Lose The Fat, Build The Physique, With Total Body Conditioning!
Although diet is an enormous part of the equation, physical activity helps us to burn excess calories which aids in our journey towards fat loss. Learn how to get maximum results from combining all diet and workout techniques together!
So you've made the resolutions, even written out the list of promises to yourself, and posted it on the fridge. You have started a fat loss dietary program and since 'they' say diet is 80 percent of the result, that's all you need to do right?
Eat clean, watch those calories and macros and your ideal body will just appear chiseled, and tight from beneath the layers of now rapidly melting body fat ... right? Well no. Although diet is an enormous part of the equation, physical activity helps us to burn excess calories which aids in our journey towards fat loss.
Strength training with body weight, machines, and free weights increases our calorie expenditure, increases our lean mass, increases our daily caloric needs, increases bone density, corrects our posture, rids us of aches and pains and gives a tight, full, well-conditioned muscles.
Following a reduced calorie diet without exercise or strength training will result in a smaller body, but it will be just a smaller version of the body you have now; is that what you want? Or do you want to re-create your body, change your shape, and get the ideal physique you have always wanted?
If you are in the latter category, and want a physique make over, or want to start from scratch and see what you're made of, this is the place to start!
Each of the components of total fitness and conditioning will be explained, as well as how to achieve your goals within each; whether you are a beginner that has never touched a weight, or an aspiring athlete, or experienced weight lifter; one of the programs in this article will help you attain your goals!
It's important to be sure to include each of these things in your strength and cardio program, to achieve total fitness and an overall well conditioned physique. Let's briefly explore each one.
This is basically your ability to perform aerobic work for a sustained amount of time, without becoming incapacitated, winded or otherwise injured. This can be trained slowly to increase, where week one you may only jog a mile, but by week 4 you are easily jogging 3 miles with the same effort.
In addition to being able to run easier, increasing your cardiorespiratory endurance results in physiological responses such as increase in body fat utilization, a decrease in peripheral vascular resistance, and an increase in maximal oxygen consumption- these help to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease by favorably modifying risk factors like obesity, hypertension and elevated triglycerides.
This is the most important aspect of your strength training regimen. This refers to the muscles ability to produce force and perform work. The muscles should be trained a minimum of two times per week, in a program of progressively increasing resistance, to failure, to see optimal conditioning.
The rule of thumb is 24 reps or less for an exercise is best suited to hypertrophy (muscle growth) and strength gain; going beyond 24 reps total for an exercise will achieve muscle endurance. Depending on your specific goals for your body, your repetition plan will vary and should be alternated occasionally.
This is a component that is often overlooked or avoided altogether. Flexibility is a joints ability to move freely through a full range of motion (ROM). Within each joint and for each activity there is an optimal ROM for peak performance. Depending on the activity, the optimal ROM varies.
A number of factors can limit joint mobility and ROM; and these factors can greatly hinder a fitness program or halt it altogether if one becomes injured; which has been proven to occur more readily when muscles are stiff and tight.
Flexibility training minimizes these factors that limit flexibility in order to balance muscle groups that might be overused during strength training, cardio sessions, or as a result of poor posture or form. Also, it's important to remember that a joint is only as strong as the muscles that cross it.
In this context, when we refer to the body composition component, we are referring to the awareness of your current level of body fat via OMRON or caliper testing; knowledge of your goal body fat percentage; and a reduction of body fat stores, and a progressive increase in lean body mass (muscle). It's important to measure your progress in body fat reduction weekly to keep yourself on the right track towards body fat loss.
If you haven't exercised in more than six months, or if you have never followed a regular exercise routine, it is very important to ease into it. Begin with 30-45 minutes of low intensity aerobic exercise, 3-to-4 times a week.
This can be classified as maintaining an average heart rate range (HRR) of 125-150 BPM for the duration of the work out. This can be performed on a treadmill, elliptical trainer, arc trainer, stair machine, a bike and rower or during a group exercise class such as low impact step to hi-low impact floor aerobics to start.
You have been doing cardiorespiratory exercise for 3-6 months, at least twice a week; and strength training with body weight, machines or free weight at least once every week- if this sounds like you, and you want to switch up your training a bit, this is the level you are at.
If your goals are endurance based, i.e. training for a marathon, sport or competition; than training for 45-60 minutes, five days per week is recommended. This should be done using a modality similar to your goal or sport.
For example, if you are training for a marathon, using a combination of the treadmill and outdoor running is ideal to condition the body to do that type of work. If cycling is your sport, than performing your cardio respiratory work on a bike makes sense.
A trained athlete, marathoner, snow boarder or well-conditioned weight lifter looking for a more overall approach to fitness. Runners tend to excel at their sport but are lacking in total strength, weight lifters are strong, but often neglect flexibility training.
If you are an athlete or seasoned weight lifter and have been strength training three or more times per week, for longer than one year - performing moderate cardiorespiratory work at least three times per week; You should be training for cardiorespiratory endurance and fitness 5 times per week for 60 minutes, using the modality similar to your lifestyle or sport.
This training should be progressive in nature, either increasing pace or mileage or time, depending on your mode, every week.
This is for the intermediate to advanced exerciser and is a great way to utilize slightly more fat for energy and for the time crunched, during a shorter cardio work out.
It isn't for the feeble, if you do this type of cardio work, you should be going all out, full force when the high intensity cycle arrives in the work out- going about it 'half-assed' will not result in the full benefits that a true high intensity interval work out can provide.
The idea is to warm up for three to five minutes on a treadmill at a normal, easy pace. Accelerate to a brisk walk, then a jog and then a full-out sprint - as fast as you can tolerate - for timed cycles; and these are repeated usually for a total of about 25 minutes, including warm-up and cool-down periods.
I have outlined an example of high intensity interval training below using a treadmill at 1 percent incline.
Determine your level of fitness from the descriptions above, and select a work out that suits your needs from the one's listed below. If you are a beginner, you can work out 1-2 times per week for strength.
Perform a 5-minute warm up on any cardio machine. For each of the exercise in this program, perform Two sets of 15-20 repetitions, done slowly and with controlled motion.
Maintain good posture throughout the exercise with shoulder blades retracted and depressed, good stability through the abdominal complex, and neutral spine angles.
Activate core with proper drawing in and pelvic floor contraction.
While maintaining total body alignment, step forward descending slowly by bending at the hips, knees and ankles, keep most of your weight in the forward leg and AVOID letting your back knee touch the ground.
During the descend into your lunge, a partner will pass you a medicine ball from the side of your body.
Catch the med. ball , rotate away from your partner toward your lunge leg.
Use your hip and thigh muscles to push yourself up and simultaneously rotate back toward your partner throwing the med ball back at them.
Lunge - W / MB Rotational Throw & Catch.
Perform 2 sets of 15 reps with a controlled tempo. Rest for 60 seconds between sets.
Maintain good posture throughout the exercise with shoulder blades retracted and depressed, good stability through the abdominal complex and neutral spine angles.
This exercise integrates upper and lower body and will cause fatigue; technique should be maintained through each repetition.
Stand on one leg with good alignment, the knee is bent to approx. 20 degrees.
SLOWLY flex forward in the trunk and allow the raised leg to extend behind you in triple extension (at hip, knee and ankle) and HOLD THIS POSITION.
The body line should be straight and parallel with the floor from the cervical spine right down the extended leg (as shown in the video link).
Choose LIGHT weight and PERFECT the technique as this exercise is difficult to perform correctly.
Allow the arms to hang straight down to the floor, perpendicular with the body and floor.
Perform a rear delt fly, keeping the palms facing the ground, and lower the weight SLOWLY.
Rear Delt - Stork Stance.
Begin holding the dumbbells (palms facing chest).
Step forward onto a platform (4-to-8 inches in height).
Bring up the other foot and hold at a 90-degree angle while you maintain abdominal draw-in.
Multi-Planer Step Press - Front.
Perform 2 sets of 20 reps with a controlled tempo.
Begin standing on both legs in good postural alignment, with weight in hands.
Draw your navel toward your spine and squeeze your glutes for spinal stabilization.
Raise your arms keeping thumbs up at a 45-degree angle.
Do not allow your head to 'jut' forward as you raise the dumbbells.
Maintain optimal spinal alignment throughout movement.
Stabilize with 1 leg off the ground.
Draw your navel towards your spine and squeeze your glutes for spinal stabilization.
Scapation - Standing With Dumbbell (1 Leg).
Perform 2 sets of 15 reps with a controlled tempo.
Initiate the core with proper drawing in maneuver and pelvic floor contraction.
Raise one foot off the floor approximately 2 inches and keep parallel to other foot.
Lean forward (avoid rounding the back) and hold.
