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baloney...........Cora  who has bi-cepital tendonitis......and know the 
difference

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Trefethen" <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Parelli Carrot Stick Causes Tendonitis?


> > Someone told me that the carrot sticks use the same core as golf clubs. 
> > Well, a golf club is too heavy to be swung at waist level with one 
> > hand--for a woman, at least.
> >  Almost all the women I know that ride can do this....golf clubs are not 
> > that heavy...lol
>
> The statement, "a golf club is too heavy to be swung at waist level with 
> one hand--for a woman, at least", wasn't referring to the brute strength 
> needed to wield a golf club in that fashion.  The problem isn't lack of 
> strength; it is that the tendons do not attach the muscles to our bones in 
> a way that is conducive to being able to repeatedly swing a golf club at 
> waist level.  Consider the tennis racket, a relatively lightweight item, 
> and the fact that about 1/3 of tennis players suffer from "tennis elbow".
>
> Another example.  There are Carpenter Bees at my house.  These bugs are 
> big and tough.  If you hit them with a fly swatter, they barely notice. 
> So, I have a 2 ft long, 1 inch plastic tube which I use like a bat to hit 
> the flies in mid-air.  Carpenter Bees are so tough that even a direct hit 
> will only stun them and then only if I hit them VERY hard. So each swing 
> has to be like I was going for a home run.  This "bat" weighs about 6 oz. 
> After 20 or so swings, my hand and forearm begin to hurt.  If I don't 
> quit, my arm will hurt like the deuce the next day.
>
> So it's not about pure strength but rather how our arms are constructed 
> that dictates if and how much we'll suffer from repeating a specific 
> movement.
>
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