Britain's historic “Brexit” referendum Thursday ended with a mostly unexpected result as the United Kingdom voted to sever ties with the European Union after 43 years locked in an unhappy marriage. The decision to depart the 28-member bloc sets the stage for messy and prolonged divorce proceedings between that will play out on the world stage over several years.
On th...
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If you were told that there was one exercise that would not only help you prepare to conquer Everest but also set you on track for a six-pack, you'd likely scoff. Well, retract that scoff, here's the mountain climber.
Taking inspiration from Edmund Hillary and co, the mountain climber is a challenge for the entire body, especially if you do it fast enough to act as a cardio workout, and it's particularly hard on the core and legs.
Admittedly, even if it becomes a regular part of your workout regime you probably won't either climb Everest or get a six-pack overnight, but it's a fine first step. And we're very big on first steps here at Coach.
The basic movement works out all manner of core muscles, but to get the fat-burning benefits it needs to be done at pace. Shoot for as many mountain climbers as you can in a minute, each leg movement counts as one rep, while keeping perfect form of course. Coach's one-minute score? 62.
Even if you can't maintain a rapid pace with your mountain climbers, the motion alone will target core muscles. Your legs also take a bit of a pasting, while supporting your upper body ensures that your arms don't get off scot-free either. Done at pace to gain the cardio benefits, the mountain climber really is a full-body exercise.
The mountain climber is an easy exercise to build into a circuit routine, and can be varied in any number of ways. If it's too tough at first, you can rest your arms on an elevated object, so your legs take more of your bodyweight.
Then if you want to make it harder, you can support your arms on an exercise ball to reduce your stability and work the core more.
You can also throw in a twist by moving your leg forward to the opposite side of your chest each time. Fun, right?
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Until now, a convoluted set of rules made it difficult to do business with help from a drone. For example, a realtor who wanted to use a drone to grab aerial footage of a listing or a farmer who wanted to turn to a remote-controlled aircraft to monitor crops needed to go through a lengthy permitting process and get special permission to use their unmanned aircraft.
But, on Tuesday the Fe...
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It has been 10 years since Pete Berg's pilot for Friday Night Lights first hit the air, and five years since its final bow, but like the ups and downs of the small-town football team, the show perseveres in the hearts and minds of a huge fan base. The same goes with the bond between the actors. Though they have stayed in touch over text and email, for the first time since filming...
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Among folks that enjoy an adult beverage, craft beer drinkers may be the healthiest. In a survey of 1,978 drinking-age adults from The Harris Poll and Nielsen, 80 percent of people that imbibe at least one craft brew a month consider themselves "health conscious," compar...
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Who likes short shorts? Mercifully, we're not that keen, so you'll find no upper-thigh hugging models – mid-thigh, tops – in our roundup of the best summer shorts for men.
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Speaking of, statement-making prints are on trend this summer and while we don't recommend matching your top and bottom with the same print (like some), pairing a print on one half with a block colour on the other is an easy way to make an impression. Consider Scotch and Soda's repeating pair-of-cherries pattern if you're looking to make a suggestive impression, while Kestin Hare's line for M&S tones it down with a leaf print in somber greens. But for our money, APC best manages to be eye-catching without venturing into eye-watering territory.
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Everything Everything are known for their eclectic and varied music style, inspired by a huge range of influences across many different genres. So with such a complex attitude with regards to music, does Higgs' views towards fitness fit the same mould?
About a three probably – I do a little bit of running and stuff, but not as much as I should. I was very much not sporty at school, basically. I'd be looking towards a seven, but any higher, it starts to get a bit weird – it's just something I want to get better at. I just need the motivation, really.
I run, but I don't know if you could call it long distance, it's kind of a few miles jogging I guess – it's not particularly strenuous. I'd say I do it a couple of times a week, realistically. Sometimes when we're on the road we try to run together, but that depends on how much drinking we've been doing the night before...
I just think back to all the terrible things I've been eating and try to remove that from my memory.
