In volleyball, 'if you don't first have a strong core, it's hard to do anything else,' AprilRossBeach said. 'It's always a priority for me.'
When April Ross and Alix Klineman stepped into the stadium for their beach volleyball match, the temperature on the sand in Tokyo was blistering. Even Ross, a veteran of the sport with 15 years of competition under her belt, admitted it's not typical to play in that kind of weather."Heat like that, you don't feel very often," she told POPSUGAR later."Moving around in the sand and being in the heat is harder than I can even explain.
Ross and Klineman, though, had prepared for the tough conditions — if anything, Ross said she overprepared, squeezing sauna training into her packed workout schedule and scheduling a training camp in Florida to get used to the heat and humidity."It really paid off," Ross said."Maybe it was adrenaline or my focus, but I didn't feel the heat when I was out there competing, so whatever it was, it worked."in straight sets and collapsed to the sand, stunned.
"I'm really focused on muscle development," Ross said."I really need to be strong out there and have strength endurance." She does Olympic weightlifting, including
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