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According to kinesiologist Steven Bray at McMaster University in Ontario, the slowdown occurs for many of us at around the time we start college. Bray followed 127 subjects and found that on the whole, first-year college students participate in significantly less exercise than they did just one year before. Academic demands and lack of organized sports are certainly part of the problem. A bigger part may be a curious human tendency to look at life changes as an occasion to blow up the old rules and not create new ones in their place. This is especially so when...
Since top athletes constantly go for broke and wind up straining or injuring themselves, physical therapy has become a vital part of training science. Kinesiologist Linda Huey of Santa Monica, Calif., devised a water exercise program to help keep long jumper Powell in shape after he had an emergency appendectomy just six weeks before the Olympic trials in 1988. "On land, he could not have trained," explains Huey...