Tues, Apr5 2011
Seated Mils HS 5/3/1
200x5
230x3
260x2x3
DE Incline
195x3x8
Chest Support Row
90x7x5
Pulldowns (close grip chin style…these are staying in for now)
130x7x5
Face pulls and cable tricep extension
90x10x5
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
x2 on the GW folks. I am sure they have a model that calls for an ice age, though,[/quote]
I’m glad I’m not the only one then. Over here I’m afraid to voice my opinions on GW as everyone has jumped on board the green bandwagon. I’m all for recycling and renewable energy but I don’t think that all climate change is man made. There is that big thing called the sun too.
If ever I’m discussing this I always bring up the Medieval Warm Period that stumps 'em. (a period 1000 years ago when it was as warm or warmer than today, yet there was a fraction of the population, no cars, power stations etc, so obviously not caused by man). Yet I noticed the other day “new research” by climatologists is showing that it wasn’t as warm as first thought.
Funny that!, I think they’re trying to tie up all loose ends and massage the data that doesn’t fit with their theories. I thought with science you were supposed to look at the data then come to a conclusion. Not come up with a theory then try and manipulate the results to prove your theory right.
Anyway, we have had four of the wettest summers on record in succession followed by two of the coldest winters since records began, yet according to the “experts” this “blip” just proves even more that we are heading for a hotter climate and droughts!
Living in Wales I say “bring it on!”
Sorry about that, glad I got it off my chest.[/quote]
I am with you, Brett. Do we have an impact on the climate? I don’t see how we couldn’t. The real question is, what impact? My stepfather, a Brit here in the US, spent years writing software for climate models. He worked for a gent back East, who was the head of the Climatology (or whatever it is called) Dept., at his university. They both shared the view that man-made climate change was bunk. There are far to many variables to possibly determine what root cause is. Not to mention, as you did, the sun plays the biggest role. Also, if you want a serious debate, they need to quit tweaking data and we need more opinions from folks who do not rely on GW funding for their livelihoods.
Unfortunately, like most other crisis, politicians and special interests will exploit it to gain greater control and get rich.
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
x2 on the GW folks. I am sure they have a model that calls for an ice age, though,[/quote]
I’m glad I’m not the only one then. Over here I’m afraid to voice my opinions on GW as everyone has jumped on board the green bandwagon. I’m all for recycling and renewable energy but I don’t think that all climate change is man made. There is that big thing called the sun too.
If ever I’m discussing this I always bring up the Medieval Warm Period that stumps 'em. (a period 1000 years ago when it was as warm or warmer than today, yet there was a fraction of the population, no cars, power stations etc, so obviously not caused by man). Yet I noticed the other day “new research” by climatologists is showing that it wasn’t as warm as first thought.
Funny that!, I think they’re trying to tie up all loose ends and massage the data that doesn’t fit with their theories. I thought with science you were supposed to look at the data then come to a conclusion. Not come up with a theory then try and manipulate the results to prove your theory right.
Anyway, we have had four of the wettest summers on record in succession followed by two of the coldest winters since records began, yet according to the “experts” this “blip” just proves even more that we are heading for a hotter climate and droughts!
Living in Wales I say “bring it on!”
Sorry about that, glad I got it off my chest.[/quote]
Glad your workouts are coming well…
I really hated to read about the dips, bothering your shoulders and worse your not the only one. I’ve been hoping I could adopt them after my shoulders heal up / strengthen. I’ve dislocated/subluxed doing pullups…
Wed, Apr6 2011
Intervals on the hampster wheel 25mins
PHC aka PLP…Pushups, Hindu Squats (crappy ones), and Chins. Up to 12 now
Hey Rug. I read your log often but don’t comment much.
On the dips, does your gym have a machine dip? Regular dips are tough on my shoulder. With machine dips I can go just as heavy without issues. I think it is because I have better control over my body angle relative to my arm / shoulder. Might help.
Anyway, keep hitting it hard.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
Hey Rug. I read your log often but don’t comment much.
