Word: athleticism
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Children sweating it out on stationary bikes and hip abductors may seem counterintuitive, even unsafe, to earlier generations brought up on neighborhood kickball games. Yet in recent years, pediatricians have dismissed the old idea that weight training could stunt growth by harming areas within young bones that are still developing...
"Family friendly is the buzz phrase now," says Sandy Franco, co-owner of the 15,000-member Franco's Athletic Club in Mandeville, La., a suburb of New Orleans. "A lot more owners are realizing it's good business. Parents love it. And if you're a teen or preteen...
Parents are discovering that health clubs also offer an easy and enjoyable way to spend time with their soon-to-be-independent teens. Larry Sernick's daughter Rebecca asked him to teach her how to work out three years ago to combat a weight gain that was interfering with her...
The next morning, over a breakfast of fried noodles, the mood among the Flying Horses' club management is far less sanguine. It turns out Gazza did not clear his father and Jimmy's stay with the team. It is all, says Shi Minghua, a team administrator, highly irregular. The famous...
Athletic recruiting is not a “backdoor” to allow the admission committee to increase the number of minorities at Harvard. Athletic recruiting is, and always has been, about recognizing the value of athletic brilliance as equal in value to other talents, be they academic, musical or...