Improving Your Cycling Abilities

Posted by ndre | Health & Medicine, Sport | Sunday 1 February 2009 2:11 pm

While many of us don’t have the time to do cycle training every day, we would still like to improve our overall level of cycling ability. This means different things to different people – for some it is increasing speed, for others it is increasing the total distance covered.

cyclingThe natural way to improve your cycling speed is simply to keep going out on your bike and trying to cycle faster. This works to a certain extent but isn’t the most efficient way to increase your abilities.

The good news is that there are a few easy changes we can make that will bring rapid changes in our cycling abilities, and will often take no longer than our existing cycling.

Increase your pedalling speed

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Swimming Lessons For Beginners

Posted by ndre | Education, Health & Medicine, Sport | Tuesday 20 January 2009 1:52 pm

swimming-lessonsThis article is about swimming lessons for beginners but let’s talk about swimming and water. You love the water; you are smitten by how it flows over you and gives you a feeling of light weightedness. You enjoy diving down in the pool and feeling the cool water rush all over your body. You see the sun in its distorted form, breaking the water’s surface and you are amused. Most of us love to be near water; after all we were formed in it, swimming around in our mother’s womb for nine months under water. It is cooling, refreshing and an activity that is associated with fond memories from childhood to adulthood.

When you are a child, it reminds you of a time when you were happy; in the coolness of the water and the warmth of your protective parents as they held you close and watched over you. As you grow, it is a time of bonding with your siblings and as you get into your teens, it can be moments of friendship and moments of excitement as well as love. As you grow older, you see it as a solace and an activity you can partake it with your own kids. Swimming is freedom; it is man’s answer to our limitations to join the birds in the sky. As mammals, we should all enjoy such freedom, such (more…)