I had come up with plans on how much I was going to sell my entire home gym for in the span of the 2 minute rests with Deep Water beginnner.
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I find it very productive to do math during rest periods. Over the summer, I tried “cardio and calculus”- Basically, 2 min intervals on bike followed by 2 min of calc homework for as many rounds as it took to complete the problem set
I would do a similar thing where I would determine how many heart beats I was away from a stroke and cross compare it to average ambulance response time in my neighborhood. It was like a race!
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you could also add to that the number of people it would take to lift you from the floor to the ambulance and the relative weight handled by each person depending where on the body they lifted you from !!
Dude, if the spotters help, it doesn’t count.
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lol I doubt after deep water you could lift yourself to the ambulance and given the likely size of your muscles after doing it the paramedics may well need the assistance 
Thankfully my ACL reconstruction and my tendency to be an awful post surgical patient allowed me to develop a variety of creative ways to pick myself up off the floor from compromised positions.
Alternative COA: if it was after the 9th set of squats, I’d prefer the ambulance never find me and I just die right there instead.
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I honestly don’t remember the last time I read an article on T-Nation. When I first found the website, I ignored the forums and read the articles religiously. Now, I spend more time catching up on threads than I should and completely ignore the articles. There’s some good ones in there for sure, but my favorite authors have pretty much stopped writing on here.
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I don’t know who came up with this but I find it kind of dumb. If we truly followed this then no one would be respected because we’d start off every relationship by treating each other like crap.
I believe everyone deserves to be treated with respect. I might not actually respect a person (and sometimes I’d prefer to strangle them and dump their body on the side of a dirt road), but I still treat them well. Treating them like crap accomplishes nothing.
You don’t have to earn my respect. I start out by giving it (and there are varying degrees). You can lose it. And if you do then I’ll still be cordial.
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Here’s your warning, @littlesleeper.
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Thinking about it makes me nervous. I need to ramp up my “Deep Water with Training Wheels” to try and be better prepared for the eventual onslaught.
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Also be sure to pick out training clothes you don’t mind throwing away when the program is over as they will be coated in fear sweat and the smell will never go away.
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gulp
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I confess that for the first time ever I have knots in my delts and biceps. Unlike knots in the upperback that are weirdly enjoyable to have worked out, these are… less so. Especially the biceps, ouch.
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There, but for the grace of genetics, goes the next serial/cereal/surreal killer…
Sounds like chessboxing!
This is put just about perfectly
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As a self-loathing misanthrope, the golden rule is like social cheat codes.
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Squats already suck enough by themselves. Do my traps REALLY need to be sore on squat day?
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Has anyone else seen Joker? I thought it was a masterpiece of a movie. It perfectly portrayed the plight of those with mental illnesses. Unfortunately, I can identify with the Joker in some respects, but I still think it’s a great movie for everyone (who isn’t scared of gore) to see. Really raises awareness for mental health issues. Favorite quote had to be at the end. I won’t spoil it for anyone else, but it captured the problems of our society when it comes to dealing with mental health in a nutshell.
Just for that, it’s my favorite movie. I can’t wait to rewatch it.
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