Physique is something that concerns anyone who is health conscious. Many people would love to be built like ancient statues of Gods and Goddesses and for most it is possible to achieve. Unfortunately not everyone can be built statuesque.
Bone structure and musce fibers play a part in how much potential musce growth a person can have and they are virtually unchangeable. Breaking musce fibers down so they can repair is how they swell and eventually grow, with the right diet and rest of course. Naturally there are two kinds of muscle fibers, long and short.
A bicyclist like Lance Armstrong has long muscle fibers while a bodybuilder like Arnold Schwarzenegger has short muscle fibers. According to health expert and author of The Book of Muscle, Ian King, muscle fibers can practically be altered from long to short with a few weeks of intense lifting in short ranges of motion with heavy weight.
Genetics decide what kind of potential the body has and while some can drasticaly develop their bodies others can only moderately do so without growth hormones. Working out too vigorously can damage the heart and kidneys because of extenuous tissue breakdown. An abundance of lactic acid (acid produced from exercise) can cause your blood pH to be off balance and will hurt your cells.
Magazines and movies display Adonis-like figures on models and actors. Not everyone can have abs like Brad Pitt in Fight Club or arms like the Spartans in the movie 300. Even the people built like superheroes have to work hard and often to develop their bodies.
Small or thin bones do not permit extreme musce growth naturally because the muscle will be misproportional and in some rare cases muscles to large for bones have broken them. Spinal conditions like a narrow spinal cana make it hard for a person to develop their upper body because it causes pain when the back supports too much weight, even if it is musce not fat.
A wide pelvis and a small rib cage may frustrate someone with a pear shaped body and while they can change it to a point that is exceptional they will probably never have a V-shaped torsto and hips. A long neck makes it difficult to deveop thick and masculine shoulders while a short neck has the opposite affect.
There a variety of supplements and steroids available to enhance the body but most of them are dangerous to your health. Some women want to enlarge their breasts and some men want to enlarge their genitalia but they can only do so much to change these things. The gorgeous T'n'A requires certain DNA and not everyone is so lucky.
People need to accept the boundaries of their body in order to achieve their maximum health and learn that their physiques will develop in a way that is most convenient for their body. Changing the appearance of the body can happen and even extreme results are possible but there are limits for most.
Health does not show entirely in one's physical appearance and though this will never be realized by everyone it is being discovered more frequently.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
A New Show with Pompous Appeal
By Cameron Ross
The first episode of Pushing Daisies captures attention with the death of a precious dog seconds after running in a field with a boy, Ned. Luckily for us animal lovers, the dog is brought back to life by Ned’s touch.
Certain aspects of the show are bizarre and hold no real significance, which causes the viewer to think. Where are there rolling hills of yellow daisies along the side of a highway? The serene setting resembles that of a Tim Burton movie and the music seems to mesh well with the unusual storyline. It sounds like curiosity if the feeling had a sound, almost zany.
Charlotte Charles, Chuck, is the love of Ned’s life since he first kissed her during their parents’ funerals on the same day. For some reason Ned did not cry when his mother died. Assumedly, this is meant to convey the bizarre situation by adding to strange behavior from the characters.
Narration switches back and forth with Ned and the Pie Maker as the main character’s name and calls the woman who he loves Chuck. The main characters all have quirky personalities that make them likeable. Skepticism surrounds every person in the show because while you become familiar with them you overlook the fact that they are bringing dead people back to life for a minute so that they can extract enough information to solve the mysteries of their deaths and kill them again before someone else in the proximity dies.
Emerson Cod is the owner of The Pie Hole where Ned works and is also his business partner. Only Cod and Chuck know Ned’s secret. Cod’s “unibrow” is occasionally distracting as he follows Ned around like a publicist advising him what actions to take.
This show seems to follow the trends of other popular television series but constantly leaving the story on the edge of a revelation. Just like Lost and Prison Break, Pushing Daisies ends each scene with the beginning of a new one even more intriguing.
There is some comic relief in the show consisting of the munchkin neighbor who likes Ned and also works at The Pie Hole with him. The formulaic babbling of Ned also is entertaining, much in the way that the character Tony Shalhoub plays on Monk. He is scared of touching for more obvious reasons but acts very proper and almost feminine.
Ned is likeable because of the way he means well like when he sets a truck on fire to distract the gravediggers from burying the now undead Chuck. The writing for the show is clever as is the filming. The camera angles and drifting of view move with the pace of the music and keep a constant draw on the screen.
What is frustrating about the show is the chemistry between the main characters and how they cannot physically act on any urges. It is highly unlikely that in the impossible situation where things would happen like in the show that the people involved would be able to adapt so quickly.
