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Dancers rely on the muscles surrounding the pelvis and spine for posture and aesthetics, as well as balance, stability and moving safely through tricky shapes and direction changes. Building and maintaining those muscles poses a constant challenge, and grunting your way through hundreds of crunches can be more torture than it’s worth. “Dancers can rely on psoas muscles and bypass the abdominal wall when they do crunches,” says Irene Dowd, who teaches movement-driven anatomy/kinesiology classes at The Juilliard School. Alvin Ailey's Fana Tesfagiorgis on Her Eclectic Mix of Workouts. The 10-20-30 Running Concept Can Increase Performance in Less Time. Gamify Your Exercise Routine This Weekend. Keep Telling Yourself, 'This Workout Feels Good' Jupiterimages/Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness.
Tell yourself during exercise that you’re not as tired as you think you are and you could make that statement true, a new study shows, reminding us that the body intertwines with the mind in ways that we are only starting to understand. For the new experiment, which was published last month in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, researchers from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, and other institutions turned to a group of 24 healthy, physically active young men and women and asked if they would be willing to ride a bicycle to the point of limp exhaustion, repeatedly. Physical fatigue is a surprisingly enigmatic condition.