May 2012
10 posts
10 reasons for lifting heavy
lovethepain:
1. Overload the muscles 2. You can rest longer between sets 3. You get stronger 4. Your bones get stronger 5. Less wearing on the joints 6. Better focus on few, but heavier reps 7. You train your ability to focus 8. Easier to track progress 9. Get faster results 10. To recruit the strongest muscle fibers you need lift like you mean it
5. Less wearing on the joints.
I’ve...
Can’t help but feel sad. “everythings fine” but we barely speak. I’m starting to think I did something wrong, but I have no idea what.
“You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures’ or ‘losers’. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably because they have tried too hard or taken on too much, so hard and so much that they have made themselves ‘ill with depression’. In other words, if these people are in the...
The Importance of Forgetting (NPR) →
psychotherapy:
via On Point with Tom Ashbrook:
We talk so much about memory. Not losing it. Enhancing it. Diving into it. Working through it. Sometimes, says a raft of new science, it’s better to just forget. Forgetting, it turns out, may be a key part of mental health, mental hygiene.
Sigmund Freud said deal with it. Dive into that repressed stuff. Work it out. Work it through. Tony...
April 2012
3 posts
arghhhh
I’ve been awake for an hour. I woke up having an anxiety attack because my life has become consumed by school/lab/urcad. Not to mention, I haven’t been able to exercise or pay attention to what I’ve been eating. My goal was to have lost 15 lb by the beginning of April. Two weeks into April, I had actually gained 2 lb. When I went to the doctors because I’d been...
March 2012
4 posts
February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
2 posts
Is it any wonder our child is so weird now?
December 2011
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November 2011
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May 2011
1 post
November 2009
17 posts
36 rules of life
somethingintellectual:
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the...
The Daily What →
One suicide victim who committed suicide by...
loveyourchaos:
thingsgohazy:
(via funeral)
:”(
the world has lost all humanity..
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants....
– Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia) (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
October 2009
3 posts