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Ben Smith (CrossFit)

= Ben Smith (CrossFit) = Ben Smith(born May 16, 1990)is a professional CrossFit athlete from Virginia, USA. He has competed at the CrossFit Games every year since 2009, finishing on the podium four times: first place in 2015,second in 2016, and third in 2011 and 2013. He is one of a small number of competitors to make nine consecutive appearances in the Individual Division at the CrossFit Games, tying Rebecca Voigt.

Smith was an avid baseball player throughout his childhood, and was introduced to CrossFit during his senior year of high school in 2008.The next summer, he qualified for the CrossFit Games where he placed 64th out of 74 competitors.He has placed first in Crossfit Games regional qualifying events six times (five times in the Mid Atlantic region, and once in the Atlantic "super-region"). He is the lead programmer and a co-owner, founder, and coach at CrossFit Kryptonin Chesapeake, Virginia.

Early Life
Ben smith was raised in Chesapeake, VA along with his two brothers, Alec and Dane. He was a talented baseball player for the Great Bridge high school Wildcats from 2004 to 2008. He wanted to be a stronger baseball player, so that's why he started CrossFit. He didn't take it seriously because his main goal was baseball. [1]He played collegiate level baseball at Lafayette College before transferring close to home at Old Dominion University, where he got his Mechanical engineering degree.His military father introduced him to CrossFit when he was sixteen and gained some notoriety for his garage workout videos posted to the forums. He began doing cross-fit exercises in the Smith home. He would do the exercises posted on https://www.crossfit.com/ before the sport was very popular. In college, during the transference process of schools, he started to get into CrossFit more and started enjoying it. After he stopped playing baseball is when he began taking cross-fit seriously.

Personal Life
After receiving his mechanical engineering degree, Ben decided to open his own gym. Smith owns a family run gym in Chesapeake, VA named CrossFit Krypton. His family helps him run the gym. He and his brothers are coaches there, his dad is the business manager, while his mom helps with interior design.[2]He's decried the gym as his second home because it is a place where him and his closest friends can work out, relax, and hang out. Ben met his wife, Noelle, in their junior year of high school. They met in their chemistry class They were married in October of 2014. By 2017 Smith had made $487,086 in prize money making him the 5th highest paid CrossFit athlete. Smith's personal philosophy according to his gyms website is "through hard work and dedication anything is possible." In his free time he usually relaxes with friends and family, which helps keep his stress relatively low.

Diet & Training:
Even though most crossfit athletes chose a paleo diet, Ben doesn't. He tries to maintain a high-carb and high-protein diet by eating mostly whole foods. He claims that his training could be ruined if he consumed an insuffiecient aount of food. HE drinks a lot of milk and eats a lot of eggs, sweet potatoes, bacon and pizza sometimes (rewrite this sent.) Like most athletes, Ben also uses progenex, which is a protein powder. he takes it before and after worouts. he just mixes it with water and drink it. it helps for inbetween meals so he doesn't starve after workouts. Ben loves bacon, he eats it for breakfast, dinner, and as a snack. Ben alo cooks about 10 sweet potatoes a week and he eats about two a day with almond butter and cinamon. For breakfast ben likes to make eggs with egg whites, shredded chicken and sweet potato. he says its an easy and quick meal to make. On the weekends, ben cheats his diet sometimes and falls to the temptation of supreme pizza. He can get away with it because he needs the calories on the weekend. A few other cravings include icecream and burritos. Ben also likes to eat two perfect food bars which are nutrition bars that happen to be vegan. Ben's typical breakfast includes; a mixture of oatmeal, peanut butter, and mixed fruit with eggs and advocado. His lunch meal includes; chicken, steak, or fish, with rice and vegetables. Dinner is also the same as lunch.

Ben's bench mark WOD stats are as follows:

Professional Career
Ben smith is the co-owner, founder, and coach of CrossFit Krypton in Chesapeake, Virginia. At the age of 18, Ben entered his first Crossfit Regional. In 2009 ben competed in his first crossfit game, since then has been competing for ten years years straight. In the 2010 crossfit games he placed 8th. In the 2011 crossfit regionals he placed first with a score of 18. I the 2011

