Bobsledder Paula McKenzie talks about her sport

Paula Mckenzie, a member of the Canadian Bobsleigh Team talks, about female bobsled. Bobsledding is an extreme sport in the snow. Women do two-man bob sleigh only. This consists of a driver and a breakman. Both push the bob sled as much as possible and then leap into it. It is a relatively new sport in the Winter Olympics for women.

Training for bob sled involves weight room training, on-ice training, and training in the ice room. Lots of sprints and weights are critical. As a very competitive and intense sport, injuries are commonplace. To avoid or mitigate injury, both perfect technique and mental and physical 'toughness' is of critical importance.

Derek Duke Noble (www.bodynoble.com), the host and creator of Urban Fitness TV (www.urbanfitnesstv.com), is a world-renowned celebrity lifestyle and fitness guru.

As a personal lifestyle fitness guru and trainer, I have had the good fortune to work with some of Hollywood’s hottest celebrities (John McEnroe, Demi Moore, Maria Shriver, Tatum O’Neil, and Michael J. Fox) and most recently, I got the opportunity to serve as both host and executive producer of Urban Fitness TV on the Fit TV channel. After working with an extensive list of high performance athletes, high fashion models and actors who have little time to work out, but still have to look as if they live at the gym, I created the ‘focus touch’ visualization technique that can boost the effectiveness of any exercise. This technique is part of the Body Noble Method, which is a safe,...

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