Scott is Starting Pitcher Wednesday against D Rays.

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080728&content_id=3213791&vkey=news_tor&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor

Long road leads Richmond to Toronto
B.C. native will miss Beijing, but timing is just right for rookie
By David Singh / MLB.com

TORONTO -- Scott Richmond knew he was going to be at Rogers Centre on Wednesday, but until recently, he had no idea he would be scheduled to start for the Blue Jays against the division-leading Rays that afternoon.
The original plan was to introduce the right-handed pitcher, along with the rest of his teammates from Canada's Olympic Baseball squad, to Toronto fans prior to the game. The revised plan will now feature Richmond making his Major League debut instead.
"I was actually scheduled to come here [to Rogers Centre] to meet team Canada," said Richmond, who was informed of his callup just prior to his start on Sunday for Triple-A Syracuse. "And now, instead of meeting team Canada, I'm meeting the Blue Jays.
"It's something I've been working for my whole life."
Richmond, a native of North Vancouver, British Columbia, was summoned from Syracuse on Monday when the Jays placed reliever Brian Tallet on the 15-day disabled list with an injury to his right foot.
For the 28-year-old Richmond, pitching for Toronto means that he will lose his spot on the Canadian Olympic Team, which will soon be departing for Beijing. He is not complaining, though.
"This is what you've always worked hard to play for your whole life -- from when you're four years old, growing all the way up," he said. "You always want to be a Major League Baseball player. It's just bad timing, but I'm going to take this timing over any other time, that's for sure."
Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi has already indicated that Richmond will be a part of the Toronto rotation for at least the time-being.
"It's an opportunity to get a look at him," Ricciardi said of Richmond. "He went to Double-A, pitched really well for us there. Went to Triple-A, pitched really well for us there. He's got the hot hand right now. We'll just find out what we've got."
In Double-A New Hampshire this year, Richmond was 5-8 with a 4.95 ERA. After being promoted to Syracuse, he went 0-2 with a 2.53 ERA, holding opponents to a .210 (25-for-119) average. He walked six and struck out 31 across 35 innings.
For Richmond it has been a long and winding road to the big leagues.

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More news on Scott Richmond Blue Jay's pitcher

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=7d768930-baf6-48fa-a988-64dd31f73c1c
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Perseverance pays for pitcher, 28

From scraping bottom of boats to starting for the Blue Jays

Jim Jamieson, The ProvincePublished: Tuesday, July 29, 2008

You could say Scott Richmond's baseball career hit rock bottom, quite literally, when he spent his first three years after high school working on the North Vancouver docks.
He was scraping rust and rock-like barnacles off the bottoms of boats in his job at Seaspan International's shipyards.
But Richmond, a 6-foot-5 right-handed pitcher, will see his unlikely dream of playing major league baseball come true Wednesday in Toronto when he'll get the start for the Blue Jays against Tampa Bay at the Rogers Centre. Richmond, 28, who was called up by Toronto on Sunday, will be the 14th Canadian to appear in a Jays uniform at the major-league level.

Last season Scott Richmond was playing for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats in the independent Northern League, below single A. The North Vancouver pitcher now finds himself, at 28, on the verge of playing for the Toronto Blue Jays.
"Last season Scott Richmond was playing for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats in the independent Northern League, below single A. The North Vancouver pitcher now finds himself, at 28, on the verge of playing for the Toronto Blue Jays.","On Wednesday, North Vancouver's Scott Richmond will realize an unlikely dream when he joins the likes of Rod Barajas (left) and Matt Stairs of the Blue Jays, who are shown celebrating Stairs' two-run, fifth-inning homer during a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays Monday in Toronto.

"I'm smiling from ear to ear," Richmond told the Toronto Sun. "It's nice, I don't have to fly and pitch the next day. I have a few days to think about it ... but I'm going to try not to think about it."
Richmond's saga gets even more far-fetched, as he'll be trading one dream for another. The call-up to the Blue Jays likely means he'll have to forgo his spot on Canada's Olympic baseball team. He was supposed to be at the Rogers Centre anyway, as the Olympic ball squad is going to be introduced before the game. Richmond just didn't think he'd be staying out on the field.

