Early Retirement Extreme

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Increasing your max to avoid the limit

Published in September 20th, 2009
Posted by in Health, Personal, Strategy
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Beyond a certain minimum absolute, the most important point of is one’s perception of _relative_ performance. This comes into play in many ways. For instance, 20 miles on a bicycle in 90F may seem like a deathride. Yet this is only the case if 20 miles or 90F is the limit of peak performance. If […]

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Kettlebell challenge update II

Published in September 8th, 2009
Posted by in Health, Personal, Timely
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After about a month I hit the soft ceiling as expected. From now on it is going to be a slow grind of building muscle as all the neural gains have been maxed out. I can currently do 8L+8R snatches with 24kg/53lbs eight times in 8 minutes. This leaves me with a break of about […]

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Alternative status symbols

Published in July 13th, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Health, Personal, Philosophy
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Did you ever think about exactly what makes a status symbol and how status symbols reflect what is important in society. In our commercial society status can be bought. High status is achieved by rapidly spending money to buy in. How this money is acquired does not matter. However, while high status in the above […]

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