{"id":105020,"date":"2025-02-23T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alternative-medicine\/going-for-gold-at-the-olympics-allyna-steinberg\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T10:16:38","slug":"going-for-gold-at-the-olympics-allyna-steinberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=105020","title":{"rendered":"Going for Gold at the Olympics \u2014 Allyna Steinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/55ec9802e4b0902fc058c4ee\/1469772116081-W6U0U8Y3X9AH6YHDEJ9E\/USA_Men%27s_Lightweight_Four_Athens_2004_public+domain.jpg?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>What can we learn from athletes who are using the Alexander Technique to go for the gold during Olympic Games?\u00a0<\/strong> The first case study we\u2019ll look at is the British Olympic Rowing Squad at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The hours spent rowing and lifting weights during training can cause muscle shortening that can lead to pain, fractured ribs and other common injuries among rowers.\u00a0 The Alexander Technique allows athletes to learn to <strong>prevent muscle shortening<\/strong> during activity.\u00a0 In addition, athletes find Alexander Technique lying down work helps them <strong>relieve pressure and stress<\/strong> related to preparing for competition.\u00a0 This lying down work helps athletes enhance their <strong>mindfulness of the body<\/strong>,<strong> slow the heart rate <\/strong>and <strong>boost the immune system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The members of the British Olympic Rowing Squad that took Alexander Technique lessons learned to maintain their natural alignment while under immense demands.\u00a0 Lessons helped them to <strong>move in their joints <\/strong>and <strong>lengthen their spine <\/strong>allowing them to <strong>make longer and more powerful strokes to advance the boat faster <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/alexandertechnique.co.uk\/news\/remembering-olympic-gold-for-fm-alexander\" target=\"_blank\">STAT news<\/a>). \u00a0The British team won the gold with 0.08 seconds to spare in a \u201ctitanic tussle with the Canadians (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/olympics_2004\/rowing\/3585900.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based on this photo, how do you think this USA rowing squad did <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rowing_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics\" target=\"_blank\">rowing in Athens<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can we learn from athletes who are using the Alexander Technique to go for the gold during Olympic Games?\u00a0 The first case study we\u2019ll look at is the British Olympic Rowing Squad at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games.\u00a0 The hours spent rowing and lifting weights during training can cause muscle shortening that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11764],"tags":[13297,674,41778,13298],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-105020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","tag-allyna","tag-gold","tag-olympics","tag-steinberg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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