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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 21, 2020 17:36:43 GMT
For the first two months of this year I adhered to a Progressive Resistance routine utilizing bodyweight, weights, and bands. And now for something entirely different: For the last three weeks I have been doing a routine consisting of Isometrics, Self-Resistance, and Kin Shi-Hai Do. After the two months of lifting, I weighed 210 lbs. with 17 3/4" arms. After three weeks of the alternative protocol, I weigh 209 lbs. with 17 5/8" arms. So, what I'm doing now is just about as effective as the weight lifting, and less taxing. I think I have finally learned to never say never again. I am enjoying this current 20 minute routine, but for all I know, I could wake up tomorrow with a burning desire to wrap my hands around some cold steel and to pump iron.
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Post by Silverlooks on Mar 22, 2020 0:46:03 GMT
For the first two months of this year I adhered to a Progressive Resistance routine utilizing bodyweight, weights, and bands. And now for something entirely different: For the last three weeks I have been doing a routine consisting of Isometrics, Self-Resistance, and Kin Shi-Hai Do. After the two months of lifting, I weighed 210 lbs. with 17 3/4" arms. After three weeks of the alternative protocol, I weigh 209 lbs. with 17 5/8" arms. So, what I'm doing now is just about as effective as the weight lifting, and less taxing. I think I have finally learned to never say never again. I am enjoying this current 20 minute routine, but for all I know, I could wake up tomorrow with a burning desire to wrap my hands around some cold steel and to pump iron. I'm very interested in your Iso/SR/KSHD routine Bruce, Will you be sharing it ?
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 22, 2020 1:38:44 GMT
Sure. Mañana. It's getting a bit late here now.
BTW, Silvers, I'm curious. I did a Google Earth tour around Lebanon recently. I noticed that signs over stores and shops are all in English. You speak perfect English. Is English commonly used in Lebanon?
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Post by Silverlooks on Mar 22, 2020 2:16:06 GMT
We are initiated into learning English Language parallel to formal Arabic at the age of 3 (Kindergarten-1). All scientific classes are taught in English. We are obliged to communicate with class tutors using English. Academic Examination is in English. English language class material are more elaborate than those of the US I was told. Our educational system is run by grammar Nazis. Western culture is intricately interwoven with our oriental one. This has the drawback of suffering the same growing trends of idiocracy in US's pop culture, sometimes diluted, other times amplified.
But now, I have the HOOK ...
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Post by Alan OldStudent on Mar 22, 2020 7:04:53 GMT
We are initiated into learning English Language parallel to formal Arabic at the age of 3 (Kindergarten-1). All scientific classes are taught in English. We are obliged to communicate with class tutors using English. Academic Examination is in English. English language class material are more elaborate than those of the US I was told. Our educational system is run by grammar Nazis. Western culture is intricately interwoven with our oriental one. This has the drawback of suffering the same growing trends of idiocracy in US's pop culture, sometimes diluted, other times amplified. But now, I have the HOOK ... I hope this is an okay venue to ask this question, Silverlooks. Are people educated in modern Arabic such as yourself able to understand the Quran? I ask because I notice that the Hebrew we use in the Synagogue is really different from modern spoken Hebrew.
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Post by macky on Mar 22, 2020 8:16:10 GMT
We are initiated into learning English Language parallel to formal Arabic at the age of 3 (Kindergarten-1). All scientific classes are taught in English. We are obliged to communicate with class tutors using English. Academic Examination is in English. English language class material are more elaborate than those of the US I was told. Our educational system is run by grammar Nazis. Western culture is intricately interwoven with our oriental one. This has the drawback of suffering the same growing trends of idiocracy in US's pop culture, sometimes diluted, other times amplified. But now, I have the HOOK ... I hope this is an okay venue to ask this question, Silverlooks. Are people educated in modern Arabic such as yourself able to understand the Quran? I ask because I notice that the Hebrew we use in the Synagogue is really different from modern spoken Hebrew. Just asking, Alan. Would what you've described sort of be equivalent to reciting out of the King James bible in a church with its 16th century English, as against modern English speaking ?
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Post by Alan OldStudent on Mar 22, 2020 10:29:40 GMT
I hope this is an okay venue to ask this question, Silverlooks. Are people educated in modern Arabic such as yourself able to understand the Quran? I ask because I notice that the Hebrew we use in the Synagogue is really different from modern spoken Hebrew. Just asking, Alan. Would what you've described sort of be equivalent to reciting out of the King James bible in a church with its 16th century English, as against modern English speaking ? Most of it is based on old Hebrew ritual, with only a few parts of the Bible. I'm not a big expert on it, and my Hebrew is very bad. I do attend a pretty orthodox shul when I go because I enjoy the ritual and community. But oftentimes, I don't go at all. And I don't keep kosher.
