Jarkko @ Becoming Awesome
@JarkkoHelenius
Fitness Enthusiast | Amateur Fighter | White Rice Supremacist | Father of 4
Might as well post this here too, already posted this on my FB fitness page and IG. Little video I threw together of my last 10k race two weeks ago. I got 6th place finish and PR of 41:50 despite a hard route.
Been eating exorbitant amounts of rice and started to be late to things. Guess I'm finally becoming a true Filipino after all these years. Now just need to start drinking Red Horse and abandon the mother of my kids to complete my transformation.
The myth that big muscles nuke your athleticism is based on guys like Jay Cutler... like yea, if you're that muscular, it does make you less athletic. However I have gotten significantly more athletic the more muscular I've gotten, and this will hold true for 99% of people.
"BiG MuScLeS aRen'T fUnCtIoNaL" Yea I wish I'd be just a big useless blob of muscle as well, but unfortunately no one is really gonna gain that much muscle without elite genetics and gear abuse. For vast majority of people, adding muscle will make them more athletic not less.
You know the DOMS is gonna be particularly nasty when you already start feeling sore during the workout...
In Tibetan psychology, every “negative emotion” is said to contain its own wisdom when awakened. The awakened form of anger is mirror-like clarity. The awakened form of jealousy is the wisdom that drives purposeful action. The awakened form of arrogance is equanimity. The…
The emotions you most resist are the ones that will set you free. Feeling your fear → Dissolves chronic anxiety Feeling your sadness → Unlocks vitality Feeling your anger → Transforms depression Here's a breakdown of what I teach my CEO clients about emotions:
If you're training alone it's perfectly okay to leave couple of reps in the tank. Not worth it to (nearly) die over a mid physique.
This aligns 1:1 with how I've always seen it, good to see someone with more weight (literally) behind their words say it. Keys to the kingdom right here.
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It's also interesting how it's acceptable to say certain things are unhealthy (eg. erratic sleep, steroids, smoking) and make comments at people about them, but making comments at people's weight and eating habits is somehow completely off limits.
FB's Finnish localization is absolutely atrocious and obviously AI generated. It irks me as a localizer with years of experience to see myself get replaced by completely inferior product like this. Like if I was ACTUALLY replaced by AI then so be it, but instead it's just slop.
For instance, when doing my initial weight loss, people started needling my wife that she's not feeding me - and I wasn't even that skinny yet, like I had still more kilos to lose then to even reach acceptable weight. Be a bit fat like everyone else or they're going say sth...
It is interesting but body shaming of skinny people seems much more common and socially accepted than shaming fat people... even though being skinny is not the unhealthy option.