healthysoul:

vira-sana:

Standing bow is improving. 

goddess alert~

Beaut.

Guys at my school. Haha, I’m a cashier at one of the campus dining restaurants and we now sell Core Power protein shakes, basically flavored muscle milk, we sell so many!

Went to my first bridal shower today! The lovely bride to be was gorgeous. 😍😜

Squats are king.

That’s an abbreviation of the widely held opinion that the squat is the king of exercises for strength and mass development. Of course, those not into the whole monarchy thing might also refer to squats as weight training’s Great Uniter, as their unmatched awesomeness is one of the rare things that bridges the at-times troubled divide between powerlifters, bodybuilders, athletes, and other weightlifters.

Consider the following.

• Weightlifters use squats to help improve their clean and jerk and snatch.
• Athletes use squats to help them sprint faster, jump higher, and throw further.
• Bodybuilders use squats to build the musculature in their hamstrings, glutes, and quads.
• Powerlifters practice the squat because it’s one of the three official powerlifts.

So if you’re serious about building muscle, some version of the squat should appear in your program. However, many squat with form that’s basically an injury waiting to occur.

I’ve spent over 20 years practicing and teaching the squat, and what I’m about to share are the very same things that have helped me squat 1214 pounds. (And make no mistake; the squat helps the deadlift in a big way.)

peanutbuttarunna:

Whoever decided that 2 tablespoons was an adequate serving for peanut butter really needs to rethink their choices in life.

amen

thorne-performance:

Let the 5700 who didn’t cross the finish line run the Boston Marathon in 2014

Approximately 5,700 Boston Marathoners had our dream cut short by the terrible acts of April 15th. We were not able to experience the exhilaration that only crossing the finish line can bring. The most exciting day of our lives turned out to be the scariest. We were lucky that we hadn’t quite made it to the finish and therefore were safe from harm. However, we will forever carry emotional scars from those horrifying moments.

The Boston Athletic Association (BAA), the organization in charge of running the Marathon, is providing those of us who didn’t get a chance to finish the race with a finisher’s medallion and an estimated finishing time. We are certainly appreciative of these efforts, but we feel our journey is not complete. We worked hard to get to the finish line and greet our families with tears of joy. Now we cannot say we accomplished our goals. Instead we have to say we almost finished.

That’s why I’m asking the Boston Athletic Association, as well as the Cities of Boston and Newton and towns of Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, and Brookline, to grant the 5,700 of us automatic entry into the 2014 Boston Marathon. We are not asking for a free spot, simply a guaranteed entry. The leadership of the BAA has mentioned that they are considering their options on this issue, so let’s send a unified message together.

We respectfully ask that a Wave Four be created so that we may run with our brothers and sisters in solidarity and healing. We want to be able to finish what we started. We want to do it with one another. We want to be able to say that we completed the Boston Marathon.

A petition has been started to help allow the 5700 runners who never got to finish the Boston Marathon run it again this next year if they choose to. Often runners only get one shot at competing in the marathon in their lives due to how hard it is to get into the race. Support this petition to urge the Boston Marathon organizers to allow the 5700 to have another shot. - Thorne Performance

Click here to read and sign the petition and support them