The Daily Word 11.07.08

Since when is heroin a household item?

Unbelievable! They never arrested anyone!

I hate it when researchers present things as absolute fact when what they really mean to say is, "Based on certain studies these are the conclusions we have reached." Saying it this way will invite the receiver of the information to scrutinize what they've just been told or read.

I wouldn't consider myself an athlete since I'm usually surrounded by other people who are more hardcore than I am, but I do workout nearly every day and can say from experience that I think this professor from California is full of crap. I agree that you should always warm up your body by jogging, skipping rope or whatever to get the blood flowing in your body. Smart professional athletes do this before stretching, but they do stretch before their actual workout. Why? To give them better range of motion, to prevent injury, and to help curb the soreness you might feel the next day. To say that stretching doesn't help with the conditioning of the muscle is just stating the obvious. Of course stretching isn't going to make you stronger, but it will make it easier to preform certain excercises. As a training kickboxer/grappler I think it's absurd to say you shouldn't stretch before attempting to throw kicks or practice rubber guard because it won't make your kicks harder or your guard tighter. Absurd.