What Makes a Great Gym At it’s most basic level, a gym is a place where people go to train, run, and play. However, many gyms are much more than that. This begs the question: what makes a great gym? Athletic activities, sports, and gymnastics require certain equipment. Whether it’s the hills around your development, […]
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Training through the cold builds grit, it builds mental toughness, and it builds muscle. However, without proper precautions, it could build to be a dangerous endeavor. All this said hitting the track is still a great option. Here are some tips for Track Safety when running through the winter. Fighting the Cold: The Warm Up
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Skids, Slips, Falls and Trips We’ve all lost our balance or seemed to have tripped over nothing before. Much like a newborn giraffe trying to learn to stand, our legs become uncontrollable. This goes far beyond clumsiness. Sometimes it is how your shoe catches the floor. Or maybe it was underestimating how far away the
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Importance of Horse Flooring Lameness The most common cause for the loss of use in a horse is lameness. Lameness is a structural of functional disorder of the locomotor system. This causes a stance or walk to be abnormal. A grade 5 level of lameness can be as drastic as a complete inability to move.
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Cold Weather Track Maintenance Fall is coming and the cold air of the Arctic is slowing creeping its way down into the states. Pumpkin spice is the aroma in every coffee shop and flannels are slowly working their way out of attics and into wardrobes. This is also the time that athletes ditch the gym
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Cleaning Your Aktiv Gym Floor It is important to maintain a clean and debris free gym floor. This prevents tripping and slipping hazards. It also promotes the longevity of the floor. Regupol has an easy four step guide for cleaning Aktiv gym floor that is sure to keep your floors looking new. Step 1. Start by
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5 Tips for Omnisports Indoor Sports Flooring Maintenance Tarkett has made their Omnisports Indoor Sports Flooring maintenance simple and easy. Being proactive about your sports floor maintenance is the best way to keep your floors looking good. Remember to address problems as they arise. Remind your floor maintenance professionals to follow manufacture instructions for cleaning.
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Athletes at all levels of competition share one thing in common and that is they all need to practice. Here at Abacus we really focus on providing the best products that reduce injury and fatigue to athletes during training and conditioning. Practice is what helps the individual build the skills, strength, endurance, and mental focus
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Do’s and Don’ts of Proper Wood Gym Floor Care Here is a quick list of do’s and don’ts for gym floor care. It is important to properly maintain your gym floor to prevent hazardous conditions that may cause injury to the athletes or spectators that use the area. These tips should accommodate a
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Nursing Home Flooring by Abacus A question posed by our customers all the time is “How much does your flooring actually reduce injury?” Well researchers in Sweden decided to answer that questions by observing the falls and injury’s that happened for nursing home residents from October 2011 to March 2014. The study discovered that 12mm polyurethane
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