Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 9
So having talked fairly generally about what was going on at the Austin Humane Shelter during 2012 (with some comments about my involvement), I want to switch gears into self-indulgent prattling mode and talk about how it was (or wasn’t) affecting me personally. Some of this will detail my time at the shelter, some of it will tie in with stuff about my own dogs ALFIE and NORMAN, who I have written about in their own article series.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 8
Yup, Bastrop again. Because between the drought and the heat and everything else, Austin can become a tinderbox and shit sometimes burst into flames. And there was a really horrible fire out in Bastrop. Like weeks of land burning and people losing their houses kinds of fires.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 7
So last time in Volunteeering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 6, I talked about my move up to blue BRATT and the start of the year’s craziness which was that Bastrop Hoarding Event. And while that one event would have been enough to exhaust anyone, it was just the start of the absolute craziness that was 2011. We continue with the next big shelter drama, a rare occurrence but one that caused a lot of problems.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 6
I’ll be mainly focusing on 2011 since, frankly, last year was crazy almost from start to finish. Actually, it wasn’t crazy, it was pretty much a disaster. Things started off quietly enough, the first couple of months were just normal times at the shelter. I was deep into my winter training grind and volunteering regularly. We pick up in Februrary, 2011.
The Dieter’s Paradox – Research Review
In introducing today’s paper, I am reminded of an old joke/quip to the effect that “All that separates man from the animals is our ability to rationalize.” I’d add “And accessorize” but that’s neither here nor there. But the reality is that humans are able to do a wide variety of mental gymnastics in how they approach life. Effectively, we appear to be slave to what psychologists call cognitive biases, ways in which we think about the present, past, future or ourselves that often lead us to make some fascinatingly bad choices. This is a topic that many recent books has discussed.
Are Upright Rows Safe – Q&A
Question: Are upright rows safe? Googling yields tons of different results. What is your opinion on that? Answer: As always, the short answer is that it depends. Mainly on how they are done and the person doing them. Frankly, this is truly the only way to analyze if a given exercise is ‘safe’ or not, [...]
Isolation Exercise to Fix a Compound Exercise Stall – Q&A
There are a couple of different ways to look at this. On the one hand, it does make a certain logical sense that the failing muscle group is getting the largest training stimulus and that extra work would be overkill. By that argument, your suggestion of doing more pec work seems logical at first glance since, in premise, it is your triceps limiting the training effect to the pecs during compound movements. And certainly systems such as pre- or post-exhaustion have been used based on that logic.
