Want to increase your maximum strength and power? Would you like to feel stronger on small handholds and increase your prowess on dynamic moves? Are you stuck in a performance plateau and need a boost to surmount it? If so, I have a one-word solution: “hypergravity.” Sure, improving your technique and mental game is always paramount, but sometimes a climbing breakthrough demands pure strength.
Unfortunately, there’s a physiological limit to how strong you can become by simply training at a fixed resistance. In climbing, gravity provides a training resistance that’s limited to your weight. Developing a higher level of climbing strength and power requires that you increase gravity’s apparent pull. You can create this with hypergravity training by adding weight to your body as you engage in a climbing-specific exercise.
The long-term benefits of hypergravity training are analogous to the lightness you feel after taking off a heavy backpack. Imagine creating this effect on the rock. By conditioning your body to exercise — and climb — at a greater resistance level than your bodyweight, you can make this lightness a reality.
The following are three hypergravity exercises aimed at giving you über strength. It’s best to simulate hypergravity with a weight belt that sits near your center of mass (a weighted backpack is too cumbersome), which will be different for men and women. Buy one or two 10-pound weight belts at a sports store or use a large fanny pack and add two-pound diver weights as needed. One word of caution: hypergravity training is inappropriate for novice climbers or anyone in poor general conditioning (can you do 15 pull-ups and climb at least 5.10?) or suffering from a finger, arm, or shoulder injury.
Weighted pull-ups. This may be the single-most effective strength training exercise for intermediate and advanced climbers. Performing three sets of pull-ups with an additional five to 30 pounds will produce big gains in pulling strength and power. For initial workouts I suggest adding five to seven percent of your bodyweight. Experiment to determine your ideal training weight — I recommend an amount that still allows you to do three sets of pull-ups (between 10 and 20 reps each). Take a three-minute rest between sets, and increase the weight by five pounds if you can do more than 20 pull-ups.
If available, you can utilize a health-club-style “pulldown” machine as an alternative to weighted pull-ups. This, too, will require a little experimentation to determine the ideal training weight. Begin with a weight equal to your bodyweight (the weight marked on the plates may not be equal to doing pull-ups at bodyweight), and increase it as needed to produce muscular failure in eight to 12 repetitions. Crank out three sets with a three-minute rest between sets.
Plus 10 bouldering. Tired of your home-wall workouts or of sending the same boulder problems at the gym? Strap on a 10-pound weight belt and you’ll have a powerful grip-strength and power workout! After an extended warm-up, climb a circuit of five to 10 moderate boulder problems (a few V-grades below your limit). Concentrate on climbing each problem with crisp technique and smooth execution. Rest for five minutes between problems and ditch the weight belt at the first sign that your technique is suffering. Favor problems with medium to long reaches, and avoid painfully small holds and out-of-control dynos.
H.I.T. system. Hypergravity Isolation Training (H.I.T.) is the gold standard for building grip strength. Not to be confused with the “HIT” workouts performed by bodybuilders, this highly specific grip-training method involves weighted climbing up, and down, a 45-degree wall using identical finger holds, spaced approximately 18 inches apart, for an entire set. Targeted stimulus is the lynchpin of this isolation strategy, and it’s best achieved by using specialized system holds or by creating a “ladder” of identical holds. The goal is to execute one or two sets for each primary grip position: pinch, two-finger pocket, full crimp, half crimp, and open hand. Each set should be performed with enough added weight to produce grip failure in 10 to 20 hand movements. Climb with open feet (favoring positive — but not large — holds that won’t produce an unexpected foot pop) and allow your body to move and turn naturally during the up and down laps. Take a three-minute rest, and then kick into your next H.I.T. set.
It’s important to keep your training progressive, so add weight for future workouts if you’re able to climb more than 20 hand movements before failure. Keep a training notebook and record your progress. These records will be helpful for guiding future workouts, and, in a few weeks, they will reveal definitive gains in finger strength!
4 ways to keep your cool
It happens to the best (and even the fastest) of us. Hundreds of feet off the deck, you suddenly find yourself trapped, pinned down by an ugly beast spitting white-hot lightning and drowning the rock. Unfortunately, there are no guarantees when dealing with objective hazards like lightning but here are a few ways to decrease the potency of your epic.
1. Don’t panic. Storms aren’t like dogs — they can’t smell your fear. Nevertheless, being methodical in your response to the situation will up your chances of survival. This includes you and your partner keeping your cool by not giving voice to worst-case scenarios. Encourage each other (“We’ll get through this,” not “We’re gonna die!”) and concentrate on your breathing. Many people hyperventilate in tense situations, exacerbating their anxiety and making it hard to think clearly. Remember the simple things, like donning extra clothes before you get wet and cold.
