Category: Strength
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Your Occasional Stoic — Freely Choose The Best, And Keep To It
If in the life of man you find anything better than justice, truth, sobriety, manliness; and, in sum, anything better than the satisfaction of your soul with itself and with fate in that which is determined beyond your control; if, I say, you find anything better than this, then turn to it with all your…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Pity the Gossiping Neighbor
Nothing is more wretched than a man who is always out and about, running around in circles. As Pindar says, the poet says, “delving deep in the bowels of the earth” seeking by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbors, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the divinity within him.…
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Classical Sources for the Milo Stories
A collection of the classical sources for the Milo stories. More on Milo can be found here. On Saving Pythagoras and the Philosophers: Milo, who was the most renowned of wrestlers, and lived in terms of intimacy with Pythagoras, who abode long in this city[meaning Croton]. They relate that at a banquet of the philosophers,…
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2014: My Physical Year
While 2014 was a great year for my reading, it was less than stellar year for exercise. Being the father of an infant does occasionally allow me to read late into the night, but its has made finding the time to exercise more difficult. In 2013 I spent a fair amount of time rock climbing…
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2013 Goals – Bodyweight Exercises
In order of priority the three kinds of physical activity I am focusing on are running, body-weight work, and rock climbing. Being me, there are of course tons of other types of exercises I dabble in, including cross country skiing, cycling, tennis, swimming, boxing, lifting, the list goes on. But I’m not taking any of…
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Some Thoughts on the Early Days of Strength Training
As I have written before the Milo of Croton story which seems to resonate in the fine arts is the story of Milo’s death wherein Milo attempts to rend a tree in half, but is not strong enough. He ends up caught within the tree and devoured by wolves. Not a pretty story, but it has…
Milo and the Calf 