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By: Tiff

Tiff — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:46:27 +0000

Scott,

I have a lot of homemade 30-45 min meals that take 10 to 15 mins to prepare. Most is cooked in the oven. Little to no work at all. I am big on inexpense and time.. but also eating good. If you are interested, email me.. Too much to type otherwise. If I hear from you I will create a dinner log for you and send it over your way.

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By: fith

fith — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:46:50 +0000

I can help you with travelling light. Wear a thick Levi’s,for you can wear it for a year without washing it. bring several underwear and bring two t’s. if you’re working and required to wear a coat, put them in the small bag your bring.

By: Robin Hancock

Robin Hancock — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:44:24 +0000

For #15 have a look at this: http://www.onebag.com
It will tell you everything you need to know about getting everything you need into one carry on size bag, from choosing the best kit to how to pack it.

Keep up the great work with the site by the way-some really inspiring stuff here!

By: Will

Will — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:52:21 +0000

Scott, I read some of the replies on advice HSPUs…this is from personal experience, but if you’ve never done a handstand before, it’s going to be pretty hard for me to tell you to do a handstand, and then just lift off.

The handstand itself requires some basic mechanics…you need shoulders locked tight to the body, good core balance, solid locked arms to hold the isometric force, and a commitment to push off your feet into the headstand.

Goto the link below and search for handstand and you will find an introduction that will explain it far better than I could :
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html

To develop the shoulder strength to do the HSPU, doing negatives from the handstand are ok, but will be frustrating as hell. You go into the HS, lower yourself, but you will lack any ability to lift off. If you lack the strength, then bumping head to floor will also be painful…and getting back into the HS requires so much energy in the first place.

Learn to do a HEAD stand first. That one’s pretty easy. Then I highly recommend you do the progressions – bridged HSPUs, barrier HSPUs, then full HSPU.
http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/CrossFit_CFKidsDuncanHSPU.wmv

You will get the necessary concentric reps in, you’ll see daily progress and it’s far more fun than going into HS and then lowering yourself.

As for shoulder presses, that is wholly unnecessary for this exercise…it’s a completely different movement & feel. fyi, if you’re 181#, the Kilgore & Rippetoe standards for a shoulder press at advanced level is 164#, and elite is 218# (less than 1% of weightlifting population will hit that mark). Doing BW presses for reps is no joke. It will take a long time to reach that.
So just stick with HSPU progressions.

cheers.

By: Keith Haddock

Keith Haddock — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:31:25 +0000

Scott – The group “CrossFit” has collected a list of body weight exercises and exercises which require only basic equipment (e.g., a pull-up bar) for people who travel. I travel a lot and typically find these exercise routines harder than the ones I do at full gyms. You can check them out at http://www.crossfit.com and/or I can send you one of the lists. Keith

By: Olga

Olga — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:36:42 +0000

#4– try to find opportunities to speak with children who speak the language you are learning. They won’t be nice about your mistakes the way adults tend to be. Also children tend to exaggerate intonation and sounds, it is much easier to copy them than to copy adults. I am suggesting this from my experience of learning Korean. When I was at solid intermediate level, I was fortunate to get a part-time job tutoring Russian to two Korean kids, 8 and 10 year olds. Since their Russian was very limited, I had to do many explanations in Korean and it turned out into a great accent-training for me–whenever I mispronounced something, they would mercilessly correct me. After about six months of that, I could fool Korean native speakers on the phone to think that I was Korean, as long as the conversation itself remained rather simple.

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:02:44 +0000

Thanks for all the advice guys,

As always, the advice isn’t entirely for me. I’m glad you’ve shared your thoughts because I’m guessing if I’ve had the question, another person has, and they will appreciate your input!

-Scott

By: Ignacio

Ignacio — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:03:48 +0000

On #4, you might wanna try some accent neutralization course for the language you’re trying to learn, ideally one targeted to people who are native english speakers (as I believe you are). This helps you to quickly spot the most important sounds in that language, and then use that knowledge to practice while speaking it.

An interesting side-effect is that you grow very aware of accents and sounds in general, which will help you when you move on the the next language.