5 nezhenskih sports that are worth considering every girl

Weightlifting

What kind of sport

Weightlifting - is an Olympic sport that requires good coordination, strength and speed. The weightlifting competition has two movements - snatch and jerk. These challenging exercises are performed with the maximum possible weight.

Women's weightlifting became an Olympic sport in 2000 alone. With the world every year, and in Russia there are more women and girls weightlifting. Russian athletes go to the World Championship and win prizes.

Why you should do weightlifting

1. Increases physical abilities

Successful implementation of jerk and snatch requires not only sufficient strength but also flexibility, joint mobility, explosive strength, good coordination of movements. Therefore, the training includes a variety of exercises that help develop these skills.

2. It helps maintain a beautiful figure

Professional athletes in the heavyweight division could lose a shapely, toned figure due to the large amount of fat. However, many athletes in a lighter weight, not to mention the amateurs, have a beautiful athletic figure: power sport burns more calories than moderate aerobic exercise and provides a beautiful relief muscles.

3. Salubrious

Many have heard the myth of women strength training: If lifting weights harm women's health. Power sports can really ruin health, and not only women, if you engage them mindlessly - without a trainer and with a sharp increase in load. In the case of well-built weightlifting workouts help to become stronger, to fix the problem a posture and strengthen the muscles, which is useful for the organism as a whole and for women's health particular.

powerlifting

What kind of sport

Powerlifting - power is a sport in which there are three competitive movements: squats on the back of the bar and bench press thrust rod. The winner is the one who will lift the greatest weight. Despite the many championships and a strong community of athletes, weightlifting is not yet included among the Olympic sports.

In the US, women participate in competitions in powerlifting in 1978, and in Russia - together with men since 1992.

Why you should do weightlifting

Powerlifting has all the same advantages as weightlifting: increased strength, beautiful figure, health maintenance (under moderate loads and literacy programs).

However, the basic powerlifting exercises do not require a long development of proper technique. They require less flexibility and coordination. Therefore, if you just like to drag the iron and do not want to waste time on a long training, powerlifting choose.

CrossFit

What kind of sport

CrossFit - a system for physical fitness and sport that includes various types of functional movements performed with high intensity. There are exercises in gymnastics, weightlifting, athletics, kettlebell lifting.

CrossFit It was originally intended for both men and women. However, the severe training day or WOD (workout of the day), as well as the impressive muscle champions Crossfit Games gave the impression that CrossFit is not a woman's business.

Why should you do CrossFit

1. It delivers impressive physical training

Due to the huge variety of CrossFit exercises develops not some one quality like strength or stamina, and all at once: pumps cardiovascular and respiratory system, muscular endurance, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility and sense balance. As a result, your body becomes harmoniously developed and prepared for any unexpected stress in the gym and in life.

When you do the first or pulling out the power - it is a victory over himself and joy there is no limit. Over time, you get involved, I want to learn new skills. CrossFit gives not only strength but also endurance, develops coordination, agility.

Oksana Polovova, CrossFit coach and athlete.

2. CrossFit is suitable for all skill levels

Looking at the terrible complexes krossfiterov hardened, it is scary: to perform a normal girl just do not under force. But no one will force you to die during training. CrossFit coach and athlete Oksana Polovova says that in class load adjusted for a particular person, his capabilities. For example, if a person is not able to catch up, exercise is replaced by pulling a rubber band or rings.

3. Communication and competition in training

CrossFit involved in groups to add to the training of a competitive element. This allows you to quickly improve your results and find like-minded friends.

4. Beautiful figure and self-confidence

If you are afraid pumped figures, it is vain. To do this, you need really heavy loads, the revision of food and chemicals. Without it, you will not be able to swing to the level of CrossFit-powerful athletes. So the maximum that you will get - it is more slender and tightened figure with raised hands and press.

Boxing

What kind of sport

Boxing - a duel, in which blows are applied only fists and special gloves. In professional boxing bout lasts 10-12 rounds in the amateur - three. Winning is assigned after a knockout (opponent does not rise within 10 seconds), TKO (adversary can not continue to combat) or at the end of a fight judges estimated.

