Kevin McGuckin
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Kevin McGuckin
@kslith
A Shamrock. A father. A husband. A dude!
Ballinderry Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Great night in Dungannon last night talking NFL, the Superbowl and GOD with @Michael_NFL and @neilreynoldsnfl
Thanks to @Ronan_Devlin for the lift too 🏈
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The classic north/south debate... 🇬🇧
At 5pm is it dinner time or tea time? 🤔
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Pete Weber was not trying to go viral when he won the 2012 PBA U.S. Open. All he wanted to do was to show up a 12-to-14 year old who jeered against him "a little too loudly" for his liking.
When he put up a strike on his final shot, he meant to tell the fan "Who do you think you are f---ing with me in my house? This is my tournament."
Except he had the greatest slip-up of all-time, and it became the most infamous celebratory quote in sports history:
"Who do you think you are? I am."
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Carlos Sainz just wanting to sing smooth operator
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That's it, pass me the clippers 💇🏼♂️
Billy Oppenheimer@bpoppenheimer
When he was 19, Andre Agassi started losing his hair. Deeply ashamed of his receding hairline, to hide it, Agassi started wearing a hairpiece. Not long after, at the 1990 French Open, Agassi made it to his first Grand Slam final. “The night before the final,” Agassi writes, “Catastrophe strikes.” As he was taking a shower, Agassi felt the hairpiece disintegrate in his hands. He summoned his brother, who was able to clip the hairpiece back together with 20 bobby pins. The next morning, Agassi writes, “warming up before the match, I pray. Not for a win, but for my hairpiece to stay on…My tenuous hairpiece has me catatonic…With every lunge, every leap, I picture it landing on the clay. I can picture millions of people suddenly leaning closer to their TVs, turning to each other and in dozens of languages and dialects saying some version of: Did Andre Agassi’s hair just fall off?” At times, he looks into the stands and sees fans sporting hairdos just like his. This only exacerbates his sense of shame. “I can’t imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi,” he writes, “since I don’t want to be Andre Agassi.” Because of this fixation on his hairpiece, though he was the heavy favorite, Agassi lost three sets to one. After, his girlfriend, aware of the hairpiece catastrophe, says, “I think you should just get rid of that hairpiece.” “Impossible,” Agassi replies, “I’d feel naked.” “You’d feel liberated,” she says. He thought it over for a few days: “I thought about the pain my hair has caused me, the hypocrisy and the pretending and the lying.” And then he went back to his girlfriend, “Let’s do it…Let’s cut it all off.” His first tournament with a bald head was another Grand Slam, the Australian Open, and, “I come out like the Incredible Hulk. I don’t drop one set in a take-no-prisoners blitz to the final.” You were right, he told his girlfriend before the final, “my hairpiece was a shackle.” In the final, he won three sets to one. “Everyone says it’s my best performance yet, because it’s my first victory over Pete [Sampras]. But I think twenty years from now I’ll remember it as my first bald victory.” Takeaway 1: In his book, in interviews, and in the documentary “Stutz,” the psychiatrist Phil Stutz talks about the Shadow. “The easiest way to say it,” Stutz explains, “is that the Shadow is the part of yourself that you’re ashamed of…It’s a flawed part of yourself that you feel you have to hide and once you start to hide things, you become very sensitive to whether other people can see them or not. It becomes an obsession—How do they see me, what do they think of me, do they like me, love me?” The more you try to hide what you’re ashamed of, as Agassi said, the more ashamed you feel. “But the beauty is,” Stutz continues, “once you stop hiding it, you can relax and then you get flow. If you stop hiding your Shadow, if you stop hiding, you get flow. And that’s what everybody wants.” After he stopped hiding his Shadow, Agassi got flow. He went on to win back-to-back Grand Slams and ended 1995 as the number one ranked tennis player in the world, replacing Pete Sampras who held the spot for eighty-two straight weeks. Takeaway 2: Keeping in mind that Agassi was so worried about what others would think or say about his shaved head, I went searching for what others thought or said after he shaved his head. All I could find was a passing mention in a 1995 Washington Post piece (“The wild mane of hair he sported at the tournament last season has been replaced with his new no-nonsense buzz cut.”) It made me think of a line from the philosopher Seneca, who writes in a letter titled On Groundless Fears: “We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.” In his head, Agassi thought people would think or say nasty things about him. In reality, no one really cared. - - - “The most precious thing we have in life is time, so any time you spend worrying about something, get rid of it.” — Andre Agassi Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!
