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@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ # Scratch +I grew up playing sports iin the way people of my generation generally did, baseball, basketball, soccer, football. I enjoyed them all as you enjoy anything physical when you're a 12 year old boy, but I didn't love any of them. Growing up near the beach I disccove3reed surfing, and body surfingand sailing and those werethings I loved. Alsas noone of those were concidered "physical education" by my high school. One day, faced with either taking water polo or flunking, i went through the list of all the possible sports I could play for credit and noticed near thebottom something called rowing. I had seeen sparticus and had a rough idea that rowing was what something done mainly by roman galley slaves, but that sounded better than waterpolo. + +And it was. I rowed for the next six years. It kept inin shape and out of a lot of troouble I'd have otherwise gotten into in high school. But then one day I realizedI was done. I stopped. I lived as you live when you don't have an all-consuming thing that eats up massive amoounts of time. Which is to say I was bored. I moved away from the sea, because when you have to pay rent yourself, suddenly the sea is not something you afford. Iworked out. Got a membership to a gym, then later the YMCA. I still lifted weights, but there was nothing Iloved like I loved rowiing. Everything in a gym wasjust work for no purpose. And it lacked the singular grace of rowing. + +Then I got caught up a bit in the optimization movement. Howlittle can I do and still be in good enough shape to run a 5K or do 20 miles days through the Sierra Nevada. Can I go tothe gym only three times a week? What if I oonnly went for 30 minutes? + +Nothing ever stuck for me iinnna gym. Lifting weights is fun, but doesn necessariily build the muscles you actually use in every day life. I crawl under cars, chase my kids, and tkj. I don't need huge biceps for that. I need to strong in a functional way. + +Enter theKttlebell. + + ## Best Linux Laptops Linux will work on just about any PC. There plenty of Linux distros that still happily support 32-bit processors. Remember the Pentium 4? It's still supported by Debian Linux and others. That said, Linux runs better on some laptops than others, and some PC makers offer official support for Linux on their machines, meaning you have somewhere to turn if things should go awry. |