Start with arms straight, shoulders flexed slightly above head and palms facing the floor.
Perform an arc movement with full external rotation of hands as the arms travel towards your hips.
Ensure that the shoulder blades are retracted and depressed.
Arc back to the starting position.
Ensure the chin is tucked into the chest for good cervical alignment.
Cobra - Standing On 1 Leg With Dumbbell In Alternate Arm.
Perform 2 sets of 20 reps with a controlled tempo. Rest for 60 seconds between sets.
Sitting on SB holding med ball ( weight relative 5-10% of max strength in this area) draw in navel towards spine and squeeze glutes.
Slowly walk out both feet and lean back onto SB, allowing head and shoulders to rest on ball.
With core activated lift hips up level with shoulders and knees-bridge position and maintain.
With the MB overhead, slowly extend the arms up to a position perpendicular to the ground (as shown).
Slowly lower with the arms straight so that the arms are parallel with the ground (as shown).
Pullover - On Exercise Ball & Holding A Medicine Ball.
Stand in a stable staggered stance position.
Using a barbell grip, align the wrist and elbows as shown for start position.
Maintaining proper posture, start movement by pressing hands together.
It is important not to let your back arch at any time during the movement.
Keep arm in alignment with the cable as shown.
Keep feet flat on the floor and slight bend in knees to maintain balance and stability.
Try various grip positions, Alternating arms.
Chest Press - Standing (Free Motion).
Start by lying face down on the ball.
Slowly roll forward leaving shins on the ball and place hands in a comfortable position on the floor.
Lift your hips up until they are in line with your knees and shoulders.
Brace the spine by contracting the abdominal wall.
Squeeze the glutes and place the hands shoulder width apart on the stability ball.
Perform push-up while maintaining back stability (do not allow low back to sag).
Perform repetitions SLOWLY (4-2-2) to enhance stabilization strength.
Only move as far as you can maintain balance and core stability.
Do not allow knees to "jet" forward.
The pelvis should remain stable throughout the entire exercise.
Maintain glute activity throughout the entire exercise.
Push Up - Hands On Exercise Ball.
In the deepest part of the lunge, flex the trunk forward and perform a kickback motion for the triceps.
Bring the weighs back down slowly, extend the trunk back to upright aligned position.
Use your hip and thigh muscles to push yourself up and back to the starting position.
Lunge - Forward W/ Triceps Extension.
Maintain good posture throughout the exercise with shoulder blades. retracted and depressed, good stability through the abdominal complex, and neutral spine angles.
While maintaining total body alignment, step sideways descending slowly by bending the lunge at the hips, knees and ankles, and keeping the other leg straight in extension.
Keep most of your weight in the lunge leg and AVOID letting your back arch as you descend into the lunge.
In the deepest part of the lunge, perform a bicep curl and lower the weight slowly.
Other progression: 1- inertia progression: for dumbbells, to cable, to tubing 2- Stable to Unstable: shoes on to shoes off to lunging onto an unstable surface (i.e. core-board, airex pad etc.).
Lunge - Lateral W/ Bicep Curl.
Warm Up: Start your warm up by foam rolling to loosen up the adhesions, then increase the tissue temperature with your favorite piece of cardio equipment for 5-10 min. Follow with active stretching.
On an Elliptical for example start by performing 20-40 minutes at 60-80 percent max heartrate. Traditional cardio could be substituted with speed ladder drills.
This helps prevent any sudden pooling of blood in the veins and ensures adequate circulation to the muscles, heart and brain; as well as preventing delayed muscle stiffness, soreness and reducing any tendency toward post-exercise dizziness or fainting.
Perform 10 reps at a pace of 4 seconds each.
Start in a standing staggered stance.
Position back leg in external rotation AND SLIGHT ADDUCTION.
Transversus abdominus activation should be maintained prior to and throughout the stretch.
While activating same side glute perform a posterior tilt (flatten back) while maintaining an erect posture.
To enhance the stretch, reach same side arm up and over. It is important not to deviate forward or backward while reaching up and over.
Pelvis should be "tucked under" throughout stretch (posterior pelvic tilt). Range of motion should be determined by your control.
A posterior tilt, along with hip external rotation and activation of the gluteus maximus, allows for greater TFL isolation.
Tensor Fascia Latae - Standing.
Extend the thigh and place foam roll in the groin region with body prone on the floor.
If a 'tender point' is located, stop rolling and rest on the tender point until pain decreases by 75%.
Cross arms to the opposite shoulder to clear the shoulder blades across the thoracic wall.
While maintaining abdominal Draw-In position, raise hips until unsupported.
Stabilize the head in 'neutral'.
Body is positioned prone with quadriceps on foam roll.
It is very important to maintain proper Core control (abdominal Drawn-In position & tight gluteus) to prevent low back compensations.
Foam roll is placed just lateral to the anterior pelvic bone (ASIS).
Tensor Fascia Latae - SMR.
Begin with one leg straight and the opposite leg bent.
Both feet are pointed straight ahead.
Next, slowly move in a sideways motion toward the bent leg until you feel a stretch in the straight leg groin area.
Switch sides and repeat directions.
Start in a 4-point kneeling position.
Place your left forearm on the ball with your palm down and shoulder parallel to the floor.
Maintaining optimal posture, allow your body to SLOWLY drop downward.
Hold at first resistance barrier for 20-30 seconds, then statically contract for 5-7 seconds, relax and move into newly acquired ROM, repeat for 2-3 reps.
Lay flat on the bench with abdomen drawn in, feet flat on floor and toes pointing straight ahead.
Grasp the bar with your hands slightly wider than shoulder width apart.
Slowly lower the bar toward your chest by flexing elbows and retracting and depressing shoulder blades.
Avoid letting the back arch and/or head jutting forward.
Press the bar back up extending arms and contracting chest until elbows are fully extended.
Chest Press - On Bench With Barbel.
Maintaining proper posture, start movement by pressing hands together, at approx. 60-degree angle as shown.
Variation: Try various grip positions, Alternating arms.
Chest Press - Overhead 2 Arm Split (Free Motion).
Stand with feet shoulder width apart over the bar, flex at the hip and slightly at the knees.
Take a grip width that allows the forearms to be perpendicular to the bar when the elbows are flexed at 90 degrees.
Maintain neutral spine and head position.
Assume a 60-45 degree bent-over position (commonly known as a functional stance).
Maintaining optimal posture, pull the bar toward your chest (focus on retraction of scapulae). Focus on generating movement from your core instead of just pulling with your arms.
Return to the start position and repeat movement.
Lower bar at desired REP TEMPO.
Row - Bent Over With Barbell.
Start with arms straight extended towards the floor.
Ensure that the shoulder blades retract and depress as dumbbell moves upward.
Lower slowly and allow shoulder blades to protract as arms return toward the floor into extension.
2 extremities to 1: two arm to alternating arm to one arm to one arm with rotation.
Inertia progression: dumbbells to cables to tubing.
Stable to unstable: shoes to no shoes to unstable surface (core board, airex pad, etc.).
Start with arms straight extended toward the floor.
Perform a row action, alternating arms.
Row - 1 Leg With DB (Alt Arm).
Sit tall with back against back pad.
Elbows at side below shoulders.
Using a neutral grip, align the wrist and hands above the elbows.
Maintaining proper posture, start movement by pressing hands straight upward above the head.
Keep feet flat on the floor to maintain balance and stability.
Shoulder Press - Seated Neutral Grip (Free Motion).
Perform drawing in and pelvis floor contractions.
Maintain good posture throughout the exercise with shoulder blades retracted and depressed, level hips, good stability through the abdominal complex and neutral spine angles.
Start in a split stance, feet pointing straight ahead, knees slightly bent and dumbbells by the shoulders, palms facing forward.
Perform a shoulder press to full elbow extension and return SLOWLY to starting position.
Complete given reps and switch legs.
Other progression - Inertia progressions: Dumbbells to cables to tubing.
Perform a one arm shoulder press and simultaneously turn the shoulders toward the lead leg to full elbow extension and return SLOWLY to starting position.
Ensure that the arm does NOT cross the midline of the body.
Shoulder Press - Split Stance (1 Arm With Rotation).
Position the arms extended straight overhead holding a dowel rod.
Maintain good posture throughout the exercise with shoulder blades retracted and depressed, feet pointing straight ahead, good stability through the abdominal complex, and neutral spine angles.
Activate core with good drawing in maneuver and pelvic floor contraction.
Holding the arms above the head, squat down to a depth that you can control with good alignment through the kinetic chain, squat back up.
Watch for compensations at the foot (pronation, external rotation), knee (internal rotation, adduction), hip (frontal plane stability), lumbar spine (increased lumbar lordosis), upper extremity (increased flexion) and cervical spine (increased cervical lordosis).
A proper stretching and strengthening protocol should be initiated if any dysfunctions exist.
Squat - Overhead W/ Barbell (With Weight).
Begin on top of a box with feet pointed straight ahead and knees aligned over the 2nd & 3rd toe.
Jump off the box onto the ground, landing softly on the reactive point of your foot, keeping your knee over 2nd and 3rd toe and avoiding compensation throughout the kinetic chain.
Hold the landing position and then repeat.
Box Jump Down With 1 Leg Stabilization.
Take a slightly staggered stance.
Jump straight up as high as can be controlled, switch arm/leg in mid-air (such as in gait), and land in the deepest lunge as can be controlled with optimal posture.
Repeat as quickly as can be controlled for desired repetitions.
Perform exercise with side to side rotation with medicine ball.
Ensure correct technique on landing and try to keep movement smooth at all times. This can be achieved by ensuring that the right leg lands same distance away from body as left leg on each movement.