On the dips, does your gym have a machine dip? Regular dips are tough on my shoulder. With machine dips I can go just as heavy without issues. I think it is because I have better control over my body angle relative to my arm / shoulder. Might help.
Anyway, keep hitting it hard.[/quote]
They actually might now that I think about it. I thought it might be a tricep pushdown machine. Now I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the input cuz I reallly love dips and hope to be back at them soon, pain free of course.
Training is looking good-nice work.
its funny dips make my shoulders feel great-
benching not so much.
GW is a strange thing I did a boring 3 day shoot about it -
and the best explanation I heard was some crazy professer type,
who actually made it understandable
the multitude of factors that cause hotter summers- can also cause cold winters
but then went on in plain english or plain Mid-Atlantic English to explain.
Thur, Apr7 2011
Sumo Deads 5/3/1
235x5
265x3
295x1x3
These went up fast and smooth. I’m starting to dislike deadlifting less and less. I was always getting headaches and shit but now that I’m doing cardio regularly and my blood pressure is on the way down, deadlifts are starting to be fun again. I hope to be at a REAL weight really soon.
Shrugs
255x7x5
Scap Retracts
165x7x5
Nice deads, Rug. And congrats on the blood pressure.
What weight are you shooting for?
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Nice deads, Rug. And congrats on the blood pressure.
What weight are you shooting for?[/quote]
Nothing too dramatic. Once I’m down below 210, I’m gonna try and level off. For years I could drop sub 190, but my strength just goes out the window so I’m looking at cruising around the deuce level for a while. As much as I thought carrying 225 wasn’t too bad, I was going about it wrong and was starting to worry about things that I shouldn’t have to worry about, like viceral fat and high blood pressure and the headaches. Now the headaches are gone, the pressure is going lower…thanks treadmill, blech!!!..and slowly but surely the weight is coming down.
Friday, Apr8 2011
Intervals on the hampster wheel 25min
PCH - 13 reps
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
x2 on the GW folks. I am sure they have a model that calls for an ice age, though,[/quote]
I’m glad I’m not the only one then. Over here I’m afraid to voice my opinions on GW as everyone has jumped on board the green bandwagon. I’m all for recycling and renewable energy but I don’t think that all climate change is man made. There is that big thing called the sun too.
If ever I’m discussing this I always bring up the Medieval Warm Period that stumps 'em. (a period 1000 years ago when it was as warm or warmer than today, yet there was a fraction of the population, no cars, power stations etc, so obviously not caused by man). Yet I noticed the other day “new research” by climatologists is showing that it wasn’t as warm as first thought.
Funny that!, I think they’re trying to tie up all loose ends and massage the data that doesn’t fit with their theories. I thought with science you were supposed to look at the data then come to a conclusion. Not come up with a theory then try and manipulate the results to prove your theory right.
Anyway, we have had four of the wettest summers on record in succession followed by two of the coldest winters since records began, yet according to the “experts” this “blip” just proves even more that we are heading for a hotter climate and droughts!
Living in Wales I say “bring it on!”
Sorry about that, glad I got it off my chest.[/quote]
Yeah, this GW scam is de facto debunked (just mainstream media keeps pushing GW propaganda for $$$). In Lithuania where I live we had 2 coldest consecutive winters in 20 something years. Now they changed tactics and say it is not Global Warming but Climate Change. Ever heard of the seasons? 
This all GW scare is made to push through carbon taxes. I’m also worried about environment and I do waht I can (recycle, save energy and use bike wherever whenever I can), but we got bigger problems with oceanic life extinction, air&water pollution, deforestation and so on…
I really had to get this out of my chest too.
Sat, Apr09 2011
Incline Bench 5’s
175x5
205x5
230x5x2
230x7
Found a dip machine!!! (frickin shoulder!!!)
110x10
130x10
150x10
170x10
My tris were killin me!!!
Krocs
100x11x3
Pullovers and curls
60x7x3
Nice work, rug. Glad you found a dip machine. I can’t do them either. And I used to love them.
Sun, Apr10 2011
Box Squats 5’s
185x5
215x5
245x5x3
Walkouts
Made it to 345. They felt heavy and I felt unstable today. Maybe I should eat at least once before training.
