More Money for Muscles? by Sherri L Dodd American Council of Exercise teamed with Consumer Reports to find the most effective exercise equipment. While they had plenty to say about weight equipment and cardio machines, abdominal, butt and inner thigh devices barely received a nod. In fact, the words used were “None worth considering.” Now, remember the purpose of Consumer Reports is to find the best buy for the money, which may contribute to the lambasting of belly and butt busters. But, the duo went on to explain that a large portion ... Is First Aid Different in the BackCountry? by Chuck Fitzgerald First aid is first aid is first aid – right? At first glance, providing first aid in the backcountry appears to be much like it is anywhere else. But if you look a little closer and you’ll find it is quite different. When you have finished this article, you will understand how it differs and how you, as an outdoor enthusiast, must think about it differently. Let’s start with the definition of first aid, followed by a little advice. First aid means just what it says – it is the initial help a per ... Basic Kitesurfing Techniques by Jakob Jelling This article will describe some kitesurfing techniques so you can advance in mastering the sport. The main advice is always to practice more. The more you practice your kitesurfing techniques, the better your skills become. One of the most important kitesurfing techniques is mastering the dead-man safety release system. This system and kitesurfing techniques associated with it are extremely important to you, especially if you are just starting to learn the kitesurfing sport. Carefully study the ... Kitesurfing Dangers by Jakob Jelling Kitesurfing is a very dangerous (or, as some people call it, extreme) sport. Before you try kitesurfing, you should definitely try to find out about all the potential kitesurfing dangers. The kitesurfing dangers may result from many different things: from equipment failure to human mistake to problematic weather conditions. Learning about the potential kitesurfing dangers will help you to prevent yourself from getting into dangerous situations and making dangerous mistakes. Of course, there are ... Kitesurfing Techniques - Launching & Landing by Jakob Jelling There are many different kitesurfing techniques that are important to kitesurfing sport. This article will focus on some basic kitesurfing techniques that will help you improve you kitesurfing skills and will allow you to have more fun and enjoy your experience while kitesurfing. However, you will need to spend enough time practicing these techniques before you can say that you have mastered them. One of the first kitesurfing techniques that you will need to learn are launching and landing techn ... The NFL Needs a New Tiebreaker by Terry Mitchell After enduring that disgusting final weekend of the NFL regular season, I have come to the conclusion that a new tiebreaker is needed. How a team performs during the final weekend should be the first tiebreaker, with all the current tiebreakers falling in line after that. A team that won its final game would hold the first tiebreaker advantage against a team they're tied with that lost its final game. If they both lost, both won, or both tied their final game, then the current tiebreakers would ... Sex Toys - History and Benefits by Steven S. Ng HISTORY OF SEX TOYS Sex toys have been used for thousands of years and many believe they had first originated from Asia. However, it was not until the ancient Greece time that sex toys such as dildos and other phallic objects were first made popular. Evidence also suggests that the Romans were the first to mass produce sex toys for a commercial purpose. The sex toys produced during these ancient times were often made out of smooth stones, carved wood, bronze or any solid fillings wrapped around ... Kitesurfing Technique - Body Dragging by Jakob Jelling This article will offer you several kitesurfing techniques that will help you advance in the kitesurfing sport. Remember to practices everything enough times until you become completely comfortable with the kitesurfing techniques. One of the kitesurfing techniques that we would like to discuss in this article is body dragging. This is a more advanced technique and you should be familiar with the basic techniques before proceeding to this one. You will need to practice the following steps (down t ... Got FUN? by Clyde Dennis I just can’t help but notice, some people just don't seem to be having any fun. I mean I know sometimes you gotta be all serious and get down to business but jeez, even that can be fun. And the truth is even in business the more fun you have doing it, the more effective you are at it. Fun is one of those things that’s totally free, and you really don’t even have to work at it to have it. Another really neat thing about it is that it’s always right where you are. Wherever you go, fun is right the ... Inspiring Baseball Quotations by Aron Wallad I loved being around the baseball players when they had something to say that I thought would have a positive impression. Here are some of the quotes that I have enjoyed and have inspired me. Bob Gibson “ I owe the public one thing - a good performance.” Sandy Koufax “ Pitching is the art of instilling fear.” Warren SpahnA sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch ... Dan - A Great Coach by Aron Wallad My wife, my daughter and I had been eagerly anticipating my daughter’s first lesson with Dan, her new batting coach. Of course, we heard how good he was. Our next door neighbor glowingly spoke of Dan’s expertise as a batting coach for girls. For the first lesson the three of us (my daughter, wife and I) were nervous about how this arrangement would work out. Would she respond to him, and could she relate to him so they could develop rapport so needed between coach and student? Would his rotatio ... Why I Would Rather Be A Slugger Than A Pitcher by Aron Wallad During the last NLCS, I asked Brandon Backe of the Astros what the hardest thing was for him in making the conversion from outfielder to pitcher in the minors. He said it was not playing every day. That is why I would rather be a slugger, to answer your question. I'd want my mind and body to be in every inning of every game. I wouldn't want to be one elbow injury away from a possible end of my career or a lost year. I listened to Nolan Ryan talk at the last All-Star FanFest in Houston about how ... Greatness Falls at the Hands of a True Legend by Alex Fitzsimmons It’s implausible to imagine the player who broke the most coveted record in football being remembered as the guy that couldn’t win the big game. Peyton Manning bears that ugly scar. After shattering Dan Marino’s single season touchdown passing record, throwing for 49 TD passes, Manning’s legacy was almost guaranteed to be that of one of the greatest signal callers ever. That