2. Weigh your options. Don’t immediately assume that your best option is rappelling. Depending upon how high you are on the route, it may be best to climb up to safety or find a sheltered place to stay put until the weather passes. Scope out other escape options, such as ledges you can traverse to easier ground. Keep the lines of communication open between you and your partner, even if that means seconding a pitch in the rain to reach her on a higher ledge versus unproductive shouting. Any decisions are best made together.
3. Move quickly but safely. If you decide to rappel, do it quickly and decisively. Don’t hem and haw over leaving your favorite cam as part of an anchor, fiddling with less-precious nuts when it’s obvious the cam is safer. No piece of climbing gear is worth more than your life, or your partner’s!
If you decide to go up, don’t muck about trying to keep your ascent all-free if the rock is wet. Place solid gear and pull on it, hang on it, or stand in it (you can jury-rig “aiders” with shoulder or prusik slings or a cordelette) to make upward progress. It’s faster to free climb (when safely possible), but it’s also easy to slip on wet rock and a broken bone will quickly complicate your epic.
Always carry prusiks and know how to use them. With the rock soaked and not free climbable, it’s much more efficient to second a pitch with prusiks than by aiding.
4. Pray. It can’t hurt, can it? I’m not necessarily a religious man but I’ve found myself pleading with God a few times while rappelling in thunderstorms. Having a mantra, be it prayer or otherwise, will allow you to focus and keep your head. Even the lyrics from a favorite song might help. Something from the Doors comes to mind ...
Understand the basic principals of good rock climbing technique. To improve your own climbing performance learn and practice good climbing technique. These 13 rock climbing tips will help you accelerate your climbing performance.
1. Always Warm Up and Stretch before you start climbing. Tight muscles and ligaments don’t perform as well.
2. Get in the habit of previewing and learning to read the route before you climb it. Developing this skill will help you get in the right position to make moves at the crux.
3. Use only the degree of strength on you grip as necessary to steady your balance. Your grip is often the first to go, save forearm strength as much as possible.
4. A finely developed sense of balance will help you make difficult static and dynamic moves.
5. By keeping your body close to the wall you keep your center of balance over your center of mass and relieve pressure on your grip.
6. Use your legs to hold your weight, not your arms. Your legs are much stronger and will carry you further.
7. Use arms for balance and shifting weight, not holding weight. When doing moves and sequences that require a great deal of upper body strength, move quickly through the sequence.
8. Developing the technique of dynamic movement is done by using momentum to peak at the dead point, which is the point at which you grip the hold.
9. Combining both static and dynamic elements of climbing technique will determine your speed of climbing. Climbers who have mastered this seem to move smoothly and effortlessly.
10. The right rock climbing techniques combined with building the right muscles give a climber a huge advantage.
11. Muscles will perform longer with short rests. Develop a skill at finding rest opportunities while climbing to greatly extend your endurance.
12. Push yourself and your ability with difficult routes. This means you will fall. Taking a fall correctly is one of the most important techniques to learn how to do safely, and will give you confidence to push yourself to your limit.
13. Finally, watch and learn from other good climbers. Practice good rock climbing technique every time you climb and your climbing performance will measurably improve.
You’ve just hiked the crux of your latest proj. Just a few easy moves and a nasty topout separate you from victory. You stick the final grips with ease, and pull up to the lip. Then it hits you: Your feet are way off the deck, and you’re not sure what to do next. Panicking, you throw a leg onto the lip, but your heel skates off the rock. You hold your breath and try rocking onto your other foot, but your pumped forearms are too weak. Suddenly your loud cursing mingles with the sound of a deep phumph from your crashpad. You throw your chalk pot at the boulder, compounding your humiliation with a blatant display of mental weakness. Your peers lower their eyes at your shame.
Now you’re probably familiar with a standard mantel top out: grab the lip with both hands, plant your feet in the running position on the face, pull down, press up, then swing a foot up onto the lip. If a top out is very rounded or sloping, however, you might need different Beta. If you’ve ever climbed in the Southeast, you’ve noticed most problems end with an absolutely heinous mantel. Those Southern boys and girls never wince at the grim slopers and featureless topouts, but you don’t need to whistle Dixie to hike mantels. Here are seven steps to the perfect Southern-style sloping topout:
Step one. When you reach the lip of a boulder, quickly evaluate which foot to swing up onto the lip (from now on this foot will be known as the pivot foot). Let gravity work for you by swinging your pivot foot onto the low side, not the high side, of the boulder. If the lip is horizontal, pick your stronger — or favored — side to swing up. Do a half pull-up, and simultaneously raise your pivot foot over the lip, keeping your knee slightly bent. Try to find a good heel hook, edge, or foot scum to use as a fulcrum — extra purchase is useful for floating a mantel. If possible, use your other foot to edge on the face of the boulder.
