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thehungrykat1 · 2 years ago

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Step Up For Lupus By Purchasing These Limited Edition Banana Peel Flip Flops

May is Lupus Awareness Month so I’m happy to join the “Step Up For Lupus” campaign which was launched last May 3, 2023 at the Banana Peel Trinoma branch. Leading the event was Atty. Emmeline Aglipay-Villar and Dr. Geraldine Zamora from the Hope For Lupus Foundation, a non-profit organization that aims to promote the early detection and proper treatment of lupus by increasing public awareness about this rare and frequently misunderstood disease.

Banana Peel, a concept store that was the first of its kind in bringing trendy and comfortable flip-flops to the Philippines, and Hope for Lupus Foundation, have come together this year to introduce a special limited edition flip flop collection with their "Step Up for Lupus" campaign. Being a Lupus warrior myself and having gone through so many health challenges since I was first diagnosed with Lupus back in 2010, I was more than happy to join and support this noble advocacy.

Since 2002, Banana Peel has been committed to its promise to address the need for comfortable and trendy flip-flops in the local market. Along with that, they have also been actively contributing to society by supporting non-profit organizations and charitable institutions to make a meaningful impact throughout the years. Their Trinoma branch served as the venue for the launch of the Step Up For Lupus campaign which was attended by influencers and supporters of the foundation.

So what exactly is Lupus? Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that impacts millions of people across the globe, many of whom are women in their 20s to 40s, although it can also affect men, the elderly, and children. Some symptoms of the disease include joint pain, rashes, unexplained fever, hair loss, and in worst cases, can involve the kidneys, heart, lungs, and even the brain. Since lupus is one of medicine's great mimics and mysteries, there is still insufficient awareness about it, so many individuals face delays in diagnosis and are usually even misdiagnosed, similar to what I experienced before.

Welcoming me at the event was Dr. Geraldine “Ging” Zamora, one of the primary movers of the Hope For Lupus Foundation. Hosting the event was Trisha Duncan, a Lupus survivor herself and who I met before through one of my friends. The main purpose of this joint venture with Banana Peel is to generate funds to support the Hope for Lupus Foundation's efforts in assisting lupus patients, enhancing public knowledge about the illness, and promoting their advocacy through different projects.

The President and Founder of Hope for Lupus Foundation, Atty. Emmeline Aglipay-Villar, collaborated with Banana Peel to work together for the lupus community. Villar is also a lupus warrior. At 25, she was diagnosed with lupus, and she bravely turned her fear and weakness into a source of hope where people like her can have a support system in their fight against the mysterious lifelong condition. This is the reason why she established the organization.

A contract signing was held during the event to officially launch the partnership. This limited-edition flip-flop collection features unique designs representing the lupus community's strength and resilience.

The "Step Up for Lupus" Collection includes ladies and men's styles with unique designs that honor the fortitude and strength of lupus fighters. Each pair of flip flops cost only P600 and Banana Peel will be donating a portion of the proceeds from the sales of this collection to the Hope for Lupus Foundation.

In supporting this collaboration, customers will have an excellent opportunity to make a positive impact on the lupus community while shopping for a stylish and comfortable pair of slippers. These are available at all Banana Peel branches nationwide including their online platforms.

I went and purchased a couple of flip flops also for myself and to give to some of the friends. These two are my favorite varaints and I can wear them comfortably and fashionably during my travels and at the beach.

There is still no known cure for lupus. However, it can be managed and controlled with proper information and medical supervision. With your support, you can be part of the collective effort to provide vital attention to the disease and empower those affected by this rare condition.

Don't miss your chance to be part of the collective effort in building a world without lupus. Visit the Banana Peel physical stores, or head over to www.bananapeel.net and Banana Peel official online platforms like Lazada and Shopee to purchase a pair that will bring a difference to the lupus community, not just during Lupus Awareness Month but throughout the year.

#SteupforLupus #HopeforLupus #Lupus #Bananapeel #FlipFlops #Advocacy #Health

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hungarianbee · 4 years ago

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the kids rage (they hurt)

A little something I wrote for @rawrkinjd and @tumbleweedtech. ‘Cause we need more fics of the first generation of Witchers. In this:

Erland is 10 (founder of the School of the Griffin)

Arnaghad is 9 (founder of the School of the Bear).

(Words tagged with *’s have footnotes).

The boy is big. Looking at his muscled arms and wide shoulders, Erland would think him intimidating, if not for their circumstances. Next to the fancily dressed Sorcerer, whose voice dripped honey when he asked Erland about his health, the boy feels like the smaller threat.

Erland is good at catching threats. As the nightly lookout of a Skelligen ship he needed to develop keen senses less he became a smear on the deck by the arms of a kraken or beaks of harpies. Not a fortnight ago he sliced that fucker Elisedd* good because he caught him trying to steal his carefully hidden dried fruits. They were his favourites, Freya take him. It’s just his luck that Vanja wasn’t pleased with his reasoning.

Erland shifts his grip on his handaxe, feeling the ache in his knuckles and catching his blurry reflection in the shine of the weapon. That might be the reason Vanja sold him, come to think of it. But again, his mother was never fond of him. Would have punted him off the side of the ship to the sirens were he not better used as a deckhand.

Would his life be any different, now that he’s out of her sight? Erland doesn’t know, but as he looks at the assortment of kids, his blood boils. Most look scared, acting like tralls* on a leash, drawn within themselves. That can’t be his future.

His slitted eyes meet the dark gaze of the boy. Dark brown simmers with the same quiet rage that brews in Erland’s chest. Erland makes a show of hooking his axe to his hip. The boy follows the motion with keen eyes. His fingers twitch into fists. Erland slows his steps to get a little distance between the group, the boy following suit.

Their sides brush. “We sneak away from the camp when the moon is at its zenith,” he proposes quietly. He feels under scrutiny, but keeps his gaze on the mage’s back.

The boy’s murmur is thick with an accent Erland can’t identify. “Sooka*. I am not running.”

Erland has to stifle the urge to roll his eyes. Freya protect him. “Not running! Gòrach*. Fighting.” He mimes it in the air, a fist lashing out to hit an invisible foe.

The boy snorts so loud a girl looks back from the group questioningly. He bumps his shoulder into Erland hard enough that he almost staggers. “Koorosau*,” he nods, and rejoins the group.

That night the Sorcerer draws a circle around their camp. Erland watches as it flashes a yellow semi-globe around them, than the effect disappears altogether.

“What does it do?” he asks Alzur. A girl next to him curls into herself defensively.

The Sorcerer hums thoughtfully. “Just a little precaution. There are many beasts wandering around here.” His smile flashes white from his well-groomed beard. “I wouldn’t want you to get hurt.”

When Erland was five, they escorted a merchant from one island to the mainland. He had a way with words that he never heard before. Erland called it shadow tongue, because you always had to look behind the words to understand their true meaning.

Now, looking at Alzur’s pleasant face, Erland thinks that the mage knows shadow tongue too. He imagines that what the Sorcerer actually means here is this: “It’s a precaution, so you wouldn’t escape. I don’t want you hurt because I want to use you.”

Waves take him. Erland swiftly surveys the range of the circle. Luckily it’s big enough that they can still have a scuffle if they are careful.

The mage proceeds to magic a fire, blankets and hearty meal for them then retreats to his cozy-looking tent. Erland lays down with his back to the fire, maiming sleep. The low chatter slowly quiets down as the kids nod of.

The sky is clear, and the waxing moon gives a low light. Erland slowly sits up, and he sees the boy follow. The beads in the boy’s long, braided hair click quietly.

They make their way behind the tent out of sight. Erland lifts his fists, shifting into a stance that he learned on the ship. He leaves the axe on his hip as the other raises his own.

“Rules?” he asks.

“No rules,” the boy grins, surging forward.

Erland sidesteps him nimbly, knowing better than to take the brunt of strength like that. He puts out a feet to trip him instead, letting the other’s momentum do the work. The boy catches himself in time before he eats dirt, swiveling back to protect his back.

“Rules?” Erland asks again.

The boy measures him, then spits onto the ground. “Fine. No weapons, no permanent injury, first one to tap out loses,” he rattles off as he reaches into his leathers and discards two pocketknives to the side. Erland leaves his handaxe with the sharp things.

The moment his axe drops, the boy is on him. Erland’s fist meets the boy’s kidney, as his head snaps to the side by the force of a hit. Adrenalin surges in his veins and he tongues the split in his mouth. He takes a step back, lets the boy chase him as he delivers swift strikes to his stomach and sides.

He has to play this smart; he can’t win this by sheer force. The boy is taller and wider than him, but he’s used to these kind of odds. He brought down bigger men before.

Another fist comes for his neck and this time Erland grabs onto the arm and pulls. The boy clearly didn’t expect that, as he flails with the other arm ineffectively. Erland’s knee meets the boy’s stomach, and the air whistles out of tightly clenched teeth. Not to be outdone, the boy turns his head and bites into the meat of a shoulder.

Erland curses and grabs onto the boy’s hair, tugging on it non-too-gently, but the little tick is stuck for good. Giving it up, Erland curls an arm around the boy’s neck, trying to smother him. This time it’s the boy who trips him and Erland lands on his back, the other’s weight bearing down. He’s momentarily stunned and it gives enough time for the boy to straddle him. Erland puts up his arms just in time to shield from a blow, then another.

In the heat of the moment Erland sees only one option that ends with him coming out top.

He knees the boy in the balls.

The boy’s voice cracks high. “Blyaat*!” Curling up he falls off of Erland onto his side.

Erland takes a moment to breathe. “That wasn’t in the rules,” he points out, feeling defensive and a little ashamed.

The boy laughs roughly, and turns to face him. A lopsided smile stretches his lips. “You’re alright,” he extends his hand and Erland clasps his forearm uncertainly, the way he saw warriors do. “I am Arnaghad.”

