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10 REASONS TO LOVE FRANCE Free education Culture (arts and entertainment) The importance of social time (friends, family) Politeness Architectural heritage People's diversity (fashion, thoughts, social groups, etc...) Social aids (financial, human, etc) Bakeries and Cheese (not "food in general") Moderate sense of hierarchy at work Straighforwardness in communication 10 REASONS TO HATE FRANCE Very poor politico-economic efficiency Taxes (to compensate) Little purchasing power Unhappy people Individualism Fatality : Lazy people complaining about richer more active people Poor cleanliness Cold temperatures Opening Hours Over-Syndicalism (STRIKES !!!) *************** What do YOU Love ...

Here's the deal, you push a chest press, say 70kg, you reach fatigue at 8 reps. You change gym, different chest press, same weight:70 kg, FIVE reps to fatigue, What the hell ??? Or...you're in competition with a friend of yours (friendly competition is good, it provides motivation and results), he tells you his performance on his machine...how does that convert into a performance on your machine? Well, yes, workout ...

Today, Norman AUGUSTINE, former CEO of the main US Defense Company LOCKHEED MARTIN, came to give a talk at NUS on the challenges that Developed Nations are facing. After introducing with the fact that the technological advances recently have suppressed a lot of distance between people, he went on saying that a lot of work in developed nations is being outsourced. If outsourcing reduces costs for a given company in ...

The main worry of most athletes and trainers, whether they perform resistance training or aerobics, is how fast they can progress. A question that should be addressed with a lot more attention is: If I stop training, how much of what I gained am I going to lose? The numbers are quite striking and much likely to make you think twice before you keep off the track or ...

Ok, if you workout  by doing the same stuff you find on all websites: forget about all that, it's bullshit. I mean it may work but it's obsolete and inefficient. You need to train smartly basing your action on science and research rather than recommendations of popular gorillas. When you look like him you are on the right path: Apart from the 1-set to failure workout method, heavily described ...

10 REASONS TO LOVE SINGAPORE High Purchasing Power esp. on Transports, Telecommunications, Human labor and Services *Convenience 24/7, high density of food courts, malls, convenient stores... Low Income and Company Tax Safe Clean Highly organized human infrastructures Approachable and friendly local population International hub of people Great location for very nice trip destinations *Total absence of cold temperatures 10 REASONS TO HATE SINGAPORE Humid, warm and unchanging weather 22~35 deg. C / 85~100% hum. KIASU people (cold, unhappy, selfish, competitive, money-driven, lacking human and social ...

Mind maps are a tool used to represent ideas or virtually any form of data in a hierarchical way. It allows you to build trees of information and link clouds between each other. I was very sceptical about their usefulness when I was first introduced to them. After a year of use, I can only highly recommend their universal use. There is 3 things everyone should be tought to ...

Yeah, I know you are all tired of me writing about how much I had fun, but guess where I am back from ? I recently came back from Northern Thailand, more precisely Chiang Mai. After a quick transition in Bangkok (Tuesday), mainly to check out the floating market about 2 hours south of Bangkok by (slow) bus, we headed to Chiang Mai on a night train from Bangkok. Count ...

In a previous article (Two-set prediction of 1 Rep Max), I presented Matt Brizky's two-set method for 1RM prediction. It is indeed a much better metric for physical performance assessment than all those calculators based on averages. I would like to explore to what extent muscle composition can be extracted from the KG vs. REPs plot. People with a high proportion of Slow Twitch (ST) muscle fibers tend to ...

Free like the river Flowin' freely through infinity Free to be sure of What I am and who I need not be Free from all worries Worries prey on oneself's troubled mind Freer than the clock's hands Tickin' way the times Freer than the meaning of free that man defines Life running through me Till I feel my father God has called Me having nothin' But possessing riches more than all And I'm free To be nowhere But in every place I need ...