Stay fit, It's not that time-consuming!

Continuing on the topinc of first impressions from yesterday (The Perfect Handshake), it's common knowledge that appearance will greatly influence your credibility.  It's been proven that fit people are more likely to get a job that obese people at equal qualifications.  With women, it's not even a question that you want to be as healthy as possible and it's just sound advice to be in good shape throughout your life.

Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, recently discovered that staying healthy and getting in shape doesn't take as much time than we originally thought.  The idea that we have to work out for 30 minutes straight to get any progress has been accepted as fact for a long time in the fitness community and athletes do intervals, short periods of strenuous activity with rest periods to get in competitive shape.

McMaster researchers discovered that one minute of high intensity activity (at 90% capacity) followed by one minute of rest, repeated ten times for a total of 20 minutes is all it takes for the participants in the study to show significant improvements in both health and fitness.  These results applied both for unfit people and for cardiac patients.

Cardiac patients?  Yes, they had cardiac patients do high-intensity physical activity for short periods and none showed any cardiac problems.  Dr. MacDonald said: “It appears that the heart is insulated from the intensity of the intervals, because the effort is so brief.”

So what this means is that you can't get out of staying fit by saying you don't have time anymore.  Everyone has 20 minutes to spare in a day and it's not as if you had to do 30 straight minutes anymore!

New York Times : How 1 minute intervals can improve our health
Kudos to Come at me Bro for the idea of this article!

The Avengers

Every guy loves superheroes and the ultimate superhero movie is coming out May 4th 2012.

The Avengers trailer as been presented during the Super Bowl.  For those of you who missed it, here it is:

The Avengers (Extended Super Bowl Spot)

The Perfect Handshake

First things first.

If you want to be a man, you need to present yourself as one.  With looks and attitude, the handshake is amongst the first things that will tell you new acquaintance that you are to be taken seriously.  90% of what we think of a person is determined in the first 90 seconds when we meet them, so make your first 90 seconds count.

There are several ways to properly do a handshake according to the situation, but a few things are always important.

1-Keep your hands dry.  It's never good to have moist, seaty hands, unless you just finished a tennis match and are accepting your opponnent's congratulations for your awesome victory over him.

2-Eye contact, eye contact and eye contact.  You can be friendly, you can try to assert your dominance or you can be offering your sympathies for someone who just passed away, but maintaining eye contact will show your sincerity, your kindliness or your self-confidence, according to the situation.

3-Firm grip, not to soft, not to hard.  It's equally unpleasant to shake a dead hand as to be crushed by someone's over-powered handshake.  There are a few exceptions to this one.  For example, if you are shaking an old lady's hand, go gently, you don't want to hurt her.

For those who need a complete guide as to how to shake hands, here are a few guides on other websites :


Self Empowerment Secrets : A handshake does matter
CNN : The worst way to shake hands
The art of manliness : A manly handshake
Speechmastery : Hand shake

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