“Erland,” he offers, than adds belatedly, a little sour. “Of Larvik.”

“Well, that’s touching,” comes a voice from behind them. The boys turn as if burnt. Alzur has his back to a tree, arms crossed as he watches them with bemused interest. Erland darts a quick glance to the line of circle; in their tussle they forgot about it, and now the line is broken.

Alzur smiles at him knowingly. “I didn’t appreciate the abrupt wake-up call, but you put on such a good show I might just forgive you.”

Arnaghad mutters something in his mother tongue and Alzur answers in the same language, sharp and curt. Then he says, dismissive, “Regardless, I don’t want to catch you pummeling each other. This kind of behaviour is not tolerated and will be punished were you to repeat it. Now go back to sleep.”

As the boys go to collect their weapons Erland catches Alzur musing under his breath. “Good batch. You might just make it.”

Stars in order:

Elisedd: Gaelic name, meaning “kind”. The irony amused me.

Trall: Skelligen, meaning slave

Sooka: Butchered Russian, ‘suka’ means bitch

Gòrach: Old gaelish, meaning stupid

Koorosau: Butchered Russian, ‘khorosho’ means okay

Blyaat: Butchered Russian, ‘blyat’ means fuck

#my shit #the witcher #erland of larvik #arnaghad #alzur #first meeting #my life for the feral kids

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mensbodybuildingtips · 5 years ago

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Does CrossFit Work?

All the awesome kids are doing CrossFit these days. Does it function? Should we all come to be 'WODKILLAS'?

' CrossFit will not just change your body,' an acquaintance told me, with a glint of fire in her eyes, 'it will change everything-who you are, how you view the world, what you think is possible.'

I'm a huge follower in the life-changing power of being fit, however she was being a little bit also significant also for me. I seemed like I was being hired for a crusade or trip, not an exercise program.

This kind of talk prevails among the CrossFit group, which is growing at an exponential rate these days. Is it whatever its followers-no, believers-claim it to be? Does it truly change simple 'exercising' right into something transcendent as well as sublime?

Let's find out.

What is CrossFit?

In situation you in some way don't already understand, CrossFit is a high-intensity workout program that focuses on carrying out a selection of toughness and also cardiovascular exercises, ranging from push-ups to sprints to clean as well as jerks.

The workouts are typically incorporated to 'Workouts of the Day,' or 'WODs' as the started call them, which are frequently brief (regarding HALF AN HOUR) as well as incredibly demanding. Efficiency is tracked and also placed to encourage friendly competition and procedure progress.

For instance, here's exactly what a CrossFit workout appears like (this set is called the 'Fran'):

Do the complying with as swiftly as possible:

Three rounds, 21-15- and 9 representatives of: 95-pound Thruster Pull-ups

But CrossFit is more compared to just getting in an exercise. It's the society that has made it so popular. Check it out:

Brilliant advertising, that's for sure. ( I wonder if CrossFit's founder, Greg Glassman, has reviewed this book?)

But does CrossFit live up to such claims? Does it warrant the hype?

I don't assume so. Let me explain.

CrossFit Does not Reach Re-Define the Meaning of Fitness

The Oxford English Thesaurus defines fitness as 'the condition of being healthy and healthy and balanced.' And fit is defined as 'in great health and wellness, due to the fact that of routine physical exercise.'

Using these thesaurus interpretations, we can gauge our fitness level in several means:

By testing our muscle strength.

By testing our cardiovascular conditioning.

By testing our body composition.

By testing our flexibility.

By testing our metabolic health.

Thus, as we get fitter...

We become stronger.

We become better at managing the cardiac tension of physical activity.

We come to be leaner and extra muscular.

We become more flexible.

We improve our body's capacity to use food for fueling and restoring itself.

Well, in CrossFit lingo, fitness has a various, a lot more short-sighted definition-one that Glassman invented, which he claims is the very first 'purposeful, quantifiable means' to specify the word:

' Raised job capacity across broad time as well as modal domains.'

So essentially, inning accordance with Glassman, you're as fit as you could do CrossFit. Creative and also convenient. But silly.

You're not as fit as you could do CrossFit.

Case in point: watch some CrossFit video clips on the internet or head into a CrossFit gym and also you'll see a great deal of weak, obese, inflexible individuals that assume they're Spartans due to the fact that they can do 30 kipping (counterfeit, foolish) pull-ups or finish the 'Murph' and after that make a quick browse through to Uncle Pukie's.

These people are not fit.

Now, I do not say that to cloth on individuals that aren't in wonderful form. I respect any individual that places in job to boost their health and fitness, despite their existing condition.

But I AM ragging on the unfit CrossFit snobs that believe that because I'm not a component of their 'WODSQUAD,' I'm physically substandard in some way.

Wait a 2nd ... I can out-lift, out-run, and out-stretch you, and also I'm bigger as well as leaner than you ... but you're exclusive due to the fact that you could strike Olympic raises with bad kind as well as do air crouches up until you puke?

CrossFit Isn't the Ultimate Way to obtain Fit

With that out of the means, let's discuss really obtaining fit, starting with a simple proposition:

An activity is as reliable for physical fitness as it develops strength as well as aerobic endurance, and improves body make-up, adaptability, and also metabolic health.

Simple enough, right?

Well, if you've ever been pitched on CrossFit, you were probably hit with numerous buzzwords:

Functional fitness

General fitness training

Full-body workout

Metabolic conditioning

General physical preparedness

The chatter usually comes down to the case that performing a wide array of exercises is the most effective way to accomplish overall physical fitness and also a visual body. That a typical exercise program just can not perform like CrossFit can.

Well, CrossFit does have its merits. The exercises are difficult and entail doing genuine workouts, as well as you will see results if you stay with it.

But it isn't really the finest method to obtain fit.

Let's first appearance at research study on what takes place when you combine toughness and also cardiovascular training.

Researchers from RMIT University functioned with trained professional athletes in 2009 and located that "combining resistance workout and cardio in the very same session might interfere with genes for anabolism." In nonprofessional's terms, they discovered that incorporating endurance and also resistance training sends out "mixed signals" to the muscle mass and harms their capacity to adjust to either.

They additionally located that cardio prior to the resistance training subdued anabolic hormonal agents such as IGF-1 and MGF, and also cardio after resistance training enhanced muscle cells breakdown.

Several various other research studies, such as those carried out by Kid's National Medical Center, the Waikato Institute of Innovation, and also the College of Jyvaskyla (Finland), came to same final thoughts: training for both endurance as well as toughness at the same time hinders your gains on both fronts.

Now does this mean CrossFit won't improve both toughness as well as endurance? No, naturally not. If you want to obtain huge and solid, or if you want to optimize your cardio ability, scientific research states that CrossFit isn't the best means to do either.

Thus, it's no surprise that many CrossFitters aren't specifically muscular or strong, and also have mediocre cardio. Actually, the only CrossFitters I have actually known that had remarkable strength, size, or cardio were adhering to a standard weightlifting as well as cardio program in addition to doing CrossFit.

In my experience, both in my own training and also in collaborating with numerous others, the most effective method to both construct stamina as well as improve cardio endurance is to different weight training and cardiovascular exercise.

That is, adhere to a conventional strategy to improving fitness.

CrossFit and Overtraining

Part of the CrossFit culture is taking 'no discomfort, no gain' to a whole new level. Training to the point of outright fatigue makes you a 'warrior.' Puking after a workout is a vaunted sacrifice to the gods of gainz.

Well, unless you get on drugs, this is a fast lane to overtraining, which can lead to severe problems. It could become persistent, which is a progressive onset of overtraining signs like general fatigue, depression, restlessness, anorexia nervosa, loss of desire to work out, as well as a lot more. Or it can be intense, as well as in extreme instances, deadly.

A male called Makimba Mimms was awarded $300,000 in damages from a neighborhood CrossFit fitness center and his fitness instructor for injuries he endured during a CrossFit exercise in 2005. Those injuries consisted of rhabdomyolysis, a problem where seriously and rapidly harmed muscle cells is released into the blood stream, which can cause kidney failure.

The Workout of the Day, or 'WOD,' that nearly killed Mimms was relabelled the 'Makimba' and categorized as a youngsters's workout. Har har. Poor taste in jokes apart, nobody is unsusceptible to rhabdo.

For instance, in January 2011, 13 football gamers at the University of Iowa were hospitalized with rhabdo after doing a workout that consisted of 100 squats with 50% of their one-rep max. It wasn't a CrossFit exercise, however was similar in that it had them doing compound lifts for high representatives and also under severe fatigue.

Here's the simple truth of the issue:

If you're out medications as well as you're educating to complete physical fatigue multiple times weekly, and particularly if your workouts include weight training, you're mosting likely to wind up overtraining. It's only a matter of time.

CrossFit and Injuries

One of the very first points I observed concerning individuals I recognized doing CrossFit was mostly all of them had gotten pain. Strains, drew muscle mass, even torn ligaments.

I had not been surprised. Why? For a couple reasons.

The safety of the CrossFit workouts depends a lot on the trainers. If a rookie is going to execute a compound lift like a deadlift or squat, or an advanced Olympic lift like the nab, he had much better recognize precisely what he's doing. If the coach hasn't educated him best kind, or pushes him to move a great deal of weight or go to outright failing (which is typical in CrossFit classes), the chance of injury goes way up.

Unfortunately, nevertheless, an excellent trainer could just do so a lot. CrossFit features a raised threat of injury built right into it. Exactly how so?

Because CrossFit has you aiming to strike hefty Olympic lifts when you're worn down, which is a recipe for injury. Research has actually revealed this with the squat: as exhaustion sets in, create invariably worsens. Interestingly enough, our understanding of series of movement also alters with fatigue-what feels like all-time low of the squat really isn't really.

If you're tired out, you should not be trying to execute heavy weight-lifting exercises, and also especially not huge substance exercises like deadlifts, squats, as well as Olympic lifts.

