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At a Wendys with the cousin talking about how in exercise and sport there is almost always an exception to a rule. Maybe the whole point is to create and play new games. Collective Human Development.
1.Bro I’ve been diving deep on all this movement stuff. Every kind you can imagine.
He said literally for the longest time he would only deadlift and run, because he felt like that basically covered his bases for the kind of the stimulus that the body needed.
It’s amazing how much it actually comes down to belief.
Oh for sure, it’s mostly belief.
Its fascinating just to learn all these different forms of movement and movement belief.
Like I’ll be looking up West Side Barbell stuff for hours trying to get my head around Congugate and Soviet Strength Training. Watching Grainy Max attempts.
Next I’ll be on Knees over toes stuff. Ultramarathons. BJJ. Striking. MoveNat. Evolve Move Play. Prison Burpee Variations.
Then Parkour and improv play games and quadrupedal animal movement stuff:
Then Back to the ol’ Crossfit Methodology just for the feels:
Here’s the mad scientist himself, Greg Glassman, defining the elusive Crossfit.
Ah, just like old times.
Just like old times indeed. But the deadlifting and running sounds like an epic routine though. Yeah I read that he actually got into more Muay Thia and JiuJitsu since then, and like that became the majority of the kind of training that he would do.
He's a machine.
We’re the most beautiful machine ever invented.
In the paid post:
-how steph curry broke the game
-movement snobs that have a point
-crossfit’s clear formula
-salad won’t help your judo bro
-creating a movement practice that is more than the sum of its parts
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