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When Muscle Man first suggested I do an intermediate practice, I was scared about what would happen to primary. Would it slip away, if I only practiced it once a week? I thought of the story about catching monkeys: if you put a treat at the bottom of a jar that a monkey can slip its hand into, but narrow enough that he can’t remove his hand once he makes a fist around the treat, then you’ve caught yourself a monkey.

Yeah, I was hanging on to my idea of primary…

No need to be concerned, though. Saturday is led primary, and about half way through, I realized my primary is actually improving.

This kinda begs the question about the efficacy of practicing the same thing every single day: sports science suggests you take a day in between workouts of specific muscle groups so you can recover and, in turn, optimize your progress.

The rationale for every day yoga practice (at least the one I use) is that yoga practice is about more than physical progress: the every day practice, far as I can tell, is about cultivating tapas more than about optimizing physical progress.

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Gonna go over to My Gift’s to help hang up curtains today. Not just hang ‘em, though. Put up the hardware. With a drill. On a ladder. Sigh. Can you tell I’m not really looking forward to that?

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So last night, I look over and there’s Waylon, sitting on the couch and watching TV. (No, we don’t have a blue and white print couch — that’s just a blanket for the dogs to sit on…)