is, until last Sunday, when in three repugnant hours of chaos and confusion, it all melted away. Previously known for his ... Extend the Life Of Your Flowers By Steaming Them by Gerry Belvedere This method of extending cut flower life may sound a bit drastic but it is quite effective. Have two clean buckets ready. Rinse them out with some bleach solution first. Boil some water in a kettle and fill bucket No.1 with 2 inches of the boiled water. Fill bucket No. 2 with 4 inches of cool water. Cut a half inch or so from the stems of your flowers or foliage and put them in the hot water for 20 seconds, no longer. Take them out and put them in the cool water. You should add 2 teaspoons ... Tips On Caring For Your Valentine's Day Flowers by Gerry Belvedere With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we thought this would be a great time to share a few tips on caring for cut flowers. Imagine it's Valentine's Day and you've just received a glorious bunch of roses. You put them in your best vase and you stand back to admire them. You'd love to make them last as long as you possibly can, but other than keeping them out of direct sunlight, you're not sure what to do. Here are some tips on how to extend the shelf life of your roses: Remove the roses f ... Golf Tip - Mirror Image by Perry Andrisen How 10 Minutes in Front of a Mirror Can Improve Your Golf Fundamentals Mirror, mirror on the wall, what do I really see after all? The truth is in what you see, not in what you feel. It might be raining or snowing outside where you're at, or maybe you've been unable to play for a while for other reasons. But that doesn't mean you can't still work on your game. So here's what you do: get your clubs re-gripped and your loft and lies checked. When you get your clubs back with fresh new grips, get ... How To Check If Cut Flowers Are Fresh by Gerry Belvedere Fresh flowers should feel crisp or firm. Before you buy, run your hand under the flower heads from stem to petal tip. Proceed gently under the petals so as not to bruise them. If the flower vendor objects, give them a withering look and enquire in a loud voice, Are these flowers fresh? If the flowers feel soft, cool or damp, don't buy them. Keep testing the other bunches until you find a good one. Often there are only one or two bunches older than the others. Look and listen. Really fresh flow ... Casino Craps - Easy to Play and Easy to Win by Tom McBroom Craps is the fastest - and certainly the loudest - game in the casino. With the big, colorful table, chips flying everywhere and players yelling, it's exiting to watch and exciting to play. Craps also has the one of the lowest house edges against you of any casino game, but only if you make the right bets. In fact, with one type of bet (which you will soon learn) you play even with the house, meaning that the house has a zero edge. This is the only casino game where this is true. THE TABLE LAY ... 3-Pointer (Feb 1) by Gary Whittaker Point 1: Rudy T steps down Let me get this straight. Rudy T, whose Lakers right now are still maintaining 7th place in the conference...WITHOUT their star player....says he is stepping down on Tuesday for both health reasons and dissatisfaction with the Lakers performance??? This two-time NBA championship team head coach, in the first year of a five year 30 million dollar deal, who has earned the respect and love of his players needs to retire only halfway through the first season because of a t ... Do Superstitions In Sports Actually Work? by Dr. Patrick J. Cohn What does it take to be successful in sports? I have talked a lot about motivation, confidence, and focus and desire. All of these are important, but what about luck? Do you ever wonder why athletes wear the same “lucky shirt” in competition such as Tiger Woods wearing his traditional red shirt on Sunday or athletes who eat the exact same meal for good luck prior to competition? Some teams even go as far as not washing their jerseys until they lose a game. Superstitions in sports are mainly base ... Aspect Ratio: Full Screen Vs. Wide Screen by Lawrence Roth Movies on DVD and VHS are often available in two screen formats: full screen and wide screen. The full screen is where a movie is modified to fit a television screen. If you have watched a video release, you have probably seen the message: “This film has been modified from its original version.” The wide screen version maintains the same size and shape of the original theatrical version. The reason for the different versions is aspect ratio. Motion picture screens have a different aspect ratio t ... Mental Tools To Help Racers Enter the Zone by Dr. Patrick J. Cohn On the start line, you were so confident that day, you believed no one could race with you. On the track, racing felt effortless and smooth. You were in the flow on every jump, bump, and turn. Your rhythm was perfect in the whoops. Every section of the track was executed just as you saw in your mind. Your mind was so immersed into racing each section--one at a time--that you were oblivious to other racers. Today you were not checking to see who was behind you. Your motorcycle responded with ease ... An Easy Way to Become a Good Blackjack Player by Tom McBroom Learning to play the game of casino Blackjack reasonably well is not rocket science, regardless of what the dozens of books on the subject would have you believe. Playing professionally at the expert level, as is true of any game, is indeed complex and takes years to perfect. But anyone can become a good recreational player and have a fighting chance against the casino simply by learning some very easy rules. So, if you're tired of throwing all your money away on brain-numbing slot machines, r ... Who Invented The Game Of Golf ? by David Humphrey Well, who actually did invent the game of Golf? The question has been asked and argued for many years with no true winner. Many countries have a valid claim to an early game that resembles the game of golf. Some of the countries that make this claim are England. Scotland, China, Rome, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Laos. The most heated debate over who invented golf definitely comes from Great Britain and Scotland. The first area to look when deciding the answer to our question must be wh ... Sports Betting as an Alternative Investment by Daniel B. King Many will dismiss outright the ability to make good returns on your investment through the medium of sports betting. It is not really surprising as betting is hard work, solitary, and you have to grind out thousands of bets to get your returns. Of course to many members of society - betting also carries a great big loser tag. This is not without justification since the vast majority of sports bettors do lose. I would, however, estimate that the percentage of losers would be equally high in the ... |
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