Been reading articles here since I was in either late middle school or early high school(late 90s-early 00s). Don’t really care to log or discuss training online. Don’t really care to discuss politics in real life.
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I post in Off Topic more than PWI, but seldom in training or nutrition, although I do read the threads.
I don’t post much because I learn more when I listen than when I speak. There are FAR more knowledgeable people than me who provide advice so when it comes to training or nutrition I generally only post to ask questions rather than to offer answers.
But Off Topic and PWI are about opinions, and I have plenty of those…
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Appreciate the participation, guys. Some surprises so far, mostly that some of you dudes have been training for decades. Great to hear.
I train and have been training for years. I used to stick to the combat forum for posting but no one posts there regularly anymore except for Idaho. I actually find it strange because you would think a forum where people who workout, specifically with weights, would have a decent number of people who also do martial arts of some sort or were at least ufc fans or something.
I have occasionally posted in the training forums but I think there are people there who know more than I so I tend to just read things.
The PWI forum is not moderated that much but more importantly doesn’t need much moderating. I think the mix of posters there is different than other forums of that type. People have accused others of being trolls but I think they are rare unlike other forums where it seems half the posters are troll accounts for the other half.
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You really thought we were all a bunch of lazy fuckheads who just argued for too much time about shit like the national debt, racism, and healthcare didn’t you?
Well we are. But we also lift apparently!
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Did you use the original Mag-10, T2 or any of the sprays. I can’t remember what they were called.
Not to single anyone out or cause undue offense, but I’m glad our benevolent moderator @Chris_Colucci brought this topic up. In my opinion, which you all know I’m eager to share here in PWI, people will naturally wonder what a poster is all about when they’re extremely active on an off-topic part of a lifting forum without really being a participant in the core aspect of the lifting forum.
Don’t get me wrong, this is where I come to dump my thoughts on politics that probably occupy too much space in my brain for my own good, so I don’t judge anyone who does the same. It’s a generally good place to do it.
Absent any sort of video, pictures, long-term logs or long-term activity in the core part of the forum, I suppose we’ll just have to take everyone’s word that they are who they say they are. I know it has been a while since I gave any tangible performance update, so you guys will have to take me at my word when I say that my progress towards a lifetime drug-free 800lb deadlift has been proceeding exactly as planned.
I will also say that it always feels like a richer discussion when we have more core forum personalities also participating in PWI. I’m sorry if I drove anyone away, by the way. Feel free to call me an asshole and let’s try to make sense of the crazy world together on the internet like it was meant to be, with lengthy exchanges of thoughtful essays.
Don’t worry, I’m not expecting anyone to show their lifting papers to me. It is quite rare, after all, for people to take to the internet and make claims about lifting prowess behind anonymity. I trust you all.
#roadto800
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On my last lifting topic I recieved a solid advice how to lift according to my schedule. I coach and play soccer as well on amateur level. There is not much I can add and discuss regarding lifting and conditioning/cardio is I have been given really good advice from people here and it has given me good results. I dont lift much during the season to avoid over training, my pre season was brutal. At the moment I play soccer twice and one competitive game per week, with an occassional running session. Last week I did short sprints with change of direction as a speed training for example, while the week before I did aerobic power run for 30 mins.
I dont have much to log or discuss, unless you want to hear about set piece training last week and how our zonal defending in corners contributed to a great counter attacking goal and we took the lead on oponent it was expected to lose. We ended up in a 2:2 draw away with them scoring in added time. Despite the resul we played very well.
We were the only team with a good preseason. We had appximately 10 tactical trainings and 10 small sided games as conditioning and I inspired some of the guys to do murfs as a competition between them. Add to that two friendlies and one team building event on a swimming pool. It was great 
Here is what our last tactical training looked like. I totally coppied the drill from this coach. As we have problems scorring and fast transitioning to defense when attacking. The drill also helps the defence to transition to counter attacking.
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I used to box and did some dutch kick box. But I am not following much at the moment. There is not much to get exited about in boxing at the moment.