When I first started attending this shul, I told the rabbi that I really didn't believe in God and was more of an internationalist and Marxist than a believer in religion. Actually, I'm an atheist. But he said that this was okay with him. He said I just should keep some of the mitzvot (commandments). Because of the recent rise of anti-Semitic attacks in this country (USA), I have started wearing my kippah (skullcap). I have kept my head covered when I go outdoors especially for years, much like the one in my avatar.
The Hebrew at my shul is based on the old Ashkenazi pronunciation. It's quite different than Modern Hebrew pronunciation. A lot of words are different. Hebrew stopped being a spoken language long before Christianity came on the scene. Jews back then spoke Aramaic. So nobody really knows how ancient Hebrew was pronounced. Modern Hebrew only started in the middle of the 19th century with the rise of political Zionism (FYI, I'm no big fan of political Zionism). The pronunciation of Modern Hebrew is based on the pronunciation of the Sephardic Jews, who were expelled from Spain during the inquisition, and north African and Arabic Jews. The grammar of modern Hebrew is rather different than ancient Hebrew.
When a large number of Jews from the middle east came to Europe around 1000 years ago, a sizeable number settled in Alsace-Lorraine and parts of what is now southern Germany. They spoke a form of old Middle-High German. However, they used the Hebrew alphabet to write it. Their dialect evolved into a language, based on German but having a lot of Slavic, Lithuanian, and Aramaic words. It became a distinct language and is now rather different than any form of German. It was called "Yiddish-Deitsh" which means "Jewish German." Over several centuries, it was just called "Yiddish," which means "Jewish." Although still written with the Hebrew alphabet, Yiddish is quite different from Hebrew, which is a close cousin to the Arabic language. Something like 70% of native Yiddish speakers died in the holocaust, and what had been a very active Yiddish literary, theater, and artistic scene has never really recovered. Today, most Yiddish speakers live in the United States.
My apologies if I've gone too off topic here. I can provide some answers to questions if people have them, but I won't feel comfortable engaging in flaming or Jew jokes. It's just a little too close to home. I hope you'll understand.
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Post by Silverlooks on Mar 22, 2020 11:17:27 GMT
We are initiated into learning English Language parallel to formal Arabic at the age of 3 (Kindergarten-1). All scientific classes are taught in English. We are obliged to communicate with class tutors using English. Academic Examination is in English. English language class material are more elaborate than those of the US I was told. Our educational system is run by grammar Nazis. Western culture is intricately interwoven with our oriental one. This has the drawback of suffering the same growing trends of idiocracy in US's pop culture, sometimes diluted, other times amplified. But now, I have the HOOK ... I hope this is an okay venue to ask this question, Silverlooks. Are people educated in modern Arabic such as yourself able to understand the Quran? I ask because I notice that the Hebrew we use in the Synagogue is really different from modern spoken Hebrew. Hello Alan, Modern Arabic (formal Arabic, common to all Arabs, taught in schools and used in signs/news/public announcements/politics, as opposed to local dialect slang arabic) is not different than Quranic Arabic. The grammar and sentence structure are the same. There are no altered archaic words like "Thou art" "Thee" "doeth" in the Quran. It is just that the Quranic text uses ultra eloquent vocabulary compared to that used commonly today (many consider it the pinnacle of eloquence in Arabic), and it has elaborate rhymes. An educated person can comprehend most to all of the vocabulary it uses with little to no need of a dictionary. A less educated person will have to heavily rely on a dictionary and may fail to understand some of its analogies and figurative language. It is very different than the case of archaic English or ancient Hebrew or Vedic texts.
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Post by Silverlooks on Mar 22, 2020 11:27:02 GMT
Just asking, Alan. Would what you've described sort of be equivalent to reciting out of the King James bible in a church with its 16th century English, as against modern English speaking ? Most of it is based on old Hebrew ritual, with only a few parts of the Bible. I'm not a big expert on it, and my Hebrew is very bad. I do attend a pretty orthodox shul when I go because I enjoy the ritual and community. But oftentimes, I don't go at all. And I don't keep kosher.
