Acrosport Rules, Health Effects, and Doping Regulations
Acrosport Fundamentals and Competition Rules
International Federation and Categories
1. The International Federation of Sports Acrobatics (IFSA) and the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG).
2. Couples: mixed, female, and male. Trios (female). Quartets (male). Mixed groups (of 3 to 6 members).
Performance and Routine Requirements
3. Tapestry 12x12 meters and duration between 2:15 and 2:30 minutes, traditionally held in April.
4. Acrobatics and gymnastics elements include flexibility, jumps, turns, and balance movements, cooperation components among group members, running, and body formations, forming a harmonious whole with choreographic elements.
Techniques and Safety Guidelines
5. Used to compete while pushing training processes, union, or pyramids, and sustaining them in a stable position and formation. The two-way hand-grip is used for motor actions and balancing.
6. Clothing recommendations: barefoot participation, no earrings, no strings attached, and no loose items.
History and Structure of Pyramids
7. Origins trace back to circus manifestations and troubadours.
8. Pyramids: balance pyramids maintained for three seconds and propulsion pyramids (female pairs except in men's events where the base will catch).
Roles and Social Benefits
9. Portor (the supporting person) and Turner (the person performing balance elements, high flexibility, jumps, or aerial acrobatics through launches from the portors over the ground).
10. Joint work favors greater contact among teammates, developing better affective-social relations and breaking down barriers and prejudices between boys and girls.
Health, Physical Activity, and Doping Regulations
Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity
1. Craving for smoking, irritability, nausea, fatigue, and loss of appetite.
2. Physical activity: any body movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure.
Health Benefits and Exercise Intensity
3. Improves body weight control, helps you sleep better, helps release tensions, and decreases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and mortality.
4. Starting an exercise program: maintain an intensity that allows you to converse, listen to your body, avoid chronic fatigue states, and maintain regularity in exercise performance.
Substances and Adverse Effects
5. Opioid synthesis, amphetamines, and arilexilamine analogues.
6. At small doses: tremor production, dry mouth, headache, hypertension, and insomnia. At higher doses: hypertension, tachycardia, malignant blood pressure, convulsions, muscle destruction, and visual hallucinations.
Ethics and Prohibited Methods
7. Ethical and medical reasons, highlighted in August.
8. Prohibited methods: blood doping and pharmacological, chemical, or physical manipulation.
Penalties and Doping Products
9. Ephedrine penalties: 1st offense: 3 months; 2nd offense: 2 years; 3rd offense: lifetime ban.
10. "Anti-doping products in sports."