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03-14-2008, 02:09 PM
As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.
Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer.
“It takes strength to do them, and it takes endurance to do a lot of them,” said Jack LaLanne, 93, the fitness pioneer who astounded television viewers in the 1950s with his fingertip push-ups. “It’s a good indication of what kind of physical condition you’re in.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health/nutrition/11well.html?ei=5087&em=&en=5a51bf1662b6acb7&ex=1205640000&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1205517731-kEJanceuNxPI45380BvVNA
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Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer.
“It takes strength to do them, and it takes endurance to do a lot of them,” said Jack LaLanne, 93, the fitness pioneer who astounded television viewers in the 1950s with his fingertip push-ups. “It’s a good indication of what kind of physical condition you’re in.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health/nutrition/11well.html?ei=5087&em=&en=5a51bf1662b6acb7&ex=1205640000&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1205517731-kEJanceuNxPI45380BvVNA
http://bestsmileys.com/exercising/8.gif