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“Comfort” and “happiness” do not always go hand-in-hand.
Discomfort and misery don’t either.
Qualities and traits of each person’s personality tend to determine where (comfort vs. happiness) more value is placed, and that important choice will often determine one’s entire life path and outlook.
Which is more important to you?
Have you ever thought of them as separate?
Is a quest for happiness the reason you come here?
Is a need for constant comfort the reason you don’t?
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“And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity.”
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat“
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We use the term “self-correcting” quite often when referring to an adjustment one can make voluntarily to something they are doing to increase efficiency or improve form, or something that happens naturally and instinctively to… minimize discomfort.
It would appear that concept has not yet caught on in this case.
Looks like we’ll just have to keep trying…
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Strength & cardiovascular endurance, form, breathing, and mental preparedness play equal parts in rowing 10,000 straight meters in a respectable time.
Nice work Dave.
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The book that spawned this term is fiction, but the concept is very real, useful, and timeless.
Walking any path without questioning where it’s leading will most likely leave you… lost…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime
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Don’t forget your rowing…
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The mark of the Damned.
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Tragedy “Conflicting Ideas”
When the scientists find our remnants, what will they say?
When they look to our bloated carcasses, ridden with sickness and cancer, what will they find?
And what… what will they say?
Will they recognize our self-abuse as a product of the abusive hands that molded our lives?
Or will we remain, a mystery?
Deformed from malnourishment, our blood coagulated and incensed with disease; the preservatives, the alcohol, the cigarettes. The meat we gorged ourselves on, for all those years.
Will they recognize our self abuse as a product of the abusive hands that molded our lives?
(As experts scratch their heads, as doctors shake their hands, and as we wonder what we’ve done.)
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count, and prepare…
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It is safe to say that this is the first & last time anything purple will ever be posted on the site!
Let’s have a little fun:
Assuming we can all find some humor in a 7lb., purse-shaped “kettlebell”, let’s post to comments a 1-word description or suggested use of this enemy of true fitness.
No vulgarity; best entry wins a prize. (no, the prize is not purple & shaped like a purse…)
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Happy Halloween.
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell”
Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, Critic and fucking Genius, 1854-1900)
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Just a reminder… less is more.
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Prepared.
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In addition to laughing at the ridiculous posed picture, please take a second to note the posted red & white sign behind us.
The photo was taken at a local school where we ran classes last spring & summer.
The classes were free, routinely featured RPD, sheriff’s, RFD, and military, as well as other good, respectable people… all with the sole goal of getting some exercise.
One day we arrived to the sign. There was one tiny (in stature, and mind) administrator that did not like what we were doing, and after posting the sign, sent the “school police” to remove us.
Funny now, not so funny then, and quite a sign of the times.
Instead we all just went home & watched TV like good American adults should do.
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On the complete other side of the coin from the last post. No less brutal, yet couldn’t be more different.
Pain manifests itself in many ways; some quiet, some… not.
100 Demons
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Just some questionable food for thought.
The devil (or, in this case, the lifting of over 15lbs.) is truly in the details…
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Let’s pick the maces up this week…
for those that haven’t yet.
Try to get in early or stay a few late and we’ll work some mace basics.
Also, the next “Odd Lifts” clinic will cover many fun and challenging mace exercises.
(By the way… HIS name is “Great Gama“, and yes, it appears that he his standing on a tiger-skin rug.)
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i’m not quite smart enough to find a down-loadable version of this online & link it here, but i bet i know a few people that are…
this video, and part 2 are fantastic for many reasons, and if for nothing more than to see how much can be done with so little, physically speaking.
it does have a wrestling focus, but the conditioning they do in preparation is great, and the obvious commitment they do it with is admirable.
