Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
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Strength
Gymnastic Strength Training
https://tim.blog/2016/05/09/the-secrets-of-gymnastic-strength-training/
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This is an insane, 3-hour-long interview. Which I listened to twice. (So far.) Christopher Sommer ( https://www.gymnasticbodies.com/blog/ ) is an Olympic Gymnastics coach and this interview has broadened my horizons– about training, about strength, about recovery, about success, about goals, about gymnastics… I could not even decide what to pull-quote.
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More load on the arch
Despite of all this seeming weight, a certain part of ourselves remains unmoored. We don’t lack for tasks, but we do lack meaningful ones. We haven’t made any goals since college. We don’t experience the tension that emerges in “the gap between what one is and what one should become,” because the gap simply doesn’t exist – at a certain point we stopped aiming for anything above paying the bills and checking off to-dos.
We think we want rest and relaxation – the absence of all labor and responsibility – but what we really crave is the presence of meaningful work and interests. We don’t want a complete lack of tension, but a different variety of it.
We don’t need less stress, but more of the right kind.
~ Brett Mckay from, http://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/11/27/more-load-on-the-arch/
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This piece is a clear manifesto that coincides with my efforts of the past couple years: “Load the arch intentionally!”
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Struggle
Strength doesn’t come from winning, strength comes from struggling.
~ unknown
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Some pullups
About 6 months ago, I was unable to do a pull-up. These five are part of 70 on the plan for today. I’ve been doing pullups for weeks now withOUT warming up. Just walk over to the bar and haul. Why gloves? At the moment,…