News Skins sponsors solo T
echnical apparel company Skins is sponsoring a 51-year-old solo cyclist on his challenge to complete the Tour de France route, which he aims to finish on 22nd July.
Quentin Field-Boden, a self-employed cycling coach and part time radiographer from Northumberland, is riding the 3,651km route independently and aims to cover up to 240km daily. Set to become one of the oldest riders to complete the infamous route, Field-Boden has been training for a year.
Skins has supplied Field-Boden with its latest C400 cycle compression clothing, designed to accelerate blood flow around the body, thereby increasing oxygen supply to working muscles. He is also sleeping in Skins’ RY400 recovery tops and tights with a view to breaking down lactic acid and relieving aching limbs. Skins is an official supplier to several Tour teams including HTC Columbia, Rabobank and Milram.
www.skins.net
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Fitness industry set to grow
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ore people are turning to exercise as an aid to coping with the stresses of the current economic situation, SkillsActive suggests. According to the Sector Skills Council for Sport and Active Leisure, while there is a sector of society that has sunk into depression, far more are taking up exercise and going to the gym as a way of manifesting and dispersing possible anxieties.
As a result, the fitness industry has grown by 1% over the last 12 months and over 120 new fitness facilities have opened across the UK in the same period, according to the Fitness Industry Association (FIA). This looks set to continue despite the outlook for the wider economy, as a Market and Business Development report suggests the health and fitness market will increase year on year to a value of £5.14 billion in 2014.
Commenting, Stephen Studd, Chief Executive of SkillsActive said: “While you may assume that a reaction to the credit crunch would be to cut out all luxuries, it has become clear from these industry figures that the gym and sporting activities are not considered by most to be luxuries, but necessities.”
www.skillsactive.com
eading mixed martial arts brand UFC is launching a range of martial arts products, designed for use at home or in class.
Retailing initially through Argos stores this month, the range includes new Official Fight gloves (pictured) to help build endurance in training, which come in a tough polyurethane finish with an open palm for grappling. With an RRP of £69.99, features include a foam padded hitting surface and a padded thumb and wrap around with wrist strap.
The collection also includes MMA Training Gloves with an RRP of £24.99, in a tough vinyl finish with a cut finger design, a padded knuckle area for added protection and wrap around straps for support. Long Focus Punch Mitts at £34.99 have finger slots for target control and a Thai Pad for blocking punches, elbows, kicks and knee strikes has a bottom hook/loop securing
strap, a top-grip bar for strike control and retails at £29.99.
UFC athletes train in five Olympic disciplines – Judo, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Freestyle Wrestling, Boxing and Taekwondo, in addition to other martial arts, and is one of the fastest growing sports organisations.
www.ufc.com
Special Edition Chrissie Greepers G 8
reepers launched a special edition Chrissie Greeper lace this month at the
Challenge Roth Expo. The special laces bear the motivational slogan of three-time Ironman World Champion, Chrissie Wellington MBE:
“Live It, Love It”. For every pair sold, Greepers will donate £1 to the Jane Tomlinson Appeal, for which Chrissie is a patron.
www.greeper.com
Garland for Garneau: North Face Global Team athlete Tracy Garneau was the first woman to cross the line in the gruelling 100-Mile Western States Endurance Run in California last month - the first Canadian ever to achieve this. Garneau’s next challenge will be the North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc in August.
www.thenorthface.com SGB SPORT JULY 2010
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