A thought: let’s have a “car day” where everyone who normally cycles, drives.
Maybe then would intolerant drivers, who have slower trips to work, and then can’t find a park when they get there, being to appreciate those of us that cycle.
Maybe then will they not mind waiting 5-10 seconds, every now and then, to pass us on a narrow road.
Developing tolerant drivers
June 4, 2011Wicked party trick
March 18, 2011Professor Splash jumping from 11m into 30cm of water.
How to take your hip circumference
March 6, 2011Taking your hip circumference is easy.
- Stand upright and relaxed.
- Keeping the measuring tape horizontal, measure the widest point around your hip/buttocks area.
Related blog: How to calculate your BAI.
Body Fat Guestimations
March 5, 2011If you want a quick easy way to guestimate your body fat percentage then take a look in the mirror and then at these pictures.
How to calculate my BAI (Body Adiposity Index)
March 5, 2011I like the sound of this new alternative to BMI as a non-invasive measure of body composition.
BAI = Hip circumference (cm)/ (Height (m)x √Height (m)) – 18
Use this Google Spreadsheet to calculate your own BAI.
Here is a description on how to take your hip circumference.
Here is the article in Obesity.
2010 in review
January 13, 2011Here’s a summary of my top blog posts over the last year:
1 What is more important: Exercise or Nutrition? January 2008
2
What muscles does a squat work? September 2007
3
4 Diet Record Book / Diet Diary / Food Diary: Free Download October 2008
5 Subway vs McDonalds July 2007
Sad that they are all older than 2 years. Got to get some new material…..
The inconvenient truth…about health & nutrition
September 19, 2010A quote from Going Long that speaks the (often denied) truth:
With a few medical exceptions, the way you look is dictated by a huge number of tiny decisions that you make on a daily basis. In order to change ourselves, we need to take responsibility for ourselves.
Goal Celebration
July 29, 2010Brilliant goal celebration, apparently from the Iceland league.
I think the person playing the ‘salmon’ deserves some sort of award for his role.
The best ever…?
The beautiful game
July 4, 2010There is one thing that really bothers me when it comes to watching Football: the diving, the simulation…the cheating.
As the Science of Sport writes,
Football is a disgraceful fiasco which rewards cheating, even glorifying it.
From the first whistle to the last, players in football will seek to gain any advantage, no matter what level of cheating it requires.
Penalties are won by dives, players are sent off thanks to play-acting (just ask the Ivory Coast for their diabolical cheat against Brazil), and generally, matches resemble the WWE more than they do a competitive sports event.
All very pertinant points I agree with. However I disagee with one of his concluding statements:
…retroactive censure for these players could go a long way to stamping it out of the game.
Yes, to a point in ‘lower’ level games. But this would not stop diving, simulation, claiming fouls, or blatantly handling the ball on your own line to prevent (or score) a goal in the World Cup Final. Why not? Because players would happily take financial loss or match bans if it means their team could win the World Cup.
What is needed is a set of rules that will stop, what I see to be, the worst part of what is otherwise a beautiful game.
And here they are:
- A challenge system. Similar to Tennis, where each Captain is given 3 challenges per half that can be used to contest decisions made by the referee. They could be reviewed by a third official and ruled upon accordingly. If the Captain is correct then the desicion is reversed and they maintain their challege.
- Simulation is a red card offence. This includes over-acting when there is a genuine foul. In accordance with the above rule, I believe this would eliminate play acting and diving almost overnight.
- A ‘penalty goal’ can be awarded in a similar fashion to Rugby’s Penalty Try: “If a player would probably have scored a [goal] but for foul play by an opponent”. For example, a player hitting the ball away on their own goal line would qualify under this rule.
What do you think? What are the loop-holes?
Tidbit: If Spain or Germany win the 2010 World Cup then New Zealand will be the only unbeaten team at the tournament. I can see the t-shirts now…
Week day vege
May 29, 2010Is becoming vegetarian too extreme for you?
Maybe you would consider becoming a “weekday vege”?