Step two. With your arm opposite your pivot foot, reach out laterally, approximately a forearm’s length, and grab a hold on — or slightly above — the lip. Palm the rock with your fingers facing slightly towards your body. Flag with your non-pivot foot to keep from barndooring.
Step three. Contract your pivot leg so that your hips are even with — or higher than — the lip. Hold yourself in position with friction from your pivot foot. Bend your elbows, and use your ab muscles to bring yourself aggressively close to the rock. If you’re having a hard time making your foot stick, try draping your pivot-foot leg over the stone, contacting the rock with the underside of your calf muscle, to create additional friction.
Step four. Pop your pivot-foot hand and elbow 90 degrees so that your fingers face your torso. Shift your other hand 45 degrees outwards (away from your body), and switch your fingers from clasping the rock to palming it. This positions your shoulders over your wrists, and improves your overall leverage.
Step five. Rock up, pulling with the thigh and calf muscles of your pivot leg,
keeping tension with your abs. Turn your pivot knee in slightly, and pull your torso over the lip. Flagging your non-pivot foot helps as a counter balance, as does smearing (backstepping) on top of the lip with your non-pivot foot. If done properly, your body will be almost horizontal to the ground.
Step six. Dig the inside edge of your pivot foot into whatever feature it’s on. If there are no features, firmly push of your shoe into the rock to maintain friction. Now lever up onto this foot, twisting your torso inward. Drive hard with your elbows as you push your shoulders over the lip with your palms.
Step seven. Extend your elbows and stand up. You’ll likely have to make minor adjustments in the position of your hands and body to keep your balance as you go from perching to standing.
Universal remote control is the one which could be programmed in such a way that it controls huge variety or kinds of components. They are available in various forms ranging from the basic ones to the lower priced models which could be located at the discount stores locally and which are capable of controlling only a few number of devices to the advanced model universal remote controls which can enable the user to control virtually many devices and also allow to set up macros or preset activities.
Some might wonder why there is a great need for buying a universal remote control when the components have their own remote controls; some of the reasons for having a universal remote control are given below:
Main reason for using universal remote control is for its ease of use. There are many electronic devices which have difficult settings and configuration that only technically savvy persons can control them, but the universal remote controls available these days, enable the persons to input the devices they have via computer program or programming codes. Once the initial setup is done, the user can intuitively work in controlling all his components easily.
Moreover, many of the mid range and high refuge universal remotes enable the users to program macros or activities that with just the touch of a button many components can be activated automatically. For instance, when an universal remote button is hit, a DVD player or Television turns on and sets itself to the right input, bass shaker can be turned on, lights can be dimmed to view the video properly, all just in a single touch of a remote button.
When a household has various remote controls for various devices, there is a great chance of losing one or many remote controls. This loss is more in case if the household has many kids. Incase of possessing a universal remote control, it can be kept and maintained safely.
Universal remote controls also help in cutting down the number of batteries used in case of many remote controls. This not only saves the user from spending more money on them, but also saves the environment from the hazards of using more and more batteries.
Universal remote controls are very intelligent as they are driven by sophisticated and complex software. With their help, even a whole electrical wiring system of a home can be connected to them wirelessly. Once done, the user can reset or set the security alarm, transfer digital photos to the television set, direct MP3 music to the home theater speakers and so on. Any thing and every thing would be possible and that too at the wish of the user without straining his nerves.
How Not To Get Burned When Choosing a POS System for Your Retail Store
Posted by agoes Labels: HardwareWhen working with vendors who want to show you a point-of-sale (POS) system, you'll find that they all do similar things when doing a demonstration of their product. All of them like to show how quickly a sale can be rung up. All of them will show how quickly you can add inventory to their system. Many will show you how easily screens can be modified or changed to suit your business. Of course, they are showing you what they believe to be the most important features in a POS system. Really, they're just showing you what they do well.
Hours and hours of practice and scripting go into that demo. POS vendors work hard to impress you with their newest and coolest features and try to develop a presentation that showcases their finest attributes. Unfortunately, if you get caught up in the show, you could end up spending a fortune on a system that does not do what you need it to do.
