Is it Really Possible to Have Crazy Olympic Sex?

Cosmopolitan magazine recently published a tie in article, celebrating sexual wellness and wellbeing in conjunction with the Winter Games. Every month, the magazine publishes a page of sex tips, and this month they were all themed around the Olympic theme. Unfortunately, much like the Olympics themselves, they were all positions that only elite athletes should try. To a casual observer, they are shockingly harrowing!

 

Some think that this Winter Olympics special is far fetched and others think it is amazing, but whatever your point of view, you can’t deny the fact that the sex Olympics special has caused a lot of attention. It is also commendable that Cosmo has become more self aware about their crazy (and much ridiculed) sex tips. It seems that they have decided to ‘own’ this reputation and wear it as a badge of honour. The Winter Olympics special is both hilarious and impractical, with such positions as the ‘Long Pole’, ‘Bawdy Bobsled’ and even ‘Husky Style’. Not to mention all the little accompanying drawings of little people wearing helmets, scarves, goggles and even figure skating uniforms whilst fully engaged in the act of coitus.

 

The Heavenly Spiral has got to be one of the most terrifying sounding and complicated sexual positions we have ever seen. It looks like the kind of thing that could only work if the woman is about five foot tall and the man is about seven foot tall!

 

For this position, the magazines advises the reader to have the man enter from behind, while he holds your legs at his sides. The woman should then also reach down and stroke her own clitoris. Other positions also encourage twisting, bending, kneeling, and being upside down. The drawings of people wearing helmets during sex are absolutely hilarious, too.

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9 Top Fitness Tips from Olympians and Footballers

When you’re looking for fitness advice, it’s best to go straight to the top. Therefore, we’ve spoken to leading wellness experts and sports starts to bring you all the advice you could ever need to help you get fit and take care of your wellbeing.

 

1. Visualise Success: Sports psychologist Michael Sachs instructs, ‘Use all five senses. Don’t only see things, but hear what’s going on, smell, taste the sweat in your mouth and feel the steel bar and what’s it’s like to go through the movements. This benefits ordinary people lifting weights as much as it helps elite sportsmen.’

 

2. Power Up: ‘When most people work on their fitness they only really do one part – the endurance part,’ says former Olympic champion Daley Thompson. ‘They spend maybe 30-40 minutes on a running machine but would get much more benefit if they mixed it with some really high-intensity work. The crucial bits in sport come down to how you perform in short bursts – those half-seconds and milliseconds. But few of us actually work on those.’

 

3. Shoot like Thierry Henry: The Arsenal star notes, ‘Strikers rarely get more than one touch to find the back of the net. Practise with a friend, and get him to knock balls to you at different heights and speed. ‘Try attacking the ball and hitting the target first time without the extra touch.’ Not only does this hone your football skills; it also provides a cardio workout that boosts your explosive power and flexibility.

 

4. Improve Your Breaststroke: ‘The straight-arm pull comes from your fingertips,’ explains Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew. ‘Recreational swimmers often allow their pull to continue too long, rather than quitting while ahead. With a long pull it’s difficult to get the hands back to their starting position. Practise very short strokes, keeping the pull completely in front of the body.’

 

5. Breathe Properly: Former Olympic cyclist John Howard warns, ‘Most people don’t think about breathing and consequently end up inhaling and exhaling rapidly. This stimulates the flight-fight mechanism and is very inefficient. If you can elongate and control each exhalation, you can improve your cardiovascular conditioning.’

 

6. Score like Ronaldo: Brazilian football legend and World Cup winner Ronaldo asserts, ‘Sex a couple of hours before the match is the key to success.’ Well, if you insist!

 

7. Get in the Sauna: Ella Winter, Cannons Retreat manager, details, ‘Saunas are a great way to unwind after a workout as the dry heat relaxes tired muscles and helps to flush out toxins and impurities, such as lactic acid, that have built up during exercise.’

 

8. Stick with It: While your fitness regimen can seem like a new and exciting venture in the beginning, it only takes a few weeks for the hobby to become a chore. This is especially the case if you don’t see instant results but this is completely normal. Persevere and you will make the gains you want. On average, it takes around three months for training to become a habit, and by that time you will start to look and feel better. While you’re waiting for those three months to pass, make sure you constantly remind yourself why you’re doing this and give yourself healthy rewards.

 

9. Be SMARTER: You may not want to set yourself rigid goals, but giving yourself too much leeway won’t help you to succeed. You’re more likely to achieve your goals if they are Specific, Measurable, Agreed, Realistic, Time-framed, Exciting and Recorded. This is the same for any goal or achievement, be it in the gym, home or office.

Categories: Celebrity Wellness, fitness, nbsp, olympic, pull, sauna, time, visualisation

Race to the Top: How to Run Harder and Faster than Ever

As a runner, a lot of the advice you get revolves around increasing your fitness levels, building your endurance or taking care of your own wellbeing, but there’s more to running wellness than going far or beating your personal best. When you were at school, did you run for your health or a personal sense of achievement? Of course not – it was a race! While some people run for the love of running or beating their own personal bests, there are others for whom speed and competition are key in the enjoyment of running. If you’re one of the latter, we’ve rounded up some top tips to put a bit more fire in your running shoes:

 

1. Run the race: According to Runner and writer Dr. George Sheehan, ‘The difference between a jogger and a runner is a race-entry blank,’ so make the switch and get running!

 

2. Get Up to Speed: ‘Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn’t scare anyone away – and it will improve your speed,’ notes 1972 Olympic Marathon Champion Frank Shorter.

