight calf muscles. |
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Women's Health |
Athletes who want a winning edge should get the right nutrition. When you drink enough water and eat a balanced diet, your body can make energy efficiently and fuel top performance. You can make the most of your athletic talents and gain more strength, power and endurance when you train. Base your diet on a variety of factors including your age, size and physical condition; and the type of exercise you are doing. |  |
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Next thing they know, they have torn a calf muscle or sprained an ankle and they're visiting a therapist like Gelfand, supervisor of the Nicholas Institute for Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "The biggest mistakes are going too fast, too far, Or too soon," Gelfand says. |
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Carbohydrate Loading |
Meditation is a means to ascend the consciousness. The forms vary, but every method is correct and designed to benefit those who use that method. The technique of meditation is immersion; the concentrating of your attention at a single point, using your Will to fix your attention at that point. |  |
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Also: You're reaching too far overhead when you serve a tennis ball or using too much weight on behind the neck, military or incline presses.What's going on is that one of the tendons attached to your rotator cuff is being pinched between your upper arm bone and shoulder bone. |
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Or you turn your ankle when hiking, inline skating or playing tennis.What's going on is that you have over stretched the ligaments in your ankle. Treatment: don't try to "walk it off." Ice it for 15 minutes as soon as possible and then on and off all day. |
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