Don't believe me?

' The problem concerns tiredness and going to failing,' states Stuart McGill, Ph.D., a teacher of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. 'Some exercises contribute to this as well as others are not.' McGill puts Olympic lifts in the 'not' category.

' Duplicating activities where form is compromised with exhaustion actually does not fit the viewpoint of Olympic lifting to decrease injury danger and also boost performance.'

This is one of the reasons the American College of Sports Medication advises at the very least 3 minutes of remainder between hefty weightlifting sets (1-6 reps).

So, you're not assured to obtain injured doing CrossFit, yet you're at a greater danger of injury if you follow the routine protocols.

Unsurprisingly, minority people I recognize that have been doing CrossFit for any purposeful amount of time without obtaining harmed are knowledgeable weightlifters and insert proper remainder periods between heavy collections of lifting.

So Should You Do CrossFit?

The solution to this concern really relies on your goals.

If you're seeking to obtain trimmer and also have some enjoyable, then CrossFit isn't really a poor choice if you have a great train and know exactly how to avoid overtraining and injury. People likewise like the affordable atmospheres as well as sociability of CrossFit gyms, which is totally understandable.

But if you're aiming to maximize strength or muscle gains, or maximize your aerobic capability ... CrossFit is not the optimal selection. You'll do better adhering to a proper weight training or cardio training program.

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yogaadvise · 6 years ago

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Yin Yoga

Feeling like your yoga exercise method is ramped up to be a little as well yang nowadays? Yearning for greater adaptability and an extra calm session on the mat? Yin yoga exercise, done at a near-glacial pace, might be your following terrific adventure. Yin is the softer, a lot more yielding concept of yin-yang, as well as yin yoga exercise is slower, much more reflective, as well as a lot more still than your power yoga exercise or ashtanga course.

The Tao of Yoga

Yin yoga is based on the Tao, the universal concept underlying all points, as well as it is designed to dig deep into the expert's body and also understanding. A lot of the stances are carried out sittinged or relaxing as well as include stretches, static postures, and breath job. Asanas are held for anywhere from 3 to five minutes as much as 20 mins. It's slow yoga as well as targets connective tissue, fascia, ligaments, as well as tendons much more intensively as well as completely than faster-paced, a lot more energetic yoga exercise could do.

Mind Over Muscle

The factor of yin yoga is to ease as well as protect rigid joints, especially the connective tissue of the reduced spine, hips, and hips. This is an aid to proper reflection stance and counters the inflexibility that has aging or extensive sports training. At the exact same time, the technique is soothing and also corrective, boosting the chakras and also the nadis, or energy networks, to urge equilibrium and an unblocked energy circulation throughout the body. A yin strategy lowers tension and also enhances emphasis and stamina.

Simon Low, co-founder of Triyoga Studio in London as well as of The Yoga Academy educator training program, mentions that a conventional yoga exercise course is straight, it moves with a series of active, dynamic asanas, warming up and cooling down. Yin yoga is a lot more circular, like nature itself, as the yogi spirals much deeper and deeper right into each posture.

' Yin yoga is a combination of corrective asana as well as even more difficult passive, earth-based stances,' Low claims in a LoveToKnow meeting. 'This reflective yin method is deeply beneficial ... we develop reservoirs of energy. Functioning especially deeply with our breath, we could trip right into the inner realms of our being, as we explore and comprehend the further meditative high qualities of yoga exercise practice.'

Give and Get

Letting go of tough warm yoga exercise, competitive power yoga, or cardiovascular physical fitness goals for your mat work supplies a basket of benefits, whether you integrate yin courses with more conventional yogas or go all-yin. Several of the benefits yin yoga exercise provides are:

Open hips

Relaxed pelvic area

Stronger, pain-free reduced spine

Better mobility in all joints

Calm and centered mind

Balanced body as well as free power circulation

Lower stress

Better anxiety management

Improved lubrication and also security of joints

More flexible fascia (the sheath of fibrous tissue confining a muscular tissue or other organ)

Increased stamina

Effortlessly still meditation seat

Improvement of your even more yang yoga method

Do It Differently

In most yoga exercise classes, series are active mixes of stretches, seatsed as well as standing postures, inversions, twists, as well as flexes. You do dynamic and muscular moves that extend and agreement muscles, construct internal heat, as well as raise your heart rate. This more energetic or yang yoga exercise additionally reduces anxiety, boosts fitness, enhances range of activity, and also stabilizes the body's energy circulation. It does not-- and also isn't created to-- go deep right into muscle mass and connective tissue to launch old obstructions and brand-new injury- or age-related stiffness. Yin yoga exercise resembles resting zazen: you think the position, resolve right into it, and hold it in tranquility and also recognition for a prolonged length of time. This can obtain awkward and also takes some modification. Yin yoga exercise isn't really a gentle nap. Nevertheless, it awards determination on a different degree compared to a traditional yoga technique.

Get Down, Stay Down

Asanas in yin yoga resemble however not the same to hatha asanas. Their names do not constantly straighten with the names of the poses you might recognize with, a method to alert you that you get on an atypical journey with yin. The distinction is that the yin versions are approached with the mindfulness you will certainly find your finest position and also hold that position for minutes, not breaths. As your muscles and also connective tissue unwind, you may be able to grow the posture after a few minutes. If you are particularly tight or damaged, props are urged, as well as a good instructor will certainly supply adjustments to allow you to remain in the pose securely. You do not scorching through a lengthy checklist of presents in yin course, you would certainly be there all day if you attempted to do that. You do wring every last little bit of value out of the presents you effort.

Swan

Swan position is the yin variation of hamsasana (swan in hatha yoga), yet it much more very closely appears like conventional one-legged pigeon position. In a yin sequence, you start in upright swan, one leg bent, one leg expanded behind you, upper body put up. After a couple of minutes, you delicately move into sleeping swan with the upper body long and the head resting on a boost or the gone across arms. As the asana ends, a few light stretches prepare you for the opposite-side swan, or the following pose.

Dragon

A dragon sequence opens up the hip flexors as well as proceeds through several variants. Yin dragon looks like traditional warrior 1 and also 2. However dragon is reduced to the ground as well as advances right into a various partial spin called lizard, which comes to be a more intriguing whole-body spin, naturally called dragon twist. You may move through a whole sequence, investing a minute-- or 5-- in each position. Or you could limit a session to just the initial dragon, holding it for numerous mins prior to launching, shaking out in downward-facing pet dog, and also switching to the opposite side.

Butterfly

A yin butterfly is baddha konasana, bound angle pose, with legs angled into a relaxed diamond instead of drew strongly in to the torso. It works all the leg and hip muscle mass and connective tissue without emphasis on just the groins or simply the hamstrings. As you grow the posture, you slowly relocate the arms onward, extending the spine as well as reducing the head. Coming out of yin postures is also a sluggish process and entails counter extending to shake out any type of tightness from holding the posture.

Yin on the Mat

Observing a yin course is a little bit more exciting than enjoying paint dry, but taking the class is all kinds of drama. It's not your mom's yoga exercise course. You may not need a mat. You will certainly require pillows, boosts, a blanket, a studio will certainly give the props and also comfy products. There is no warm-up series. You go right into the very first yin posture with chilly muscle mass. The factor for that is warmed-up muscle mass are actively engaged and also will absorb the majority of the stretch. You intend to go deeper compared to that, so you relieve into each pose simply to the point where it comes to be stressful which's where you hold. The educator will offer demonstrations and also a running dialog of support and also support, supply props, and suggest adjustments. You will not cover a great deal of ground-- a handful of presents-- however you will certainly have taken a trip to a new level of method by the time the bell appears gently at the end of course.

Basic Prep

Skip the trendy lycra as well as put on loose comfy clothes, with layers to preserve temperature. You will not be functioning up a sweat as well as you do not intend to come to be cooled. No consuming before class, but a shower would not hurt. The majority of workshops ask you to leave off the perfume as class entails deep breathing. Put your phone on aircraft setting-- do this in your home, also. Don't take course when you are worn down or rushed.

Sample Sequence

A example yin yoga exercise session in Yoga Journal stabilizes the kidney meridian, an energy course via the body. It's a slow-moving circulation with nine presents: butterfly, saddle, sphinx, seal, youngster's, half-dragonfly, dragonfly, complete ahead bend, and savasana. You invest 3 to five minutes in each posture-- you could need to develop to this-- peaceful as well as breathing mindfully with long breaths in between positions. In meditation, you consistently return your focus on the breath in order to still your babbling mind. In this yin series, you remain alert to your body, specifically bending and loosening up muscles in feedback to refined signals of pain or ease.

Tough Truth About Soft Yoga

Yin yoga exercise is not for pushovers, and also it isn't developed to fix up an injury. Holding muscular tissues at the factor of resistance for lengthy stretches can seem severe. Also after you clear up right into a practice, the self-control is rigorous, the alleviation upon launching a present is apparent. If you are wounded, expectant, or have a major medical condition such as diabetes mellitus or hypertension, consult your doctor prior to beginning yin yoga. Handle your assumptions-- the experience is nothing like your vinyasa studio. Yin yoga is not affordable but you should approach it with all the resolve and also focus of a major athlete. After that hit your reflection padding to secure in all the benefits of sluggish yoga exercise and your more unwinded and non-fidgety body.

#asana #ashtanga yoga #hatha #Hatha Yoga #kundalini yoga #meditation #power yoga #vinyasa yoga #yin yoga #yoga #yoga journal

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podcastdx · 4 years ago

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Lupus

Britt Clark is a patient advocate and the founder of Lupus Lyfe, a blog about living with lupus. She is also a lupus patient leader for WEGO Health and actively participates in discussions and panels advocating for chronic illness warriors. She has battled lupus, fibromyalgia, trigeminal neuralgia and recently stage 1 kidney cancer. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her husband and 2 sons and traveling.

