I was having a discussion today with a friend who brought up the word, "Tetrapharmakos".  I asked, what the fuck is that?  (I don't ever pretend to know more than I actually do)  when all that was replied was that it is a "Four Part Cure".

"A four part cure for WHAT", I ask?

Life and death, Happiness and avoidance of anxiousness.

(yea..some of the people I hang out with are Brainiacs.  (It's fun hanging out with people that make you feel like a moron sometimes)

1.  Don't fear god,

2.  Don't worry about death;

3.  What is good is easy to get,

4.  What is terrible is easy to endure

 

Well far be it from me to leave this alone.  I wrote it down in my training book so I wouldn't forget to further explore it.

What I got from Wikipedia:

A summary of the first four of the forty Epicurean Principal Doctrines

1. A happy and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness
2. Death is nothing to us; for the body, when it has been resolved into its elements, has no feeling, and that which has no feeling is nothing to us.
3. The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
4. Continuous pain does not last long in the body; on the contrary, pain, if extreme, is present a short time, and even that degree of pain which barely outweighs pleasure in the body does not last for many days together. Illnesses of long duration even permit of an excess of pleasure over pain in the body.
Well I know I feel better about Tetrapharmakos!
Today's training:
Row: 12 minutes
Floor Press:
Beat last weeks three rep weight by 5 or 10 pounds
Overhead Press:
4x5@95 for men and 45 for women
On set number 5...go Apeshit to get as many reps as you can.  Beat the number you did a from a few days ago.
(I got three extra reps)
Stretcher Push Ups: Just go from the bottom 1/2 way up.  
Do 100 reps in as few sets as possible.  (I did them in TWO sets)
DB Front Raise:
4x10
Shrug:
3 x12@405
1 x as many as you can in a drop set:
I did...
405x30
315x18
225x16
135x9