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🪂 What challenge I'm participating in:
- With my recent focus on improving mobility, many people have referred me to Ido Portal's Movement Culture. Well I've decided to do a "Hanging Challenge." For as long as I can remember my thoracic spine has been overly kyphotic, certainly exacerbated by many hours a day at a computer or hunched over someone's mouth pulling teeth. And I came across this simple challenge: hang
for 7 minutes a day, for 30 days. Nothing to lose, easy to implement, and promising potential for postural benefits – I'm in. I'll report back on the results in October (join me and send me your results!).
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🏋️♂️ What I'm moving to:
- For the last several months I've been doing a "high volume; low frequency" workout split:
- Day 1: Shoulders
- Day 2: Back
- Day 3: Chest
- Day 4: Biceps / Triceps
- Day 5: Legs / calves
- Repeat
- This kind of split has its place for more advanced trainees. But it can be overdone. So I'm moving to a "low volume; high frequency" split for awhile (still mostly doing these exercises).
- Day 1: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
- Day 2: Legs, Back, Biceps
- Day 3: Rest or Repeat
- This kind of split is great for beginners, but I also think it's a smart strategy for people who have trained with a lot of volume as a way to give the joints a break and give the muscles a new variable for progressive overload.
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💡 What billion dollar business idea I had:
- This week I spent way too many hours trying to figure out how to record my electric piano's voicings directly into my music recording software. I went through the manual. I went to Google. I watched YouTube tutorials. I even joined facebook groups to try and figure out this issue. But the nature of the problem was too specific. What I wanted to be able to do was shoot a video and describe the exact issue. Then have someone say "I know how to do that! For $20 I'll shoot
you a step-by-step video." It's the fastest $20 I'd ever spend. Then I was like "this is a business." On-demand tutorials. I frequently have problems like this, where I'd much rather spend some money than half a day searching for an answer. I shared the idea on instagram and ~80% thought is was a good idea, and 20% already know everything :)
- Shoutout to the many people who messaged me with a free helping hand. Very much appreciated! And perhaps it's a bad business idea and we should just count on the generosity of people!
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🎶 What I did without:
- Although I hadn't figured out my piano issue (above), I released Song #8 of my 2020 Challenge (learn to make music). So far, the reviews are mixed, LMFAO...
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"...maybe the more cerebral among us ought to step outside our mental models occasionally and actually try to interact with the gritty world and let reality be our teacher (instead of our models). By interacting with reality, we actually generate new information."
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💲 What's your LWR:
- I'm sure you've seen the financial management commercials and heard their catch phrase: "What's your Number?" (i.e. how much money do you need to have in the bank to retire) However, I like this argument for measuring a different number, your Lifetime Wealth Ratio (or LWR) as a means to evaluate the health of your personal finances.
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🎨 What I'm tackling next:
- Before I started my 2019 Challenge (learn to draw), I did a self-portrait. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm going to do another one. I thought it would be a cool 2-year progress pic. Luckily, it's not going to be too hard to beat this one 😂
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As always, it's an absolute pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock. |
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