Posted in BodyPump on Jul 13th, 2007
Depending on which website you read a BodyPump class can burn 600, 556, 500, 483 or 315 calories. As with exercise in general it depends greatly on how muscular you are and how hard you work. People who do light weights and miss reps will burn fewer calories than those who work to muscle fatigue [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 11th, 2007
Apologies in advance as this isn’t a “proper” post. Some of you may have noticed that recently my site is either very slow to respond or fails entirely. I have taken this issue up with my webhosts who are trying to make improvements. The problem rests with the fact that this site shares a computer [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 11th, 2007
Take your pick for the reference in the title. Perhaps Freddie Mercury and Brian May’s band before Queen, an EP by Ride, a song by Lily Allen, a film, even a bank or one of many more. Anyway I digress. In the medical world a smile is a valuable tool. It puts patients at ease [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 9th, 2007
No, not the lovechild of George O’Dowd and Billie Joe Armstrong. I was reminded of the lyrics of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation So instead of sitting in front of the idiot box yesterday we thought we’d expose ourselves to something more cerebral. First [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 8th, 2007
It is not a good time to be a doctor in Britian or Australia, especially if you are middle-Eastern or Indian. The recent revelations that most of those responsible for the recent terrorism attempts were doctors comes as a great surprise to the world. For a while it has been assumed that the radicalisation of [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 2nd, 2007
It is nightime and a thin drizzle falls. The road is wet and slippery. Streetlights are few and far between leaving many shadows. Suddenly a shape looms out of the darkness. It is a cyclist. He is riding a black bike, wearing dark clothing and has no lights. If you as the motorist strike him, [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 1st, 2007
We all tend to take our vision for granted, so you can imagine my concern last night when I suddenly developed a visual disturbance. I lost the vision in my L infero-nasal quadrant, i.e.: the lower inner vision of my left eye. Fortunately otherwise my vision wasn’t affected. For a few years now I have [...]
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