 

3. Work on Quality: Ken Sparks, PhD, top masters marathoner, notes, ‘Quality counts, if you want to stay fast. Don’t do all your workouts in the comfort zone.’

 

4. Stay in Control: ‘Run your own race at an even pace,’ advises Marty Liquori, running commentator and former world-class miler. ‘Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.’

 

5. Don’t Follow the Leader: Arthur Lydiard, Olympic coach from New Zealand, warns, ‘The idea that you can’t lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.’

 

6. Make a Pass: ‘Passing competitors always gives you a lift,’ says Libbie Hickman, world-class marathoner. ‘It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.’

 

7. Move On: Steve Scott, coach and US record holder in the mile, recommends, ‘If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly one hour to stew about it – then move on.’

 

8. Patience is a Virtue: Runner, writer and coach Marc Bloom explains you should ‘expect to put in six to 10 successful track workouts before you begin to see some payoff in your races.’

 

9. Keep Your Finger on the Pulse: Dr Sheehan comments, ‘If your morning pulse rate is up 10 or more beats above your average, then you haven’t recovered from the previous day’s training. Take time off or back off until it returns to normal.’

 

10. Favour Fartlek: Mixing it up is key to getting the best results, and Bill Dellinger, former University of Oregon coach and 1964 Olympic 5000 bronze medal winner, believes Fartlek is the best way to do it. Dellinger enthuses, ‘Fartlek training can help you build strength and endurance, learn race pace, and practice race tactics all in a single workout.’

 

11. Double-Tie the Knot: ‘I double-knot my shoe laces,’ runner and coach Hal Higdon details. ‘It’s a pain untying your shoes afterwards – particularly if you get them wet – but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.’

 

12. Keep the Ritual: Ted Corbitt, ultrarunner and 1952 Olympic marathoner, urges, ‘Once you find a warm-up routine that works, repeat it as habitually as possible.’ For a possible warm-up routine, Mark Plaatjes, 1993 World Championships marathon winner, recommends, ‘At most, jog easily for 15 minutes before a race. Then stretch your hamstrings, quadriceps, calves, and lower back. With about 15 minutes to go, maybe do a few strides. But no more-you’ll warm up plenty in the early going.’

Categories: Coach, nbsp, olympic, runner, Running, speed, Warm-Up, world class

Amp Up Your Workout with These Winter Extreme Sports

The key to keeping on top of your fitness routine is to shake things up. Sure, you want to take care of your wellbeing and find activities that work for you, but if you don’t want to throw in the towel, you need to make sure your workout is exciting as hell. Therefore, we’ve rounded up some of the biggest names in extreme winter sports, to hear what they have to say about their workout routines, and how you can connect with your inner winter Olympian!

 

1. Snowboarding: According to Gretchen Bleiler, the 2006 Olympic half-pipe silver medalist and 2008 X Games half-pipe gold-medal winner, ‘I push myself so I can be a role model and show women they can do it. When I started, there weren’t a lot of women snowboarders, but now, guys and girls train and travel together — snowboarding is a small and supportive community.’ If you’ve never even looked at a snowboard, let alone ridden one, Bleiler warns, ‘the first two days are tough — you’ll fall a lot.’ Don’t give up, but give yourself a week to adapt and ‘absolutely take a lesson,’ Bleiler advises. ‘There are simple things a coach can tell you that a friend won’t know.’ If you’re serious about snowboard, leg workouts are vital for preventing knee injuries. Bleiler does single-leg dead lifts with a 20-pound barbell to fire up her hamstrings, glutes, and back, as she points out ‘Slow-burning stuff builds proper muscles.’ She adds, ‘Snowboarders need explosive power. Quick sprints up stairs mimic an explosive half-pipe run.’

 

2. Short Track Speed Skating: For this sport, you sprint-skate an oval track at up to 30-plus miles per hour, hoping you don’t cause a dangerous collision while jockeying for position. Three-time US Champion Katherine Reutter details, ‘When your technique is spot-on and you’re going top speed, you feel absolutely out of control. You can’t think about a track pattern or who’s behind you; all you can think about is how you’re going to stay on your feet. It’s exhilarating.’ If you’re comfortable on rollerblades and have a need for speed, you can download technique instructions at usspeedskating.org. If you want the endurance routine of speed skating without the actual speed skating, Reutter’s dry-land endurance routine mimics on-ice relays: 15-second sprint, 45-second jog; and repeat for 30 minutes total.

 

3. Ice Hockey: Angela Ruggiero, who has 1998 Olympic gold, 2002 Olympic silver, and 2006 Olympic bronze medals, says she has been keeping up with the boys since she was a kid. ‘At a young age, I realised that people didn’t want me on the ice because I was a girl,’ she recalls. ‘And it actually motivated me to go out there and prove myself.’ If you’re worried about getting hurt, all the padding means you don’t feel the falls. Plus, as the penalties don’t allow for fighting, ‘you shouldn’t worry about losing your teeth like you see in the NHL,’ says Ruggiero. To get in shape, Ruggiero does interval training on the treadmill to teach her system how to recover after intense play, as during a game ‘you’re constantly sprinting and resting, and you can’t be dead at the end of the third period.’ For her workout, she sprints as hard as she can on the highest incline possible for 30 to 45 seconds, jumps off for a minute, and jumps back on. ‘I’ll do eight to 10 sprints,’ she notes. #It’s such a good workout, and it only takes 15 to 20 minutes. The cool thing is that when you’re done, your body is still working, unlike after a 15-minute steady jog.’

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