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Gift Guide: Lean, Mean Gifts For The Fitness Zealot
Got someone in your life who’s addicted to exercise? Someone who proselytizes the active lifestyle? There are so many fitness-related items out there it’s hard to separate the muscular wheat from the sweaty chaff. But we’ve selected a few of our favourite items you could get your fit friend, if you can catch them.
This Extreme Athlete Powered Rube Goldberg Machine Is Just Incredible
Yeah, it’s absolutely an ad for Red Bull but so what. This extreme athlete-powered Rube Goldberg ‘machine’ is even better than the free running machine they pulled off a month ago. Watch the entire thing and you won’t believe how they use world famous athletes like Lolo Jones and Ryan Scheckler to pull off one stunning act after another.
New Body-Cooling Glove Might Work ‘Better Than Steroids’ For Athletes
One reason professional athletes use steroids illegally is to help speed up recovery time. But one of the goals of helping the body to recover is lowering core temperature, and Stanford believes that the heat-extracting glove they’re developing is better than steroids at lowering core temperature and speeding up recovery.
How Is It Possible That Olympic Athletes Keep Breaking World Records?
The Olympics are over. Athletes have been crowned. GIFs have been made. And world records have been broken. In four years, we’ll do the same thing all over again. And world records will continue to be broken. How is that possible? How do Olympic athletes keep getting better and keep breaking records? Will it ever stop? Can humans ever max out?
What Are Steroids?
You might have a friend who has to take them for asthma. You might know someone else who denies taking them but has gotten crazy ripped really fast and angers easily. Famous athletes are denying or being caught with them in their blood stream seemingly every day — just last night, MLB slugger Ryan Braun successfully appealed a positive test.
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How Professional Athletes Use Video Games As Training Aids
“He gets behind the steering wheel console of his PC, puts on his real game face – without the helmet – and pays attention.”
ESA Space Tech Catapults Olympian to New World Record
The 2008 Paralympics wrapped up over the summer, but we’re only just today learning about some of the awesome stories to come out of this amazing tech-assisted sporting event. We’ve covered these bionic athletes before, with some help from the Big Picture, but today’s story out of Germany shows just how much goes into helping these young men and women compete. A previous sporting injury left Wojtek Czyz without a left leg and the ability to long jump. The ESA, using materials developed for space, helped him get to the Olympics and vault into the record books.
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