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Amid the booming silence I kept my eyes on the road and mulled over Bowerman’s eccentric personality, which carried over to everything he did. He always went against the grain. Always. For example, he was the first college coach in America to emphasize rest, to place as much value on recovery as on work. But when he worked you, brother, he worked you. Bowerman’s strategy for running the mile was simple. Set a fast pace for the first two laps, run the third as hard as you can, then triple your speed on the fourth. There was a Zen-like quality to this strategy, because it was impossible. And yet it worked. Bowerman coached more sub-four-minute milers than anybody, ever. I wasn’t one of them, however, and this day
none of it cures my blues or removes the specter of my evening at the fair. Long ago, the defenses I built to withstand the stress of my childhood, to save what I had of myself, outlived their usefulness, and I’ve become an abuser of their once lifesaving powers. I relied on them to wrongly isolate myself, seal my alienation, cut me off from life, control others and contain my emotions to a damaging degree. Now the bill collector is knocking, and his payment’ll be in tears.
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
It’s worth noting that the lower lungs are loaded with parasympathetic nerve receptors that, when stimulated through belly breathing, help spread a sense of calm throughout the body and mind. When you chest breathe, those lovely lower-lung receptors go untouched. Chest breathing does, on the other hand, do a stellar job of triggering the sympathetic nerve receptors located in the upper part of the lungs. As a result, your fight-or-flight reaction gets switched on when it doesn’t need to be . . . sometimes 24/7. You’ll feel stressed, anxious, tired, and on edge while increasing your risk of a host of chronic diseases, including heart disease, depression, cancer, and more.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
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