Vital Movements for Life: Hip Hinge, Upper Body Push, Upper Body Pull, Any Squat, Weighted Carry!

“If it is important, do it every day. If it is not important, then don’t do it at all.” Dan Gable

"It is always by way of pain that one arrives at pleasure!" Marquis de Sade

“The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote


*Strength is a skill that must be practiced often!

2/22/13

Depression

I have struggled with depression since age 12 and it is no game. However, Depression Quest does a good job with educating people about this life sucking disease. We must stop the stigma of mental illness NOW! Meds have given me back my life. I must write a longer article on living with depression when school/life are not so hectic. 

2/11/13

Inside the Medieval Mind ~ Dr. Robert Bartlett

Dr. Bartlett from Saint Andrew's University in Scotland is an expert on all things medieval and a good friend of Dr. Emily Graham, my professor for Religion in the Medieval World at UCF. I am sure that much of this stuff will show up on the midterm and final so I am posting it here for easy reference.

2/8/13

The Bear ~ Robert Frost

The bear puts both arms around the tree above her
And draws it down as if it were a lover
And its chokecherries lips to kiss good-by,
Then lets it snap back upright in the sky.
Her next step rocks a boulder on the wall
(She's making her cross-country in the fall).
Her great weight creaks the barbed wire in its staples
As she flings over and off down through the maples,
Leaving on one wire tooth a lock of hair.
Such is the uncaged progress of the bear.
The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me.
Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage,
That all day fights a nervous inward rage,
His mood rejecting all his mind suggests.
He paces back and forth and never rests
The me-nail click and shuffle of his feet,
The telescope at one end of his beat,
And at the other end the microscope,
Two instruments of nearly equal hope,
And in conjunction giving quite a spread.
Or if he rests from scientific tread,
'Tis only to sit back and sway his head
Through ninety-odd degrees of arc, it seems,
Between two metaphysical extremes.
He sits back on his fundamental butt
With lifted snout and eyes (if any) shut
(He almost looks religious but he's not),
And back and forth he sways from cheek to cheek,
At one extreme agreeing with one Greek
At the other agreeing with another Greek
Which may be thought, but only so to speak.
A baggy figure, equally pathetic
When sedentary and when peripatetic. 


The Bear does not over-think things like man so he is truly free. 
Frost was my mom's favorite poet. 

2/6/13

Vatican Nercopolis

Click here for a very cool virtual tour/pilgrimage of the Vatican Nercopolis. The blending of Pagan and Christian in the early Church is most interesting. Yep, I'm a history geek. 

Trophy of Gaius

2/5/13

Paleo and Intermittent Fasting



Anthony Mychal on IF

I went from 320 pounds plus body weight to about 250 a couple of years ago with modified Paleo and IF. "Modified" because I did enjoyed rice and potatoes, within reason, and I just stayed with two full meals per day and all the coffee I wanted without the whole "eating window" stuff.   A handful of almonds kept me satisfied when needed. My weight is back up to over 270lbs so it is time to start Paleo/IF again. My goal is below 230 by year's end.