Year: 2024
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Catching My Thoughts
I don’t know about you, but I struggle to write my thoughts down and focus on tasks. I was talking to a friend recently and I said to them that the thoughts in my head are almost like flies. flying around in my head, because they are difficult to catch, and when I do catch…
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Articulating Your Words
This topic is a BIG topic and there are many nuances to this one, to be honest I’m already exhausted just thinking about what I’m going to write! Many of us Dyspraxics really struggle to enunciate, pronunciate and speak our thoughts in a clear and concise manner. I believe it’s because of the disconnnect between…
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Build Your Delts
Your Delts are the muscles that ‘cap’ your shoulder. There are 3 of them, but in this video I’m going to show you an exercise that target the middle one. It’s got many names, but that doesn’t matter, as long as you know which muscle it is. So the deltoids are small muscles that help…
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T-Bar Rows for Upper Back Thickness
T-Bar rows are a fantastic exercise for building upper back thickness, The machine (which has a long bar and handle shaped like a T), usually has a footplate, handles, and a pad for chest support. A mistake a lot of people make, mostly guys, is they put on too much weight. You’ll see a guy…
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I Want To Make More Friends
Are you Dyspraxic, or possibly think you have Dyspraxia but don’t know as you haven’t had a diagnosis, but you have symptoms that point to it? If the answer is yes, read on! If the answer is no, read on! Because making friends or struggling to make friends is not elitist to just Dyspraxics, making…
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My Favourite Band Slipknot
A lot of people, I think, are quite surprised when I tell them that my favourite band is Slipknot. Maybe it’s because I don’t look like the type of person that would listen to heavy music (dare I say brutal), whatever that means, but yes, they’re my favourite band. If you don’t know who Slipknot…
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Dyspraxia Does NOT Make You Stupid
Dyspraxics, we all have something we HATE doing, right? For me, it’s anything to do with fractions or percentages, because my brain just struggles to understand how to find an answer through fractions or percentages. For example, my Wife and I took out a store card for Argos some time ago and it came with…
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My No. 1 Lesson In Marriage To Help You
I really wasn’t sure what to give this blog post as a title, so I just called it ‘A Lesson In Marriage’, but it’s the most important lesson I’ve learned, so it’s worth a post. So, let’s started at the beginning, before I met my wife……. I have 1 brother and we were pretty much…
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Escape ‘Gym-Timidation’ with This Practical Tip
The aim of this post is not to cure you of your feeling of judgement from other when you go to the gym, it is more to give you a sense of perspective as to why you shouldn’t worry about feeling judged, because it’s all internal, it’s in your mind, but don’t worry, I’ve been…
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There Are No Bad Exercises, Only Bad Leverages
During conversation with people you know about exercise, you’ll hear a lot from people about an exercise they hate, or a machine they hate or an exercise they just can’t do for whatever particular reason. Exercises exist to provide a purpose, and when executed properly, they accomplish that goal. If you look at the world…