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PoliceNewsThe Voice of PoliceWax on, wax offBy Deb Stringer, Communications AssistantVolunteering to get strips torn off you is not something mostpeople would be lining up to do.For five Wellington police officers, who got their legs waxedin front of a crowd of onlookers at New World Thorndon lastmonth, that was their reality but it was all for a good cause –raising money for CanTeen.Through their efforts, Senior Constable Dean Gifford, ConstableAlex Macdonald, Detective Craig Vining, DetectiveScott Dunn and Constable Hamish Blackburn managed toraise more than $1,000 for the charity, which supports youngpeople living with cancer.Newlands Fire Service staff and Michael Hobbs of the WellingtonLions rugby team also took part in the fundraiser. Stafffrom Elite International School of Beauty provided their skillsas volunteer ‘waxers’.Happy to participateMr Vining said he was happy to put up with a bit of pain if itmeant he was contributing to the greater good.“I am proud to be part of something like this and although itwasn’t as bad (the waxing) as I thought it would be, let’s justsay I don’t plan on making it a regular routine” he said.• TOP RIGHT: Wellington Police officers (the ‘waxees’) pose withstaff from the Elite International School of Beauty (the “waxers”)before the main event, which drew a large crowd (mainly women) tosee the hardy officers get a taste of what women have to bear, on afairly regular basis, when having their legs waxed.• GRIN AND BEAR IT: Constable Scott Dunn likened his first (andprobably last) ‘man wax’ to “someone slapping me when I amsunburnt.” No he wasn’t going back for seconds. Here Scott enduresthe pain for a CanTeen fundraiser in Wellington recently as EliteInternational School of Beauty staffer, Tess Loughran, gives Scott’sleg hairs the full removal treatment.• DISTRACTION: Constable Hamish Blackburn’s approach was to look at others enduring the same punishment, clearly in the hope that thedistraction may over-ride his own discomfort. It didn’t.302December 2010
New Zealand Police AssociationAnnual eventThe event, entitled “Man Wax”, was part of CanTeen’s annualBandanna Week – where the charity’s collectors take to thestreets to sell a variety of coloured bandannas to fundraise.CanTeen exists solely through the generosity of donors. EddieRakanui, one of CanTeen’s Wellington division organisers,said he was blown away by the amount of pledges the fivepolice officers received.“We couldn’t have held the event without these five topblokes. CanTeen is hugely appreciative of the amount of workthey put in to the event and the sacrifice they made,” he said.Wellington Police organiser Kathryn Williams said that theofficers “all agreed that the pain they endured was nothingcompared to what young people living with cancer had to livewith every day.”• Craig Vining was happy to part with the hair on his legs if it meantthe money raised during the event would go to the children’s cancercharity CanTeen.After 25 years of working and studying physical and health education for the New Zealand Police, Physical EducationOfficer and sports scientist GRAHAM WALLWORK - a former NZ weightlifting champion and advisor to NZ RugbyLeague for a dozen years - looks at some ideas around improving the health of Police staff. In the third in his three-partseries addressing health issues, Graham looks at the issue of proper exercise.Exercise – we’re not machinesWe are not machines – but it alwaysamazes me that people exercise as ifthey are and don’t understand why theyget repetitive strain injuries and don’tmake much progress after the initialgains.This phenomenon started with ArnoldSchwarzenegger’s movie Pumping Ironin the mid-1970s and in all commercialgyms, throughout the world, peoplestarted exercising their clients likebodybuilders.Nowadays, people sit on aerobic machinesreading books or watching TVand think that this is exercise – not realisingthat their heat rate does not getinto an aerobic zone. People run ontreadmills and expect it to translate torunning the roads – not realising thatthis ‘conveyer belt’ is carrying themalong – they just need to lift their feetand keep their legs moving!The days before machinesBack in the ‘olden days’ we didn’t havemachines to exercise on – either withresistance training or with aerobic conditioning.We lifted free weights andran around the streets or on grass in theparks. As a competitive Olympic weightlifter,like everyone else in the sport, Iexercised the whole body in most movements– and in all three dimensions.People would be surprised that Olympicweightlifters and Olympic gymnasts developgreat core strength and never dojust one specific core exercise!Top team sportsmen (and eventuallywomen) have been using these wholebody movements for 20-30 years now– which has improved their strength,power and general condition – but themales still look like bodybuilders tome. They should be using exercises andconditioning programmes that mimicthe movement patterns of their games.I can’t see where the bench press, squatand even power clean exercises andrunning on treadmills translate to thegame. They should be using mostlymulti-directional, multi-dimensional,single-limbed exercises that also incorporatebalance and co-ordination movementsthat work them in the heart-ratezones – as happens in their sports.How does this relate to the general exerciser?The key ingredientEvery one of us works the same way –just on different levels. The one key ingredientin any exercise programme isenjoyment. If gym exercises are not foryou then do a mode of movement thatyou enjoy and that can easily fit intoyour lifestyle. Our jobs are not as physicallydemanding as they were 30 yearsago and most of us sit in front of computersand do less incidental movementin day-to-day living - therefore it is importantto make exercise part of yourlifestyle if you want to maintain health.Secondly, do a few movements eachday that maintain or improve full bodilyfunction. You don’t need to run marathonsor be strong enough to pull treesfrom the ground – or any amazing athleticfeat. You don’t need to do a specificexercise programme – in the true senseof the word – it could be dancing, diving,social team sports – or any otherrecreational pass-time that keeps youfunctionally mobile throughout yourlifetime.Education...A man is stopped by the police at midnightand asked where he’s going.“I’m on the way to listen to a lecture aboutthe effects of alcohol and drug abuse onthe human body,” the man replied.“Really, and who’s going to give a lectureat this time of night?” said the police officer.”“My wife”, the man replied.December 2010303
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