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Racquetball
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Calluses - To Trim or Not To Trim
A callus on the heel or the big toe can causes a lot of pain for a runner. It can develop an even more painful blister underneath and can limit a runner's performance or simply decrease the enjoyment of run. Many runners want to take a razor blade to the callus tissue and trim it down until the skin is raw. Some rub the callus with a pumice stone until their hand goes numb and others apply expensive creams and lotions. But, no matter what you do, somehow, the callus always comes back.
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A Guide To Running Shoes
A guide to buying a quality pair of running shoes, and finding the pair that is best for your feet.
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How To Refresh Your Running
Are you feeling a little stale about running at the moment? Is it hard to remember what is so exciting about pushing yourself physically? This happens to all of us at some time. Sometimes it is because of an end of season back-off in training, or maybe because it is because of overtraining or an injury. Whatever the cause, at some stage in your running, it is inevitable that you will find a temporary drop in your normal motivation.
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How To Correctly Run a Speed Workout
Running a speed work session can be tricky business. There are so many variables to play with. The length of a repeat, the rest interval, number of reps, warm up, and cool down. With so many things to think about, what is the correct way to do speed work?
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Are the All Blacks Chokers?
I was in a bar in Seoul when the All Blacks lost their last World Cup Semi-Final to Australia, and like New Zealanders everywhere - I was gutted.
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Why The Hospital Pass Encourages Me To Watch Not Play Rugby
Whenever I watch international rugby, I often hear the commentators refer to a 'hospital pass', and never has an expression been so apt! The hospital pass happens when a pass is made to a colleague, but either the position of the catching player, or the flight of the ball, leads to only one outcome if the ball is caught, and it's this...
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South Africa Win The Super 14 Rugby Cup Finals
The week was full of excitement and hype and this was certainly the greatest rugby coup, since 1995, when South Africa made it to the World Cup Final, against New Zealand. We won that match and again, it seemed that S.A could not lose now either. But, tickets were sold on the black market, competitions were held with tickets as prizes, the radio and TV stations were fixated with Saturdays game and urged the rugby public to phone in to the shows.
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Springbok Squad Selection
Jake White's reasoning for his squad, at least his loose trio - So through some reading I finally found something about the Springbok squad that actually makes a bit of sense. Through Jake's entire explanation I found good reason, except for one glaring mistake (In my humble opinion) - His argument on Butch James.
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