- Thursday, April 3, 2008, 17:04
- Health
It’s very important for your health to keep the right posture when you’re in front of a computer. Incorrect posture contributes to spine syndrome and lots of other problems, which many PC users have. Repeated monotonous movements are a risk factor themselves, but if your muscles are under maximum strain, don’t wonder, if in a few months you reveal a number of spine problems.
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- Thursday, June 21, 2007, 17:25
- Sports & Fitness
Many know badminton as a beach entertaining sport. But real badminton is a serious Olympic sport requiring much tension, agility, good reaction, staying power, perfect coordination. The flight of the shuttlecock (a missile of cork and goose feather that players volley across the net) has been recorded at speeds of 332 kilometers per hour. Badminton is the world’s fastest racket sport. The speed of therally during a professional game reaches 0,7 hits per second. Badminton is included to the astronaut training program. One can spend hours playing this game and not noticing the time – this is how one can fall in badminton.
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- Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 14:42
- Sports & Fitness, Weightloss
Some count calories, some follow a diet which made a celebrity slim, some pay attention to the fat content of the food, use pills against hunger or develop their own diet, such as “no more than 5 cakes a week”. The others spend hours at the gym, swim a lot, exercise at home while watching TV. There are different ways, but the goal is the same: to be beautiful, sporty, get rid of body fat.
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