http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54UzlFM9QU

Professor Splash

1. Stand upright and relaxed.
2. Keeping the measuring tape horizontal, measure the widest point around your hip/buttocks area.

Related blog: How to calculate your BAI.

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.

1 What is more important: Exercise or Nutrition? January 2008

What muscles does a squat work? September 2007

Chin Up vs Pull Up

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…..

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.

I think the person playing the ‘salmon’ deserves some sort of award for his role.

The best ever…?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdA5vcke8tA

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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…

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