SWIMMING IS FOR EVERYBODY

 Swimming can be practised all around the world. It is very simple and not very difficult as most people are taught to swim when they are young. It doesn’t need much material, just a towel, a swimsuit, goggles, a swimming cap and a pair of flip flops. Apart from that, if you want to develop your muscles more, you can use oars and swimming flippers that are not too expensive.

Swimming is a very healthy sport because it mostly makes the whole body work. It also relaxes. However it is not the best sport; it can be dangerous if you start to swim before you haven’t finished your digestion. Therefore you can get injured if you don’t properly make some movements of the arms or legs, or if your posture is not correct, you can acquire serious problems in your back.

To practice this sport in our country and province, we have several levels of difficulty and also of speed. If you are just starting with it, there are short courses in which you are not told to swim much and that take few hours every week. If you are more advanced, in these short courses there are also levels in which more hours every week are added and the number of meters you have to swim increases. If you think that your level of swimming is higher than this, you can go to the school of swimming in which you pay a fee for four months and you swim one hour everyday of the week, from Monday to Friday. Moreover there is a higher level than this, it is the club of swimming, in which you pay the same as the last one but you swim two hours every day of the week and in which you can compete with the rest of the provinces of Castilla y León and within the rest of the communities in Spain. Actually this is where I swim.

It is a bit hard, but it is worth it because you end with the satisfaction that one day when you compete you can win some medals and also you can get to be the best swimmer of our country. Here in Soria there are a lot of people who swim that are really good and that win a lot of medals and are good people. Swimming here doesn’t mean that you leave your studies, because it is surprising that with the number of hours that we spend swimming, they have really good academic results. Being here means to be good at swimming, be a hard worker, and a good student (or at least trying to be). Here we can find people of all ages, from 11 or 12 years old to people of 18 or 20 years old.

All in all, swimming is great; you can have a really good time without spending a lot of money and you can be healthy. For the ones that haven’t tried it yet, I advise them to try it. It is worth it and they can get a lot of advantages. 

I hope you have liked it. BYE!!

Flyboard

This summer, when I went on holidays to Peñiscola, I saw a man, over the sea, that was flying. I did not believe what my eyes were seeing. The person could go up because he wore an object that, with the pressure of the water, and the air could go up very high, but he had to have a lot of balance, because he could fall into the water. I didn’t have the opportunity to use it, because it happened on the last days I stayed there for holidays.

When I arrived in Soria, I had a lot of curiosity about this sport. I had never seen it before. This new sport is called Fly board. Nowadays, it has become very famous. With this object, you can fly over 12 meters high, but at first it is a bit difficult because you have to have a lot of balance. Also, it allows you to submerge under water. 

The board has two nozzles to provide balance. The first ones are located under the feet to promise drive, and the other ones are located in the hands, to secure balance as if you were using ski canes. This object is like a board, where one stands on. It has to be connected to a watercraft by a very large tube, because you need another person to control along with you the pressure of the water and the air. This sport needs two people; one on the board and another on the watercraft to help the other with the pressure he wants, giving speed to make the board go higher.

If you want to do this alone, you have the opportunity to do it by another method where you control the pressure you want for the board, but doing it alone is a bit more expensive. If you want to rent it with the help of another person the price is around 100 euros for 20 minutes.

RUGBY IN SPAIN

Rugby es one of the most popular sports in England. England´s team plays in the 6-nations cup, which means that England´s team is in the elite. Meanwhile …. this sport in nearly estingushed in Spain . I am one of those rare Spanish rugby playes. Furthermore, I am a girl.  That means that it is really hard to find other girls to play with. Let's say Rugby is not seen as a very femenine sport, and it is quite impopular. After some years, our team, Ingenieros de Soria, has reached our goal; to createm a femenine team. After all, we have created two teams, one for senior players and another one for girls under age. We are more than twenty girls ready to play our favorite and unpopular sport. Now, the most dificult thing is to find girls and teams to fight with.  We play in the Aragon League of Rugby, but there are only there teams so we can barely play matches.

Although there are barely any teams to play with, we have managed to play some matches. On December  we played against  Fénix in Zaragoza, on their pitch. But last Saturday we played in our  home, in Soria, in “Los Pajaritos” in our pitch. We were ready to win; we had been preparing for that  match for ages.

It was raining. We played in a grass pitch. It was full of mud. It was cold. Freezing cold. We fought an we won.

After all we wan. This twenty girls who prefer studs and rugby balls to heels. These twenty girls that tried to practise a very unpopular sport have won a match. And we will try to make it popular; this, our beatiful, favorite, noble and femenine sport.

-“Good night, my little princess with studs”

And my dreams come …..., as a victory over the Fénix girls. Understanding that Rugby is a worderful sport. Just like English people say.

Keep fit!

