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The Citizen
10-06-2025
- The Citizen
Beloved rescue dogs poisoned during house robbery
'I've lost my best friends and my ability to work,' said an inconsolable Kerlene Treunicht, speaking about her furry babies Red and Khaos, who were killed during a robbery at her home in Robertsham on May 23. Treunicht is receiving a lot of support from Fourways residents because that is where she runs her animal rescue organisation, Missing Pet Solutions. The organisation specialises in reuniting lost pets with their families through expert K9 searches. 'It's not just a job, it's a calling that my dogs Red and Khaos shared with me.' Also read: Become a puppy raiser for guide dogs On that fateful day, Treunicht said, 'Four armed men broke into my home and poisoned my beloved K9 partners, Red and Khaos, with sausage laced with illegal poison. They were sleeping peacefully inside, but managed to get out when the robbers forced their way in. They then found this sausage. Red died in his kennel. Khaos collapsed just outside hers.' She said the intruders stole laptops, cellphones, a PlayStation, a Nintendo Switch, jewellery, cash, and other valuable items. But her beloved dogs are a greater loss. 'They were more than dogs, they were heroes, and my family. They helped bring lost pets home, and now they're gone, taken in the most brutal, senseless way. Also read: Adopt a dog at Woodrock 'The silence and loneliness are excruciating. I don't want to get out of bed, because I'm waiting for them to wake me up, as they did every morning. I don't see a purpose anymore without my babies. Rest in perfect peace, my angels.' Treunicht added that she could not make sense of her loss, yet. 'But I promise you this. I will carry your legacy forward. I will keep helping the lost get found. I will do it with the same fire you gave me, with the same unstoppable drive you had every time we hit the ground.' In her dogs' honour, she has started a BackaBuddy fund to train new tracking dogs to continue the mission her fur babies lived for. Read more: Community Hour brings together dog lovers for socially responsible pet ownership 'It has been incredible. It's amazing how people stand together in times like this. The crime in this country is out of hand.' 'Thank you for helping me honour Red and Khaos in the only way I know how – by continuing their legacy.' The link to the campaign is: Follow us on our Whatsapp channel, Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok for the latest updates and inspiration! Have a story idea? We'd love to hear from you – join our WhatsApp group and share your thoughts! At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Mint
24-05-2025
- Health
- Mint
How to master the drop jump and work with gravity to increase your strength and speed
Fitness routines can seem as if they are only geared towards the body working against gravity in order to work the muscles. Popular examples of these are incline walks and box jumps and hill runs. But these are not the only way to use gravity to your advantage; you can also do so by practicing landing exercises. And there is one exercise in particular that takes the cake when it comes to its overall effect on the body, which goes beyond just the ability to withstand force. This is the drop jump. The drop jump, or the death drop as it is also known, is one of the most popular exercises among those who want to work on their strength and speed. The ease of learning the exercise and modifying it while jumping from a height, with very little equipment, makes it one of the first moves that runners learn when they start getting serious about the activity. I wrote a piece for Lounge on landing and its importance in December 2021, which included multiple exercises that can help in landing during plyometric training. The drop jump is more specific though, as it eventually progresses to a drop jump followed by a box jump. The exercise is probably also the most risk free plyometric move that even beginners can accommodate in their routine. That said, be careful. Also Read How you can jump correctly by learning how to land You can start doing this off a bench as well, or any platform for that matter, including stairs. Just make sure you're wearing the right footwear, or you can train this barefoot. There are many studies that show that doing plyometrics without shoes can increase the activation of foot muscles and decrease the load on the knees. 