Lifting “partner”?
After my workout Tuesday, I was waiting in the gym lobby for my wife to pick me up, when I spotted a couple I regularly see, entering the gym sporting brand new dumbbell-shaped water jugs. Of course, his was blue and hers was pink, so fucking cute…
Now, I’ve got to give them shit for looking like newbie resolutionors, with their awesome matchie water bottles. Just as I’m about to holler at them, I get a text from my wife - “I’ll be 10 more minutes - found you a nice new gym bag”
Damn. Now I look like the newb.
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I’ve found the best way to not look like a newb… is by not being a newb. New bag or no 
I just dress like a hobo.
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Confession. I live spiting distance from a world class strongman man and powerlifting gym (when I used to train there I saw Terry Holland more than once). But I train at crappy commercial gym because I like being one of the strongest guys There. Honestly - I got a round of applause after a squat session. It was about three plates aside.
Felt good though!
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Put off training til tomorrow to play Pathfinder with my roommates til 430 am
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If you switched to that gym, id think you’d find yourself becoming alot stronger. Being in an environment where there’s alot of strong dudes will push you more then you can push yourself in a commercial gym with the weaklings.
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Yep - I’d have access to world class coaching, gym staff that knew what they were talking about and I could train in my singlet with out being made to feel like a weirdo. But I like being a big fish in a small pond - sad but true!
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I used to watch The Biggest Loser while eating a large chocolate chip cookie dough blizzard from Dairy Queen.
I had this same injury… twice. In high school it happened to my right leg and it ended up taking about 8 weeks for the swelling to go down. It happened during the first week of regionals in football and I missed the first game of basketball. Once the swelling went down I was able to bounce back.
In December of 2007 (five years later) I did it to the left leg. Six weeks of swelling and pain and then I opted for surgery to clean it up. I also had a lateral release performed so there wasn’t anything pulling the knee cap to the outside. If I recall correctly it took about 3 months to get back to a high level of performance. Surgery was mid-January and by mid-April I had my vertical back and was doing single-leg plyo’s at PT.
Now that I’m 10 years past that I can say that it was kind of a wash regarding surgery. I never had my right one cleaned up and it sounds like I’m stepping on peanuts when I go up the stairs. It also hurts on occasion (sharp stabbing pain under the kneecap). My left knee feels great but occasionally I get pain/achiness in my quad just about where it probably turns into the patellar tendon.
I guess I could say surgery might’ve been the better option because my left leg has regained its strength. My right leg has always been weaker than my left since the injury. That could also just be my right handed dominance too. I jump off the left leg and landed on it back in my pitching days.
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I’m not complaining, but i drive 30+ minutes just to have access to better equipment. I’d go even farther for training partners, potential coaching, etc. I couldn’t recommend it more strongly if you’re interested in bettering yourself in strength sports.
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I would give a lot to have that oppurtinity.
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Same.
It usually looks like I’m wearing clothes I slept in the night before…because I slept in them the night before.
On occasion I will sleep fully clothed. Espeacially if I went to bed late and have to be up early.
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I remember playing pathfinder with another couple me and my husband had grown fond of, dude…we had to have been THE most dysfunctional group ever to have played pathfinder.
I never knew what was going on, my husband never knew what was going on, and we constantly lost the dice.
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My buddy got me into playing DnD 5e a few months back. It’s my guilty nerd pleasure that I keep secret from the rest of the world.
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The wife bought me game of thrones themed Risk for Christmas. Now she’s stuck playing it with me. Lmao.
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I have never watched an episode of GoT. Nor do I wish to. The mild satisfaction I get from telling people this is addictive
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@Koestrizer @brady888 @duketheslaya
I know. My wife wants me to go to the “real” gym also.
But at the moment I’m still making gains and I like being able to OHP what most of the other users can’t squat and bench what that can’t deadlift.
Its Childish and nothing more than an ego stroke.
BTW I’m engering a PL comp in April. I doubt I’ll be lone wolfing it after that as I’ll be consently thinking about the numbers I could have posted.
I read the lotr series as a kid and have been super nerdy about medieval themed fiction and games even since.
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I’m pretty sure the underlying reason I started lifting weights was because I wanted to be Beorn (and still do obv).
