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	<title>Peter's Soapbox &#187; Health &amp; Fitness</title>
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		<title>Shoulder Tension</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do humans have a tendency to &#8220;get into our shoulders?&#8221; I&#8217;ve been pondering this for a while now. When I first started practicing aikido, my sensei told me that I was &#8220;very much in my head.&#8221; These days, I feel like I&#8217;ve settled down from being in my head to more &#8220;in my shoulders.&#8221;
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Aikido and Injuries</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/02/25/on-aikido-and-injuries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve got experience with, it&#8217;s injuries. As always, I don&#8217;t claim to be an expert here, but with a broken clavicle, broken femur, sublexed patella, subluxed wrist bones, bursitis, and a psoas that can best be described as &#8220;too tight,&#8221; I definitely have some experience with training under less than optimal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Everyday Enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/02/20/book-review-everyday-enlightenment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think you need to read this book, you do, and if you don't think you need to read this book, you still probably do.]]></description>
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		<title>200 Squats &#8211; I (over) Did It!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/17/200-squats-i-over-did-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/17/200-squats-i-over-did-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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Two days ago, I pushed myself to complete the 200 squats program a week ahead of schedule. Essentially, on my week 5 exhaustion test, I did all 200.
Unfortunately, I think didn&#8217;t stick with the form after the first hundred or so, and my posture suffered. As a result, my back&#8217;s suffering too.
The moral of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundred Pushups Redux, Now With Squats!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/11/26/hundred-pushups-redux-now-with-squats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I&#8217;m back on the hundred pushups challenge, again. I&#8217;m also doing the two hundred squats challenge on alternating days! I&#8217;m in the middle of week 4 (since I was easily able to bang out 50 squats on the first week) of each.
Now, to make it through three Thanksgiving dinners (ah, the joys of large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Month!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/11/10/what-a-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a month! I've been busy.]]></description>
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		<title>Sinister Retrograde Chain Suck</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/09/25/sinister-retrograde-chain-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to decide on my next mountain bike. I really like my old Tomac Six Shooter &#8211; a versatile, light, nimble all-mountain bike. However, for some of the trails I tackle, something a little heavier-duty is called for. I went to the local mountain bike store (one of my favorite hangouts, Green Mountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Power of Full Enagement</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/09/11/book-review-the-power-of-full-enagement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. As the subtitle indicates, &#8220;Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal.&#8221;  
I found this book particularly interesting and useful, as it bucks the current &#8220;getting things done&#8221; and other &#8220;time management&#8221; trends, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McConnell Taping</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/18/mcconnell-taping/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/18/mcconnell-taping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, after starting a new round of physical therapy for my knee, I experimented with McConnell Taping to see if it could keep my patella in place. I&#8217;d tried something like this before, and was pretty skeptical.
To my surprise, the technique not only moved my kneecap into a more proper location, the tape actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Hundred Push Ups, Week 3, Day 3 (Column 3)</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/12/one-hundred-push-ups-week-3-day-3-column-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/12/one-hundred-push-ups-week-3-day-3-column-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew! I did it! Week three is DONE. 
Now for another exhaustion test and the dreaded week 4, which always kicked my butt the last time(s) around. 
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