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1, Push ups progressions2. Handstand push ups progressions3. Pull ups progressions4. Horizontal pull ups progressions5. Squats progressions6. Lower back works (bridging, inverted deadlift, etc)7. Abs (leg raises progressions, etc)8. Forearms (towel hangs progressions)9. Calves (calf raises progressions)10. Neck (horizontal neck bridges, etc)There are a lot more progressions before/between/after the photos that i gave you. Those are just examplesWork on your forms, do your workout progressively, intensively, and with discipline.Goodluck with your grind m8!

Students are coming to school with far worse behavior, and newly credentialed educators are coming from teacher training programs less able to control unruly students.The sad fact is that for a multiple of reasons, more students are coming to school and with underdeveloped impulse control, and an over-inflated since of entitlement. What they feel entitled to is to behave however they want when they want.I’ve been teaching for 21 years and began my career in a “low income” school in a town that was sometimes called the “methamphetamine capital” of California. I taught there for nearly a decade. After earning a MS in a scientific discipline, I took a position at a high school that was considered among the top 1000 in the United States and I’ve been teaching there since.Recently I’ve noticed a few things:Most of my high school students are less emotionally mature than the 6th graders I taught 20 years ago. They are more likely to throw tantrums and behave with childhood petulance than the 6th graders I taught years ago. This isn’t just an American problem. A friend of mine was staying with a family friend in Europe over the summer. Their 20ish son had wrecked his car and wanted to use mom’s car. When she wouldn’t let him he threw a full blown tantrum in front of company. I’m not saying that things were great 15 or 20 years ago. We had disciplinary challenges back then, but tantrums for telling a kid to do their work were rarer than they are today.Many students act like they don’t know something could even be wrong. Listen too closely to general schoolyard and classroom conversation and you’ll hear SH-words, F-words, compound MF words. Tell them to clean up their language and the nicer kids will apologize. But some kids will come right up to your desk and say “I’ve got to take a sh**,” instead of “May I have a pass.” One thing that really gets to me is how resentful kids are to cleaning up after themselves. It’s not uncommon for a kid to leave their chewed gum or used Kleenex on the floor for someone else to pick up. Instruct them clean the room after class and some kids will refuse. “That’s the janitor’s job.” I routinely catch kids hocking a loogie in the hallway, and chastise them for that. Many don’t even realize that spitting indoors is wrong.Lots of kids know better than to engage in a particular behavior, but know that there’s no real consequence for their behavior. Last year a colleague and I caught a kid ditching and got security involved. He called my colleague a “f***ing rat.” He knew that it was unlikely that it would come back to bite him. True to form, there was no real consequence for directing profanity at teachers.Many of the assignments I successfully used with 6th graders more than a decade ago are now beyond the skills and attention span of most high school students. The issue is more likely to be attention span, but lack of foundation skills are a significant problem. For example, 15 years ago most 6th graders came to me knowing how to find the mean of a set of numbers. Now, about half my class won’t know how to do it without serious reteaching. And even though I purposefully design labs so they will need to find the mean of a set of 4 or 5 numbers, most find dividing by 4 and 5 difficult and demand to use calculators. This was not a problem I ran into 20 years ago. Remember, I’m talking about high school students.A significant fraction of the adolescents are addicted to personal electronics to the point where they lack basic social skills. When you have them put their phones away for a class, they are constantly thinking about their phones the way a nicotine addict is thinking about the next puff. They cannot concentrate because the addiction has taken over their lives.So are children more disobedient and distracted, absolutely. But let’s not blame the children. It’s adults who got rid of the consequences. It’s adults who used TV and video games as pacifiers and babysitters. It’s adults who handed them highly addictive electronic devices and expected they would use them responsibly.Now having said that about the students, it’s important to realize that teachers have changed as well. Many young new teachers have absolutely no experience with what Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers would recognize as a traditional classroom.That is they really didn’t experience a lot of orderliness growing up, so they cannot model themselves on teachers they had when growing up.It also warrants mentioning that many of them matriculated through teacher training programs where traditional notions of discipline are as out of style as leisure