Tag: treino

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Negative Self Talk

Posted on by Colin Lusk

These two texts are just me freaking out about my lack of preparedness for the race km doing. Probably not very helpful, although since I wrote them I have actually pulled my finger out and done some good training, so maybe the negativity helped after all!

Publicidade da corrida

Daqui a duas semanas faço uma corrida de 15 quilómetros e estou a treinar mas infelizmente o treino está a ter o efeito oposto ao desejado e estou a engordar e a perder força. Acho que é por causa da minha dieta. Não resisto aos mimos e petiscos que encontro no meu dia-a-dia

Vi a página de Facebook da corrida na qual vou participar no dia 7 de Agosto. Raios, esses tipos têm ar de atletas profissionais. Espero que ninguém se ria quando chegar à meta uma hora depois dos outros concorrentes!

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Rosa Mota

Posted on by Colin Lusk

First in a series of posts about famous (but not dead) portuguese people. Thanks to Butt_Roidholds for the corrections here.

Rosa Mota nasceu em 1952 e é conhecida* por ser uma das maiores atletas de sempre no campo da corrida. Uma série de vitórias em campeonatos ao nível de clubes de corrida e depois em concorrências regionais resultou, afinal, em ela ser selecionada para representar o país no Campeonato Europeu de Atletismo em Atenas em 1982, que era o primeiro ano em que havia uma maratona feminina. Apesar de não fazer parte do lote das favoritas, conseguiu ganhar a medalha de ouro.

Rosa Mota
Campeã

Nos anos seguintes, Rosa concorreu em corridas no palco mundial, inclusive em dois jogos olímpicos nos quais recebeu a medalha de bronze (Los Angeles, 1984) e de ouro (Seul, 1988).

Depois do final da sua carreira como maratonista, assumiu o papel de embaixatriz do desporto. Continuou a receber prémios e ser distinguida pelas suas conquistas no campo de corrida e pela sua participação em treinos** e em promoção de saúde.

*=I originally wrote “conhecido” which prompted someone to comment that she “seemed a bit masculine”. Hm… I don’t have a chin-stroking emoji on the laptop keyboard but I need one…

**=I wrote “treino” here but there’s obviously a slight difference between treino and training, in that treino seems to be more like a training session, so it’s distinct blocks of time, not a general program of training spanning a long period of time.

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The Yogaing Dead

Posted on by Colin Lusk

Here’s a text I wrote, with correction notes at the bottom. Thanks to Eqdif and Dani_Morgenstern for the help. I’ve finished my thirty day yoga experiment now but as you can see we’re still using it as a family workout despite the lack of floor space in our flat. Writing about yoga on here has brought me a lot of new follows and likes from yoga-related bloggers, which is nice (hello yoga peeps!) but I hope they don’t think I’m some sort of fitness influencer because I can’t live up to that kind of expectation!

This isn’t the routine we were doing but it’s by the same instructor and it seems to fit the theme of the text!

A minha filha anda cada vez mais obcecada com a saga* Walking Dead, traduzida em francês. Mas ela precisa de ajuda portanto lemos juntos. Hoje passámos umas horas a ler. Uma vez que não tinha feito o meu yoga diário** (29 dias malta!), sugeri “faz uma sessão de Yoga comigo e depois lemos mais umas páginas.” ela concordou mas com pouco entusiasmo.

Durante a aula, estavamos de pé, ela no meu lado esquerdo, com as ancas dobradas***, as cabeças viradas para baixo e os braços pendurados frouxamente em direcção ao chão.

A professora disse “vira a cabeça para a direita”. Obedecemos. “Depois, volta para o centro… Agora, vira a cabeça novamente mas desta vez para a esquerda.”

Virei a cabeça na direção dela. Ela estava ainda virada para mim. Os nossos olhos encontraram-se e ela gemeu “Riick Grrriiimes”. Desatámos às gargalhadas.

* Although Série can be used it’s used to refer to a TV series, and I’m talking about the series of graphic novels, hence the word saga instead.

** Despite ending in an a, yoga is masculine apparently.

*** what I’m describing here is what the yoga instructor calls a “forward fold”, but the expression I tried to use – “dobrados da anca” = “bent from the hips” doesn’t really work so I’ve used the suggested “with our hips bent”. TBH, it’s a slightly odd phrase even in English, so I shouldn’t be that surprised but I’m pretty sure it’s how she describes the pose.

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Tuga Yoga

Posted on by Colin Lusk

No it isn’t a Massive Attack song, or a river in Cleveland, it’s a follow-up to my last post about yoga/ioga (both spellings seem to be used). Big thanks to Paul who replied directly. I asked some folks on reddit too and these seem to be the available options:

  • RTP Play’s #fitemcasa was Paul’s suggestion and I don’t know why I didn’t think of looking at this sooner, honestly! The sound quality isn’t as good as you’d expect from a national broadcaster, but I guess it was made in the early days of the acovolypse so it’s probably not that surprising that they hadn’t got their act together yet.
  • LiDL (yes, remember them?) have a few yoga workouts in their lockdown workout section, led by Filippa Barros, who I believe is a basketball player.

But those seem to be about the only free ones. Of course, a lot of instructors who used to do only in-person gym classes are now doing online classes, so if you don’t mind paying you could also try

The brazilian instructor I mentioned was a bit disappointing, I’m afraid. Hardly any effort. I felt like I’d barely got started when it ended.

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Como Fazer Flexões de Braços

Posted on by Colin Lusk

Começa na posição prona, com os pés juntos e com todo o teu peso no peito.

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Coloca os mãos no chão, tão distantes* quanto for confortável (se estiverem mais distantes uma da outra, os músculos do peito terão de trabalhar mais, se estiverem mais perto**, os triceps braquiais irão retirar mais do treino)

Estende os braços devagar de modo a que*** o peito fique erguido do chão, até os cotovelos ficarem direitos. Mantém os abdominais contraídos**** e a coluna vertebral neutra.

Abaixa o corpo de novo para o chão.

Descansa. Já sofreste o suficiente. Precisas é***** de um café e da empatia da tua família.

*=Interesting one this. I made this singular and thought of “distant” as applying to the situation as a whole, but of course there are two feet so the adjective has to change too. Odd how little differences in the language make you imagine a situation slightly differently. I read a book a couple of years back called “The Language Hoax” by John McWhorter that argued against the idea that different languages shaped the way we see the world and I think he makes a lot of good points and yet things like this seem like little crumbs of evidence to the contrary.

**=This one almost broke my brain, because although “distante” was changes to “distantes” in the previous sentence, “perto” stays as “perto” even though on the face of it, it’s describing the exact same arrangement of arms and legs. Why? Because perto is an adverb not an adjective. The word it is describing is “estiverem” not “braços”. I know, I know, Just go and make a cupof tea and meditate on it for a while, it’ll make sense after a while.

***I put “tal como” here. Such that the chest touches the floor, but it was changed to “In such a way that the chest touches the floor”.

**** I put “ligados” thinking that would do for “engaged” as in “keep your abs engaged” but no. Contracted.

***** I think this is my first successful attempts to insert one of these little emphatic “é”s into a sentence. Sadly I made a mistake in another part of teh sentence so it wasn’t a 100% success, but I’ll call it a small vitory!