Category: Interesting

Lifting Weights As You Age Cuts Your Risk Of Early Death By 46%

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Great news, fellow lifters. Your training will not only improve your overall health and provide you with incredible strength and mass gains – it will give you a longer life to enjoy those benefits as well!

In the modern society, most of the people tend to lack the skills of aging well – the unhappy mix of bad food choices, sedentary office jobs and piles of mismanaged emotional stress comes with an awful price that is usually felt a lot stronger in the latter decades of life. Continue reading “Lifting Weights As You Age Cuts Your Risk Of Early Death By 46%” →

Exercise makes you happier than money, according to Yale and Oxford research

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It’s clear exercise has health benefits both physical and mental. But what if we could show it was more important to your mental health than your economic status?

According to a study from researchers at Yale and Oxford, we may have done just that. 

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Kanku – family crest of house Oyama

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Gaze upon the sky through the family crest of Masutatsu Oyama.


In each dojo, continuing the work of Masutatsu Oyama, you can find two main symbols of the school Kyokushinkai – Kanji and Kanku.
With kanji it makes sense, it is the calligraphic writing of the name of the school. Continue reading “Kanku – family crest of house Oyama” →

Some of The Deadliest Samurai Were Women, But History Forgot

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There is no shortage of stories about legendary Japanese samurai warriors in modern pop culture; but most stories only feature the male ones.   

Contrary to popular belief, female samurai existed and were just as fierce and skillful as their male counterparts.

Called the onna bugeisha, these deadly warriors were similarly trained in combat, self-defense and skillful use of weaponry, according to Japan Times. Continue reading “Some of The Deadliest Samurai Were Women, But History Forgot” →