banzaiengr
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Quite the contrary! I suck equally bad at a lot of activities.
I gave up, long time ago, trying to be good at anything. Park bench rules for the win!
You are just being humble. So my statement stands!
Quite the contrary! I suck equally bad at a lot of activities.
I gave up, long time ago, trying to be good at anything. Park bench rules for the win!
I was just going to reply with words to that effect about myself...Quite the contrary! I suck equally bad at a lot of activities.
I gave up, long time ago, trying to be good at anything. Park bench rules for the win!
Quite the contrary! I suck equally bad at a lot of activities.
I gave up, long time ago, trying to be good at anything. Park bench rules for the win!
Do we at least get a participation trophy?
I was thinking of starting my own organization..
The OFC aka 'Old F***s Club'
Members can fill in the missing letters any way they see fit..
We'll even have participation trophies! For a nominal fee of course
You'll need a cool logo, and I'd like to pre-order a trophy to read:
"Outstanding Non-Competitive Participant and All-Around Good Sport"
There is a distant point on the horizon where goals, specificity, exercise selection and programming might all appear to meet, but they never really do.
The Zen Master hath spoken.
I've heard it said that just showing up is half/more than half the battle. So I'll take my trophy, thank you. And a cookie.I'm no Thomas Merton but what the heck, they're giving trophies away just for showin' up (plus a small surcharge).
But I think that there is a lot of overlap in exercise moves, so a narrower focus isn't as narrow as it seems.If being a jack of all trades master of none leads to a mediocrity that is far enough ahead of the average punter to satisf, why not? Perhaps a lower level of performance relative to potential across more more disciplines is better than a narrower focus. Or maybe not.
Exactly. Many athletic skills cross over, around, and through. My point is that "mediocre" to a specialist, might be remarkable to the average punter. Several "mediocre" skills might be really cool.But I think that there is a lot of overlap in exercise moves, so a narrower focus isn't as narrow as it seems.
It means specialization of labour, thus civilization.I excel in MA
I suck at grammar and sentence structure
I excel as a carpenter
I suck at art
I excel in automobile diagnosis and repair
I suck at drywall work
I excel in raising aquarium fish
I suck at flying a plane
I excel in computer diagnosis (sort of)
I suck at playing guitar
I excel in reading people
I suck at picking stocks
What does it all mean?
I suck at figuring out answers to questions like this
True that.
As a lifelong martial artist, I've always been attracted to minimalistic programs that could boost my performance on the mat, while keeping me fresh enough to train my discipline at a fairly high level.
Being strong is nice, but achieving the old 500/400/300/200 goal made me miserable and didn't help my martial art *at all*.
There's strong and there's *strong enough*. And, since I'm not a strength-sports athlete, being *strong enough* for my discipline is rather easy to achieve.
I've never seen *any* kind of improvement to my game once I reached:
- Fifteen solid reps of trap bar lifts with my bodyweight loaded on the bar. (*)
- Fifteen strict pull ups and dips with no extra load.
(*) Five to eight reps of clean + front squat + push press with my bodyweight loaded on the bar is my other benchmark and rather accurate predictor of my performance in my martial arts practice.
Anything I do beyond that, it's because I find it fun, not because I need it in any way.