Initiate a thorough dynamic warm up prior to starting this exercise, this engages the nervous system.
Begin this speed ladder drill by facing the length of the ladder at the side of the first run.
Both feet will be moving together in this drill.
Make sure you land on the toes and both feet land at the same time (foot print consistency).
Start by jumping laterally into the first run, landing on both feet.
Jump laterally again to the other side of the ladder.
Jump diagonally the opposite direction into the second run, keep landing with two feet, continue this sequence through the entire length of the speed ladder.
Perform this drill as fast as you can control.
The following is an integrated program designed to develop strength for the endurance runner. The goal of this program is to strengthen the body in all three planes of motion to obtain the maximum efficiency in movement for the run. Total "communication" to all parts of the body is essential for this to happen.
Some of the following exercises show bands being used - cables can also be used to perform the same exercises and will allow you to use more weight if required. Perform these exercises in a circuit due to the nature of the sport. Research is proving this to be the most beneficial method of improvement.
Use the foam roller in your warm up to release tension in any tight muscle groups, then follow with dynamic/active stretching. It is preferable to target the areas that are used in the sport triathlon: lats/thoracic spine, hip flexors, adductors and calves. There are many specific active stretches you can use.
Repeat the warm up process as your cool down - this will enable the body to function in more dynamic movement patterns. There is much scientific debate as to what type of stretching to use.
Before commencing this exercise stabilize with 1 leg off the ground.
Maintain a tall posture throughout the exercise and good stability through the abdominal complex.
Lunge - Transverse W/ 1 Arm Row.
Adaptations in this type of training include increased hypertrophy, metabolic rate and neuromuscular efficiency.
Start your warm up by foam rolling to loosen up the adhesions then increase the tissue temperature with your favorite piece of cardio equipment for 5-10 min. and follow it up with active stretching.
Stepper 40-85% of TH 20-60 min. Perform cardio activity AFTER weight training.
Chest Press - On Bench With DB Exercise 3 8-12 N/A 2/2/2 70-85% 60 sec.
Body Weight Pull Ups Exercise 3 8-12 N/A 2/2/2 70-85% 60 sec.
Military Press - Prone On SB With DB Exercise 3 8-12 N/A 2/2/2 70-85% 60 sec.
Bicep Curl - Standing Exercise 3 8-12 N/A 2/2/2 70-85% 60 sec.
Tricep Extension - Standing Exercise 3 8-12 N/A 2/2/2 70-85% 60 sec.
Squat - Back w/ Barbell Exercise 3 8-12 N/A 2/2/2 70-85% 60 sec.
Click Here For A Printable Log Of This Workout Routine.
Same as warm-up. Or based on your clients compensations Give more time/attention to those muscles SPECIFICALLY targeted during the work-out.
If a 'tender point' is located, stop rolling, and rest on the tender point until pain decreases by 75%.
It is very important to maintain proper Core control (abdominal Drawn-In position and tight gluteus) to prevent low back compensations.
If a 'tender point' is located, stop rolling, and rest on the tender point until pain decreases by 75 percent.
Stand near a wall or sturdy object.
Bring one leg forward for support; use your upper body to lean against wall.
Your outstretched leg should form one straight line and the subtalar joint be in a neutral position.
Draw your belly button inward toward your spine.
Keep rear foot on ground, with opposite hip flexed.
Next, slowly move through hips creating controlled Supination/ Pronation through the lower extremity.
Controllably move in and out of stretch position for recommended time.
Gastroc - W/ Pronation & Supination.
Start in a kneeling position as depicted.
Position back leg in internal rotation.
While activating same side glute perform a posterior tilt (flatten back).
While maintaining the above-mentioned steps, rotate posteriorly as depicted.
Pelvis should be 'tucked under' throughout stretch (posterior pelvic tilt).
A posterior tilt, along with hip internal rotation and activation of the gluteus maximus, allows for proper isolation.
The same directions can be utilized standing. However, the standing variation will be less effective for the rectus femoris.
Flex and externally rotate shoulder/arm so that the palm faces up on the ball.
Brace the spine by drawing your lower abdomen inward.
Maintaining the flexed arm position, tuck your pelvis under (posterior tilt).
Allow your body to slowly drop downward while maintaining pelvis position.
Once you feel slight tension, hold stretch position for 20-30 seconds.
Switch sides and repeat directions using opposite arm.
Pelvis should be "tucked under" throughout stretch (posterior pelvic tilt).
External rotation of the arm must be maintained.
Lat - Prone Kneeling On SB With 2 Arms.
In the optimal posture sit on the ball or bench with a minimum 90-degrees bend in the hips and knees.
Tuck your chin in and controllably laterally flex your head (ear to shoulder) while retracting and depressing shoulder complex of the side being stretched.
Hold the stretch for 1-2 seconds and repeat 5-10 times before switching sides.
Upper Traps - Seated Active Isolated.
Sit on bench with two dumbbells.
Position your feet straight-ahead and slowly lie on bench with proper posture (neutral spinal curvature).
Position dumbbells perpendicular to ceiling (straight up).
Brace the spine by drawing your navel towards the spine and squeezing the glutes. Pelvis should remain stable throughout the entire exercise.
Slowly lower the weight, maintaining the wrist position over the elbows.
Perform repetitions SLOWLY to enhance stabilization strength.
Chest Press - On Bench With DB.
Place hands on pull-up bar with palms facing forward.
Your grip width should be at least shoulder width apart with entire body hanging straight down.
From the start position, draw your belly button inward toward your spine.
Maintaining optimum spinal alignment, in a controlled manner, pull your body upward. The shoulder blades should move downward and in while the arms follow.
Only move as far as you can control core stability and return to the start position.
The return motion must include shoulder girdle upward rotation and elevation under CONTROL. Note: The return motion should be stopped just before the muscles relax.
Do not allow head to 'jet' forward.
Relax arms as much as possible, placing the emphasis on back muscles.
Common mistakes to avoid: Raising the legs to help start the pulling motion, rotating the shoulders forward, hunching up the shoulders by the ears (indicating possible weakness in lower-mid shoulder girdle musculature), arching low back and rocking body.
Maintain proper alignment through the kinetic chain by positioning the feet straight, glutes tight, 'neutral' spine angles, shoulder blades retracted and depressed, and chin tucked for good cervical alignment.
Activate the core with a proper drawing in and pelvic floor contraction.
Choose light dumbbells and perfect the technique before moving to a heavier load.
Lie prone with your lower abs / hips on the stability ball, feet against a wall and alignment described in the 'preparation'.
With the dumbbells by your shoulders, perform a military press overhead and in line with the body.
Keep the core and glutes tight to avoid lower back discomfort.
Military Press - Prone On SB With DB.
Stand on both legs with feet pointing straight ahead and knees slightly flexed.
Maintain a drawn in position throughout the exercise.
Hold a dumbbell in each hand with arms extended by side of body.
Maintaining level hips and the drawn in position, perform a bicep curl by flexing the elbow.
Keep shoulder blades retracted throughout the exercise.
Slowly lower the dumbbells back to the side of the body by extending the elbow.
Standing in proper posture, bend slightly forward at the hip (not the spine), with feet staggered for enhanced stability.
Hands should be shoulder-width apart. Use a neutral grip or as close to neutral as possible. Maintaining spinal stability, slightly bend the knees to establish a stable stance.
From the start position, draw your belly button inward toward your spine. While maintaining shoulder position, extend elbows (hands moving down and out to your sides) as far as you can maintain control.
Using the triceps in a controlled manner, flex elbows (hands moving back toward shoulders) as far as can be controlled.
Do not move the shoulders. All motion comes from elbows.
Range of motion is determined by the ability to maintain tension on the triceps, not by how far the weight moves.
Optimal postural alignment must be maintained throughout the entire movement. If your goal is triceps emphasis, maintain upper arm positioning.
Avoid the tendency to 'unwind' at the end of extension (which occurs when the shoulder internally rotates as the elbow nears full extension), by maintaining body control throughout the extension phase.
Progressions: Two extremities to one (1 arm).
Feet may be placed around shoulder width or SLIGHTLY wider, with minimal external rotation. (NOTE: The wider the stance [abduction], the more external rotation of the feet is required to maintain alignment at the knees).
Place bar comfortably on the upper back.
DON'T BE AFRAID TO USE A BAR PAD!
Maintaining tone in the deep abdominal musculature, descend slowly by bending at the knees and hips.
During the descent, maintain weight distribution between the mid-foot and heels. Do not allow the feet to cave inward or shift outward.
While maintaining tone in the lower abdomen and optimal kinetic chain alignment, 'drive' through the feet extending the ankle, knee and hip joints while your weight is evenly distributed between heels and mid-foot. Do not allow body weight to shift toward the toes.
The knees should track over the second and third toe.
Perform downward reps slowly and concentrate on the eccentric (descent) and the isometric (squat position) alignment of your body.
Descend as far as you can control. Partial squats should progress to full squats as neuromuscular efficiency improves.
Squat - Back W/ Barbell.
These programs are challenging, even the beginner routines. Until your body adapts to the new movements and the instability and compensates for it, these programs will remain challenging. After you have used one work out for six weeks, progress to the next level of difficulty; this could mean the next program, increased weight, increased repetitions and increased sets.
There are many ways to progress in a work out. Just don't get stuck in a rut, change it up, add more weight- constantly challenging yourself is the way to lose the fat and stay totally conditioned all year round! Good luck with your fitness goals!


