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This frames how I view strength training in general. It’s largely about improving your ability to carry things. I’ve always been a fan of carrying heavy objects with my hands. As a teenager working on a construction site over the summers, I always volunteered to haul tools and materials across the site, and today I still incorporate some kind of carrying, typically with dumbbells, kettlebells, or sandbags, into most of my workouts. I’ve also become semiobsessed with an activity called rucking, which basically means hiking or walking at a fast pace with a loaded pack on your back. Three or four days a week, I’ll spend an hour rucking around my neighborhood, up and down hills, typically climbing and descending several hundred feet over the course of three or four miles. The fifty- to sixty-pound pack on my back makes it quite challenging, so I’m strengthening my legs and my trunk while also getting in a solid cardiovascular session. The best part is that I never take my phone on these outings; it’s just me, in nature, or maybe with a friend or a family member or a houseguest (for whom rucking is mandatory; I keep two extra rucksacks in the garage).
Now I was hearing that this impression and all the official statements that led to it were false. It was not only the president who could make the decision and issue the orders, and not even (as most people probably assumed, if they thought about it) the secretary of defense or the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, but commanders in the field thousands of miles from Washington who thought their forces might be about to be destroyed. Similar letters, the control officer told me, had gone out to all the unified commanders with nuclear forces and to the commander of the Strategic Air Command in Omaha.
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
Practicing slowly enough to avoid mistakes is probably the single most difficult thing for beginners to do. It can be a challenge for more seasoned players as well. I’m a long way from a beginner and I still have to remind myself to slow down when I practice. How do I know? That’s easy. If I’m making any mistakes at all, I’m going too fast.
The Practice of Practice
Jonathan Harnum
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