SMWI* = Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration. Source: Weighty Matters.
Tag: Work-out
SMWI*: Right.
There is nothing on my body that is built to move like this. At least with planking, there is less elevation, and a shorter distance between face and face plant.
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- SMWI*: Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
- Source: Themetapicture.com
SMWI*: Come on Ursula. Nobody believes that. No pain…
Perfection is “lean” and “taut” and “hard” — like a boy athlete of twenty, a girl gymnast of twelve. What kind of body is that for a man of fifty or a woman of any age? “Perfect”? What’s perfect? A black cat on a white cushion, a white cat on a black one … A soft brown woman in a flowery dress… There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.
~ Ursula Le Guin, on dieters and exercisers in Ursula K. Le Guin – On Aging and What Beauty Really Means
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- SMWI* = Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
- Photo: SabonHomeBlog.
- Quote from Ursula Le Guin’s Book: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
SMWI*: A Vertical Life
Don’t give up on this one too soon. The location is Byron Glacier in Alaska. “Byron Glacier was essentially a gift of unclimbed boulders sitting in a valley draped with hanging glaciers. Heaven on earth, or so I thought.” (Read more about inspiration for this video here: A Vertical Life.)
LOVE the music. It’s “Work Song” by Hozier. Hozier, 24, is Andrew Hozier-Byrne who is an Irish musician from Bray, County Wicklow. He released his debut studio album Hozier in Ireland in September 2014.
SMWI*: Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
SMWI*: Plank This
GrindTV: Chinese Man Sets World Planking Record:
Mao Weidong is a 43-year old Beijing special policy deputy commander and member of Beijing SWAT team.
He set a planking world record for the longest time in an abdominal plank position with an incredible duration of 4 hours, 26 minutes.
Resting only on his elbows and tiptoes, Mao proceeded to smash the previous planking world record of 3 hours, 7 minutes and 15 seconds set by American athlete George Hood in 2013.
So, to show I still had it, I gave it a whirl. I lasted a full 90 seconds, the last 30 seconds of which my body was fully contorted. After collapsing, I noted that I lay in the recovery-face-first position longer than when I was in the plank position. (Now there’s an athlete!)
Mao Weidong, you are SuperMan.
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- SMWI*: “Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
- Source: GrindTV