Have you ever consider going on your regular running routine on barefoot? Well, now you can - sort of - with Vibram FiveFingers shoes. This shoes is designed to make you feel like you are running without shoes and yet protect your feet from dirt and debris. And why would you do that? Studies shows that running without shoes can strengthen your feet, ankles, and lower legs and improve balance.
Vibram started making the five-toed shoes in 2006, but the trend really picked up steam last year, following the publication of Christopher McDougall's book “Born to Run.” The book describes how Mexico’s Tarahumara Indians have become some of the greatest long-distance runners in the world despite running barefoot or in sandals fashioned from tire rubber.
Talking about overcoming disability, Dustin Carter has been there and done it. When he was five-years old, he contracted a rare blood disease that claimed all four of his limbs. Losing both his legs, and half of each arm was no less challenging for Dustin, who grew up depressed and a straight "F" student.
However it all changed when he discover wrestling. With the help of a coach, Dustin overcame his disability and eventually made it all the way to the Division II state final. While in high school, Dustin won over forty matches in his senior year of high and a match at the Ohio State Tournament.
"I don't look at myself as different," Dustin said. "I wrestle like anybody else. I go to school like anybody else. I can live on my own like anybody else. I can do anything anybody else can do.
If you think walking on water is for some specialized insects and amphibians, think again. A group of young man is starting a new sport called Liquid Mountaineering, which is attempting to achieve what man has tried to do for centuries: walk on water. Or to be more precisely: running on water.
This young men discovered, by accident, hat with the right water repellent equipment, one can really run across bodies of water, just like a stone skimming the surface. Check out this cool video.
After the NBA superstars' pre-game half court trick shots, here's another NBA half-time trampoline dunk show. This time, it's painful. As the guy do the trampoline dunk, he launches too far causing his chin to slam in the rim, as in, Rim in Your Face. :)
At 10 years old, Maughan Wellham of Melbourne, Australia is already competing in bodybuilding competitions. But at age of 10, she is still to young for such competitions. In fact, event organizers have to create a division only for her age for her to compete. Despite her enthusiasm of the sports, she sparks concern from health experts and family groups, to which her mom depends her saying she saw nothing wrong with her daughter's daring display at the All Female Natural Muscle & Fitness Classic
"Maughan wanted to do it for fun. So I investigated it. I am very protective of my children," she said.
The mum of five, from Maitland in NSW, said Maughan was a fitness fanatic who runs, does push-ups and squats, but doesn't use weights. "I think it's very irresponsible to put a child on weights," she said.
James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL's defensive player of the year this season, made the longest Play in Super Bowl history. He ran 100 yards towards touchdown, after intercepting the ball, coming through all the defense of the opposing team, the Arizona Cardinals.
He made his history making play, just in time before the half-time of the Super Bowl 43 ends, giving them 17-7 lead against the Arizona Cardinals. The Pittsburgh Steelers won the game with the final score of 27-23.
Gaston Aguirre, an Argentinean Soccer player accidentally kills a pigeon with the soccer ball during their game in Buenos Aires. The birds were in the fields when the players scrambling for the ball came. And when Aguirre kicked the ball for the goal, one pigeon were not lucky enough.
"I kicked the ball and, poor pigeon," the San Lorenzo defender said. "Now I will be remembered as the pigeon killer."
Aguirre hit the bird in the 2-1 victory against Tigre in a three-team round-robin for the Argentine league title. Surrounded by opponents, he kicked the ball toward the goal and in the direction of a group of pigeons on the grass near the corner.
At 14 years old, Jack Moule is UK's youngest national jet-ski freestyle champion. Weighing only at 8.5 stone with a height of 5'4", he wowed judges with his top-class flips, spins and rolls on his 22 stone jet-ski. His signature moves include the nose stab and the incredible barrel-roll.
Jack said: 'I love jet-skiing - it's just an absolutely brilliant sport and even the training is good fun.
'What I really want to do is go all the way and become world champion.
'Sport is all about football for most of my friends at school but I wanted to try something different and more extreme.'
Wanna eat all you can and stay fit? Be a world class Olympian like Michael Phelps. He eats a whooping 12,000 calories a day or 4,000 calories every meal. That's six times than the average man of his age and size suggested calorie intake of 2,000 calories. Apparently, his calorie intake is being washed away by his training of five hour a day, six time a week regimen.
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.
He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
Update: Michael Phelps won his 8th Olympic gold medal, breaking the record of Mark Spitz's who won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. He now have a total of thirteen Olympic gold medals from three Olympics Games.
Michael Phelps is now the winningest Olympian ever with eleven Olympic gold medal. He has gone were all Olympians has never been before by capturing his 10th and 11th gold medal after winning the 200-meter butterfly and the 4x200 freestyle relay which both broke the previous records. He has now a total of five gold medal in this Summer Olympics in China. At 23 years old, you bet he is far from retiring from the Olympics.
“I’m almost kind of at a loss for words,” Phelps said. “Growing up, I always wanted to be an Olympian. Now to be the most decorated Olympian of all time, it just sounds weird saying it. I just have absolutely nothing to say. I’m speechless.
“It’s a pretty cool title, I guess you could say.”
Invented by Swedish inventor Jan von Heland, Waboba ball, the ball that bounces on water, is now becoming popular around the world after videos of it were posted in YouTube.
This ball is made of a combination of plastics with lycra coating. It has the same density as water and floats when at rest. Wabobal ball which is said to have a consistency of breast implant, took the inventor several years to perfect and now being sold around the world after debuting in the beaches of Australia.
"I first got the idea when I was throwing a frisbee upside down on the water trying to get it to bounce,” he said.
"I thought it would be good to get something that used the water to bounce off and began to experiment.”
He added: "It has been very successful and we sell the balls all over the world - Australia is our biggest market.
"It seems a bit odd that a Swede should invent this because it is best for a hot climate where people are in the sea and in swimming pools all the time."
Vibram started making the five-toed shoes in 2006, but the trend really picked up steam last year, following the publication of Christopher McDougall's book “Born to Run.” The book describes how Mexico’s Tarahumara Indians have become some of the greatest long-distance runners in the world despite running barefoot or in sandals fashioned from tire rubber.
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