oil? or water-color? pastels? abstracts? what’s yer flavor?
yeah, i’ve determined that asking dumb questions is a bad idea. i would love to ask gooder questions, but …
how many answers could a guy possibly need? i think that whole “do stuff” notion that you rave about is pretty appealing.
my favorite line from the DVD was when you were discussing one of the late Phase II walks with judy and the sled and either a bar or crosswalk, and you said something to this order:
these are reaaally hard, i like to get someone else to do them for me.
classic.
i am going to be at Staley’s boot camp in October. all i need is boots.
i promise to do two things:
(1) annoy you
(2) buy you a post boot camp … umm … recovery drink
Oh, I am hard to annoy. I have been dealing with teens since 1982, so I have heard it all.
I’m painting the living room and throwing the discus at about the same time.
I noticed that when you watch the DVD straight through…not really the idea…I get boring…
[quote]BFG wrote:
oil? or water-color? pastels? abstracts? what’s yer flavor?
yeah, i’ve determined that asking dumb questions is a bad idea. i would love to ask gooder questions, but …
how many answers could a guy possibly need? i think that whole “do stuff” notion that you rave about is pretty appealing.
my favorite line from the DVD was when you were discussing one of the late Phase II walks with judy and the sled and either a bar or crosswalk, and you said something to this order:
these are reaaally hard, i like to get someone else to do them for me.
classic.
i am going to be at Staley’s boot camp in October. all i need is boots.
i promise to do two things:
(1) annoy you
(2) buy you a post boot camp … umm … recovery drink
I need a good source for a Robertson Red kilt or kilted skirt.
My sister in laws wedding was moved to Sept 2 (groom’s mom is very ill), and now we have to move.
Mostly for my wife, but I’d love to provide the right one for my Father in law. I can wear the Clergy Ancient from Sport Kilt, though I prefer the Clergy Green (that was my original plan…grrr)
I wanted to relay a story to you about how useful the tabata squat workout is…
About 2 months ago a friend of mine who is a trainer with a small gym called and we were talking about things we were using. I had said we were using tabata front squats for our rugby 7’s players and the results was phenomenal. Conditioning and strength went up, and everyone’s thighs blew up.
I gave him the link and warned him to only use it on non-newbies and to be conservative with the weight selection.
Last weekend I went to his gym to help him finish putting up some drywall, and when we were done we were talking in the lifting area.
I noticed one of the guys was doing something that looked like tabata tricep pushdowns…and then tabata curls…and then tabata crunches.
Apparently since tabata front squats caused our thighs to grow they decided to use it for every exercise. I really was kind of speachless.
Good luck with the painting. I’m visiting my parents in Ohio this week and we just finished painting the entire upstairs.
Nothing like standing in the vaulted entry on top of a 20 year-old, 15 foot wobbly ladder. Needless to say I got a good balance/core stability workout.
Too bad i didnt take that job in houston, would be there helping you paint sounds like fun, lol just kidding, how you been doing, im doing good got that job, start in august, at least now i wont be starving, and be able to grocery shop now, more often hehehe, get my diet in order hehe
[quote]Danny John wrote:
I noticed that when you watch the DVD straight through…not really the idea…I get boring…[/quote]
In the real world, which I can’t wait to find by the way, I hear that people get bored with themselves. I doubt this happens much to you. I notice that the older I get, the less externalities I need … not insinuating that you are old or anything.
You really should take that masterpiece to Cannes or maybe Aspen since it’s closer. Interestingly, what one finds boring, another will find utterly fascinating. I’ve watched it twice: once for learning/ instructional purposes, and a second time for pure entertainment.
A unique aspect of posting on these forums is how one’s perspective/ bias/ culture/ whatever-you-wanna-call-it influences interpretation; that a hundred people can see the exact same screen and decipher it a hundred different ways. And so apparently sarcasm is really difficult to convey with Times New Roman … not that you would know anything about that.
I hear a lot of crap, mostly around the office, about “thinking outside the box.” This coming from people that have worked here for 5, 10, 15 years. This, to me, is ludicrous. I believe that there are a few basic categories into which everyone fits:
10%: in the box and totally unaware of the box
10%: in the box and ok with it
78.899%: in the box and think they are getting out of it
1%: in the box and actually getting out of it
.1%: outside the box but aware of the box (Bill Gates)
.001%: outside of the box and totally unaware of the box (Einstein)
Which prolly means I should get back to my box … errr … work.
Great post…email me some time and we can discuss the Boot CAmp.
[quote]BFG wrote:
Danny John wrote:
I noticed that when you watch the DVD straight through…not really the idea…I get boring…
In the real world, which I can’t wait to find by the way, I hear that people get bored with themselves. I doubt this happens much to you. I notice that the older I get, the less externalities I need … not insinuating that you are old or anything.
You really should take that masterpiece to Cannes or maybe Aspen since it’s closer. Interestingly, what one finds boring, another will find utterly fascinating. I’ve watched it twice: once for learning/ instructional purposes, and a second time for pure entertainment.
A unique aspect of posting on these forums is how one’s perspective/ bias/ culture/ whatever-you-wanna-call-it influences interpretation; that a hundred people can see the exact same screen and decipher it a hundred different ways. And so apparently sarcasm is really difficult to convey with Times New Roman … not that you would know anything about that.
I hear a lot of crap, mostly around the office, about “thinking outside the box.” This coming from people that have worked here for 5, 10, 15 years. This, to me, is ludicrous. I believe that there are a few basic categories into which everyone fits:
10%: in the box and totally unaware of the box
10%: in the box and ok with it
78.899%: in the box and think they are getting out of it
1%: in the box and actually getting out of it
.1%: outside the box but aware of the box (Bill Gates)
.001%: outside of the box and totally unaware of the box (Einstein)
Which prolly means I should get back to my box … errr … work.
[quote]croak wrote:
I wanted to relay a story to you about how useful the tabata squat workout is…
About 2 months ago a friend of mine who is a trainer with a small gym called and we were talking about things we were using. I had said we were using tabata front squats for our rugby 7’s players and the results was phenomenal. Conditioning and strength went up, and everyone’s thighs blew up.
I gave him the link and warned him to only use it on non-newbies and to be conservative with the weight selection.
Last weekend I went to his gym to help him finish putting up some drywall, and when we were done we were talking in the lifting area.
I noticed one of the guys was doing something that looked like tabata tricep pushdowns…and then tabata curls…and then tabata crunches.
Apparently since tabata front squats caused our thighs to grow they decided to use it for every exercise. I really was kind of speachless.[/quote]
[quote]Danny John wrote:
Thanks to an email…I can say:
“That’s not what I meant.”
Although, that did turn out funny…
bikemike wrote:
Danny John wrote:
I spent my youth trying to get inside the box.
I can’t believe you wrote that.
Happy painting.[/quote]
Coach,
I am not sure that you’ll see this post, but you know that translation part I was rambling about earlier … I think this is a nice sample … I interpreted that the same way that Mike did. Although I should have known better … but I thought that perhaps you had a T-Nation Response Randomizer, too. So you were trying to get in the box. We all know that you’ll never fit … not that you could see the entrance anyway.
Here’s an analogy for the box thing … it’s like those stereographic pictures … most people spend forever just trying to see the hidden image, then they do, for a second, but then it’s gone again … some aren’t even aware that there is a hidden image … some immediately see it and aren’t even aware that there is a perspective other than the image … still others see it and notice that it says “it is 1 am, and posting on T-Nation is not conducive to you getting 8 hours of sleep”