Women's boxing has been included in the Olympic sports only in 2009, but women boxers existed before. American Caroline Svendsen won the first boxing license in 1975, and after more than twenty years, women's boxing events were allowed to be carried out in Sweden and England.

Why should you choose the box

1. Excellent physical fitness

In training, boxing you will not only work off punches on punching bag, but also perform a variety of other exercises on the development of different physical qualities: exercises with skipping rope and stuffed ball, exercise with dumbbells and barbells stamped on the horizontal bar, parallel bars. Also training include sparring, practicing techniques punches and combinations. Versatile load harmoniously developed body, pump strength, agility, coordination, and all muscle groups.

2. Self-confidence

Boxing helps gain self-confidence, overcome the complex "being weak" and believe in themselves.

3. beautiful figure

Boxing burns a lot of calories, provides relief press and hands, strong legs.

4. stress Relief

Like any sport, boxing allows you to relax mentally, as well as throw out the negative emotions, accumulated during the day. After an intense hour and a half workout rush of endorphins provided to you.

5. self-expression

Boxing - this is not just a sport, but also a means of self-expression, the ability to establish itself in this life, to feel its significance. Here he writes about it Svetlana Soluyanova, multiple winner of the championships of Russia, the winner of the European Championship in 2012.

I get great pleasure in those moments when after a hard fight just raise a hand to me. In these victories, how I am going to him, and that they mean to me, I see the meaning of his life to date.

Svetlana Soluyanova, a member of the Russian team and the master of sports of international class in boxing.

karate

This is a Japanese martial art there is more than a century, is widespread, has a variety of styles and schools, and in 2020 will enter the Olympic program.

In karate there is no surge or grippers match only includes powerful kicks and hands. Competitions are held on two programs: direct sparring (kumite) and kata - chain exercises, in which the alternating punches and blocks.

Now there is no gender restrictions and prohibitions on karate, however, if a woman is engaged in martial arts, it is still considered unusual. Moreover, older women do not try Karate, because they think that surely this must be dealt with since childhood.

Why you should try karate

1. Karate teaches control your body

karate increase muscle strength, reaction speed, improve coordination and flexibility, will teach you to control your body perfectly. Of course, you should not rely on muscle definition, but the body will become more slim and fit due to increased spending calories.

2. Karate - it is beautiful

Karate can be compared to a dance without music. You learn to control your body, use it as efficiently as possible, to remove all unnecessary. Clear honed movements kata reminds dance, and the sparring can be compared with contact improvisation, where there is no unnecessary movement, everything is subordinated to a single goal.

3. Karate gaining confidence

It is often said that karate will not protect you in a street fight and will not help in extreme circumstances, for example against a man with a knife. But if your body is accustomed to the martial arts, in times of danger it will work automatically and possibly save your life. In addition, karate support your self-confidence, so that you will no longer feel weak and helpless, and sometimes it is more important than the ability to knock someone kick.

4. Karate improves self-discipline

In Russian schools rarely pay attention to the spiritual component of Karate, meaning that the student must work in this direction on their own. However, even without specific instructions, she sets up a system of physical exercise a person in the desired fashion, developing discipline, making safer and more confident.

For me, karate - it is a discipline, confidence, physical activity, and eternal perfection itself. At competitions and training camp, I get a lot of positive emotions from communication, team builder. And even karate - it is not just a martial art, it is the high moral and ethical setting and incredible fortitude.

Leila Ganeeva, karate trainer, black belt second dan.

I tried karate and I can say that it really is a beautiful martial art that helps you get better, adds the internal rigor and self-organization. If you've always dreamed to try, do it. It does not matter how old you are, the main thing - the desire to develop the desire and persistence.

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Do not listen to other people who claim that you will lose femininity, beauty and health. If you have a favorite thing, you have nothing to lose, only to find: excellent health, tightened figure, a feeling of cheerfulness, self-esteem and new goals.

Write in the comments what nezhenskie sports you prefer, why you like them, and that they give.