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Yet another way dogs help the military: aeromedical patient evacuations

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They're physically and emotionally wounded -- most likely suffering from post-traumatic stress. Members of the United States military who serve abroad often return to the U.S. to treat their injuries and must be transported by aeromedical evacuation between medical facilities. Those who undergo these types of evacuations are in states of both chronic and acute stress.

While much is known about the benefits of animal-assisted interventions in a variety of health care settings, there is limited evidence of the biological and psychosocial effects of this form of interaction in the military population, particularly in an aeromedical staging facility setting.

A study led by a Florida Atlantic University researcher in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Cheryl A. Krause-Parello, Ph.D., R.N., and collaborators, sought to test the feasibility and effectiveness of animal-assisted interventions to reduce stress in aeromedical staging facilities. For the study, they teamed up with a local not-for-profit animal organization that trains therapy dogs to visit health care facilities, libraries, and other community based settings with a certified dog handler.

"We know that stress can impede healing, which is why it's so important for practicing clinicians in aeromedical staging facilities and other health care settings to examine ways to reduce patient stress," said Krause-Parello, senior author, founder and director of Canines Providing Assistance to Wounded Warriors (C-P.A.W.W.) at FAU, the Sharon Phillips Raddock Distinguished Professor of Holistic Health in FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, and a faculty fellow in FAU's Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention (I-HEALTH), one of the university's four research pillars. "If animal-assisted intervention is effective in reducing stress, then this novel, innovative, and noninvasive intervention could easily be incorporated into these and other military settings."

For the study, recently published in the journal Stress and Health, the researchers examined the stress biomarkers cortisol, which affect the cardiovascular system and result in higher blood pressure, alpha-amylase, an enzyme, and immunoglobulin A, a blood protein that impacts the immune system, which were collected at regular intervals. The study sample included 120 military members ages 18 to 55 years old who were undergoing aeromedical evacuation. The majority of the male and female participants were in the Army (56.2 percent) followed by the Air Force (30.6 percent), Navy (7.4 percent), and Marine Corps (5 percent).

Results showed that an animal-assisted intervention in aeromedical staging facilities is both feasible and effective at reducing stress. Cortisol levels decreased significantly in the study participants following a 20-minute animal-assisted intervention. Patients with higher post-traumatic stress had a greater reduction in stress associated with immunoglobulin A, compared to those in the control group. Patients who participated in animal-assisted intervention experienced greater decreases in stress biomarkers than those who participated in the control group, regardless of post-traumatic stress symptom severity.

"The response to the animal-assisted intervention in our study was overwhelmingly positive," said Krause-Parello. "Study participants told us that they enjoyed interacting with the dogs, and the staff at the aeromedical staging facility also enjoyed visits from the dogs and their handlers."

Chronic stress is associated with increased morbidity and mortality from numerous physical and mental health disorders including heart disease, kidney disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, ulcer, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

"Results from this cutting-edge, nurse-led study by Dr. Krause-Parello and her colleagues offer promising, significant contributions to the field and to the military to support care of wounded service members. The finding that the animal-assisted intervention significantly reduced stress levels in post-traumatic stress symptom severity is powerful, especially in light of high rates of PTSD, cost of treatment, and the related co-morbidities," said Safiya George, Ph.D., R.N., dean of FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing.

The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Maryland School of Nursing; the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University; TriService Nursing Research Program, Uniformed Services University; and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

This research is supported by The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is the awarding and administering office (award number HT9404-12-1-TS06, N12-011). This research is sponsored by the TriService Nursing Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Poop4U Blog via www.Poop4U.com , Khareem Sudlow

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Sukarno | president of Indonesia

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Sukarno | president of Indonesia

Sukarno, also spelled Soekarno, (born June 6, 1901, Surabaja [now Surabaya], Java, Dutch East Indies—died June 21, 1970, Jakarta, Indonesia), leader of the Indonesian independence movement and Indonesia’s first president (1949–66), who suppressed the country’s original parliamentary system in favour of an authoritarian “Guided Democracy” and who attempted to balance the Communists against the army leaders. He was deposed in 1966 by the army under Suharto.

Early life and education

Sukarno was the only son of a poor Javanese schoolteacher, Raden Sukemi Sosrodihardjo, and his Balinese wife, Ida Njoman Rai. Originally named Kusnasosro, he was given a new and, it was hoped, more auspicious name, Sukarno, after a series of illnesses. Known to his childhood playmates as Djago (Cock, Champion) for his looks, spirits, and prowess, he was as an adult best known as Bung Karno (bung, “brother” or “comrade”), the revolutionary hero and architect of merdeka (“independence”).

Sukarno spent long periods of his childhood with his grandparents in the village of Tulungagung, where he was exposed to the animism and mysticism of serene rural Java. There he became a lifelong devotee of wayang, the puppet shadow plays based on the Hindu epics, as animated and narrated by a master puppeteer, who could hold an audience spellbound through an entire night. As a youth of 15, Sukarno was sent to secondary school in Surabaya and to lodgings in the home of Omar Said Tjokroaminoto, a prominent civic and religious figure. Tjokroaminoto treated him as a cherished foster son and protégé, financed his further education, and eventually married him off at age 20 to his own 16-year-old daughter, Siti Utari.

As a student, Sukarno chose to excel mainly in languages. He mastered Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, and modern Indonesian, which, in fact, he did much to create. He also acquired Arabic, which, as a Muslim, he learned by study of the Qurʾān; Dutch, the language of his education; German; French; English; and, later, Japanese. In Tjokroaminoto’s home he came to meet emerging leaders who spanned the rapidly widening national political spectrum, from feudal princelings to fugitive communist conspirators. The eclectic syncretism of the Tjokroaminoto ménage, like the romance and mysticism of wayang, imprinted itself indelibly upon Sukarno’s mind and personality. He was later to treat nation-making as a heroic theatrical, in which the clash of irreconcilable men and ideas could be harmonized through sheer poetic magic—his own.

Endowed with commanding presence, radiant personality, mellifluous voice, vivid style, a photographic memory, and supreme self-confidence, Sukarno was obviously destined for greatness. In 1927 in Bandung, where he had just acquired a degree in civil engineering, he found his true calling in oratory and politics. He soon revealed himself as a man of charisma and destiny.

Sukarno’s amours were almost as renowned as his oratory. He divorced Siti in 1923 and married Inggit Garnisih, divorcing her in 1943 and marrying Fatmawati, with whom he had five children, including his eldest son, Guntur Sukarnaputra (b. 1944). As a Muslim, Sukarno was entitled to four wives, so he took several more wives in the following decades.

Indonesian independence

For his challenge to colonialism Sukarno spent two years in a Dutch jail (1929–31) in Bandung and more than eight years in exile (1933–42) on Flores and Sumatra. When the Japanese invaded the Indies in March 1942, he welcomed them as personal and national liberators. During World War II the Japanese made Sukarno their chief adviser and propagandist and their recruiter for labourers, soldiers, and prostitutes. Sukarno pressured the Japanese to grant Indonesia its independence and, on June 1, 1945, made the most famous of many celebrated speeches. In it he defined the Pantjasila (Pancasila), or Five Principles (nationalism, internationalism, democracy, social prosperity, and belief in God), still the sacrosanct state doctrine. When the collapse of Japan became imminent, Sukarno at first wavered. Then, after being kidnapped, intimidated, and persuaded by activist youths, he declared Indonesia’s independence (August 17, 1945). As president of the shaky new republic, he fueled a successful defiance of the Dutch, who, after two abortive “police actions” to regain control, formally transferred sovereignty on December 27, 1949.

From his revolutionary capital in Yogyakarta (formerly Jogjakarta), Sukarno returned in triumph to Jakarta on December 28, 1949. There he established himself, his collection of paintings, and his numerous retinue in the splendid palace of the Dutch governors-general. He proceeded to preside urbanely over a spectacle that was at once diverting and disturbing. His increasingly numerous and outspoken critics maintained that Sukarno inspired no coherent programs of national organization and administration, rehabilitation, and development, such as were quite clearly necessary. He seemed instead to conduct a continuous series of formal and informal audiences and a nightly soiree of receptions, banquets, music, dancing, movies, and wayang. Indonesian politics became increasingly frenzied, with Sukarno himself engaged in devious maneuvers that made stabilization impossible. The Indonesian economy foundered while Sukarno encouraged the wildest of extravagances. To be sure, the nation scored impressive gains in health, education, and cultural self-awareness and self-expression. It achieved, in fact, what Sukarno himself most joyously sought and acclaimed as “national identity,” an exhilarating sense of pride in being Indonesian. But this achievement came at a ruinous cost.

After “dreaming” in late 1956 of “burying” the feuding political parties in Indonesia and thus achieving national consensus and prosperity, Sukarno dismantled parliamentary democracy and destroyed free enterprise. He ordained “Guided Democracy” and “Guided Economy” for the achievement of Manipol-Usdek and Resopim-Nasakom—arcane acronyms symbolizing policies but signifying dictatorship.

Sukarno’s personal and political excesses, as epitomized eventually by his neo-Marxist, crypto-communist ideology and his infamous cabinet of 100 corrupt and cynical ministers, induced a continuous state of national crisis. Sukarno narrowly escaped recurrent attempts at assassination, the first in 1957. Regional insurrections broke out in Sumatra and Sulawesi in 1958. Inflation escalated the cost-of-living index from 100 in 1958 to 18,000 in 1965 and on up wildly to 600,000 in 1967. In 1963, after shouting repeatedly “To hell with your aid” (1950–65 total: U.S. $1,000,000,000), Sukarno all but broke with the United States. After having exacted U.S. $1,000,000,000 in Soviet armaments and other items, he next affronted Moscow.

