Confession: I feel that this thread represents the core of our community. We may get some crazy thread action happening but as a general group I’m really happy with the information that gets passed through this community. This is coming from an ex lifter (uh I hate that term cos I love lifting) turned martial artist student with the intention of ‘combat athlete’ (yes, I know, it’s a catch phrase), but I still get so much value from browsing most of the forums in this website.
Confession: I got a new Titan Yoke during black Friday. My garage is just too full, so I sold my Pitbull Econo Yoke to a local strongman for a steal (priced to move). After I loaded it into his garage, I turned around one last time while the door was closing to catch a last look at it and felt unreasonably sad over seeing it go; like I had just given my dog to someone else. I think I’m gonna miss that yoke. It saw me through some times. But I’m happy its in a good home.
Biggest one is space economy. The pitbull is secured by 2 nuts and bolts rather than 4 hitch pins, and the legs aren’t balanced such that they stand up independently without the crossbar connecting them. This means taking the pitbull apart and putting it back together is a total pain, so I had to leave it fully assembled, which ate up a lot of floor space in an already cramped garage gym. The Titan yoke is much faster to take down and put away.
Titan yoke is also far more stable. Sturdier material, more connection points, etc. The pitbull starts wobbling once you get 400lbs on it, while the Titan feels bomb proof.
Titan yoke can also be used as squat stands with some T3 attachments. Due to the small holes and short uprights on the Pitbull, this can’t happen.
Final nail in the coffin is the crossbar diameter. Pitbull is 2", Titan is 2.75" (if not wider; I forget the exact specs). You see wide crossbars in more competitions, which is helpful to get accustomed to. Plus, when I use the Titan, my thumbs don’t go numb from all the weight in the world crashing into one of my traps, haha.
My confession is that I hate spicy food. Ever since that first fatal flamin’ hot cheeto’s dust got stuck in my windpipe, I’ve had a problem with it. I understand that objectively, it is a unique and viable way to flavor food. Hot sauce on pepperoni pizza? I get it. Hot sauce on chicken? I get it. If you put hot sauce on something, I don’t care. It’s just not for me. It’s parallel to some of my friends enjoy smoking the ganj every once in a while, but I don’t partake. It’s not something I enjoy thoroughly enough to put up with the downsides. That being said, my friends will go smoke for 15 minutes and come back and everything is normal. Not quite so when it comes to spicy food; the hot sauce zealots really annoy me.
“Hey bro, what snacks should I get for tonight?”
“I don’t know, but get at least one thing that is mild or just not spicy.”
“WOW YOU’RE SUCH A PUSSY BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE HOT FOOD”
This has happened before. It really be your own friends sometimes. Seems like no matter what kind of stupid shit I do, my friends are there to support me, but when I do something reasonable such as politely refusing spicy food, I get endless shit for it. Would a level-headed spice lover please explain how and where the zealots all got this spicy food elitism from?
Smh. They’re no better than low carb or IMF zealots imho.
Got my weight done to 284, then had two Christmas church parties in a row and ballooned to 297.
One of those parties was chicken and steak quesadillas, the other brisket and sausage and mac and cheese.
Well, it’s the same thing when people get offended when you tell them you don’t squat or deadlift.
Some guys in this forum actually got upset when I wrote that ONE of the reasons I don’t deadlift is because I hate loading and then returning the plates.
Right now I bet several guys here are probably deliberating whether they should flame me…
There’s a theory some Indians have about the correlation between one’s ability to tolerate spicy food and his proficiency at performing cunninglingus. Something to do with traning the tongue.
I would love to see a series of articles on T Nation with contrasting authors. Like a debate of ideals instead of singular articles with confirmation bias, I’d get a lot out of that. @Chris_Colucci thoughts big dog?
Appreciate the tag, I’ve read a fair few of those ones already. I was more hoping for some recent ones, and potentially more debate like rather than discussion if that makes sense?
I always like to know “why” different people disagree, other than politely agreeing with one another
