[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I’m still crying in the corner regarding the bashing of relative strength.[/quote]
Me too. I show up well in the relative strength assessment.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
What I would give to have this “forgetting to eat” problem.
The old great strongmen and atheletes and soldiers were from a different era. they ate differently, and life was hard. they became hard. For instance, we all “work hard” at our jobs and in the gym, but most of us don’t do “hard work”. Farming and pick mining are hard jobs, typing is not, and neither is driving. I have been hooked on Chaos and Pain since you linked to it, and frankly, there is something to say about the insane volume done by alot of the old time guys. and most of that volume was in the work they did before they even got to the gym/field. As for the warrior part of it, I have read some shit about the Marines in WWI. Top of my list of guys not to fuck with. Again, less than 100 years ago but a totally different era. They werent just strong, they were “hard”. Most of us don’t live a life that requires us to be, or makes us, hard. we attempt to create that for ourselves, because we feel like its right to be hard. but it is no longer the stuff of everyday life, and most of the people around us don’t get it.
But fuck, who wants to die average?[/quote]
I want to die wearing a silver Elvis costume while riding a radioactive tyrannosaurus with laser beam vision into an exploding building.
I can arrange that.
If joegood can stand in as the T. Rex.
[quote]sfp wrote:
I can arrange that.
If joegood can stand in as the T. Rex.[/quote]
Is that because of all of your new special effects friends in West Hollywood?
I’m in.
waves very short arms
No, Strick, it’s all my friends in the intelligence and special forces communities. I’d go into more detail about all my time as a secret agent specializing in demolitions while disguised as Elvis in some of the most exotic locations around the world with high-rise buildings, but then I’d have to kill you.
And thanks, Joe. This is going to be easier than I thought.
[quote]sfp wrote:
No, Strick, it’s all my friends in the intelligence and special forces communities. I’d go into more detail about all my time as a secret agent specializing in demolitions while disguised as Elvis in some of the most exotic locations around the world with high-rise buildings, but then I’d have to kill you.
And thanks, Joe. This is going to be easier than I thought.[/quote]
Dude’s trying to upstage me because he knows I have more awesome than him.
Joe - you have laser heat vision?
edit: Let’s try this edit again - I SAID “I actually don’t feel so awesome today and may bugger off training.”
[quote]sfp wrote:
No, Strick, it’s all my friends in the intelligence and special forces communities. I’d go into more detail about all my time as a secret agent specializing in demolitions while disguised as Elvis in some of the most exotic locations around the world with high-rise buildings, but then I’d have to kill you.
And thanks, Joe. This is going to be easier than I thought.[/quote]
Uh…I don’t want to know that badly. Knowledge doesn’t really help a corpse all that much.
If you do come to kill me, watch out for my wife. She, believe it or not, would take great offense with that. And she can shoot the 454…pretty accurately, I might add.
Edit: I guess I should specify that the 454 is a handgun. Wasn’t sure if you would know, since you live in CA and aren’t allowed to own firearms 
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]sfp wrote:
No, Strick, it’s all my friends in the intelligence and special forces communities. I’d go into more detail about all my time as a secret agent specializing in demolitions while disguised as Elvis in some of the most exotic locations around the world with high-rise buildings, but then I’d have to kill you.
And thanks, Joe. This is going to be easier than I thought.[/quote]
Dude’s trying to upstage me because he knows I have more awesome than him.
Joe - you have laser heat vision?
edit: Let’s try this edit again - I SAID “I actually don’t feel so awesome today and may bugger off training.”[/quote]
You don’t have laser heat vision?
Elephants are awesome: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/02/assignment_america/main4696340.shtml?tag=currentVideoInfo;videoMetaInfo
(be sure to click on the video link, although there is an ad to suffer through)
Kings, eh.
2010-6-15
24 hour Fitness
Mood: Good. Eager to train. Almost antsy.
weight: 186
Clean and Press
115x5
135x3
150x3
165x3
180 1x7 sets
Deficit Deadlift (6" deficit)
225x3
315x3
405 1x7 sets
Cheat rows
270x3,3,3,3,2,2,2
Close Grip Bench (paused)
220 2x7 sets
Drove down to Millbrae to drop $600 on new tires. Since Firestone had my car I figured I’d take a walk and check the neighborhood and lo and behold! a 24 hour fitness. Bought some shorts and a t shirt, paid the day fee and pushed some weights around.
Presses were easy-peasy. Never a rep in doubt. Didn’t have any chalk so I couldn’t double-overhand the deadlifts but those went up pretty fast. Was getting tired on rows, I might have to rearrange things and put rows on floor press day. CGBP also easy.
Good day of training.
I started off yesterday not thinking I was going to train. I later said I was eager to train, so much so that I scouted a gym in a strange place, bought clothes to train in and paid too much for a day fee. What changed?
I had had a gigantic breakfast between the first post and that last one.
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
Elephants are awesome: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/02/assignment_america/main4696340.shtml?tag=currentVideoInfo;videoMetaInfo
(be sure to click on the video link, although there is an ad to suffer through)
Kings, eh.[/quote]
Humans should be so loyal.
Those deficit deads looked pretty rough there, good work.
You have a helluva good dead lift going on. Glad you ate a big breakfast!
2010-6-16
80% Day
BTN Push Press
115x5
145 5x2 sets
Deep Squats
135x5
225x5
265 5x2 sets
Strict BB Row
215 5x2 sets
BB Lunges (right leg only)
185 5x2 sets
This took half an hour. BTNPP felt very heavy today - should have done just one set.
Thanks, Wilson and Joe.
Joe - Actually the deadlifts are pretty easy on my back. I’m going pretty light and focusing more on pulling quickly. The Hepburn program will fry the back if you do too much more than squat weight on DLs. I don’t really think the deficits are going to make my deadlift go up a terrible lot, though, if at all. The form is too different at a 6" deficit. I am hoping it helps my power clean, however.
You made me google “Homunculus”.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
You made me google “Homunculus”.[/quote]
Was it good for you too?
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
You made me google “Homunculus”.[/quote]
Was it good for you too?[/quote]
[languidly smokes a cigarette]