Posts tagged geek

Do You Even Sith?

The Jedi are the keepers of peace in the Star Wars universe and for thousands of years they harnessed the power of The Force for good in the galaxy. The Sith are their arch nemesis and purveyors of the “dark side” of The Force.  Their intentions are evil and they have only one desire: to rule the galaxy.

Good vs evil, blah, blah, blah. 

Here is the truth.

The Sith are by far better than the Jedi.

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Tetris Planks

Let’s clear this up first.  Your core does not equal “abs.”  You can have a strong core with no ab definition.  Opera singers can manipulate their core to sustain notes, but Pavarotti has no visible abs.  Core exercises, alone, are not going to get you shredded.

Over the last few years, the plank has become the “go-to” core exercise.  Countless articles have been written about them and hundreds of people perform them at the gym every day.

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A Geek On a Never Ending Quest of Awesome

I am no one special. I am just a socially awkward ginger kid who growing up loved Hulk Hogan, Captain America, Michael Jordan, and video games. The latter became an obsession later in life and helped me succeed in procrastinating basically every assignment constantly in college.
Growing up I felt like no one really understood me. I had to cloak my geekiness from many of my friends because, you know, jocks don’t do Captain America, StarFox, Zelda, or science type crap. Nope, it’s all sports all the time, right? It’s odd how we constantly as young people put on new tee-shirts trying to see what fits and what defines our identity. Often times hiding or pushing down the things that we are actually passionate or “geeks” about.

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