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<\/a>I suppose most of us must have seen or heard something about the Olympics that are going on in Brazil at this current time. Especially with that fabulous Wade van Niekerk breaking the world record \u2013 how awesome is that. I’m seriously\u00a0holding thumbs for Caster Semenya as well.<\/p>\nAll those athletes participating must be really fit, strong and tough \u2013 don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n
Strength is actually a funny thing. No matter how strong a person is \u2013 you would imagine that everybody is strong enough to crumple up a few pieces of newspaper \u2013 right?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s something to try out \u2013 see how strong you really are.<\/p>\n
You need 5 full sheets of newspaper to do this experiment (and you better make sure your family has read it first).<\/p>\n
This is what you do\u2026<\/p>\n
Hold your arm out straight and hold one piece of newspaper in just one hand. If you are right-handed use your left hand. If you are left-handed use your right hand.<\/p>\n
Now crumple that sheet of paper up into a tiny ball \u2013 using just one hand.<\/p>\n
Do it again with the next piece of paper – and again and again until you have crumpled up all five pieces of newspaper.<\/p>\n
Is your arm tired?<\/p>\n
I bet it is. See, we don\u2019t use those muscles in our arms to do hard-crumpling jobs very often so your crumpling muscles tire out quickly. If you practice crumpling newspapers up like that \u2013 your whole arm will grow stronger.\u00a0 (Maybe you better do it with both arms though \u2013 otherwise you might land up lopsided!)<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s your funny fact for the week… the fastest muscles are those that blink your eyelids. They allow you to blink up to 200 times a minute. We normally blink without thinking. Actually it is really hard NOT to blink and impossible to manage not to blink for as long as a minute. Go on \u2013 grab a friend and time each other trying not to blink for more than a minute.<\/p>\n Keep smiling!<\/p>\n Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I suppose most of us must have seen or heard something about the Olympics that are going on in Brazil at this current time. Especially with that fabulous Wade van Niekerk breaking the world record \u2013 how awesome is that. I’m seriously\u00a0holding thumbs for Caster Semenya as well. All those athletes participating must be … Continue reading “Test Your Strength!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,34,31],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>We all have 656 different muscles in our bodies. Exercise increases their size and strength but will never add to their number. Even something as simple as walking involves 200 different muscles. Something to think about\u2026 you use 40 muscles when you frown\u2026 but only 15 when you smile!<\/p>\n