And it shows. Well done!
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Awesome work dude.
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You grizzly bastard you
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Nice job on that squat set. Love the growling that’s got to be worth 2 reps.
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Awesome set brother
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Appreciate all the support, gents!
01/07/2021 Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian brothers-and-sisters-in-iron. I’m gonna soap box here for a minute, though. I’m appreciative of the fact I get to live in this country, but it’s far from perfect. Canada has a very dark history. Residential schools were glossed over when I was in school, and the recent findings of thousands of children’s bodies found buried have brought to light and/or reminded people of a portion of what that history entailed.
Residential schools were a systematic method of quietly stamping out various indigenous cultures throughout the nation, and they were used up until the late 1990’s. Reading the accounts of those who attended these schools is heartbreaking.
We shouldn’t forget what was done to found this country. While I don’t believe guilt is a helpful emotion in this circumstance, there does need to be radical steps taken to help mend the atrocities that were undertaken. I don’t have the answers for what those steps might be, but staying educated on the matter is at least one tangible thing that can be done.
Start time: 1230
Garage temp: 19C
B. Squat
- 1x20 @ 210
Bench
- 145x5
- 170x5
- 190x12
Press + push press
- 1x11 + 6 @ 120
- 1x8 + 7 @ 120
EZ bar PJR pullover (dropset)
- 1x10 @ 100 + 8 @ 80
- 1x8 @ 100 + 6 @ 80
- 30 sec triceps stretch + 15 sec triceps flex
Chins + inverted row
- 1x10 + 15 @ BW
- 1x8 + 12 @ BW
T-bar row (dropsets)
- 1x15 @ 150, 125, 100
- 30 sec lat stretch + 30 sec lat flex
Notes:
- This session made me realize I am going to have to eat like a horse if I want to crush this training block. It wasn’t the widowmaker squat or bench that put the fear in me, it was when I was working through the latter half. Dropsets are sneaky bastards.
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Couldn’t agree more. Its so easy to gloss over these things, or at best pay attention only to the statistics.
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Cool to hear a Canadian’s perspective on the issue. I forget our countries share that aspect of our history. It’s definitely something that means a lot to me - I’ve had family members sent to boarding schools back then, and heard some horror stories about things that happened. It is a tough thing to figure out how to “fix.”
Does the education system in Canada tend to gloss over such issues for the most part? I mean you said you didn’t learn much about it, is that probably most people’s experience? (In no way intend for this to get political, just curious how things work up there.)
Not quite the question, but hopefully relevant, British education completely avoids anything that might portray Britain in a bad light (like, you know, 90% of our history). Which means that “history” to most school leavers will be the Tudors and Stuarts (one of the most uninteresting parts of our history), The Romans (PG13 version), and maybe a little bit on the Battle of Britain because things don’t get too gory or unpatriotic there.
I, for one, would like to see a little more detail on the less PG13 areas of world history for a bit of background on “how we got here”, and for a bit of perspective on how fucking lucky we are to be where we are.
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This is what I’ve heard. I think this is one of the big fights in the States right now, as some people seem to wish to gloss over anything bad due to their crushes on the Founding Fathers and views of them as deities, and the other side seems to only want to talk about the bad parts and how bad characteristics in some figures meant that they contributed nothing good to the country/world.
Do both. Teach me what George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln did for the country, and teach me about my tribe’s history as well. Every notable person and group of people has good and bad parts, just teach me what happened. Let me come to my own conclusions from there. Currently, it’s that my ancestors were often mistreated and there are serious issues and things to work on, but also that I’m still one of the luckiest people in the world to be born where I was and have benefitted a ton from being an American, no matter my race/heritage.
I’m lucky to have some awesome history and political science professors at my school and just in two years I’m realizing how history is so freaking cool, and how so many people get an absolutely crap education regarding it. It’s a shame.
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This one drives me up the wall. We’re getting this argument a lot at the minute in this country around figures like Churchill, because he was racist and therefore couldn’t possibly have done anything good at all.
I’ve recently started paying attention to history again and it’s really opened my eyes to how much I don’t know, even in comparatively recent and well documented events. There’s an awful lot of it.
There’s no national education syllabus for Canada, unfortunately, so it’s impossible to answer this. It varies province to province, and even then city to city somewhat. Further still, it can be modified year to year.
I remember a big focus on early British and French colonization, early “Canada”, sooooo fucking much about the fur trade, and then a little bit about the cooperation with the local tribes (mostly around Ontario and Quebec, because that’s where Canada was founded). After Canada was properly founded, I remember learning, again, a glossed-over version of the fact that the various tribes were “given” land and education, then nothing.
