Of the many wonderful things about a workout, a very important one is the way it takes you out of your head and into your body. Lift the weights and lower them again. Lift, and lower. Lift, and lower.
If your mind is active, keep it busy by counting the reps. Lift, and lower: four. Lift, and lower: five. Lift, and lower: six….
Keep watching your reflection in the mirror, so that you can keep your posture correct. Lift, and lower: seven….
With each repetition, you use up a little bit of strength in those muscles. Eventually you will weaken and be unable to finish a rep. That’s a good thing. Lift, and lower: eight. Lift, and lower: nine….
Feel the strain and tension in your back muscles, your glutes, your hamstrings. Lift, and lower: ten….
And when this exercise is finished, you move on to the next one. Perhaps curls, perhaps a bench press. You know your own routine, and you follow it automatically now.
And when you are finished, after you have done your cool-down and your stretches, you can sit in the sauna or soak in the jaccuzzi and let your well-worked muscles loosen and relax.
There is no relaxation quite like the relaxation you feel after a thorough workout, with every muscle in your body feeling well-used and taking a well-deserved rest.
And of course, you are still in your body, you have not yet returned to your head. It can be really pleasant to take a vacation from your head, while your body is feeling so relaxed….
(source: @snapshot19d; via yourgoodgirlkitten)
Month: April 2015
What You Crave vs What You Need
ChatChocolate: Raw nuts/seeds.
Oily/Fatty Snacks: Kale, leafy greens.
Soda/Carbonated Drinks: Actual, literal bubbles.
Chips/Salty Food: Topsoil.
Cookies: Freudian psychology.
Sweet Tea: A strong Southern gentleman to take care of you.
Pasta/Carbs: Pasta/Carbs.
Ice: The sweet release of death.
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Redesign of the “Oblique Strategies” by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. The Oblique Strategies are tools to resolve creative problems.
I’m so fascinated by Oblique Strategies (and similar tools like Zebu) that push creativity with a spark-like, error-embracing inspiration.
Also these designs are incredible.
‘get married soon,’ mother says.
‘it will be good for you. you’re getting old.
you need to have somebody with you.’
i ask her why why why, and it always
boils down to one word. partnership.
‘like the partnership between anjero and sugar.’
i tell her i dislike anjero, so she says
‘fish and chips. A marriage is fish and chips. you need
each other to fill your bellies well. it is a partnership’
if i ask her about love, she shakes her head with vigour.
‘i’m not talking about love. love ruins things.
a marriage is not made of love. but partners.’
so for once i listen to her, and i take a good look.
i look at the partnership
between my aunt’s bruised
cheek and her husband’s knuckles.
i gaze at the partnership between
my father’s no’s and my mother’s yes’s
and how his ‘no’ always has the last word.
i look at the partnership between
my grandmother’s loose cannon mouth
and the holes it leaves in my grandfather’s heart.
and finally I have an answer for my mother.
I tell her ‘I grieve for all the
people who have been told that a person chewing
on what their soul has to offer rather than kissing it,
is what a marriage is.
Salma Deera, Talking To My Mother About Marriage Partnerships (via thexpotent)
drst:
in other news I’m reading an essay from 1894 and this woman Sarah Grand refers to men who cry about feminism as “the Bawling Brotherhood”
can we bring that back please that’s fucking hilarious
So say we all.
