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If you’re just starting in BJJ and want to get a black belt someday, you’re in for a long journey. Seasoned BJJ practioners share how to make the most of it.

Students often think of Brazilian jiu jitsu as a journey that will one day take them to a black belt. If you are a new student or someone thinking about starting Brazilian jiu jitsu, realize you are going into this for the long haul if you want to reach your black belt. For most black belts, the journey does not stop the day they are promoted. In fact, a black belt is just beginning.

 

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If you’re just starting in BJJ and want to get a black belt someday, you’re in for a long journey. Seasoned BJJ practioners share how to make the most of it.

Students often think of Brazilian jiu jitsu as a journey that will one day take them to a black belt. If you are a new student or someone thinking about starting Brazilian jiu jitsu, realize you are going into this for the long haul if you want to reach your black belt. For most black belts, the journey does not stop the day they are promoted. In fact, a black belt is just beginning.

 

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What’s an apartment-dweller to do when you want to buy meat directly from a farmer who has raised the beef or pork you want to eat, but you don’t have the space to store that much meat? Consider renting space in a meat locker.

NPR recently looked at the resurgence of the meat locker.

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Do you have a birthday coming up soon? If not, you should find someone who does — your grandma, your best friend, or even your mail carrier — and make these Funfetti Twinkies for the occasion. Funfetti Twinkies > birthday cake.

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Orleans Aperitif Ciders from Eden Ice Cider Company

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Cider is having a moment — and quite frankly I hope it’s a long one. We’ve called hard cider the new craft beer, but the range of complexity and flavor that today’s cider-makers can coax out of modest little cider apples also has much to offer to wine-lovers. And now, thanks to this intriguing line of aperitif ciders from Eden Ice Cider, cocktail aficionados have something to look for in cider as well.

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Feats of strength can benefit and compliment your regular workout and do more for your tendons, ligaments, and joints than you realize.

Besides a Seinfeld joke about Festivus, the phrase “feats of strength” more commonly refers to exhibitions of strength that are particularly done with an eye to performing for others. The average person cares little about how much weight you can lift. Sure, we can debate about how this shouldn’t be so, but it remains true. Without much experience in the art, whether you lift a little or a lot, some people don’t really get the point of lifting weights.

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Feats of strength can benefit and compliment your regular workout and do more for your tendons, ligaments, and joints than you realize.

Besides a Seinfeld joke about Festivus, the phrase “feats of strength” more commonly refers to exhibitions of strength that are particularly done with an eye to performing for others. The average person cares little about how much weight you can lift. Sure, we can debate about how this shouldn’t be so, but it remains true. Without much experience in the art, whether you lift a little or a lot, some people don’t really get the point of lifting weights.

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Like any form of physical activity, yoga has a few blind spots when it comes to functional movements – including pulling.

As a form of fitness, yoga encompasses balance, bodyweight movements, strength, and flexibility, as well as mental focus. As you get stronger, more flexible, and more proficient in your movements, you will be able to perform advanced postures and transitions.

 

But like most forms of physical activity, yoga misses some basic functional movements we should be able to perform. Specifically, it misses the action of pulling.

 

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Like any form of physical activity, yoga has a few blind spots when it comes to functional movements – including pulling.

As a form of fitness, yoga encompasses balance, bodyweight movements, strength, and flexibility, as well as mental focus. As you get stronger, more flexible, and more proficient in your movements, you will be able to perform advanced postures and transitions.

 

But like most forms of physical activity, yoga misses some basic functional movements we should be able to perform. Specifically, it misses the action of pulling.

 

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