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Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously | Bill McKibben

March 9 #ItTakesAllKinds Long Distance I had to go for a Canadian singer. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo

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Victoriahoperose

Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen | Christopher McDougall

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I loved this book. It was so inspiring and I learned a lot from reading it. I loved learning about different runners and techniques. This was such an excellent book to read for anyone, but especially if you are a runner.

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GingerAntics

Solo Training: The Martial Artist's Home Training Guide | Loren W. Christensen

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I just can‘t with this book anymore. If you are into martial arts for the sport, the exercise, the community - if you‘re more into forms than sparring - this book is absolutely NOT written for you. If you‘re into martial arts to win fist fights (street fights is Christensen‘s preferred term), to beat people up, to find new, unique, inventive, and technical ways to hurt people…
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GingerAntics then this is just the book you need to do all those things better than ever before! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics He repeatedly and at length waxes poetic about all the fist fights he got into as a police officer, even advocating dealing with a person who is upset by elbowing them repeatedly in the face (complete with pictures). 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics This is like a manual on everything that is wrong with police officers and everything that makes good and decent cops look like monsters. It‘s also a manual on all the negative stereotypes about martial arts and martial artists and how to make them seem like a reality. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

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GingerAntics Some of the drills assume you have martial arts equipment in your home that smaller martial arts schools don‘t even always have. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics Some of the exercises and/or techniques make no sense as they are described (how do you do a front kick starting with your knee facing the ground, your foot “as close to your rear as you can get it,” pointing at your target but still a FRONT kick - this isn‘t even physically possible unless you‘ve dislocated your hips and can somehow kick through your body?) 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics and they have no photos (but we get photos of him elbowing a person who is upset - good choice). To make this entire thing even more nonsensical, no videos are available of these techniques even in the vast world of YouTube, so are they really that great? YouTube has dozens (hundreds, thousands, innumerable) tutorials on every move ever used in an MMA fight, but it doesn‘t have a single video of an “upside down front kick” or a “cobra kick.” 👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics This book is a total waste of time and money for any real martial artist. Ask for home drills from your instructors or from martial artists online. This book is a nightmare for any real martial artist. 3mo

GingerAntics #SoloTraining #LorenWChristensen #policebrutality #fistfighter #fakemartialarts 3mo

Dilara Oh dear! That sounds awful. 3mo

Bookwomble Oh! 😱 Sounds like everything that's wrong with martial arts. Thank goodness the author's no longer a police officer. 3mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble that‘s the thing, that‘s NOT martial arts. Every teacher I‘ve ever had has been very clear that they will not tolerate people with this mentality in their schools. They would kick out an adult like this, and they would never allow a kid becoming this to belt test until they stopped doing this. This is all of the stereotypes that aren‘t even true. This doesn‘t match the tenants of any martial art. 3mo

GingerAntics @Dilara this guy is a piece of work 3mo

quietlycuriouskate Ugh, that sounds beyond terrible! Re your comment, MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: seconded, as an all-purpose principle. 3mo

Bookwomble I get it: he's Cobra Kai! 🐍 3mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble I haven‘t seen that show. I don‘t get it. Is that just people beating up other people for the sake of beating them up? He‘s supposedly this greatly respected martial arts instructor, if YouTube and articles about him can be believed. I‘m just glad he‘s not a cop anymore. Police brutality much? 3mo

GingerAntics @quietlycuriouskate right? None of it makes sense. This is not how martial arts is taught, nor should it be. 3mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble he claims it‘s from kajukenbo… of which I can find nothing of this kick anywhere. It‘s a combination of karate, judo, kendo, and boxing, none of which have this kick. Karate has a cobra kick, but it‘s a type of side kick, not a front kick. I swear, he‘s just making this 💩 up as he goes. 🙄 3mo

Bookwomble Less "Mr Miyagi", more "Mr My Arse"! ? 3mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble that is a perfect description… I think that would be my one sentence review of this book. 2mo

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GingerAntics

Solo Training: The Martial Artist's Home Training Guide | Loren W. Christensen

Anyone else see a problem here? This guy goes on and on about how he was a cop and all the fist fights he got into. A motorist is angry, so your response is to elbow him in the face repeatedly? This guy is straight up obsessed with beating people up. He doesn‘t give a crap about sport, his in it to beat people up. I don‘t feel like this is what martial arts are supposed to be about these days.
#SoloTraining #LorenWChristensen

GingerAntics #PoliceBrutality anyone? 3mo

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GingerAntics @kspenmoll yeah, I haven‘t read any more of this one. I think it‘s going to be my first DNF of 2024! 3mo

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Julsmarshall

Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy�Until You're 80 and Beyond | Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge

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This was okay. I listened on #audio and likely wouldn‘t have stayed with it otherwise. No real new info, the parts the Dr. contributed were worthwhile and encouraging, the main author was a bit annoying and, honestly, sexist. This one hasn‘t aged well but the basic premise, keep moving, don‘t eat crap, and stay engaged with your community, is valid. I finished it at my gym that just opened! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! And such a purple room!!! 4mo

Bookzombie That‘s a big PF. I just joined one here and it‘s not as big. Still purple, of course. Lol. 4mo

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AllDebooks

52 Small Changes for the Mind: Improve Memory * Minimize Stress * Increase Productivity * Boost Happiness | Brett Blumenthal

#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace

I'm not big on resolutions, but I can get on board with these lifestyle tweaks.
This is jam-packed full of great tips to make a difference in your life. I hope it's of help.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/01/100-tiny-changes-to-transfo...

Cuilin These are great. 30 and 56 were game changers for me. I‘m going to try some of the others. Thanks for sharing. (edited) 4mo

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swynn

Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen | Christopher McDougall

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(2009) I'd have read this sooner, but I knew it mostly as the book that started the barefoot/minimalist running movement, which never appealed to me (the minimalist runners I knew seemed to have the same injuries as everyone else). My loss: yes, there's the boo!-shoes stuff, yes the tone is hyperbolic, but its heart is an engaging account of running, evolution, kindness, joy, and people who run very very well -- a pleasure front to back.

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I‘ve never gone running barefoot, but I do a lot of hiking barefoot. I need to look into this one! 8mo

swynn @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Hat off to you for hiking barefoot! I think you'll like this one. 8mo

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Thanks, my fellow hiker friends think I‘m crazy. 😅 8mo

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