Lateral Raise tutorial video

In our exercise segment, I’m gonna show you some exercises that you can do at home. Well’ start today with a video tutorial by Priscilla of Starbodies.

Lateral Raise tutorial video by Priscilla, showing the right position and the proper execution of the exercise.

watch the video below:

LARISSA REIS

Our featured Hot Chick of the Day was born on May 21,1979 in Brazil, Ms. Larissa Reis.

Larissa graduated from a University in Brazil with a degree in tourism, at first, she works in a travel agency and a hotel doing desk jobs and on the side she was also doing some modeling. One day, Larissa received an invitation to do a contest for Playboy magazine.  She was lucky and ended up as a Playmate and became a member of the Playboy team.

After working with Playboy, a supplement store in Brazil invited her to do a marketing campaign for their store.  It was while she was speaking with the owner of the store that she saw, for the first time, a poster of Monica Brant on the wall. Larissa was shocked because had never seen a woman like that before in her life. She was inspired and started to learn more and more about the sport,  and the more that she learned, the more she wanted to do it.

“I wanted to be more than a simple model and I was looking for a challenge.  I felt this was something that I could pass on to people; to let them know they were capable of making a change as well. “- Larissa Reis

She was lucky and fortunate to have great trainers who taught her the best way to train and helped to educate about nutrition. 

She began competing in 2008, and Larissa became the first figure competitor from Brazil to take 1st place in a Pro Show (Atlantic City 2009).  It also allowed her to take part in the Olympia ‘09 where she placed well for being a first-time competitor.

Competition History :

• ‘10 Arnold Classic – 6th Place
• ‘09 Olympia – 12th Place
• ‘09 New York Pro – 2nd place
• ‘09 Atlantic City Pro – 1st Place
• ‘08 New York Pro – 10th
• ‘07 World Championship, Barcelona – 2nd Place (Received IFBB Pro Card)
• ‘06 World Championship, Barcelona – 3rd Place
• ‘06 Brazilian Championship – 1st Place
• ‘05 South American Championship – 1st Place

• Height:  5′7″
• Birth Date: 05/21/79
• Nationality: Brazil, Holland, Portugal
• Off-Season Weight: 143
• Competition Weight: 135
• Training Location: Gold’s Gym – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Favorite Training Day: Shoulders and Glutes
• Favorite Pro Bodybuilder: Monica Brant
• Hobbies: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Extreme Sports, Futvolley, Swimming, Biking, and Longboard Skating

• Career Goals: My last goals had been to get my Pro Card and to compete in Olympia and the Arnold Classic. Now that I have achieved this, I have to think about what to do next!

See video below: 

Source: larissareis.net

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Manny Pacquiao On Margarito

Manny Pacquiao believes in forgiveness. He also isn’t forgetting why Antonio Margarito needs it.

Pacquiao said he just doesn’t believe his next opponent was unaware he was wearing illegal hand wraps before a fight nearly two years ago. Though he agrees Margarito deserves a second chance in boxing, Pacquiao isn’t buying Margarito’s defense and the passionate arguments of Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters.

“Of course, I believe he knew,” Pacquiao said. “He’s the one who wraps his hands. He’s just making some alibi for some reason. What do you think? My belief is you [would] know that.”

During an otherwise genial get-together Tuesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, boxing’s pound-for-pound champion said he wants somebody watching Margarito’s hands getting wrapped before they meet in Texas, which is hosting the bout partly because Margarito still is banned from the ring in Nevada and California. “My concern is that we have somebody in the dressing room, someone else watching him,” Pacquiao said.

The Philippines’ newly minted congressman will fight for a title in his eighth weight class when he meets Margarito on Nov. 13 in a bout at Cowboys Stadium, which could be filled with more than 70,000 fans. Although the bout is for the vacant WBC 154-pound title, they will meet at a 151-pound catch weight.

One reason was evident when the fighters exchanged handshakes and stood together. Both cracked up when they attempted the usual staredown pose, with Pacquiao laughing as he craned his neck to look up at Margarito, who’s about 5 inches taller.

Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) has won 12 straight fights, including a one-sided decision over Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in March. Although Pacquiao has redefined the importance of weight classes during his near-unprecented rise, the matchup is undeniably dangerous.

Pacquiao’s hand-wrap observers will make sure it isn’t even more perilous to fight Margarito, whose promising career was derailed when trained Javier Capetillo was caught packing his wraps with a substance resembling plaster before Margarito’s loss to Sugar Shane Mosley in Los Angeles in January 2009. “They’re welcome to watch the wraps,” Margarito said through a translator. “I’m going to prepare myself the best I can to give a great fight. I always stay in the gym, learning and training.”

