I’ve never lived outside the UK, although it was on my bucket list previously.
My point is that I would have to go a very, very, very long way before I found somewhere where the vast majority of people wouldn’t speak at least some of my native language. I would imagine a Swede wouldn’t have to go anywhere near so far.
If I remember, I remember.
What I meant is that, by now the science is pretty clear on how to learn languages when you are more of an adult. Spaced repetition etc. but that topic “How to learn a language” isn’t really broached. It’s all rote work, rather than smart rote work. Therefore, I feel as if there is room for improvement there.
The Netherlands isn’t a Scandinavian country, so…
Is that a heavy tourist-y place? I’ve met kids in Thailand speaking perfect Swedish, as a consequence of Swedes visiting there a lot.
Their 
Jokes aside, I have no idea which is superior so it isn’t a question for me. I look at what they do in Finland as a better example of what we do here, and part of their success lies in ensuring that being a teacher is a status-occupation.
Funniest thing I’ve read in a while
Uhm… Maybe… Norwegians understand Swedish, the top half of Finland understands Swedish. There’s the Danes but they’re not necessarily close depending on where in Sweden you are.
That was a seperate point, I know it’s not part of Scandinavia.
Rest day
Built my first ever boulder today, that was a cool experience. 10/10 will do again
AM Lead climbing, two routes, easy
PM SVR II-ish
Throws 10
| Warm-up | Sets x Reps @ Rest | |
|---|---|---|
| 1A. Banded Over & Back | 3x10@0 | |
| 1B. Banded Face Pull | 3x10@0 | |
| 1C. Banded Pull Apart | 3x10@30 |
| Main | Set | Reps | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Press | 0 | 10 | bar |
| 70% | 1 | 5 | 35 |
| 80% | 2 | 5 | 40 |
| 90% | 3 | 10 | 45 |
| 70% | 4 | 16+5 breaths+4 | 35 |
| Assistance | |
|---|---|
| B3. Headstand Pike | 10 8 6 4 |
| B2. Rack Chins Supinated | 15, 14, 10 |
| B3. Parallette Push-ups | 10 11 10 r |
10 minutes of handbalancing and lever work
Should’ve warmed up on a bike or something. I didn’t feel revved up for my main work.
Fairly touristy, but also a consequence of noone else speaking their language.
Absolutely beautiful place, just avoid the buses if you value your life.
This experience will greatly differ depending on one’s native language. English is too powerful. Plus some bits of a foreign language can be understood due to sharing a language family. Ukrainian and Russian are different languages indeed, and though most who live in one of those nations knows the other anyway, one could easily get the gist of what is said if that were not the case. In general I don’t think the situation would be so polarized, unless an English speaker migrates to Asia or something.
Okay, I’ll stop clogging @Voxel’s training log 
I don’t mind, I enjoy the topic
Reading some Swede Burns today. Ain’t this the truth,
The average lifter’s desire and willingness to train hard, and to do more work under the bar, are usually greater than their ability to recover and adapt in a given timeframe
I dunno man, even at my gym, which has a lot of strong people there, there are an awful lot of time wasters
I think, perhaps, Swede should have written “the average lifter that cares enough to come across this book of mine”. Or maybe differentiate between the recreational lifter and the purposeful lifter.
| Warm-up Circuit (3 times) | |
|---|---|
| Jump Rope | 50 |
| Cossack Squat | 5/side |
| Push-up | 3, hold bottom for 3 seconds |
| Walking Lunge | 5/leg |
| Toes-to-bar | 3 |
| Band Pull-apart | 10 |
| Squat | 30s |
Broad jumps 10
| Main | Set | Reps | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Squat | -3 | 10 | bar |
| -2 | 5 | 40 | |
| -1 | 3 | 60 | |
| 0 | 2 | 70 | |
| 70% | 1 | 5 | 80 |
| 80% | 2 | 5 | 92 |
| 90% | 3 | 10 | 102 |
| 70% | 4 | 20 | 80 |
Before my Widowmaker set (which was breathing squats galore) I accidentally did 10 reps at 60 as I stripped too much weight from the bar.
| Assistance | |
|---|---|
| C1. Rope Biceps Curl | 3 x ~10 reps |
| C2. Rope Triceps Pushdown | 3 x ~10 reps |
| C3. Kneeling cable crunch | 3 x 8-10 reps |
| C4. Machine crunch (505 tempo) | 3 x AMRAP |
| C5. Swiss ball crunch 3 x max | 3 x AMRAP |
Ouch. Good job!
I think I did 8, 5 breaths, 4, 5 breaths, …
Some good points made here
“You need to learn to look after your body. After all, it is your body”
Watching the Chinese weightlifting team is the closest I’ve ever come to feeling national pride
I think simply using the term “lifter” makes the distinction. There are many people who lift that are not lifters, much as there are people that run that are not runners.
Lu just destroyed this guy… If I showed him my o-lifts he would tell me to commit a suicide out of honor
I’m very sorry I’m taking as long as I do to answer emails btw. I really don’t mean to be rude.
No offense taken, its not like we were making casual
conversation. It’ll take the time it needs
Thanks man, you’re a great guy.