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July 1, 2007
Let the darkness wash over my eyelids. Let me fall fast asleep and dream myself away. Let me create a world for myself as I see fit. Let me recreate myself, in an inclusive image; in an idea held not within the bounds of this reality but only within the mind where magic exists. Let me realize the impossible. Let all the creatures of the planet who dwell in the day and walk under the sun slip quietly into twilight - my twilight - where I shall be the author of fate.
Life passes by and you act according to your personality. Situation A yields response A; situation B yields response B. Time changes forever due to your action, but when it is once again perceived, it seems to be an independent creature, acting on its own accord. Actually, even when your mind bends over this new reality you have created, you still don’t understand that it was you who contributed to this reality in the first place, and so the mind is constrained. In your life you may have any number of goals. Maybe your parents had different plans for you. Maybe God has different plans. It’s all a maze in a maze in a maze. Follow your nose to the food and press the button, and the maze is finished. Even if you follow a wall, you will get there eventually. In the night, we are often forced to do so anyway. You get up, get out of bed, and stumble around your house in the darkness a bit. You may not see where you’re going, but you always get there, don’t you? The path is familiar - one you’ve made countless times before. We all have our own maze. Some of us are looking for the food; some of us stop to think about the food. Some of us never even reach the food.
When following the path in the night, the way is not clear. We must follow a wall. Sightless, our thoughts turn inward, and our journey becomes mechanical rather than conscious.
Let us not stumble through the maze in the night. Instead, let us climb over the walls. Let us carve our own maze into the darkness, and follow the path we know so well. Let the cycle of constraint be broken. Let us eat our own paths into the night and let the darkness give us sustenance, and let us not look back at the maze we have left. You have it in you. You know what you must do.
The sun is falling now. The creatures of the day are breaking, giving up their pursuit of the food for the time being - but now our food is all around us, as it has been our entire lives without our noticing. Leave the maze, and cross the bars of your cage. Let the night come, and let us dream ourselves away.
Posted in Other
July 1, 2007
- Walking 30 minutes before breakfast
- Weight training:
Speed:
Bench press x5 137
Pec flyes x5 50
Bent over row x5 137
Lat pulldown x5 90
Strength:
Bench press x5 207
Pec flyes x5 85
Bent over row x5 227
Lat pulldown x5 225
Endurance:
Bench press x30 45
Pec flyes x30 30
Bent over row x30 45
Lat pulldown x30 75
Hypertrophy:
Circuit one
Ab machine 3×10 150
Ab machine (obliques) 3×10 150
Circuit two
Rotary torso 3×10 120
Circuit three
Neck curls 3×10 25
Neck extensions 3×10 25
Circuit four
Ab machine to failure
Posted in Training
June 30, 2007
Weights:
Speed:
Ab machine x5 140
Ab machine (obliques) x5 140
Rotary torso x5 140
Saxon side bends x5 85
Power:
Ab machine x5 259
Ab machine (obliques) x5 259
Rotary torso x5 259
Saxon side bends x5 100
Endurance:
Ab machine x30 100
Ab machine (obliques) x30 100
Rotary torso x30 100
Saxon side bends x30 50
Hypertrophy:
Circuit one
Dumbell shoulder press 3×10 50
Dumbell shrugs 3×10 80
Circuit two
Front raises 3×10 20
Lateral raises 3×10 20
Circuit three
Reverse flyes 3×10 20
Upright rows 3×10 97
Circuit four
Barbell shrugs 3×10 187
Circuit five
Dumbell shoulder press to failure
Posted in Training
June 30, 2007
It’s about time that I got this thing started. Maybe posting on the forum was insufficient. Maybe that’s wasn’t the proper place to communicate myself. In a forum setting, threads are posted (and almost always reposted) and posters respond to the subject material. Therefore, a forum is a place for discussion, but discussion is not what I need. What I need is to write, and you to read, so read on, and consider what I have to say.
In a few moments I will begin a workout of considerable difficulty. It will take everything I know, all my willpower, and all other nameless attributes that belong to the developing human brain. This workout does not just consist of a weight routine or even every possible exercise one could be aware of. In fact, a more proper word for it is fugue. What I am about to engage in will take utmost focus, but I am confident that everything that has led to this point has prepared me sufficiently. The changes recorded in this journal will be so profound that I will not actually be acting in a manner belonging to the Steven Hunt that has hitherto existed. As soon as this entry is finished, I will be something new and different, and by act of pure willpower, rather than mystical transformation, I will have the ability to start my life anew.
Find the right way down through the maze, to the food, then find the exit. Push the exit button. If the food tastes awful, don’t eat it, go back and try another way. They want the same thing that you do, really, they want a path, just like you. You are in a maze in a maze, but which one counts? Your maze, their maze, my maze. Or are the mazes all the same, defined by the limits of their paths?
Existence is simple: find the food, push the button, hit the treadmill. But sometimes it gets much harder. Sometimes the food makes you sick, or you can hear nearby feet racing you, urging you on. Sometimes the button only gets you landed right back in the beginning of the maze again, and the food won’t satisfy. There is only one path and that is the path that you take, but you can take more than one path. Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from its path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path.
Posted in Training
June 30, 2007
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