The popularity of sports nutrition is growing not only among professional athletes, including bodybuilders, but also among amateurs. This is confirmed by the numbers: in 2010, sales of vitamins and nutritional supplements reached $ 28 billion in the United States, and seven years later, this amount rose to 36 billion. For scale: theoretically, about forty companies of Avon size could be purchased for this amount.

Sport has become something of a new religion: the desire to comply with the global fitness trend has been dramatically inspired by many of us. Everybody has his own reasons - from striving for an ideal body and caring for health to searching for fresh impressions and new acquaintances. Entering the “Faster, Higher, Stronger!” Mode, we often forget that the human body is a reliable, yet fragile thing, and in trying to bring it into shape, we sometimes come to the opposite result - new health problems.

Somehow, we have been telling why it is not worth dividing sport into male and female - not out of a craving for ranting, but as a preface to a series of materials about “non-female” sports activities. We have already figured out how to start boxing and crossfit, and now we are talking about trampolining. For many of us, a trampoline is one of the most pleasant childhood memories associated with a huge, inflatable, fancy shape design.

Pools and ponds - a great place to relax and workouts, it does not matter whether you move away from the heat or strengthen your back muscles. But the more often you find yourself in the water, the more obsessive the idea that something can go wrong. It happens and vice versa: in the aquatic environment so comfortable that you do not want to notice the danger. We collected popular myths about swimming and Dispelling them together with the experts: the chief doctor of "Lab Hemotest" Olga Dehtyarovoy, expert of the Center for Molecular Diagnostics (CMD) Central Research Institute of Epidemiology Timur Pestereva, clinic therapist "Medicine", the highest category doctor Iraida Belyaeva, an obstetrician-gynecologist Beauty Clinic Boris Nemanov and champion in open water swimming, the founder of the SwimRocket swimming school Nikita Kislov.

EVERY WEEK WE WILL choose useful videos, where knowledgeable people tell how to learn something new and cool. We do not lose hope to go in for sports - we look for and find understandable trainings. In this video lesson, Amber Nimendez of the Livestrong Foundation team shows how to get your hands in shape. Amber copes with dumbbells of not frightening appearance, calmly and slowly demonstrates every movement - naturally, it seems that repeating them is easier than ever.

At the dawn of scientific breakthroughs and global tolerance, dense stereotypes still hover in society, many of which relate to physicality in the broadest sense - from race and gender to physique and physical characteristics. Athletes also get it. There are whole hit parades of the "most feminine" sports: rhythmic gymnastics, figure skating, athletics are leading in them.

Text: Ksenia Obukhovskaya. The onset of cold weather is not a reason to limp and occupy a sofa, but the best time to devote yourself to fitness, especially since in winter it is almost more fun to do than in summer. We are talking about ten classes, for which it is not too lazy to get out of the house, even in the cold. Skiing The most obvious and favorite sport in Russia.

WE CONTINUE TO TELL ABOUT worthy accounts in social networks through which you can view the whole world. The fact that Sky is eight years old, and her brother Ocean is only four, does not fit in my head. These little Californians don't just skateboard and surf better than many adults - they are young professionals.

Text: Olga Lukinskaya the need for complete rest during pregnancy is one of the common misconceptions. Physical activity during this period is useful and recommended, unless, of course, your doctor has prohibited it. There are not so many restrictions: you need to avoid situations in which there is a risk of injury or a blow to the abdomen, and remember that increased flexibility of the joints can lead to dislocation during sudden movements or jumps.

Physicality as a whole is a difficult question, and in sports even more so: here the image of the body is distracted from the standard parameters adopted in society, and you need to understand this particular body image differently. Moreover, the popular opinion is that sport completely contradicts the idea of ​​body positivity (and vice versa): supposedly, only unsportsmanlike people who don’t want to “work on themselves” fall under the body-positive radar, and sports fascists who are obsessed with “banks” and “ dice. "

Text: Karina Sembe Can a woman really talk about sports? Someone still doubts it, but not us. True, women in sports journalism are not any easier than in big-time sports: now and then you have to prove that you are not good for a girl, but in general. As a result, some grow into emancipated professional women, while others do not dare to take up the challenge (in our interview with the sports reporters, women in this sense faced the old school and the younger generation).

EVERY WEEK WE WILL choose useful videos, where knowledgeable people tell how to learn something new and cool. Last time we talked about super-short training, which helps to bring hands in order. We, too, are seduced by its duration of three minutes, but we do not nourish the illusions that it is possible to bring ourselves into shape (if needed).

In 2011, I worked in Kommersant as a correspondent for the department of culture, lived in a rented room in a commune, and I barely had enough salary for food, and the need for sports loads became quite obvious when I could not fit in my only winter pants. I went to Thai boxing for several reasons: the gym was next to my work, the workouts were ruthless, the whole inventory was given out at classes three times a week and it cost about 4 thousand rubles a month.