The Schlicken Empire

Stretching before exercise may be a waste of time, a study suggests. The elaborate limbering up routines favoured by many athletes and gym-goers do little to prevent muscle aches and stiffness, researchers found. Stretching muscles after exercise may be equally pointless, they say.

A team from the University of Sydney compiled the results of ten small scientific trials, each involving between 10 and 30 people.

These had examined the effects of stretching between 40 seconds and 600 seconds before exercise. “The 10 studies produced very consistent findings,” said Dr Robert Herbert, from the school of physiotherapy at the university, in the journal Cochrane Review.

“They showed there was minimal, or no effect, on the muscle soreness experienced between half a day and three days after the physical activity.”

[Source:this is london via spluch]

The future superhuman!

Schlicken’s Response: We’ll take one!

Less than 2% of the world’s population has natural red hair, which was created by a mutation in northern Europe thousands of years ago.

Because of this, it’s possible, say some expets, that redheads could be gone as early as 2060. On the other hand, if they want to save themselves, they should all move to Scotland. 40% of Scottish people are carriers of the gene while 13% of them have red hair.

Wow, I’d really hate to think there would be no more redheads. My favorite redhead is to the left. Yes, it’s the HughesNet actress, Margaret Easley.

[Source: snafu-ed.blogspot.com]