I confess I saw the physical therapist at my work struggling to move one of those 5gal water jugs (the clear bluish ones) onto a furniture dolly, and I chucked inside a bit.
Practice what you preach, amrite?
I took a nap for the first time in idk how long
Felt amazing
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Why is the Wendler section still around if he does not answer questions?
Pauls, Meadows, and a few others have been removed. Loss of a lot of good info.
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Valid question, but this might be better placed in the #feedback section though
I think most of the questions are pretty easily answered by anyone with solid lifting experience, or by cracking open the book and finding the answer oneself, or by searching because the question has probably already been answered. Itās a popular enough program that it kind of makes sense to have its own section or BSL would be over run with 5/3/1 questions.
Catching up a bit on here and read that, and itās just amazing to me, the obsession those people have with that guy. Since learning who he is and having no opinion of him to start with, I have yet to find a single thing the guy did that wasnāt either a scam, an embellishment, an outright lie, or at the very least, a comfortable ride on the back of some genetically blessed monsterās accomplishments with a fake workout routine. I guess you could say āNautilusā, but I think that still falls firmly under the āembellishmentā category, with how painfully āokayā those machines are. All the routines Iāve seen from him are just garbage. Even his number one protege is now promoting a program thatās the polar opposite of everything he preached.
And yet, I could probably (maybe) get past all of that if he had been a wonderful person. Obviously none of those aforementioned things are things that wonderful people do, but my point is that on top of all of that ugly stuff, it seems as though he was just a miserable wretch of a man.
Again, in my quest to understand the fascination with Scrooge-Who-Never-Learned-To-Love-Christmas, I could understand if it was sheer morbid curiosity, like the longing some of us get on here for a nice trainwreck thread when itās been too long (cāmon already), but itās clearly not that. Itās the type of idol worship that only a scam artist can achieve - theyāre the best at convincing people theyāre God.
Of course, maybe Iāve just coincidentally read all the wrong stuff and Iāve got him pegged totally wrong.
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People LOVE thinking that they know āthe secretā: it separates them from āthe sheepā. In him they found that chance to have that secret. Who cares if itās a GOOD secret? Itās different!
But yeah, there is a reason the term āJediā started getting employedā¦and most likely because āSithā wasnāt popular at the time.
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The sections are removed, but the threads are all still there; just differently organized.
I feel like heās less Star Wars and moreā¦
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To be really convincing, one has to have been convinced themselves.
A little dime store psych, but Eric Ericson had life stages of development. The last one is generativity vs. stagnation, or similar phrasing.
So if youāve lived well and passed things on to the next generation you become a kindly old man who was satisfied with life.
If not, you become embittered and die sad.
Hard to pass it along when youāve achieved godlike status in oneās own mind. Makes it very lonely at the top and bitter at the end.
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I donāt know enough about Arthur Jones to generate an informed opinion on him, but Iām liking your post anyways because I love a good roast!
I think those threads maybe got moved to BSL.
EDIT: I didnāt scroll down before replying, but Pwn got to it before me.
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It took me the better part of your first paragraph to realize this was responding to @T3hPwnisher ās comment on Arthur jones, and not his post on Dick Marcinko lol
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Nearly went crazy yesterday trying to get a full encasement anti-allergen cover on a King sized mattress because Iām fucking stupid. My wife was telling me to fucking look at the pics on the siteās page but I didnāt remember seeing any instructions there because this is one of those platforms like Amazon but the distributors are from China and they write everything in English so I normally donāt fucking understand what theyāre saying other than shit like colors and measurements and like a real MAN I was hell bent on figuring this shit out myself. Then I finally decided to look at the pics the siteās page and saw ONE FUCKING PIC and it all finally made sense.
THE ZIPPER PORTION ENDS AT THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING LENGTH OF THE MATTRESS. Oh God if I had just fucking TAKEN A GLANCE at the fucking pic from the start I would have saved myself 2 fucking hours and kept whatās left of my sanity.
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I HATE dealing with mattresses. Mum likes keeping things āniceā so she got fancy sheets and stuff. They are a f-king nightmare
The worst are the ones with no elastic or zipper. Theyāre a pain in the arse to get tucked in and get bunched up and lumpy when I toss around
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@strongmangoals - where you at? Realized I hadnāt seen your name in this thread, or anywhere, in a while. @Aragorn too, though youāre usually in the subforum that shall not be named, haha.
EDIT: @JKil116 too.
And do some people have @Frank_C on FB or IG? He doing alright?
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Decided I will try for 315 later depending on how 275 and 295 feels. Guess what I saw in the mail when I arrived home from work. Letās see what happens tonight
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GOOD LUCK!!!
You got this
Do you think it was his wife or his coworkers who finally had enough?
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Iāve been doing most of the cooking in the house for the past 2 years or so. I still give myself a pat on the back when I make a dish without my parents or āreal adultsā in the house and nothing burns