Any POS system out there can ring up a sale. Any of them allow you to add inventory, customers, vendors, employees, and more. So how do you make sure that you get what you need in the system?
You look first at your own business. Look for the "curveballs," the processes or procedures within your own retail store that might be difficult to replicate in a system. Great examples of this include special orders (how do you record them, process them, sell them, etc.? This is an especially tricky area, so include all the variables), wholesaling, employee sales, and manufacturing/kits.
If your store requires any of the above processes, make sure you figure out how you want it done, and then go over that in detail with the POS provider. Most importantly, make them show you how it would work within their system as part of the demo. Never take the word of the salesperson who says, "Yeah, we could do something like that."
Reporting is another area where many retailers find themselves sorry that they chose the system they did. During the demo, the POS provider will again attempt to impress you with incredible reports and maybe even show you how you can design your own. This does not mean that you can get anything you ever wanted! The best way to do this is to take blank pieces of paper, draw the reports you want (make sure you indicate how you want the report sorted and subtotaled, and if you want it filtered for certain data), and ask the vendor to create those for you. Some retailers tell us that they hadn't given that much thought before, but they are sure glad that they went through this exercise! Having the right reports in a POS system is how you turn the cost of a retail system into an investment, and how you make that investment pay for itself!
In summary, make sure that you tell the vendor the oddities, the unusual processes and procedures, and the differentiators in your business. Then make him/her show you how his/her system can be adapted to fit your business model. At that point, the seemingly unending sea of POS vendors will suddenly become very easy to navigate.
The old name of DLT (Digital Linear Tape) was CompacTape.The DLT backup tapes are one of the most dominating backup tape media standards that are being used by the enterprises all over the world. The DLT technology reduces the operational cost and saves the investment. The SDLT (Super DLT) tapes are based on the DLT technology and are the new and advanced generation of Digital linear tape.
The DLT cartridges have the “WORM technology”. WORM means “write once read many”. It is the most powerful feature of the SDLT (Super DLT) tape cartridges that they provide their users the high recording capacity and also have the tendency to fulfill the increased storage requirements. The high recording capacity of the SDLT backup tape helps to reduce the maintenance cost, and the rack mounts. Therefore, as a result the whole operation cost is reduced and overall efficiency of the company also enhances. The SDLT has more recording capacity than the DLT backup storage tapes.
When the overall performance increases, then as a result the company also generates more output. The additional benefits of the SDLT tapes are the high data transfer speed, fast file restore and retrieval time. All of these features of SDLT cartridges help to fulfill the challenges and demands of the data backup.
The SDLT tapes protect your Investment because the SDLT-600 has the feature of backward compatible, and it can read the data from its previous generation SDLT-320 tape cartridge. So, additional investment can be saved. The SDLT tapes are highly durable and stable as their design includes dual coating, and the substrate is also enhanced. The robust Super DLT tapes keep the precious data and investment of the company safe and protected. The 300GB native recording and robustness of the SDLT tape helps to save investment and at the same time also can handle the increasing storage requirements.
The SDLT tape utilizes the lazer for the alignment of data recording heads. The SDLT has new advance technology called the POS (pivoting optical servo). The POS is located at the backside of tape cartridge. In SDLT tapes, the lazer reads the servo. That is why the SDLT tapes have advantage over other tape formats because, magnetic pre formatting is not required in SDLT tape technology. So even in high magnetic field, the Super DLT cartridges can be used.
The recording tracks have been increased, and for recording purpose only the magnetic surface of SDLT tape cartridge is utilized. Less tape mounts are required, therefore the restore and backup process becomes more faster.
The data compression is supported by all the Super DLT drives. The SDLT tape cartridge has tape coated with ceramic, the purpose is to provide the magnetic stability for archival applications over longer period of time. The other additional features of SDLT tapes are anti static and are dust resistant. These features help the tape from damage.
The Super DLT tape has more write & read head life because the tape has dense & dual coating. The density of the tape is enhanced with additional coating and SPET (Super PET). The link between the tape and the drive leader is secured with the help of leader buckling technology. A new lock mechanism is also included to reduce the tension between the tape and the head. It also protects the tape during the movement.
If you want to get your website designed but lack the necessary tech expertise and are seeking professionals who could do the job for you, here is a checklist that you should follow. ‘Cause if you are shelling out a quality sum, you might as well get its worth back!
Following are some clues that will point to a successfully completed design project:
Website Designer without a Website
If the probable web designer or the company that you seek to hire doesn’t have a website to stake claim, then run for your life by all means. There is absolutely no excuse for not having an online presence for any advertising and marketing company. And if they haven’t cared about themselves, there is bleak possibility that they will for you.
