what you know and what you don't

the more I learn the more I want to learn, I have a real thirst for knowledge, the only problem is there never seems to be an ending point. In the last several years i've continued to pursue more information, sometimes more than I can possibly assimilate and apply in a single shot. And each time I start down a new avenue I end up looking at all sorts of random studies and websites. since i'm in a massage therapy program I've been looking at a lot of different things. most recently these two sites....http://www.massagetherapy.com/articles/index.php/article_id/236 and http://biotensegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=29 (you'll have to forgive me again for some reason when I do this on Jes's mac the embed link icon doesn't show up and I'm a little lazy to embed it myself...sorry) the first article covers some of the science of how massage works with respect to piezoelectricity. The second lists a bunch of papers from Dr. Levin I just kept reading so I didn't list one article but a page with a bunch. One of the ones I really liked was about the scapula as a sesamoid bone. It brings up how fascia and it's role makes the concept of leverage and fulcrums inadequate when looking at function. It also touches on how serratus anterior disfunction may be related to breathing. for some reason I seem to be seeing a lot of material in reference to breathing recently, I'm not really looking for it but it keeps showing up. I think that the role of breathing has been downplayed or glanced over in a lot of areas well that and vision but that comes more from my experience with Z and s-phase, my interest in breathing comes more from my experience with CST and now with my current recovery. As I've read more about physical culture, breathing was frequently focused, and although my time with the RKC concepts bring up some topics related to breathing i.e. Naked Warrior and Power to the People, mention ways to amplify strength and improve safety with breath, the depth of understanding and application haven't been quite like I'd prefer.

Reading this material makes me think how much further I have to go. It's been a little while that I've actually had to read something a couple of times to really get what the author was talking about. I'm really enjoying being back in a school setting, it's really getting my mind in the mode of massive absorption. I figure I'll keep taking in information and eventually I have the time to really play with it.

On some other notes todays workout has been neural warmup variations about 4-5 times and today I did some rowing on a Concept 2 rower. my previous times have been pretty good, I've done 500m in 1min27 and 1000m in under 3mins. which regardless of age and weight would put me right at the top 50 in the world if I looked at the site right, I never really trained much at rowing, I think that my climbing and kettlebell work helped alot. Today i did 500 meters in about 2 minutes, nothing spectacular by any stretch but it was great to get in some other activity. We'll see how it goes.