On the other hand, some people I know learned much, much more about what exactly went down when the local peoples were “given” land and education, and the fact that it wasn’t a gift — it was a corralling of tribes into subpar land, and a kidnapping of children to “stamp out the Indian”; that latter statement in quotations is a literal quote from a government official decades ago, not said in remorse, but as a mission statement for residential schools.
Canada may not have had the grand wars that the US had with indigenous peoples, but they definitely did horrible things. It was just done sneakily, underhandedly, and with a lot of lies and broken promises.
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I guess we start by saying how horrible we find those past historical facts and never let it happen again to anyone. In other word speak up. We can’t erase the past and we should not burry it under the carpet.
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Yeah, I just disagree with this. There was a lake in Minneapolis that was named after a super racist vice president from way back in the day. They changed the name of the lake. That, I’m fine with. Probably very few people had any clue who the guy was, he contributed very little, or maybe even nothing to the country, made no impact on history. But then some people, your Churchills and our Washingtons made an impact on the world. You gotta admit that, no matter if some of their personal views were a little iffy (I don’t know if Churchill was actually racist or not?).
Yeah. It’d be a lot easier to know a lot about history if the world was smaller and had less people and events, haha.
This is probably pretty similar to the U.S. Early colonizers, the tribes they interacted with in the northeast region, and then yeah, some seemingly obsession with random factors like the fur trade or something. That made me laugh to hear that.
I think the reservations in my state (S. Dakota) are some of the worst land. Not good for farming, semi-okay for ranching.
Yup, heard probably this exact same thing here. Their braids were cut, they weren’t allowed to speak their languages, they weren’t allowed to practice any of their cultural practices. The American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed in 1978, where they were finally able to perform their traditional practices legally. I think the first Star Wars movie came out in…1976? Somewhere around there. Just an idea of what time that was, haha. You could watch Luke Skywalker fly around before some people could legally practice their religion. Crazy.
I always tell people to read Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog. It’s not a scholarly read at all, very easy to digest. I like it because my great grandma was involved with many of the people and events mentioned in the book, so it’s cool to know she was part of history, and also because it comes from my tribe/state, but it’s also just a good book to read if you want to know how recent some of this stuff really was. It wasn’t all back in the 1800s. (You hear a lot about the black civil rights movement in the U.S., hardly anything about the Native civil rights movement.) The boarding/residential schools open until the 1990s demonstrate this.
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He was 2021 racist, was he 1874 racist? Got to grade these things on a curve. He was undoubtedly very pro-Empire and a big proponent of the “white man’s burden”.
For sure. And I feel like I do a great disservice to do many peoples and cultures by knowing literally nothing about them.
01/07/2021 PART 2
Start time: 1730
Outside temp: 21C
Band leg curls
- 50 reps
Running
- 6.3km, untimed
Fat-grip tricep bar curls
- 100 reps @ 35
Notes:
- Forgot my phone, so this was untimed. My mid-to-long distance speed doesn’t seem to be increasing at all, but my endurance definitely is. I’m able to keep going without feeling winded or having my legs get tired.
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02/07/2021
Start time: 1215
Garage temp: 20C
Power snatch
- 3x5 @ 105
Power clean & jerk
- 145x5
- 165x5
- 185x5
Weighted chins
- worked up to BW+20 x5
- 1x7 @ BW
RDL + 45° hypers
- 2x10 @ 275 + 2x15 @ BW
- 30 sec hamstring stretch + 15 sec hamstring flex
Snatch-grip upright row + barbell curl
- 2x20 + 2x10 @ 70
Notes:
- I’m terrible at chins, haha. Very embarrassing. Since I can’t deadlift due to bar and weight limitations, weighted and unweighted chins will become by 3rd “big 3” lift.
- Ran out of juice and time by the rows and curls, so I just supersetted them instead of dropsetting each of them. Made for a surprisingly good bicep pump. The UR still torched my delts and preexhausted my biceps. Little bit limited in how much effort I could really put out though, because my low back, glutes and hams were TORCHED from the prior RDL & hypers set, which made standing up straight and stable tough.
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Won’t be terrible at them for long in this case, haha.
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Weighted chins supersetted with bench press is the premier muscle builder movement imo
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I certainly hope so. I have a nasty habit of dropping chins from my exercise rotation after a while, putting on weight, then having to start back at square one.
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