Coming Soon
If all or most of the samples on a web designers site say “Coming Soon” or “Page not found” take it as screaming sign that says, save yourself! All these tags mean but one thing, that they’re probably a company that doesn’t finish projects or drag it on till eternity.
Same Samples
there might be many sample works pasted on their website. But look closer to see if they they’re all for the same campaign or company and one you’ve never heard of. This is clue enough to tell you that the samples are done for design school, not real world business.
Typos, Broken Links and Stale Info
Look out for work samples that have typos, broken links and outdated information. And if you see any don’t haste in leaving. If they’ve done it before, they can obviously do it again.
No Key Questions
While interviewing a designer, see if they ask the three key questions:
• What does the client do?
• What does the client want done?
• What is the project deadline?
And if they don’t ask these, just ask them to leave!
No Communication
If you have trouble getting the design company on the phone, or there is no response to your emails in a timely and efficient manner, it is cue enough for their future performance. This is just a foreshadowing of what’s to come when the real work begins.
No Price Quote
If they don’t have a price quote or printing estimate in writing, there are chances that it’s all a fraudulent proceeding. Verbal estimates are amateur, indicating that that designer is as well.
Too good to be true
If the price sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. You’ll either never get the final project completed, or you’ll get what you pay for. Get several quotes to see what the ballpark figures should be, especially so if you are new in the game. And don’t rely on internet companies as many are in foreign countries, thus making communication impossible.
Contract
If there is no contract signage in the picture, then there is reason to caution. Do you know what the payment terms are, who owns the copyright, are there royalties or usage limits, and so on. Don’t hire any contractor without some agreement in writing.
No Money Upfront
If you aren’t asked for money up front, run back! Think of it as a retainer, and typically, an assurance that your job is taken as a serious priority. If you’ve gotten to this point with your research, a deposit of 30 or 50% shouldn’t scare you.
With this 10 point checklist to take cue from, chances of you zeroing in on the wrong designer are well… zeroed out!
After being in the web design and development industry in India for quite some time, Michael Henderson is a known name. Presently, he works with the WWW standards as an acting consultant and advises the clientele about hiring offshore web services. He also advises the web development team to built web pages that comply with the W3C standards.
Maneet Puri leads LeXolution IT Services, a top-notch web development India, web design India and KPO company that offers several web-based applications and outsourcing solutions to its international clients. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and is an expert voice therein. Maneet has executed many knowledge driven processes for his offshore clients over the years.
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Master Data Management (MDM) can be defined as a way of providing consistent and core information across an organization. MDM is a challenging process and many professionals have been working on this for a long time. Master Data that essentially comprises core business entities such as customers, locations, products and so forth keeps on growing and basically consists of both traditional structured information and unstructured content such as documents and images. On the other hand, the augmentation of supply chain and compliance requirements has necessitated the upgrade of data quality. However, the existing enterprise business application lacks the ability to be used as a true system of record for the enterprise. Each of these applications is concerned only with the portion of master data that is required to process its own transactions. In fact, there is no existing system that looks at the master data with a holistic approach.
However, when the business calls for an instant access to the high-quality information about chores business entities, the facts describing them become inaccurate, invalid and inconsistent which is buried in data transaction structures, content management systems, data marts, spreadsheets, emails, data bases and even on papers. What Do Companies Use MDM? The following are some of the benefits of using Master Data Management System. Reduced Time To Market Master Data Management offers a single system to create and maintain multiple product information, promotions, and accurate
consumer communications using online as well as traditional media. It can also be used to reduce the time substantially in order to launch a new product in the market. Supply Chain Improvement Master Data Management can also be used to offer single, accurate definition of products and suppliers that eliminate duplication, increase buying power, and offer insight into supplier relationships. Increased Revenue Master Data Management adds to the customer relationship management. It helps create a complete view of customers there by enabling the sales, marketing, service teams to visualize the specific customer needs and improve customer services. Better Integration Many IT departments deploy Master Data Management to reduce integration cost, enable collaborating and improve business productivity. Besides, it can also be used cleanse and synchronize rich and accurate master information.
Maneet Puri leads LeXolution IT Services (LIT), a top-notch website design & development India and KPO company offering various web-based application and outsourcing web solutions to its international clients. Maneet has over 10 years of substantial experience in offering consultancy services on web-based applications including website maintenance services. For more information on web application and KPO solutions provided by LIT, visit www.lexolutionit.com. Maneet also owns a blog www.all-that-web-demans.blogspot.com where he shares his knowledge, experience and innovations related to web application services.
