GRATITUDE. What does it have to do with powerlifting or high performance? I am not sure there is an easy way to find out. Gratitude is a feeling of having been benefited by something or someone. It is also a mental habit. We take powerlifting for granted as we do most things: we take our […]
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I’ve been receiving e-mails and comments about a new app called Lulu . Basically, it tries to reproduce and automate, for women, what has been assumed to be practiced by men only: share intimate information about ex-girlfriends and hook-ups. With this app, a woman can anonymously rate her ex-whatever. I think there is no other word
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Yesterday the reporter made the final arrangements for yet another interview about mental health, suicide and sport. The TV station feels trapped: they are weary of giving people false expectations as to controlling severe neurological and mental disorder without drugs, yet my story sells. She’s right. My strategy is not for everyone. So I came
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On October 5, 2012, Gene and Ame Rychlak created the campaign “Power Against Violence and Abuse”. Their mission is as simple and complex as powerlifting itself: to confront all forms of abuse. Abuse, by definition, is an act of violence that takes place between asymmetric players: an adult against a child or an elderly person,
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This is not an essay. This is not an argument. This is just a note to myself and everybody else to pursue this line of thinking further, and also to share my very slight enthusiasm about discovering it. It sounds like a productive approach: the relationship between hope and burnout. I haven’t really read the
