September 2011
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2011.09.07
I tore my ACL in February. Since then, I haven’t climbed and have lifted sporadically. I had my ACL surgery in March, so it’s been about 6 months since I climbed. I’ve lost noticeable muscle mass and gained fat mass. I now hover between 180 and 185 lbs. For perspective, 14 months ago, I was a relatively fit 165 lbs with more muscle mass.
Today, I climbed for the first time...
January 2011
7 posts
Week 3 Injury and What It's Like Gaining 5+ Pounds...
Two weeks ago, I weighed 173.5. That was the most I’ve ever weighed in my life. A week ago, I weighed 179.0 lbs. That’s a gain of 5.5 lbs in 7 days. Each new day, I weighed more than I ever had in my life.
This past week, I hurt my back on my Monday session. I took the week off since I’m not into damaging my back for the sake of…well…anything, other than to save...
Weight Lifting: Mass Gaining: 2011.01.13
Whoops. I apparently put 1.14 as the date when I first wrote this. I am not a fortune teller.
I’m still tweaking the workouts a bit. I feel like by the time I figure it out, I’ll be done with this mass gaining cycle. Which is fine, I expect I’ll be doing this again next year. And who knows, maybe it helps you, too.
What I’m noticing is that lifting like this - with...
Weight Lifting: Mass Gaining: 2011.01.10
Morning Mass: 173.5 lbs
Workout Start Time: 5:23 pm
Workout Length: 36m
01/10/2011 : 173.5 lbsWeightRepsWeightRepsWeightRepsLeg Extension10112Hamstring Curl5612Squat157222m RestMilitary Press (Behind Neck)89128910Bench Press15761572Shrug1111011110111102m RestRader Chest Pull020Chin-Up010010Good Morning561056102m RestRader Chest Pull020Yates Rows781078107810Ez-Curl, Reverse...
Weight Lifting: Mass Gaining: 2011.01.06
Weight Lifting: Mass Gaining: 2011.01.06
Today, my hex shrug/deadlift bar came in. I guess I should have expected the textured handles, but for some reason, I didn’t. It was a nice surprise.
I switched around some things from my Monday workout to incorporate shrugs and deadlifts. I also swapped the order of the bench press and dips. I do dips on rock rings that hang from chains on my...
Weight Lifting: Mass Gaining: 2011.01.03
I lifted a little bit last week, but only to get my body moving again after being relatively sedentary (including nine days in a car and two in a plane) during the six weeks prior. I was initially going to continue with the “Novice” routine in Practical Programming for Strength Training, but decided to combine a few mass-gaining routines into one customized for me and my equipment.
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My Tumblr Account is Now for Fitness Logging
Title says it. It will include daily recaps on each day that I lift weights, do outdoor sports stuff like a freakin (Texan) champ, climb, train, etc.
Just a heads up.
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Snowshoeing: Mt. Rainier: 2011.01.02
Sport: Snowshoeing
Location: Mt. Rainier, starting at Paradise station
Wake: 7:00 am
On the road: 7:45 am
Began snowshoeing: 10:45 am
Ended snowshoeing: 2:45 am
Total distance: ~6 mi
Notes:
My first time snowshoeing.
I will be buying snowshoes.
I’m looking forward to hiking to higher elevations, then skiing/snowboarding down.
That means I will also be buying skis and a snowboard.
...
October 2010
2 posts
Love as a State of Being; Osho, Intimacy
Love is a state of your consciousness when you are joyous, when there is a dance in your being. Something starts vibrating, radiating, from your center; something starts pulsating around you. It starts reaching people: it can reach women, it can reach men, it can reach rocks and trees and stars.
When I am talking about love, I am talking about this love: a love that is not a relationship but a...
Repetition & Practice
Repetition facilitates learning. It overlays old neural patterns with new ones through the process of experience. Your brain takes on a new shape and, therefore, develops a new capacity for interacting in the world.
So, when you find a new concept, a new way of doing things, a new emotional response or a new outlook or belief that you wish to adopt: Repeat it. And Repeat it consciously. And...
September 2010
3 posts
Or/And
Either/Or?
Or…
And?
If You Doubt the Value of Marginal Utility and...
http://www.fastcompany.com/1688914/bing-beats-yahoo-now-number-2-search-site
People are excited about Bing getting to #2.
That’s a big gap to #1.
Being the best isn’t about ego.
It’s useful. It’s valuable. It’s the freedom to explore and innovate and create new things.
If being the best isn’t a part of your competitive design, you’ll be hanging out at...
Starting at the End
Everything is cause and effect.
Choose an objective.
Figure out the things that cause that effect - the objective - to happen.
Do and be the causes.
…
Didn’t work?
That’s not failure. Take your ego out of it. That’s a lack of lack of capacity to act effectively.
Keep developing your knowledge of causes that create your desired effects.
…
Find that you...
August 2010
5 posts
How to Have Curve-Jumping Personal Growth
At some point, I realized that I was responsible for everything in my life. After I decided that wasn’t a burden, but an opportunity, I began to explore what possibilities for life lay ahead of me.
My most effective practices have involved seeking out experts in anything directly or tangentially related to areas of life/work/whathaveyou that I’m looking to improve.
If I’m...
Books & Pains: Is Masculinity a Larger Blind Spot...
