Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-5-2010

[andrewducker]

• The way most people stretch before exercise? Not right at all...
  (tags: exercise health fitness sports science)
• Don't Call The Guatemala Sinkhole a Sinkhole - the entire city is on a layer of ash and pumice that could be washed away at any point...
  (tags: science geology nature environment sinkhole guatemala)
• When your gaming session ends in a real-life arrest...
  (tags: police gaming EpicFail)
• Calif. students apologize for 'Beat the Jew' chase game
  Well, I was amused.
  (tags: Jews bigotry EpicFail funny)
• Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!
  (tags: feminism crime rape funny satire)
• Three Simple Rules for life
  (tags: life advice)
• Shofar Hero
  (tags: funny game music)
• The Value of Ideas
  (tags: business inspiration ideas)
• Debrahlee Lorenzana sues Citigroup, claims bank fired her for being too sexy
  (tags: sexism society)

Comments

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Didn't read the exercise article (some sort of registration required), but I've read something very like it before. Scientists measured people's strength or recovery or something depending on whether or not they had warmed up first, and found that those who stretched further got less out of the exercise. This always grated when I was doing fencing, because one of the instructors seemed to think that if you weren't stretching like a yoga master, you weren't doing it right.

Having said that gentle stretching is okay, but you can get that extremely well from doing things like spider crawling around the room.