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I guess it's because 1. trying to return 225+kg to your shoulders from overhead will destroy you over a lifetime of training and lifting, and 2. lifting in a cage is suicidal because sometimes the weight takes you for a walk (like Klokov's snatch which you linked to). Wouldn't surprise me if Klokov had someone helping him load and unload his weights... bloke probably spends eight hours a day training. Maybe that's a job for the coaches or junior lifters?
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New page new photograph. Living my life like some kind of cultural stereotype. PWO nutrition of roast beef and onion gravy sandwiches whilst reading football news.  Gonna go to the record shop in town and try to find a record player for my new collection and a copy of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. Then I need to do a few hrs of studying and tonight I think I am going bowling and then watching Mad Men with friends. Life is grand. 
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gently caress you you have Kind of Blue. At this rate I'm going to cross the Atlantic to rob you.
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They didn't have it, in fact the only Davis record they had was 'You're Under Arrest' and I wasn't about to spend money on that. Nearly bought Cat Stevens's 'Teaser and the Firecat' and Elvis Costello's 'My Aim Is True' but picked up a Billie Holiday record and a Beethoven piano sonatas box set instead. Also turns out we have a record player in the attic so I think I'm sorted now. Sweet. Gonna order Kind of Blue online when I have a bit of cash to spare.
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I don't feel great... and I'm getting a bit sick of eating the same stuff and just waking up and going to the gym every drat morning... the last time I took a week off was Christmas. Maybe I'll deload next week and just focus on my coursework. 11 Apr 2012 Back/bis Chin ups bw x 10, 10, 8, 5 db kroc rows 25kg x 5 37.5kg x 5 60kg x 10, 10, 10 rep PR My lower back was pumped which means my form really is questionable. I think I'm gonna do one heavy set of db rows and then drop the weight so I can keep my form tight Cable face pulls w/ rope '70kg' x 12, 12, 12 rep pr BB Row 75kg x 8, 8, 8 pr Seated EZ Bar curl on preacher 12.5kg p/s x 12, 12, 12, 10, 10 rep pr Seated incline db curl (RP) 15kg x 10, 8, 8 ugh Seated db hammer curl 15kg x 10, 10, 10 Ab circuit
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 12:05 |
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Why not eat something different instead?
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Beat you in our 5k race. Thought it would take more than a page in this log but ahahaha so happy A break might help you but you could also try just relaxing your standards for a bit maybe? Then again I might just be saying that because I'd miss your log. Do what you think is best! Clothed N Famous fucked around with this message at Apr 12, 2012 around 23:06 |
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Haha good work man! I think I just need to quit being gay or w/e it is Poor Man's Rholf said. Gonna make a conscious effort to eat more and sleep better. Also what Boogan suggested. That said I fell asleep at like 9.30pm last night and woke up an hour ago... it's 1.45am now and I feel refreshed like I've just had a nap. Need to get back to sleep somehow because in the morning I'm gonna be training legs.  Also I watched all of series one of Game of Thrones in the last 24 hrs and it loving RUUULES!!! Can't believe I didn't watch this poo poo when my friends were telling me about it last year. If Dexter and Breaking Bad live up to the hype (I've seen neither of these, too) then I've got a lot of good television to watch.
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I just logged onto Facebook and saw this in my news feed That's my cousin, out drunk and deciding it's totally fine to broadcast these things on Facebook. That's his mother-in-law replying. Some of my family are truly.... Something Awful
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Umbriago posted:I just logged onto Facebook and saw this in my news feed Are these people your family? http://www.channel4.com/programmes/...t-gypsy-wedding
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good lord... also GoT is good, Dexter first 2 seasons are good, Breaking Bad is idk some word way higher than good in the hierarchy of good-describing adjectives. Also also plz instead of burning out, train instead. or just forget about macros and ratios and poo poo and just ~listen to ur body~ for a few days.
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I would be surprised if I'm not related to those gypsies. I'm also pretty surprised that that stupid programme is known in the US. Yeah Boogan, I just need to practice self care. I've a tendency to let things slowly pile up on me without noticing, which isn't good for my anxious/pessimistic disposition. Today we squat in hell  13 Apr 2012 Lower body Deadlifts Bar x 5 60kg x 5 80kg x 3 100kg x 2 120kg x 2 140kg x 1 150kg x 3 PR yeah buddy Back squats Bar x 5 60kg x 5 80kg x 3 100kg x 3 110kg x 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 Front squats Bar x 5 60kg x 3 80kg x 3 85kg x 3, 3, 3 Bodyweight: 81.3kg / 179lbs of carb bloat Umbriago fucked around with this message at Apr 13, 2012 around 11:52 |
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Nice work on the PR, man!
