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3.29.2010

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The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition Caroline Alexander, Frank Hurley

In August 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War, the explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew sailed for the South Atlantic in pursuit of being the first to cross, on foot, the Antarctic continent. Through the freezing Weddell Sea, they came within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, became trapped in the ice pack. The ship was crushed, it’s crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and is one of history’s greatest exploration adventures.

University of Toledo – Rogers Brute Racks

12.1.2023

A Pulling Machine

A tremendously popular exercise to train the latissimus dorsi and associated muscles is the pulldown movement. Coaches, athletes, trainers and gym enthusiasts all use a variety of grips to target areas of the back that they want or need to...

11.24.2023

Manual Training Has Rules

In 1979 Manual Resistance was introduced at the National Strength and Conditioning Convention. Weight training’s ability to enhance athletic performance had become accepted and coaches were beginning to be hired by major sports programs. Facilities everywhere were extremely limited or...

11.16.2023

Powerful Hands

The hand is a complex anatomical system. This appendage is composed of twenty seven bones and fifteen joints. Having 30 degrees of rotational and translational freedom it’s able to grasp and apply force to objects of multivarious shapes and sizes....