Swimming

Your technique is very important when there is a swimming competition. But there is an important factor that is complimentary to your technique: breathing. Restricting your breathing is necessary while you still need to breathe enough to keep your lactate levels low. If these are not balanced, fatigue will set in faster throwing off your rhythm, technique and overall, your time.

PowerLung will give you the balance you need with respiratory muscle training. Independent studies have proven that training the respiratory muscles with PowerLung will reduce the relative work of breathing and lower lactate levels. Increased strength and endurance in your breathing will help reduce the physical and mental stress your body endures whether it is for competitive swimming workouts or competition. PowerLung gives you the benefit to inhale more in a short amount of time and exhale more powerfully at the power points in your strokes.

A study at the University of Toronto with various national swimmers showed that training with PowerLung improved respiratory muscle critical power more than swim training alone. It is important for swimmers that respiratory muscle training be included in their regime for any form of swimming competition or workout.v>

golf

The tee shot is the ego shot in golf. Learning how to drive a golf ball far is way up on the list for most beginning golfers. The only problem is most amateur and beginner golfers drive it way shorter than they want to, because their golf swing technique is not proper to encourage longer golf drives.

Horse racing

Thinking of a trainer, horse, and jockey as a team will help you to find better bets and more horses that surprise at a good price. For instance, when a trainer has a 20% win average bringing horses back to the races after a layoff of 45-90 days, how can you use that to good advantage? How do you know if the horse you are considering is the one in five that will win or one of the four out of five that will lose?

Cricket

Prithu Baskota is the first Nepali cricketer to lead all age-group teams. After captaining U-15 and U-17, during which his team won the ACC U-17 Elite Cup, Prithu is leading the U-19 team in the ACC U-19 Elite Cup, the first step for the qualification to Youth World Cup. Nepal missed the YWC last year after five straight qualifications.

In an interview with Cricket Nepal, Prithu said the team’s aim to gain the lost glory by qualifying to the Youth World Cup.

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) axed Ritu Kanaujiya, who captained the national women’s cricket team in last two events and re-appointed Nary Thapa.

Ritu and three other national cricketers from the Asian Games squad did not find space in 18-member squad for the ACC Women’s Twenty20 Championship to be held in Kuwait from February 18 to 25

Nepal Under-19 national cricket team defeated Nepal APF Club by four wickets in a practice match at the TU Cricket Ground on Tuesday. APF were bowled out for 154 in 40 overs and Nepal U-19 achieved the target in 36.1 overs losing six wickets.

Football

The sport football is a team sport which involves the players of this sport to kick the ball and drive it towards the goal post of the opponent team. The team with more goals will be the winner of the game. In this game each team consists of eleven players including a goal keeper on the field played with a spherical ball. Each team can enhance seven extra players and the game will be played for 90 minutes which is divided into two equal half. Records for the success and failures in every match.The penalty kick. To utter these very words can make the most intrepid footballer tremble at the knees.

Etched into every footballer's memory are images of famous disastrous penalty moments; Chris Waddle's over-the-bar screamer in Italia 90 for instance, or Gareth Southgate's nation crushing miss in Euro 1996. And those are just some of England's disasters!

Such mental images can flood back and torment a player's concentration at the moment they must step up to take a penalty kick. Concentration and inner calm are integral elements in taking a successful penalty kick. Do not allow the goalkeeper to distract you, this will be his primary aim. Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar was infamous for his trembling knee technique to unnerve the penalty taker, later imitated successfully by Jerzy Dudek in the 2005 Champions League final. Check the goalkeepers positioning, maybe he has left more space on one side of the goal which you could exploit.

Place the ball well and ensure there are no tufts of grass that that could impede a clean strike of the ball. Pace your run up well. Place your non-kicking foot alongside the positioned ball and stride your run up perhaps 5 or 6 long paces back.

Different players have their preferences when choosing how to strike the ball. Penalty kicks styles can be usefully divided into two categories: placed, side of the foot kicks, and blasted instep kicks. Side of the foot kicks are effective if well placed - low, and in the corner of the goal. Driven kicks with the instep of the foot are effective with their power, but more risky in terms of accuracy, and can easily result in scooping the ball over the bar or dragging it wide of the post. The key thing is to think about where you want to put the ball - choose a spot in the goal and stick to it regardless of the goalkeeper's antics.

Technique and a bit of luck are important elements in mastering the penalty kick, but the psychological aspect is crucial. Hold your nerve and focus on the objective and you will more than likely walk away triumphant from the penalty spot.