I’m sick of the internet pseudonym thing. I am neither so important that I need to hide who I am online nor so fearful. I can understand that others may need anonymity, but it’s sorta ridiculous in my case. Besides too many use it as a safe haven for bashing others from cover. There’s something fundamentally unfair about snipers…
And: If someone doesn’t like what I say, they should have the right to know who said it.
Full name: Wade Anthony Dare. My parents always called me Tony. I don’t know why. At least it didn’t lead to gender orientation issues…
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
You change the name of your thread? Who’s this Tony character.
I think you’d be crazy not to train at your age. What get old and weak.[/quote]
I agree completely. Health is directly related to high percentage of lean body mass. More muscle tissue makes you resistant to infections, shortens the life of infections you do get. The support activities for weightlifting are themselves health promoting: getting proper nutrition, hydration and rest.
Weight training and cardio make the heart, lungs and cells stronger and more efficient, the bones denser and less likely to break and strengthens connective tissue so that falls are less likely to tear or break something…
All thanks to God, but I haven’t been sick (discounting food poisoning) for about two years, since I started managing my recovery better. I hope never to need a walker.
It’s about the only health insurance you’re going to have in the near future.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
ecogenx wrote:
You change the name of your thread? Who’s this Tony character.
I think you’d be crazy not to train at your age. What get old and weak.
I agree completely. Health is directly related to high percentage of lean body mass. More muscle tissue makes you resistant to infections, shortens the life of infections you do get. The support activities for weightlifting are themselves health promoting: getting proper nutrition, hydration and rest.
Weight training and cardio make the heart, lungs and cells stronger and more efficient, the bones denser and less likely to break and strengthens connective tissue so that falls are less likely to tear or break something…
All thanks to God, but I haven’t been sick (discounting food poisoning) for about two years, since I started managing my recovery better. I hope never to need a walker.
It’s about the only health insurance you’re going to have in the near future.[/quote]
Well you know I agree. It’s about balancing your health. There is no one important part. We need proper nutrition to ensure our internal organs are healthy and that there is energy and building blocks to sustain our daily needs.
We need resistance training to develope and maintain our physical structure. Aerobic training to exercise the heart and lungs and keep our muscles, tendon and ligaments agile. Then we have the mind to play with, that which we use to set course to our destiny. Total health, it’s awesome I know, I have it!
Grip work
Found a 30-lb rock with various grip surfaces at the beach while watching my son boogie-board. Lotta walking around holding and throwing and picking it, depending on the surface.
Rhabdomyolysis - the breakdown of muscle tissue into it’s constituent proteins and their possible overloading of the kidneys. Symptoms include kidney failure(in extreme cases), brown or discolored urine, nausea and vomiting. Usually caused by traumatic crushing injuries to large portions of muscle tissue, but has entered popular the popular lexicon of fanatical Cross-Fitters (they’re not all bad) as “rhabdo” due to it’s occurrence from extreme exercise.
I guess you CAN get too much of a good thing.
Kind of defeats the purpose of weight training I would think.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Weight training and cardio make the heart, lungs and cells stronger and more efficient, the bones denser and less likely to break and strengthens connective tissue so that falls are less likely to tear or break something…
All thanks to God, but I haven’t been sick (discounting food poisoning) for about two years, since I started managing my recovery better. I hope never to need a walker.
It’s about the only health insurance you’re going to have in the near future.[/quote]
Don’t know if you ever read Logan’s Run, but when I did (a long time ago, in the 60s it seems like), the thing that hit me was that a revolution against older people would not come because there were too few of them, but because there were too many.
Especially with the wave of non-compliant diabetics (which probably consume about half the entitlement medical bill right now, or about 20% of the federal budget) and the way the economy is going, I suspect many serious problems to come in the future.
I think you are hitting it.
As for nicknames, heck, I don’t try to offend anyone and everyone else uses them. I wouldn’t worry about it. It is good to be happy with you you are though.
Grip work
Found a 30-lb rock with various grip surfaces at the beach while watching my son boogie-board. Lotta walking around holding and throwing and picking it, depending on the surface.
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I can only imagine the looks you must have gotten walking around the beach carrying/throwing a rock. Although, in CA this may be normal behavior compared to a lot of other stuff you see.
