Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on August 30, 1948 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois. In high school he excelled in academics and athletics. After Hampton graduated from high school, he enrolled in a pre-law program at Triton Junior College in River Grove, Illinois. Hampton also became involved in the civil rights movement, joining his local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His dynamic leadership and organizational skills in the branch enabled him to rise to the position of Youth Council President. Hampton mobilized a racially integrated group of five hundred young people who successfully lobbied city officials to create better academic services and recreational facilities for African American children.
In 1968, Hampton joined the Black Panther Party (BPP), headquartered in Oakland, California. Using his NAACP experience, he soon headed the Chicago chapter. During his brief BPP tenure, Hampton formed a “Rainbow Coalition” which included Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, a street gang and the National Young Lords, a Puerto Rican organization. Hampton was also successful in negotiating a gang truce on local television.
In an effort to neutralize the Chicago BPP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department placed the chapter under heavy surveillance and conducted several harassment campaigns. In 1969, several BPP members and police officers were either injured or killed in shootouts, and over one hundred local members of the BPP were arrested.
During an early morning police raid of the BPP headquarters at 2337 W. Monroe Street on December 4, 1969, twelve officers opened fire, killing the 21-year-old Hampton and Peoria, Illinois Panther leader Mark Clark. Police also seriously wounded four other Panther members. Many in the Chicago African American community were outraged over the raid and what they saw as the unnecessary deaths of Hampton and Clark. Over 5,000 people attended Hampton’s funeral where Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference eulogized the slain activist. Years later, law enforcement officials admitted wrongdoing in the killing of Hampton and Clark. In 1990, and later in 2004, the Chicago City Council passed resolutions commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.
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Anyone exercise without off days?
I find it so difficult to go running after a day off that I’m seriously considering it. I’m thinking of trying 7 days a week, with 2 light days instead on 6 days on and 1 day off.
Off days don’t seem to help me recover much anyway. Whenever I get a minor injury it seems to heal much better if I do a light jog instead of sitting around.
I do running in the morning and resistance training at night. Around 4 days a week have both, most days in the month have one of them going on.
Add in some daily walking and something exotic like gymnastics.
And yes you get fucking gorgeous fast doing this stuff once you get used to the kinda insane load.
The one of the Soviet methods was always go 80%. Cause you can go 80% every day. If you go 110% then take a rest day you have gone 100%. If you do 80% for those same two days you get 160%. So depending on the type of exercise and your goals that is a valid way to go. Tradionally if you are going for endurance type meaning that is a valid approach. For sprinting the high intensity seems important though. So it is up to you and your body.
That’s a good way to think about it, thanks. I think I can work my training plan into something that averages out to 80% a day over 7 days.
Yeah, there is a bunch if exercise theory stuff and it is unclear how much of it is bro science. However if multiple people get good results with diffrent methods that implies the methods are not that specific. Do what feels good to you. Momentum and consistency is the most important. Going over 70% seems to be important for cardiovascular health and improvement. Going to like 90%ish seems important for hypertrophy which doesn’t seem like your goal. If you are doing daily it is important to get good nutrition, rest, and listen to your body about injuries. A little bit of bad form is manageable once a week right? Doing daily if your form is lacking you will see injury adding up faster.
Movies like Rocky have instilled this idea that workouts need to be high intensity or else it’s lazy or doesn’t count.
The reality is that elite athletes tend to follow an 80/20 rule: about 80% of the workouts are light, and the remaining 20% are high intensity, ie, what most people would think of as a workout.
My point is you could just replace your off day with a low intensity workout, like a long walk or some casual swimming. It’s therapeutic and keeps your body active while still allowing for recovery.