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My brain cannot comprehend this no matter how hard I try
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Gym/Exercise newbies.
1. If you plan to jog or run, INVEST in trainers that are comfortable, long lasting and give plenty of cushion. You don't put scooter wheels on a bin lorry. Your converse all star or 20 year old sambas will get you injured.
2. Intervals. Read my last post. It keeps your brain interested.
3. Make a playlist. If the Rocky theme gets you through that 9/10 RPE minute, then listen to it. Songs that gets you going.
4. Don't negotiate with yourself when you get up or have finished work and say "I'll go tomorrow". Have your gear in a bag near the door ( kit, trainers, bottle, gum, small gym towel, toiletry bag, big towel) and Just. Fucking. Go. Out. The. Door. I've never seen anyone get out the door, walk 200 yards or enter the gym and not do something. When that voice says "stay in bed" or "I'll go tomorrow", that's when you NEED to go.
5. 18 and 80 year olds will chat to you within a month at a gym. It's a place where everyone in there is pushing their own boundaries and the respect you'll get from everyone will be self fulfilling. That chat and "hey, how are you?" is in itself a mental health tonic.
6. Perfume and aftershave. Never wear either in the gym. Body heat plus perfume or aftershave amplifies to become genuinely off putting to others.
7. Buy a cheap 1 litre water bottle. Sip not glug regularly in the gym. Any left after the session, chug the lot.
8. Motivation. Won't exist 90% of the sessions you do. That's the truth. But the habit of going will put you through even the hardest days when you don't fancy it, and often come out as the most satisfying sessions. I'll repeat, you will not be motivated 90% + times you exercise. But the payback when you feel incredible, recognise yourself in a mirror, have plenty of energy for yourself, friends and family is priceless. It really is.
9. Do it for you. It's your time for you. 1 hour, 30 mins, 10 mins. Fuck everything and everyone else off. You've earned the right to build yourself as you want to be. Take all the credit because only you are doing it.
10. Get an Instagram account. There are thousands of free PT Sessions, runners, weightlifters, women's sessions, peri menopausal fitness recommendations, limited ability sessions, the lot. Follow a few and let them guide you. There is no longer an excuse that you don't know what to do or eat, it's only your current habits holding you back. Change the habits and create new ones.
11. Patience. That's not an excuse to not go until next Thursday, it means having painfully small goals. You're lighting a tiny 1 twig fire that come summertime will be a roaring fire.
12. Weights. 10 reps, 3 times.
Quads ( front thigh)
Hamstrings ( back thigh)
Chest Press
Low Row
Pec Fly
Squats
13. Food/alcohol. Brutal but simple. There are no safe levels of alcohol, none. So if you're a regular or big drinker, I wouldn't bother starting. A recipe to breakdown and be frustrated. Not my place to tell anyone not to drink, but one fact remains, it will never take you to a healthier life, even 1. As for food, Google "eating for good health". Like alcohol, if you went overboard on the sweets, cheese, massively overindulged to go to the gym and be blowing out of your arse after 5 mins, it's what you're eating, not the gym and exercise that's the problem. Many who struggle mentally have horrific diets. Do you? Start there.
14. Relationship with exercise.
You exercise to feel good, be healthy and have longevity. You don't exercise so you can have an extra 2 curries in a week or extra bottle of wine. The latter destroys the ability to do the former well. Choose your hard as they say. A hard 1 hour 3 times a week that leaves you bouncing? Or 4500 calories that tasted great but leave you morbidly obese, using statins and 5 other meds. Exercise and good health destroy ailments. Why? Because your body is fucking a truly amazing tool when used properly.
15. Go for it. There's many on here who'll cheer you on. Me included.
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@DB_og82 @derrygaamasters @dibsdeery @adidasfootball Cheers Donal 🤣🤣 still waiting on sponsor offers - they must be waiting until after Christmas 🤪🤪🇮🇪
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@derrygaamasters Well done @dibsdeery & @kslith two top lads best of luck. Big kev needs some green boots @adidasfootball to match the Ireland kit 👍🏼
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❗️Announcement❗️
Massive congratulations to Adrian Deery who has been selected for Ireland Over 50s International Rules squad to play in the 2 Tests against the Aussies on the 9th and 16th March 🇮🇪
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"When you are a young fella, you dream of lifting the John McLaughlin Cup and being the man at the top of the steps lifting it on behalf of your team and parish. " @kslith
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