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Dan Ritchie is a personal trainer and the co-owner of Miracles Fitness in West Lafayette, Indiana. With more than 10 years experience in personal training, working with elite athletes and people with special conditions – from Parkinson’s to Alzheimer’s disease and everything in between; Dan has gained valuable insight into the aging population to help them actively age. Dan Ritchie has a broad background in the fitness industry including training and management in commercial and university/...
Thus Sports Illustrated was reiterating George Orwell’s 1945 warning that sport had become "war minus the shooting" (Orwell 2003, 198), wherein athletes acted as the central combatants in the emerging conflict. Finally, and most relevant to this chapter and to the topic of using social theory to understand sport, the transitions in performance and training to which the first issue of Sports Illustrated referred remind us that sport, contrary to common perceptions, does not have any single, ...
