Woolfolk's uplifting story
By Eli Saslow, Washington Post Staff Writer
"Woolfolk's competitive weightlifting career started in an Annapolis garage -- make that a sloped, cold, cramped garage filled with outdated equipment. She would come home from a day of classes at Broadneck High School, pile on a few layers of winter clothes and shiver through a 90-minute workout. Sometimes, if Woolfolk accidentally dropped a weight, it would roll out of the garage, down the driveway and into the street."
Cutline - Photo by Tom Kimmell For The Washington Post
Natalie Woolfolk established U.S. records for her weight class in both Olympic lifts: the snatch (220 pounds) and the clean-and-jerk (260 pounds). "I know I can make a name for myself in this sport."
Natalie Woolfolk O-lifting toward Olympics
Kelly Kulick first PBA female professional bowler
Kelly Kulick is the first female professional bowler to earn a full exemption for an entire year from the Professional Bowling Association. This is bowler-speak for an all access pass for her to compete in any PBA game in the upcoming season.
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learning to love being in your body
Enjoying being in your body and living in peace with your body image are chief mystical benefits of working out.
Barbara Russi Sarnataro captures this beautifully in her article Workouts That Help You Feel Better About Your Body on Web MD. Though she's talking about yoga and Pilates, everything articulated in the excerpts below can apply to all disciplines which hone lean mass development - like weightlifting, of course.
"Even in the midst of a culture that promotes dissatisfaction with our appearance, adherents say that yoga, Pilates, and other mind-body exercises can teach us respect for our bodies -- whatever their shape.
"Body image, how we view ourselves, often lacks compassion," says Steven Hartman, director of professional training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Mass. "Many of us learn at an early age how to disconnect from our body and our body's signals. We learn not to pay attention to pain, to joy in our bodies."
Through yoga, he says, you can re-create a relationship with the body. In each pose, your attention is drawn not to how you look in your tights, but to whether you feel tight hamstrings or an imbalance in the alignment of your hips. Yoga, says Hartman "helps you have an objective awareness of the body."
Christina Sell, author of Yoga from the Inside Out: Making Peace with Your Body through Yoga, says yoga puts you in the moment.
"It's very here, very now, how you stand on the earth, how the position of the body feels on the mat," says Sell, a certified Anusara yoga instructor. "If you're focusing on the immediacy of the body's sensations and the steadiness of the breath, then the attention rests inside the body as it is, rather than in the mind and its projections and images about what is."
Amazon now posting reviews for Something Familiar
Amazon is now allowing customer reviews of my book to be posted. Five reviews are up - all five stars - four of them from top Amazon reviewers! Read 'em here. Release of the book got delayed a bit (of course), but it should be out any day now, literally.
blog goes beta
Mighty Mix is now produced in Blogger Beta, the second generation of Blogger run under the Google empire. The best feature you'll see is the list of Post categories in the left column; I hope readers find it helpful. Please let me know if you have any feedback on my organization of these categories. Mostly, the differences in Beta are on my side of the keyboard; all the features I labored over installing in code are now added and manipulated with startling ease. Niggly little formatting aberrations are now ironed out, so the blog should be tidier and more uniform to view in all browsers.
October 1st images
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur
more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James
more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
~George Cooper, "October's Party"
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence
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