On Friday I needed to take a break from my knitting and my front door was looking very bare since I took down the Christmas wreath, some months back. I had been thinking of some ideas for a spring wreath and this is what I came up with.
1. Cut stripes of vintage sheets about 1 1/2″ wide and several inches long. Pin one end and wrap around the wreath. I alternated fabrics, but you can use the same fabric if you want. Continue wrapping until all the styrofoam is covered; pinning as you go.
2. Next, make your pinwheels.
2a. Cut a square piece of paper. I did 3 different size pinwheels, so I cut three different sized squares.
2b. Fold the square in half both ways to make a X.
3. Cut on each fold about 1/2″ from the center. But do not cut all the way!
3a. Now, bring every other cut piece to the center of the square and pin all 4 pieces together.
4. Then, stick the pinwheel with the pin poking through the back into the styrofoam wreath. Use a pretty ribbon to hang the wreath on a wreath hook.


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Into the Light Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk 2020: Antivaxxers and COVID-19 grifters gather in Michigan
Into the Light: Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk 2020 is coming to Grand Rapids, and antivaccine and COVID-19 pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are about to flow…again.
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Into the Light: Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk 2020. A who's who of Michigan antivaxxers.
My last post was about how the antivaccine movement has so easily allied itself with the network of COVID-19 deniers, antimaskers, and even QAnon conspiracy theorists, which makes it appropriate, albeit depressing, to take note of an event occurring in my own state that reflects that confluence. It's called Into the Light: Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk 2020, and it's taking place in Grand Rapids on Saturday morning. Its speaker lineup is a veritable who's who of the antivaccine movement in Michigan:
Into the Light: Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk 2020. A who's who of Michigan antivaxxers.
This led a Michigan resident to note, thus setting me off:
https://twitter.com/crazybabymama20/status/1313822619158937605
As I perused the list of speakers for Into the Light, there were names I recognized, and names that I did not. For example, the keynote speaker is Dr. David Brownstein, whom I've discussed a number of times, beginning in 2016 when he tussled online with Dr. Peter Lipson, an internist and primary care doctor in the area who used to be on ScienceBlogs with me back in the day. Dr. Brownstein's complaint? It was the announcement of age-appropriate vaccine requirements by a Jewish sleepover summer camp in Michigan stating, ""No child, camper, staff, artist in residence, volunteer, doctor, nurse, and their families will be allowed to come to camp without documentation of complete immunization according to the policy." That requirement set Dr. Brownstein off, and he laid down a heapin' helpin' of antivaccine misinformation, including the "toxins gambit" in response, leading to Dr. Lipson to call him out on it.
I next encountered Dr. Brownstein throwing a temper tantrum at how difficult it was to recertify for his family practice boards. Basically, he was very unhappy about how it was all about "drugs, drugs, and more drugs" (and vaccines), all the while complaining about how none of the questions were about "nutritional therapies," "natural treatments," or the rest of the sort of quackery that he offers, such as acupuncture, emotional freedom technique, intravenous vitamin and minerals, elimination diets, and more. After that, it was off to the races, with Dr. Brownstein spewing all sorts of antivaccine misinformation about the shingles vaccine, keynoting antivaccine conferences around Michigan, and attacking the New York Times for a pro-vaccine editorial. So, basically, Dr. Brownstein is the Michigan equivalent of antivaccine physicians like Drs. Lawrence Palevsky, Sherri Tenpenny, Andrew Wakefield, and Dr. Mark Geier. He's basically the Big Kahuna of antivaxxers in southeast Michigan, maybe of the whole state.
Unsurprisingly, like so many antivaxxers, of late Dr. Brownstein has pivoted to COVID-19 pseudoscience and quackery. Indeed, back in May he was warned by the FTC (here's the warning letter) to stop advertising his "treatment protocols of Vitamins A, C & D, as well as nutritional IV's, iodine, ozone and nebulization to support the immune system with respect to Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19)." As a result, he's been discussing his "Plan B," which was removed from his website, and now is moving on to "Plan C." Basically, it's some sort of "study" that was clearly put together in order to get past the part of the letter that warned:
It is unlawful under the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 41 et seq., to advertise that a product or service can prevent, treat, or cure human disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence, including, when appropriate, well-controlled human clinical studies, substantiating that the claims are true at the time they are made. For COVID-19, no such study is currently known to exist for the products or services identified above. Thus, any Coronavirus-related prevention or treatment claims regarding such products or services are not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence. You must immediately cease making all such claims.
Apparently, he managed to get a crappy observational study published in a journal:
The abstract itself is singularly unimpressive and, in fact, isn't even a study but rather published as an editorial citing an article by antivaccine "scientist" James Lyons-Weiler. (No wonder I couldn't find an entry for the study on ClinicalTrials.gov!) The study was retrospective, not randomized, not blinded (much less double blinded), and involved all manner of quackery, including oral vitamins A, C, D, and iodine given to 107 subjects (99%), with intravenous solutions of hydrogen peroxide and Vitamin C were given to 32 (30%) and 37 (35%) subjects, 37 patients (35%) of the cohort receiving intramuscular ozone, and a nebulized hydrogen peroxide/saline mixture, with Lugol's iodine used by 91 (85%). This is about as quacky as it gets. Brownstein claims that 100% of the 107 patients treated recovered, with a high degree of rapid symptomatic improvement. This is the very definition of an utterly uninformative study, even less informative that Didier Raoult's awful studies.
The speaker who also caught my eye is Katherine Henry. As noted above, Henry is a lawyer who argued a a case brought before the Michigan Supreme Court against Governor Gretchen Whitmer's use of emergency powers to enforce mask mandates, shut down or restrict businesses at high risk of spreading COVID-19, and a range of other mitigation measures enforced in the name of public health. Unfortunately, the suit was successful, and on Friday the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Whitmer's use of emergency powers had exceeded the Michigan constitution. I'm not going to comment on the legality of the ruling, although it's hard not to point out that in Michigan Supreme Court Justices are elected and that the ruling was 4-3 along partisan lines and that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services still has powers to make sure that at least some of the mitigation measures ordered by Gov. Whitmer don't lapse when the ruling goes into effect on October 23.
The point is that Henry, who will be speaking in front of antivaxxers at the Into the Light rally, is a died-in-the-wool COVID-19 denier and crank. Indeed, after the ruling, immediately did this:
The attorney who fought Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's emergency orders before the Michigan Supreme Court is urging residents to "burn your masks."
Despite overwhelming evidence that masks help curtail the spread of the deadly and highly contagious coronavirus, attorney Katherine Henry is encouraging Michigan residents to destroy their masks and ignore social-distancing measures, despite mounting death tolls.
The court's decision on Friday "means burn your masks right now if you didn't already," she said.
"Open your gym and movie theater and open whatever business you have," Henry told Fox 2. "Go and frequent whatever business you like to go to. If you have a church that's limited your services because of how you're reading the (executive orders), forget that. All of those executive orders, based on COVID-19 circumstances, from 2020, they're out, they're gone, they're done."
To say that such statements are irresponsible is a massive understatement Although it is unclear just how antivaccine Katherine Henry is, what is clear is that she is fine addressing an antivaccine rally about her COVID-19 crankery claiming that masks don't work and mask mandates are an affront to freedom. Also, one can't help that she lists prominent antivaccine organizations in this entry, including Michigan for Vaccine Choice and Physicians for Informed Consent or that the latter organization features a link to her website on its website as part of their Coalition for Informed Consent. If Katherine Henry isn't antivax herself (it's not entirely clear if she is), she obviously falsely conflates the antivaccine movement with a movement for "freedom," which is the way that antivaxxers camouflage their antiscience leanings under the guise of "freedom" and "choice." So she's speaking at Into the Light.
What's depressing, of course, is that the Michigan Republican Party and Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey know full well with whom they're getting in bed:
https://twitter.com/crazybabymama20/status/1313837629243371520?s=20
As I've mentioned in various places, the Michigan Republican Party has been playing footsie with anti-lockdown protesters (including the ones who brought firearms into the statehouse in April, although in fairness Sen. Shirkey later denounced them), antimaskers like Katherine Henry, COVID-19 cranks, denialisms, and grifters, and, yes, antivaxxers (including Del Bigtree).
I'm not familiar with as many of the other Into the Light speakers, but one caught my attention, someone named Christina Parks, PhD. She's listed as a molecular and cellular biologist who received her PhD from my alma mater, the University of Michigan, in 1999. It says nothing about her more recent research, but notes that her graduate work was carried out studying cytokine signaling. Of note, I don't see any mention of where she works now, whether she is faculty anywhere or what she is doing, and, because her name is not uncommon, I had a bit of trouble finding out much about her using Google. Clearly, her profile as an antivaxxer isn't that high. However, it's clear from the blurb about her that she is:
