Çfarë Është “Jeffing”? Metoda Që Kombinon Ecjen Me Vrapin Dhe Ju Ndihmon Të Jeni Në Formë
Nëse keni ndjekur ndonjëherë një garë vrapimi, me siguri keni parë disa pjesëmarrës që alternojnë vrapin me ecjen, edhe pak minuta pas nisjes. Kjo nuk është shenjë lodhjeje apo dorëzimi, por pjesë e një teknike të strukturuar që quhet “Jeffing”.
Kjo metodë, e njohur edhe si “run-walk” apo “Galloway method”, kombinon segmente vrapimi me pushime të shkurtra në ecje. Ajo përdoret prej dekadash si…
Do you want to add an additional challenge to the walk? Or do you want to run too staggered? “Jeffing” can be your answer.
Jeffing is a training method that includes both running and walking intervals during exercise. The Olympic Runner, JEFF Galloway, was founded, and all levels of people came to think about the Run Work concept to go further, protect themselves from injuries and enjoy more…
For a most of human history, every generation has striven to be a little better than the one preceding it. To improve our cities, to have fewer wars, not to burn quite so many people at the stake, that kind of thing.
That way of thinking’s kind of out of style now. The Enlightenment’s for squares. Fewer people are studying Natural Philosophy. More people are eating with their mouths open. And going to Tesco in your pyjamas is seen as, if anything, a touch too formal.
What most people want, our political masters have decided, is absurdly simple answers to really complicated questions. And boy, are we getting them.
The remote, patrician Prime Ministers of yesteryear have become matey chaps who invite you to call them Dave. Even if, in many cases, their name isn’t even Dave. Nigel Farage is never pictured without his signature pint. Ed Miliband pretends to know what a Cornish Pastie is. Ed Balls hasn’t rolled his sleeves down in months.
And yet we like them less than ever. Public enthusiasm for the political class is at an all-time low. Not because the politicians are dumbing down. But because they’re dumbing down wrong.
When Andrew Mitchell MP berated a couple of policemen he was vilified by the public and the press. Because instead of calling them ‘knobjockey or ‘shitbiscuit’ as any decent person might have done he (reportedly) called them ‘plebs.’
And that’s just the most obvious case. 53.2% of all politics news these days seems to be whether someone did or did not use a recondite epithet. If MPs could just learn how to insult people like the rest of us do we, the great unwashed, would instantly hail them brothers and clasp them to our collective bosom.
So while ‘How To Swear’ might never reach a mass audience, it’ll be taken up with profitable enthusiasm by zealous politicians who want nothing more than to win the hearts of us voters.
The book will comprise a series of modules that start with entry-level vocabulary — replacing pithy quotes from Macaulay or Gibbon with more modish terms from the works of Irvine Welsh — and work their way up with really advanced swearing that might pass muster in a modern nightclub or seminary.
Here, from Chapter 12, are some examples.
Potential publishers might be looking at this proposal and thinking “Yes, I can see how this might sell to MPs but it’s a pretty niche market.” But there are a lot more potential buyers than that.
There are MPs, MEPs, Councillors, Political wannabes and the kind of people who highlight the word ‘bum’ in their new dictionary as soon as they get it.
Add that lot up, we’re talking Twilight numbers. 50 Shades numbers. Harry Potter numbers. Fucking loads.