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Look 10 pounds lighter in 10 Seconds with the Miraclesuit | Cyberswim

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:12:48 GMT

clipped by: vickielexom
clipper's remarks: I bought one of these and the Miraclesuit did not disappoint.

Clip Source: www.cyberswim.com

Tags: micraclesuite, dd cup swimwear, dd cup swim suit

inner space

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:47 GMT

clipped by: crystallific

Clip Source: 74.125.153.132

'You can see forever.
Look inside of your mind.
Find a sense another wonder.
Just release the fears you left behind, you left behind.
Feel your way through the darkness.
Guide your soul into the light.
Swim into the open waters.
Drift on the tides that you may find, you may find.
Find your soul in the sunrise.
Look around you can see it in their eyes.
Be as one togheter.
Rise up as the emptiness subsides.
You can see forever. Rise up togheter.
Search and you will find the answer.
If you look deep inside of your mind.
You can see forever. Rise up, togheter.
You can see forever. Rise up, togheter.
You can see forever. Rise up, togheter.
Search and you will find the answer.

If you look deep inside of you mind.'

Running Doc: Pre- and post-race tips for newbies

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:17:08 GMT

clipped by: Lexica
clipper's remarks: More:

The day of your race, eat the same as you do on long training runs/walks…my favorite pre-race meal in training: the “Elvis Bagel” (peanut butter and banana on a bagel)…

After the event, within 2 hours of finishing, have a recovery drink with protein in it. There are commercial products but chocolate milk works as good as all these scientific mixes…

“Marathon feet” are common to get in the middle of the night post race…This again is due to inflammation of the soft tissue structures and easily preventable. When you get back to your home or hotel room, a simple immersion in an ice bath for 15 minutes will prevent this happening to you!…

Do not get a post event massage until a minimum of 2 hours after finishing the race…Do not try any new stretches or have someone stretch you out again until 72 hours have passed…

Give yourself two or three days of rest before starting your training again. Try a nice swim in these days, but allow yourself some recovery time.
Clip Source: runningdoctor.runnersworld.com
Running or walking a half or full marathon distance is not a walk around the block. Even with the best of training, you will not feel “normal” at the finish. Of course you will have done the salt, drunk for thirst, taken a baby aspirin, and run/walked within your limits so nothing physiologically is “wrong.” You will feel tired -- exhausted, even -- and your muscles and feet will ache from the repetitive exercise you have performed over hours on race day. Expect this. Think of it as “getting your money’s worth”!
To prevent or really lessen post-event muscle soreness, follow these guides
Practice proper eating in training
No new shoes or clothing for race day
No new stretches or stretching out
if you have a new ache or pain, get checked by a sports doctor early so it doesn’t mushroom
Practice only drinking for thirst and drinking the sports drink that will be on the course of your event; check the event web site to find out what sports drink they will be serving.

Tags: running, running-doc, health, marathons

Shark movie scares tourism chiefs

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09:02 GMT

clipped by: hotdoge3

Clip Source: www.cairns.com.au

Shark movie scares tourism chiefs

A shark's tale:Underbelly stars Gyton Grantley and Damian Walshe-Howling will feature in a new movie about a killer great white on the Great Barrier Reef.

The Reef, a $3.5 million movie which was filmed at Bowen and Hervey Bay, is due for release in Australia next year.

Pictures: The Reef movie in the making

It follows a turbulent year for Reef tour operators, who have been struggling to keep afloat during a tourism downturn.

The film, which is based on a true story, tells the story of four friends who are forced to swim to a nearby island after their yacht capsizes on the Great Barrier Reef.

Video: The Reef movie trailer

The group is stalked by a killer great white shark.

The film is being supported by the State Government.

Mr McKenzie said previous movies, such as Open Water, which depicted the story of a couple stranded on the Reef terrorised by sharks after being left behind by their diving boat, had hurt the industry.

Tags: shark, movie, scares, tourism, chiefs

Robotic fish gauge water health

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:01:55 GMT

clipped by: nuttyriv3r

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

Meg Marquardt

November 2

Robotic fish, created to probe underwater environments, are the newest project from Michigan State University.

The creation of a moving, maneuverable survey system will allow scientists to watch for temperature changes, oxygen levels, or aquatic threats like toxic algae.

Litchman is collaborating with Xiaobo Tan, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MSU, to create the robots.

The probes will swim with the support of fins and bodies that are built “with electro-active polymers that use electricity to change shape. Similar to real muscle tissue, ion movements twist and bend the polymer when voltage is applied.”

