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One of the best goals you can make for an upcoming trip is to return home feeling healthier than when you left. While beach vacations aren’t always conducive to staying active, working in activities like hiking or snorkeling is an easy way to experience everything the destination has to offer. Not only does being more active help you feel healthier on vacation, it gives you more scope to appreciate where you are. We’ve scoured the globe for the best active beach vacations, from over-water rock climbing in Thailand to hiking in Acadia National Park. Here are nine exhilarating options for travelers…
‘Slow happiness’ in Italy, Finland, Sweden or IcelandThe Scotland-based company Slow Adventure advocates a more mindful approach to activity holidays. Options include climbing and yoga in the Italian Alps, mountain biking in Sweden and horse riding and rambling in Iceland. On the Finnish Happiness trip, guests stay in log cabins by a lake in Lapland and activities include canoeing under the midnight sun, hiking, swimming, swamp foraging and daily saunas. On all trips, 5% of the fee goes to local conservation projects, which in Finland could mean helping protect the rare Saimaa ringed seal, preserving forests or supporting a children’s environmental charity.From…
In a global market increasingly driven by e-commerce and digital convenience, our analysis of purchasing sports equipment across 48 international markets reveals a nuanced picture. According to YouGov Global Profiles, on average, 37% of consumers prefer buying sports equipment online, with a quarter evenly split between online and offline (26%), and three in 10 favoring offline purchases (31%).Regionally, patterns vary significantly. In Europe, a strong preference for offline shopping is evident in countries like Belgium and Austria, with over half consumers choosing physical stores. On the other hand, British consumers have a balanced approach with a third preferring shopping online…
“],”filter”:Hai,”renderIntial”:true,”wordCount”:350}”> America kicks ass. I’m talking about our terrain, the landscape. The white sands and steep cliffs that make up the coast, the mountains that rise from river valleys, the backcountry lakes tucked into flowering meadows…and all the adventure you can find. We’ve got desert and we’ve got rainforest. We’ve got bullet-proof cliff faces to climb and waist-deep powder to ski. We’ve got remote island parks and bike trails that start at the end of the cul de sac. Sand dunes and swamps, prairies and peaks. …Collectively, we have it all. But how “adventurous” is a given state? How does…
IABA is creating a Safeguarding training series throughout 2024, which will see the delivery of three Safeguarding 1 workshops between January and March. All adults – coaches, committee members and non-coaching volunteers – in every club who have contact with children are required to have undertaken Safeguarding 1. These workshops will be available on Zoom on: January 26th at 1pm February 23rd at 1pm March 29th at 1pm Book your place here The calendar for the period April to December will be published in February. From April onwards, IABA will make available a minimum 2 workshops per month. Acknowledging that…
Further to the IBA statement made yesterday evening regarding the removal of ineligible athletes from all IBA female competitions, we reiterate our stance and firm position. IBA remains committed in ensuring competitive fairness in all of our events, we absolutely condemn the inconsistencies in eligibility to compete in the boxing competition held in the Paris Olympic Games 2024. To reiterate, both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting post testing, did not meet the required eligibility criteria to compete within the female category of our respective events. The decision made by IBA on 24 March 2023, was subsequently ratified by the IBA…
Dublin, Jan. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Hiking Gear and Equipment Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2023-2028” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.The global hiking gear and equipment market size reached US$ 6.4 Billion in 2022. Looking forward, the publisher expects the market to reach US$ 9.1 Billion by 2028, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of % d6.0uring 2022-2028. Significant growth in the number of individuals participating in recreational and sports activities on account of rapid urbanization, inflating disposable incomes and the increasing consumer preferences for healthy and adventurous lifestyles represents one of…
The Provincial Tourism Product Development Plan is a collaborative approach that aligns private, non-profit and government tourism partners around provincial priorities, while integrating regional priorities from the five Destination Development Plans. Together, private, government and non-profit tourism partners will increase the number of Newfoundland and Labrador brand tourism experiences to attract more visitors, encourage them to stay longer and experience more. Provincial Tourism Product Development Plan The focus of the Provincial Tourism Product Development Plan is to enhance and create high quality, premium products that celebrate experiences, culture, and people. The ultimate goal is to guide and support the development of visitor-focused Newfoundland and Labrador brand experiences.…
1 Introduction The integration of Sensing and Interaction technology has become increasingly pivotal in sports training and education, catering to athletes across all levels, from amateurs to Olympians. Coaches, trainers, and athletes alike rely on technological advancements to meticulously track and enhance their performance (1–4). This synergy between sports data and interaction technology yields a plethora of applications, offering invaluable insights for refining training methodologies [e.g., (5–7)]. Furthermore, it lays the groundwork for innovative interactive sports exercises [e.g., (8–10)]. Interactive systems such as Dashboard-style retrieval systems stand out as a prevalent design choice, facilitating streamlined access to video summaries via…
Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)From ultrarunning to shooting sports, in some competitions women have the edge.It’s been over 40 years, but Penny Lee Dean vividly remembers the cold.Training was brutal, as Dean prepared for what would be a record-setting swim – regardless of sex – across the English Channel in 1978. “Your hands cramp, your legs cramp,” she remembers. After emerging from her practice open-water swims, it would take hours for her to start feeling warm again. A 20-minute hot shower wasn’t enough. Neither was a dip in a single hot tub; as soon as one grew cold, she would enter…