Facts and trivia

 Yes all of us who have been at the gym have gotten stuck on the bench press at some point in time. The story goes as follows you begin with 12 reps on the bench, you then proceed to do 10 reps on your next set, then 8 reps and then that last set. You aim for 6 reps but you only manage 4 or 5. You get stuck under the weight and somebody has to come and save you. Humiliation! And the possibility of severe injury. So you rather skip the exercise out of fear of it happening again. You rather do the seated chest press machine or bench press machine rather than getting stuck again. Well is there a hack to help with this one? Or is risking getting stuck on the bench on some puny weight (That some only warm up with) even the risk? I will discuss a way or two to pass this burden on yourself by training smart and training carefully yet effective enough to make progress. First off lets look at what a max bench press is or what an 1RM ( 1 Rep Max) is. Let us suppose that you have warmed up th...

 For anyone who has ever deadlifted or let me say just picked up a heavy weight of the floor ( Box of paper) the deadlift might have some familiarity. Whatever you might have lifted in your life time might create some form of familiarity with this move. For gym goers it is easier to associate with since they get very close to the real deal when they deadlift. But for most of us the 200kg barrier is about as far as we will get. This article attempts to shed light on this exercise and what muscle groups are used as well as the different ways of executing the move and the different world records in that specific execution style. First lets take a look at the human anatomy while performing this lift. The muscle groups active during the deadlift ( Picture from quora.com) As can be seen from the picture above the muscles include the rectus spinae, the glutes, the hamstrings, the lats, trapezius and out of picture would be the quad muscles that helps extend the legs during the lift. The g...

  As far as we know birds are probably the most well known creatures who can fly. Also, we are well aware of insects that can fly and even bats who are mammals who can do so. But what other unlikely creatures can also fly? Or what did the first dinosaurs/birds who took to flight look like. Our first candidate on the list would be archaeopteryx. A semi dinosaur, semi bird like creature whose fossils were found in Germany.  Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago. What made archaeopteryx different from modern birds was that archaeopteryx had a bony tail like a lizard. Unlike todays modern day birds who only have tail feathers. No tail. Then archaeopteryx had teeth, something that is completely missing in modern day birds. Archaeopteryx didn't have a beak like modern day birds either. It's beak and skull was merged. It had a jaw like a lizard for instance. Modern birds have beaks. Archaeopteryx is a good example of how the first birds might have looked like. So how did th...

The blue whale ( Above picture) is a mammal and the whale shark ( Bottom) a fish.    Porcupines are closer related to whales than to fishes. Hard to believe if someone looks at the circumstances under which the two species exists. The whales natural habitat mimics that of a fish more closely and based on anatomy one would easily be forgiven to think that a whale is closer related to a fish than a porcupine. All of the above are rodents. Right on top the porcupine, below that the beaver, below that the Capybara from South - America, below that a mouse and at the bottom a squirrel. All belong to the order rodentia and to the class mammalia.   But first of, both are mammals. So even if a porcupine mimics some Australian monotreme or some hedgehog who is an insectivore more closely, it is closer related to a rat or mouse or even beaver then to the above mentioned (Rodents) I suppose parallel evolution is to blame for the confusion. A bit like with the dolphin and shark w...

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