[quote]Canada_K wrote:
Cav - did you miss the abundant sarcasm? Here’s how you can tell when I’m being sarcastic: I’m speaking/typing/communicating.
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We have a lot in common!
So what exactly is the point of forced feeding/hi rep isolation stuff? Build mass, or define, or something?
Hey, you’re in L.A.! Whereabouts? I used to live there (am told it’s run down since). My sister lives out around Simi Valley somewhere.[/quote]
I got my bachelor’s degree from Cal State L.A. … Though that was in '79. My “young” and “new” profs are now retiring/retired …
I get all excited with that stuff.
E- Rhadi is a great guy- got to meet/work/attend lectures with him a few times
Kent- first Captain Canada is the SHIT
2nd training sounds interesting
3rd beans- I am mostly veggie and for a long time ate no meat or fish.
I can tell you allot of things that will help with beans
I can not eat chic peas- something about my chemistry and them = foulness
when you soak- you need to change the water a few times
adding a few table spoons of vinegar will help them soften white for lighter colored beans
red wine vinegar for lentils and darker beans
so will just straight up boiling them for 3 to 5 minutes before you cook them
( after soaking over night)
cooking beans- either rinsed cans- or soaked rinsed.
garlic fresh herbs go a long long way.
white navy beans take on smoke and garlic very well
black beans + cilantro + hot hot pepper flakes or scotch bonnet pepper + garlic good to go.
stock is always a good idea
things like adding chopped spinach to beans is easy
if you want to make a white bean stew that kicks ass
1 lb dry beans soaked over night
2lbs fresh tomatoes or good canned crushed sanmarzano 2 28 oz
stock- veggie or what ever
10+ garlic kloves peeled + smashed
fresh sage
fresh rosmary
anchovies if you like them
small glass white wine
saute garlic herbs anchovie
deglaze with white wine
add beans
add tomatoes or crushed canned
add some stock
med heat for 1/2 hour
slow low heat all day
I spent the weekend in Los Angeles with my wife and NO KIDS. Following is a random stream of consciousness in roughly reverse chronological order.
The traffic in this city is RIDICULOUS! There are 7 lanes of traffic in each direction on the freeway and at 6pm on a Saturday afternoon there’s gridlock. My average speed was 20 mph.
People on LA freeways are incredibly polite about letting people change lanes in front of them. Moreso than anywhere I’ve ever driven. LA road rage? I say, “myth”.
I met my a buddy at the Venice Beach Gold’s Gym (aka the Mecca). We trained arms, calves and traps. This gym is enormous, and is possibly the nicest facility I’ve ever used. FIVE squat racks, four rooms, and an outdoor area (!). I wasn’t going to bother to drive all the way out to Santa Monica just to check out a gym, but my pal is an absolute class act, and it was worth the drive just to hang out with him.
I saw IFBB pro bodybuilder Kai Green at Golds. BIIIIIIG! I’ve seen a lot of bodybuilders over the years, but this is at a whole other level. No I did not go up and say “hi”.
I saw the movie 50/50 last night, which is a wonderful story about one guy’s journey through cancer. It was sometimes funny, but always excellent.
We went to LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art. It was an interesting experience, but I’m not into modern art. One of the most interesting exhibits was a string sculpture woven intracately along a hallway ceiling that, according to the legend, was the deconstructed matrix of a hotdog. WHAT. THE. HELL!
I got to sleep in this morning until I was no longer tired. The room was still dark and silent when I woke up. I haven’t been able to do that in years.
There’s pink taxis in California.
I got to go to Staples Center and watch my hometown hockey team the Edmonton Oilers trounce the LA Kings 3-0. I was often nervous to cheer too loudly. Staples Center is an amazing building; the lighting and sound are freakishly excellent.
The LA Kings have an “ice crew”. These are chicks in bikini tops and yoga pants who skate out during the breaks to shovel ice shavings and clean the ice. They have a calendar. They’re blonde. They’re hot. Why don’t the Oilers have an ice crew?
Have I mentioned the ridiculousness of the traffic?
I also worked out at the downtown Gold’s gym becausee it’s only a bloack from my hotel. One, count it, ONE, squat rack in the building!!! Sadly, no one was competing with me for it. But they have two smith machines.
Destroyed 5 sets of deadlift triples at 315. It was supposed to be a deload week. I didn’t want to. I kicked a$$.
Diet sucked this weekend. It was not possible to keep to my massive eating program. Today, in fact, I had one meal, until I realized I’d forgotten to eat and we went scampering off to Denny’s at 11pm. I’ll reboot Monday.
I walked the Hollywood Walk of Fame. My wife hunted down Tom Cruise’s star. I found Bugs Bunny’s.
LA must be the only city in the world this size that doesn’t even TRY to make use of public transit. SO MANY CARS! SO MUCH GRIDLOCK.
We got as close as the public can get to the famous Hollywood sign. The road was pretty much a single lane, climbed up at a 30 degree angle, and had more twists and turns than your lower intestines. We were terrified we were going to crash the rental car. It was cool, though.
One of the exhibits at the art gallery was, literally, a pair of blank canvases.
After lunch on Hollywood Boulevard, I saw Mike Myers (from the Halloween movie) strolling down the road. It freaked me out. He joined Jason Voorhees. No I am not kidding.
I miss being here, and interacting with your logs. After I go back home I’ll have two very busy weeks ahead of me. Please be patient, I’ll continue to be sporadically absent for a while longer.
And I thought NYC traffic was bad, I read an article a few years ago that NYC had the 7th worst traffic, LA being number 1. Wow theee Golds Gym, I guess every meat head no matter what kind should take a trip to the Mecca.
