Savage / Zen Newsletter No. 85
March 2024
This month was a transition from NonProphet’s “Escape Velocity” program to their “Free Fall” program. I reviewed “Hunter gatherers as models for public health” and this month’s psychology post was about “real recognizing real.”
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Review: Hunter-Gatherers as models in public health
This study looks at the Hadza people of Norther Tanzania compared to large-scale (Western) societies and relative rates of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and physical activity regarding diet and lifestyle factors.
Learning to rest in a place of discomfort is a valuable skill. In any case, you’re obligated to pick your poison and your punishment. How hard or how far you’re able to push the needle rarely depends on external conditions, however your willingness to do so may be a different story.
What better way to end a GPP program than a grinding grimy 60-min endurance circuit! This was the last week of NonProphets’s Escape Velocity Program and it was the perfect capstone; heavy pumps, playful grappling, confronting intensity, and an endurance slog.
This week started and ended with some mild mobility, though it was targeted towards my areas of need (spine, hips, ankles). It was also a reminder to “have fun and play a little” on the mats. That is, experiment and explore without an inherent goal, objective, or agenda to progress.
Coming off of a rest (de-load) week, I came out hot, maybe a little too much so and already noticed a regression to the mean. The Free Fall program has started, with the intention of addressing individual training needs via creative and autonomous means.
If you put more pressure through a small sink, you still get a flood. A big sink with no pressure is pond — it sucks at movement and stagnates. If you need a place to start, it’s hard to argue with hips and grips.
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