Notices by ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@mastodon.social), page 7

Thankful the Mastodon community exists. Stay freaky and weird, folks.

@WedgeLIVE it's like a bad parody of NIMBYs!

Holy crap I'm sorry you have to be around these people.

@WedgeLIVE is this satire?

@brennen I have no essential issue with a business friendly moderate. Their perspective is useful. But I think that it's the Republicans who need that....

I want the next Democrat pres to not only roll back Trumpian ways, but to lead the country dramatically Left. The business minded moderates will fund enough Democrats to make that hard enough.

Opening up the 2020 elections hashtag.

#2020elex

First off we have a dark horse centrist " Want to topple Trump? Take John Delaney seriously.
https://wapo.st/2qS80qQ " which illustrates nicely why primaries should happen all on the same day. Also I ain't voting for a centrist.

@kai Well, I want to do both. I vastly prefer weights, but cardio health is really important. Kettlebells help here a LOT.

And it's nice being able to run quickly on demand for a longer-ish distance than half a block.

New toy.

PS the bar is junk, don't listen to used barbell salesmen.

[Img: barbell with weights on it]

@natecull what is security?

@kai be good advice but also you have to make sure your body can support what you want to do. As my visits to the doc after doing too much running with bad form and weak muscles taught me.

@dar13 Yeah. If someone is going for a pure powerlift play, they will naturally learn how much of that set of points is not applicable.

Iiuc, muscle confusion is not an actual mechanism. The question of when adaptation occurs - and /when/ in your athletic progress is the relevant Q. Novices have a different requirement set for their bodies than highly trained people.

But your point is well taken.

Some notes on strength training that I distilled from reading a *lot* of books on it by coaches/athletes/blogs, etc. This represents what I think to be a reasonable set of notes summarizing the internet consensus view.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nc8pAJPZ98S7aV0Es0wIph5hxSTMw4LwsO7jBx_qcHM/edit?usp=sharing

comments *are* on, feel free to dispute or to add suggestions.

I was visiting an Adult Toy shop some time ago, and I was really awkwarded out by the negative words: "dirty", "sinful" that were associated with the products. There were others. I didn't keep a journal.

Like... Sex isn't dirty. Nor, for that matter, is it pure. It's also not inherently sinful, wicked, etc. Or naughty.

It's very off-putting to be seeing things advertised as "naughty", when you're a married dude getting supplies for the marriage. Like... no? This is healthy...

@chr Holy crap.

I guess I'm somewhat insulated from this, being both married and in a Christian social context which hauls in a certain amount of ritual meet n greet.

This is really wack.

@howaboutudance it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... a byegone age.

@jjg @alxd honestly I sort of never felt at home in the "how to do hand tools", "oh, look, machinery " mindset. I was using power tools by the time I was 12: all my dad's friends were tradespeople or other rural workers. Making stuff to do things with was just how we lived. Gimcrackery and affected excitement over our authentic lifes work - which was often drudgery, always underpaid, and all the adults claimed to hate - just feels ... weird and off-putting.