Dr. Parks has been in the spotlight recently for her outspoken resistance to the "racial bias" narrative being pushed by Michigan's Governor Whitmer and her Executive Branch. She advocates for doctors to focus on known epigenetic differences in the African American population that are causing them to be more susceptible to COVID-19. Dr. Parks is a passionate advocate for scientific and medical freedom. She has called out the media for their concerted misinformation campaign regarding hydroxychloroquine and its use to prevent and treat COVID-19, as well as their silencing of doctors and scientists who have dared tell the truth. Dr. Parks has been closely following the science around the world on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 as well as on the development of fast-tracked SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
So many code words here: "medical freedom," "scientific freedom," the "origin" of SARS-CoV-2, the last of which implies that she buys into the conspiracy theory that coronavirus was either engineered in a laboratory or intentionally released as part of a "plandemic." Also, she clearly clings to the now discredited drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, which is truly the Black Knight of COVID-19 treatments. This amuses me given how it's become quite clear that the drug doesn't work, no matter how much astroturf groups try to claim the it does, and, even more amusingly, how President Trump hasn't even taken the drug to treat his COVID-19, leading to hilarity on Twitter, as Dr. Stella Immanuel, she of the "demon sperm" as a cause of disease fame, was quite unhappy:
https://twitter.com/stella_immanuel/status/1312017192976867329?s=20
So what has Dr. Parks been doing? All I could find this, which suggests that the answer is: Not much. To quote a bit:
Hello, my name is Christina Parks. I received my Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from University of Michigan in 1999. During my years in graduate school, I realized that I had a passion for education and working with young people. At that time, I decided that I would rather pursue a career in education rather than continue on in research. After a short stint editing High School Biology textbooks in Texas, I got married and was coaxed back to Michigan. In 2003, I went back to school and received my Teaching Certification from Grand Valley University (2004). I taught a variety of Biology and Chemistry courses at Hesperia High School for 5 years while enjoying gardening, horse-back riding and skydiving with my husband. In 2009, we adopted a brother-sister pair from Ethiopia and I came home to care for and homeschool them. Although I still grow a large garden, my children are my primary "hobby" now! My son Sam is now 18 and is preparing to go to college. Wow! Where did the time go? Over the last 11 years, our family has been challenged by my daughter Tess' special needs and blessed by her sweet, ebullient personality. She is now 11 years old and is attending public school. She currently communicates using sign language.
As a teacher, I am extremely passionate about opening the eyes of my students to the intricacy and majesty of God's creation. Hopefully, with a little encouragement, your student will be as excited about learning science as I am about teaching it.
So she's a high school teacher, who hasn't done any research in over 20 years. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that! It'd be great if more PhD scientists went into teaching science, as it is indeed a noble calling. However, I also can't help but note that Dr. Parks (and Into the Light) are clearly using her PhD to imply that she is a molecular biologist. So she was—twenty years ago—and she isn't even a teacher any more, having left her job to do homeschooling. Basically, hers is an appeal to false authority. Does her training two decades ago make her more knowledgeable than the average Joe about molecular biology and science? Sure. However, her knowledge is likely highly out of date. Molecular biology in 1999 was very different than it is in 2000, and I can say from personal experience that it's very hard to stay abreast of the developments even as a scientist doing research in the field, much less after having been out of the field a long time and not even in a high school.
So what we have here in Michigan is yet another example of how the antivaccine movement has so easily become part of the broader conspiracy movement that includes, most prominently right now, COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and pseudoscientists, anti-lockdown protesters, and antimaskers—even QAnon cranks. It's sad to see it happening in my state in this Into the Light antivaccine event, but it's not surprising. This sort of alliance is happening everywhere, because, as I've said many times before, antivaccine views are based on variations of a conspiracy theory.
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Chrissays:
Christina Parks seems to another Theresa Deisher, only with more melanin and less ambition. Though now with kids being older she may follow the same path to some kind of dubious fame.
Also, without the laboratory to generate crappy studies to "support" her antivax claims.
Freedom advocates/ righties who have been portraying masks as an affront to their g-d-given liberty may have had an impact even in NYC ( that bastion of liberal elitism/ groupthink/ lockstep authoritarianism) because although the overall positivity rate and Rt have declined extremely well – and re-openings have been proceeding- following the holidays, clusters have emerged where people congregated in large gatherings and didn't rely upon masks…
the city and state have inaugurated zones ( red/ orange/ yellow) that will close non-essential businesses and schools for 2 weeks or limit most activities based upon proximity to a cluster of infection. A few of these zones have positivity rates of over 8% ( all over 3%): they mostly occur in Brooklyn, Queens, Orange and Rockland in and around Orthodox enclaves UNFORTUNATELY which may give the prejudiced an unwarranted excuse to display their hatred.
In light of Trump's illness and his history of cavalier masklessness, I can only hope that MOST people will learn something.,
-btw- the alties I survey persist even more adamantly against the tyranny of masks.
So, I'm not a scientist, but Dr. Brownstein seems to be testing at least five different things there without a control group. Let's say something in that cocktail can help with Covid-19, which we can't tell from that small a sample with no control; is there any way to know which?
As to the lawsuit, the short version is that it addressed two different laws giving emergency authority. One was interpreted – correctly, I think, on its content – to only authorize one period of emergency declaration, requiring legislative approval afterwards. The problem is the political setup preventing legislative approval.
The more problematic ruling is the second one, which found delegation of power unconstitutionally broad. Non-delegation has been used in states (less federal courts) to strike down broad delegations before, but it's a tricky claim – even more so for emergency powers. And the problem here is that it's a constitutional barrier: just passing the law again wouldn't solve it.
I will point out that some of the measures the governor put in place will likely stand through other sources of authorities, even past the 21 days until this is in power, and that there is a legislative fix available – the legislature can pass narrow statutes delegating the governor the authority to order masks or closures – the question is whether there is political will to do that.
@ Dorit
Dr. Brownstein seems to be testing at least five different things there without a control group.
Yep. Reminds me of another infamous quacky French study, somewhere in 2012 (it was about rats and mazes – I mean maize). Also:
They treated over 100 COVID-19 patients and had ZERO DEATHS
I would certainly would hope so, that they get ZERO DEATHS while treating 107 patients. The death rate of Covid19 being around 0.1 to 1%, just getting two deaths in this group could be a sign of either great unluckiness or an actual dangerous treatment being used.
And while I may be overly cynical in this, I suspect the people at highest risk of death from Covid-19 – people who are elderly, or have comorbidities – would not be turning to Dr. Brownstein, who seems to have somewhat of a boutique practice, for their care. So his population is likely at the low-risk end of the Covid-19 curve.
jrkrideausays:
I just checked our Public health Unit stats. Since March, 2020 with a population of ~ 200,000, we have had 156 cases, currently 21 active, no hospitalizations and no deaths.
Dr. Brownstein is not even in the running.
Yep, in a group of 107 people with COVID-19, particularly if they tend to be younger and healthier, on average you'd expect 0-1 deaths, although 2 wouldn't be outside the bell-shaped curve. Start to get three or four deaths, and that's really bad. the bottom line is that zero deaths out of 107 would be more likely than not for a group not at high risk of death from COVID-19.
Christine Rosesays:
Dr. Brownstein's not testing anything. He's basing his potion on a bunch of out of context studies, like the evidence that nasal zinc might kill cold viruses or the controversial use of vitamin C infusions for acute respiratory disease.
What these all have in common is real but low quality evidence, allowing him to play the brave maverick doctor.
It's highly unlikely that the legislature will pass such measures as long as the governor is a Democrat and the legislature is controlled by Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey has been playing footsie with the COVID-19 deniers, lockdown protesters, and antivaxxers, too.
Nondelegation is a feature, not a bug, of right wing jurisprudence. It's part of a strategy to destroy (or at least greatly weaken) the regulatory state by eliminating the ability of the legislature to delegate power to regulatory agencies, which can then formulate rules. It's designed to hobble or destroy agencies like the EPA, FDA, etc, by constraining the scope of their regulatory power so much that they basically can't do anything without legislative approval.
charliesays:
classy post .. geeze
Fergus Glencrosssays:
They may be winning the war! Despite Oracs valuant efforts. I am officially despondent.
Christopher Hickiesays:
