gym ideas: handles on chains
For the gym that has everything, and for the space that has nothing but could become training space for a tool that gives great bang for the buck and takes up modest space, here are handles suspended from chains, staple equipment for me.
My full article is posted at Straight to the Bar.
Handles hung on chains
These are more versatile than their more glamorous cousin - the rings - because they can easily be adjusted into every possibly degree of proximity to one another, and their level of suspension from the floor can easily be manipulated as well. They’re not just fixed into a ceiling beam for time immemorial. You can move them as often as you like, even during a work out.
spontaneous group emergence pay-forward
Here's a mind-blowingly good holiday story. Starbucks detractors are always down on them for trying to become community mini-hubs, and I have mixed thoughts about the coffee giant, but you have to admit, if something like this happened, there's something good going on.
1,000+ Starbucks Patrons Treat Next In Line
MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) - One woman's kindness to a fellow Starbucks customer has resulted in more than a thousand others spreading holiday generosity in Marysville, Washington.
The regular customer paid for the person in line behind her a few times before, according to The Everett Herald. When she did the same thing Wednesday, though, that good deed set off a chain of 1,013 customers who each paid for the next person's drink.
Many even tacked on an extra ten or twenty dollars, and shift manager Sarah Nix says Starbucks Corporation will donate to that money to the company's holiday toy drive.
A store employee says the seemingly spontaneous pay-it-forward run ended at 6:20 a.m. today.
The name of the iced-tea drinker who started it remains unknown.
fallacies of counting calories burned
Excellent editorial with cited sources on the wilderness of "counting calories burned while exercising". Good night, this whole idea is as fraught with variables and misconceptions as those charts basing ideal bodyweight on height and age, or ... phrenology.
"... it can be all but impossible to accurately estimate of the number of calories you burn."
Gina Kolata puts things into perspective so well in her NY Times piece Putting very little weight in calorie-counting methods that I had to post about it so I can pull it up readily.
new reviews up
I've posted three new reviews at The Mighty Fit Review. They're all thumbs up.
The book Lift with your Head: The Training and Movement Philosophies of the Physical Subculture, by Chip Conrad
No Sweat, 100% union-made apparel
Harbinger leather wrist wrap weightlifting gloves, by a big company that doesn't need my help
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