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Tests of fitness showed less of a distinction between the walking groups. Measurementsof reductions in heart rate and blood lactate, a chemical that causes fatigue in muscles,were less clear cut but all three walking groups were a lot fitter than the control group.So the message is clear, daily walks can help extend your life. If long walks are notalways possible on your off days in between training, then try leaving your car somedistance from your place of work and walking the rest of the way. How about walkingduring your lunchtime? And the same goes for school kids. Get Mum to drop you offfurther away from school rather than at the gate. Putting your feet up in front of theTV with a bag of chips sucks – try the walk of life.Skip the Warm UpDon’t bother warming up before training because it won’t stop you from getting injured.So said a news article that made the headlines just before Christmas. The news raiseda few eyebrows and so some explanation was required.The discovery was announced as a result of a scientific study conducted by an Armyphysiotherapist. Rod Pope and colleagues, while working out of the University of Sydneyand Charles Sturt University, conducted a year long study of more than 2600 armyrecruits. The group was divided into two, with one group stretching particular legmuscles before exercise while the other did not stretch. The researchers found thatthere was no difference in the injury rates between the two groups.Unfortunately we were not told what type of stretching was done in the trial. Assumingthat the stretching was static then the results probably make sense. Static stretchingis the type where a limb is kept still while the muscle is slowly taken through its fullrange of motion. Static stretching can be harmful, as some evidence suggests thatstatic stretching done before dynamic exercise like Taekwon-Do movements, can actuallyincrease the chance of injury. This is because static stretching relaxes and cools downmuscles and makes them less responsive to stimulation. This is the complete oppositeof what we are trying to achieve by doing a warm up, which is preventing injury andpreparing the body for activity.Pope and his colleagues are now telling the army to not bother with stretching.Personally I would qualify that and say not to bother with static stretching during thewarm up, unless someone was chronically tight in a particular muscle. A popular andsafer approach these days is to warm up with dynamic stretching like arm swings andleg swinging. As long as it is done gently at first, dynamic stretching is better becauseit warms up the muscles with movements that are similar to proper Taekwon-Domovements. The correct place for static stretching is during the cool down phase at theend of training, where excited muscles are calmed, stretched and waste productsremoved.Pope’s study was reported NewScientist magazine (18 December 1999). Theinvestigation has been accepted for publication in a scientific journal, which meansthat the findings are not to be sneezed at.Mike Lowe16
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Page 3 and 4: Contents:The World Camp - Ngaruawah
Page 5: “THE CAMP” NGARUAWAHIA Friday e
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Page 11 and 12: President’s CornerThank you Messr
Page 13 and 14: From Mr Lowe...TKD is the one commo
Page 15: drinking alcohol makes them more of
Page 19 and 20: Results:Theory1 st adult- Jamie Den
Page 21 and 22: Fund-raising the Tae-Bo wayAfter se
Page 23 and 24: Regional Reports...WAI/BOP/TARANAKI
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Page 27 and 28: COUNTIES MANUKAUCounties Manukau ha
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