Your calves are a second heart.
Most people never turn it on.
Each time you walk or rise onto your toes, your calf muscles compress the deep veins and help propel blood back toward your heart against gravity.
One-way valves keep it from falling back.
Healthy calves eject about 65% of that venous volume in a single contraction. That is the pump that was built to fight pooling all day.
•Sit or stand still and the pump shuts off.
•Fluid sits in the lower legs.
•Legs feel heavy.
•Ankles puff.
•You move less.
•Valves take more load.
•Risk of varicosities and blood clots goes up.
You need the pump on.
Do this every hour you sit or stand in place:
•20–30 slow toe raises
•2-second squeeze at the top
•Drop your heels.
•Repeat.
Coffee line. Brushing teeth. End of a Zoom.
How many hours do you go without a single toe raise?
#Circulation
#CalfPump
8:51.61 🔥
FAITH CHEROTICH SAVES THE BEST FOR LAST 🇰🇪
Faith wins the Brussels Diamond League Final 3000m steeplechase with a massive Meet Record.
Doris Lemngole 🇰🇪 clocks a huge PB of 8:52.86, finishing second.
Winfred Yavi 🇧🇭 takes third position in 8:53.54.
𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦, 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗛! 🇰🇪
Faith Cherotich storms to her 3rd Diamond League title in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, clocking a brilliant 8:51.61 Meeting Record in Brussels!
Congratulations also to Doris Lemngole 🇰🇪, who completed a magnificent Kenyan 1–2 finish with a superb second-place performance in 8:52.86 PB.
Another commanding performance. Another Kenyan flag flying high on the global stage!
Hongera Faith Kadogo and Doris! Kenya stands proud! 🇰🇪
"I am happy with this race and meeting record. I prayed for times like this. I trained really hard to win this Diamond League trophy."
#Kenya's Faith Cherotich had to dig deep to win a third series title in the steeplechase at the 50th Allianz Memorial Van Damme in Brussels.
@xysist there's a lot to be done, you know exactly what needs to be done but you're kinda like paralyzed, you're not making progress and you're feeling guilty for not making progress
People tell you who they are through patterns, not apologies. Words may sound sincere, but repeated behavior reveals the truth. An apology without change is just another promise waiting to be broken. Believe consistency, because actions will always expose what words try to hide.
"This time, it is not school fees.”
That sentence should disturb every parent.
Before we rush to blame the mother, condemn the father, or appoint ourselves judges of a relationship whose full story we do not know, remember this: the child is not a party to the quarrel.
Parents, you may disagree bitterly. You may separate permanently. You may block each other, stop speaking, and decide that reconciliation is impossible.
But never make your child inherit the consequences of an adult conflict.
🔥Do not weaponise access.
🔥Do not weaponise money.
🔥Do not weaponise silence.
🔥Do not weaponise the child.
A relationship may end. Parenthood does not.
Whatever happened between the two of you, protect the child from paying a debt they never incurred.
When adults go to war, wisdom demands that the children remain civilians.
The moment you and your girlfriend or wife start arguing on social media just know that shit is over. Sasa Morara a whole presidential aspirant now MP candidate cannot keep his house in order,the wife will be his biggest embarrassment juu wamama wakiamua kukumaliza you’ll see bad things.
I also don’t understand why married men cheat,if you’ve decided to marry and impregnate a woman the best thing is if you must, introduce another woman to her as a potential second wife or third wife respectfully than cheating around with hoes and embarrassing not only her but also your kids in the process.
A man’s heart is like God’s kingdom in heaven, it is too big with many rooms, it can accomodate ten women and love them genuinely and equally just communicate to these women openly!
Do not be afraid to sow without immediately seeing the fruits. The sowing belongs to you; the growth belongs to God. No gesture carried out in the name of Christ is useless.