I heard that Mike Myers was a strict vegan these days…
I got to go to Staples Center and watch my hometown hockey team the Edmonton Oilers trounce the LA Kings 3-0. I was often nervous to cheer too loudly. Staples Center is an amazing building; the lighting and sound are freakishly excellent.
People on LA freeways are incredibly polite about letting people change lanes in front of them. Moreso than anywhere I’ve ever driven. LA road rage? I say, “myth”.[/quote]
When you have that much gridlock, you have to be aggresive changing lanes. They get it.
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I saw IFBB pro bodybuilder Kai Green at Golds. BIIIIIIG! I’ve seen a lot of bodybuilders over the years, but this is at a whole other level. No I did not go up and say “hi”. [/quote]
I heard he just placed third in the Olympia.
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Destroyed 5 sets of deadlift triples at 315. It was supposed to be a deload week. I didn’t want to. I kicked a$$. [/quote]
Life’s too short. Go for it.
When I lived there, I could not drive more than 20 feet on downtown streets without getting blocked by busses. They were EVERYWHERE. Or maybe it just seemed that way.
I worked a while in the film industry, and got so jaded. It’s so competitive, the best person doesn’t always make it, there’s so much luck in anyone being a star. I could have shown you several people who simple busted their balls for years and will never be as famous as Mike Myers.
The traffic is really bad, can’t imagine dealing with that every day. The thing I noticed in California is that everyone seems to be in shape. When I was there last year we stayed on some cliffs by the ocean. There were stairs leading to the beach that were several hundred steps. So of course I had to run them for some cardio. I’m 46 and I was the youngest person out there as well as the slowest! Super fit guys in their 50’s and 60’s were cruising past me.
Its a beautiful place with great weather, easy to see why people want to live there.
Nice job with the deads-I can’t enjoy my vacations unless I get some training in either.
Haha…yeah, L.A. traffic is definitely no joke. But it’s really random in some regards too. I’ve made it through L.A. with no problems mid-afternoon and have been gridlocked at midnight. Go figure. And yes, we don’t have any sort of public transport to speak of. But Californians are car fanatics so I’m not sure we would use it if it was available.
You might have got stuck in an accident. There’s always somebody running into somebody else at any time on the freeways, and when that happens, it turns into a parking lot for miles behind. Sometimes it takes so long to grind through it that they clear the scene before you get there and you have no idea what caused it.
I have to eat my meals out of platters and serving bowls. This is ridiculous! Perhaps even more ridiculous is that my gym has removed one of the two swuat racks. This was a significant pain in my ass this morning.
yonkey - I’m feeling the pressure of the deadline and it’s keeping me highly motivated. I’ve got 2-3 weeks left to TRY and gain some good weight before my coach switches over to the diet. When that window is past I’ve lost any opportunity to build. I’ve GOT to make the best of this time I have 'cause i won’t get it back! I figure if I can get as crisp as your avatar, I will be GOLD!
cav - I have a feeling that LA is just in perpetual gridlock. It makes drivign up here in Medicine Hat seem positively blissful.
atypical - And it’s funny because in New York, nobody has a car and nobody WANTS one! One thing my wife and I found funny was that there was nobody in the car pool lanes! All it takes to bypass the traffic is a passenger, and none of those folks were taking advantage… the logic escapes me.
Centurion - Yes, everyone in California seems to be beautiful. Particularly at the Mecca, where the average person was a cover model.
Matty - The mecca was cool. I’ve never actually seen dudes that big face-to-face.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
I have to eat my meals out of platters and serving bowls. This is ridiculous! Perhaps even more ridiculous is that my gym has removed one of the two swuat racks. This was a significant pain in my ass this morning.
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WTF!!! Time for you to find a New Gym. Im sure your gum will replace them with a smith machine or somw high dollar piece of shit. I feel for you.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
I have to eat my meals out of platters and serving bowls. This is ridiculous! Perhaps even more ridiculous is that my gym has removed one of the two swuat racks. This was a significant pain in my ass this morning.
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WTF!!! Time for you to find a New Gym. Im sure your gum will replace them with a smith machine or somw high dollar piece of shit. I feel for you.[/quote]
They replaced the old squat rack with…
… a high dollar SQUAT CAGE!!!
I couldn’t believe it. In the last 6 months, this place has invested bucks in a deadlift platform and a new cage. I like it.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
I have to eat my meals out of platters and serving bowls. This is ridiculous! Perhaps even more ridiculous is that my gym has removed one of the two swuat racks. This was a significant pain in my ass this morning.
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WTF!!! Time for you to find a New Gym. Im sure your gum will replace them with a smith machine or somw high dollar piece of shit. I feel for you.[/quote]
They replaced the old squat rack with…
… a high dollar SQUAT CAGE!!!
I couldn’t believe it. In the last 6 months, this place has invested bucks in a deadlift platform and a new cage. I like it.[/quote]
Excellent. Probably worth while making a point to commend them and give them a pat on the back regarding their recent improvements. And maybe slip in a suggestion for something that you would like to see. Heavier dumbbells maybe?
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
I have to eat my meals out of platters and serving bowls. This is ridiculous! Perhaps even more ridiculous is that my gym has removed one of the two swuat racks. This was a significant pain in my ass this morning.
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WTF!!! Time for you to find a New Gym. Im sure your gum will replace them with a smith machine or somw high dollar piece of shit. I feel for you.[/quote]
They replaced the old squat rack with…
… a high dollar SQUAT CAGE!!!
I couldn’t believe it. In the last 6 months, this place has invested bucks in a deadlift platform and a new cage. I like it.[/quote]
