Plyometric training is a great way for trainers to build explosive power. Performing plyometrics one to three times a week can increase your vertical jump, speed and strength. The gains athletes make from plyometric training can directly translate to their athletic performance. To learn more check out this week's article, Plyometrics: Exercises to Increase Power. 

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Plyometrics: Exercises to Increase Power

Plyometric training is specific work to enhance explosive power. In other words, it involves a lot of jumping. Plyometric training is used for sports that require short bursts of power such as tennis, basketball, or skiing, but it's also a good exercise for anyone who wants to increase her power.

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Combining music with exercise in dance such as the tango, can increase accessibility, enjoy ability, and motivation, as well as improving mood and stimulating cognition.

Argentine tango may be particularly helpful for improving balance and functional mobility in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD). Tango requires specific steps that involve rhythmically walking forward and backward. This may be particularly helpful for walking difficulties, especially for freezing of gait and to prevent backward falls. In addition, tango requires working memory, control of attention, and multitasking to incorporate newly learned and previously learned dance elements, to stay in rhythm with the music, and maneuver around others on the dance floor.

Practice

Whatever you practice, you will become skilled at doing. Winning athletes practice day after day, month after month, to hone their skills. So do the best musicians, actors, salespeople, airline pilots, preachers, photographers, designers -- the list goes on and on.

What do you practice every day? Do you practice positive, success-oriented skills and actions? Or do you practice such skills as making excuses, getting angry, complaining, assigning blame, and procrastinating.

Remember, the more you practice, the more skilled you become. Every moment, you increase your experience in some area. The more you practice anything, the more it becomes a part of you. So be aware of what you practice each day, each moment. Make sure that what you practice, is what you want to become.

Garlic Salmon with Black Bean Sauce  

Makes: 4 Serving

Nutritional Information:
Per Serving

Calories:318 Kcal, Fat: 13 g, Carbohydrate: 22 g, Protein: 31g, Fiber: 6 g.

Ingredients:

• 4 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 Tbsp. low-sodium soy sauce

• 1 Tbsp. rice vinegar or white wine vinegar

• 2 tsp. canola or extra virgin olive oil

• 1 tsp. unsulphured blackstrap molasses

• 1 lb. salmon fillet, cut into 4 equal slices

• 1 medium orange, peeled, thinly sliced crosswise, optional

Black Bean Sauce

• 1 can (15 oz.) no salt added black beans

• 1 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil

• 4 cloves garlic, minced

• 1/2 tsp. grated ginger root

• 1 tsp. grated orange rind (save orange for garnish)

• 1 Tbsp. rice vinegar or white wine vinegar

• 1 tsp. low-sodium soy sauce

• 1/8 tsp. crushed red pepper, or to taste

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions:

• Prepare Black Bean Sauce (below) and keep warm, covered, on low heat.

• Adjust oven rack on second rung from top, at least 6 inches from broiler. Turn broiler on high.

• In medium bowl, mix together garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, oil and molasses. Stir to combine. Place filets in marinade, turning to coat well.

• Line rimmed baking sheet with foil. Arrange fillets skin side down and pour marinade on top.

• Broil salmon until internal temperature is 145 degrees F, about 5-6 minutes.

• On four dinner plates, divide Black Bean Sauce in center. With back of spoon swirl sauce in oval shape and clear a line in the oval to set the fillet. Carefully slide long spatula between salmon and skin. Gently lift up salmon away from skin and place lengthwise on sauce. Garnish plate with orange slices, if using, and serve.

Black Bean Sauce

• In small bowl, mash beans with liquid and set aside.

• In small saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add garlic and ginger and sauté until garlic starts to turn golden, about 1 minute.

• Add mashed beans and remaining ingredients. Mix thoroughly and cook, stirring often, until hot, about 2 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low, stirring occasionally. Sauce should be slightly chunky and thick. Set aside, covered. If sauce thickens too much before plating, stir in water in 1 tablespoon increments and heat through.

 Source: AICR