First competition this weekend!
Except it’s not. We compete at every class. We compete against the other people – to be faster, stronger. Against the people we think we can’t beat, against the people we think we should. We compete against ourselves – to be faster then last time, stronger, to push ourselves, to find out what we’re capable of. To show how good we can be, how far we’ve come. To be better.
So this time won’t really be different…
So it’s half-term, still and have now been off for 5 days and a little bit now. I’ve spent 3 lovely days with Joey and Kemela seeing Manchester, sometimes it nice to be reminded of where you live isn’t it? To take people to the places you feel like they should see and to see them again through a new set of eyes. Then Tuesday was getting some planning done (more today!) before a lovely evening with A in The Northern Quarter. Yesterday I caught up with Tasha in Liverpool, spending the day…
“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness.”
– Robert Burton
Our heart will always follow our greatest investments – whether it be our car, our house, our career, or our investment portfolio. We literally tie our hearts to certain things by the sheer amount of investment we put into them. And too many of us are tying our hearts to the wrong things. We are devoting our lives and tying our hearts to material possessions that will never last or bring us true joy. Lasting fulfillment can never be tied to things that are temporal by nature.
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The drive’s enormous cache–32MB of solid-state RAM–virtually eliminates skipping; shaking the iPod vigorously and even banging it against things didn’t interrupt smooth play.
The iPod is 10 years old today. This snippet from the original article made me smile. I can still remember having a portable CD player with ‘ESP’, electronic shock protection to stop it skipping – though it only managed to do it if you didn’t shake it too much. That it was actually an issue…
Worked on my overhead squat. Rach helped me with some technique and 40kg felt fine. I am pleased by this.
Then we did… (Did the cluster at 17.5kg)
15 burpee box jumps (24?/20?)
15 dumbell clusters (20kg/10kg)
30 sit ups
12 burpee box jumps (24?/20?)
12 dumbell clusters (20kg/10kg)
24 sit ups
9 burpee box jumps (24?/20?)
9 dumbell clusters (20kg/10kg)
18 sit ups
Dumbell cluster = squat clean then thruster. So, pick both dumbells up to shoulders, squat with them then stand and raise them…
- 30 Clean and jerk. 60kg.
- Lifting the 50kg atlas stone
- Failing to jump on atlas stone box, scraping my shins
- Handstand push up
- Attempted a 1 handed hand stand.
- More skipping
- Some 10kg weighted pull ups
- A muscle up