It definitely does – you use a lot of energy when you're performing, especially if you're a drummer or something. Even singing can really take it out of you, particularly if you're recording and you're doing it all day, you just don't realise how much it knackers you out. And if you're on stage, you're putting a lot of emotion into things and you're moving around loads under hot lights – and I wear a massive robe when we play live, so it's like a little workout. To prepare, I'll have a little stretch beforehand and try to drink some water, but inevitably that always ends up being beer…
I'm not a huge fan of swimming; it's alright, but I don't really like doing lengths and stuff like that. But I've tried so little in the world of activities that I don't really have a hatred of anything.
It's somewhat frowned upon in rock 'n' roll circles – it's kind of the opposite of “cool”, to be sporty and healthy. That's what we used to think, but then we realised we were just getting really fat because of all the drinking. And you look around at other bands and some of them have realised this and some of them haven't. It's quite interesting the longer you spend in the industry… you get bands like McFly who are total health nutcases, which isn't much fun, so we're trying to find a balance. We've done our chubby years, now we're trying to work it off at least.
Everything Everything will be playing Truck Festival (July 15-17), Kendal Calling (July 28-31), LeeFest Presents: The Neverland (July 28-31), Standon Calling (July 29-31) and Electric Fields (Aug 26-27).
"The Cat,” a high-speed ferry, officially re-opened for business on Wednesday, allowing Americans to flee the domestic eastern seaboard and be kayaking, hiking, and camping in Nova Scotia in half the time that it used to take. Last year, a different boat sailed between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova ... This article originally appeared on www.mensjournal.com: Summer Checklist: Take a Ferry from Portland to Nova Scotia
Craft brewers know a lot about making great beer. They also know how to make big statements with those ales and lagers. Whether it's donating proceeds of a brew to the LGBT community and protesting North Carolina's House Bill 2 or inventing a This article originally appeared on www.mensjournal.com: Hate Trump? There's a Beer for That
When I first started out at Lancashire, I played with Neil Fairbrother. He just told me: “Don't worry about anything except bowling the ball as fast as you can.” That took a lot of the pressure away, because I'd been obsessing about making each delivery perfect for line and length and movement. Even nowadays, I try to keep my action as simple as possible. It's like a golf swing: the more you think about each little element, the worse it gets, so when I'm running in, my mind is almost blank. I don't even really look where I'm bowling, I just try to get the right “feel” off my fingers as I let the ball go.
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I had two good PE teachers at school, Mr Preedy and Mr Ennis. We didn't have good facilities, but they made the best of a bad situation, and they kept up my love for sport when I might have been distracted by other things. I was one of the smallest kids in my year, but when I was 15, I grew about a foot in 18 months and started bowling a lot quicker. After that, I was a bit like the guy in The Great Escape, always with a ball in my hand. Even in bed, I'd be throwing it against the wall and catching it on the rebound.
I loved Boris Becker, the energy he had, but I didn't have any posters on the wall. Oh, apart from one of Ian Wright. I went through a regrettable Arsenal phase when my local team, Burnley, were bottom of the fourth division.
Brendon McCullum, for what he did to New Zealand cricket over the last few years. I used to think that sledging was a big part of my game, but the more I chatted to him, the more I realised it didn't affect good players. New Zealand don't sledge at all – they don't talk to anybody, they just concentrate on their cricket. And that's what I try to do now.
That whole “come back for a barbecue at mine” doesn't really happen any more. There isn't time, because you go from one ground straight to the bus to get to the next one. Mind you, we had a really good drink with the South African lads after the series there in January. We went to their dressing room, had a fines meeting and played drinking games.
I was lucky to come into a Lancashire team that was quite old. They had a lot of experience and they were really relaxed, which helped me feel not under pressure and clam up. England was different. It felt like every man for himself. If you were a 20-year-old coming into the team, the sense you got was, “Who's this kid?” Not welcoming at all, but that has changed for the better in recent years.
I'll say Alastair Cook or Andrew Strauss. And not just because they are England captain and director of cricket right now! People think Cook is not blessed with all the shots, and that he's not the most fluent to watch, but he's one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen. If you wanted someone batting for your life, I'd choose him.
Not really. It's not like in Turkish football, where they kill a goat to make the grass lucky. Mind you, I saw a groundsman step on a scorpion in Sri Lanka, but that was an accident, not a ritual.
