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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">
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<title>Exercise</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>The meaning of exercise</h1>
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<p>I haven't always like exercising.</p>
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<p>For a long time, anything more intensive than the running I had done on the playground was seemingly so out of reach.
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I could only look on at people in the track and field teams and their performances, labelling them in my head as
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someone of a different class.
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</p>
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<p>Someone beneath me.</p>
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<p>I'll admit, it was an ugly emotion. I prided myself on academics, and was only moderately good at anything
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sporty — and only by virtue of brute effort. I saw physical exertion as a lower function, something to be done
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by those whose intellect couldn't take first place.
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</p>
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<p>But, slowly, this entrenched idea began to be chipped and hacked at, until some years ago it was finally dislodged.
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I came to regret looking down, deep down in jealousy, upon people who could do better than the bare minimum of
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physical achievements. I started to want to also claim that ability for myself.
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</p>
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<p>So, over time, I've decided that I also need to start exercising, regardless of how <a href="/exercise/weakness.html">hopelessly
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weak</a> I really was. After it occurred to me that, in addition to the mind, there was the body, just waiting
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to be taken to its limits, it did make me, who tended to be a bit competitive, feel somewhat left behind,
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as it was. I wanted to do much, much better, and now I've decided that's exactly what will happen.
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</p>
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<p>I'm sorry to everyone I looked down on before; I've written down my feelings here to express how
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shameful and disgraceful this jealousy is, but also to document this stage in what I today perceive as
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a chance for me to evolve: a chance, also, to penetrate new boundaries and make the most of the body
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I've been given. Everyone, I'm gonna join you up there at the top!
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</p>
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<h1>My fitness goals</h1>
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<p>Well, that theatrical speech aside, I do still take this stuff seriously, and I've got a number of physical
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goals I'd like to attain as part of my overall journey in life; in exercise, my ultimate goal is to
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to maximise the strength and physique I can feasibly build, slowly working up to the highest levels of
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fitness and health. Ultimately, it's all for the health, so I'm looking primarily for both strength and
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hypertrophy, and only to a lesser extent endurance and conditioning. Nevertheless, I also want to supplement
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the above with hearty development of the cardiovascular.
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<p>Despite talking big game, at the beginning of my journey in ~2020, I probably started off at a place of
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lamentable weakness: I could, yes, do a pull-up and a push-up, but, lacking any sense of motivation or direction,
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I never made considerable progress until I started taking it seriously—in 2024. Even in 2024, I'm still weak beyond
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belief, but my progress is coming along: in addition to building up my pull-up repetitions to about 10+,
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and push-ups to the 10s or 20s, I'm taking steps to build towards muscle-ups and, eventually, planche,
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and one-armed variations of the above. To this day, my legs are still poorly developed, which I've been
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more conscious of lately, so I'm thinking of doing more squats to remedy this. I can't say if it'll be enough,
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though, and I also don't have any plans yet what to do when simple squats stop making any progress.
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</p>
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<h2>Final targets</h2>
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My goal repertory of exercises I want to be able to do are:
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<ul>
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<li>Back exercises</li>
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<ul>
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<li>Muscle-up</li>
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<li>Slow muscle-up</li>
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<li>One-arm pull-up</li>
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</ul>
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<li>Chest exercises</li>
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<ul>
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<li>Planche</li>
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<li>Plance push-up</li>
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</ul>
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<li>Shoulder exercises</li>
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<ul>
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<li>Iron cross</li>
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<li>Handstand pushups</li>
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<li>One-arm handstand</li>
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</ul>
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<li>Core exercises</li>
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<ul>
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<li>Dragon flag</li>
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<li>Human flag</li>
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<li>L sit</li>
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<li>Front lever</li>
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</ul>
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<li>Leg exercises</li>
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<ul>
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<li>Pistol squat</li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<p>The truth is, with just the above, it would be insolent to high hell to call myself much of anything,
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but it's probably the most I can do without sacrificing something else. I'm nowhere near there at all yet,
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and I apologise if I've been arrogant in listing these goals and with my feelings and all,
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but I will try in future to vindicate these ambitions and make this page more than just a burst of hot air.
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</p>
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</body>
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