suits.When I was earning my first teaching credential, old school Progressive Education philosophy was the unquestioned bedrock of teacher training. The progressive model was weak on things such as discipline and academic rigor, and placed the majority of emphasis on what were called soft skills. But there was still a hint of recognition that students learned best when some kind of order was maintained.By the time I started earning my MA in Education, the progressive model was being bullied out to the way by the Critical pedagogy model of teacher training. Many ed-schools were claiming to teach the Progressive Model, but what they were teaching was actually Critical pedagogy. This was definitely the case for many of my graduate Education classes.So what is Critical pedagogy. Basically it comes from a political philosophy called Critical Theory, which is basically a version of Marxism where economics have been replaced with relationships of “power” and “oppression.”Douglas Kellner, a proponent of the neo-Marxist Critical Theory, describes the evolution of thought from Karl Marx to what I had to learn to get my credential in California 20 years ago in From Classical Marxism to Critical Pedagogy by Douglas Kellner.“Alongside of the proliferation of neo-Marxian theories of culture and society and globalization of cultural studies, forms of an oppositional critical pedagogy emerged that explicitly criticized schooling in capitalist societies while calling for more emancipatory modes of education. In his now classic The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1972), Brazilian educator and activist Paulo Freire criticized the "banking concept of education" while calling for more interactive, dialogical, and participatory forms of pedagogy that are parallel in interesting ways to those of John Dewey. While Dewey wanted education to produce citizens for democracy, however, Freire sought, in the spirit of Marxist revolutionary praxis, to develop a pedagogy of the oppressed that would produce revolutionary subjects, empowered to overthrow oppression and to create a more democratic and just social order.”Within the framework of Critical pedagogy, the emphasis is on equity and redress of past injustices. If a student is acting up, it’s because our racist capitalist system has so victimized this student that he is merely reacting to his oppression. A system of discipline that would coerce this student into what the white, hetero-normative patriarchy considers “good behavior” is actually further oppression. It’s kind of the educational equivalent of the 1970s cliche where the criminal is the “victim of society.”Now don’t get me wrong. Most teachers are not coming out of Ed-school as raving Marxists. At this point many of the people teaching these courses don’t know about the origins of their teaching. While they think they’re teaching old fashioned 20th century Progressive Education, the Critical pedagogy is so intertwined with the teacher-training curriculum that it would be hard to separate it. What I’m saying is that when you go through such a program, teaching you to get “control” of an unruly student isn’t just a low priority, it might be seen as “further oppression.”

No, it was the other way around. Stalin was its only hope.The history of many countries shows that Stalinism with its national derivatives is the only viable form of Communism. Disciplined and sustained implementation of Stalinist principles could have preserved it until our days and maybe even made it the dominant force in the Eastern hemisphere.The main principles of Stalinism were gradually abandoned in the USSR after Stalin’s death. In hindsight, the Communist cause was doomed the day he died. The following things turned out to be unavoidable requirements for the survival of Communism:A semi-permanent state of emergency in preparation for revolutionary wars—in Soviet parlance called “repelling Imperialist aggression” and “reaching a helping hand to the fighters for peace and progress”.Forced rotation of bureaucracy in regular purges at all levels, based on the principles of meritocracy.A relentless concentration of economic resources on the “heavy industry” and “scientific and technical progress”, which was the Soviet designation of the military-industrial complex.Shielding the population from all types of bourgeois influence behind an impenetrable perimeter of national borders and in the media space.Eradication of all manifestations of consumerism, nationalism, and religiosity.Institutionalized slave labor for modernization of infrastructure, colonization of provinces and expedited implementation of technological projects—like the space program and atomic bomb, both of which were administered by the secret police in sharáshkas (“prison-style laboratories and research centers”).Below, a photo showing one of the last sparks of the Stalinist fighting spirit. This is a group of Soviet functionaries during a war training session in the early 1970s. Irreverent Russian Internet users circulate it with the meme “We should live our lives as if Christ was coming this afternoon.” In the 1970s, the USSR probably had its last chance to win the Cold War—but the Communist rulers appeared not to be up to the task.