1). I am very, very close to purchasing a membership to either planet fitness or LA fitness. The only reasons I would go would be for the leg press and lat pulldown machines, and to run through this shoulder workout
2). I used to use creatine back when I first started lifting. I did not need it, and stopped use after a few months… but now I’m thinking about buying some. Since the end of my run of deepwater, I have taken zero supplements, not even protein powder… These past 6 or 7 weeks, though, I’ve used micro-PA, plazma, and possibly even creatine. Am I now considered chemically assisted?!
3). I’m going on a two week vacation in mid July to Hawaii. Im planning lots of hiking and swimming, climbing etc. I know my eating is going to be nearly halved and activity is going to be constant. I’m thinking about just leaning into the curve and try to lean up… Maybe stealing some of @T3hPwnisher hotel hell workouts… I did not want to do this, but @ChongLordUno I may actually do my first burpee in my entire life.
I will need to know your major lifts, weight and bodyfat levels before I can give you an answer (hint: any one of those is better than mine then yes you’re assisted.otherwise you’re clear*). Except deadlift I’ll give you favourable leverage ahead of assisted if you have a better deadlift
*Jokes aside, supplements can have banned substances in them so if you compete in something with drug tests, check the ingredient list.
@SkyzykS I feel like you can appreciate this as my trashy food brother in arms.
As I’ve written, my wife is an amazing baker, and uses quality ingredients (like my eggs, but I digress). She would gladly bake me anything I request at a moment’s notice.
I brought in some home made cookies to work today. I have zero intention of eating them, nor am at all tempted.
HOWEVER, someone brought it some store bought “Patriot Cookies” from Walmart. They are those pre-packaged sugar cookies with the red while and blue icing and sprinkles
…and something in my damaged psyche is telling me I MUST have them.
My brain only wants the terrible pre-packaged processed stuff. I’m the same way when I see those “fruit pies” that are truthfully neither fruit nor pies.
How’s that for a confession?
Also, I watched a 2 hour Jon Andersen podcast yesterday, I’m hooked on the Dan John podcast and am ripping through that, and I keep watching John Meadows videos. …what is this John connection?
I used to buy them for lunch with my paper rout money.
Lemon, Strawberry, and of course Chocolate. That was the taste of freedom and independence that can only be gotten from waking up a 4:00 am to earn your keep at the scorching rate of Oh, About 1.5c. per paper.
That’s where these types of junk take me back too.
You know you’ve arrived when you can buy yourself a Yoo-Hoo and a Hostess strawberry “fruit” pie, and nobody can tell you otherwise.
Pretty good!
I still glance at that stuff and give it serious consideration when I’m out riding bikes with my kiddo. Sometimes it wins.
Those were my jam as a fat little boy growing up. Every year, for Christmas, we’d drive to my grandma’s house in Tucson, and we’d always stop at the same gas station early in the trip for breakfast and fuel. I always got one of those fruit pies. My sophomore year of high school, I stopped being fat and started reading nutrition labels. We get to the gas station, I grab my traditional fruit pie, read the label, let out an auidble “holy f**k!” and put it right back down, haha. Think I ended up getting a “Tiger’s Milk bar”, back when those were supposed to be healthy
Middle school eliminated them for me, at least from my regular repertoire. That was when we began being required to stay in school for lunch. Prior to that, with neighborhood schools, we were allowed to leave as long as we were back before the end of recess.
Apparently we were all keto before it was cool, because my friends and I would just take the cheese off of that cardboard crust, roll it into a ball and eat that.
But then we also went to the salad bar and just got croutons with ranch dressing on top. But surely all that fat cancels out the carbs!
I was the bread collector. While everybody was doing that I was hammering down chocolate milk and the remaining carbo-foam that is close enough to bread for govt. work.
I also used to bridge between 3 weight classes by either eating a little less, normal, or a little more, cuz I was a skinny little mf’r and highly responsive to caloric intake back then.
Ok, I gotta know: how do ya’ll field stupid questions? There ARE stupid questions: not just stupid people.
I’m at work. I’m drinking a Mountain Dew Zero Baja Blast. Co-worker asks what flavor of Mountain Dew I’m drinking, because the can looks different. I saw Baja Blast.
He goes “No way: you can buy that?!”
and there is a pause.
And he’s waiting for my response.
And I genuinely don’t know what to say. I would assume me having the product already answers that question…but he wants an answer.
I flat out say “I don’t know what answer you want here” and he says “I just didn’t know you could buy those.”