Weight training and cardio make the heart, lungs and cells stronger and more efficient, the bones denser and less likely to break and strengthens connective tissue so that falls are less likely to tear or break something…
All thanks to God, but I haven’t been sick (discounting food poisoning) for about two years, since I started managing my recovery better. I hope never to need a walker.
When I was a young man I remember how impressed I was by older people who were in shape. My goal is to be an impressive old person. Some may call it vain-the alternative is unacceptable.
Grip work
Found a 30-lb rock with various grip surfaces at the beach while watching my son boogie-board. Lotta walking around holding and throwing and picking it, depending on the surface.
I can only imagine the looks you must have gotten walking around the beach carrying/throwing a rock. Although, in CA this may be normal behavior compared to a lot of other stuff you see.
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No - 't’ain’t normal, even in California. People move away or look at me strangely.
Grip work
Found a 30-lb rock with various grip surfaces at the beach while watching my son boogie-board. Lotta walking around holding and throwing and picking it, depending on the surface.
I can only imagine the looks you must have gotten walking around the beach carrying/throwing a rock. Although, in CA this may be normal behavior compared to a lot of other stuff you see.
No - 't’ain’t normal, even in California. People move away or look at me strangely.
Grip work
Found a 30-lb rock with various grip surfaces at the beach while watching my son boogie-board. Lotta walking around holding and throwing and picking it, depending on the surface.
I can only imagine the looks you must have gotten walking around the beach carrying/throwing a rock. Although, in CA this may be normal behavior compared to a lot of other stuff you see.
No - 't’ain’t normal, even in California. People move away or look at me strangely.
But no more so than usual.
Hands feel good and solid today.
Nice! I like to OH press rocks at the beach.
No people don’t think its normal in CA[/quote]
Hi Kalle! Nice to see you in the old farts arena!
There’s a 180-lber at that beach that I like to occasionally pick up and tote around as well. Driftwood logs appear now and then and those are fun to see if you can shoulder them. They’re heavier than they look since they are usually waterlogged.
We have logs on our beaches. You can lift some, the others are for looking at. The really big logs are fun in the water. Like lifting with bands or chains, the higher the heavier. Maybe we were a little crazy back then, it was fun though.
I don’t live near the beach so, no water soaked logs for me. I have to use crack-heads in my neighborhood. But to be fair, they are always LIGHTER than they appear so, i guess it’s not really the same. California must be swell.
Thumbless Hammer Curls
55’s 2x6 (PR weight for thumbless)
Thumbless Reverse curls
90 2x8
Buncha Rotator cuff stuff
various x lots
Stupidhead Shrugs (as though I wasn’t tired enough already)
225x10
315x10
405 2x6 ( -4 reps) (straps)
Done. Cooked. Roll me into the hole and pile the dirt on.
Good session, though it would have been wise to skip the shrugs. DBs and bars were easier to hold today. Strapped up for rows though cuz I want the lat strength more than the grip strength. I can hold my deads just fine.
edit: It’s the calories, man. I’m doing NOTHING else different than that.
[quote]zildjianman wrote:
I don’t live near the beach so, no water soaked logs for me. I have to use crack-heads in my neighborhood. But to be fair, they are always LIGHTER than they appear so, i guess it’s not really the same. California must be swell. [/quote]
Weigh them and add rolls of quarters to the pockets as needed.
I have to say, my part of California is swell. Winters are bitterly cold here, though: it may get down to 50 degrees around December/January.
Train late, can’t get sleepy. I hate that. I shoulda just done standing presses in the garage in the afternoon, but Nooooooo, I need my special cage at the commercial gym so’s I can do my partial OHP’s. SO I gotta wait for the wife to get home to watch the boy while I jet to the gym.
Crap.
But wait - we need dinner don’t we? Oh, nothing defrosted in the house for a full meal? Guess we gotta go out.
Crap.
Oh - PeelOut needs some math homework help? Well, yes, I have a degree in math, but honey it’s FIFTH GRADE… okay.
Crap.
Still the workout was great. But now I can’t wind down, it’s 2 in the frickin’ AM and I gotta do breakfast and school prep duty at 7AM…
Crap.
Gonna go down another mass gainer mix, get horizontal and hope Morpheus comes to knock me out.
