So it's 78 of my podcasts, the view from the crow's nest is 20 seconds at today, the 22nd of August 2020. And today, I kind of took a day off, I sort of accidentally took a day off. I started the day with a session training session with Abdel and with leg day. I have no personal achievement. At the end of the day, he said, Okay, we're just going to do something. Just one simple thing. Now to finish off, we're going to do the plank. So okay, I don't think I've done a plank with him. In all the sessions that we've had not like straight up a plank, and he said, we'll do it for two minutes. I thought man alive last a long time and only I can do two minutes. And yeah, got two minutes and he was okay, that's two minutes and I thought, wow, I could have carried on for at least another three seconds. No, I really I could have gone on for longer. And I was surprised how basically how much my stamina and strength has improved because of See It's, it's like when you It's like when you're growing as a child or whenever you know, or in any, in any way actually, as an adult, you don't really notice the changes when they're gradual. But when you see them, again, something in more contrast, and you notice, because I'm practising the plank, and because I've been doing it, my last time, I don't know when it was, but the last time I did a plank, you know, it was challenging for me on whenever, you know, it was really in contrast, so that was really cool. And he said, you know, yeah, I thought you're getting stronger fitter, and I just wanted to quickly test and it also shows you that you don't necessarily need to train one thing, in order to be able to do it, you know, you can try and peripheral things that will have an impact and everything I in this particular case didn't have to train plank. But other things have helped me to do the plank. And actually that idea that principle, kind of carries on into the second thing I did, which is a done my talents study. And then yesterday I decided to kind of get myself I think I said on the podcast to get back into music theory, and really try and get my head around it and actually I was starting to Understand it a bit more yesterday, like finally some things are really sinking in. But I didn't want to just sit on my lap. I wanted to build on that do some more studying today, which I did and then do some practical work by actually taking that to the guitar. And amazingly, you know, I play the guitar for like 25 or 30 years. And, you know, I still don't know my major scale properly. I still don't know my minor scales. I don't know the chords properly. You know, I don't know the notes on the guitar, the frets. It's terrible. You know, you get by by memorising a few patterns that you can move up and down the guitar. That's where the guitar is really powerful. But equally, that's what can make you particularly lazy. Whereas on a piano, there are patterns, of course, but I think pianists tend to have a bit more of a better understanding of music theory. And my reading my music reading is terrible as well. not terrible, but was pretty terrible. So I want to get it all up. But anyway, the point being that related to the first point, I figured that with the with the music theory, I might not be doing practising other things such as chords on the guitar or whatever, but my expectation is that it will peripherally help because it's all connected, of course. And then when I go to do something at some point that previously might have been challenging, or I might not have been able to do, I might be able to do it almost on the first time I try it because of these peripheral skills. And I'm really enjoying it. I love learning. As you may know, I love learning new things and new skills and better myself. And yeah, Music is my passion. And anything I learn more about, it equips me to be a better musician, and hopefully a better songwriter as well. So better producer maybe. So yeah, smells really cool. And so basically,