The only place Brownstein could get that POS "study" published was of course in James Lying Wailer's "journal" Science, Public Health Policy and the Law. Not even fit for toilet paper.
Dr. Peter Hotez last year (pre-COVID) used a 3-cog diagram (https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc6546443) of how the anti-vaccine moving was propelling itself along: The political arm and the media arm reinforced each other while the political and media arms also countered the science community. I think a 4th cog is needed–call it the pseudoscience arm that also counters actual vaccine science as well as bolstering the media empire and the political arm. Wakefield was 1st generation pseudoscientist and got busted. Now we have quack physicians like Browstein and Paul Thomas being the 2nd generation, clevely abetted by Lying Wailer and his fake journal. Of note Lying Wailer just got another (his 3rd) anti-aluminum paper published (not in his journal…sadly in one by Elsevier which clearly stinks at peer review) claiming that infants behind on vaccines (due to the pandemic) will somehow be toxic in aluminum 100% of the time during the catch up interval on the CDC schedule. That's all pure bullsh*t because pediatricians don't see any signs of aluminum toxicity in infants/todders/children on the CDC schedule. Nonetheless, anti-vaxxers slurp it up and he crowdfunds the extra fee to bring these articles out from the journal's paywall.
I'd use the analogy that the anti-vax movement has become metastatic, and not in a way that will be easy to clear out.
Not even fit for toilet paper.
Think of the poor tree which gave its pulp to make the paper. It has died in vain.
It actually appears this is a strictly electronic "journal", so only bandwidth, charge carriers, capacitances and hard drive space are being wasted. FYI, he is the pathetic editorial board: a regular who's who of vaccine lies, misinformation and fraudulent research.
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge
Professor Dolores J. Cahill
School of Medicine, Conway Institute,
Gayle Delong, PhD
Brian Hooker, PhD
Simpson University
Mary Holland
Vice Chair, Children's Health Defense
Xavier A. Figueroa, PhD
Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge
Public Health Policy Initiative
Ted Fogarty, MD
UND Department of Radiology
Past Chairman
Heart of America Medical Center
Rick Jaffe, Esq.
Anthony R. Mawson, MA, DrPH
Jacob Puliyel, MD, MRCP, M Phil
Head of Pediatrics,
St. Stephens Hospital, Delhi, India
Christopher A. Shaw, PhD
Dept of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
Program in Experimental Medicine
Paul Thomas, MD
Integrative Pedatrics
Smut Clydesays:
the pathetic editorial board
That is quite a collection of fools and fraudsters in one place. How many retracted papers are required to join?
The anti–vaccine cartel is assisted by social media ( despite their well publicised effort
to control misinformation) which benefit from adverts:
The Lancet / Digital Oct 2020 outlines and links to an article illustrating how they function in great detail- it's worth a look
Metastatic ? Or MANY super spreading events?.:
The on-line anti-vaccine movement in the age of COVID-19
links to CCDH report about social media
@ Denice–that's a really well done analysis of anti-vax online presence (and rather depressing, too).
Oh boy that's" the Irish politician/ scientist whose speeches have been featured frequently on Null's woo-fest
Natalie Whitesays:
Chis Hickie says, "That's all pure bullsh*t because pediatricians don't see any signs of aluminum toxicity in infants/todders/children on the CDC schedule."
And this is because you (and most other pediatricians) don't look for or recognize it or won't even consider the possibility.
Btw, how's business these days?
There is more aluminium in one banana than in the entire childhood vaccine schedule. THAT is why paediatricians don't bother looking for it.
Um…aluminum toxicity would be anemia and osteomalacia. That's not happening with the current or any previous vaccine schedules. You anti-vaxxer can't grok that you can't be selectively toxic from a substance (with the selection being whatever you folk feel like pulling out of your backside). Business will pick back up. Trust me, the disease wins over you morons and always will.
Christine Kincaidsays:
@ Chris Hickie,
"That's all pure bullsh*t because pediatricians don't see any signs of aluminum toxicity in infants/todders/children on the CDC schedule."
Given you only see the actual child for just a few billable minutes; there is quite a bit you don't "see".
How many children utd on the CDC schedule have you tested for aluminum & how many unvaccinated children have you tested for aluminum; and what is the difference between the groups?
brainmatterzsays:
Soooo, the people that you and Natalie see for health care do not charge for their services? Just wondering since the two of you aways throw in something about fees in a way that implies something nefarious about real doctors. What a pathetic way to attempt an argument–or even an insult.
@ brainmatterz:
You're right AND anti-vax trolls currently on RI lecture doctors about toxicity and treatments openly!
Even I ( not an MD) know why toxicity might be suspected and investigated so why wouldn't Dr Chris?
Drs Orac, Chris, Bacon and Yeti are too kind .
If no clinical signs, no reason to test. FYI Christine, why isn't Dr. Paul Thomas, the mighty ant-vax aluminun "expert" not checking aluminum levels in his patients if he's so willing to put his name on an incredibly horribly theoretical paper claiming aluminum in vaccines is so toxic to children? Answer: because Thomas knows aluminun in vaccines doesn't actually reach toxicity levels in infants/children/adults/EVERYONE.
Leonard Sugarmansays:
Christine Kincaid- how do you propose to feed these children while conducting your proposed trial for the effects of aluminium contained in the vaccine? It seems that aluminium is contained naturally in a wide variety of foodstuffs that have had no previous contact with aluminium utensils, which can of course increase further the concentration in food-far beyond anything like the minimal concentrations in vaccines!
"Too many drugs on the FP boards!!" That's rich.
Intramuscular ozone injections sound incredibly painful.
I fail to see what "freedom" is found in having your body used as a virus production factory. It doesn't sound very "free" at all.
Maybe they meant "free-range"?
"It doesn't sound very "free" at all."
Neither is being tethered to a job you hate because you cannot afford to lose the health care benefits. But that along with being a vector for a certain virus for some weird "herd immunity" is what some weird people call "herd immunity." Which is a pure fantasy.
So when did being politically right wing become synonymous with the term "death squad"?
@ Chris
In other countries, quite a few times already, in history.
A few times with the political left wing, too, to be complete. Although at some point I stop making a distinction. Comparing the height of piles of corpses is not my thing.
In the USA… Ah, there have been a few close calls already. Or some outright cases.
But speaking of a politically right wing squad, a group of a dozen patriotic freedom fighters organized in a well-regulated militia just got busted by the FBi for planning to kidnap Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer.
For all the male, property-owning WASPs out there, pretty recently. For the rest of us I'm starting to feel like it's been a long, long time. Longer than my lifetime, that's for sure.
Work Will Make You Free::
https://youtu.be/388_K5dF4HE?t=977
"Brownstein claims that 100% of the 107 patients treated recovered, with a high degree of rapid symptomatic improvement."
Wow. By contrast, Provasic (the wonder heart drug in "The Fugitive") was only "remarkably effective".
Wonder if Brownstein"s regimen also has "no side effects whatsoever".
Half a clue, half a clue,
Half a clue onward,
All in the valley of VPD
Rode the half hundred.
"Forward, the Into-the-light Brigade!
Charge for the syringes!" he said.
Into the valley of VPD
Was there a quack dismayed?
Not though the anti-vaxxer knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of VPD,
Syringes to right of them,
Syringes to left of them,
Syringes in front of them
Injected and ingested;
Stormed at with shot and pill,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of VPD,
Into the mouth of well
Flashed all their screeds bare,
Flashed as they burned on air
Braying at the nurses there,
Charging at science, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the vaccine-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Doctors and Nurses
Reeled from the screeching kooks
Dismayed and astounded.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the half hundred.
Syringes behind them
While kook and quack fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of VPD,
Back from the mouth of well,
All that was left of them,
Left of half hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Into-the-light Brigade,
Ignoble half hundred!
Applause! Applause! Take a bow for that most excellent pastiche of a poem!
Sadly, no call from the Nobel committee. I'd even be willing to share the prize with Tennison. He wrote more than one version of the poem so what's one more to give it a modern flavor.
I have an old Tennison book of prems from the 1800's. It has a weird velvety kinda cover, he had a weird foot, and I learned more about lotus and gay love than any person should.
@rs and Tim
3/5 It did not make me want to dance to it. It was better than the 2/5 I gave this farcicle reinactment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3u0hPOTqw
Alphred was… bicurious. Could have been shock from his lecherous 'wife'.
Richardsays:
My apologies for the cliché, but that event features more quacks than a duck farm …
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louvehasays:
I learnt about Kristen Meghan on the debunking forum Metabunk ; her speciality is apparently chemtrails.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/kristen-meghan-former-us-air-force-whistle-blower.1066/
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/jim-babb-kristen-meghan-chemtrails-debate-at-porcfest.3889/
Calling "Science, Public Health Policy & the Law" a "journal" is stretching things a little. It's James Lyons-Weiler's latest antivax website.
@ Orac:
My sympathies to you and your fellow/ sister Michiganders in light of revelations about a plot to kidnap your governor and put her on trial… and blow things up.
Michigan AG: " This may be the tip of the iceberg"
"Michael Null, William Null and Molitor were arraigned Thursday before Antrim County Magistrate Jessica Allmand. The Nulls* are being held in lieu of $250,000 bail, and Molitor is being held in lieu of $250,000 or 10%."
