"A
team led by Norman Heglund of the Catholic University of Louvain,
in Brussels, conducted tests on eight porters travelling to a
bazaar in the town of Namche, which lies 3,500m (11,500ft) above
sea level close to Mount Everest.
Their secret seems to rest on three factors. The first is
physiology: the combination of a short but powerful stature and
a high red blood cell count evolved as a result of living at
high altitude. Also critical is their carrying technique, by
which a strap around the head bears the majority of the load.
The final element seems to be
the regular rests that they take
during their climbs, the study said.
www.nepalnews.com by June
17 2005"
Do you "carry" your computer eight
hours every day? Why not to have regular rests, MMB Mighty
MicroBreaker workouts?