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^^^thanks Hoooooly poo poo I'm gonna pick one of these up next week and eat it for uhhh, tflc research The hot dog stuffed crust pizza!!!  http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandst...fed-crust-pizza Umbriago fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 12:05 |
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Bless me Strumpy for I have sinned, I spent last night drinking Fosters.  I train my legs on Fridays and also seem to get drunk on Fridays, and when I am drunk I eat very little and sleep very little. This means my DOMS on Saturdays is always hell. I was at a gathering last night and an ~old flame~ from my teenage years was there, and when everyone went to bed we stayed up and talked for a while. She bitched to me about her boyfriend and started coming onto me and I had to tell her to pack it in. I don't want to be the lad who is responsible for another lad feeling like poo poo when he finds out his gf cheated on him. Decided to take a rest day today and will workout tomorrow instead, so I spent the afternoon with my American grandad. He was born into a South Dakotan family of eight kids during the Depression, and when he was 17 he hitchhiked down to California where he found work in a shipyard. He was only there for about six months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, after which he was conscripted into what was then known as the US Army Air Force. He was brought over to Britain on a troop ship and spent several months in Ireland in gunnery school, after which he was stationed at RAF Mildenhall and flew sorties over Europe in a B24 Liberator. After VE Day he and his crew were redeployed to Guam where by the sounds of it he played a lot of baseball and got bitten by a lot of mosquitoes.  My grandad is Varyl Gannaway, third from the left on the front row. Also, n.b. the name of the aeroplane. He was demobilised after the war but like a lot of young men re-enlisted and spent about twenty five years in service. Ended up being stationed back in England where he met my gran whilst on leave in Manchester, and after they got married they were back and forth to the US for a few years. One of their kids, my mum, was born in Boston MA -- making me an American citizen. But he has spent most of his adult life in England. This is his front room, most probably the only front room in England with a large portrait of John Wayne on the wall. I guess all this stuff stops him from feeling too homesick.  Welp that's the story of my grandad, cya later~
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 23:05 |
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Thread title delivers with old flame encounter man. That room is American as gently caress.  PS eat that pizza.
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Thanks mate. She sent me a Facebook message last night apologising for being "a bit too provocative"... yeah that doesn't quite describe it love, but whatever. This was a good workout. Got those weird marks on my shoulders again though, I think it's dips stretching the skin where my shoulders/chest join. 15 Apr 2012 Shoulders/arms db sh press 10kg x 8 15kg x 6 20kg x 4 25kg x 2 32.5kg x 11 PR. Just stabilising the weight is almost as hard as pressing it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh9YnjFdtLs Things to note: the bottom of my ROM is db handles level with the top of my ears, but it's hard to see from this low angle; my ridiculous over the top manners, I think I thanked the lad helping me at least three times; the local accent of the personal trainer throughout the video bb press Bar x 5 47.5kg x 8, 8, 3 triceps blasted by this point db lat raise 15kg x 15, 15, 15 CGBP in smith 38.75kg per side x 6, 6, 6 Dips bw x 10, 12, 12 Just don't feel like adding weight to my dips at this point in the workout. Whenever I switch up my routine I'm gonna make weighted dips the primary movement for chest day because I love doing them. Seated incline db curl (RP) 15kg x 10, 10, 8 BB Curl (short bar) 11.25kg p/s x 12, 12, 12 EZ Bar curl @ preacher 11.25kg p/s x 15 standing+cheating x 15 Weighted crunch machine 65kg x 12, 12, 12 Accidentally scared away a fat old woman when I asked if I could use the machine whilst she was resting.
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Good on you for not going ahead with that girl. These kind of stories give me hope for humanity, you're A-OK in my book Grats on the PR! And yes, dips rock. Need to do more dips...
