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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdeAp6kCFI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdeAp6kCFI</a>
nicefor me.
1 more kg to a definite 2BW.
saw this ad during sportscenter this morning. i'm totally thinking about getting one.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz2xVETVpfA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz2xVETVpfA</a>
I'd hate to repeat "stop being an emo" at each and every of my posts!
No worries about the English. You pretty much nailed it there, Mr. Fyrretrae.
i dont think blade-runners should be able to officially compete with 'regular humans', on a national circuit.. i do however think they should be able to unofficially compete with them.. so even if the blade-runner wins the event, he doesn't really win, his stats are placed on some other event listing.. ie, pistorius beats wariner, but it wont count officially as him beating wariner, wariner still wins the event.. but pistorius wins in the 'cyborg category'.
if that makes sense..
my problem with just flat out not letting pistorius compete, is that, he's a freak with insane dedication/desire to run, he should be allowed to run in any of the event prelims against anyone imo.. maybe not the finals, because he'd be taking someone elses spot.. but this guy should be allowed to run in prelims in any event on the planet. there's not many people like him, and there won't be.. most people who run on blades will never reach his kind of speed, guy is an animal.
Read his dispute over prosthetics in wikipedia. It's all well cited, at least from the bits I've read. CAS actually repealed IAAF's ban on him because they didn't present enough evidence to show he had an unfair advantage, especially when weighed against his disadvantages like his slower starts. (In the video you can see he's still behind everyone at around the 150m mark.
doesn't matter. he's NOT RUNNING. what he's doing is a different thing. the fact that his disadvantage in the start might make up for his huge advantage in the upright portion of the race doesn't deny the fact that the blades give him a huge advantage while moving forward at high speed.
plus it's only a matter of time before they come up with blades that eliminate the problems with the start. what, are they gonna calibrate the technology so it meets some random standard for correlation with human speed?
Whether or not you want to consider what he is doing as "running" or not is immaterial to the debate. The salient point is that blades dramatically change the dynamics of the race. Pistorius seems to be really passionate about track and field and it's very much a feel good story which gets track and field some more exposure (which it desperately needs). The CAS decision was purely political.
This will go on until Oscar (or another para athlete) runs a world leading time or wins a diamond league event. Only then will the able-bodied athletes federations whose medals and money he is taking point out the litany of differences between running on compressive blades...
wich one would work better as a general/main exercise?
front squats will make your knees fall off and give you tendonitis in your wrists. back squats will cause discs in your lumbar spine to explode, risking paralysis. stick with leg curls, seated calf raises and hamstring curls.
I enjoy doing leg curls and hamstring curls in the same workout
