Grace Be With You

There is a quality great athletes have you don't
hear mentioned too often. Michael Jordan has it.
So does Larry Bird, and Jerry Rice. Emmit Smith
has it and so did Walter Payton. Wayne Gretzky
too. And in baseball Derek Jeter and Ted Williams
come to mind.

My friend and fitness coach Ed Baran calls it
simply, grace.

Grace might seem like a better word for a dancer
like Fred Astaire or a figure skater at the Winter
Olympics, but think about it. It's what every
athlete should strive for.

According to Ed, grace suggests attributes like:

- moving easily without wasted motion
- having mastered your own body
- uncanny awareness of where you are in space
and time
- moving effortlessly and under control
- being at ease and comfortable in your own body
- being one in mind and body
- having strength with balance

A good shooter will always be poetry in motion to
me. There is nothing I find more graceful than a
beautifully arching shot launched with rhythm
and graceful body control.

Some people might be genetically blessed and
naturally graceful, but that's not the end of the
story. I believe anybody with reasonable
coordination can develop grace. All that's needed
is training that teaches body movement under
control.

Bodyweight exercises done with awareness and
breath control will do what weights and machines
can never do for your body, and the most in-depth
program on the market is the best-selling 'Combat
Conditioning' program by Matt Furey.

If you want to develop real grace in motion strap
on your cross trainers and run, run, run right now
over to:

http://www.deandelker.com/matt_furey.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Eddie Baran has also taken his background in
bodyweight exercises and gymnastics and developed
a program specifically for women which develops
grace as well as strength, balance, agility, endurance,
flexibility and a killer, toned, lean athletic body.

Give the gift of grace and a finely sculpted body
this Christmas to the women in your life now by
jumping directly over to:

http://www.deandelker.com/body_sculpting.html

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