I started cross country when I was at tennis practice and realised that I preferred running the punishment laps more than I enjoyed actually playing tennis
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Oh yeah, well you know what @anna_5588 I had a bowl of nails for breakfast, without any milk.
Howâs that!
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You should have wrestled!
We had flag days for our Saturday practices based on our previous match.
Green flag- lots of fun, drills, round robin & stuff.
Red flag- not much fun. Lots of drills and live wrestling.
Black flag- Weâre all dead. Sprints & indian runs in the upper deck of the pool, bear crawls backwards up steps, log rolls till eveerybody pukes.
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I have to say, this was a pretty common practice throughout my entire athletic career, from pee-wee football all the way up through college. I distinctly remember doing âup downsâ in football with the very distinct rule that we werenât going to stop until at least 5 people vomited. And it sucked. High 90s temp in the Midwest summer, after a long practice already, we were absolutely gassed before we even started. But we did it.
I think there IS something to be said for shared suffering. You mess up as a team, you suffer as a team. We did tons of lifting, jumps, agility work, etc for both football and wrestling. We loved that, and everyone knew that was where we pushed ourselves to become more athletic. These punishments werenât that. They were sadistic, painful exercises to reinforce a behavior. I donât think that it made us not want to work out, but I sure as hell didnât want to piss off coach and have to do something like that again.
Another thing that my wrestling team did, which I actually am a huge fan of, was a massive physical challenge before the season started. We would meet at this soccer field, and it was a couple mile run to this god awful hill. Idk how big it was, but easily a couple hundred yards up, pretty steep incline. When we got to the hill, everyone paired up. Then you would fireman carry your partner up the hill, and both run back down, then switch. Everyone had to carry their partner up 50 times, then we ran back to the parking lot. This would take hours. We would start early, like 0600 or something, and it was late afternoon by the time you got home. There was no time limit, there was no performance metric to be met, you could drop your partner as many times as you wanted. But you would do 50 runs. Anyone who quit, didnât make the team. Anyone who stuck it out, was in for the season. The coaches werenât yelling at anyone, there was not motivation or condemnation from them at all. They would just stand at the bottom of the hill, and if anyone stopped, they would just ask âdo you quit?â Say yes, a coach would hand you a water bottle and give you a ride back to the parking lot. No shit talking, no judgement, but you werenât on the team. Which meant it was up to us to make sure everyone made it through, and I honestly think it was one of the best team building things Iâve done in my life. We pushed each other, we relied on one another, and after it was all over, we all knew that we had done that shit together. We also had hands down one of the best wrestling programs in the state, with a lot of us getting college offers, multiple state champs, couple national competitors. I think that culture of toughness that we cultivated had a lot to do with that.
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Itâs not even 2023 yet why are there 5 billion boomers in my gym 
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Ugh, I hated up-downs for âconditioningâ in football. Yes, the exercise is good training to get up off the ground after a play, but the coaches just used them as punishment. We would do up-down ladders with hill sprints at the end of every practice. 10 up-downs, sprint up the hill, 9 up-downs, sprint up the hill. The coaches would punish people further by forcing some players to do the up-downs while holding a football. Anyone that drops it restarts the ladder for everyone. That did nothing to build team spirit; it just pissed everyone off.
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Higher in iron than spinach and beef - nicely done. 
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Does anyone have experience with the RP diet app or Macrofactor? I am considering getting a subscription to one of them starting next year
Thatâs a long time to research an app.
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I meant next academic year
Looked into it for the wife a little while back. App seems fine but kind of pointless if you already know what to do - similar to pretty much every other nutrition app out there.
Moreso beneficial as a Time To Eat reminder, but doesnât do much for tracking macros if thatâs what youâre after⊠would work well in comparison with MyFitnessPal, but thatâs too much work for me to want to keep up on.
FWIW, thereâs a 2 week free trial if memory serves - might work out well for you.
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I signed up for the free 7 day trial just to see what it was about. I canceled it but did like how they did things. I struggle with monotony for simplicity sake while meal prepping and the app seems like it would be a good way to mix it up while still keeping it simple.
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Thanks for the input guys!
I took a closer look and I donât think itâs what I need since Iâm already pretty competent with tracking macros
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I am a silent partner in a large car wash chain in my area. I was vacuuming out one of my trucks at one not far from my house. Now mind you - I donât partake in the day to day of any of these or have any hands-on involvement other than at a high level.
The manager came out and was giving me grief about the noise of my tuck and how the owners donât want big trucks there just cleaning out their vehicles. I was rather amused because I know she was full of shit and had zero clue who I was. Not that she should or would know - just a lesson on business and how you treat everyone the same with respect because you never know.
Letâs just say her day did not go how she thought it was going to go. (No, I did not have her fired, but my point was made very clear)
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I confess I experienced more schadenfreude than Iâd like to admit just now when I introduced a couple of my Econ friends (including (that) friend) who are applied this cycle to a notoriously anxiety inducing site where others upload their results
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I am getting way too much enjoyment out of following @tanktolman on IG
What the f*ck is a powerbuilder, what does that even mean??
You can reference my log anytime youâd like =)
In all seriousness thoughâŠ
Bodybuilder has a baby with a Powerlifter = Powerbuilder
Plenty of dudes at the gym look big but cant squat 1xBW or deadlift 1.5xBW, so theyâre weak. Powerbuilders look big and are strong. Itâs just a combination of both worlds (a path I recommend for pretty much everyone that wants to look big while natty).
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It was an unnecessary title to describe someone that lifts weights and gets big and strong.
Because we need titles.
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I imagined it first came about as a type of program or training style, and then turned into âIâm a powerbuilderâ, but itâs always hard to tell whether the chicken or egg came first.
Plenty of BB programs leave out powerlifts, and TNation articles have gone to lengths to dispute the benefits of powerlifting for BB purposes⊠so the title of âpowerbuildingâ I would think applies more to training style than individual.
I guess it doesnât matter though - Iâm a powerbuilder and Iâm better than you. 
/s/
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