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October 10, 2006
It's Not all Hard Work at CFO...
Shira demonstrates remarkable upper body control, spatial and kinesthetic awareness.
This little sequence also shows something not so obvious. The bill of goods we as a society have been sold by the Big-Box Fitness Chains is woefully inadequate and heavily discriminatory towards women. Workouts consisting only of bodybuilder-style exercises and hampsterish treadmill work are not only boring and ineffective, but only work cardio/respiratory fitness and limit strength. These are the two areas of human performance where men have a clear advantage. However there are least eight other parameters where men and women are equally matched or women have a slight advantage: stamina, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance and accuracy...(more to come later this am).
Posted by Max Lewin at October 10, 2006 5:27 AM