Hop to it!

[clevermanka]

This is heartwarming and heartbreaking.

My bruised knuckles are already so much better! Immediate cold pack + ibuprofen + adammaker's Green Oil = Magical Healing Miracle. I'm going to have no problem punching again tomorrow. Yay!

I'm joining shanmonster in the 100 Day Burpee Challenge. Anyone else care to join us?

Tonight I have my make-up acupuncture session, and then I'm going to do some dance stuff. I think it'll help to organize it like one of miischelle's Salons. A segment of conditioning, a segment of combos, and then instead of a segment of choreography, I'll work on learning a song. Which is kind of like choreography, I guess. Knowing a song well enough to dance to it without really thinking about it. Then I'll finish up with some yoga. Good plan, right? Right.

Both arty projects I worked on this weekend came out very nice. I think. I need to figure out how/if I can finagle it so the Altoid tin closes and opens (without a struggle) when it's painted and lacquered. Or if I should give up on painting the bottom and just art up the lid.

I wish I could stay home today. The four day weekend was really nice. Alas, no vacation time for me until after Application Season is over. Two more months! Hey, by that time, I'll be over halfway through the 100 Day Burpee Challenge!

Comments

[auroraceleste.livejournal.com]

You know, in boot camp a variation Burpee was considered punishment. There was also a strange rule that girls didn't have to do them, something about the kneeling-to-pushup and pushup-to-kneeling being harmful to a woman's body. I dunno how you could check up on that, though.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

something about the kneeling-to-pushup and pushup-to-kneeling being harmful to a woman's body

This sounds like a fantastically enormous pile of horseshit. Perhaps influence by the anti-women sentiment of the armed forces? Dunno. But horseshit nonetheless.

Anytime someone says "women shouldn't do that movement," I want to punch them in the face. Or, more effectively, have Krista Scott-Dixon (http://www.stumptuous.com/) punch them in the face.

[auroraceleste.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that. Most of the people running the camp were mad about it, and tried to encourage girls to *choose* to do it. They would get in trouble, though, if a doctor caught a girl doing them. The doctors were rabid about it.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Ask me about my general opinion of most doctor knowledge about general health issues sometime.

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

This is nutty.

We are all mammals built on the same basic frame.
We all have the same capacities, although those capacities are lessened if you never use them.

In other words, the only thing keeping women from doing burpees *or any other movement* is that they are unpracticed at doing them.
If you've never done a movement before, start with 1-5 of them not 50.

ok, the only exception I can think of that might not work this way is if a female is doing a prone worm roll (which had you pressing different parts of the front of your body in a rolling movement)

Until I lost my protruding gut, it was like hitting a speed bump during a forward prone worm movement. I could see that females that are gifted in the front might not want to finish that roll at speed.

Social habits and strictures are more limiting than physiological ones.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I like the way you put that, but sometimes it's a gift I'd love to be able to return with a full refund.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I heard no woman should lift no more than 7 pounds.

That means no woman should carry her own baby, I guess, should she have one.

HMM!

[auroraceleste.livejournal.com]

That's crazy!

The way they put it I always assumed it was something with reproductive organs constricting or something . . . probably one girl sometime got an infection or summat and they decided to ban all girls to be safe.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Until the 60s, experts said women couldn't run marathons, or their uteruses would fall out.

My Dad told me women aren't built to lift heavy weights, but here I am at 40 doing Olympic-style lifting, and I'm in great shape.

My uterus is still on the inside. Huzzah!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

If I thought lifting heavy things could make my uterus fall out, I'd have gone into powerlifting decades ago.