Fitness for children
Published March 22, 2011 | 
Such a service as fitness for children has recently appeared on our market, and for several years has enjoyed enough popularity. For some parents the children’s fitness has become an alternative to the kindergarten and school for their child, for others – an unnecessary indulgence for which you have to pay. Indeed, why spend the money if the kid can get physical training at school? There are enough of other non-believers, in their view, in children’s fitness are not engaged professionals and during the training there is no supervision, and more.
Fitness for all ages
Starting the conversation about the children’s fitness, it is necessary to mention about the decision taken in almost all the clubs to divide children by age. Parents can let their children be involved in fitness at the age of one and a half, but in general the concept of “children’s fitness” means physical training of kids from 1,5 to 15. In the clubs the children of these ages are divided into various subgroups.
Let’s have a physical jerk!
The things that children do in the fitness clubs are not like those in kindergarten and school. Let’s take, for example at least a few major programs that are taught for children. Choreography – is a playing lesson with elements of acrobatics, aimed at developing agility, coordination, rapidity, it is a harmonious exercise for all muscle groups and the vestibular apparatus. Children are taught to love dancing; it produces beautiful emancipation, posture and gait. There are special types of children’s aerobics: animal-aerobics (imitation of the movements of the animals), logo-aerobics (exercising with simultaneous pronunciation of sounds and quatrains). Children are taught various martial arts skills, such as capoeira an Afro-Brazilian martial art that uses an unusual technique of footwork, well-designed movements in space, it develops coordination and basic physical qualities. To add to all this during the children’s fitness classes, the children learn to swim, climb on vertical surfaces (a lesson of rock climbing), biking and rollerblading. The main purpose is the overall development of the child, his education in a group, inculcation of the basic skills necessary for further, adult life. By the way, many educators of the fitness clubs complain that they have to correct the posture and gait of the children, mostly due to the fact that in schools this is forgotten.
Full control
A different story is the safety of children in the club. It is because of the alleged low security, many parents are afraid to send their children into the hands of fitness instructors. That’s what says about this, Lyubov Sevastyanova: “Fitness is a system of measures aimed at maintaining and improving the health of the child. Everything is subject to the principle of security in children’s fitness: a carefully selected program of studies, selection of exercises, comfortable and safe sports equipment, hygienic conditions in the classes, highly qualified instructors and medical monitoring. As for additional control over the safety of children by parents, it is in compliance with the regime of the day of the child, proper nutrition, full sleep, as well as in implementing the recommendations of the instructor’s choice of sportswear and shoes for the classes.”
From the foregoing it can be concluded: children’s fitness is a useful and promising service, because it allows the child “to cover” what he did not get at the kindergarten and at school. Someone will overcome his fear of water; someone will learn to dance; someone will learn to roller skate. Education in a group requires communication and communication is also a development! There are hundreds of programs on the market to prepare children, so why not to use them?
Exercises on the standing leg extension
Published March 21, 2011 | A well known exercise has a counterpart, absolutely safe for your knees! Do you practice leg extensions? Sure! Do you know that unsupported exercises are harmful to the knees? What does unsupported mean? This is when your feet are without support. What to do? Say goodbye to the extensions? No, this exercise is justly considered to be the best in creating a spectacular lateral profile of legs. Quadriceps breaks out! Then what? Do safe extensions, standing on the floor! By interchanging the terms, the amount does not change, right? So, here is the same! In the seated leg extensions the shins move relative to the stationary corpus. But in our version everything is opposite: the shins are immobile, and the corpus moves. Try it! And you will agree that standing leg extension will be a big shot!
START
Stand next to a heavy and a fixed support. Put one hand on the support. Make sure that there are no interferences next to you, such as protruding simulators handles or weight plates lying under your feet.
With your other hand take the prepared weight plate from the rod and press it to your chest. You can use dumbbells, but the weight plate is much better.
Holding your back straight, bend your knees and lean back, standing on the tiptoes. This is the starting position.
EXECUTION
Holding your body in line with the hips, slowly bend your knees. In this case, you will have to lean back very much. Here you will need the help of your hand holding the support. It will help you to keep your balance.
Once your knees bent at right angle, stop. Is not worth lowering down. This is harmful to your knees.
With a great effort of your quadriceps straighten your knees and to the starting position.
To be or to seem – the symptoms of body dismorphic disorder
Published March 21, 2011 | America is in shock! The published data shows that the majority of male clients of fitness clubs are sick with body dismorphic disorder! Not sure what this is? The essence of this serious mental deviation is reduced to the fact that a person connects his life’s failures with “bad” appearance. Girls tend to think that ugly figure does not give them a chance to get married; they harass themselves with “hungry” diets and lose measure in fitness classes.
But what about men? – about the same, but with opposite sign. Men, in their opinion, generally lack volume and muscle mass. But to onlookers everything looks innocuous. A man writes to a club and begins to thrust his workout. And only an expert can examine in his behavior the disturbing symptoms. For example, such. Measure of stress and relaxation is not observed. A week has more training days than days of recovery. Training is done following the most ruthless methods. Here and there are taken stimuli, from food supplements – to pharmacological drugs.
Of course, not everyone who buys a fitness card is ill with body dismorphic disorder. However, if the trainee does not pose specific sport tasks, then it certainly is about one degree or another of this disease. Sport always involves training according to a plan, a stepwise increase in skill and a mandatory sportsmanship. If you aim to take part in competitions – even without hope for a prize, but just for fun, then you are beyond suspicion. But if you, almost daily, do heavy exercises “for yourself” and all through the day take steroids, you need a serious conversation with a psychologist. Remember that body dismorphic disorder is a mental illness and it distorts the perception of the world. For those who have body dismorphic disorder it is difficult to have harmonious relationships with others, because he is always dissatisfied with himself, despondent and depressed. For the same reason, he usually cannot find a job or stay on it. Over time, mirror remains for the patient with body dismorphic disorder a sole source of emotions. If he sees a “good” reflection, his mood is enhanced, if a “bad” one, he goes through an emotional crisis.
Another typical illusion of the disease – the belief that in assessing a person, people are guided by the same criteria as he has for himself, i.e., sneer at his “thin” arms, “lack” of muscles, etc. As a result, the person becomes reclusive and withdrawn, loses social communication, which is the main condition for a successful life. Nobody argues, a healthy and sporting appearance is important, however, psychologists believe that the main factor of success in life is “the ability to communicate.” I have to note that among the instructors in the gyms and personal trainers you will never meet the patient with body dismorphic disorder. Nevertheless, the managers of fitness clubs are advised to hire only those who have competitive experience.