video about the bones and muscles of the hip

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Hi All

Here is quite a good demo video about some of the bones and muscles of the hip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYP8OLPWJBQ&feature=related . It doesn't pretend to show standing posture but if you are trying to visualise the basics it is quite useful. It is also quite short and not too complicated.

Louise

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This is great to see. I appreciate it and need to see all of this to really understand it. Thanks.

Dear Louise

The hip really is a fascinating subject and this video clever. Thanks for leading us to it. The other body part I could never get my head around is those sit bones. Do you remember as a skinny kid finding hard seats so uncomfortable because it was mostly bone on wood?

In the SMH today there was report of a study of 22,000 Australians over 65 (published in the Australian Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, lead author, Dafna Merom) which called for more emphasis being placed on dancing, yoga, weightlifting and tai chi in this age group’s exercise regime as they offered some of the best protection against falls and loss of bone mass. Each of these activities provides a good combination of aerobic, strength and balance activities.

Walking, which a much larger proportion of that group did regularly, was beneficial for heart fitness and of course that was of extreme importance. The research claimed that walking alone does not unfortunately protect for fall and bone protection.

So take a bow Christine. Right again.

Cheers Fab

Yes Fab, Whole Woman is intuitively right. I do chuckle every time one particular food or practice is espoused by our public health authorities as being the best. As sure as eggs is eggs it will be debunked in a few years' time. We really do need to *load* our bodies to strengthen them, and we need to extend all our joints and extend all our muscles, as well as contracting them.

I had a good laugh a few years ago while reading Mrs Beaton's Book of Household Management 1906 edition, where it was recommending lots of fat and salt as most important components of the diet. Admittedly, work was more taxing then, more physical. More energy was spent and more sweat was swot, but I am not sure that it was sound advice, even then.

Louise