Skateboarding Offers a Tough Workout
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By KRISTA LARSON     SAYREVILLE, N.J.  -- While the tennis courts at Kennedy Park are bare on a hot afternoon, parents keep dropping off teenagers at the skate park, home to all the day's action...
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As a motivational speaker and executive coach, Caroline Adams Miller knows a few things about using mental exercises to achieve goals. But last year, one exercise she was asked to try took her by surprise.
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Mainstream companies have struggled to gain traction in action sports like skateboarding and surfing, which are defined by an antiestablishment bent.
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If it seems that you have to exercise twice as hard as your buddy in order to get the same results, you may not be imagining it. A Louisiana State University study of 742 people who were put through a strenuous
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In skateboarding circles, what's on the bottom of your deck is as important as landing a hardflip on top of it. But old 2-D graphics are totally played out. So 80 designers are grinding skateboard art into a third dimension, with the help of a laser engraver typically used to cut sheet metals.
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Zak DeOssie is sweating, dark pools forming on his T-shirt as fitness guru Mike Boyle pushes him through an odd-appearing set of leaps, bounds, skips, dips, and dashes. It is a bright but frigid February morning at Boyle's strength and conditioning complex in Winchester, an hour's drive from the Brown University campus DeOssie calls home. He has been ...
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Paul Kariya and Peter Forsberg are difficult enough to stop at even strength. On the power play, they become almost impossible to contain.
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Science is well on the way to building a better athlete. Just try to stop it.
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Between trail running and a walk in the woods, thereâs a new aerobic workout.
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The bigger they are, the harder they can fall.
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A friendly game of soccer works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging, new research shows
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By Sarah Jane Tribble, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 15--LOS ANGELES -- Skateboarder Tony Hawk may be closing in on 40, but when executives need to promote a new youth product, Hawk can still draw a crowd.
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This fixture will be one of the toughest matches we&#39;ve faced this season because winning games in France is never easy. Sochaux are flying high in their own league, in third position, and that is no mean feat.
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Jason Estrada had the perfect opponent last night. An inexperienced one. The Pan Am Games gold medalist had not fought in two months because of a thumb injury and a case of plantar fasciitis that curtailed both his training and his aerobic workouts, and that layoff had his coaches concerned. Unable to run until recently, the Providence, R.I., ...
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ST. PAUL - With due historical acknowledgment to Wounded Knee, the Nancy-Tonya daytime drama, there'd never been a week quite like this at a US figure skating nationals. Three of the top four women are too young for the world championships. An on-ice marriage proposal. And, for the finale, a two-decimal dead heat for the men's title.
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There are so many ups and downs in figure skating, and Miki Ando knows about all of them.
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In the N.F.L.âs Play 60 Challenge, participants pledge to be physically active for at least 60 minutes a day as a way of getting families to understand the dangers of child obesity.