On January 20, 1965, Indonesia formally withdrew from the United Nations because the latter supported Malaysia, which Sukarno had vowed to “crush” as “an imperialist plot of encirclement.” Yet, until 1965, Sukarno was still able to stir the Indonesian masses to near-hysterical belligerency. Millions of Indonesians sang and shouted his slogans and acclaimed Sukarno as “Great Leader of the Revolution,” “Lifetime President” (his official title), and oracle and warrior of the Nefo—his acronym for the “New Emerging Forces”—in violent conflict with Nekolim—the neocolonialism, capitalism, and imperialism of the “doomed” Western powers.

The coup of 1965

The nation was shocked and shaken out of its trance by an abortive coup on September 30, 1965. A clique of military conspirators calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and killed six top army generals, seized a few key urban points, and proclaimed a new revolutionary regime. General Suharto, the commander of the Jakarta garrison, swiftly reversed the coup.

Suharto and the military generally believed the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia; PKI)—which to some measure had been supported and protected by Sukarno—to be behind the attempted coup. The PKI, by contrast, understood the plot to be entirely a military matter. There ensued an oblique contest for power between Suharto and Sukarno, during which thousands of communists and alleged communists were slaughtered by the military; estimates of the number of people killed during the purge range from 80,000 to more than 1,000,000. As the country recoiled in horror, activist youths demanded the political demise of Sukarno, the Sukarnoists, and Sukarnoism and the total reform and reorganization of the state. On March 11, 1966, Sukarno was obliged to delegate wide powers to Suharto, who subsequently became acting president (March 1967) and then president (March 1968), as Sukarno sank into disgrace and dotage.

Sukarno died at the age of 69 of a chronic kidney ailment and numerous complications. Suharto decreed a quick and quiet funeral. Nevertheless, at least 500,000 persons, including virtually all of Jakarta’s important personages, turned out to pay their last ambivalent respects. The next day another 200,000 assembled in Blitar, near Surabaya, for the official service followed by burial in a simple grave alongside that of his mother. The cult and ideology of Sukarnoism were proscribed until the late 1970s, when the government undertook a rehabilitation of Sukarno’s name. His autobiography, Sukarno, was published in 1965.

Willard A. Hanna The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Is CrossFit Bad For Your Back?

The Rx Review: Reporting on Fitness and CrossFit News, Brent Wells

CrossFit has been called a “killer” workout program by its founder Greg Glassman. So if you find that your back is ‘killing’ you after a CrossFit session, you’re not alone. New studies report that spinal injury rates in CrossFit athletes is 20%, with lower back pain the most common complaint.

What was that? CrossFit causes back pain?… Well, if so, what can we do about it?

Today’s “Workout of the Day” is learning about back pain as a CrossFit athlete:

Overview of CrossFit

As you know, CrossFit is a workout program that emphasizes differing exercises that increase in intensity over time. CrossFit is not for the weak. In fact, its “killer” mantra often attracts the country’s fittest men and women, including Olympians, police, firefighters and military personnel.

Common CrossFit spinal injuries

There are two categories of back pain that CrossFit athletes typically experience. Both are often cited in research studies about CrossFit spinal injuries and have unique symptoms and consequences.

Lower back pain

Lower back pain is characterized by a dull ache or stabbing sensation in your lumbar region. This pain is commonly caused by overextended muscles, whether during exercise or after lifting something heavy. For CrossFit athletes, this pain may become chronic if it continues for over three months. In fact, spinal injuries for CrossFit athletes last an average of 6 months, making it a chronic and serious medical condition.

Rhabdomyolysis (Rhabdo)

Rhabdomyolysis, or rhabdo, is an urgent medical condition that results from muscle fibers dying and floating into the bloodstream. However, rhabdo often feels like extreme muscle pain in your lower back. If you’re experiencing lower back muscle pain and weakness and your urine is dark red or brown, you may have rhabdo. You should seek urgent medical care, as rhabdo can cause kidney failure and even death.

For CrossFitters, rhabdo is caused by extreme muscle strain. Specifically, there’s one case of rhabdo reported for every 101 CrossFit participants. The more muscle mass the person has, the more serious the condition. It can also be caused by:

Use of drugs or alcohol

High body temperature

Muscular disease

Viral infections

Bacterial infections

Generally speaking, if you’re experiencing lower back pain after a CrossFit workout, be sure it’s not rhabdo. The most telling sign is dark red or brown urine. New studies show that this condition is a cause for concern in CrossFitters, so consult a doctor immediately if you think you may be experiencing rhabdo.

CrossFit risk factors for lower back pain

Is CrossFit bad for your back? Not necessarily, but it definitely presents some risks for lower back pain. Let’s go over the reasons why CrossFitters might struggle with lower back pain below.

Too much, too soon

The biggest issue with CrossFit is its intensity. CrossFit focuses on high-intensity exercise. For newbies, CrossFit can be especially risky because of the desire to do more and more right away. CrossFit also proposes a “no pain, no gain” style of exercise that may make CrossFitters more prone to injury.

Preventative strategy: Know your body’s limitations. If you adore CrossFit, just be sure to know when to stop. Don’t push yourself too far or put yourself in a position where you could get injured.

Lack of proper form

Sometimes during CrossFit workouts, athletes compromise form for speed. When this occurs, this lack of proper form is known to cause injuries. In terms of lower back pain, you could overextend your muscles if you’re not using the equipment properly, or doing reps with correct form.

Preventative strategy: Get a personal CrossFit trainer and focus on correct form. Research studies suggest that CrossFit athletes saw decreased injury rates when trainers or coaches guided them through the workout and showed them how to do certain exercises. Make sure you pay attention to form, especially when starting CrossFit.

“Killer” workouts

Because CrossFit focuses on extremely intensive activity, its “killer” workouts have been cited as the underlying cause for emergency room injuries, especially rhabdo. In particular, studies on CrossFit injuries suggest that there are five workouts that are extremely difficult and cause the most injuries:

Fran

Murph

Fight Gone Bad

Helen

Filthy 50

In the study, these workouts were cited as the trigger for rhabdo. The top workout, Fran, accounted for almost half of the participants’ responses regarding difficulty.

Preventative strategy: Maybe take it easier when participating in “killer” workouts such as the five listed above. Or at least know your body and whether you’re physically prepared to participate in these extremely intensive workouts. Don’t push yourself too much!

Dangerous powerlifting

New studies show that lower back pain in CrossFitters is most often a result of powerlifting. These powerlifting movements cause overextension of lumbar muscles, leading to pain and injury.

Preventative strategy: As suggested by The Rx Review, scale your workout. Don’t overlift weights or try to impress others. You should choose the weight that’s right for you. It shouldn’t be too light or too heavy, but a doable challenge.

Too much focus on aerobic exercise

Northwestern University researchers suggest that CrossFit focuses too much on aerobic exercise and not enough on core strength. While aerobic exercise is good for you, CrossFit doesn’t have the kind of core strengthening needed to support workouts and prevent injury.

Preventative strategy: Build your core. Core strength is a key component in preventing back pain. By strengthening your core, you can help take weight off your back by engaging your abs instead.

Other risk factors for lower back pain

Besides the five risks above, there are a few other indirect risk factors that are important to note for CrossFit lower back pain, including:

History of joint injury

Another finding in CrossFit injuries is that those with a history of joint injury were 3.75 times more likely to become injured during CrossFit. If you have a history of joint injury, you might want to reconsider whether CrossFit is right for you. At a minimum, you should be aware of your body’s limitations when it comes to certain CrossFit exercises.

Weekend warrior lifestyle

Studies suggest that being a “weekend warrior” can put you more at risk of lower back pain. “Weekend warriors” have extreme lifestyles: days where they’re completely inactive and weekends where they’re extremely active. This kind of back-and-forth is more likely to give your back pain. Try to create a balanced lifestyle where you avoid being sedentary on your days off from CrossFit.

Other preventative strategies

Finally, if you love CrossFit, there are three other preventative strategies that you might adapt to prevent lower back injury:

Warm-up and cool-down: Be sure to stretch before starting the intensity of CrossFit workouts. Show up earlier to get the warm-up exercises you need to keep your lower back healthy.

Rest up: You need at least 8 hours of restorative sleep to stay healthy. CrossFit can make you especially achy, so it’s important to let your body heal through sleep.

Focus on yourself: Don’t get caught up in impressing others. Focus on your own exercise and make sure you listen to your body. After all, it’s your health.

Final takeaway

CrossFit adds a risk factor to your lower back pain, but with the preventative strategies we’ve outlined, you can lower your risk and continue to enjoy CrossFit injury-free. Specifically, it’s vital that you take charge of your health and know when to take your workout down a level.

If you continue to suffer from lower back pain, you may consider consulting a chiropractor near you. A chiropractor can help you put together a care plan involving diet, exercise, supplements, as well as adjustments and therapies to reduce lower back pain and recover from your injury.

We hope you stay strong and injury-free with our preventative strategies!

Written by Dr. Brent Wells:

Dr. Brent Wells is a graduate of the University of Nevada where he earned his bachelor of science degree before moving on to complete his doctorate from Western States Chiropractic College. He founded Better Health Chiropractic in Anchorage. He became passionate about being a chiropractor after his own experiences with hurried, unprofessional healthcare providers. The goal for Dr. Wells is to treat his patients with care and compassion while providing them with a better quality of life through his professional treatment.

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Is CrossFit Bad For Your Back?

The Rx Review: Reporting on Fitness and CrossFit News, Brent Wells

What was that? CrossFit causes back pain?… Well, if so, what can we do about it?

Today’s “Workout of the Day” is learning about back pain as a CrossFit athlete:

Overview of CrossFit

Common CrossFit spinal injuries

There are two categories of back pain that CrossFit athletes typically experience. Both are often cited in research studies about CrossFit spinal injuries and have unique symptoms and consequences.

Lower back pain

Rhabdomyolysis (Rhabdo)

Use of drugs or alcohol

High body temperature

Muscular disease

Viral infections

Bacterial infections

CrossFit risk factors for lower back pain

Is CrossFit bad for your back? Not necessarily, but it definitely presents some risks for lower back pain. Let’s go over the reasons why CrossFitters might struggle with lower back pain below.

