I was sitting in the window seat at Rocket Bakery the other morning, drinking a very nice cup of coffee, revising a training programme, and generally getting into the day when a woman stopped, transfixed, in the beam of sunlight that poured through the bay window. “This window seat…. it’s just like one I found…
Things I learned or was reminded of this summer
Random musings, in no particular order: Important things take time. You must have patience. Especially with yourself. Empathy before knowledge: People don’t care what you know until they know that you care. Fear is self-inflicted. Do the thing, one step at a time. Action negates fear. Hesitating feeds it. If you don’t sleep and eat…
Strength, courage, and the gift
I’m not sure quite where to start, so I’ll begin at the middle, jump back to the beginning and hope to find the end in the years ahead. I found out today that a friend died yesterday. I wouldn’t say that we thought of each other as extremely close friends; more people who had many…
Because it’s fun, that’s why
I saw a great quote the other day that made me stop and think: She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important. Marilyn Monroe There are training sessions in which you haul your ass into the gym wearily and wonder if you’ve got enough in…
Of dreams and numbers – random musings
A couple of things have happened lately that got me thinking about how the numbers figure in powerlifting. One was my recent participation in IPF Worlds for the first time, where I was treated to an awe-inspiring display of some truly remarkable lifting by some of the hardest working people in the world of strength….
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 