you’re using heart rate as a guide, anything that sends your heart rate above about 85 percent of your maximum is high intensity. When you reach your menopausal years, it’s very important to incorporate the shortest, sharpest form of HIIT:
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“I may not have known much about pregnancies but I knew that you couldn’t have a son or a daughter without actually doing it first. The priests at school had once muttered something to the effect that when a mummy and a daddy loved each other very much, they lay close together and the Holy Spirit descended upon them to create the miracle of new life. (Charles, in his one attempt at a man-to-man talk with me, had put it rather differently. ‘Get her kit off,’ he said. ‘Play with her tits a bit, because the ladies love that. Then just stick your cock in her pussy and ram it in and out a bit. Don’t hang around too long in there – it’s not a bloody train station. Just do your business and get on with your day.’ It’s no wonder he managed to secure so many wives, the old romantic.) I”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred times a day but you don't really know what you're saying until you're faced with a real 'never again'.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Why do they hate us so much anyway?’ I asked after a lengthy pause. ‘If they’re not queer themselves, then what does it matter to them if someone else is?’ ‘I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,’ she said with a shrug.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
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