Too much, too soon

Lack of proper form

“Killer” workouts

Fran

Murph

Fight Gone Bad

Helen

Filthy 50

In the study, these workouts were cited as the trigger for rhabdo. The top workout, Fran, accounted for almost half of the participants’ responses regarding difficulty.

Dangerous powerlifting

New studies show that lower back pain in CrossFitters is most often a result of powerlifting. These powerlifting movements cause overextension of lumbar muscles, leading to pain and injury.

Too much focus on aerobic exercise

Preventative strategy: Build your core. Core strength is a key component in preventing back pain. By strengthening your core, you can help take weight off your back by engaging your abs instead.

Other risk factors for lower back pain

Besides the five risks above, there are a few other indirect risk factors that are important to note for CrossFit lower back pain, including:

History of joint injury

Weekend warrior lifestyle

Other preventative strategies

Finally, if you love CrossFit, there are three other preventative strategies that you might adapt to prevent lower back injury:

Warm-up and cool-down: Be sure to stretch before starting the intensity of CrossFit workouts. Show up earlier to get the warm-up exercises you need to keep your lower back healthy.

Rest up: You need at least 8 hours of restorative sleep to stay healthy. CrossFit can make you especially achy, so it’s important to let your body heal through sleep.

Focus on yourself: Don’t get caught up in impressing others. Focus on your own exercise and make sure you listen to your body. After all, it’s your health.

Final takeaway

We hope you stay strong and injury-free with our preventative strategies!

Written by Dr. Brent Wells:

Is CrossFit Bad For Your Back?

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Napping on the job may turn out to be a very good idea for a sleep-deprived nation

By Eric Pianin, Washington Post, November 19, 2017

President Trump prides himself on getting by with just four or five hours of sleep at night, which leaves him plenty of time early in the morning to scan cable TV news and tweet before going to work. During last year’s rough-and-tumble campaign, he scoffed at ”low-energy” rivals Republican Jeb Bush and Democrat Hillary Clinton for carving out nap time.

“No naps for Trump! I don’t nap,” the 71-year-old Trump bellowed during one campaign stop. “We don’t have time.”

Yet history is replete with powerful leaders and warriors such as Napoleon, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy who routinely napped in the afternoon, regardless of the crises swirling around them. “Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without the refreshment of blessed oblivion, which even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces,” Churchill once wrote.

And increasingly, science is siding with the nappers, with researchers finding that short sleeps not only are beneficial to drowsy individuals and the elderly but also are essential to public health, public safety and economic productivity.

“Now, I don’t know Donald Trump nor have I done sleep studies on him,” said Philip M. Alapat, an assistant professor specializing in pulmonary disease and sleep disorders at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “But the number of people that can truly function optimally with four or five hours of sleep on a nightly basis are vanishingly few.”

An international team of neurologists recently published a study showing how sleep deprivation can disrupt brain cells’ ability to interact and communicate. A night of lost sleep can result in temporary mental lapses that impair memory and distort visual perceptions, according to the study published in early November in the journal Nature Medicine.

Itzhak Fried, the senior author of the study and a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Tel Aviv University, said in a statement that his team discovered that “starving the body of sleep also robs neurons of the ability to function properly.”

In a recent study, University of Pennsylvania researchers found that a moderate nap in the afternoon coincided with improvements in people’s thinking and memory prowess and may have helped the brain perform as if it were five years younger. The study, published by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, focused on 3,000 older people in China and examined whether those more inclined to take brief naps performed better on mental ability tests.

Afternoon napping is prevalent among older adults in China and is considered part of a healthy lifestyle. Scientists found that people who took a nap after lunch did better on the mental agility tests than those who did not sleep in the middle of the day. Overall, 60 percent of people in the study slept after lunch, for an average nap of 63 minutes.

The latest research dovetails with longtime warnings about the dangers of insufficient sleep, which the National Institutes of Health says can lead to “physical and mental health problems, injuries, loss of productivity, and even a greater risk of death.”

Over the years, sleeplessness has quietly grown into a pervasive problem. One-third of American adults regularly get too little sleep, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly half of all American adults complain that poor or insufficient sleep affects their daily activities at least once a week, according to the National Sleep Foundation. What’s more, an estimated 50 million to 70 million Americans have chronic sleep disorders, according to a health survey for the CDC.

Without at least seven or eight hours of sleep at night, Americans face a tough slog getting through the day and leave themselves more vulnerable to illness. Scientists have linked sleep deficiency to many chronic health problems, including heart and kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, obesity and depression.

While the relationship between sleep deprivation and adverse health consequences is not fully understood, according to Alapat, a lot of it has to do with denying the body the rest it needs for healing and to refresh the neurons in the brain, as well as to fight off poisonous substances. “There are toxins that essentially accumulate in the brain that need to be cleared out with sleep” to avoid long-term threats to the immune system and cardiovascular functions, Alapat says.

The sleep-deprived also perform worse at learning, memory, and creative and analytic reasoning--a special problem for powerful chief executives and decision-makers. And nearly 40 percent of adults have reported falling asleep without meaning to at least once a month, according to NIH. That’s a recipe for car crashes, aviation and ship accidents, industrial mishaps and even medical malpractice by exhausted hospital interns.

In general, Alapat recommends that naps last no longer than 30 minutes. When a person falls asleep, the brain goes through several stages of sleep, ultimately leading to the deepest stage, known as rapid eye movement sleep, or REM. Once a person reaches that dreamy state, it becomes much more difficult to wake up clearheaded, refreshed and fully functioning.

Of course, it’s easy for Alapat and other scientists to recommend a short nap in the afternoon for the sleep-deprived. For most American workers, finding a time and place to squeeze in a nap in the middle of the day is highly challenging at best. That’s especially true in a highly competitive work environment where nappers are frequently stigmatized as lazy or laggards.

However, those attitudes are beginning to change as some employers begin to see the value of having a well-rested and refreshed workforce. A September 2011 study in the Journal of Sleep concluded that employee insomnia was costing U.S. companies a startling $63 billion a year in lost productivity.

The desperate need for brief R-and-R in the middle of the day has given rise to a workday sleep industry, in which office workers downtown or travelers at airports can buy some quiet time for “power naps.” Recharj, a meditation and napping salon that opened a year ago in Washington, has had more than 7,000 visitors. About half of them have availed themselves of a 25-minute power nap in cocoons complete with head pillows, eye shades, blankets and optional earplugs.

“We’re seeing between 20 to 30 people each day, with peak time for power naps around lunchtime,” says Daniel Turissini, the company’s founder. “Power nappers are wrapped 360 degrees in an opaque sound-dampening drapery, lights are drawn down, and binaural beats are played to lull the brain into a transitional state of consciousness. After 25 minutes, a gentle alarm goes off and they are up and out, ready to conquer the rest of the day.”

Meanwhile, some of the nation’s most innovative companies--including Google, Ben & Jerry’s, Uber, PwC and HuffPost--have installed napping spaces for their workers.

Alapat cautions that while naps may provide a short-term boost in alertness and performance, they can’t regularly make up for lost sleep.

“What we have found is that people who are perpetually sleep-deprived--who consistently report less than seven hours of sleep--tend to have adverse health consequences,” he said. “And so if you are having to use naps on a daily basis to make up for what appears to be chronic sleep deprivation, you are probably looking at a situation where you’re adversely affecting your health overall.”

#napping #sleep

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Fire Pro Roster Recap #2 : Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag

People seemed to enjoy the first one of these, so I thought I’d do it again! This time instead we are going back to basics. This time looking at the very first game in the series that released on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.

It has the smallest roster of the series as far as I know which is part of the reason I decided to do it next. Fire Pro Returns, I think has over 100 people in it and even some of the SNES games have huge rosters.

This one will be a good building block for later installments which retained many of these people that appeared in this 1989 original. I should point out that most of these games were not official and had these people under fake names, despite it being plainly obvious who they were suppose to be representing.

Akira Maeda : A wrestler who worked for many companies and is credited with being one of the pioneers of the shoot style. He worked for NJPW, Japan UWF(Which he co-created and was a promoter for) and he was even featured on World of Sports working for all 3 of those companies in the 80′s before 1991 rolled around Akira Maeda would found the wrestling promotion Rings, that would later shift focus in 1995 and become an MMA promotion.

Bad News Brown : The first talent on this list who was well known in North America. Bad News Brown was a pioneer for black talent in the industry often times called the first black heel. While that might be hyperbole, Bad News Brown’s effect on the industry should be well noted. He was most often a wrestler in NJPW starting there after his Olympic performance in Judo where he won a Bronze medal in 1976. He also won 2 gold medals in the Pan American games in 1967 and 1975.

Bruiser Brody : Another wrestler known by North American fans. He worked throughout the states and over in AJPW. He is a pioneer of the brawling style and considered one of the best if not the best brawler of the 80′s. Of course he cannot be brought up without talking about his tragic death in 1988 when he was stabbed several times by José Huertas González(promoter/booker) in a Puerto Rican shower for the show that night. One of the brave souls that tried to help Brody out was Tony Atlas, though because of heavy traffic outside the arena Brody didn’t get the medical treatment in time to save his life.

Dos Caras : The first person on this list who has wrestled a match in 2017. Dos Caras is a legend of Mexican wrestling and one of the first talents from Mexico to travel outside of North America and wrestle regularly elsewhere. Throughout the 80′s he wrestled in AJPW and NJPW while also working with UWA. He also innovated the Dos Cara’s clutch. He is brother to the other luchador in this game(Mil Mascara) and father to one of the biggest names from Mexico of the current generation Alberto Del Rio/El Patron.