My wife was brilliant when I was out for six months with a back injury. I'm a really fidgety patient, so I can be annoying. That said, my two daughters hate cricket. They're seven and five and at that age where they enjoy giving me lip. I love being at home, and they see cricket as something that takes their dad away.
You need a good unit of friends and family that you can lean on. I've played with guys like Marcus Trescothick and Jonathan Trott who had to retire because of the mental difficulties they were under. Whenever I'm suffering, I try to find a mate to go for a beer and forget about it. That's my cure – mild amounts of alcohol.
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Everyone wants six-pack abs. A visible rectus abdominis is a sign that you're fit and training hard. Sets of endless crunches and a strict diet will help those muscles pop. But you'll get even greater results by working the hidden muscles underneath, and with that added strength, you'll also boost your core stability, posture, and prevent future injuries.
When they're not mowing something, losing the battle against modern music or standing by to offer repair skills, it's a father's duty to hand down his wisdom to his sons. Here are some of fatherhood's greatest hits for Father's Day, as received by celebrities and civilians alike.
“Think carefully about what you can afford for the engagement ring – then double it.” The expression on my now-wife's face proved how right he was. – Tim, editor
It's OK to doubt yourself. My dad's a bishop, and after a massive sermon on Christmas Day, he would turn to my mum and gesture to her, “Was that all right?”, which I've always thought is very human. – Hugh Dennis, actor
“Don't put all your eggs in one basket, son.”
I had 11 of my dozen in one basket and one in the other, because to really make it as a footballer you have to be totally focused and believe in yourself even when other people don't.
My dad taught me the difference between flathead and Phillips screwdrivers, how to swing a hammer, how to do all your shopping in one trip to save petrol, and that when you forge your father's name to a letter for school, be sure he will never find out. – Nick, househusband
My granddad told my dad, and my dad passed it on to me: if you ever find yourself in a police station overnight, don't sign anything until the morning. I've never had to use it, but just in case… – Rob, telesales manager
“Never leave a job on bad terms as you never know when you may need to ask to go back.” Having left and returned to at least three jobs over the past 15 years, it is advice I've definitely taken. – Robin, sales director
“Never get tattoos.” My dad said you don't want anything on your body that you can't change, because you never know when you might change your mind. Plus, if you had tattoos the police would always be able to find you, if you were up to no good… A pity I didn't listen. – Erin Davis, son of Miles Davis
If you're gonna do it, don't just kind of do it
“My dad never quit in the middle of something. I decided I was going to make Alice the scariest villain in rock 'n' roll and I wasn't going to stop until I was done. Well, 45 years later, I still don't feel I've hit my peak. So my dad taught me endurance.”
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“Always make allowances for the bloody fool in a car” – my dad used to cycle to and from work twice a day. – Joe, admin assistant
“Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.” – Mark Vonnegut, son of novelist Kurt Vonnegut
On how to raise my daughter, my dad said, “When she falls, don't run to her. If she isn't passed out, she'll probably be all right.” So far, so good… – Will, teacher
“Never finish your pint until the next one is in front of you.” – Ross, chef
There's nothing so terrible that can't be laughed at
“He would laugh at the most horrible things – including his own Alzheimer's. I've always thought his was an interesting philosophy. Once he got sick, instead of calling it Alzheimer's he would call it 'Old-timer's disease'. I would go: 'Dad, you're making a joke?' He'd say: 'What can you do? You can't bloody do anything about it'.”
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“Be good, but if you can't be good then be careful, and if you can't be careful then remember the date.” – Lee, managing editor
“Bullies invariably sh*t themselves when you stand up to them.” – Adrian, facilities manager
“At home, I was always breaking things and annoying everyone. When I was eight, dad took me to boxing classes to divert my energy and keep me out of trouble. It made a huge difference to the way I saw life, and taught me discipline. It also taught me respect, because Dad made it clear that if I didn't behave I wouldn't be able to go back to the gym. If it wasn't for him I'd have just wasted my life.”
“Women have deeper emotional wells” – arguably sexist, certainly well-meaning and probably true. – Andy, lawyer
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