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From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 3 Aug 2006 09:40 Fred Bloggs wrote: > > > 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 > > If you want to totally destroy your knees. Ditto 'chicken walking'. Dirk
From: Fred Bloggs on 3 Aug 2006 09:44 Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: > Fred Bloggs wrote: > >> >> >> 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 >> >> > If you want to totally destroy your knees. > Ditto 'chicken walking'. > > Dirk That's bull- I do thousands of them, traditionally on toes, and the knees never felt better.
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 3 Aug 2006 10:56 Fred Bloggs wrote: > > > Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: >> Fred Bloggs wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> If you want to totally destroy your knees. >> Ditto 'chicken walking'. >> > > That's bull- I do thousands of them, traditionally on toes, and the > knees never felt better. And some people smoke 50 a day all their lives and don't get cancer. You don't know what your situation will be until its too late. Dirk
From: John Larkin on 3 Aug 2006 11:20 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:29:21 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Eeyore wrote: >> >> Don Bowey wrote: >> >>> On 8/2/06 8:39 PM, in article 44D16FE3.F09C46C3(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com, >>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Don Bowey wrote: >>>> >>>>> I suppose England should fervently hope they are not caught up again in a >>>>> debacle of their own. >>>> England ? >>>> >>>> Graham >>> Yes! You deaf? >> >> Tell me more about this *England*. >> >> Does it have an English Army, an English Navy and an English Air Force ? >> >> Does it have a seat on the UN Security Council too ? >> >> Graham >> >> >He's referring to the bit that owns Scotlandshire (Englands northernmost >county) Walesborough (also known as West England) and Island. > Ah, the mighty British Empire, on which the sun sometimes gets. >Dirk
From: John Larkin on 3 Aug 2006 11:23
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:08:25 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > >> Eeyore wrote: >> > >> > Don Bowey wrote: >> > >> > > On 8/2/06 10:02 PM, in article 44D1834D.314D1A6B(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com, >> > > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > > I'm wondering if it wouldn't have made more sense for Britain to have made >> > > > peace with Germany on the condition that France was un-occupied and >> > > the > 3 countries would rule a New >> > > Europe. >> > > > >> > > > We could have quietly had Hitler assasinated so many of the Jews would have >> > > > lived and Russia would have quietly taken the hint and kept out of the way. >> > > > >> > > > Had we gone that way, I reckon it's likely that half the globe would be >> > > > 'European' now ( think of the combined overseas territories of the former >> > > > colonial powers ) and the USA would simply be a colony again ! >> > > >> > > >> > > Dream on. My only comment is that this would be a very different world had >> > > the US not entered into the war in Europe. >> > >> > You're deluding yourself about possible scenarios. It was WW2 that made the USA a >> > world power. Without it you'd still be a backwater. >> > >> > Graahm >> >> England wouldn't exist. A "Backwater" country could not have >> converted all of its industry to war materials, food, and medical >> supplies > >You would appear to be talking about the UK it seems ! > > >> The US was already a power to be >> reckoned with, but we were minding our own business. > >So much so in your sleep encumbered state that Japan nearly delivered a knockout blow to >you at Pearl Harbor. Had the carriers not been out at sea, US naval power in the Pacific >could have been entirely discounted for several years ! > >> When push came to shove, we shoved, and won. > >You mean you were cajoled into it. > > >> You can whine, lie and cry all you want, but >> the facts are the facts. You could not have produced the steel, >> aluminum, copper and other needed metals in large enough quantities in >> time to build anything on the scale needed to win a World War. > >Which is why we asked you ! Tizard knew the value of large-scale industrial >manufacturing. We paid our bills too ! > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizard_Mission > >In return you got our 'golden jewels' utterly free of charge like radar and jet engines. > >Graham > > Old Chinese proverb: if you save someone's life, they will hate you forever. John |