Sports: HAIR, SEX AND BILLIARDS

HAIR, SEX AND BILLIARDS

Written by Jackie "The Angel" Broadhurst

Imagine you’re in another world…You are a pool player with red hair. You walk into repparttar

biggest pool hall in town where they are holding a national tournament. You think, “great, I’ll sign up.” When you go to pay your entry fee, they say you have to choose between The Red-Head Open (only red-heads allowed) and The Open (open to players of any hair color). “The Red-Head Open” is a race to 5, with only 100 participants, and has a $75.00 entrance fee. “The Open” is a race to 7, has 200 participants and a $150.00 entry fee. Curiously, first prize for both divisions paid about repparttar 132879

same. You ask, “Why don’t repparttar 132880

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blonds and brunettes play with them?” The tournament director looks at you like you are from another planet and says, “everybody knows that repparttar 132882

red-heads don’t have a chance against repparttar 132883

blondes.” You don’t understand because you don’t see how repparttar 132884

color of someone’s hair could make a difference in their pool game. You just want to beat all repparttar 132885

competition, so you decide to enter The Open Division. You’re practicing and someone walks by and says, “Hey you should take lessons from Chris, who taught repparttar 132886

#1 red head player in town.” That seems like a strange comment because you don’t know what that has to do with anything. You think a good instructor or coach should be measured by their ability to take any player and help them be repparttar 132887

best they can be no matter if they are short, tall, fat, skinny, black, brown, have red-hair or not. Your name is called to play your first match and you shake hands with your first opponent, who asks, “why are you playing in repparttar 132888

open division against all of these blondes and brunettes?” Is it to see how good you can do against them? Dumbfounded once again, you say, “No, I’m just here to win like any other tournament.” Surprisingly, you look around and see that you are repparttar 132889

only red head playing in The Open Division. Another person walks by, genuinely confused, and asks “Is this a real match going on, or are you two just practicing?” It’s a tuff match, but you manage to win 9-6. Spectators look to you with huge eyes and say, “If you could beat that brunette, you probably could have easily won repparttar 132890

red-headed tournament.” Then, a reporter walks by and says, “You’ve got a lot of guts playing with those blondes!” QUESTION #1) If you lived in this world which division would you play in? #2) Why? Before you continue reading, please email your response to me at theangelofbilliards@yahoo.com.

Playing games does not help your weight loss efforts

Written by Winston Ng

Feature Article:

Playing games does not help your weight loss efforts

By Winston Ng, Phenogy Health Advisors

Have you ever wondered why some fat people can be playing tennis, swimming and jogging often, yet they never lose weight?

Many overweight people began playing tennis, walking, running or swimming because they were told that these activities are aerobic and therefore, beneficial to weight loss.

So, is it really true that aerobic activities promote weight loss?

Technically it is true that aerobic programmes do help.

However, what constitutes an aerobic activity is repparttar real issue of contention.

In recent years, any weight loss program must include an aerobic activity component. Hence, many sports advocates attempt to remake their sport to appear to be an aerobic activity to ride on this wave of popularity.

The tennis, jogging, walking, running, swimming, golf industries all want a share of this aerobic market.

However, repparttar 132878 truth is that no sport can EVER be classified as an aerobic or non-aerobic activity.

Let’s review tennis and jogging as examples:

Tennis

This activity is far from being aerobic by virtue of repparttar 132879 fact that repparttar 132880 game mainly comprises of start-stop movement patterns. A player waits for repparttar 132881 ball and rushes to return. He then watches and braces himself for repparttar 132882 ball to be returned.

Adrenalin rushes when our body constantly rushes back and forth in this staccato fashion. This fast, responsive process is managed by our anaerobic (non-aerobic) sympathetic nervous system.

Tennis is definitely not an activity for aerobic development.

Jogging

In typical jog fashion, joggers focus on speed as a benchmark of improvement. This is perfectly fine if you are training up for a running competition. However, in a weight loss program, an increase in speed results in decreased aerobic performance.

Is there a speed threshold for aerobic activities?

No, there is no universal speed threshold for aerobic activities. Nevertheless, there are independent bio-markers that we can depend on to guide us into our most aerobic zone.

This is repparttar 132883 core of this article’s message. There is no such thing as an aerobic activity. There are only aerobic zones in an activity.

The conventional aerobic guidelines for most sports and activities, are in specific numeric benchmarks, like 10km/hour or 50 laps in 1 hour, without due consideration to individual differences.

Individual body differences range from physical size to blood aerobic conversion ability. Hence, an arbitrary level would force participants to achieve repparttar 132884 10km/hour (or whatever other benchmark). Then, in this process, they will constantly be subjecting their bodies to anaerobic (non-aerobic) stressors.

Ultimately, when you embark on any jog, run or swim for weight loss, you have to ensure that you are doing it in repparttar 132885 most aerobic zone of repparttar 132886 activity. Maintain your activity in repparttar 132887 most aerobic zone by following these simple guidelines;

1)Always ensure that you are able to day dream and think while running/ swimming/ jogging. If you are not able, it means that you are working out too hard for your current aerobic level.

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