Flame Free Confession III: Even More Flame Free (Part 2)

My white trash roots shine through with how much I love those. They were a staple in my strongman traveling circus of food, along with poptarts.

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Yeah! I used to grab the ones with coconut flakes and a quart of chocolate milk after an exceptionally brutal day here and there.

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max testing today.

Felt really good going in, but failed my previous max :sob::sob::sob::sob::sob::sob::sob:

So… over these 6 weeks, I’ve gotten weaker !!!

I honestly thought I was making progress

What happened?

I tried for 195 and failed.

My bad, I meant to say ā€œwhat happened in the last 6 weeks?ā€

I was following a linear program and was hitting everything okay.

Tuesday was easy. Took yesterday off and ate a ton of salt yesterday (seems to help me)

Should I try 195 again or proceed with the rest of the workout?

Personally I wouldn’t

So proceed?

Yeah that’s what I meant. Does the program not say what to do when testing your maxes?

It says to do general warm up. Then 5reps w/bar, 5 reps at 50%, 3reps at 60%, 1rep at 70, 80 and maybe 90, then try for 0-10lbs more than previous max
That’s what I did (except waking to gym and as warmup)

Screw it, I’m just going to do more squats

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such a multipurpose… meme? Infographic? Visual metaphor?

Whatever its cool.

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Because the best predictor of the quality of advice is the circumference of the advisor’s biceps. It’s a scientific fact.

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Hypothetically, it is possible that a user was emailed by a coach after some comments were made in recent threads, and hypothetically, the terms ā€œdickbag,ā€ ā€œclown dick,ā€ and ā€œbeta bitch dudesā€ were used in said email.

All I’ll say. Will probably delete this post later on, as I would wish to avoid further confrontations, just thought it’d give some people something to laugh about.

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Takes one to know one I guess?

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one thing I miss due to the pandemic is being able to grab the barre in the studio and just throw my head back and release the crack. it doesn’t work the same way when I pull a for-reals backbend in class. when it’s bothering me it has all kinds of subtle annoying effects.

when I started the 10k kettlebell challenge my neck and shoulders blew up and I had to find a tree I could grab and hang back from. I am guessing it’s something to do with either sticking huge barbell loads over there or else doing backbends with shitty form when I was starting out.

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ā€œI’ll prove I’m not an overreacting a-hole by REALLY overreactingā€

Quite the interesting gambit…

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I confess I’ve come to enjoy oat milk as a replacement for heavy cream in foofoo coffee drinks. 1 part espresso (Nespresso machines are incredible), 3 parts oat milk, 3 parts skim milk, with 3 packets of Stevia is better than a $5, 500 calorie Starbucks mocha-choke-ya-latte-cino.

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fixed it for you :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

seriously though… the amount of $$$ ppl are willing to spend on starbuck’s sub par coffee is astounding.

Great if you’re an investor in Starbucks though