Month: March 2021

🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Is One Set Better Than Multiple Sets in a Workout?

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Multiple Sets Are the Clear Winner if the Goal is Gaining Strength, Endurance, and Muscle Growth

A 2009 study found that two to three sets per exercise were associated with a 46% greater strength gain than one set in both trained and untrained subjects. A 2010 study showed a similar gain in muscle growth in trained and untrained subjects who completed multiple sets. Finally, a 2015 study looked at one, three, and five sets of exercises. Study authors found that multiple sets were better with regard to strength gain, muscle endurance, and upper arm muscle growth.

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🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Push Your Boundaries

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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one’s capacity.

~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Power of a Believable Character

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“Remember that you don’t write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.” 

~ Flannery O’Conner

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ A Prayer in Spring

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A Prayer in Spring

Robert Frost

OH, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
To which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends he will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.

🤗 A Better Life ~ Building Beautiful Relationships

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The questions we ask determine what we find and how we dialogue with each other.

Think of the difference between these two questions when asked in a relationship. Why did you do that? And, let’s set aside our problem for a moment and ask, “What is good about our relationship?” Beautiful relationships can be built by focusing on the good in each other and letting go of fault finding.

💡 Something to Think About

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Okay, you know the drill. You’re feeling down. Repeat until the feeling passes: Quitting is not an option. 

Today’s Smile 😃

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Joe: “My psychiatrist told me I was immature. I told him I wanted a second opinion.”

Pete: “What did your psychiatrist say?”

Joe: “He said I was also delusional.”

👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ We Become What We Feed Ourselves

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The foods we eat shape our bodies. The foods we feed our mind shape our attitudes.

Choose wisely for a healthy body and mind.

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Try to be Perfect, Just Write

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“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that’s the only way you can do anything really good.”

~ William Faulkner

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ You Will Succeed!

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“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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