What does it feel like when you give an enormous physical, emotional, financial, social and time effort for decades and you gotta be the one to text after a week goes by? You probably don’t need to wonder too hard to work it out. Call your mom.
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Relax man
Lesbians have been some of my best buds.
Heterosexual females though… (I’m divorced, of course)
I confess I wish I was smart enough to puzzle out the nuances, because I confess I would’ve gladly modified my behavior…
A handful of confessions:
I’ve been eating way too many Quest bars lately. They’ve definitely become a crutch and I’m being lazy about nutrition. I also discovered their almond fudge bites and those things have no right being as delicious as they are.
I had someone ask me their opinion on their progress today (body comp wise) and the cynic came out of me by replying “I’d have to know where you started to comment on how far you’ve come, no?”. Luckily it didn’t come off as dick-ish as it sounded to me, but I couldn’t stop once I opened my mouth.
My company rewards us for keeping track of healthy practices, and I’ve earned $600 in what are essentially gift cards to a huge depot of stores. Amazon is one of them of course. I’m planning on using some of that on gym equipment, but really can’t decide what to pull the trigger on. What should be guilt free spending is not registering as guilt free for me.
I’m typing all this to buy more time before I go wage war with a nest of ground wasps that have been attacking me each time I try and mow the lawn. They’ve set up shop under all the neighbors mailboxes, yet it is me who is doing the fighting here. I should send a bill for my services.
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I confess I’ll miss wearing masks in public and especially wearing masks in photos
I don’t like the way the bottom half of my face looks. My mouth and eyes don’t always coordinate correctly and I look like an idiot. Masks fix that
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I’m also not a big fan of getting my picture taken… Unless I’m asked to take pictures of a group of people on someone’s phone. I have been known to flip the camera around and take a million selfies sandwiched between a couple actual pictures of the group.
Not many people ask me to take their picture anymore haha.
I confess that I’m happy summer is coming to an end. I love the rain, changing leaves and cool nights. I’ve been sweating like a pig lately, so it’d be nice to not look like the guy in the movie “Airplane”. Also, ice fishing!!!
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My hack is to offer to take the picture. ppl are super grateful and I get a cop out
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I’ve read of powerlifters staying above competition depth until just a few weeks before a meet. Easier on the hips. Especially if you are looking to engage in the sport for a long time.Seems wise to me.
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I noticed that Einstein’s notes on the theory of relativity are going to auction starting at $3.5M.
I don’t know who buys this kind of stuff but it is exactly this type of thing that makes me realise how lacking in responsibility I am.
Some of the most important work of the past 100-ish years: I’d give it about 20 minutes before it was completely ruined in this house 
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Left: Squat, Deadlift, Bench, Powerclean
Right: Push Press
I still push myself on press days. It’s just not as exciting.
Are you taking the bar out of the rack for it? If so: take it off the floor instead. Now it’s exciting!
I think the dude who plays guitar for Billy Idol is criminally underrated.
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I confess that I wish I could grow a beard. All I can grow is a stupid patchy neckbeard.
I confess that for the last 6 weeks or so, I have given up diet sodas.
I also confess that I do NOT feel any better, and am wondering why I would do such a thing.
le sigh
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I couldn’t grow a real beard till I was like 26 or something. Don’t give up hope yet.
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Check this out.
Pretty crazy study results. I think the results (diet soda drinkers being healthier and losing more fat than water drinkers), is mostly explained by the diet soda drinkers getting their sugar fix without calories.
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So not sure where to put this - but I can make it “confession” of sorts.
A few weeks back I was competing at a strong man show and one of they guys had an accident. The viking press fell on him. Que me getting quite pissy about the delay to the day as we waited for the ambulance.
Turns out (via a bit of instagram stalking) the guy has spent the last 3 weeks in hospital. Right knee was “just” dislocated. But his quad was torn off. So operation 1 was to reattach this.
His left knee not so good. Operations 2&3 were to fix this.
Confession,
- Still not convinced we needed to wait a whole hour to move the equipment so we could carry on.
- When I told my wife she kept saying “that poor man”. I’m much more the “play silly games get silly prices” mind set. I feel bad for him. But come one - its a silly sport. Right?
- But I did get to thinking about my gym and the fact that we have a safety bar on the viking press makes me feel better. I don’t know if I’m getting older / more mature but the safety of each event is now something I think about. I’ve seen the video of the guy getting crushed by the atlas stone. If that does not make you cringe I’m not sure what will.
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I’m 59, and still can’t grow one. Give up hope now.
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Can confirm: This is a significant injury, and surgery.
Source: My left quad
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Yeah well aware it is a hell of an injury. I doubt he’ll return to strong man. Or maybe he will. I’m not really sure. I have almost 0 points of reference.