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Hi Ray, Deb,

I'm not anti-progress, it's just a very tricky thing
to manage. You can make progress within the hard
parameters, really. I have. Though I'm still at 14
minutes and don't plan to change that, I do more
movements more smoothly with more weight. Without the
throttle of 14 minutes (or some other throttle, but
I'll stick with what works for me), you'll burn out.
If you're hard core, you'll injure yourself. If you're
not so hard core, more one day is a great excuse to do
nothing the next. And that's the beginning of the end
of your habit. The few times I've tried doing more
than 14 minutes, this (soft core) is exactly what
happened. "I tried too hard" is sloth's favorite
excuse, it has the tinge of justice. 

At this point, for me, "progress" of any kind is more
of a concession to a psychological need than a
physiological one. I'm in good shape, I'm healthy. But
psychological needs are real and must be humored to a
degree -- just keep it a small degree. Always focus on
maintenance and maintainability, throw the progress
sense a bone now and then but never the whole animal. 

Reinhard
--- Debbie Feder <> wrote:

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> --- In , "Ray"
> <rpsp1066@y...> wrote:
> > I know that nos is deemphasizes trational goals
> and "making 
> > progress". 
> ....Hey Ray :)
> I don't think NoS de-emphasizes making progress. I
> think it just 
> tries to break our mindsets free of the "short term
> progress" which 
> doesn't address really changing life long
> habits...Maybe in the 
> dieting world out there, that is the only type of
> progress offered. 
> I'm sure that you would agree, when thinking along
> these lines, that 
> if we are able to come to grips with changing our
> old destructive 
> ways, that *this* is the real progress we want :)
> 
> >However there is something strange to come out the
> 14 minute thing 
> >and that is the part where it becomes habitual -
> and the 
> > shedualistically insignificant thing.
> 
> ....Yes the schedulistically insignificance of 14
> minutes has a nice 
> effect of encouraging you to do the routine, even
> when you feel 
> crappy and slothful :) Are you SG'ing Ray? If not,
> you might 
> really like it so check it out :)
> 
> > however if you want to go a liitle extra go in
> four minute 
> > increments OR just do shovelglove or whatever at
> some other time 
> > during the day for just 4 minutes, building on 4
> minute increments 
> > from there. 
> ....This is a point where I will be a bit more
> argumentative. So 
> forgive my candor and uppity-ness, as well as
> stubborness or 
> inflexibility.
> The mainstream belief in Bodybuilding circles is
> that you must 
> always be challenging your body to build on what you
> have and make 
> it go into a state of "progressive overload"... My
> musclebound 
> friend Steve explained it that way last week... I
> called him about 
> some of the movements I do with SG...in specific:
> are 
> isometric "holding" poses with the sg, beneficial at
> all? I'll 
> answer that if you feel like hearing the answer, but
> back to 14 min 
> parameter. If you start finageling around with the
> 14 minutes, it 
> becomes a "progress trap" because then, one day,
> sooner or later, 
> you might a. overdo it one time and send your body
> into a long 
> unwanted break period, and b. talk yourself out of
> doing it at all, 
> on the days where "sloth" is trying to make you a
> sinner :) LOL
> Seriously, I wouldn't be doing this if it required
> 30 minutes. 
> Mentally it would be just enough of a deterrant to
> talk me out of it.
> Hey I checked out your "Renfolk" link...LOL 
> I used to go to all these "hippy festivals" and
> Rennaisance fairs...
> They were so much fun!
> Do you walk around in one of those capes! :) LOL
> Peace,
> Deb
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