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Client makes the big leauges TO Blue Jays

Ok everyone

My client Scott Richmond who has been named to the Canada's Olympic team has also been called up to the big leagues this week. http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/team/roster_active.jsp?c_id=tor check out the active roster.

During the off season he was in with us helping him maintain and improve his flexibility. We at Three Peaks Kinesiology are extremely excited for him getting his well deserved recognition, and a chance to show that he can throw the heat.

Good luck Scott with Toronto and in Beijing

We are behind you all the way. See you in the off season.

A weapon made for the Penguin

So staying with the Batman theme. I can across a very interesting video, about an unbreakable umbrella.
So if you want to have an umbrella like Mr. Jones or the Penguin to fight against people this could be for you. This could also be good for those rainy November days here in Vancouver.
They retail for about $180 dollars.

But remember you will need the strength to wield this hidden wrecking stick. So check out this, program if you are wanting a really kick but work out to go along with your unbreakable umbrella.

Click here for a combat core this is not for the weak!

Blame Your Genes if your are a lazy mouse!

Well here is more bull to fuel the people that say it is not me I am just genetically lazy and fat.
Why people get to research this stuff is beyond me.
First it was done on mice.
So if you are a mouse or a person that believes they are a mouse this article is for you. If not you should try this work out

Click Here for your new body in 4 minutes a day only!

Now if you are not even going to do 4 minutes you must be a mouse. So say hello to Mikey for me.

So here is an article that I came by today, http://sify.com/news/scienceandmedicine/fullstory.php?id=14718015

Are you a couch potato who hates getting up and working out? Well, as it turns out you may just be able to blame your genes for your lazy disposition.
While working out is known to be the key to manage good health, two new studies suggest that the inclination to engage in physical activity may be strongly affected by genetics.

While not much research has been done into the effects of genetics on human activity, recent studies on mice have indicated strong genetic influences.
In one of the recent studies a team led by University of North Carolina at Charlotte kinesiologist J. Timothy Lightfoot identified six locations on the mouse chromosome where differences had a strong relationship to activity, indicating at least six genes that individually can affect activity.
A second genetic study by the same team found seventeen other genetic locations that were also having an effect on activity levels by interacting with each other, a genetic effect known as epistasis.

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BATMAN DARK KNIGHT WORKOUT and book review or becoming batman. Part 1

Ok

have you always wondered how Batman could do all the things he was able to do??

What would it take to become Batman?? Who strong would you have to be how long woulg you have to train? Wait traits would you need to pull this off?

To investigate whether someone like Bruce Wayne or anyone for that matter could physically transform himself into a one-man wrecking crew, I turned to my friend E. Paul Zher, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do. To take on this question Paul Zher has writen a book Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero due out in October.

what would his physical abilities be like? .

Batman would win, place or show in every event in the Olympics. So he would have the ablities of an amazing athlete.

How long would it take bat man to train???

18 years+

Why such a long training time? Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing means death—or at least not being able to be Batman anymore. But another benchmark is having enough skill and experience to defend himself without killing anyone. Because that's part of his credo. It would be much easier to fight somebody if you could incapacitate them with extreme force. Punching somebody in the throat could be a lethal blow. That's pretty easy to do.
But if you're thinking about something that doesn't result in lethal force, that's more tricky. It's really hard for people to get their heads around, I think. To be that good, to not actually lethally injure anyone, requires an extremely high level of skill that would take maybe 15 to 18 years to accumulate. However it woudl only take 3-5 years to get to his level of strength.

What's a realistic training regimen?

I didn't give a training manual in my book, so you can make one up Paul, but he'd want to do specialized weight training to build up an ability to work at a really high rate for maybe 30 seconds to a minute intense invervals (the maximum time period associated with his fights).

