Lessons in Love from the Heart of San Francisco
We’ve learned a lot from rock climbing lessons in love (see here if you don’t know what I’m talking about) but it’s time for San Fran Voice to move on to learning about love from other San Francisco activities. In sticking, just for this week, to the theme of sports activity in San Francisco, we’ll take a look at another one which (like with rock climbing), I tried for awhile, loved and gave up. The sport activity was super slow strength training. And the lesson I learned from it that applies to one’s love life was:
Short and intense can do wonders for your body.
Super slow strength training is a form of weight training that I was doing in the first year that I moved to San Francisco. Let’s face it; this is a fit city. I didn’t want to be one of the few people around without a working out kind of body, but I had to admit that I wasn’t really a working out kind of girl. Then I discovered Super Slow. Super slow strength training is a gym-machine-based workout which takes less than half an hour but works each of your body’s muscles to its failure point. The result is that it’s hard to get used to at first, but you get these amazing little workouts that do wonders for your body in a quick amount of time. For a girl who would rather not be working out, this was terrific because the workout was over almost as soon as it began, and the results were almost immediate.
And if you look around at the San Francisco dating scene, you’ll see that this short and intense approach can be applied to it as well. San Francisco is such a transient location that people are here and then gone in the blink of an eye. Combined with our super busy lives, our love for instant gratification and the plethora of options in the singles dating scene for anyone without regard to orientation or fetish preference, this creates a situation in which many people are indulge in short, super intense affairs. They may not be right for everyone. There are certainly long term relationship oriented people in the world and probably even some in San Francisco. But for the twenty-thirty something group which makes up the bulk of the urban singles scene here, it can be an excellent way to get what you need from love. As for the way it applies to your body, I’ll stick to explaining the benefits of super slow and you can draw your own conclusions on the rest.
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