'For individuals unaccustomed to barefoot activity or those with weaker intrinsic foot muscles who wish to improve their foot strength, commencing barefoot with lower-intensity plyometrics such as Pogo variations, low box jumps, or hopping may be prudent before advancing to higher-intensity exercises like bounding and depth jumps," says a health+high performance article on the topic. However you choose to do it, start with a low height so the body learns to recognise the sensation of landing. The technique will get better over time but the execution is simple. Here's what to do: get on the platform and then let one leg hang over the edge in preparation for the landing and just jump, making sure you land in a soft cushioned quarter squat. It's fair to wonder if that's all there is to the entire exercise. There is one more step though—and it's so much fun. Because as soon as you land, you make sure you take a small spot jump after. Also Read What is the Khaos push-up routine and what makes it a great full body workout Running and strength training coach Lucy Molloy recently posted the findings of a fascinating 2019 research about death drop jumps in an Instagram post which also shows how she does the exercise. She cites the study, Effects Of Plyometric Training On The Performance Of 5-km Road Runners, published in the Journal of Physical Education and Sport, which trialled 24 runners and split them into three groups. The group which did this exercise as part of their plyometric protocol showed stunning results in increase of speed. These are the results: The run-only group showed an average 4.75s improvement; the run and squat jump group showed an improvement of 140.5 seconds and the run and drop jump group showed a 170.63s improvement. 'The benefit of death drop jumps to runners is it increases the capacity of explosive strength and also works to decrease foot contact time with the ground, ultimately decreasing the amount of energy used for a given speed," Molloy writes in her post. A post shared by LUCY MOLLOY (@lucymolloypt) Executing the drop jump is in itself is quite easy when you consider the scale of other exercises that also work on increasing speed and running mechanics. And even the progressions are quite interesting. The death-jump-to-box-jump is the best progression. It is challenging, works up a sweat, and makes your lower body coordinated when it comes to quick movements. The difference here is that you do the drop off a bench, and then jump straight onto a box, using the upwards momentum from the landing to fuel the jump onto the box. There is also a playground element to this exercise. Very much like turning large tyres in a functional training session, or slamming them with a hammer. Doing drop jumps with a circle of gym friends can give in to a childlike excitement of executing the perfect landing and jump and the challenges can keep increasing. For example, one could use ankle weights to do them and get stronger. There are many exercises that can help amp your speed up, but none is simpler than the drop jump. Pulasta Dhar is a football commentator, writer and podcaster. Also Read How to strengthen your lower back and glutes and avoid injuries with back extensions
Mint
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
What is the Khaos push-up routine and what makes it a great full body workout
Every once in a while, an exercise will catch fire on social media, for either the sheer number of people who are doing it, or because of intense debates about whether it works or not. The most recent one is the khaotic push-up, named after the person who apparently invented and popularised it. It all started with a couple of videos uploaded by popular YouTube channel That's Good Money nine months ago. Dedicated to 'videos of calisthenics practitioners doing workout routines, challenges and competitions", the channel uploaded a 35-second 'short' titled The best 150 push up routine ever created to build strength and endurance. It currently stands at 47 million views. It then added longer versions of the creator—Khaos—explaining what the push-up is all about. '10 push-ups is one rep," Khaos says in one of many videos on his Instagram page@omertakhaos. The routine starts off with a standing-to-push-up-position crawl-down. Thereafter, it's one push-up before every move. This is how it goes: push-up followed by shoulder tap, push-up followed by shoulder tap (other side); push-up followed by knee-tap, push-up followed by knee-tap (other side); and so on, with push-up done before and after a toe-tap, a toe-reach, and a Mike Tyson push-up. It ends with a crawl back up to both feet and a single squat. Also Read Why you need to master the push press for stronger shoulders Khaos says that he doesn't want credit for the exercises, but the order of doing them and taking the move to his calisthenics clubs is all him. 'Call it the chaos push-up or the chaotic push-up, just make sure you put a 'k' in front of it," says the pro-boxer, who has been boxing in America's national circuit for the last couple of years. In a longer video of the initially viral posts, titled The history of the khaotic push up routine, the best push up routine ever created, Khaos talks about being in a house arrest situation a few years ago. 