When I first started attending this shul, I told the rabbi that I really didn't believe in God and was more of an internationalist and Marxist than a believer in religion. Actually, I'm an atheist. But he said that this was okay with him. He said I just should keep some of the mitzvot (commandments). Because of the recent rise of anti-Semitic attacks in this country (USA), I have started wearing my kippah (skullcap). I have kept my head covered when I go outdoors especially for years, much like the one in my avatar.
The Hebrew at my shul is based on the old Ashkenazi pronunciation. It's quite different than Modern Hebrew pronunciation. A lot of words are different. Hebrew stopped being a spoken language long before Christianity came on the scene. Jews back then spoke Aramaic. So nobody really knows how ancient Hebrew was pronounced. Modern Hebrew only started in the middle of the 19th century with the rise of political Zionism (FYI, I'm no big fan of political Zionism). The pronunciation of Modern Hebrew is based on the pronunciation of the Sephardic Jews, who were expelled from Spain during the inquisition, and north African and Arabic Jews. The grammar of modern Hebrew is rather different than ancient Hebrew.
When a large number of Jews from the middle east came to Europe around 1000 years ago, a sizeable number settled in Alsace-Lorraine and parts of what is now southern Germany. They spoke a form of old Middle-High German. However, they used the Hebrew alphabet to write it. Their dialect evolved into a language, based on German but having a lot of Slavic, Lithuanian, and Aramaic words. It became a distinct language and is now rather different than any form of German. It was called "Yiddish-Deitsh" which means "Jewish German." Over several centuries, it was just called "Yiddish," which means "Jewish." Although still written with the Hebrew alphabet, Yiddish is quite different from Hebrew, which is a close cousin to the Arabic language. Something like 70% of native Yiddish speakers died in the holocaust, and what had been a very active Yiddish literary, theater, and artistic scene has never really recovered. Today, most Yiddish speakers live in the United States.
My apologies if I've gone too off topic here. I can provide some answers to questions if people have them, but I won't feel comfortable engaging in flaming or Jew jokes. It's just a little too close to home. I hope you'll understand.
Ancient Hebrew was one of almost idential dialects used in the region of Canaan, i.e. phoenician, hebrew, syriac. Even the alphabet was that of the Phoenician. It was also very close to Akkadian, Nabatean, and Arabic of the peninsula.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 22, 2020 16:33:59 GMT
Shown below are my implements of destruction. Yielding Isos are held for 12 seconds at 100%, and 12 reps for all movement exercises. I do my Three World workout every other day. …………………………………………… A...…………………………………………………… B...……………………………………………… C...…………… 1. (A) 3-position biceps curl/triceps pushdowns, each side 2. (A) Shoulder raise, left and then right. 3. (A) Behind the back shoulder pull 4. (A) Overhead lat pulldown, each side 5. (A) Back pull with ring held in front at chest level 6. Wall triceps kickbacks 7. KSHD biceps curls 8. KSHD triceps extensions 9. SR bicep curl/triceps pushdown, hands clasped 10. (B) SR Triceps extension 11. (C) SR chest press. Begin on right side, with (C) at chest height, push around chest to left side for 1 rep. 12. (C) Lat pull down. Begin on right side, pull (C) overhead to left side for 1 rep. 13. (C) Back row. Begin on right side, pull (C) across chest to left side for 1 rep. 14. SR bicep curl/triceps pushdown, hands clasped 15. (B) SR Triceps extension 16. KSHD pec deck 17. KSHD shoulder raise 18. KSHD back row with arms up at a 45 degree angle. 19. KSHD With arms outstretched to the sides, parallel to the floor, curl in/push out. 20. Stomach vacuum (The wall triceps kickbacks hit your abs hard). On days in between I do legs and forearms using my forearm arsenal.
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Mar 22, 2020 18:29:03 GMT
These could take the place of at least two of your tools. Would you happen to have any Bruce?
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 22, 2020 18:45:36 GMT
Handles are too far apart, and (C) allows pushing and pulling. That's a great looking set of fitness implements you have there!
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Post by Dave Reslo on Mar 22, 2020 21:41:09 GMT
Nice equipment there Bruce, from what I've heard building NERVE FORCE could be a key to surviving these challenging times.
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Post by Silverlooks on Mar 22, 2020 22:49:06 GMT
Bruce, is (A) a gymnastics ring ?
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 22, 2020 23:24:29 GMT
No, it's a rubber dog toy. Great for yielding isometrics. I call it my Chowflex.
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