Chuck is really cool with the way she instantaneously bonds with Ned and his lifestyle. It is smart to make a living by profiting from Ned’s gift and unfortunate that his revival of a dead person results in the death of a living person.
Lee Pace, who plays Ned, deserves praise for his acting because his character is the foundation of the show and he really created a unique personality and is consistent in his acting. The rest of the acting is adequate, although if Anna Friel weren’t so cute and innocent then Chuck would be a typical bimbo character simply on the show the purpose of eye candy and sex appeal. Overall the show seems uniquely interesting but require a specific type of interest in order to be appealing to viewers.
The first episode of Pushing Daisies captures attention with the death of a precious dog seconds after running in a field with a boy, Ned. Luckily for us animal lovers, the dog is brought back to life by Ned’s touch.
Certain aspects of the show are bizarre and hold no real significance, which causes the viewer to think. Where are there rolling hills of yellow daisies along the side of a highway? The serene setting resembles that of a Tim Burton movie and the music seems to mesh well with the unusual storyline. It sounds like curiosity if the feeling had a sound, almost zany.
Charlotte Charles, Chuck, is the love of Ned’s life since he first kissed her during their parents’ funerals on the same day. For some reason Ned did not cry when his mother died. Assumedly, this is meant to convey the bizarre situation by adding to strange behavior from the characters.
Narration switches back and forth with Ned and the Pie Maker as the main character’s name and calls the woman who he loves Chuck. The main characters all have quirky personalities that make them likeable. Skepticism surrounds every person in the show because while you become familiar with them you overlook the fact that they are bringing dead people back to life for a minute so that they can extract enough information to solve the mysteries of their deaths and kill them again before someone else in the proximity dies.
Emerson Cod is the owner of The Pie Hole where Ned works and is also his business partner. Only Cod and Chuck know Ned’s secret. Cod’s “unibrow” is occasionally distracting as he follows Ned around like a publicist advising him what actions to take.
This show seems to follow the trends of other popular television series but constantly leaving the story on the edge of a revelation. Just like Lost and Prison Break, Pushing Daisies ends each scene with the beginning of a new one even more intriguing.
There is some comic relief in the show consisting of the munchkin neighbor who likes Ned and also works at The Pie Hole with him. The formulaic babbling of Ned also is entertaining, much in the way that the character Tony Shalhoub plays on Monk. He is scared of touching for more obvious reasons but acts very proper and almost feminine.
Ned is likeable because of the way he means well like when he sets a truck on fire to distract the gravediggers from burying the now undead Chuck. The writing for the show is clever as is the filming. The camera angles and drifting of view move with the pace of the music and keep a constant draw on the screen.
What is frustrating about the show is the chemistry between the main characters and how they cannot physically act on any urges. It is highly unlikely that in the impossible situation where things would happen like in the show that the people involved would be able to adapt so quickly.
Chuck is really cool with the way she instantaneously bonds with Ned and his lifestyle. It is smart to make a living by profiting from Ned’s gift and unfortunate that his revival of a dead person results in the death of a living person.
Lee Pace, who plays Ned, deserves praise for his acting because his character is the foundation of the show and he really created a unique personality and is consistent in his acting. The rest of the acting is adequate, although if Anna Friel weren’t so cute and innocent then Chuck would be a typical bimbo character simply on the show the purpose of eye candy and sex appeal. Overall the show seems uniquely interesting but require a specific type of interest in order to be appealing to viewers.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Double, Triple, Quadruple...Exponential Vision
By Cameron Ross
Finding the audacity to criticize a modern day student is requires severe naiveté and pompous malice. The college experience is an epic complex of tasks and responsibilities unsurpassed by any previous generation of students.
In order to afford school supplies students must work unless they are fortunate to come from a family with adequate income. Even middle class families don’t usually make enough money to pay for college without taking out loans with morbid interest rates. It can take decades to finish paying a loan and if the student is the person paying once they’ve began a career they usually devote a good portion of their salary toward the debt.
Most schools have large class sizes and don’t benefit students because of the lack of attention from the instructors who know few of the students’ names. Classrooms consist of obsolete chalkboards and whiteboards along with defunct projectors that deans don’t bother to maintain.
The issue of textbook prices gives students malaise equivalent to mourning. The board members are practically persecuting the students, charging them such outstanding amounts for books so the school bookstore can profit over 20 per cent. When the students sell books back they get a fraction of the price they paid and if they are lucky they will have actually used the books instead of letting them sit in the trunks of their humble cars.
