TRAINING 64. Put the New in Mnemonic Create a mnemonic device for something you are training, such as an acronym, rhyme, or sentence. Here are some great mnemonics I’ve learned at some point in my life; do you know what they mean? • SohCahToa?1 2 • Spring Forward, Fall Back? • Cows Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak? Persistent Early Oiling Might Prevent Painful Rheumatism.3 1 Trigonomic functions: Sine is Opposite over Hypotenuse, Cosine is Adjacent over Hypotenuse, Tangent is Opposite over Adjacent. 2 Daylight Savings Time: Adjust clocks ahead (forward) in Spring and backwards (back) in Fall. 3 Order of geological time periods: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devo- nian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent 43