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From: Fred Bloggs on 3 Aug 2006 09:09 bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > Your confidence is misplaced. > > My field-hockey team's fitness training includes an exercise called > "hakkebillen" - literally "kick buttocks" - which involves running > slowly while bring up your heels behind you as high as you can go. My > knees aren't flexible enough to let me kick my own bottom this way, but > I can try, and fail, repeatedly without falling over. > You should take up Hindu squats- if you have knee problems then do them with your feet kept flat. Work up to 500 reps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_squat That hakkebillen sounds like something more for the hamstrings. Sprinting up hill, or steps, and another calisthenic called the Table Maker done isometrically will be more beneficial.
From: Ken Smith on 3 Aug 2006 09:27 In article <4je8poF7hvjbU3(a)individual.net>, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: [....] >It is quite possible to build a nuke with as little as 1kg of Pu >There have been suggestions (ie word of mouth, unpublished) that it >might be done with as little as 200g > >A lot depends on compression and neutron reflection. ....and the current price of Beryllium. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Fred Bloggs on 3 Aug 2006 09:32 Fred Bloggs wrote: > > > bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > >> Your confidence is misplaced. >> >> My field-hockey team's fitness training includes an exercise called >> "hakkebillen" - literally "kick buttocks" - which involves running >> slowly while bring up your heels behind you as high as you can go. My >> knees aren't flexible enough to let me kick my own bottom this way, but >> I can try, and fail, repeatedly without falling over. >> > > You should take up Hindu squats- if you have knee problems then do them > with your feet kept flat. Work up to 500 reps: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_squat I just realized that article was written by a wimp. You can add resistance to the Hindu squats with this accessory-any of those Power Jumpers: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search//002-4776722-5136856?&node=3375301&keywords=power%20jumper
From: Ken Smith on 3 Aug 2006 09:37 In article <t403d29dgm5umouirfnl55mi62ctu6sp9c(a)4ax.com>, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> wrote: >On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:36:30 +0100, Eeyore ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > >>Since it was given to them it's hardly a case of 'spending it' is it ? > > They HAVE to spend it here. THAT is the rule. > > It bolsters our economy, So you are suggesting that when we take money away from one group of americans and then have someone use it to buy things from another that will then be exported this bolsters the economy. The is utter nonsense. It leaves the US poorer. People have lost money and done work in exchange for nothing. > spurs technology, The US only sells the previous generation of hardware not the latest. The US airforce spends the money for development of the new fighters not the other countries they get sold to. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 3 Aug 2006 09:39
Ken Smith wrote: > In article <4je8poF7hvjbU3(a)individual.net>, > Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > [....] >> It is quite possible to build a nuke with as little as 1kg of Pu >> There have been suggestions (ie word of mouth, unpublished) that it >> might be done with as little as 200g >> >> A lot depends on compression and neutron reflection. > > ...and the current price of Beryllium. > Just crack open a few old power transistors. Dirk |