Courtesy of Muscular Girls blog: “Jade Fernandes Barbosa (born on July 1, 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian gymnast. Jade won the gold medal in the Junior Championships (Denmark) in the All-Around, Floor, Balance Beam and Vault. In 2006 Jade won the All Around in the Junior National Championships , and in 2007 she was the Senior All Around Champion, defeating 2006’s champion Daniele Hypolito.
Her first medal in a World Cup event came in 2007, the first year she was eligible to compete as a senior gymnast. It was in Germany, when she won a silver on the Vault.[3] In 2007 Jade participated in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, winning a gold medal on the Vault, a silver in the Team Competition and a bronze in the Floor final.[4]
With a new track, a featured shot put competition in the middle of the football field, American record-holders in the men’s and women’s pole vaults and a BALCO doping pariah on an improbable comeback, Saturday’s Tom Moore Modesto Relays has a little something for everyone.An Olympic year brings out all manner of athletes, from those in the infancy of their careers to those in their prime and those resolutely holding onto the dream.Consider Chryste Gaines one of the latter. Now 37, this Stanford graduate served a two-year doping suspension for her involvement in the BALCO scandal and has not run competitively outdoors since 2004. Her sanction ended in June. She’s entered in the 100 meters Saturday.
Top-shelf athletes coming to Modesto include shot putters Christian Cantwell, Dan Taylor and John Godina, triple jumpers Walter Davis and Kenta Bell, high hurdler Anwar Moore, hurdler-long jumper Jenny Adams and pole vaulters Jenn Stuczynski, Jeff Hartwig, Toby Stevenson, Tim Mack and Nick Hysong.
Probably one of the top requests people have with regards to their fitness/training goals is getting that six-pack. Whether you want to believe it or not, having a set of toned abs symbolizes someone who is in shape because very few people are genetically lucky enough to naturally have abs – and those that do, we typically hate!
Unfortunately, many people go about chasing after defined abs in a very wrong manner. Read more…
A woman’s pelvis consists of four bones (paired innominate bones, coccyx, and the sacrum) held together by ligaments. The size and shape of these bones have a tremendous impact on how a woman looks physically. The pelvic shape is classified by the “Caldwell-Moloy” (4) system.
There are four “pure” pelvic shapes in this system–android (A), gynecoid (B), anthropoid (C), and platypelloid (D) shaped pelvis. The pelvis of any person may have some features of the opposite sex. A and C are most common in males, B and A in white females, B and C in black females, while D is uncommon in both sexes (3). Read more…
“Jade Fernandes Barbosa (born on July 1, 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian gymnast. Jade won the gold medal in the Junior Championships (Denmark) in the All-Around, Floor, Balance Beam and Vault. In 2006 Jade won the All Around in the Junior National Championships , and in 2007 she was the Senior All Around Champion, defeating 2006’s champion Daniele Hypolito. 
