All-Blacks perform powerful haka at spot where Jerry Collins died

Jerry Collins was a New Zealand rugby captain who played 48 times for the country between 2001 and 2007. Last week, his life was brought to a tragic end when he and Alana Madill were killed in a car crash near Beziers. Collins’ daughter remains in a critical condition.
Former All Black Neemia Tialata led an emotional tribute to Collins by performing the haka at the spot where the accident happened accompanied by other New Zealand former players. Ali Williams, Carl Hayman and Chris Masoe were among those involved and it is a beautiful gesture from the men.
The pair died when a bus carrying Portuguese tourists hit their car on a dual carriageway and the haka is performed in front of a white cross bearing the names of the couple.

Some things go beyond sport and the video, posted to Instagram, is powerful whatever your feelings about rugby. You can watch it by clicking here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/babb/11668351/France-based-All-Blacks-perform-powerful-haka-at-spot-where-Jerry-Collins-died.html

What Are Muscle Building Steroids?

Steroids are artificial compounds linked chemically to the male sex hormone Testosterone that is responsible for the maturation of male features falling out during puberty. Steroids were first developed in 1930 to help men who were incapable to produce sufficient testosterone in their bodies.

However, steroids are widely used by jocks that engaged in power sports such as power-lifting, muscle building, baseball, football, and even used by players as a means to get fit for rugby and to boost their performance levels, and build up muscles. Anabolic steroids are often called muscle-building steroids, because the offer great results in muscle building. 

The muscle building steroids cause the body to raise the tissue amount and to metabolize fat within the body. Thats why body-builders make use of muscle building steroids to their advantages. However according to the 1988 federal law, the supply & use of muscle building steroids for non-remedial purpose is against the law. The muscle building steroids are restricted medications in the United States, Britain, Canada and many other parts of the world.
 

Today, the majority of athletes abuse steroids, which is completely erroneous and unlawful. The use of muscle building steroids for competitive purposes is legally banished. The muscle building steroids are available in form of tablets, capsules, gels and injections. There are lots of muscle building steroids available in the market. Some of the highly abused muscle building steroids include Dianabol, Winstrol, Testosterone, Danocrine, Anadur, Anavar, Andriol, AndroGel, Anadrol, Cheque Drops, Oxandrin, Winstrol, Deca-Durabolin, Durabolin, Equipoise, and Depo-testosterone.

There are many risks involved in using muscle building steroids. The muscle building steroids may have serious side effects and dangerous consequences. Some of the common side effects of muscle building steroids include dizziness, early hair loss, sleeping problems, vomiting, sadness, mood changes, pain in joints, hallucinations, mental illness, urinary problems, jaundice, stroke, heart disease, trembling, high blood pressure, and increased chance of injuring muscles and tendons. The muscle building steroids are also responsible for causing aggressiveness, gloominess, nervousness, and uncontrolled bouts of anger.

It remains that better education by sports clubs, gyms, doctors etc can contribute to the reduction or need for use of steroids, all that is required to get fit is an understanding of basics, leave the chemical experimentation to the Timothy Leary types.

I can’t stop eating- Eat on a diet!

I can’t stop eating.

I can’t stop eating- Eat on a diet!

The season has started and you have completed your first few events, what adjustments can you make to your diet to improve your performance? What can you eat on a diet?The season has started and you have completed your first few endurance life events or perhaps you are training hard for your biggest challenge yet. Your winter training has paid off but you wander what adjustments you can make to get a few seconds per mile faster to beat your biggest rivals.
Now is the time to start thinking about nutrition. Appetite is one of the biggest keys to getting your weight down and increasing your power to weight ratio, and key to this is your daily intake and knowledge of what you can eat on a diet.