One of the early comics shows him holding an enormous weight over his head. That's not the right kind of adaptation toward punching and kicking. He's got to make sure he's doing all the skill training at the same time so that he's actually using the (physical) adaptations he's slowly gaining. In conventional martial arts, when people take weapons training, you're doing a kind of power-strength training.

So Paul some thing like kettlebells could work well to build this type of strength. Or even trorque blades or clubs.

So what would Bruce Wayne's body look like?

I looked up what DC Comics and some other books said (about Batman's physique). I settled on the estimate that Bruce Wayne started off at about six-foot-two and 185 pounds. I gave him a body fat of 20 percent (slightly below average) and a body mass index of 26. Let's say after 10 or 15 years, after he's become the Batman, he's weighing about 210 pounds and has a body fat of 10 percent. He's probably gained 40 pounds of muscle. His bones will actually be more dense, kind of the opposite of osteoporosis.

how fast is hie reaction speed. reaction speed?

There is evidence that experts in something like football or hockey have an improved ability to perceive movement in time. In the book I use the example of Steve Nash throwing the ball, even though he can't see where the receiver of the pass is going to be. Experts are able to extract more information faster than others. It's almost like their nervous systems become more efficient.

How would Batman get enough rest?

The difficulty for Batman is he's going to be trying to sleep during the day. He's going to be really tired, actually, unless he can shift himself over to just being up at night. If he were just a nocturnal guy, he would actually be a lot healthier and have a lot better sleep than if he were doing what he does now, which is getting some light here and there. That's going to mess up his sleep patterns and duration of sleep.

How many of us do you think could become a Batman?

If you found the percentage of billionaires and multiply that by the percentage of people who become Olympic decathletes, you could probably get a close estimate. The really important thing is just how much a human being really can do. There's such a huge range of performance and ability you can tap into.

Thanks Paul for your great answers.

so tomorrow we go to the batman strength work out.

foods that will help your libedo.

Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin seeds contain zinc, which is vital for testosterone production in men.

A zinc deficiency in women can also make a women completely lose her sex drive. They are rich source of omega-3 fatty acids, which are vital to overall sexual wellbeing.


Goji Berries
Goji berries help to also increase testosterone levels, which helps to stimulates libido in both men and women.

they are know for increase in overall stamina, mood and wellbeing.



Maca
This has been shown to improve performance and alleviate impotency. It helps to increases sperm count and testosterone levels in men. It helps to increase the desire for sex more frequently, especially women.


Bananas
I have alway said bananas are shaped that way for a reason. They can help give a boost to male libido. They contain Bromelain enzyme which is improves sexual health. B vitamins in bananas are also high which increase the body’s energy levels and the sex hormones.


Celery


increaseing your animal magnitism androsterone, which is an odorless aphrodisiac in male perspiration is boosted with celery.


Avacado
Both male and female libido are increased by this alegator skinned fruit. Very high levels of folic acid give the body sexual energy. Avocado is also high in vitamin B6, which is a potent hormone regulator.


Bee pollen
Bee pollen can help boost the sperm count. Yes that is why they alway talk about the birds adn the bees. After all, it is made from millions of particles of a semen-like substance. Pollen’s role in nature is to fertilize.


Asparagus
High in vitamin E, which is a vital nutrient for good sex becoming even better.


Chillies
I have alway thought that there was some thing hot about chillies. Well capsaicin, gives chillies their heat, helps releases endorphins and other “feel good” hormones necessary for a spicy sex life. So try some thing hot.


Basil
Italian have always loved their basil, it is known to help increases circulation, stimulates the sex drive and boosts fertility. This tasty herb cultivates a sense of wellbeing, which allows one to experience sexual bliss.


Figs


So this is why all the pictures of adam and eve are covered in fig leaves. Figs are very high in amino acids, which are critical to increasing libido and boosting sexual stamina.


Garlic

Warning use with caution, bad breath and BO ahead.
Garlic contains high levels of allicin, which can improve blood flow to the sexual organs.





so get to it add in these great food for better health and love life.