http://clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/10/08/view-mugshots-for-13-people-charged-after-fbi-uncovers-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-gov-whitmer/
*any relation to you-know-who? 😀
Molitor? For a minute I thought that the Nulls were being charged along side a prince of Hell.
AFAIK, the Great Prevaricator has only a daughter and grand daughter BUT he's from WV so you never know, they could be related..
Interestingly, Adams who often advocates for guns, freedom and revolution is silent about the situation emerging in Michigan.
@NumberWang null, null, null, Pray for death.
https://youtu.be/x38P1xYZGik?t=1
This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as "miracles coming down from God." If that's true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.
The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/07/1009664/trumps-antibody-treatment-was-tested-using-cells-from-an-abortion/
"Oops, my ba…God told me it was alright just for me because reasons."
"QAnon followers are ignoring or explaining away the fact that Trump's COVID "cure" was developed with fetal tissue, something they've said is evil."
"So he's extracting some sort of elixir from the cells of 'children,'" tweeted podcast host David Waldman, "and using it to restore his health and create a euphoric feeling and high energy levels?"
"Bafflement, denial, or (less commonly) claiming that Trump taking the drug is a 'red pill' designed to raise awareness about how fetal stem cells are used in research…
"They got him on adrenochrome and he's now fully part of the system of the beast, if not became the antichrist after 3 days."
"More mainstream right-wing outlets are also attempting to "correct" the record on the antibody cocktail, mainly by baldly lying about it." (LoL)
there's still no current consensus on whether the president heroically took Regeneron to save humanity, has become fully entombed in the belly of the Beast, or some third option. It seems to represent, at this point, something rather rare in the MAGAverse: a genuine point of disagreement.
It's virtually certain that in the coming days, the sentiments around Trump's antibody cocktail will coalesce, and these divergent, competing points of view will be absorbed into a more dominant narrative, most likely one that urges trust in Trump and in what his followers so fondly call "the Plan."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ayk5p/qanon-fans-try-to-explain-why-trump-took-a-drug-developed-with-fetal-tissue
In Brownstein's full article (which you can find linked on the page with the abstract, to which Orac linked), is the statement "All patients gave fully informed consent for in-tegrative medical management of their condition." This is the full description of informed consent – nothing about consenting to each of the varied treatment agents. Intravenous peroxide and intramuscular ozone seem to me as therapies that would definitely require specific consent. There's also nothing about IRB oversight, which is required even for retrospective reviews.
@ David–Thank you for pointing this out (no IRB review). Just to make this even more pathetic, Browstein is on the "Distinguished Advisory Board" to a group called "The Alliance for Human Research Protection" which claims they are a national network of lay people and professionals who are committed to upholding the humanitarian values and ethical standards of medicine enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm." as well as "Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention". (https://ahrp.org/advisory-board/)
The advisory board is another who's who of anti-vaccine quacks and other pseudoscience loons.
It didn't take long for NN to clarify what's really going on in Michigan:
"FBI stages FAKE terror plot against Michigan Governor
to divert attention away from BLM, Antifa, Russia gate"
Because self obsessed people with guns would never think of forcing their opinions onto others….
What is a P.h.D?
I know it may be a typo, but you wonder with this crowd.
P. h. D. – Pilled Higher and Deeper?
De linke weekendbijlage (41-2020) - Kloptdatwel?says:
[…] Respectful Insolence: Into the Light Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk 2020: Antivaxxers and COVID-19 grifters gather in Michi… […]
"If no clinical signs, no reason to test."
So because vaccinated children do not present with symptoms related to aluminum poisoning in adult dialysis patients; that means they have "no clinical signs"? This is very simple; you don't HAVE any evidence showing that aluminum levels in vaccinated children are similar to aluminum levels in unvaccinated children. You CAN'T say with any certainty; that the aluminum levels in neurotypical children are similar to the aluminum levels in autistic children. And actually, studies show that autistic children DO have high aluminum levels:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282653742_Assessment_of_Hair_Aluminum_Lead_and_Mercury_in_a_Sample_of_Autistic_Egyptian_Children_Environmental_Risk_Factors_of_Heavy_Metals_in_Autism
https://todayspractitioner.com/autism/aluminum-and-autism-is-there-a-link/#.X4FTgIjYrrc
All that you can really say; is that vaccinated children don't present with the same clinical signs as chronically ill, adult dialysis patients with aluminum poisoning.
@ Brainmatterz,
"Soooo, the people that you and Natalie see for health care do not charge for their services? Just wondering since the two of you aways throw in something about fees in a way that
implies something nefarious about real doctors."
Comprehension helps. When I said "billable minutes" I was referring to the amount of time a doctor has to observe a child. It's not long enough to observe vaccine injury. They should be be paid for their time but they won't be there at 2 am when TSHTF & the child starts arching their back & shrieking. Or stops breathing. Pediatricians who say "I have never seen …" regarding vaccine injury should really stop & recall exactly how long they actually see their patients after vaccination. Usually, the exam is done, the order for the vaccines given to the nurse & the doctor is with another patient when the vaccines are given & then mom packs up baby & leaves. The pediatrician won't see the child for another couple of months. Of course they don't "see vaccine injury"; they leave. Baby goes home.
That's not how it works, Christine.
Every medical procedure has some risk. If clear signs of aluminium poisoning are not there, it is not only a waste of time and money to treat a patient for aluminium poisoning, it is potentially harmful.
From your first link:
"On examining the relationship between environmental risk factors and toxic heavy metals levels among cases we found the following: there was a significant relation between fish consumption in the patient and the mercury levels; also the nearby gasoline stations affected the lead levels, while aluminum pans usage increased aluminum level in the studied autistic patients"
"In conclusion, there were higher levels of the heavy metals mercury, lead, and aluminum in the hair of children with autism in comparison to controls; these high levels were statistically positively correlated with some risk factors as heavy fish consumption during pregnancy, maternal smoking, and usage of anti-D and aluminum pans; however these levels were not correlated with autism severity."
Vaccines were not mentioned, but aluminium pans were.
Second link was from a journalist. If reporting is correct, there were no control group. You should give PubMed citation,
Aluminium concentration in foods is here:
https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2190-4715-23-37/tables/3
There's irony in Christine sniffing about how "comprehension helps", when she evidently doesn't know the difference between clinical signs and symptoms. Symptoms are subjective, i.e. pain or fatigue. Signs are objective features such as a rash or lab abnormality.
While some studies found higher metal concentrations in autistic children, others have not. For instance there's the published research of Albizzati et al in 2012:
"The metals analysed were Lead, mercury, cadmium and aluminium, since their build-up may give both neurological and psychiatric symptoms.
Results: The comparison of the mean values of the concentrations between the groups, performed with ANOVA test, has shown no statistically relevant differences.
Conclusion: There wasn't correlation between autism and heavy metal concentration."
Other studies have come to similar conclusions.
Add in the fact that there's poor correlation between metal levels and the clinical features of autism, and a lack of benefit to chelation therapy, and the metals hypothesis as it relates to autism rests on very shaky ground. Even if aluminum exposure was somehow correlated, environmental exposure from other sources dwarfs the amounts found in aluminum adjuvanted vaccines.
Antivaxers will never admit this.
Anti-lockdown ideologues' "science" is now as bad as antivaccine "science" - RESPECTFUL INSOLENCEsays:
[…] public health, and the politics of trying to respond to the pandemic, with antivaxxers frequently augmenting COVID-19 deniers at various rallies and events, all the while crying "censorship," infusing the COVID-19 […]
Antivaxxers aren't just antivaccine. They're anti-public health. - RESPECTFUL INSOLENCEsays:
[…] are now a major presence at "anti-lockdown/antimask" demonstrations, often as headliners on the speakers' schedule. At every turn, this unholy alliance has fought public health measures to slow the spread of […]
How COVID deniers are taking pages out of the anti-vaccine movement's playbook | Global Research Syndicatesays:
How COVID deniers are taking pages out of the anti-vaccine movement's playbook | Research Snappysays:
Dr. David Brownstein strikes again peddling quackery for COVID-19 - RESPECTFUL INSOLENCEsays:
[…] all sorts of antivaccine misinformation about the shingles vaccine, keynoting antivaccine and COVID-19 quackery and antivaccine conferences around Michigan and attacking the New York Times for a pro-vaccine editorial, the last of which was […]
coschristi on R.I.P., Gayle DeLong
prl on Brownstone Institute embraces its inner antivaxxer
Dangerous Bacon on Under the microscope: Antivaxxers find "impurities" in COVID-19 vaccines
George Nikolich on Under the microscope: Antivaxxers find "impurities" in COVID-19 vaccines
JustaTech on Under the microscope: Antivaxxers find "impurities" in COVID-19 vaccines
TBruce on Under the microscope: Antivaxxers find "impurities" in COVID-19 vaccines
Narad on R.I.P., Gayle DeLong
Mark Robinowitz on Brownstone Institute embraces its inner antivaxxer
NumberWang on Brownstone Institute embraces its inner antivaxxer