Antonio Inoki : Oh boy! Inoki, how can I sum up such a massive and important career in a paragraph? Truth be told I can’t for him or any of these men, but here we go. Inoki is one of the most important wrestlers ever and is credited with the invention of the enzuigiri. When Inoki started down the wrestling path he train with Karl Gotch in old school catch wrestling. Inoki would name his own style of wrestling ‘Strong Style’ which is still used today by many Japanese talents.

Inoki is also credited as being a forefather of the modern MMA boom. Inoki use to fight people from around the world who all were trained in different fighting arts. Many of his fights were scripted, but still showed the world was interested in that kind of competition. Also, he fought Ric Flair in North Korea which drew 150,000 and 190,000 people for the two day event and is still the biggest wrestling show in recorded history.

I could go on for ages about Inoki as he has a long intriguing history. He ontop of the above listed things also was : founder of NJPW in 1972 which came about after Rikidozan’s(The original Japanese Wrestler/Promoter) Japanese Wrestling Association went defunct having NJPW/AJPW spring up in it’s place. Inoki owned NJPW out right until he sold the company to Yuke’s in 2005. Inoki is also a politician in his home country of Japan where he was elected to positions twice. That’s all for Inoki, if you want to know more feel free to look him up. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t books about the man who has a huge legacy.

Genichiro Tenryu : Genichiro like many wrestlers actually started in a different Martial Art. Sumo, which is of course very popular in Japan. Tenryu started his sumo training at the young age of 13 and would continue down that path for another 13 years before shifting his focus to the Puroresu ring. He would then be scouted by Giant Baba of AJPW. Tenryu would be sent over to Texas where he was trained by Dory Funk Jr and Terry Funk. In the early 80′s Tenryu would team with Jumbo Tsuruta collectively called "Kakuryu" (鶴 = kaku = tsuru (the "tsuru" in Tsuruta) + 龍 = ryū in Tenryū).

Tenryu would go on to become one of the most decorated players in AJPW history. The Tokyo Sports awards, a non partisan award for japanese wrestling achievements would give Tenryu Best bout/MOTY award an astonishing 9 times and call him MVP of the year 4 different times.

Jumbo Tsuruta : Another huge star for AJPW through the 80′s. Jumbo as mentioned above was a stellar tag team with Tenryu. He also had 7 MOTY’s from Tokyo sports and captured nearly anything of note in AJPW. He would sadly die in the year 2000 after complications from a kidney transplant, just short a year after his retirement in 1999. Though he hadn’t been in serious competition most of the 1990′s where he mostly worked 6 man tag matches that were comedic in tone.

Masa Saito : The journey man of Japan on this list, though many of these talents traveled around. Masa Saito was on another level working for various promotions connected to NWA, AJPW and NJPW.

As well as holding the WWF Tag Titles with Mr. Fuji, he also made it to the finals of the Pat O'Connor Memorial Tag Team Tournament at Starrcade '90: Collision Course which is noteable for being the big win early in the Steiner Brothers tag team. He is also the innovator of the Saito Suplex which is used in every promotion around the world now.

Saito might have had a better career with WWF had it not been for an incident at a Mcdonald's involving Ken Panterra and a rock thrown through the window by a young man that wasn’t Ken Panterra according to a radio interview with Panterra from 2012. The incident happened in 1984 and ended with both Panterra and Saito being charged with battery of a police officer.

Mil Mascaras : The other side of the Luchador coin and brother of earlier luchador Dos Caras. Mil Mascaras wrestled plenty for AJPW through the late 70′s and early 80′s becoming well known in Japanese wrestling circles along with his brother. He would have a match of the year from Tokyo sports in 1977 with Jumbo who was listed earlier. Mil Mascaras has a reputation of being hard to work with, but is still important for exposing Japan to Lucha Libre alongside his brother.

Riki Choshu : Riki Choshu innovated a move that would define early 90′s wrestling in the states and most don’t even know it. That move being The Sharpshooter or as Riki Choshu called it : Sasori-gatame.

Riki Choshu is also credited as being the first ever traitor heel in Japan. Turning on his friend Fujinami after being snubbed for the inaugural tournament for the IWGP Heavyweight championship in 1983. Riki Choshu is also one of the few people to do a clean sweep of the G1 Climax where he won every match in the tournament he had.

In 1998 Riki Choshu would retire, his final card he wrestled 5 matches in one night and won 4 of them. After his retirement he would focus more as a booker at NJPW where he spent most of his career. He has moved a decent amount post 2000 and even had a deathmatch in FMW shortly after his retirement. He has wrestled sparingly in the years since, but not full time.

Stan Hansen : You can’t talk gaijin(Japanese for Foreigner) and not mention Stan Hansen. The cream of the crop when it comes to American assholes in Japan. The man’s career started with a very good case of ‘turning Lemons into Lemonade’ when he accidently broke Bruno Sammartino’s neck via a botched powerslam. The bookers and Hansen rolled with it and instead claimed the break came at the end of one of Stan Hansen’s destructive lariats.

Stan Hansen would leave WWF shortly after that and have a brief run in NJPW where he participated in the first ever G1 Tag League with his partner Hulk Hogan.

He would move over to AJPW where he would make his name winning anything he could get his hands on. He also was awarded MOTY 3 times by Tokyo sports vs great talents Kawada, Giant Baba and Tenryu. He would also win Most Outstanding Foreigner in 1982 and most popular wrestler in 1980. He by no means invented the lariat, but many credit him with it’s incredible popularity in Japan.

Tiger Jeet Singh : Undoubtable the most famous wrestler to ever come out of India. Tiger’s life story is pretty incredible, arriving in Canada with 6$ in his pocket after immigrating from India. Tiger set out into the wrestling world and made perhaps the earliest debut on this list in 1965. His first huge match was in 1971 at Maple Leaf Gardens vs The Sheik(uncle of Sabu, not The Iron Sheik).

The next year while visiting Japan he got in a fight with Inoki. This seems a little too coincidental, as apparently it wasn’t staged. So Inoki... who just happened to be opening a wrestling promotion had Tiger come and they lived out their feud in the ring. 1979 saw Tiger team with Abdullah the butcher vs the Japanese Dream Team Inoki/Baba. Which would win him his only Tokyo Sports honor for MOTY.

Through most of his career Tiger would bounce back and forth between Japan and Toronto wrestling in both territories. He made his name in NJPW, however many of the belts he held weren’t the main belt as his era didn’t have one main world title.

The Road Warriors/LOD : WHAAAAAAT A RUSH! The two tag team technicians would get their start in Georgia Championship Wrestling before getting pushed hard for their unique look and presence. This caused some friction with other talents as the young duo weren’t seen as having paid their dues. Not that it mattered though as soon both were picked up by larger promotion Verne Gagne’s AWA. Where they would be Champions again as they were in GCW, during this AWA run they would start using Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” as their entrance theme.

1985 saw the two’s first tour of Japan where they quickly became fan favorites like every promotion they went to before. They squashed a monster team of Killer Khan and Animal Hamaguchi in a mere 4 minutes. Cementing their dominance early and capturing more tag gold the NWA International Tag Team Championship. They would be the last team to hold this belt as they lost it in a unification match with PWF World Tag Team champions Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu to unify the titles as the AJPW World Tag Team titles.

That’s basically what they did of note in Japan before this game came out. They enjoyed that first run so much that whenever they had time between contracts with the big 3 : WWE/WCW/AWA they would go do a quick tour of Japan where they were normally welcomed with open arms. They like Hansen won an award just for foreigners in 1985 getting the Tokyo sports Special Foreigner Award.

The Gasper Brothers : This one I put last mostly because I have shit all to say about them. The Gasper Brothers were a brief tag team in 1988 that had some success. The two men were Cowboy Bob Orton and his real life brother Barry Orton. I can’t find any photos of them from this time or video so I don’t know if they looked like this or not. If anyone can find pictures I’ll put them here.

How's it play? Not well. I wouldn’t suggest anyone play this fire pro game... I’m not actually sure I’d recommend any of the TurboGrafix-16 versions when the Super Nintendo ones are right there. Hell, I think many wouldn’t even suggest those when the PS2 version Fire Pro Returns has probably the biggest roster and the most options.

Still, while I had fun playings Queen’s Special... this one was just brutal. Every time I tried to play I would just get wrecked by the computer. I really had a hard time getting any of the timing down and was more frustrated than having fun.

This series still might be the best wrestling you’ll get on a TurboGrafix-16 and would probably be cool to have just as a collector's item even if it’s not a very fun play. I saw that TurboGrafix has some other wrestling game and I might try that as it seemed less simulation and more arcade. If I try that I may put a review here on this blog.

#FirePro #TurboGrafix-16 #RosterRecap #BadNewsBrown #AntonioInoki #MilMascaras #DosCaras #TheRoadWarriors #TigerJeetSingh #StanHansen #RikiChoshu #MasaSaito #JumboTsuruta #GenichiroTenryu #BruiserBrody #AkiraMaeda #Puroresu

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6 Foreign Words So Dark There Are No English Equivalents

Here at Cracked, we frequently examine through foreign dictionaries to find the most kickass statements that we wish we had in English. Nonetheless, there are a handful of mottoes from around the world that are shorthand for common situations that are so horrible, we’re overjoyed we’ve never needed to adopt them into Americaspeak. For instance …

# 6. Geisterfahrer / Falschfahrer ( German)

Means: a person who deliberately drives into oncoming traffic.

Literally restated, geisterfahrer necessitates “ghost driver.” That’s vaguely unsettling in a Nicolas Cage movie sort of way, but that’s not why we’ve chosen it for this list. No, to memorize why this statement did the piece for “things we’re glad we, as Americans, never have to say”, you must consider a few acts: A) The parole is German, so automatically you get the sense of something ominous loiter just beneath the surface, like a troll in the basement of that delightful clock-making house in the Black Forest; B) This is a common enough appearance in Germany to authorize its own statement specially designed to warn natives; and C) Germany is the home of the autobahn, which is the closest any of us will get to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior in our lifetimes TAGEND To be fair, our dad drove like this on American roadways each and every summer vacation .

