Archive for the ‘Safety’ Category
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How to Swim in Natural Lakes
If you’ve been a “swim rat” at your local YMCA, then you’re probably used to swimming indoors under tightly-controlled conditions. When you decide to take a dip in a natural lake while on vacation or visiting friends, it won’t take long before you notice just how different swimming in natural lakes can be. [...]
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Water Safety for Your Children
Swimming is one of the most popular summer activities for your children, but it can potentially be dangerous if you have not explained a set of rules to your children. So what rules are reasonable and what should you expect your kids to behave like? This article will list a few basic rules [...]
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Five Ocean Swimming Safety Tips
Even if you’ve gone swimming in open water like lakes before, the ocean is a different animal altogether. Between tide, undertow, and more dangerous predators, you need to be conscious of what you’re doing and understand the risks involved. That’s no reason to avoid swimming in the ocean altogether, but it does mean [...]
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The Scariest Cars (To Cyclists)
Cycling is generally a safe, relaxing sport, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its dangers. Biking on a trail can lead to some injuries if you’re not careful, but when you’re cycling on roads that cars use, then you’re flirting with a greater amount of danger. Any cyclist has probably had one or [...]
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Why You Should Take Swimming Lessons
Since ancient times, basic skills and human feats have been both important for survival and for competition in athletic events. Basic skills – including running, jumping, and swimming – are still, to this day, measured in the highest forms of competition to see who can run the fastest or jump the farthest.
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Know Your Cycling Safety
For many people, the experience of getting in a minor car accident can give them insights they wouldn’t otherwise have. While they remained relatively safe and unharmed, the loss of control of a car over some ice, or the feeling of how other motorists can be unpredictable gives you a new respect for the [...]
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Can You Learn Running Technique?
If you’ve done even a small degree of research on how to run to avoid injuries, you’ve probably encountered a lot of literature about the ideal running technique. Well, I’m going to let a cat out of the bag: there is probably no “one” ideal running technique. In other words, what works [...]
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Four Places to Run: How to Find the Best Spots
Running is a great sport, and even a spartan one, but it usually requires one of two things: space or machinery. If you can’t find space to run in, you had better find a machine like a treadmill. If there’s no treadmill around, you had better find some free space. If [...]
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How to Avoid Traffic On Your Bike
The non-cyclist might think that traffic is an easy to avoid while you’re on your bike – after all, isn’t it very easy to hear? But reality has a way of introducing some unexpected situations. If you want to avoid traffic on your bike, it will help to hear some of the problems [...]
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What to Remember When Doing Long Distance Running
Long distance running is in a totally different league from running casually. If you’re preparing for any sort of long distance running challenge or routine then you need to get into the right mindset and make the proper preparations before you begin. This article will list a couple common problems people have when [...]
