I find my aim is actually better when I’m trying NOT to hit something. Once, while a friend of mine was throwing grapes into the air and catching them in his mouth, I attempted to cleverly intercept the grape midflight with my own. Instead, I threw the grape completely down his throat, like some sort of clown carnival game, forcing him to gag and convulse.
Never in a million years if I had TRIED to do that would it have worked.
Haha I remember playing golf and a lady was strolling about 20m to my right. She was slightly forward of me but I thought it was an impossibility to hit her - even if she starts walkimg forward.
So the ball splices to the right and down, goes into a stream which was 25m infront of the tee. It hits a rock or something and ofcourse bounces right back at her and hits her in the ass.
Luckily most of the momentum has been taken off by whatever it hit. If she wasn’t there my first stroke would have put me 20m behind the tee. So I guess it’s kinda lucky.
Bit behind here, but what do you consider good grip builders? Double Overhand Pulls? I’ve been doing loads of farmers walks and can barely get past the 90s for 10ish metres
One of the best things I ever did for my grip was to pull a double overhand deadlift and hold for time. When I could reach 90 seconds, I’d up the weight.
Another good one is timed holds with a captains of crush gripper.
Well this sounds wonderful.
Coan used to do like a one arm hold at the top (suitcase hold?) which I tried a few times and enjoyed. Any thoughts on these for ~90s sets? The extra oblique work must be useful somewhere
They apparently worked for Ed Coan. I’ve never done one in my life.
Fair enough
When I was younger I asked my dad how to build a good grip. He gave me a pair of vice grips, turned the dial all the way tight, closed it with ease and opened it. He handed it to me and said “there ya go, once you can close this your grip should be alright.”
I second what @T3hPwnisher said with the overhand holds and timed holds on the grippers. Use fat grips if you have them or an axle would be even better for practically everything.
The suitcase holds can be cool. Balancing them can be a pain in the ass, but I guess that’s part of the reason for doing them. Extra wrist power. Going in the rack, from pins for a short ROM works OK. Except if you start too high, you bang off the pins every time the bar dips.
I apparently suck at picking ringers for hockey tournaments.
Next they they say open level is acceptable I’m fucking bringing former NHL players.
I’m not letting those college club players win again.
So… my feet smell bad, really bad. I can eliminate the problem by washing my feet with acne face wash, letting them air out in the evenings and wearing breathable work socks whenever I’m wearing white socks.
For work I have to wear dress shoes: wool dress socks, leather shoes. Not a good combo. Luckily I can rotate shoes every day and let the brown ones get disinfected and air out while I wear the black ones. Problem solved.
We have a bad cat who randomly decides to piss on things about once a quarter (I’ve been trying to sell him to a chinese restaurant for years, wife won’t have it). I go to put on my shoes yesterday and they smell terrible, worse then ever.
“Wow, damn… guess I forgot to disinfect my shoes yesterday.”
Switch belt and wear the shoes that don’t stink and off to work I go. Wife texts me “the cat pissed all over our shoes! I’m going to kill him”. I legit couldn’t tell the difference in the morning lol.
time to get new feet
Chinamen can’t eat cats because it would be an insult to their great, dead Leader. It’s like a sacred cow kind of thing.
I’ve had many clients hire me and provide their current/previous programs and plans, and many times seen a very well known coach giving everyone the exact same plan and charging ridiculous amounts for it.
I don’t know if I’m more upset/angry:
-at the coach for just lying to people and no one really seems to know or care.
-at people who actually pay these crazy prices, being so gullible as to think he has some extra bit of science that no one else has or uses.
-at myself for always believing that there’s a “breaking point” in coaching because at the end of the day how much can you really charge for something like contest prep, and not being ok with behaving in such an unscrupulous manner just to make money.
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That’s why I sucked as a personal trainer. How much can you take from them without feeling guilty?
If you give them a fish each day (run them through a challenging workout) then they’ll keep coming back. But if you teach them to fish (principles if training & nutrition) then they really don’t need you long term.
I actually care about people having long term success so I’d rather make them independent.
Between this and supplements and commercial globo gyms the fitness industry is a big scam, not that everyone here didn’t know that already.
That’s the sad part of it. I love this stuff and would quit my job this second if I could make $40k a year training people. But in order to do that I have to confuse average people and make them think they need me to do anything in the gym. I can’t do it.
I trained at the Y back in college. I took the 6am-9am shift and made $10/hr. I was content with my job b/c it was a raise from the $7.05/hr I was making at Office Depot after basketball practice. I was encouraged to show new members how to go through the machine circuit that the Y likes to use. They number the Cybex machines and have printouts for the members to use. They get three free sessions with a personal trainer. I took them through all of the machines and taught them how to use them. We even wrote down which settings for the seat, back rest, etc on their workout sheet. The Y keeps their sheets so all they have to do is come in and grab their sheet and go through the routine.
It’s the most basic thing in the world but it gives people a place to start and learn. I never had a single person use all three sessions. They’d come in once or twice and then do their thing on that circuit. They weren’t there to hire a personal trainer; they were there to get a little help to start their journey.
A co-worker of mine didn’t show them the circuit. He’d take them through a workout using “functional” exercises. He flat out told me he did stuff that was difficult so they’d think they needed his help and hire him. He was booked up 40+ hours a week. He actually had to work the floor for free to get his insurance (different pay/system for personal training sessions vs working the floor and doing the free sessions). He made bank and was always busy. Good for him but I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
On top of all that, he wasn’t very good. I’d often see him having people do RDL’s or stiff leg deadlifts with locked knees and a rounded back. It looked awful and he was barely paying attention.
I’m going to become an impersonal trainer, where I tell someone’s friends how their friend should train.
I think I can corner the market on this revolutionary new style.
I suck at making money, period.
I just can’t bring myself to charge people a whole lot for anything, especially if I know them or like them.
Turns out I like just about everybody.
Related admission: I was really impressed meeting @The_Mighty_Stu . Randomly bumped into him on Friday. I hope that wasn’t too awkward or intrusive. I was just so thrilled to see someone from the internet IRL that I forgot that I didn’t actually have anything to say.
How ridiculous are you talking about? So you are saying he was just using a canned programs with no adjustment based on the client?
