Staten Island kids aim to snuff out smoking STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough teens are kicking butt at raising awareness about the dangers of smoking.

The sixth annual Staten Island Kids Against Tobacco Film Festival unspools Saturday at Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC), West Brighton.

The fest comes less than a week after another crew of kids demonstrated against Big Tobacco’s kid-targeted advertising on World No Tobacco Day at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), Ocean Breeze.
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To prevent injury, reduce soreness, and increase your strength and agility, make stretching part of your daily workout.

In just five minutes, you can warm up your muscles before you workout and cool them down after wards. A muscle that’s been warmed up is less likely to suffer injury during exercise. Cooling down your muscles after a vigorous workout lessens soreness later.

But stretching isn’t just a great way to ease in and out of intense exercise. When you devote more time to stretching every day, its benefits dramatically increase.

According to a study conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine, longer periods of stretching increase muscle strength, much like weight training does. It

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UH evolutionary biologist Timothy Cooper and his colleagues describe their findings in a new paper appearing June 3 in the journal Science.

“The motivation for this experiment comes from wanting to understand the factors involved in the evolution of organisms to better ‘fit’ their environment,” Cooper said. “The lack of information on how mutations interact with one another has been a major gap in predicting how populations evolve. Our work shows how we can perform experiments to fill this gap, giving us a better understanding.”

Cooper and his team focused on a bacterial population that had been evolved for thousands of generations such that its fitness had increased by approximately 35 percent over its ancestor.

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So, you’ve just purchased the P90X Workout program. Congratulations! Have fun looking through all the DVDs. And be sure to check out your new fitness guide, too. It’s your handbook to the entire program, and it’s invaluable.

Workout calendars, log sheets, workout descriptions, product reviews—this guide contains a wealth of information about the P90X workout plan. Use it throughout your 90 days—and even after the 90-days. It’s over 90 pages of essential information that will help you understand the P90X system and work through it successfully.

One of the best parts of this book is the product description at the beginning. It introduc

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Many coaches and physiologists believe that a longer warm up provides an increase in muscle temperature, acceleration of oxygen uptake kinetics, increased anaerobic metabolism and a process called postactivation potentiation of the muscles. However, very few studies have studied if warm ups has a detrimental effect on performance.

As it turns out, the warm-up is one of the more contentious issues in high-performance sport. Different coaches have different theories and not a lot of quality research has been done to identify the optimal warm-up. Tomaras’ study, published recently in the Journal of Applied Physiology suggests that at the very least, athletes may want to lower the intensity and reduce the amount of time that they warm up.

“Our study compared a standard warm-up, with what we termed an experimental warm-up,” explains Tomaras.

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