Health & Fitness

How to get the perfect ass - The evolution approach

I am constantly asked how to get the perfect ass... the questions normally go like:

  • How do I get the perfect ass?
  • How do I put more junk in the trunk?
  • How do I make it so when i back that thang up, everyone knows I'm backing up?
You'll find many exercises and approaches to this on the inter-web and I'll cover none of them here. The purpose of this entry is to share something I came across while watching a BBC documentary called BBC Origins of us
 
It seems the fact that humans have a muscular ass is something of an anomaly in the animal kingdom and something we evolved over thousands of years. Now as those of you who believe in ridiculous notions such as evolution will know, we would not favor anything in evolution that wasn't beneficial so the question was... whats so great about the junk in our trunk.
 
Turns out that the gluteus maximus (butt muscle) is barely used by our day to day activities. Even while walking, it's barely utilized. This is probably what explains why so many people have flat to no asses unless they are all fat! So what causes our butt to beef up? It seems that the butt is heavily utilized in running. As a recent article in the New York Times suggested, the natural way to run is to run using your glutes, thighs and hamstring. The approach for using your glutes and hamstrings makes sense because those are the bigger muscles in your body than the calf. The article further suggests that you should let your lower leg hang loose and land with your ankle inline with or behind your knee, never in front of your knee. This is the way man was meant to run.
 
The BBC documentary actually attaches electrodes to the presenters butt to see how the muscles react when the woman ran and it shows that the only time the butt is really utilized is when you run. So there you have it, the muscular butt evolved to allow man to run and most importantly, we evolved as distance runners (this explain why we are hairless and sweat).
 
As you have no doubt gathered, the flawless evolutionary approach to the perfect butt is... running... 

Potassium offsets Sodium

While salt has incorrectly been villainized in most health studies, it is worth noting that this is complete hog wash. While I would never deny that excessive consumption of salt results in hypertension and high blood-pressure, I would also like to point out that the qualifying statement there is excessive

That being said, due to the abundance of the junk food diet and preserved foods in our diet, excessive consumption is not only common but almost impossible to avoid. That is why I was extremely excited when I read that potassium has been known to offset sodium! The idea being that if you cannot avoid excessive sodium in your diet, start eating foods high in potassium to offset all the sodium you consume. 

Keep in mind that hyponatremia (low sodium in your blood) can be extremely dangerous if sodium concentrations are really low. That being said, the concentration of sodium in your blood shouldn't drop much even if you have a low sodium intake. Your kidneys do a good job of balancing your sodium/potassium for you. If you eat very little sodium, your kidneys will increase the reabsorption of sodium so that you don't lose as much. Even if you never looked at your sodium intake, your kidneys keep your serum concentration at about 140 mg/d.

So if high intake of salt is a problem (trust me, it definitely is) make sure there is plenty of spinach, broccoli, bananas, and beans in your diet!

Mother F**kers who can't read

2nd Nov 2011: This is not a rant against the illiterate. Rather this is a rant against the inadequately literate bunch of assholes who apparently need advice on their cricketing issues. What the f**k about my website suggests that this website is in any f**king way associated with cricket? What the f**k about this website suggests that I am in any way affiliated with Geo TV?

All I see when I go to my site is my face all over the damn place  because I was too effin' lazy to come up with a design! I have repeatedly posted in the comments that I am not an effin' cricket coach nor do I know Sikander Bakth or Moin Khan. I do see them on a regular basis but that is beside the point; I don't talk to them and they leave me alone as well!

Do not f**king leave comments asking me about your problems with cricket and let me assure you that your problems are explained by one of the following:

- You suck at cricket.

- You're a pathetic cry baby weakling.

- You don't have the mental capacity to comprehend what competition is.

What makes your idiotic questions more painful than a Colonoscopy performed with a cactus is that pathetically typed out Urdu that you mother f**ckers ask your questions in. If you can find your way around a Qwerty keyboard, I'm fairly certain you can phrase yourself in English SO F**KING DO SO!!!

Scratch that, DON'T F**KING ASK ME ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING CRICKET!

Edinburgh - March 2010 - Learn More