They will also have infrared sensors for eyes and a maneuvering circuits system that will act as a mimicked central nervous system.

will be programmed to surface regularly in order to communicate with wireless dock stations

relay their gathered data and receive new orders

will be precisely guided by GPS

funded

National Science Foundation

When Should I Start Repairs On My Above Ground Pool After It’s Been Closed For The Season?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:22:54 GMT

clipped by: bellapria

Clip Source: www.linerworld.com

When Should I Start Repairs On My Above Ground Pool After It’s Been Closed For The Season?

If your pool has already been closed for the winter season and you notice that there are some issues with your swimming pool that need to be repaired, the best time to start those repairs is as soon as possible at the beginning of the opening season. You want to start these repairs at that specific time period for two very important reasons: First, during the winter season, everything is completely frozen outside and this includes swimming pool structures and any accessories that may have been left outside during that time and if you start repairing now this could severely ruin your swimming pool. Secondly, the sooner you do these repairs at the beginning of a new swim season the less likely you will have complicated major issues later.

Tags: pool, repairs, season

Time Management for family

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:19:17 GMT

clipped by: rizwan007
clipper's remarks: Proper and timely dinner is also very essential for one’s health and there should a distance of at least two to three hours in between dinner and going to bed. This is also advised by medical consultants too. If a family has any proper time with small interval this result in healthy and active baby which later on be a good and successful citizen. The purpose and resultant of this entire column and discussion is that proper Time management is very much necessary and vital for a successful and healthy family.

Clip Source: www.time-management-huddle.com

A good place to start is in the time management techniques section. This is a general section with tips that can fit into most environments. You should be able to find something that will give you a good start on your road to success.

Tehniques

It just feels that way. I’m sure with a bit of thought and perhaps a bit of reshuffling you can find more free time. Students are often given little or no guidance on how to manager their time effectively. They are thrown in at the deep end and told to swim, it can be pretty traumatic.

"Can I really Get More Time?"

Time has a nasty habit of making you feel you need to do it all now. You don’t. You are in control not time. You decide what to do and when, not time. If you go through the site and work on the techniques you will gain time back. After a while you’ll find that you have more time to work on more time saving time management techniques.

Tags: online time management, time management tips for family, best time managemt, free time management tips, time management for students, time management

The sex life of seahorses

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:30:12 GMT

clipped by: pennyserenade
clipper's remarks: "Suddenly, two tiny silhouettes come together like a pair of knights on a chessboard. The seahorses greet each other with a nose-to-nose caress and, wrapping their tails around a single blade of grass, they begin a seductive dance, spiralling round and round each other. Blushes of orange and pink give away their emotions and, for a moment, the seahorses swim together, heads tucked down, tails entwined. A gentle humming and clicking from the male is the soundtrack to their flirting."

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The mating habits of these bizarrely beautiful creatures are fascinating – they are the only species in which males truly become pregnant. We reveal the secrets of the sea bed, plus how to keep seahorses as pets

Peer at a seahorse, briefly hold one up to the light, and you will see a most unlikely creature; something you would hardly believe was real were it not lying there in the palm of your hand. Should we presume these odd-looking creatures were designed by a mischievous god who had some time on her hands? Rummaging through a box labelled "spare parts", she finds a horse's head and, feeling a desire for experimentation, places it on top of the pouched torso of a kangaroo.

Swimming Technique

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:33:43 GMT

clipped by: benatok
clipper's remarks: You too can master your swimming technique and swim like a pro in no time

Clip Source: swimmingtechnique.net

I was like you just a few months ago. My swimming technique needed a whole lot of improvement. Since then, I’ve managed to master my technique and thought I’d share my experience here with you all …

Tags: swimming technique, swimming techniqe breathing

Bottoms up for beer bathers

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:48:11 GMT

clipped by: drgreenfingers

Clip Source: www.ananova.com

Bottoms up for beer bathers

Beer lovers are being given the chance to take the plunge in a health spa pool - filled with 42,000 pints of lager.

Spa bosses in Starkenberg, Austria, claim that beer can treat skin conditions, blood circulation and can even help cure wounds.

The spa - part of a local brewery - contains seven 13ft long pools filled with beer which you can even ask to be served chilled or heated.

Bathers can try drinking the bathwater but head barman Markus Amann, 23, said: "I'd rather swim than swallow, as we have enough cold beer on tap at the bars next to the pools.

"These pools really can help some health problems - but if they don't work for you, you'll probably have drunk enough not to care about it any more," he added.