Leg Press
Stopped after the 3rd set. Hip tendon was acting up. Sometimes being busted sucks!!!
Back raise work
Ghetto glute ham raises.
No layoff week now for the last 12 weeks. I am considering dropping to 3 days for a cycle or two to eliminate the need for a back off week. Not sure if it’s catching up to me yet. I’m still hitting my numbers and increasing the weight. Today could just have been one of those days.
Not eating will definitely get you.
And a lighter week might do the body good. Can’t hurt…right?
Sorry guys, every counter GW argument made here has peer reviewed rebuttals… I can send link if your interested. Usually, I leave people alone in this area as frankly denial at this point might be the most humane option.
The corporations have bots submitting these arguments on pretty much every news or science article on the web. It is getting harder to detect what comment is human and what is machine origin as they refine the Human Language algorithms.
Denial won’t do us any good, and personally I think action (even Moon shot and WW II level efforts combined) at this point would do little more then nothing. Positive Feed backs purposefully left out of models have been observed to be kicking in. Data is in from Amazon and tundra regions. Each more then sufficient to double current COe…
The trigger has been pulled. The primer is lit. It will take 20-30 more years for the main charge to go off. Shouldn’t be any surprise that it takes decades to modify the environment, it is pretty big. Even large comet and asteroid strikes took awhile to have an effect.
Only real question is if it is a howitzer or fat man.
We live in interesting times.
But then here in the U.S. there is a significant May 21st 2011 Judgement Day doomsday sect…
[quote]Null wrote:
Sorry guys, every counter GW argument made here has peer reviewed rebuttals… I can send link if your interested. Usually, I leave people alone in this area as frankly denial at this point might be the most humane option.
The corporations have bots submitting these arguments on pretty much every news or science article on the web. It is getting harder to detect what comment is human and what is machine origin as they refine the Human Language algorithms.
Denial won’t do us any good, and personally I think action (even Moon shot and WW II level efforts combined) at this point would do little more then nothing. Positive Feed backs purposefully left out of models have been observed to be kicking in. Data is in from Amazon and tundra regions. Each more then sufficient to double current COe…
The trigger has been pulled. The primer is lit. It will take 20-30 more years for the main charge to go off. Shouldn’t be any surprise that it takes decades to modify the environment, it is pretty big. Even large comet and asteroid strikes took awhile to have an effect.
Only real question is if it is a howitzer or fat man.
We live in interesting times.
But then here in the U.S. there is a significant May 21st 2011 Judgement Day doomsday sect…[/quote]
Frankly I, along with everyone else, don’t really know if climate change is man made or not. All we can do is make up our minds from the facts we are given in the press from either side (but in fact we only tend to hear from one side) and decide which side of the fence we sit. Now I would like to think that I am not in denial (I don’t know enough to be in denial) nor am I one for conspiracy theories, but I also am not so naive to think that our governments wouldn’t alter the facts to meet their own needs if they chose to, as a way to bring in a whole load of new taxes as has been done here in the UK.
What really annoys me though is that we keep having endless Green summits about saving the planet and nobody, not one single person brings up the greatest threat to our planet, human population growth. In 1927 the worlds population was 2 billion and next year it is estimated to break 7 billion, a 3.5 fold increase in less than 100 years. This is totally, to use the “buzz” word of the green movement, unsustainable.
This is my analogy. If I were to put 4 sheep on an acre of grass it would comfortably support those sheep all year round. However, if I were to put 20 sheep on the same acre obviously they would soon run out of grass, bare patches would appear, weeds would grow on those bare patches, the feild would get churned up by the extra traffic and eventually the feild would become “sick” and they would go hungry. To try and prevent this I could kill the weeds with pesticides and use artificial fertilizers to try and boost the grass growth, but I would be fighting a losing battle. The only answer would be to reduce the stocking density.
This is exactly what is happening with humans and no amount of recycling of washing up liquid bottles is going to make any impact at all if the world’s population keeps spiralling out of control.
