6 Greatest Advantages of Massage Chairs

Using a massage chair is much more convenient than making an appointment with local spa. Massage chairs can provide some excellent unique benefits that typical massage therapy doesn’t.

Convenience: it’s sometimes very much difficult to have appointment from your therapist in a time that is also convenient for you. I mean having a time that is suitable for both is difficult in most cases. In such cases, having a massage chair at home feels like having a therapist on call all the time.

Costs: Although massage chairs seem pricey on the surface as massage chair providers cost from $600-$8000. But think it from a long run perspective. You may have to spend thousands of dollars for massage therapy because certified therapist often charges from $40-$100 per hour depending on location, training and other services. Massage chairs can give you so many unique massage options which will compel you think price shouldn’t be a factor.

Privacy: Many people feel uncomfortable to undress and drape and touch of strangers in the intimate environment of a massage therapist’s quarter. In this case, massage chairs can allow people to get massaged being at home.

On-Demand: Anyone may feel pain while gardening or moving some heavy stuff in the house or doing work with household chores which takes toll on the body. In such situation, having an instant appointment of massage therapist is impossible. On the other hand, having a massage chair in home can give you on demand massages whenever tension or pain arises.

Advanced Technology: Massage chairs, available in these days, include all the latest technologies and features that mimic the traditional massage therapy. These chairs can also massage your back, shoulder, arm, legs and neck. The advanced features of thee chairs are astonishing.

Dual Function: Most of massage chairs in these days are being designed focusing on styles and décor so that these chairs can be used only for getting massaged but also as a comfortable place to sit. Renowned brands like Titan make their massage chairs emphasizing on their appearance at first.

Soccer Field Dimension

Soccer is the most popular spectator sport in the world. Soccer is also known as football or association football in many countries. It is a team sport where 2 teams, having 11 players each, participate in the game.

The officially recommended adult field size of football varies from 50 to 100 yards wide and 100 to 130 years long. However, the official field size dimensions, proposed by FIFA, vary for handicapped players, women and for players who are under the age of 16 or over the age of 35. In this post, I will focus on adult soccer field dimension.

Overall Dimension: The overall dimension of a typical soccer field is 60 yards wide and 100 yards long.

Centre Circle: The circle that you see at the middle of a soccer field is a circle of 10 yards. All the defenders must be outside of this circle at the start of a kick-off.

Midfield line:  The midfield line of the field is equally divided in two parts.

Penalty Box:  The penalty box is the penalty area which is shaped as a rectangular box.  This rectangular box consists of 18 yards length and 44 yards width. The penalty box includes an arc which is 10 yards from the “Penalty Mark”.  The referee may give a penalty kick if foul is committed in this area.

Penalty Mark: Penalty mark is the area which is located within the penalty box. It is a 12 yards area from the end line in the penalty box. The penalty mark is the area where the penalty kicks are taken.

Goal Area: The goal area is a smaller portion of the penalty mark and is shaped as a smaller rectangle which is centered on the goal. The rectangular shape of the goal area is of 20 yards of width and 6 yards of depth. This goal area indicates the place from where a goal kick must be placed.

Corner Kick: A small circle is made at each corner of the soccer field. The circle is of only 1 yard which is made to indicate where the ball must be placed prior to the corner kick.

Goal: An adult soccer goal usually consists of 24 feet wide and 8 feet height.

15 Interesting Facts about Formula 1

Formula 1 is the highest level of professional auto racing sports where open-wheeled, single-seat cars participate. In this post, I will focus on some cool facts of formula 1 racing:

1. In order to make a formula one racing car, almost 80,000 parts are incorporated with 100% accuracy to make the whole. Here the accuracy is greatly important because if the cars were made with 99.99% accuracy, they would be on the race with almost 80% wrongly placed components.

2. Most advanced engine is used in formula 1 car to give them the power to acceleration from 0-160 km/h and decrease back to o km/h in just 4 seconds.

3. The formula 1 car engines typically have a life of only 2 hours of racing whereas a normal road car serves for decades. It’s because the f1 engines are absuloutly pushed to the limit during the race.

4. When the f1 drivers put breaks during the race, they experience unbelievable deceleration. These experiences could be compared with the clash of a normal road car with brick wall at a speed of 300 km/h.

5. The brake discs used in the formula one car are made of carbon fibre which has a higher melting point and much harder than steel.

6. Damon Hill, who was a British racer, has the record of winning a F1 championship without leading in a single lap.

7. Formula one car is not allowed to use automatic gearbox.

8. The engine of f1 car is composed of around 5000 components which lasts only for 2 hours during the race day and generate up to 750 boiler horse powers (bph). 

