I often equate people basic behaviors to dogs, in my own mind.
Some people are huskies. No need to tell them go, they got Go! Run hard, eat, sleep, & do it again, loving it the whole time.
Other people are beagles. They can’t keep their heads out of rabbit holes, and they just run around in circles making too much noise.
Yeah I’ll pass… besides I’m just visiting. I concluded after a much needed metaphorical slap in the face. That spending too much time on “fitness” social media turns me into twisted overly passive aggressive asshole once I reach max absorption of stupidity and become overly frustrated at the absurdity I see.
I am a big fan of the isometric strength it builds up. It doesn’t seem like one should, but I always feel stronger after a yoga session (poor as my form on it currently is even).
Fortunately the thread is flame-free, even if the candle isn’t
I confess I’m very excited for my deadlift workout tomorrow because, “Thanksgiving dinner!” No, wait—I mean, “deadlift recovery.”
Got a phone call from a buddy, whispering on the other line he asked if I wanted some deer meat. I said sure. He called back a few minutes later a little more excited and told me he’d have it quartered up in a cooler for me to pick up today and take to the processor.
Can’t get any easier than that 
As a confession: I fully intend on taking a picture with my cooler of deer meat and making a social media post about harvesting my first deer of the season with an iPhone 12 from 15 miles away.
It can be surprisingly difficult. I was cramping and sweating and panting after my session last night.
If you’re just moving through stuff like child’s pose, upward/downward dog, forward fold and corpse pose, sure, it’s not hard. But when you treat it like a training session, and have a whole practice dedicated to poses preparing you for advanced asanas like king dancer or pigeon pose, or wheel pose; yeeeesh, it gets hard as fuck. It’d a great compliment to strength training, I find.
I have a confession…
Sometimes when I see a group of under-developed teenagers with Patrick Mahomes haircuts (see Fig. 1 below) clogging up a power rack next to me, I change the exercise I’m doing to match theirs and do everything in my power to make all their lifts seem irrelevant by out-lifting them. Sometimes this means going off program, but it makes me feel good to watch them leave out of discouragement/embarrassment.
(Fig. 1)
I confess I got WAY too excited by this wording…
On a similar note, my act of “self- care” today is spending tome working on econ models for fun instead of doing school work
was it the (almost) APA format that did it for you?
Also, seek help please
Ive been wanting to have a day where all I have to do is to hunker down for a couple of hours to work through a paper.
I’ve started and it’s been sooo nice. Since last reading the paper, my game theory class has covered some stuff that’s relevant to understanding the model.
Today is just trying to understand the paper. I’m going to spend more time tomorrow seeing how my addition to the model works out
I’m also starting a new writing piece
The idea is that I just want to set aside the stuff I’m obligated to work on and doing stuff I want to
I’ll leave that game theory up to you, human factors isn’t my thing.
I’d rather build something or make a new program, but to each their own. Glad you’re getting to do the stuff you actually want to do though - it doesnt happen often enough.
I took my kid to a bouncy house amusement center today. I registered both of us to play.
Arrived and found out I am too heavy to play.
I confess I am feeling a combination of frustration and pride over that.
This has happened to me on a number of occasions.The only time it really helped is when someone tried to convince to go skydiving, but the weight limit for tandem jumping was well below my relationship with gravity.
Im here for this kind of shithousery
IMO, it’s not the teenagers who should feel embarrassed in this situation.
I thought this place was flame free. Still, don’t care - i find it entertaining. I only do this when it’s a group of shitheads that wont stay for more than a couple months though, its to help expedite the process. I usually try to help the ones that are actually trying.
As part 2 of my confession, I am such a meathead I just pulled a protein bar out of my sweatpants pocket and snacked on that while watching kid CRUSH all challengers on the pugil sticks.
Maybe because of the people who get joy out of making them feel bad…
Flame Free though.
or maybe its because they show up in socks and flipflops wearing pajama bottoms and haven’t broken a sweat in the hour they’ve taken to do their 3 sets.
flame free though.
Also, if they’re actually intending to stick around and TRAIN, they wouldn’t be put off by someone lifting heavy ass weight right next to them. If they come to enjoy the ‘dating scene’ however…