In the video A Vision of Students Today one student holds a sign that says he works 2 hours a day. There are tons of jobs for students but which one requires only 2 hours a day? Realistically a student works closer to 6 hours a day, quite possibly 8 like a fulltime job.
There is also a mention of facebook in the video but not myspace. Both are popular sites and waste hours upon hours of students’ time while they sit in desks made of metal and wood. Uncomfortable and confined is no way to sit for hours while listening to a lecture. Young adults near the peak of their youth spend most of their time in a classroom or serving the public at a job where they are treated horribly by people of older generations who do not understand the cultural change in students’ lifestyles.
Work, school and studying add up to several hours. Students also must eat and travel, which leads very little time for sleep. I was appalled to see a sign reading “I sleep 7 hours a night” because that would be delightful compared to the 5 or 6 hours I normally sleep.
The video touches on lots of significant issues facing those of us trying to get an education and most of the examples are very accurate. The music in the video and rapid shifts of zoom-in shots carries the mood of skepticism throughout the film. The quotes and graffiti are vintage philosophy of a young growing mind.
College is not a 4-year cakewalk with an immediate career like in fee good stories or the past. Finishing in 4 years is very commendable because it is difficult to get all the cases you want in an order that allows one to finish prerequisites in succinct fashion.
The most critical issue is finding a job after college because most people work jobs that do not pertain to the degree they earn. Earning a degree in a specific art is losing the classical ecstasy of working in the field you studied because like the video mentioned, your job likely doesn’t exist yet.
We, the students, did not create these problems but we suffer from them. They call us Generation Y because we haven’t founded our identity yet (Generation-Why?). If we had a road to the American Dream like previous generations we would have a chiseled image. Instead we have a rhetorical one that changes constantly and watching us is the same as staring into a kaleidoscope.
Finding the audacity to criticize a modern day student is requires severe naiveté and pompous malice. The college experience is an epic complex of tasks and responsibilities unsurpassed by any previous generation of students.
In order to afford school supplies students must work unless they are fortunate to come from a family with adequate income. Even middle class families don’t usually make enough money to pay for college without taking out loans with morbid interest rates. It can take decades to finish paying a loan and if the student is the person paying once they’ve began a career they usually devote a good portion of their salary toward the debt.
Most schools have large class sizes and don’t benefit students because of the lack of attention from the instructors who know few of the students’ names. Classrooms consist of obsolete chalkboards and whiteboards along with defunct projectors that deans don’t bother to maintain.
The issue of textbook prices gives students malaise equivalent to mourning. The board members are practically persecuting the students, charging them such outstanding amounts for books so the school bookstore can profit over 20 per cent. When the students sell books back they get a fraction of the price they paid and if they are lucky they will have actually used the books instead of letting them sit in the trunks of their humble cars.
In the video A Vision of Students Today one student holds a sign that says he works 2 hours a day. There are tons of jobs for students but which one requires only 2 hours a day? Realistically a student works closer to 6 hours a day, quite possibly 8 like a fulltime job.
There is also a mention of facebook in the video but not myspace. Both are popular sites and waste hours upon hours of students’ time while they sit in desks made of metal and wood. Uncomfortable and confined is no way to sit for hours while listening to a lecture. Young adults near the peak of their youth spend most of their time in a classroom or serving the public at a job where they are treated horribly by people of older generations who do not understand the cultural change in students’ lifestyles.
Work, school and studying add up to several hours. Students also must eat and travel, which leads very little time for sleep. I was appalled to see a sign reading “I sleep 7 hours a night” because that would be delightful compared to the 5 or 6 hours I normally sleep.
The video touches on lots of significant issues facing those of us trying to get an education and most of the examples are very accurate. The music in the video and rapid shifts of zoom-in shots carries the mood of skepticism throughout the film. The quotes and graffiti are vintage philosophy of a young growing mind.
College is not a 4-year cakewalk with an immediate career like in fee good stories or the past. Finishing in 4 years is very commendable because it is difficult to get all the cases you want in an order that allows one to finish prerequisites in succinct fashion.
The most critical issue is finding a job after college because most people work jobs that do not pertain to the degree they earn. Earning a degree in a specific art is losing the classical ecstasy of working in the field you studied because like the video mentioned, your job likely doesn’t exist yet.
We, the students, did not create these problems but we suffer from them. They call us Generation Y because we haven’t founded our identity yet (Generation-Why?). If we had a road to the American Dream like previous generations we would have a chiseled image. Instead we have a rhetorical one that changes constantly and watching us is the same as staring into a kaleidoscope.
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