“But you don’t hate guys, do you?” “you’re not a radical, are you?” These are things that I hear from friends that are more or less (some more, some less, but all a little bit) weary of my involvement with feminism. How can someone like me, meaning an athlete, a cis-heterosexual woman, supposedly uninterested in […]
Sports and feminism – no proselytism, just some clarification Read More »
Brandon Lilly posted another interesting comment about powerlifting and attitude today. This is it: “If I gave up when I felt like I’d never get any better I’d have quit when I fell to the ground, busted my lip, and bloodied my nose when I tried to squat 135 lbs for the first time. I
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Yesterday I sat in my chair at the office and – yuck – realized I had smeared my boots with dog shit. On a closer – double yuck – look, or, rather, smell I figured it was a mixture of dog shit and carrion. It was almost 1AM, I was home from having dinner with
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I have argued in favor of hybrid training for improving performance in powerlifting during the past two years. There is no published scientific evidence for that. Actually, there is very little published scientific evidence for any given training method or protocol for powerlifting. The reasons for this go beyond disinterest from the scientific community. Actually,
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Protests against the Soccer World Cup in Brazil: there isn’t a shred of evidence concerning any advantage of mega-sports events to the host country. Abundant studies show evidence of the opposite. Brazil is not a rich country, has no true sports culture (we can’t call the commercial frenzy around soccer anything close to a
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Everything got out of control here: it was a peaceful demonstration against bus fares. Then the police were ordered to intervene. They did and someone ordered the shock police to intervene as well. People were terrified but somehow, the sheer incomprehensibility of the situation brought more people into the movement, which got HUGE. The police
Today I realized something wonderful about time management and multi-tasking for athletes who are also full time professionals in other fields. Since people like lists, here it goes (comments follow): Forget being reasonable according to society at large: training (your pleasure) comes first. Never negotiate your training time. If you establish you will have two
