09-07-21 09:30 PM - Post#913157    

I figured any article on exercise that begins with a reference to Rene Descartes might be of interest to others. In addition, here’s a quote from the article that would be very much at home here:

“A regular movement practice teaches you that breakthroughs do not happen overnight. They result from consistent effort applied over a long duration, from gradually pounding the stone in a smart and controlled manner until one day it breaks. Improvement in fitness requires being patient and present in the process, stopping one rep short today so that you can pick up where you left off tomorrow.”

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/daily -movement-benefits-practi ce-groundedness-stulberg...

09-08-21 02:45 AM - Post#913162    

Another example of little and often over the long term... https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-cur rent-affairs/story/dashra th-manjhi-282520-2015-07- 15

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09-08-21 09:38 AM - Post#913176    

Good article. I like the "truth" in this, though I do sometimes distrust the message's reception, especially when it's wrapped up in Science™ and self-help lingo. It's why ritual is the key to enlightenment in virtually every old religion.

More profound to me is the idea that your body adapts. It is what it does. Daily efforts. Occasional big efforts. Never stopping. Eventually the work becomes the relaxation because it's not an adaptation anymore. You are what you do.

Man does DMPM for 20 years. He "is" a DPMP physical human. Man does powerlifting for 20 years. He "is" a powerlifting physical human. Man does Easy Strength, pushups, swimming, yoga, all kinds of stuff for 20 years. He adapts, un-adapts, adapts again. Man gets cancer. Has a heart attack. Breaks a hip. He adapts. Man has depression. That's an adaptation.

The key, I think, is less what we do, and more the "20 years," as well as the realization that even if we do nothing, we're still an adapted physical human.

09-08-21 07:20 PM - Post#913197    

The book arrived today...

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

09-08-21 07:49 PM - Post#913198    

I have a book called "72 Consummate Arts Secrets of the Shaolin Temple". Nothing all that great but at the end of many exercises it gives a "time frame". Things like "practice this for 20 years and great results will be achieved". "One must seriously do this for ten years". Makes 12 weeks to a bigger biceps look kind of silly eh?