'It was for a year and I was getting bored at home and I was always into calisthenics. It comes from the family, they workout a lot," he says, explaining how he was meticulous in recording every push-ups, sit-up and pull-up that he did in that year. He can also do 150 khaotic push-ups, which is an extremely difficult task. I tried 10 the other day as a warm-up before swimming and that alone was a gut buster. So is it worth it? Absolutely. But there isn't enough reason to do 150 of these. A few before or after or even during a workout are perfect to set you up, unless completing fitness challenges is something of interest. The selection for the move has merit and it has a flow as well. But despite the single squat at the end for the legs, this is mainly a chest, shoulders and core exercise, testing stability and strength throughout the routine. Shoulder taps are one of the first few variations to add once the basic push-up has been mastered. And the tapping of the knee almost works like a drunken mountain climber. The third move, of tapping the toes, adds more compression to the core area and works the obliques harder since you're touching the right toe with the left hand and vice-versa. Also Read How to strengthen your lower back and glutes and avoid injuries with back extensions A post shared by KEIONTE JACKSON (@ It's the last one that is the real tester. The push-up to toe-touch is unlike a toe-tap. In this one you stretch all the way up from the push-up position and then to a downward dog and touch the hand to the opposite leg's toe and return, before repeating the other side. This is where the hamstrings kick in since you want to keep the legs as extended as possible. This, followed by the Mike Tyson push-up, is where the game changes. This variation is a high push-up done with a rocking motion, going back into a squat with the palms still on the floor, before diving into a push-up. As a side note, while doing just this particular variation, it is recommended to support the soles of the feet on a wall with the toes supported by the ceiling. Where Khaos has struck gold is in the progression: the order of push-ups go from easier to tougher variations. It also promotes body coordination, which is one of the main motivators when it comes to learning variations with all the limbs moving in sync. The legs are working, the core is working and the upper body is doing a lot of lifting as well. The fact that one rep is actually 10 is also clever, because the one rep actually feels like 10. If you're someone who follows full-body splits, this is a great way to set up the body for compound lifts. As a standalone workout, hitting 25-40 reps should feel like a full workout. Pulasta Dhar is a football commentator, writer and podcaster. Also Read Get the V-shape look: 2 Back Day strength workouts that will transform your lats
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Yahoo
'Kahos' and 'Khaos,' a strange first year for a new Krewe
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — We're a week away from Fat Tuesday and a pair of Mardi Gras organizations are trying to clear up confusion over two very similar names. Right now Mobile has two krewes named the order of 'Chaos'. Between the two groups, apart from who's in them and how old they are, one major difference is where you put the H in 'Khaos.' This past week we told you about the new Order of Kahos. They had their first parade Friday after forming last year. This weekend the older Order of Khaos sent a news release reminding people they are a small Mardi gras group that was founded more than 30 years ago that parades on Joe Cain Day with one float. Members of the older Khaos group say there's no hard feelings they just want to remind people they've been around awhile 'We don't want them to go through any big trouble to try to change their name. It's it's not that big of a deal. We just wanted to say, Hey, we were here and we were first,' said Order of Khaos founding member Diana Brewer. For the older krewe this is water under the bridge. 'I think we need to move on. I think we need to enjoy Mardi Gras. That's what it's all about,' said Order of Khaos member Melanie Todd. The new Order of Kahos may have a bigger challenge in the form of a lawsuit. You can read the civil complaint here. Last week the new krewe was sued by members of the Conde Explorers, claiming former explorers took nearly $70,000 from Conde funds to form the new Krewe. 'We believe money was taken. A lawsuit was necessary to allow us to subpoena bank records. The bank records will either confirm or not our concerns,' said attorney for the Conde Explorers John Brutkiewicz in a statement to News 5. I've been reaching out to members of the Order of Kahos for comment on both issues since Sunday and was told they'd have to consult with their lawyers. Monday night they asked me to contact their attorney directly, I'm waiting to hear back. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
