posted by admin on March 8, 2010
Experience the glorious past and the vibrant present of FC Barcelona through pictures and news readily available online. Apart from the official club website, exciting and breathtaking FC Barcelona pictures are in abundance in several blogs, news sites, and websites dedicated to the club. Check out the latest FC Barcelona news in the top news sites in the world as well as in the official and other unofficial websites.
Futbol Club Barcelona, nicknamed Barça, is not as much as a football club as it is a Catalan institution. Founded in 1899, it is one of the best Spanish clubs with Real Madrid as its closest rival. At present, it home to other sports teams apart from the football club.
FC Barcelona is said to be the most popular football club in the whole of Europe. Some surveys show that it has a fan base of 44.2 million fans in the football-crazy continent alone. Hence, FC Barcelona news and Barça rumors are in great demand online. Fans are also racing to shoot photos of their beloved club during matches and sell them online. Online buyers are faced with several options.
Track Record
Barça is among the big three Spanish football club. Alongside Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, it has never been relegated or demoted from the La Liga, the premier league in Spain. All in all, the club has lifted 18 La Liga titles, a record of 24 Spanish Cups, two League Cups, and seven Spanish Super Cups.
In European leagues, FC Barcelona has won four UEFA Cup Winners’ Cups, two European Cups, two UEFA Super Cups, and three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.
Camp Nou
The home stadium of Barça is Camp Nou, also referred to as “Nou Camp.” Constructed in 1957, it has witnessed hundreds of football matches against visiting clubs since 1857. Camp Nou is rated by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) as a five-star stadium. It can hold up to 98,772 people and is the biggest European football stadium.
Camp Nou is one of the preferred hosts of UEFA Champions League Finals. The club won their very first game at their new stadium in 1957. They thrashed Legia Warsaw of Germany, 4-2.It was built from 1954 to 1957 and was designed by a group of three architects. The stadium has also been the venue for several major music events.
There are plenty of FC Barcelona pictures with Camp Nou as the background available to fans. They come in colored and black-and-white. Sometimes, the pictures are able to capture the club in their most intense action. There is drama, joy, love, and passion in pictures. You could also easily find group and individual photos.
Latest News
In the most recent Barça news, the club bulldozed Malaga in a pre-weekend La Liga match. The resounding win catapulted the club to the topmost position in the league standings, six points ahead Real Madrid. They are slated to next face Valladolid but their recent triumph over Malaga is bound to boost their spirits prior to their anticipated UEFA Champions League quarterfinal fixture against Germany’s Bayern Munich. Browse online for photos and the latest news of the match.
posted by admin on March 8, 2010
A very popular fat loss workout for women is bootcamp training. Workouts last for 60 minutes focusing on total body training which burns tons of calories and fat from problem areas.
Stretching is one of the most important elements practiced in great bootcamps Fitness trainers believe in time tested strength exercises, to achieve the ultimate goal of weight loss and excellent conditioning. And so their bootcamp training routine includes plenty of stretching exercises such as band exercises as well as strength exercises (with kettlebells,lifts,medicine balls, etc.,) and functional training.
Bootcamp stretching exercises can do much more than just improve women’s flexibility and posture, bootmap professionals say. They are dedicated to boost overall physical fitness and allow women to learn and perform the right kind of movements outside the facility, in their daily lives without difficulty or injury. The big reason why these workouts are called functional.
The stretching exercises practiced in such bootcamps also dramatically decrease the risk of injury to women’s muscles, tendons, and joints, and help to reduce tension and soreness to muscles.
Other benefits of bootcamp stretching techniques include release of pressure both physical and mental and improved awareness to the body shape— which is definitely a key element in any successful weightloss plan. Indeed, Bootcamps have been successful in dropping tons of extra pounds and shrinking the waistlines of hundreds of training women.
In indoor and outdoor facilities, fitness coaches train women in groups with a personal trainer touch so to avoid the prevalent mistakes of resistance training workouts, which are very common in crowded gyms (for the most part due to a lack of guidance and supervision).
Such mistakes often include inadequate warm up before the workout, doing exercises that are too advanced since such techniques might result in injury if incorrectly performed— the role of the trainers in Women’s Fitness Bootcamp’s is crucial to guiding women and correcting their exercises mistakes.
