Hope you and yours will be safe.
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Thank you! Were doing okay, were just trying to help our community
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God damn. Mother nature is all powerful.
You keep yourself safe kiddo
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Stay safe!
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I’m glad you’re insured and okay,but it sucks they aren’t the fastest about reacting. My heart goes out to those trapped and who had it the worst. Any reasoning behind the mayor not issuing an evacuation? I know he tried with the last one and people got stuck and some died on the highways, but this one seemed to be double if not triple the destructive power of the last one you guys had.
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do you know how big Houston is? 1/4 of the Texas population lives there, 7 MILLION people. Look at a map and pick out which neighborhoods should have been evacuated, and which didn’t need to be. Can’t do it? Neither could anyone else. And where do you send them? Shelter 7 million people in Dallas? Roads to San Antonio suck. Austin isn’t particularly viable.
It’s a hard thing to deal with, and there are no easy solutions. I doubt there were ever any real solutions to protect all lives involved. It’s tragic, to say the least.
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oh WOW BE SAFE!!!
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On the radar it showed that which cities were going to be hit harder than others and which ones were going to be borderline destroyed. The hurricane was national news, man. I’m not blaming him, but from everything I’ve seen and heard from people in the area, he’s known to fuck up in situations of crisis from time to time.
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That is true, but at the same time Flip is right simply because of how many of us there are. Hurricane Rita had upwards of 130+ deaths I think, I’m not entirely sure, and it didn’t even dump nearly as much water on us as this one did. This hurricane had minimal deaths because they suggested most of us try to stay where we are which makes a lot of sense. Instead of millions of us panicking and trying to scramble we just minimized the threat as much as possible. Aside from the police, fire department, and coast guards, a lot of people were saved by their neighbors and by people of neighboring cities with boats. Our town may be trashed for a bit, but the people of Houston did a bang up job protecting and helping one another. It seems bad that we were instructed to stay put, but the death toll speaks for itself in terms of better decision making. So far there’s about 20 Houstonians dead.
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Thanks guys for your kind words!
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Fair enough. My apologies @flipcollar. I was going off things I had heard, but have only been through Texas once in my life, so I have little to add.
It makes sense for them to advise you to stay put. Being from Georgia, I’ve never had to deal with something like this outside of some minor flooding. I couldn’t and can’t imagine what most of you are going through right now, and for that you have my condolences. Luckily, it doesn’t appear that any of the T-Nation fam was injured by the hurricane.
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apology accepted 
at the end of the day, the roads were, and still are, more dangerous than seeking high ground locally, for the most part. The major highways going out of houston flooded within hours of the storm starting (Friday). Stalled cars because of jam-packed highways, wrecks from 7 million panicking citizens trying to leave one of the largest American cities all at once… I can only imagine what the death toll could have been.
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I have returned from a 2 week break. Mainly because all gyms in my surrounding area had been closed, Which was probably well needed because everything I had been complaining about and trying to mitigate has completely gone away. Like completely. Espeacially my hips. Still paying attention to my spine, as that will probably never fully go away. First week was just cardio and stretching and mobility, and then the following week I did absolutely nothing except slash calories.
I was worried I was going to lose some strength upon returning, but if anything it’s been boosted by a well earned rest.
My weight has done some weird shifty thingy. At first I slimmed down some, then I stagnated, and now the scale has went up, but I’m looking the same as when I slimmed down. So yay me. I’m at 209 upon waking.
I am extremely excited for this planned leaning out season I will start in a bit. I had taken some pictures and I can see some very very solid gains. I would share them, but I take pictures clothless. I will be completely honest and say I have decent amounts of fat spread out evenly, but the muscle is juuuuuuust underneath it. Not worried about strength anymore once I realized how easy it is to maintain it. First 20 pounds will probably be a breeze.
Class started yesterday, and it reeks of wet Sheetrock and damp carpet. Right before class, the night before, I forced myself to stay completely awake and finally went to bed at 10 ish, and woke up at 6. So I finally fixed my sleep schedule.
Other than that it’s now time to kick it up a bit more intensely just to reach the next level, now that I’m well rested.
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LOG # 174
Deadlift
Warm up: 5 min stationary bike, light leg press to warm up hips and legs
135 x5
150x5
180x5
240x3
255x3 (all beltless up until this point)
270x3+ 2 singles
290x3
Assist:
Good mornings: 125lbs 3x10
Compound rows: 100 3x12
Leg curls: 55lbs 3x12
Hanging leg raises: 4x12
10 min jump rope
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When I do something worthy of an epic intro Amon is getting stolen.
Welcome back btw and happy healthy time!!! Sometimes layoffs are just what the doctor ordered even if the cause sucks.
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Thank you!
And take it dude. I have PLENTY more. Anything made by D-Jahsta is very good. He collabs a lot, but some of the folks he collabs with aren’t that good, and their music clashes.
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Log# 175? I think so.
Bench
Warm-up: light machine chest presses, and machine rows just to warm up. 5 min jump rope.
85x5
105x5
125x3
165x3
175x4
185x2
195x1+ 1 single
Assist:
Bench: semi-narrow grip. 165 3x10
Blast strap push-ups: to failure, RP style, 10, 6, 5
Chest supported rows: 135 3x10
Rear lats: 100lbs, tried to get 3x20, but everything else on my upper body was toast so I couldn’t get passed 1x20. Managed to bring a bunch of body parts to failure.
15 min jump rope
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