Now I don’t have any ideas as to how this can be sorted, but I would have a lot more respect for our world’s politicians if they were brave enough to at least mention the single biggest threat to our planet which is staring them straight in the face, rather than come up with a new tax on electric toothbrushes or something.
Sorry Ruglayer for hi-jacking your thread again.
Null, you make good points. I would have to say, however, that “peer reviewed” means nothing to me. My former stepfather, from his days in Computational Quantum Chemistry, and his boss, both were published in peer reviewed publications. The first thing my former stepfather will tell you is that it is a completely political process. Not to mention, his former boss found his fame, as a young chemist, by debunking the work of a well known chemist’s published and peer reviewed work.
And therein lay the crux. Science is supposed to be objective and truth seeking. But to some degree it has devolved into the same cesspool as everything else. Data is falsified, omitted and pulled out of thin air to reach a desired result, rather than whatever result the truth may yield.
The problem is, who can really say which scientists, or results, are on the up and up? Sadly, I can’t trust any of them, because I have no idea which ones are being objective and truth seeking and which ones have an agenda.
Does that mean that climate change is not happening? Of course not. If we all disappeared tomorrow, the climate would still change. The question is, what impact is mankind having and to what degree. Since I can’t trust any of the folks out there arguing about it, because I have no idea if they are trustworthy or not, I rely on the one person I do trust in this and the climatologist that he worked for…who he trusts.
I still think pollution is more of a winnable angle than climate change. And that ties in to what Brett said. We will eventually hit the planet’s carrying capacity. The pollution we are constantly spewing everywhere (and that will increase as the population does) is only going to lessen that carrying capacity.
To answer your question, Brett. Assuming we don’t have an asteroid wipe us out, or a war that kills 2 billion people, I suspect that something will rise out of our own filth (a plague of some sort) and knock a huge hole in our population. Either that or a famine will do the same.
Rug…how did your thread become the political discussion thread?
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Null, you make good points. I would have to say, however, that “peer reviewed” means nothing to me. My former stepfather, from his days in Computational Quantum Chemistry, and his boss, both were published in peer reviewed publications. The first thing my former stepfather will tell you is that it is a completely political process. Not to mention, his former boss found his fame, as a young chemist, by debunking the work of a well known chemist’s published and peer reviewed work.
And therein lay the crux. Science is supposed to be objective and truth seeking. But to some degree it has devolved into the same cesspool as everything else. Data is falsified, omitted and pulled out of thin air to reach a desired result, rather than whatever result the truth may yield.
The problem is, who can really say which scientists, or results, are on the up and up? Sadly, I can’t trust any of them, because I have no idea which ones are being objective and truth seeking and which ones have an agenda.
Does that mean that climate change is not happening? Of course not. If we all disappeared tomorrow, the climate would still change. The question is, what impact is mankind having and to what degree. Since I can’t trust any of the folks out there arguing about it, because I have no idea if they are trustworthy or not, I rely on the one person I do trust in this and the climatologist that he worked for…who he trusts.
I still think pollution is more of a winnable angle than climate change. And that ties in to what Brett said. We will eventually hit the planet’s carrying capacity. The pollution we are constantly spewing everywhere (and that will increase as the population does) is only going to lessen that carrying capacity.
To answer your question, Brett. Assuming we don’t have an asteroid wipe us out, or a war that kills 2 billion people, I suspect that something will rise out of our own filth (a plague of some sort) and knock a huge hole in our population. Either that or a famine will do the same.
Rug…how did your thread become the political discussion thread?[/quote]
I like debate. My friends and I do this same thing every Fri night. It usually starts out as an innocuous remark about something or another and ends up in a friendly debate. And no topic is off-limits. Keeps the mind fresh and occasionally someones viewpoint changes. The joys of living a world with a multitude of problems.
On the aforementioned population angle, I took, and still take, that same side. We as a planet are far too populated. Natural selection has gone out the window and been replaced by the humans need to…actually I’m not quite sure why we as humans do some of the stupid things that we do to ourselves and this rock we live on. My first guess would be ego. That would probably be my second guess as well.
And just in case anyone is wondering, I don’t mind the hijacks.