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Pilates a key workout for Miami basketball star Dwayne Wade
Posted: March 20, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Yoga, Pilates, pedicures. They don't sound like the workout routine of a pro-basketball player. But Dwyane Wade, the superstar shooting guard with the Miami Heat, has embraced them.
During last year's lockout, players couldn't get access to NBA team facilities or trainers. "The lockout meant I was working out with a different trainer," said Wade, "and he introduced me to different types of workouts that I didn't even know my body needed, like yoga."
Wade, who turned 30 in January, could be considered old by NBA standards. He said a large part of his preseason training was focused on keeping his body healthy and injury-free through the season. Nevertheless, he has struggled with injuries, including a strained calf and sprained right ankle.
In addition to his time on the court and in the gym, Wade, who stands 6 feet 4 inches and weighs 220 pounds, puts in time on the massage table. "I'm huge on massage work," he said. "I've done more stretching this season than ever before. My therapist's hands get tired from working on me." Since his size-15 feet take a lot of pounding, he also incorporates foot baths, ice baths and regular pedicures into his regimen. "You need to take care of your feet," said Wade. "My feet aren't going to look any prettier from a pedi, but they feel better from the massaging."
The workout
"I have tight hips and I felt I needed to loosen up and be more flexible as I got older," said Wade. He started taking private yoga lessons. "Just basic yogaI wasn't ready for the hot stuff," he said. "Yoga is a totally different way of stretching and really challenging." Mr. Wade says he persuaded his teammate, LeBron James, to join him. "He's stiffer than me," he joked.
James, in turn, persuaded Wade to try machine-based Pilates, which lengthens muscles and strengthens the core muscles. "I really felt the Pilates loosen up my muscles," said Wade. The attention to stretching has paid off during the season. "I recall making a move, and the basketball ended up on my foot and I almost did a split on the ball. Normally, that's a groin pull, but I bounced back."
Wade also started running on the beach this summer. "Running on the sand strengthens your quads and calf muscles," he said. He adds that he used to avoid running because it gave him shin splints, but running barefoot in the sand has helped him avoid that. He does some runs for distance, others for speed. "I try to do a lot of quick sprints where I'm starting and stopping and training myself to push through fatigue," he said.
Wade has also worked on his fast-twitch muscles, which come into play for brief bursts of strength or speed. To do this, his trainer had him work out with elastic bands on his wrists and ankles. He throws a medicine ball, turns, and then catches the ball with his torso facing one way and his arms turning another. "In a game, you never know what is going to come at you. I have to be ready to react quickly."
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Adele takes up pilates and running "in bid to drop 2 dress sizes"
Posted: March 19, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Adele
The singer has become more energetic now that shes quit smoking.
Adele is on the quest to get fit having undertook a new training regime in a bid to drop 2 dress sizes before summer.
The 23-year-old singer, who quit smoking after undergoing throat surgery in November, is said to be working out with a personal trainer twice a week and going to Pilates classes.
A source told The Sun, Adele has found so much more energy now she's quit smoking.
She really wants to get healthier, now that she's halfway there.
She had always been curious about Pilates but until recently there just hadn't been any time.
This might surprise many as the Someone Like You hitmaker had always insisted she was happy with her body image.
Adele event hit back at fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld after he called her "a little too fat" in a French newspaper last month.
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Adele takes up pilates and running "in bid to drop 2 dress sizes"
Pilates 101
Posted: at 3:17 pm
CHICAGO With some fitness regimens, that first trip to the gym can nearly kill you.
Pilates, with its emphasis on core training and an abundance of moves, works the other way.
The first time is almost the easiest, says Alycea Ungaro, owner of Real Pilates in New York (realpilatesnyc.com and author of Pilates: Body In Motion (DK Publishing, $12.97). It gets harder after that. Once you know what to do, the bar gets higher, the demand gets harder. You see things youre doing wrong and you fix them. You work harder.
Ungaro, who has been teaching Pilates for almost 20 years and opened her first studio in 1996, says Pilates is one of the most adaptable forms of exercise.
We have exercises for people through every decade of their life or their condition, whether theyre triathletes prepping for an event or people recovering from injury or postpartum, she says. Its a very malleable means of training. You can make it as hard or as easy as you wish.
Ungaro says that the classic Pilates mat routine is known for being effective in changing ones body. But many people find the complex choreography and multiple position changes too difficult to keep up with, she says. So she suggests trying Pilates as a circuit.
By using just a handful of key moves and reducing them to their most intense positions, Pilates can be both simple and effective.
This six-minute circuit can be repeated three times for a thoroughly challenging 20-minute routine, she says. Take a 30-second rest between each full set.
Chicago Tribune
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