Google Chris Duffin hip thrusts and I think you’ll enjoy his take on how standing glutes exercises are superior to the hip thrust. He provides interesting and unique exercises. I’ve seen quite a good amount of coaches in the athletic field that don’t like the hip thrust (Thibaudeau as well for instance). I’ve always found it weird that girls would hip thrust 600 pounds then barely back squat 300. The range is so limited. Though I must admit, when I did these with low weights (100 to 120kgs) using a long pause at the the top, focusing on glutes as much as I could, they burnt like fucking hell. And I always see Big Z doing these and why would he if it wasn’t beneficial to a pro athlete. At the same time, indeed, like Chris says it rapidly becomes impossible to have the full range of motion, on an exercise which already has a little one.
Poe’s writings are creepier than the majority of “horror” fiction out there today which I classify into two categories: 1) shoddily written and designed only to sell millions of copies and 2) extreme horror (which is only meant to gross you out - basically a “Saw” movie in a book).
I confess that, the more I think about my Ayn Rand/Louie Simmons fanfiction, the more I realize I can’t come up with a better parody title than “Atlas Shrugged”
It would be like if you tried making a porn parody “Deep Impact” and realized you had to just keep the name the same.
I am fairly beat up, but feel like my muscles are all activated as much as they need to be. I figure, if one doesn’t want to pull it’s weight, someone else will step up and take it’s place.
But “someone else” is exactly the guy I don’t want to be doing the job. I want the beat up guy to do the job, because that’s the only way I feel better.
I was young when I read them, but I liked Atlas Shrugged much better than Fountainhead. Possibly because I read AS first, and was pretty saturated by its 1200 pages, I don’t know. I loved AS, though.
I ran yesterday. It has been almost a year since last time. Too bad my knees can’t handle this and I am so cranky, it burns a good amount of calories and it’s enjoyable
I am the opposite. My body handles running quite well yet I hate it. While it’s gotten easier lately I am starting to feel anxiety regarding it the night before I do it .
I went for a run Sunday for the first time in about a year but like @jshaving my body handles it well, but I just am not a fan.
I might keep at it for shortish distances until I do enjoy it mainly b/c I need a good cardio activity and running is pretty damn cheap - plus there’s a track about a mile or so from my house I can run to to do some sprint w/o - I used to run 400m in high school (fuckin’ 20 years ago hahaha) and really enjoyed that …
Yeah it would certainly be better for my joints if I could run on a proper track instead of the streets. I did 15 min of cycling beforehand and it really warmed up me well and I felt better than usual. I think I’ll still do it once a week. First time did 4 kms in 20 mins. Now I’ll increase that up to 30 min I think no need to run more
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