9. Formula one cars use super soft tyres which last for 90-120 kilometers whereas normal road car tyres usually last for 60,000 to 1, 00,000 kilometers.

10. Portion of tyres which contacts with the surface of the track can reach up to a temperature of 900 to 1200 degree Celsius.

11. The tyres of a formula 1 car rotate at a speed of 50 times per second when the car is at maximum speed.

12. These cars usually race at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour. An airplane’s take off is slower as compared with the speed of a formula 1 car. This has been possible due to the developed aerodynamic design of formula one car. 

13. A formula 1 car is connected with more 1 kilometer of wires which are linked with hundred of sensors to monitor and control the car during the race. 

14. During the race, f1 driver can lose approximately 2-3 litres of body fluids. That why drinking water and mineral salt pipes are installed with the f1 car’s cockpit.

15. During a formula 1 race, pit crews can change the car tyres and refuel the car in just 3 seconds.

National Football League (NFL) - Its Formation & Structure

National Football League (NFL) is the highest professional sports league in the United States. NFL was founded in august 20, 1920. At the time of its formation, its name was the American Professional Football Conference. Only one month later, the name was changed as the American Professional Football Association in September 17, 1920 and the name was finally changed as the National Football League (NFL) in June 24, 1922.

Currently 32 teams are playing in the National Football League which are divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). NFL season typically lasts for 17 weeks starting from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas. Each team has to play 16 games throughout the season, once a week.

Out of NFL’s current 32 teams, 6 teams never win a championship in National Football League, 4 teams have never appeared in at least one Super Bowl and 18 teams have win at least one Super Bowl. The Green Bay Packers have made achieved the enormous victory of winning the most National Football League championship (13 times). The Chicago Bears have won the second highest NFL championships (9 times). The present champion of National Football League is the Baltimore Ravens.

The primary aim of NFL is not making profit. NFL is a non-profit association that’s why this entity gets full exemption from income tax. But the teams who are playing in the NFL have to pay income taxes as they are making profit. NFL has three distinct officers, namely- the commissioner, secretary and treasurer. The commissioner enjoys highest authority in the National Football League. 

The commissioner is elected by the votes of member teams. In order to be the commissioner, an individual has to get 18 or two-third affirmative votes from the 32 member teams. An elected commissioner has the right to appoint the secretary and the treasurer. Besides, he has the extensive responsibilities of negotiating television contracts, settling disputes or grievances among the teams, employees, coaches or players of National Football League etc.

10 Most Interesting Facts about NASCAR - You Might not Know

NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. It is the largest family owned business venture that governs multiple motor sports events.  It was founded by Bill France, Sr. in 1948 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Until 2012, NASCAR has arranged over 1500 races in over 100 US states. Here I am going to share some other interesting facts of this race that a diehard NASCAR fan might not know: 

1. The founder of NASCAR, Bill France, Sr. was a son of teller at Park Savings Bank.

2. Michael Waltrip attained the record of most starts without win. When he won in 2001 Daytona 500, it was his first ever win after 463 starts in his NASCAR racing career.

3. Richard Petty is considered as the greatest driver in the NASCAR history. He won 200 races including championship titles 5 times and Daytona 500 7 times. 

4. NASCAR officials use 8 different types of flags to control the race, namely- green, yellow, white, red, black, checkered, and black flag with a white X. Out of these 8 flags, white flag is used once in a race to indicate- there is only one lap remaining in the race.

5. According to television ratings, this racing sport is just second to the National Football League (NFL) among all the professional sports franchises. 

6. NASCAR has around 70 million fans all over the world. These fans spend more than 3 billion dollars per year on purchasing licensed products. That’s why Fortune 500 companies sponsor this sport from its beginning. 

7. NASCAR sports are very much popular worldwide, particularly in the United States and Canada. These exciting races are broadcasted in more than 150 countries. 

8. It's officials have the right to stop the race at any time for reasons like- immediate medical treatment for severe crashes, unsafe track or blocked track etc. 

9. Unlike other motor races, NASCAR is governed as per point system, whereas all other racing sports operate on the basis of win-lose system. The driver who first finish the race gains 43 points and who finish the race at last gains 1 point. There are some other bonus points too. One bonus point is awarded to any driver who leads any lap. One additional point is awarded to the driver who leads most laps in a race and 3 bonus points are awarded to the driver who wins a race. 

10. NASCAR drivers are sponsored by large corporations, most often Fortune 500 companies. Decals are used to decorate the cars and to represent their sponsors. These helps distinguish one car from others.