Our appetite has worked well for millions of years of evolution but our modern lifestyle means we can’t rely on our natural appetite, we spend so much time being sedentary that we easily eat too much and get fat. It is important to remember it takes 20 minutes for your body to recognise being full. There are a few things to look out for and change to make you feel like you are running, cycling or kayaking with a turbo attached to your back.
1.    Eat natural foods which contain less calories. Nowadays packaged foods are so calorific that we can eat 500-1000 calories in just a few minutes. It could take a lot longer to eat the equivalent amount of calories just eating vegetable such as carrots.
2.    Eat a big Breakfast. Research shows those who eat more calories before midday eat less calories as a total for the entire day than those who eat less before midday. You will also experience less cravings throughout the rest of the day.
3.    25% of calories. Aim to eat 25% of your daily calorie intake within an hour of waking up to give you the best chance of maintaining your energy levels throughout the day and shedding a few extra pounds of useless fat.
4.    Eat every 2-3 hours throughout the day to prevent sugar highs and lows which result in your body depositing fat. Research shows that people who eat more frequently eat less.
5.    Resist temptations, the more you resist treats in a short amount of time the more likely you are to break the bad habits quickly.
6.    Don’t supersize it. Just because you get offered the ‘make it double size for the same price’ doesn’t mean you have to have it.
7.    Energy Supplements. Try not to use them for every training session, otherwise your body will start to rely on the massive amount of sugar in them. As a result your bodies fat burning mechanism will switch off.
8.    Fat Burner. Once a week try doing a ride or run for 1-2 hours before breakfast to get your body burning fat fast. If you haven’t eaten anything since the evening meal on the day before your body will have no choice but to get into fat burning quickly.
If you feel light you will go faster. For a free healthy eat on a diet plan as used by the girl below check out Isabel de la Rios here http://eatonadiet.com

Breathing Made Easy - Get Fit for Rugby

Breathing Made Easy


Some of the simple things are often missed out when it comes to training to get fit for rugby or any sport. Breathing is something we do all day every day and so we take it for granted. But there is an art to breathing correctly and getting the most out of each breath. For example if you are asked  to take a big breath you do so in such a way that you probably hold your stomach in. But why would you hold your stomach in when really it should be sticking out because of the volume of air inside the lungs. Likewise when you breathe out your stomach and chest should go in as you release the used air as you exhale but so many people push their stomachs outwards. The action of breathing brings air in through the lungs which then goes into the blood and gets transported around the body to help exercise. As you exhale carbon dioxide is removed from the body as a waste product and room is made for new oxygenated air to come in. Good breathing technique will help lower blood pressure, purify the blood, increase metabolism, improve digestion, promote rapid recovery after exercise, help you to relax and most importantly of all have non-stop endurance for adventure.

During exercise most people resort to shallow, short fast breaths, because they are breathing just using the top part of the chest. Excessive panting will be a waste of energy and it won’t deliver enough oxygen to your lungs. This rapid shallow breathing may cause what the experts call a flight-or-flight response. Your heart rate will increase as the heart has to pump faster to use what little oxygen it has been given and this puts bigger stress on the body which will leave you with no choice but to slow down and it will make recovery from your training session take longer. Your mind will think you are exercising at a high intensity when in fact if you were able to breathe correctly you would soon find out that the intensity is not that hard after all. Using just the top of the lungs with this short shallow chest breathing doesn’t make use of the bottom half of your lungs where the most efficient exchange of oxygen takes place. It is important to exhale fully before you take another breath in because if you don’t you simply won’t have enough room for the new oxygen to come in.

Breathing out correctly is like emptying your rubbish bin to make room for more rubbish. You would empty the whole bin before you started to fill it up again. You need to empty your lungs completely before you take another breath in. Stop smoking if you haven´t already.

Make time in your week to do some simple breathing exercises to help you get the most from each breath. Firstly make sure you make some simple changes whilst training. Keep your posture as upright as possible. If your shoulders are rounded and slumped you will not be able to inhale as much oxygen as you need because your diaphragm will be prevented from rising up. So relax your shoulders but keep your chest up and make sure your ears, shoulders and hips are all in one line to maintain good posture. Then as you inhale relax your abdominal muscles so your diaphragm can rise up and then contract your abdominal muscles as you exhale to help exhale completely.

Exercise 1

This is commonly known as abdominal breathing or diaphragmatic breathing. Place one hand on your stomach and the other hand on your chest. As you breathe in look at your hands and make sure the hand on your stomach is rising higher than your hand on your chest. When the hand on your stomach is rising higher than your hand on the chest you know you are making good use of the space at the bottom of the lungs. Next take a deep breath in through your nose and then slowly breathe out through your mouth. When you think you have fully breathed out contract your stomach muscles to help completely empty your lungs. The process of breathing out should take twice as long as breathing in. Once you have mastered the technique repeat the technique for 3-4 minutes at a time. Practice the technique when you are resting and relaxed, then start to incorporate it into your training sessions. You will soon find that your training level of intensity can increase and so your rugby fitness or any other sport will improve immeasurably.

