13 reps is the worst. Too much for strength and hypertrophy but not enough for endurance. If you do 13 reps you’ve just wasted a set doing nothing.
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It’s not lost on me that my pursuit of improved health markers has taken an already not great relationship with food and turned it into borderline disordered eating. Right now I’m just trying to “beat the tape” as far as health metrics go so that my medical provider will stop pushing drugs as a solution and trust me to maintain health quality via lifestyle changes.
But on that note, it’s Thanksgiving today, so all of that can wait.
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I confess I want to try this bacon wrapped Turducken
Three birds and a pig! However, I don’t know anyone who has actually made a turducken.
Edit: it’s probably low carb - bonus
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Agreed. People need to stay in their own lane, and recognize
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We had one about 5 years ago (note: I wasn’t the one who actually prepared it). It was better than Turkey but that’s not saying much (come at me!!!)
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I’m with you man. Of the typical Thanksgiving spread, turkey is the weak link. Gotta be drowned in gravy.
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@pinkylifting Woah woah woah, hold up! I didn’t say eat a burger everyday or to the point of being fat 
@T3hPwnisher I hope you can hold off as long as you possibly can!
Happy thanksgiving T Nation! You ungrateful meatheads
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grumble, grumble, grunt
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Israel, being controlled first by the Ottomans and then the British has a mild obsession with pour over coffee.
Also Turkish coffee and various kinds of string tea. And even American iced tea due to being a fricking hot desert.
We just like caffeine. Which also explains our behavior in traffic.
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Confession:
You guys have Turkey and stuff for Thanksgiving.
We had something like this:
(This isn’t my pic. I randomly posted one from a google image search as an example and illustration of the kind of shit we had. Just making this clear in case some idiot thinks I’m being “dishonest” like some idiots went after Brandon Lilly, who was obviously doing the same thing with a picture of EGGS so never underestimate the extent of human stupidity.)
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I just found out that Dr Suess wasn’t a doctor… So maybe not that crazy a suggestion - use a pseudonym
Also, fuck 2020 lol
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I had a turducken, I don’t know if the dish is Danish, but we have a couple of Danish friends who made one one year and it was fucking phenomenal.
@mr.v3lv3t Turkey is the weak link if it’s done badly - if you want guaranteed awesome turkey, deep fry it. If you don’t want to blow money on a turkey fryer, propane, and 3 gallons of peanut oil, then before roasting it, inject it with a flavor injector and a garlic butter herb mixture! Bad turkey is an abomination, so dry and disgusting. I’ve made a dry turkey before, such a letdown. A good flavor injector is 15 bucks and totally worth it.
Made my turkey tonight, injected it with a mix of butter, onion powder, paprika, garlic, salt, and pepper, and rubbed the rest all over it, stuffed it and baked it at 325 for 4 hours, took it out at 160-165 degrees and let it sit out, UNCOVERED, for 1 hour.
Super important that you don’t cover your turkey in foil after cooking it. People do that to preserve moisture but the foil just acts as a makeshift oven and overcooks the turkey. The turkey will cool on the outside but continue to cook on the inside if you just let it rest uncovered.
When you take out the stuffing, the stuffing will be piping hot, and the gravy you make with the turkey drippings in the pan will also be hot, so there’s no need for the turkey to be super hot. It will be juicy as shit. When I was slicing the breasts, juice was just leaking out, and when I got close to the bone I was able to pull off the rest with my hands and it just fell off.
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It’s not.
Edit: I had to google what “turducken” was… Seems delicious, but have never heard about this dish. Somehow it seems so over the top, that it almost have to be of American origin?
Here, duck is the traditional festive fowl - eaten at “Mortensaften” (Saint Martins evening) and on Christmas eve.
Name one nation that doesn’t have a reputation for being shitty drivers.
I’m going for Saudi women.
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what’s that?
I love all the Bridget Jones films, especially the first one!
I can’t help but have evil thoughts about the occasional really rude old person I come across, like:
I hope you get Covid realllll bad and your ventilator fails on you!!!
I confess that I really wish the UK did a thanksgiving thing. I’ve still got to wait a month before I can indulge in completely socially acceptable gluttony.
Ill give you the second half, but bridget jones? You monster.
Yeah, I know lol…it’s the soundtrack largely + female insecurity + Woman Logic is hilarious to me…one of the few rom-coms/chic flicks I really like.
Something about those two confessions together… haha
It’s kinda like when someone says: I really love kids… and firearms
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