One of the students in our school was telling us the other day that doing fingertip push ups can MAKE YOU GO BLIND!!! :xtrmshock He was saying that he heard that it affects a nerve that goes to the eye. I had never heard this before and do those push ups all the time. :uhohh: Has anyone else ever heard of this?
Fingertip push ups fact or fiction....
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Cruentus
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mj-hi-yah said:
My mom told me that it can also make your palms hairy.
Yours,
Stifler
Bammx2
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can I do "finger tips" till I only need glasses?!
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Littledragon
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Is this the joke of the day thread?? LOLmj-hi-yah said:
Nope thats not true at all.
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I know that you can go blind doing other thingsBut push ups Mmmmmmmmmmmm
That does it! That just plain tears it! I'm giving up exercise! I've already got glasses, no need to make my eyes worse huh??
I think that person was making a joke about the uses of your fingert tips but I have heard that streatching can bring on alzheimers because the act of stretching releases the same chemicals found in abundance with the alzheimer patients.mj-hi-yah said:
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Sean GET OUT! really?????Touch'O'Death said:
Not sure what to believe anymore. Because I used to practice yoga :uhoh: , oh well at least I won't be aware of the Alzheimer's! :lol: Anyway, I'm not kidding with this question, because he is a fairly serious person and was dead serious when he told the class...I'll hopefully see him Tuesday night and ask him where he heard that.
Tripitaka of AA
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I'm going to assume that "this guy" was referring to the kind of press-ups that require two people ... although traditional theory has always been that it was only certain "solitary" exercises that brought on blindness.
Of course, he could have been using a metaphor... suggesting that too much focus on one exercise can cause "tunnel-vision" and lead a student down a "blind alley". You will let us know what he says, won't you...
... although traditional theory has always been that it was only certain "solitary" exercises that brought on blindness. Of course, he could have been using a metaphor... suggesting that too much focus on one exercise can cause "tunnel-vision" and lead a student down a "blind alley". You will let us know what he says, won't you...
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Thats funny lol :uhyeah:
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I should have foreseen this, but some of you people are so bad :uhyeah: ...here's what I'm going to try to do...I'll send him this link and see if he'd be willing:apv: join this conversation himself...if not :idunno: maybe I should have this thread nuked :shock:Tripitaka of AA said:I'm going to assume that "this guy" was referring to the kind of press-ups that require two people
Of course, he could have been using a metaphor... suggesting that too much focus on one exercise can cause "tunnel-vision" and lead a student down a "blind alley". You will let us know what he says, won't you...
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mj-hi-yah said:
Just how old was this guy?? :uhohh:
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He's I think 25...and a very good person - he teaches history to Jr High kids. He is responsible and reliable. I just sent off the link to him...so now we wait!Littledragon said:
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Hmmm... But really that is not true on what he said lol.mj-hi-yah said:He's I think 25...and a very good person - he teaches history to Jr High kids. He is responsible and reliable. I just sent off the link to him...so now we wait!
Not any kind of expert here, but in all my time as a paramedic, a lab technologist and now in Physical Therapy school, I've never heard anything like that before. Dont know if that helps, but I dont really see how it could be true.
I could be very wrong though, I guess....
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I could be very wrong though, I guess....
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Touch'O'Death said:
What are we talking about again?
[goes back to the butterfly stretch]
Mj-hi-yah in my 40+ years in the Arts I've never heard of that and I have been doing finger push-ups for all those years. I do wear glasses now but I think that is because of age not the push-ups.... GOD BLESS AMERICA
