Comments on: Who Can Tell You What

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:09:00 +0000

The Muslim pilgrimage “Haj” or “Hajj” is usually (and in dictionaries) pluralized as “Hajes” or “Hajjes.” I’d suspect the same for Raj.

By: Eskay

Eskay — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:30:28 +0000

Thank you man, I need this so badly now. Morons telling me what to do and what I can’t do seem to be cropping up everywhere… Happy New Year.

By: Chiro-kun

Chiro-kun — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:43:57 +0000

Irishmen links to yearlyglot 😛

By: John Fotheringham

John Fotheringham — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:24:04 +0000

The fitness analogy is spot on. Learning a language is just like getting fit, and arguably, just as valuable in one’s life.

By: RoryT

RoryT — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:38:24 +0000

To tie another one of your posts to strength training, this reminds me of a little internet community centered around gym-owner/author Mark Rippetoe. The guy wrote a book called Starting Strength that has in-depth descriptions of proper form for a few basic exercises, and outlines a beginner strength training program.

The program starts out pretty easy, but a couple of months in and it gets pretty tough. This causes people to give up, log on to his forums and complain that the program doesn’t work. It’s a fascinating phenomenon. These people can’t stick with something, so instead they make an effort to make sure that other people avoid an incredibly effective method. I should add that the problems these people have are overwhelmingly self-created. Lack of proper food intake, lack of rest, skipping workouts, etc.

It’s actually very interesting, AJATT can be tied to strength training in many ways. I had been thinking about your frequency concept and its relation to Pavel’s “greasing the groove” for a while before that guest post popped up.