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Exercise and Fitness
The Breathwork Explorer
the Breathwork Explorer offers a different multi-sensory experience. With this tool, you can take control over breathing exercises and greatly improve your meditation skills. You can see and hear each breath, perform guided breathing exercises and enjoy Light&Sound sessions.
via mindcare.com and Taras Young
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 25, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness
The 10-year-old Powerlifter
Naomi Kutin can squat 215 pounds, and she's a ten-year-old girl who weighs 99 pounds. Impressive. I wonder what odds the bookmakers would give on her being a record-setting powerlifter when she's an adult?
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 12, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Sports, Children
Your baby can swim
Train your kid to be the next Michael Phelps. Start teaching them to swim as soon as they're born. This book will show you how.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 23, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Sports, Swimming, Snorkeling, and Diving
Sauna Pants
Who wouldn't want a sauna in their pants? Get yours from Amazon. Here's a testimonial from one of the reviews:Like a lot of guys, I sometimes have trouble getting a good crotch sweat going. Wrapping my nethers in plastic wrap and a dozen freshly baked Hot Pockets only goes so far. So, as soon as I saw this magnificent product I knew I must have it. The friendly orange hue and easy-to-use velcro attachments greatly appealed to me, and I was very pleased to see the roomy 54" waistline!
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 29, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Health, Inventions
Trim-Jeans
This product was so bizarre that it inspired a Monty Python skit. See the video below. (I have a vague memory of something about trim-jeans appearing on WU before, but couldn't find anything, so I decided I was wrong.)
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 14, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Advertising, Products, 1970s
Bookups
An exercise for bookworms!
(via the ragbag)
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 02, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Books
Hefnawi the Pyramid Climber
Back in the day -- the 1950s and 60s -- Hefnawi Adel Nabi Fayed was known as the Champion of the Great Pyramid, because of his skill at running up and down the pyramid. According to the short bio of him on champion-sportswear.de, he was working as a pyramid guide in the 1940s when it first occurred to him to run up the thing:"One day I decided to challenge myself and do something different," remembers Hefnawi with a chuckle, "I took off my shoes and started running up. When I came down I found it had taken me eight minutes." The barefoot feat changed his life. Tourists visiting the area would wager on whether he would be able to make it up and back down again. It tums out that coming down is much harder than going up. "It is easy to fall when you are coming down," explains AI-Batal, "because there are sandy pots, and if you trip, the block behind you will push you off because of the angle". He thus memorised a route making the feat possible time and again, and in so doing, he made a lot of money.
Eventually he got his time down to five minutes running up it, and two minutes coming back down. That's got to be the ultimate hill training. Check out his legs in the picture below.
(I found the picture on eBay)
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 23, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness
Pit Bull Treadmill
If your pit bulls aren't mean enough, some time on this should change that.
(via Pit Bull Extreme)
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 03, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Exercise and Fitness, Dogs
A Switch on the Witch: Exercising with Broomsticks
For witches-in-training concerned about their figures, Jayne Mansfield offered some tips on how to exercise with a broomstick. From the Long Island Star-Journal, Nov. 3, 1961.
The exercises:
To slim your waistline: kneel on the floor and raise a broomstick high above your head with both hands, one on each end of the stick. Now, keeping your back straight, bend slowly to the right side until the end of the broom touches the floor; then alternate to the left side. Start with 25 and work up to 50.
To help improve your posture and eliminate protruding shoulder blades: kneel on the floor holding the broomstick high above your head. Now, bend your elbows as you slowly lower the broomstick down behind your back, gradually straightening your arms until the broomstick is even with your lower hips. Raise broomstick back to beginning position and repeat exercise 10 times, eventually working up to 25.
To help improve your posture and eliminate protruding shoulder blades: kneel on the floor holding the broomstick high above your head. Now, bend your elbows as you slowly lower the broomstick down behind your back, gradually straightening your arms until the broomstick is even with your lower hips. Raise broomstick back to beginning position and repeat exercise 10 times, eventually working up to 25.
Unfortunately the article didn't include pics of Jayne exercising with her broomstick. So here's a few gratuitous shots of her in exercise-like poses. Just imagine the broomstick is there:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 21, 2012 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Hollywood
Follies of the Mad Men #165
Be patient: the special Japanese calorie-burning underwear shows up onscreen eventually.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 25, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Exercise and Fitness, Underwear, Dance, Asia
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