Women and Sport

They are those that serve us to strengthen our muscles and increase the resilience of our body. It is best to start working with small weights, your own body or resistance bands. Many women think that the exercise of strength will make them look masculine, with lots of muscle mass and lose all their femininity. This is false, since achieving a considerable increase in muscle mass in women requires a lot of work and possibly some supplementation. Some strength exercises to be performed by women to strengthen their muscles are as follows: Squats. The very complete exercise to train, since you work quadriceps, femoral and gluteal. Keep your back straight and your knees do not go over your toes. Lunges. This exercise strengthens lower body muscles and will be very complete if you perform them "more dynamic" considering a cardiovascular activity. Push-ups. With this, strengthen the entire upper train: chest, arms, shoulders. One way to start this training is to ...

Yoga refers to a traditional physical, mental and spiritual discipline that originated in India. Some of the benefits of yoga for pregnant women are as follows: A. Oxygenation . Yoga helps release muscular tension and improves breathing, favoring increased oxygenation of blood and also of the child. B. Elasticity . In pregnancy, the muscular band of the perineum, which supports the uterus, must be more elastic to allow passage of the fetus. Many yoga positions act on this area and attenuate contractions. C. Position . As the pregnancy progresses, the pelvis moves forward and the lumbar curve is accentuated. Yoga can help stretch your back and distribute your weight well. D. Tone . Stretching is beneficial for childbirth preparation as it tones muscles. and. Relaxation and good digestion. The anxiety that accompanies the pregnancy can be improved by the repetition of a sound, a syllable, a word or a phrase that help to free the mind. In conclusion, we will say that yoga ...

They are exercises of contraction of the pubocoxygeo muscle, intended to strengthen the muscles of the pelvic floor. They were created in the 1940s by the gynecologist Arnold Kegel as a means to prevent and resolve urinary incontinence in postpartum women. Little by little it was discovered that they could be used for much more than to treat urinary incontinence. The exercises do not require a visible movement, since we work the internal musculature, that is why we can do them anywhere. The ideal is to perform them sitting, but if you are a beginner you can start to make them lying down to avoid the force of gravity. Guidelines for implementation : 1 . We place our hip in a neutral position and perform the movement of the pelvic floor musculature in four phases: contraction and elevation of the musculature, maintenance of that position, return to the initial position and finally relaxation. 2 . We should breathe normally, not hold our breath in the contraction phase, relax our...

Many girls aspire to be Olympic gymnasts, but only a few do. The methods for teaching are very demanding and at advanced levels, they need to give up other areas of their lives. This can have negative consequences for development. Parents should note that in the participation of moderate rhythmic gymnastics, it is less likely to cause damage. Some effects may be the following: Stunted growth They are especially vulnerable to delaying puberty. These girls often have their periods too late, or stop menstruating for an extended time. This can be due to excessive training, extreme diets and stress associated with the sport. Eating Disorders Coaches sometimes pressure their team members to lose weight and young women are especially vulnerable to this. The body with curves of an adolescent is generally considered undesirable in gymnastics. Injuries Gymnastics is a high impact sport, and a bad step can cause serious injuries. Broken bones and serious sprains are common among gymn...

She started her football carree in the inferior categories of the Xuventú Aguiño de   Riveira   (A Coruña). In 2005, she was signed by the Painsa Zaragora with whom she made her debut in the Super League. Between 2008 and 2010 she played in R.C.D. Espanyol where she won two runners-up of the League (2009/2010) and two Copas de la Reina (2009, 2010). In 2010 she went to the United States where she played first in the Buffalo Flash of the W-League (second division) and the in the Chicago Red Stars of the Women’s Professional Soccer (first division). After that, she returned to the Espanyol and in the 2010-2011 season she did her best one with 39 goals in 26 matches. (Original source: http://compostimes.com/2015/01/vero-boquete-escribiendo-la-historia/) In the next summer, she returned to the Women’s Professional Soccer where she played in the Philadelphia Independence where she was name the best player and she won the runner-up. After this, she signed by the...

Holistic method that considers the body as a whole and conceives training globally, integrating posture and breathing, with special attention to the body of women. Some of its postpartum benefits for women are as follows: Postural recovery. Repositioning of the projection of the axis of gravity, reduction of lumbar curves (so accentuated in pregnancy) and greater sensation of postural comfort after the practice of a regular program of hipopressive gymnastics by women. Reduction of back pain. The origin of back pain is related to physiological, anatomical and mechanical changes during pregnancy. It usually appears in the lumbar or anterior region of the pubis, due to the change in the stability of the pelvis and systems of muscular and ligament attachments. Therefore, it is highly recommended the toning of the abdominoperineal muscles and postural reeducation. Improves intestinal transit. Hypopressive gymnastics aid in visceral mobilization and d...

She is a Spanish synchronized swimmer, considered during her race, one of the sport sportsmen of the Spanish sport. Gemma Mengual knew the swimming synchronized to the eight years. After her parents enrolled her at the Kallipolis Swimming Club (Barcelona), her trainer Anna Tarrés joined her team in 1992. In 1994 she was runner-up for youth in Europe.  She possesses the typical qualities of the sprinters: Explosiveness and power in her arms and legs, she is very agile and flexible in the water, and very expressive in her choreographies. On February 16, 2012 and with just a few months left for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the swimmer announced her withdrawal from the competition, "I'm retiring because I've already given everything I could give to this sport"