Naturally, in bootcamps every woman gets guidance before, during, and after the workout from the experienced trainers. So the stretching and resistance exercises exercises can never do harm, or be too difficult or too easy for the woman, as they are designed to fit the fitness level of every woman— no matter the age or fitness level
Every woman can now take advantage of the bootcamp stretching techniques and experience motivational workouts in a group with continuous supervision of the best personal trainers.
To achieve your goals just get to the gym and let the bootcamp trainers take care of the rest. And if she does exactly what the fitness trainer instructs and gets motivated by the group’s results, it’ll be no surprise to her when she loses fat and accomplishes her fitness dreams
posted by admin on March 8, 2010
The shoulders comprise a complex set of muscles and many men think they require an equally complex workout for any results to be seen.
So you may be surprised to hear that with a mere 15 minutes to spare, and a set of dumbbells, you can give those shoulders a thorough and very effective workout which will have you looking broader in no time, when done regularly.
Sounds like something you can sqeeeze in between cleaning out the fridge and washing your hair, right?
Be prepared to feel the burn – this is an all-out muscle-building, muscle-burning shoulder routine – don’t let its duration and simplicity fool you. It’s all about combining the right exercises and techniques. The result? Increase in size, definition and muscular endurance, guaranteed!
This routine was designed by a certified personal trainer at the American College of Sports Medicine.
It focuses on the deltoid muscles as well as the smaller muscels of the rotar cuff.
Ready? Let’s bring on the burn!
INTRODUCTION
If the rest time between sets is the same as the set itself, you’re looking at 15 minutes total time.
It is recommended that you do not attempt this workout more than twice a week to avoid strain.
Leave 48 hours between your two weekly sessions (we told you it was intense!)
Choose weights that are not too heavy – you need to be able to complete each set without needing to stop.
THE EXERCISES
The workout consists of 4 exercises, as follows:
1. THREE-PART LATERAL RAISE
The starting positin for each part of this exercise is the same – stand tall, knees soft, abs tight, arms at your sides with one dumbbell in each hand, palms turned inwards to face your thighs.
Part 1: Raise arms out to the side. Straighten, parallel to the floor, but do not lock. Lower and repeat. 2 sets, 8 repeats.
Part 2:Raise arms as in Part 1. Rotate hands (till pinkie fingers face up) as you lift, till parallel to the floor.Lower and repeat. 2 sets, 10 repeats.
Part 3: As above, but this time rotate hands till thumbs face out until arms are parallel to the floor. Lower and repeat. 2 sets, 10 repeats.
2. FRONT RAISE
Stand tall, knees soft, abs tight. Grasp a dumbbell in each hand. Place your arms with your hands in front of you, palms facing your thighs. Keeping your elbows slightly bent, alternately lift each arm in front of you to eye level. Pause for one count, then lower.
As one arm goes up, the other comes down in a continuous motion. Do not be tempted to raise arms higher as you could injure your shoulder. 2 sets, 10 repeats each arm.
3. SINGLE-ARM DIAGONAL RAISE
Start in the same position as both the previous exercises and grasp a dumbell in each hand. This time, position your arm with your right hand in front of your left thigh. Keeping your elbow slightly bent, raise your right arm in a diagonal motion from a “low left” to a “high right” position. Stop when the arm is back in line with the body, palm facing forward. Return to the starting position and repeat. After completing the prescribed number of reps, switch to your left arm. 2 sets, 10 repeats each arm.
4. SEATED MILITARY PRESS
Start by sitting on an upright bench, then recline 5 to 10 degrees. Grasp a dumbbell in each hand at shoulder height, palms forward, elbows directly under hands. Keep your back flat against the bench. Now press the dumbbells upwards, and slightly toward the midline of your body, without locking the elbows. Hold for one count, then slowly lower the dumbbells to shoulder height, counting to three, and repeat. 2 sets, 10 repeats.
THE WORKOUT
Remember to complete all the sets of each exercise before moving on to the next one.
Now there are no more excuses for not giving your shoulders a thorough work-out. Your posture and physique will improve rapidly if you persist with this routine, so if you’re keen on visible results and don’t have a lot of time to spare, this is the shoulder workout for you!