CrossFit Games results[edit]
Ben Smith has been a competitor in the Reebok CrossFit Games ten times in a row since his debut in 2009. At the 2009 Mid Atlantic Qualifiers Ben Smith placed 1st. He then went on to compete in the 2009 CrossFit Games where he finished in 64th place. In 2010 Ben Smith took 2nd place at the Central East Regionals. That year at the CrossFit Games Smith finished in 8th place. In 2011 He completed the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 16th place and a Mid Atlantic ranking of 4th place. After the open he moved on to the Mid Atlantic Regionals where he took 1st place. That year at the CrossFit Games Ben Smith Finished in 3rd place behind Joshua Bridges 2nd place, and Rich Froning 1st place. In 2012, He finished the CrossFit Open in 24th place. Ben Smith took 1st place again that year at the Mid Atlantic Regionals and went on to finish in 11th place at the CrossFit Games. The following year, 2013, he placed 11th in the worldwide CrossFit Open rankings. Again, at the Mid Atlantic Regionals in 2013, Ben Smith took 1st place. At the 2013 CrossFit Games Ben Smith Finished in 3rd place, this time behind Jason Khalipa 2nd place, and Rich Froning 1st place. In 2014, he finished the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 3rd place, and then at the Mid Atlantic Regionals he took 1st place for the fourth year in a row. At the CrossFit Games that year Ben Smith finished in 7th place. In 2015 he ranked 3rd in the worldwide CrossFit Open and then he placed 4th at the Atlantic Regionals. Then, at the 2015 CrossFit Games Ben Smith took 1st place, beating out Mathew Fraser and Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson, and claiming the title of Fittest Man on Earth. In 2016, Ben Smith completed the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 65th place. He then moved on to the Atlantic Regionals where he placed 1st. At the CrossFit Games Ben finished in 2nd place, right behind Mathew Fraser. In 2017 Ben Smith completed the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 41st and then he went on to finish 3rd at the Atlantic Regionals. At the 2017 CrossFit Games Ben finished in 8th place. The next year, 2018, Ben finished the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 40th place and then he placed 3rd at the Atlantic Regionals for the second year in a row. At the 2018 CrossFit Games Ben Smith finished in 12th place.

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Bibliography: https://www.famousbirthsdeaths.

This source gives background information on the artist, his childhood, family, etc. We can use this for the "early life" section in our article.

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In the medical articles I researched they mostly use apa citations along with footnotes.

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Your article should start off with a lead section. A lead section is basically a summarized introduction. You have to summarize the main points while introducing the topic and explaining why its relevant. This should help your readers understand the main points of the article. Don't add new information if it's not mentioned later in the article. Your lead should be at least 5% of your article.. For example, a featured article on autism has 8,000 words and the lead is roughly 300 words. A good article on Acne has a word count of roughly 8,500 words and the lead is around 450 words Your article needs to be well researched using reliable scholarly sources that have been peer reviewed. Unpublished sources are not deemed reliable. If you’re writing a medical article, you would be using a lot more books, websites that end in .gov, .org, .edu, you would also be looking at research that has been reviewed a dozen times. You wouldn’t want to get your information from a yahoo talk page because anyone could comment on there and not have the resources to back it up. For example, if you’re doing an article on breast cancer and you read off a random page that excessive blinking can be a symptom of breast cancer, where is the proof, where is the research to back that up? If you went to a scholarly website that said the same thing, but they provide the research behind it, and it's been peer reviewed, then you could consider using that as a source. Citing your sources is important, it helps build your credibility and reduce plagiarism by giving credit to whom you’ve received the information from. Also, citing your sources can help your reader conduct their own research and dive deeper on the subject. When should you cite? When you're quoting someone or paraphrasing their ideas you should cite them. If it isn't known information, like who our president is, then you need to cite your source. If your audience doesn't have an understanding or knowledge of the topic, you're presenting then you must cite your sources. If you had no idea about the knowledge you've just obtained, then you should cite your source. In-text citations and apa citations are a good way to cite your sources. You must be consistent with your citations, if you’re going to use footnote citations then continue to use that throughout the article, don’t jump from different formats. The article should be at least 8,000 words. In the two articles I read, one featured and one good article, they were about 8,500 words. Your article needs to be well organized, with headings, subheadings, etc. Adding images can help your reader further understand what you are presenting to them. Your images must be original or properly cited. Your article should be neutral, there should be no bias. You must make sure to get all points of view. Don’t go off topic or add unnecessary details. If it has nothing to do with the main topic or helping to further understand the topic, then don’t add it.

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In vocal music, the head voice, depending on vocal pedagogy, is a particular part of the vocal range, or type of vocal register, or a vocal resonance area.

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In vocal music, the head voice, depending on vocal pedagogy, is a particular part of the vocal range, or type of vocal register, or a vocal resonance area. Quintilian (c.a. AD 95) states that a raised voice comes from the chest not the head. Vocal registration is seen today as a product of laryngeal function, so the term "head register" is mostly not used. Although, according to an early 20th-century book written by David Clippinger, all voices have a head register. Clippinger claims that males and females switch registers at the same absolute pitches. Thomas Appell's 1993 book "Can you sing a high C without straining?" states that all singers do not switch registers at the same absolute pitch. Appell claims that higher vocal cord tension results in a higher pitch when transitioning from chest to head voice. He also claims that at a lower vocal cord tension the results are a lower pitch when transitioning from chest to head voice. These theories will be further examined throughout the article below.