Forget Workouts, Crawl Your Way To Fitness In 2017

Throw out your spin bike, ballet shoes, and kettle bells, because crawling is set to be the fitness trend of 2017. The exercise, which involves moves that you’re currently more likely to see in a crèche than gym, is set wheedle its way into exercise regimens according to a trend report by the fitness-focused Balance Festival. Crawling involves floor work which uses the weight of the body, and therefore requires no equipment to perform. It’s like the new version of the plank, but more interesting. Researchers have already seen the increasing popularity of crawling in states with groups forming and crawling classes such as ‘Original Strength’. The UK is now following suit. The rise of high intensity interval training (HIIT) and workouts that can be done at home have set the scene for crawling to explode into the mainstream. Crawling is an isometric move, which means that you are working hard to hold a position under repeated tension. This helps not only with your overall strength but also endurance and core stability – from wrists and shoulders through to hips, ankles and toes. Research also suggests it improves blood pressure levels.

People Craved For Wi-Fi More Than Sex, Alcohol

Wi-Fi has been identified as the most important daily need with 4 out of 10 persons giving it more importance than other human luxuries and necessities like sex, chocolate and alcohol, a new study has claimed. The study carried about by Wi-Fi connectivity provider iPass, surveyed 1,700 working professionals across Europe and the US about their connectivity habits. It involved asking participants to rank the importance of Wi-Fi against other “human luxuries and necessities” on a scale of 1-4, with one being most important and 4 bring least important. Wi-Fi was labeled most important by 40.2% of respondents, followed by sex (36.6%), chocolate (14.3%) and alcohol, which was ranked as the number one daily essential by 8.9% of respondents, International Business Times reported. Wi-Fi is not only the most popular method of internet connectivity; it has surpassed many other human luxuries and necessities. The idea that Wi-Fi would be considered more important than sex, alcohol and chocolate would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. For some time now, the internet has appeared on the bottom line of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, almost as longstanding jokes in geek culture. Recently, the idea has gone mainstream. The reason behind Wi-Fi’s growing favour, it seems, is the impact it has had on our daily lives. Apparently, unlike sex, sweets and booze, the proliferation of internet connectivity seems to have had a largely positive effect, with three-quarters of respondents saying Wi-Fi had improved their quality of life, it said. According to the study, a majority of people now also make travel decisions based on whether the hotel or accommodation has a Wi-Fi connection.