If you were to presuppose that the purpose of non-fiction books is to fill a knowledge gap… And if you were to combine that with the idea that the market reflects general human demand…
You might intuitively discover a rough correlation between the number of books available on a subject, and the knowledge gaps/problems/pains that people are trying to solve. In other words, you might...
Orientation of Interests and Life Purpose
Peoples’ interests are generally oriented toward: Things, Experiences, People, and Ideas.
It’s a common saying, something to the extent that “No one on their deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I spent more time at work.’”
For the inventor, it might be possible to disagree. For a philosopher, is their philosophy their work? For an artist, is their art their work? For...
Masculine and Feminine Facilitation in...
It’s said that the masculine values direction of accomplishments and the feminine values quality of relationships.
Would it then make sense - as a starting point - for the feminine to learn to facilitate the masculine in directing the relationship and, likewise, for the masculine to learn to facilitate the feminine in the quality of their relationship?
Discover Your Evolution
Behavior change doesn’t come as a result of learning.
Cultivate a passion for continual curiosity and recurrent discovery. Combine it with the willpower to continue evolving until the change is fully and unconsciously embodied.
July 2010
5 posts
Fantasies, Possibilities and Creating...
If there is only one reason as to why an outcome definitely can not be produced in that moment, it is a fantasy.
If there is a single way that an outcome can be produced and no reasons why it definitely can not, it is a possibility.
Moving from fantasy to possibility is the act of continually discovering those blocks.
The practice of creating opportunities is in cultivating the ability to...
The Last 10% is the Last 80%
…and the first 90% is the warmup for the “real work.”
Ideation and testing is fast and easy. Implementation is slow.
Making your situation
When looking at why a person is in a situation in life (success, despair, etc), it isn’t that their situation dictated their outcome. Rather, it’s that they made their situation into their outcome.
Stop
I read before going to sleep every night.
When I realize I’m simply trying to get through the words, I decide to stop reading.
This helps in other areas as well.
Be Cause
Everything is cause and effect.
Learn how to produce the causes that result in the effects you want.
May 2010
2 posts
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Startup Lesson: Unfair, Initial Compensation
In the beginning, if you’re not unfairly compensated - if you’re not giving more than you’re receiving - your business will die.
There are too many lessons to learn from your initial customers that, if you don’t overly-support them, if you don’t spend an extra few minutes on each support call getting a little more information, if you don’t spend extra time...
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On Communications
The point isn’t to learn to “communicate” more effectively, it’s to learn to listen with other people’s listening. Then, speak to that listening.
April 2010
10 posts
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Internal Retreats [Marcus Aurelius, Meditations]
Men seek retreats for themselves - in the country, by the sea, in the hills - and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is quite unphilosophic, when it is open to you, at any time you want, to retreat into yourself. No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into his own mind, especially if he can dip into thoughts there which put him at immediate...
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The Greatest Secret (From Man's Search for...
We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along the one road leading from the camp. The accompanying guards kept shouting at us and driving us with the butts of their rifles. Anyone with very sore feet supported himself on his neighbor’s arm. Hardly a word was spoken; the icy wind did not encourage talk. Hiding his mouth behind his upturned collar, the man...
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Gratitude and Duty
Perhaps inaccurately (as I’ve not yet completed Meditations), I get the sense that Marcus Aurelius is one who has cultivated a deep and sincere sense of duty.
It seems only fitting that the first book in Meditations opens with a full chapter acknowledging those who have influenced his life with a deep and sincere sense of gratitude.
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A Premise of Meridian Pathways (and acupuncture,...
…the human body begins as a single cell that contains a blueprint for the entire body. As the body grows, energy meridians run through it and key parts of the body are mapped over and over again, based on the original blue-print. Rather like a hologram, a three-dimensional picture in which every part contains the whole, each part of the body has a mapping for the entire body.
- Sexual...
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Reverence of Philosophical Dualities
Stoic & Epicurean
Yin & Yang
Eastern (internal) Philosophy/Religion & Western (external) Philosophy/Religion
It would appear as though to have a belief that stands the test of time, a position must be held that rejects the opposing view.
What if there was a belief system that integrated both? What if you could make use of the virtues of both?
What would it look like to integrate...
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The "I get it" Mentality
One of the worst things I ever did for myself was to think that I knew something.
One of the best things I ever did for myself was to replace those moments of knowing with the act of discovering what I didn’t know…even if it meant uprooting those things that I thought I knew.
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Interview with Robert Johnson, Beginning Within
…the principle work is to be done within the individual him/herself, and to learn to cope with one’s own masculinity and femininity within is an absolute prerequisite before one has the right to talk about exterior relationships. A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn’t the ability to see a woman, objectively...
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You know you're an entrepreneur when...
…everyone else is looking forward to the three day weekend, and you’re looking forward to a three day weekend of working without distractions.
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Reconciling Divine, Romantic Love with Physical,...
I read this the other night in Robert Johnson’s We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love. Totally awesome book that seems to uproot a lot of the fundamental discord we had about romance and how Westerners incorporate romance into their lives.
(And, if it’s in here, I’ve obviously found it relevant to my own life.)
Some reference points:
Iseult of the White Hands...
March 2010
1 post
Shazaam!
I guess I’m here now.