{"id":4116,"date":"2010-08-31T23:15:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2010-08-31T23:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:15:18","slug":"lots-of-exercise-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4116","title":{"rendered":"Lots of exercise seminars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I don&#8217;t agree with all of the exercise seminars I go to, but Chip Conrad once pointed out something that Bruce Lee said, and Steve Maxwell also used the same quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#65279;&#8221;Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a sport I&#8217;m training for, and there&#8217;s nothing I&#8217;m trying to be the best at. I just want to get through life in a little better shape and still eat those things I&#8217;m not supposed to eat. Heck, Steve Maxwell was talking about some awful and harmful diet drug that let a guy eat a whole ice cream cake every night and all I could think of is how tasty those Baskin-Robbins clown face cakes are.<\/p>\n<p>I know eating enough calories for a whole week and then taking some kidney-killing drug is as ridiculous as my chance of winning the lottery, but I fantasize about that as well. I even buy tens of dollars of lottery tickets each year!&nbsp;I even fantasize about going out with women who don&#8217;t know I exist, because my super power is invisibility to attractive women. I know some of them just learn to face towards the sound of my voice that they can barely discern above the background noise, but in general I think I could be a spy. But my second super power is always getting caught at doing bad things, and my third super power is an inability to keep secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah. Super powers. I&#8217;m quite the catch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I don&#8217;t agree with all of the exercise seminars I go to, but Chip Conrad once pointed out something that Bruce Lee said, and Steve Maxwell also used the same quote: &#65279;&#8221;Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.&#8221; and &#8220;Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.&#8221; I don&#8217;t have a sport I&#8217;m training for, and there&#8217;s nothing I&#8217;m trying to be the best at. I just want to get through life in a little better shape and still eat those things I&#8217;m not supposed to eat. Heck, Steve Maxwell was talking about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lots of exercise seminars.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}