Beer bath bosses at nearby Schrammel reckon warm beer is the best for health cures and bathers sit in cut down lager barrels.

Meanwhile, even monks are getting in on the craze for health on tap.

Epic humpback whale battle filmed

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:53:28 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: Nature's biggest battle

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

It is the greatest animal battle on the planet, and it has finally been caught on camera.

A BBC natural history crew has filmed the "humpback whale heat run", where 15m long, 40 tonne male whales fight it out to mate with even larger females.

During the first complete sequence of this behaviour ever captured, the male humpbacks swim at high speed behind the female, violently jostling for access.

The collisions between the males can be violent enough to kill.

The footage was recorded for the BBC natural history series Life.

It's Useful To Be Smart

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:55 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "With their attention to colors, patterns and shapes and their ability to learn about new forms, one wonders how much these creatures can learn and what limitations they might have. They couldn’t read Dr. Seuss, of course, but they might enjoy looking at the pictures."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

But, really, just how smart are fish? Can they learn?

To test the ability of fish to learn to discriminate shapes, a research team led by Ulrike E. Siebeck at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, trained damselfish to feed from a feeding tube to which they attached a variety of visual stimuli.

The fish were rewarded with food when they repeatedly tapped the stimulus — not the tube — with their snout or mouth.

The fish rapidly learned this task. The researchers then presented the fish with the original stimulus and one alternative distracting shape

The fish tapped the correct shape about 70 percent of the time in the first trial; this improved to 80 percent to 90 percent in subsequent trials

The damselfish exhibited what is called anticipatory behavior, in that they would tap the image and then swim quickly to the other end of their tank in anticipation of their food reward. This response is much like Pavlov’s dogs who learned to anticipate food at the sound of a bell.

Norway: Where convicts lead the good life

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:24:19 GMT

clipped by: clip-on-tie

Clip Source: www.globalpost.com

In Norway, even murders and rapists have a shot at landing in "open prison."

OSLO, Norway — The first time I went to prison, it was to an idyllic place with lush woodland, bright-colored houses and the waters of the Oslo fjord sparkling in the summer sun.

It was July 2006 and I was visiting Bastoey, an open prison 45 miles south of the Norwegian capital. It is home to about 115 detainees, including murderers, rapists and other felons, who enjoy activities not usually associated with prisons.

In summer, they can improve their backhand on the tennis court, ride a horse in the forest and hit the beach for a swim. In winter, they can go cross-country skiing or participate in the prison's ski-jumping competition.

Tags: norway, prison, not punishment, idiocy

Facts about Great White Sharks

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:24:45 GMT

clipped by: Stumblerz
clipper's remarks: great facts

Clip Source: www.stumblerz.com

Facts about Great White Sharks

-Most Great White attacks are sample bites, they like to taste their prey before entirely devouring them that’s why most attacks on humans are just a bite or two..

-Great Whites are nearly in every ocean’s coastal area.

-The Great White is also known as the White Death, The White Pointer(because of its pointy head) and also simply known as the white shark.

- Sharks can sense the electricity emitted by a being, they are really sensitive to it, that is why they always seem agitated around others.

- Great White’s are normally around 12-16 feet long but bigger ones around 19-21 feet have been spotted.

-One Female shark will only lay 2 eggs in her entire life.

-They can be found in shallow waters of only 3 feet, and into deep places as 1000 meters.

- The biggest shark recorded weighted 5000 pounds.

-They can swim at speeds of 15miles/24Km per hour.

-They sometimes jump out of water when attacking preys from underneath.

Tags: sharks, facts

Pacquiao Trains in the pool for the Pacquiao Vs Cotto fight

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:12:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.watchpacquiaovscotto.com

Unable to run, Pacquiao trains in the pool instead

BAGUIO CITY — Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao has taken up swimming to make up for the road work he has lost to the weather.

“For the last eight years I’ve been trying to get Manny in the pool,” Roach told the Philippine Daily Inquirer yesterday. “With the rain here we finally got him in the pool.”

Pacquiao has missed days of road work due to intermittent rains here. The experience may have not been pleasant for Pacquiao but overall, Roach believes his prized ward has acknowledged the positive effect of it.

“He swallowed a lot of chlorine but he learned to swim quite quickly,” said Roach. “I think I actually liked it overall because when he started to work out he realized how hard it was.”

Pacquiao’s date with the pool last Friday lasted for 26 minutes.

Tags: pacquiao, cotto, pacquiao vs cotto