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The National LGBTQ Task Force, as the country's oldest national LGBTQ advocacy group, advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people. Millions of LGBTQ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives--housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. The Task Force is training and mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world where you can be you.


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The White Caps Turnhout are an ice hockey team in Turnhout, Belgium. The White Caps play in the Belgian Hockey League and North Sea Cup. They play their home games in Kempisch Ijsstadion. They participate in the Belgian Cup tournament and the Belgian Elite League.

History
The club was founded in 1981, and won their first Belgian Hockey League title in 2004. They then won their first Belgian Cup in 2006, and repeated their success by winning it in 2007, 2008, and 2009. They also won the Belgian Championship in 2007, 2008, and 2011.  They participated in ten games of the 2011-2012 season of the North Sea Cup before dropping out due to a lack of available players and their game results were annulled.  The team returned to the all-Belgian Elite League for 2012-2013.

Season Results
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

Achievements
Belgian champion (4): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
Belgian Cup champion (4): 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009

IIHF Continental Cup
2012 Round 1 Continental Cup. Hosted in Ankara, Turkey.

 HC Metulla withdrew from tournament in July, 2011

References

External links
Club profile on hockeyarenas.net

Ice hockey teams in Belgium
Ice hockey clubs established in 1981
1981 establishments in Belgium
Sport in Turnhout

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may be connected to a deadly new pestilence.A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past.On the way to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the Charleston coro…
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may be connected to a deadly new pestilence.
A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past.
On the way to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the Charleston coroner. During the storm, a medical waste container has washed up on the beach. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Chillingly, Tempe recognizes many details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she flies to Montreal to gather evidence and convince her boss Pierre LaManch to reopen the cold case. She also seeks the advice—and comfort—of her longtime beau Andrew Ryan.
Meanwhile, a storm of a different type gathers force in South Carolina. The citizens of Charleston are struck by a bacterium that, at its worst, can eat human flesh. Thousands panic and test themselves for a rare genetic mutation that may have rendered them vulnerable.
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Can someone please describe how Help will behave in (and how it is designed for) the Metro UI?
Unfortunately, I'm not able to find a more appropriate section for this question. If this is the wrong area, please let me know.
Hello, we have authored guidelines for modern application help in the Dev Center documentation.
You should include app help when you need to explain how to use your application to users. Application help is a single page help file that you hook up to the Settings charm as a Help link.
Help content should be a single page and can include text, links, and images. To provide the most current content, you should include a link to your support or home page or either embed an online page into your help page.
Before including Help content for your app, you should consider whether your app actually needs it. For example, if your app has proven to be easy to use, you might decide that Help content isn't necessary. If there are one or two UI elements in your app that are a bit tricky for users to understand, try integrating tips into the UI, creating a simple in-app demo, or redesigning those elements to avoid creating help that only addresses one or two simple fixes.
Are there any examples of Help available for MS-type apps? It would be helpful to see an image.
The "Treehouse Stampeded" game has help. Hit Windows Key+C and go to settings to see it!
Thank you for the suggestion. I agree that it would be a good idea for the documentation to include sample images that show what help in the Settings charm might look like. I will provide this feedback to our writers and try to get this incorporated into the help documentation soon.


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Force 17 () was a commando and special operations unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement and later of the Office of the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority. It was formed in the early 1970s by Ali Hassan Salameh (Abu Hassan). Initially, the group was housed in building 17 of Al-Fakhani Street in Beirut.

History
Force 17 was formed by Ali Hassan Salameh in the 1970s in an attempt to professionalize Fatah's intelligence services. Force 17 was also initially responsible for Yasser Arafat's personal security. Salameh is believed to have masterminded the 1972 Munich massacre and was assassinated in January 1979 by Mossad as part of Operation Wrath of God.

Dissolution
In 1994, the unit was largely absorbed into Yasser Arafat's personal security force, the Palestinian Authority's "Presidential Security". In 2006, the unit was separated, to become the Presidential Guard as part of the Palestinian Security Services.

In 2007, a plan to dismantle the remnant of Force 17 and incorporate it into the Presidential Guard of President Mahmoud Abbas was unveiled by Ynet. The Force was merged into the Presidential Guard and the National Security Forces in December 2007.

Operations
1979: Force 17 elements were dispatched to Uganda to assist the PLO's efforts to defend the regime of Idi Amin during the Uganda–Tanzania War.
September 1985: Gunmen allegedly part of Force 17 stormed a yacht moored in Larnaca, Cyprus killing three Israeli citizens. PLO authorities at the time denied involvement.
December 1985: Force 17 claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and murder of IDF soldier Moshe Levi. His body was found burning near Mazor.

Rumored operations
 The group has been accused by some of having carried out the 1987 assassination of Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali in London.

Operations against Force 17
On January 28, 2001, the IDF captured six members of Force 17, who were believed responsible for the shooting deaths of at least seven Israelis in the Ramallah area, including Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane and his wife Talya Kahane. Binyamin Kahane was the son of Kach leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane.
 February 2001, an Israeli helicopter fired a missile killing prominent Force 17 member Massoud Ayyad.

Leadership
According to most reports Force 17 was founded in the early 1970s by  Ali Hassan Salameh. In 1979 Salameh and his bodyguards were assassinated in Beirut by Israeli intelligence.

Mahmoud Awad Damra reportedly commanded Force 17. In 2006, he was sentenced by an Israeli court to 15 years in prison for his role in planning several attacks against Israel. He was released as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.

See also
 Force 14

References

Fatah
Defunct Palestinian militant groups
Palestinian National Security Forces
Military wings of socialist parties
1970s establishments in Lebanon


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Feds Greenlight Petition Favoring Turtle Hunts in Hawaii
U.S. federal fishery managers today took the first steps toward possibly allowing the hunting and eating of Hawaii's beloved green sea turtles, known as the "honu," by responding in favor of a formal petition from fishers and hunters who want to remove the threatened sea turtle species from U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections.
"Just imagine sitting on a Hawaii beach sipping a mai tai and watching a graceful green sea turtle slaughtered before your eyes," said Todd Steiner, a biologist and Executive Director of SeaTurtles.org, an international ocean conservation group based in California. "Everybody loves the honu, so what does this do for tourism?"
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced in today's Federal Register that it will consider taking the threatened Hawaii green sea turtle off the endangered species list in response to the petition filed in February by the Hawaii Civic Association, which openly advocates hunting and eating of the honu. The public can comment on the proposal until October 1, 2012. Download the Federal Register Notice. Download the green sea turtle petition. Download the Hawaii resolution favoring honu hunting. Learn more about the Hawaii green sea turtle here.
Hawaii green sea turtle populations have increased steadily since their hunting was banned and given federal protections and listed as threatened under the ESA in 1978. However, the Hawaiian honus are far from reaching official government recovery goals of at least 5,000 nesters per year.
The average number of nesters at the honu's primary nesting beach in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is 400 to 500 per year since 2002, with a high of 843 in 2011. Ninety percent of honus nest on French Frigate Shoals, while only a few nest on any of the main islands — where they mostly feed and swim.
"Hawaii's honu numbers are growing, but have a long way to go before they reach the safety threshold for mother turtles," said Teri Shore, Program Director at SeaTurtles.org. "A major factor in the survival of the honu is the serious impact climate change and rising sea levels will have on the nesting beaches and sea turtle life cycles in decades to come. Even when they reach nesting goals, hunting of these treasured sea turtles seems barbaric in this day and age. "
As part of the delisting process, NMFS will decide whether the Hawaiian green sea turtle is a distinct sub-species of green sea turtle and conduct a status review to determine whether its population has grown large enough to ensure it won't decline or go extinct due to a range of human threats including hunting, bycatch in fisheries and climate change if federal protections are removed. If delisted, the state of Hawaii would take over management of the green turtle and could allow hunting as other states have done for other delisted species such as wolves. The Hawaii Civic Assocation advocated for hunting in its petition to the government.
SeaTurtles.org opposes the delisting and hunting of the honu for the following reasons:
1. The Hawaiian green sea turtle has not met recovery goals under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
2. Threats to the survival and recovery of Hawaiian green sea turtles from human activities are increasing, not decreasing.
There are too many major threats to the long-term survival of the green sea turtle globally and in Hawai'i, including the loss of nesting beaches resulting from sea level rise, invasive algae, disease, capture in fishing gear, ingestion of and entanglement with marine debris, ocean acidification, and coral bleaching. These threats have not been eliminated nor mitigated in any significant way.
3. Hunting of green sea turtles led to their near-extinction and should not be allowed to resume.
Green sea turtles are now central to Hawaii's tourism and provide huge economic benefits to the state by attracting, divers, snorkels, beachgoers and sea turtle loves to the islands.
4. Designation the Hawaii green sea turtles as its own sub-species of sea turtle may have merit and the growth of the species demonstrates the success of Endangered Species Act protections. Removing these protections could reverse decades of conservation.
In filing the petition to delist the honu, the Hawaii Civic Association received help from the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's Executive Director Kitty Simonds and other staff as well as paid sea turtle researchers who work for WESPAC. This is a clear conflict of interest as the fishery management council is the federal body that manages fisheries and is responsible for protecting endangered sea turtles, whales and other marine species from harm in commercial fisheries.