Margarito (38-6, 27 KOs) has a significant size advantage and a remarkable ability to take a punch, but he also has fought just once since his loss to Mosley, winning a tuneup bout in Mexico in May. Margarito has been fairly defiant about his role in the scandal, which led to Capetillo’s banishment from the sport and Margarito’s inability to resume his career in California or Nevada, which generally respects another state’s suspension.

Source: sports.espn.go.com; The Associated Press

Nathalia Melo Moreira

Our Hot Chick of the Day is a Brazilian bombshell, born on January 19,1984, NATHALIA MELO, a 26 year old young lady who really enjoys life to its fullest.

She’s also a very positive person who have learned to believe that the sky is the limit. The reason why she started competing was for a Personal goal, and to have a motivation to wake up everyday and feel accomplished by the end of the day. Nathalia truly believe that she is a very blessed person, because she have gone much further than what she ever expected. Nathalia competed in one NPC Bikini competition just to experience it, and since then her life has completely changed. The night of her contest she got signed by one of the biggest management companies in the Industry, which was unheard of. After that she received a full published page in Flex Magazine, again, something completely unheard of for a rookie. She came to find out she couldn’t compete in the NPC National Bikini Championships because of her citizenship and she couldn’t go back to her home country to compete because they don’t have the Bikini division yet. Nathalia did not let that get her down, so she petitioned the IFBB Professional League for the opportunity to receive her pro card as an International Athlete and got granted with it shortly after. Then the big invite to become a part of the Nutrex Team. Before she was just dreaming to become the indorser of it now , she’s a part of it, living in her dreams .

• Height:  5′5″

• Birth Date: 01/19/84

• Nationality:  Brazilian (Italian Background)

• Off-Season Weight: 127lbs.

• Competition Weight: 122lbs.

• Training Location: Gold’s Gym – Fort Lauderdale, FL

• Favorite Training Day: Legs and Back

• Favorite Food: Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snickers Bars and anything with chocolate

• Career Goals:  My goal in the sport is to qualify to the inaugural 2010 IFBB Bikini Olympia, which I am working very hard for and hopefully place well in it.

Nikon D3100 DSLR

The Nikon D3100 is the first Nikon DSLR to feature 1080p video capture at 24 frames per second in H.264 compression.

As a successor to the Nikon D3000, the new camera features Nikon’s new EXPEED 2 image processor, Nikon’s 14.2-megapixel Nikon DX format CMOS sensor, Active D-Lighting, sensor cleaning and airflow control system, a 3.0-inch 230,000-dot resolution fixed TFT LCD display, a continuous up to 3 frames per second, Live view mode, full time AutoFocus in movie mode, a 3D Color Matrix Metering II with Scene Recognition System, a 3D Tracking Multi-CAM 1000 AutoFocus sensor module with 11 AF points and an ISO sensitivity 100 to 3200 (6400 and 12800 with boost). This camera also supports JPEG, NEF (Nikon’s RAW, 12-bit compressed) file formats. Like Nikon’s other entry-level DSLRs, the D3100 has no in-body AutoFocus motor, and fully automatic AutoFocus requires a lens with an integrated AutoFocus-motor (Nikon AF-S lenses).

Nikon D3100 Key Features

• 14.2MP CMOS Sensor
• 1920 x 1080 at 24p Video Capture
• 1280 x 720 at 24p/30p Video Capture
• H.264 AVCHD Codec (.mov file)
• Full-time Video and Live View Autofocus
• ISO 100-12800 (equivalent w/ expansion)
• 3″ LCD
• 11-point AF
• 3 fps
• Quiet Shutter Release Mode
• HDMI Output
• Shutter Rated to 100,000 Cycles
• SDXC Compatibility

The Nikon D3100 should be available in September 2010. Check availability below.

Nikon D3100 Availability

B&H Photo

Amazon.com

Source: photographybay.com

Sven Prim’s Art

Sven Prim is a Swedish photographer/retoucher. It’s fun looking at his work, it’s eye catching to say the least. He describes him self as a real technology geek who loves to create strange and surreal situations. His work has appeared in magazines and commercials.

Many people think that a photographer’s truth is compromised when the photographs are retouched, Sven disagrees with this. He sees the concept of truth in a completly subjective way. He believes that a picture is always manipulated, regardless of how it’s taken. When the photographer selects the time and place to snap a picture, the truth is already being bent. In my opinion, his work speaks for it self and I think it is amazing. Therefore there should be no arguments or doubts about him being a great photographer even if he does retouch the pictures he takes.

Sven Prim is a terrific artist in photo retouching, and his portfolio features some magazine work along with some morbid, graphic novel-ish stuff. There isn’t a lot of info on his website, not even an artist statement so I guess his art will have to speak for itself.

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