Hi bloggers ;)

I´m going to talk about exercise, food, weight… and all those topics we teenagers are obsessed with.

I´m going to start with some tips for having a healthy diet:

As you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For having a good breakfast you may mix dairy products (a glass of milk or a yogurt), fruits (or low sugar content juices) and bread (toasts or whole grain bread). You must have a lot of energy for the whole morning.

At 11 o´clock more or less, you should eat a piece of fruit or a small sandwich that will help you to finish the morning.

For lunch, eating three different plates is the best. The first one could be a salad (3 or 4 days per week), legumes(3 or 4 days per week) or pasta (1 or 2 days per week). I recommend that you don't add a lot of fat on the second plate, with a piece of white fish, chicken, beef or (sometimes) pork it is enough. The dessert is the perfect moment for adding another fruit because they are very healthy and they are loaded with vitamins. If you prefer, a youghurt it is also fine.

At mid-afternoon you might have a snack, low calorie content (of course).

When you arrive home at the end of the day for dinner you should eat less than you have eaten for lunch. Salad or veggies and fish will be perfect.

All in all, this healthy diet isn´t so healthy if you don't drink two litres of water each and every day, because water cleans our body outside and inside. With this diet and the low calories content you won´t lose weight all the way around, you will stay healthier than ever and you will avoid all those fat, additives and transgenic products that are making our lives shorter and shorter. If you have a healthy diet you won´t need to lose any weight, no matter what you think of it, and for people that really need to lose it, or for the ones that love sports, here are some excellent apps and advice you will adore.

LIFESUM: It is an amazing FREE app. It controls your weight, the calories you can eat everyday and if you do something wrong a big red notification will punish you. It is amazing because you can introduce the information about the food you eat everyday and it calculates the calories. If it doesn´t find the type of food, you can scan its bar code and the app will recognize it. Isn´t that incredible? The app itself can send you healthy recipes, remember what you have had for breakfast and repeat it daily, etc.

NIKE APPS: Nike has developed five apps for training wherever you are. Nike Running controls you when you go out for running, it records every single place you pass through and how many kilometers you have done. Nike Training Club is another app that contains more than one hundred trainings and exercises. You can decide what to do, to tone up, cardiovascular training… There are plenty of trainings with plenty of exercises inside them and videos that explain every movement.

They are really good and free, which is a good point.

For more information visit the App Store or the Games Store.

If you are very lazy and you don´t know how to play some sports because you prefer to stay at home, I recommend Wii games like Rumba or Just Dance, which are really funny and you would like the music a lot. I also recommend to follow @FITNESSpics on twitter for motivation, interesting tips and information about food like: chocolate that doesn´t make you gain weight but helps you have flat abs.

That is all for today, I hope you like the apps and you decide to play more healthy sports, at least twenty-five minutes everyday. If you have any doubt you can inquire it in the comments and I will answer. Here are some links about exercise and healthy food for you to look at.

If you want to try some exercises these ones are the best for starters and I have added some others that are a little bit more difficult. I have found them on a very interesting website:

http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_eating_diet.htm
http://www.safeandhealthylife.com/health-and-nutrition-tips-how-to-keep-up-your-energy-levels/

Thanks for reading our blog, I wish you like it and don´t forget to share it with your friends.

Bye :)

Dirt Jumping

Dirt jumping, probably one of the most underrated and least known sports in the world, although, in my opinion, the sport that requires the most hard work, determination and skill than any other. You most likely don't know what it consists of, so let me explain.

First of all, a bike is needed, preferably a mountain bike or bmx. These days there are special dirt jump bikes made specifically for the sport, which are basically a hybrid between a bmx and a mountain bike, even though they are rare and very few shops sell them.

The locations of these trails are usually hard to find or hidden, due to the fact the the people who build them don't want them to be found and receive the tragic effects of vandalism. However, many people can easily find them while having a walk in the forest or exploring the outside. The one thing that dirt jumps need is a LOT of space. In preference, the dirt must be humid and abundant, with barely any stones and rocks. Too many roots can also slow down the process of building some awesome trails!

Most trail sites start off being one or two poorly made small jumps, made by hand by a few teenagers, but gradually built up to being an exquisitely crafted and looked after maze of huge precise connected dirt jumps. Sometimes, you can find lines of up to even 20 jumps.
 

This is a photo of me having fun on the local dirt jumps of Soria (Las Batuecas), next to the train station.

As you can see, the two jumps are closely placed one in front of another so as to create a flow and continuity between them, also to keep up enough speed to clear the next jump. The trees give a great shade for those hot Spanish summers that we are used to. Also, the trees create a much nicer photo!

Here are a couple of quick videos if you're interested:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaaX0tfd-mU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFvx2WMKrIc&list=FLk6rZNadhbrv7Kg9Ho4hmEA&index=12