RE: "Choose your Parents Wisely"

Sep 04, 2009

RE: "Choose your Parents Wisely"

I forgot to put this into my last post.

In the book "Essentials of Exercise Physiology, 3rd edition" by McArdle et al. on page 438 they state that it was back in the 1960's when a Swedish physiologist named Dr. Astrand said "to be an Olympic-caliber performer, you must choose your parents wisely."

Be Well,

Michael Reid
www.michaelreid.ca
www.waterpolotraining.net

2009-09-04 8:55:00 AM | other

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