Now picture this madness, but with someone driving in the opposite attitude into oncoming traffic. On role. That’s a geisterfahrer.

Why would anyone do something so objectively lunatic? Well, some haunt moves do it for nothing more than the lulz, bruh. Others are straight-up suicidal, such as the specter driver who very nearly vehicularly manslaughtered the superintendent of Bavaria. In all franknes, this was a extremely Bavarian event to do.

Of course, the German authority couldn’t officially have the world thinking that their roads are haunted by a knot of foolhardy ghost motorists, so they decided to try and come up with a different mention: falschfahrer , or “wrong drivers.” This is admittedly a much less startling word, but when you’re trying to convey to sightseers that your supersonic road is rarely blighted by madman trying to effect head-on conflicts at hundreds of miles an hour, perhaps startling is what you want.

Or at least fearing enough so that they are able to don’t laugh at your signalings .

# 5. Korova ( Russian)

Means: It literally translates to moo-cow, but given this context it’s “a guy you take along on a prison snap so you can eat him later.”

The Russian Gulag system is one of the greatest examples of both governments succeeding in exactly what they hoped to achieve — a place where prisoners could literally labour themselves to extinction rendering free labor for the Motherland, because continuing prisons where the goals and targets is to keep captives alive is expensive, and executings cost money, more. Why not kill two birds with one rationed potato?

Scattered all across the country, these forced labor camps were not only where the Soviet Union stashed away their most violent convicts, but also those imprisoned of things as petty as fraud or malcontent( the legal expression for pronouncing ill of Joseph Stalin’s mustache ). At the system’s flower in the mid-2 0th century, millions of beings were interned in the work camp. Predicaments there were so subhuman that the only conclude the Gulag’s cliques takes a historical backseat to the Nazis’ concentration camps is that the Soviet Union helped demolish Hitler.

“Didn’t you guys round-up like a billion Japanese people? Glass lives, comrade.”

The point is, anyone stuck in these camps was perhaps thinking about escape more than half of the time. The trouble with flee, beyond somehow getting past all the armed protects, was the fact that most of these cliques were located out in the middle of frozen fucking nowhere. So even if you didn’t get shot by snipers or torn apart by hounds as we seek to flee, you would still wind up dying of revelation or starvation somewhere in the Siberian tundra like Jack Nicholson in The Shining .

Resourceful prisoners soon had a splendid solution for this, however. While they couldn’t precisely parcels a boxed lunch for their escape, they could pack something even more nourishing that — best of all! — didn’t even need to be carried. We’re pertaining, of course, to a korova : some simple-hearted, trusting( and preferably chubby) friend inmate who you are invited to join your escape. Then, formerly you both manufactured it out and into the icy wastelands, this sorry dupe became an unwitting slaughter swine, much like an actual cow.

“So how are the spices and sauces you brought supposed to help get past this? “ “Shut up and continue whittle! ”

And in case you’re not already sounding out a horrified gasp through a barely contained sip of puking, keep in mind that trudging across a frozen desert clears starting a fervour damn near impossible. Therefore, the parts of a korova that were eaten were only those that is able depleted raw( like the kidneys ), and cleansed down with a generous swig of heated blood from his gouting arteries. And all of this just so you can flee back to your life in Soviet Russia .

# 4. Rhaphanidosis ( Greek)

Means: jostle a horseradish beginning up an adulterer’s ass.

Throughout history, governments have tried like hell to legislate the decency of their citizens, because if there’s one thing that incantations doom for any society, it’s consenting adults having copulation with one another in the privacy of their own dwellings. As such, historical judicial systems notoriously devised extreme measures of sanction “thats been” every bit as colorful as the alleged crime, if not more so. For example, the ancient Greeks — founders of such lauded achievements as democracy and the God of War dealership — devised a figure of being subjected to torture known as rhaphanidosis , which consisted of pantsing an adulterer and planting a horseradish spring in the offender’s anus. Please note that this practice does not result in the growth of a health new horseradish plant.

Now, in addition to looking like a merciless monster dick, horseradish root is famously spicy. The oils in the vegetable would react violently with the delicate layers of the rectum, ensuing in the convict having to sit and think about what he’d done while his asshole was being torn apart by flaming beetles. We suppose it was only marginally preferable to being slaughtered by your paramour’s partner, which he would have been totally within his rights to do.

“You know what? Go ahead and kill me. Here’s a knife.”

Here at Cracked, we frequently search through foreign glossaries to find the most kickass words that there is a desire we had in English. However, there are a handful of phrases from around the world that are shorthand for common situations that are so horrific, we’re overjoyed we’ve never needed to adopt them into Americaspeak. For speciman …

# 6. Geisterfahrer / Falschfahrer ( German)

Means: a person who deliberately drives into oncoming traffic.

Literally translated, geisterfahrer necessitates “ghost driver.” That’s vaguely unsettling in a Nicolas Cage movie sort of way, but that’s not why we’ve chosen it for this list. No, to learn why this word induced the slashed for “things we’re glad we, as Americans, never have to say”, you must consider a few occasions: A) The parole is German, so automatically you get the sense of something sinister lurking exactly beneath the surface, like a troll in the cellar of that entertaining clock-making house in the Black Forest; B) This is a common enough occurrence in Germany to authorize its own text specially designed to warn immigrants; and C) Germany is the home of the autobahn, which is the closest any of us will get to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior in our lifetimes TAGEND To be fair, our papa drove like this on American highways each and every summer vacation .

Now picture this madness, but with person driving in the opposite guidance into oncoming transaction. On purpose. That’s a geisterfahrer.

Why would anyone do something so objectively lunatic? Well, some specter operators do it for nothing more than the lulz, bruh. Others are straight-up suicidal, such as the specter driver who very nearly vehicularly manslaughtered the minister of Bavaria. In all franknes, this was a very Bavarian circumstance to do.

Of course, the German government couldn’t officially have the world thinking that their routes are recurred by a bunch of reckless haunt motorists, so they decided to try and come up with a different refer: falschfahrer , or “wrong drivers.” This is admittedly a much less startling word, but when you’re trying to convey to tourists that your supersonic road is occasionally plagued by madman trying to stimulate head-on collisions at hundreds of miles an hour, perhaps startling is what you want.

Or at least fearing enough so that they are able to don’t laugh at your signalings .

# 5. Korova ( Russian)

Means: It literally translates to moo-cow, but given this context it’s “a guy you take along on a prison crack so you can eat him later.”

The Russian Gulag system is one of the greatest a few examples of a government been successful at exactly what they hoped to achieve — a place where prisoners could literally drive themselves to demise generating free strive for the Motherland, because retaining prisons where the goals and targets is to keep hostages alive is expensive, and executions cost money, very. Why not kill two birds with one rationed potato?

Scattered all across the country, these forced labor camps were not only where the Soviet Union stashed away their more violent sinners, but likewise those convicted of things as petty as crime or malcontent( the law word for communicating affliction of Joseph Stalin’s mustache ). At the system’s peak in the mid-2 0th century, millions of parties were interned in the internment camp. Plights there were so subhuman that the only rationale the Gulag’s cliques takes a historical backseat to the Nazis’ concentration camps is that the Soviet Union facilitated defeat Hitler.

“Didn’t you guys round-up like a billion Japanese parties? Glass residences, comrade.”

The point is, anyone stuck in these cliques was perhaps thinking about flee more than half of the time. The problem with escape, beyond somehow going past all the forearmed patrols, was the fact that most of these cliques were located out in the middle of frozen fucking nowhere. So even if you didn’t get shot by snipers or torn apart by bird-dogs while trying to escape, you are able to still wind up dying of exposure or famine somewhere in the Siberian tundra like Jack Nicholson in The Shining .

Resourceful inmates soon had a splendid solution for this, nonetheless. While they couldn’t exactly pack a boxed lunch for their flee, they could pack something even more nourishing that — excellent of all! — didn’t even need to be carried. We’re citing, of course, to a korova : some simple-hearted, relying( and preferably chubby) companion inpatient whom you invited to join your flee. Then, formerly you both cleared it out and into the icy barrens, this sorry dupe became an unwitting carnage animal, much like an actual cow.

“So how are the spices and sauces you brought supposed to help get past this? “ “Shut up and stop cutback! ”

And in case you’re have not yet been gurgling out a horrified gasp through a scarcely contained mouthful of vomiting, keep in mind that trudging across a frozen desert induces starting a ardor damn nearly impossible. Hence, the parts of a korova that were eaten were only those that could be exhausted raw( like the kidneys ), and soaked down with a generous swig of warm blood from his gouting veins. And all of this just so you can flee back to your life in Soviet Russia .

# 4. Rhaphanidosis ( Greek)

Means: jostle a horseradish root up an adulterer’s ass.

Throughout history, governments have tried like hell to legislate the ethic of their citizens, because if there’s one thing that spells fate for any society, it’s consenting adults having sex with one another in the privacy of their own homes. As such, historic judicial systems notoriously bequeathed extreme measures of penalty that were every bit as colorful as the alleged crime, if not more so. For instance, the ancient Greeks — authors of such lauded achievements as democracy and the God of War dealership — devised a kind of torture known as rhaphanidosis , which consisted of pantsing an adulterer and planting a horseradish spring in the offender’s anus. Please note that this practice does not result in the growth of a health brand-new horseradish plant.

Now, in addition to looking like a relentless monster dick, horseradish root is famously spicy. The petroleums in the vegetable would react violently with the fragile layers of the rectum, developing in the sinner having to sit and think about what he’d done while his asshole was being torn apart by flaring beetles. We believe it was only marginally preferable to being slaughtered by your paramour’s husband, which he would have been totally within his rights to do.

“You know what? Go onward and kill me. Here’s a knife.”