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January
Getting injured is not an abnormal concept. Sure, you can train smarter, have more control and awareness of your body and reduce the chances of it happening. But a possibility will remain. That’s how it is. But what boggles the mind is that folks get injured and don’t pick themselves up. No, it is absolutely not […]
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January
Time to move things along. You want to get fit, lose a bunch of fat, improve strength and stamina and all that, right. Well, here are some immediate changes you can make! First up, you have checked in with a doctor/physio to identify your problem. If you have one. You’ve read the basic idea behind eating well, […]
13
January
We’ve set our goals. We’ve hopefully identified a bigger problem (pain) and identified a correction mechanism by visiting a doctor or a physio. Let’s continue gearing up for change, and we come to one of the most important things — the difference between success and failure — building a support system. I’ve written about this […]
10
January
All of us have some barometer against which we keep measuring up and competing, to get better. At school, we expect/hope to pass your subjects with an A+, get promoted to the next class, and so on and so forth. At work, likewise, we expect to get salary increases and get a promotion . In everything […]
8
January
Alright, let’s get this thing going eh! Like I said, over the next six months in particular, I am going to be working on going from being broken to back to where I was. And via my blog and twitter, I will keep posting about what I am doing, what that does, improvements, successes, failures, […]
3
January
So, here’s where we are Here’s part 1 in case you missed it. A quick recap — I rotated my knee, heard a snap. Consulted various doctors and was advised to rest. I realized my knee condition was deteriorating, rather than improving. Eventually, I started some mobility work by myself, and started to feel better. Surgery […]
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December
I was listening to a podcast a few weeks by Gray Cook, and while he was talking about movement fundamentals and screens, one anecdote he mentioned bears repeating to my audience. A client of his had been working out for some time, but was not seeing any fat loss at all. After running him through […]
27
December
A bit back, I injured my knee rather seriously while playing Ultimate. We were in Bangalore, playing a tournament, and it was the last point of the last game, and I was tired, ended up landing rather hard and tried to turn while my ankle was still planted, and heard a pop in my knee, […]
14
August
Needs vs Wants Don’t ask your users what they want. Don’t design what they want. It is your role as a designer to figure out what they need, and design the artifact. Erik Stolterman, an amazing professor and my thesis advisor at Indiana U where I studied interaction design, would constantly remind me of this — […]
11
August
Intro I see a lot of folks turning to a sport or activity, and taking it seriously. This is simply awesome. My personal journey to fitness started in a similar fashion — running with Team Asha. To be quite honest, I was simply viewing it as a tool to lose weight, not dissimilar to countless […]