Not an MMA fan either. I dislike the low level of striking mixed with high level of grappling in the sport. It is just not in my taste to watch, considering my favourite boxers are defensive master minds such as Floyd, Mike McCallan and Andre Ward, when I see people swinging wild and landing punches in MMA, I am like how did he even land that. Perhaps if I knew more about grappling I would be exited. Followed female boxing olympics as a women from my town won the gold.
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Same as you. I also find it strange that we have lost all the martial artists on the combat forum. Don’t want to sound like a dinosaur , but, I remember you and many others, including professional and amateur fighters having spirited discussions. Now, I am mildly surprised if anyone comments. I try to keep the tactical life thread running by just posting what I feel is important to help people be aware.
@Chris_Colucci : I have trained since I was 17, starting with the military. I have tried a lot of programs, mostly by T-Nation authors and after my physical conditioning program failed me in a combat situation, I changed over to a “fit to fight” mentality which can basically be broken down as a CrossFit / strongman type of training. Don’t get me wrong about the “strongman comment” . I am no where near T-nation standards in strength. I am also at a point, that I would rather load a wheelbarrow with bricks and push it around, than go to a gym and do some reps. Unless it is a hole in the wall gym filled with serious people, I don’t want to be there. I don’t know what that says about me, but, I just don’t like to see very overweight people doing triceps pushdowns.
Sorry for the ramble, too much super coffee this morning. I did post my workouts for a while on the tactical thread, then got to thinking if was boring me, it was boring others.
BTW, Google up “super coffee” . 10 grams of protein and 220 caffeine. Good stuff.
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I have created a personalized plan for you right here at my ‘gym’. Wheelbarrow carries are alternated with various full body movements, including cutting and stacking wood from 2 wind felled ancient oaks, operating posthole diggers, and laying a 1/4 mile waterline. All room/board provided, but transportation to facility not included.
3x on dearth of combat participants. It was a small but somewhat expert group.
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Thank you, Sir and I did not have to pay anything for your plan, a bargain. HA. Seriously, you have some hard work ahead of you, would kill most gym rats who (assuming) don’t know anything about manual labor.
A lot of knowledge left and I really don’t know why.
I’ve wondered this too, especially for some posting 50 to 75 times per week. Most in PWI I believe are reasonable people, some are highly intelligent, and many can tolerate opposing views. However, something else I’ve several times wondered and written on is my curiosity about whether unrelenting browbeating, insulting, crocodile tears, control freaking, gaslighting, moral grandstanding, feigned or actual outrage, drive-by zingers, and dim views on entire groups of people and nations are provided by a few here is done so in real life to other men considering where and to whom it is would most likely result in confrontation and physical retribution, perhaps resulting in critical condition, maybe even death.
I like T-mag forums because I love training and also enjoy observing and talking about how the world works. Other forums have off-topic sections but not with the sort of high-IQ posters found here, from my observation. Plus I met one of my closest friends on here as well as hung out with a bunch of others.
As much as I love the gym, talking about the details of training got worn and my love for bodybuilding diminished.
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I appreciate this… This forum isn’t an echo chamber.
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I have been training for 40 years…had the plastic weights with sand in them when I was a teenager, used a universal gym in high-school and the ymca, joined a joined gym when I was 18, got into powerlifting, tried the nautilus machines during the 80s,
just love the feeling after a good workout
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No I didn’t use any of that stuff actually. But pretty much everything else. Maybe I should clarify pretty much everything from about 2001 and on I would guess. Some I bought multiple times and some I bought once but typically have something a whirl.
I rarely visit this sub forum however the thread title sucked me in
I’m smiling like fuck at this post man.
Honoured by your kind words brother
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I freaking LOVED the sprays. The one that started with an A more than the one that started with an N. I can’t remember their names. But I had more muscle, was stronger, and looked better when using those than at any other time in my life.
Lol, Absolutely. There were good reasons why no one in polite society talked about sex, politics or religion. I’m all for duels of honor if the situation calls for it.
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I post on other forumns. I also like to think I lift but I also read/post in PWI quite a bit.
I agree with the others about this:
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It’s far too easy to avoid conversations/information that go against my views or to argue endlessly. This forum allows me to expose myself to different perspectives. Some of the regular PWI posters also model appropriate discourse. For example, @BrickHead and @unreal24278 are often at odds with each other, but they still carry out civil conversations and seem to respect each other
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