Exercise 2
This is commonly known as bellows breathing and you should try using this just before the start of the endurance life events, as it conditions the body to overcome the shock of a sudden demand for more oxygen by making the muscles involved in heavy breathing ready for action. This technique should be practised at first in the comfort of a chair as it can have the effect of hyperventilation and in some cases people may pass out. Breathe in fast through your nose and mouth and then breathe out fast through your mouth using all the correct muscles. It is especially important to use your abdominal muscles to make sure each time you breathe out you completely empty the lungs. Keep repeating the exercise but if you are new to it only do it for 10 seconds to start with and then build up the time of the exercise by 5 seconds each time you do it. The fast breathing will also release energizing chemicals to your brain.
Add these two breathing exercises to your training plan twice a week and you will see the benefits within a few weeks. Poor breathing technique will inhibit your ability to progress and perform at your full physical potential.

Awesome! The difference between moas and chickens.

The difference between moas and chickens. Well moas probably tasted like a chicken deer cross and were undoubtably harder to catch, and of course they´re long extinct, but there is more mana and mystery surrounding the history of the Moa, I don´t even think the colonels chicken recipie is secret anymore.
The french put up a great display, they were fast, responsive, good with defense and quick to attack. Luckily for new zealanders, the boys knew how to "go hard out" with a wobbly wheel, like the Last Indian perhaps? Compared to the bloody display the week before, this mornings match was pretty tame and I guess rightly so, If you throw a chicken up in the air enough times it´s still not going to fly, but it will eventually shit itself and noone like to be shat on. Congrats to the kiwi boys and the other teams for a great rugby world cup, all you guys are champions of rugby. For the kiwis with hearts of a moa, time for a well earnt bucket of chicken before sorting out that wobbly wheel I reckon.
Thanks!

All Blacks Choke the Chickens Neck - Nice one Richie!

Go the All Blacks!

Say no more.

AWESOME! good win from the boys in the All Black vs france rwc 2011 match 37 17... Except, Sweet! I know this is shit quality but it was a great tackle that set the mood for the match, nice work Nonu chur chur from Bs As

CHOKE??!!! You´d better watch yaself! Choke you mate.

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Matches: New Zealand v France

Players/Officials: Julien Bonnaire

Tournaments/Tours: Rugby World Cup

Teams: France | New Zealand

France back row Julien Bonnaire has begun the mind games ahead of Saturday's crucial World Cup clash with New Zealand by questioning whether the All Blacks will buckle beneath the weight of expectation.

Test rugby's greatest team have dominated the game since the inception of the World Cup yet have won the tournament just once, the inaugural event in 1987. With the 2011 competition being staged at home, the pressure is building like never before and Bonnaire is keen to inject doubt in their minds.

"The All Blacks know we are unpredictable, both in a good and a bad way actually. We can either fail or pull it off - and that is what they fear," he said. "Clearly there are high expectations from a whole nation who support them fully - perhaps too much even. We experienced that ourselves in 2007 in France."

Much of the build-up to the match has concentrated on what has been described in the New Zealand press as a second-string line-up. The claim does not stand up to scrutiny with a host of big names - among them captain Thierry Dusautoir, scrum-half Dimitri Yachvili and winger Vincent Clerc - starting.

The main area of discussion has been on the selection of Morgan Parra at fly-half in what will be his first Test start in the position. Muddying the waters on the debate over whether Marc Lievremont has selected a weakened side is the knowledge that defeat would place them in the easier half of the quarter-final draw where two of England, Ireland or Wales will lie in wait.

"Controversy is part of the deal," said Bonnaire. "The media are looking to get their hands on anything. It doesn't affect me. It's up to us to prove them wrong on the field."

France have become something of a World Cup nemesis for New Zealand after staging famous upset victories against them in 1999 and 2007. All Black lock Brad Thorn admits Les Bleus can be unpredictable.

"The French can play a really attractive game of rugby. It can be out of the box, it's quite unique," he said. "They can throw the ball wide off their own try line, so it makes for interesting footy.

"My message to spectators would be to enjoy the rugby. Cheer their hearts out. Get every cent's worth out of their admission and just express themselves and have fun. Hopefully the two teams can put on a performance that can really excite fans from not only New Zealand, but from everywhere."