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South African born Beth Tweddle moved to this country when she was just eighteen months old. She is the most successful British gymnast of all time.
At the London games she will be going for gold on the uneven bars. She has won the top prize in this event at the Commonwealth games, European championships, World Cup Finals and three times at the World championships.
People of a certain age will remember a childrenֳ television programme called Record Breakers. The presenter, jazz trumpeter Roy Castle, used to sing the theme song which included the lines, Ӊf you want to be the best and if you want to beat the rest / Dedication is what you need.Ԝn
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The human body is both strange and beautiful. You heart will beat over one hundred thousand times today. It also creates enough pressure whilst pumping blood around your body to squirt blood thirty feet.
The medical publication The Lancet this week published a number of shocking statistics about how inactive we have become as a nation.
One in three adults is not doing enough physical activity leading to over 5 million deaths a year. They say that being lazy is as dangerous for your body as smoking and obesity.
Stanley Matthews was a fit man. He was still playing competitive football into his fifties and he kept himself in excellent shape. ӆitness is confidence,Ӡhe said and there are a lot of people who would agree with him.
What do you eat before you workout? The food that you digest before you start to move about can help you to exercise more efficiently.
After their holiday professional footballers all over the country have gone back to their clubs for pre-season training. It is an important time of the year for them as the hard work they put in now will build fitness for the season and can help them to avoid injuries.
Wimbledon may just have finished and British hearts broken again. In four hours of hard hitting tennis Federer won again and left Andy Murray in tears.
Are you bored with your workout? Is the treadmill at the gym starting to feel like, well, a treadmill?ʠWhy not do exercises you will enjoy rather than endure?
Sport England published their Active People survey at the end of last week. It showed that more people over the age of 26 are playing sport at least once a week. Unfortunately, for people under that age the numbers have fallen.