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Umbriago posted:Bless me Strumpy for I have sinned, I spent last night drinking Fosters. Nothing that is wrong with beer can not be fixed by drinking more of a different beer. quote:I was at a gathering last night and an ~old flame~ from my teenage years was there, and when everyone went to bed we stayed up and talked for a while. She bitched to me about her boyfriend and started coming onto me and I had to tell her to pack it in. I don't want to be the lad who is responsible for another lad feeling like poo poo when he finds out his gf cheated on him. You are a good lad, old flames can be like a kryptonite. You completely forget why they are 'old flames' and just think about the better times. You also considered another persons feelings. That's a better trait then a lot of people have
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Kept this short because (a) I have only rested 48h not 72h since my last sh/tri workout; (b) my right shoulder is bugging me at the bottom of my shoulder blade, feels like I need to crack it but can't; (c) my head isn't in it today. 17 Apr 2012 Chest/sh/tri BW 78.5kg / ~173lbs BB flat bench Bar x 5, 5 60kg x 5 70kg x 3 80kg x 2 95kg x 3 rep pr at this weight. +1 extra rep w/ spotter. aim is 100kg x 5 and 120kg x 1 before, uh, idk Chest press (r.p.) '87.5kg' x 10, 8, 6 rep pr Incline db bench 32.5kg x 6 yep hosed 25kg x 10, 10 Seated db lat raise strict form 7kg x 12, 12, 12 Overhead rope press '45kg' x 12, 12, 12 An old man in the changing rooms let out a terrific fart and then used my favourite English idiom, asking the rhetorical question "More tea, vicar?" to cover up his faux pas. No one acknowledged him; I just laughed quietly to myself. got a date in a few hours and my heart isn't in it. feel like i should be doing other things with my time instead of chasing girls. this was a dumb idea. Umbriago fucked around with this message at Apr 17, 2012 around 12:09 |
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Dumb question: how heavy is the standard European barbell? Pinch your pec deck and remind yourself of the truly important things in life son, such as having pecs
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| # ? Apr 17, 2012 12:28 |
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20kg.
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Standard barbell is 20kg (44lbs)!! e: drat you jake gittes
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I'm going to lose a whole pound worth of load?! Trying to wrap my head around lifting in kg in the future and my brain is all IS WRONG Your grandad is cool. I have a photo of my grandad wearing a fez and sabre during WWI. I'll find it and then we can have a grandad-off (hint: mine would win!!!)
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| # ? Apr 17, 2012 12:40 |
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Ahh you're coming back to the old country. Which country is that,
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Jake Gittes posted:20kg. Hence also why our plates are 2.5 lbs, 5 lbs, 10 lbs, 25 lbs, 35 lbs, 45lbs. (1kg, 2kg, 5kg, 10kg, 15kg, 20kg.) 
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Yet there are no 1kg or 2kg plates in my gym, just 1.25kg and 2.5kg. makes you think
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Umbriago posted:Yet there are no 1kg or 2kg plates in my gym, just 1.25kg and 2.5kg. makes you think
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Umbriago posted:Yet there are no 1kg or 2kg plates in my gym, just 1.25kg and 2.5kg. makes you think Oh that's weird: We've got 1kg and 2kg plates at the oly station.
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Umbriago posted:Ahh you're coming back to the old country. Which country is that, Sweden in June, Bosnia in July, then relocating somewhere in the UK during August. You should definitely come visit in Sarajevo, I have people over every year and it's a blast every time! I love showing them around the town, go hit every crazy bar and club, chill out in the mountains with my family. We have spare beds for visitors and I haven't had anyone reserve a spot yet so to speak so you're more than welcome to come!
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| # ? Apr 17, 2012 16:19 |
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 hmmmmmmmmmm........ couldn't get directions all the way to sarajevo
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Umbriago posted:
19 hours (plus a few for the additional distance to Sarajevo) ain't bad. I do 18 from Reno NV -> Denver CO at least once a year. Edit: seeing this it blows my mind how "close" everything over there is. A drive like that here only goes through a few states, in europe it's several countries.
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Get on a plane you big baby, Bosna Airlines have a VERY low death rate I assure you!!! Also my aunt works at the airport so I can tell her to hold people for however long  I mean please come it will be so much fun.
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Ohh it's only because it would cost about the same as a flight and I would get to see a shitload of Europe on the way! Also my date this afternoon lasted less than 1h. Girl desribed herself on OKC as 'fit'. Let's just say the only sport she could conceivably play is darts. Made my excuses and left. I'm a dick but I'm cool with that.
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That hardly makes you a dick. Blatantly misrepresenting yourself on a dating site is taking the piss and I'd probably tell someone it was a lovely thing to do before leaving.
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You'd have been loving her 
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Haha, I almost alluded to that in my post. If she was fat enough for me to have been interested then she was really having a laugh though.
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Relative to the girl you posted in your log, she was positively svelte. But I'm only into skinny girls. It's just how it is If lifting weights is an MMO then I'm just grinding through the mid levels killing basilisks and dreadlords 18 Apr 2012 Back/bis bw 80.9kg / 178lbs Chins bw x 10, 10, 9, 6 rep pr db rows 27.5 kg x 5 37.5kg x 5 kroc row 60kg x 12 rep pr db row ultra strict form 37.5kg x 10, 10 cable face pulls w/ rope '70kg' x 15, 15, 12 rep pr BB row 77.5kg x 8, 8, 8 pr EZ bar curl 12.5kg p/s x 12, 12, 11, 12, 10 rep pr db seated incline curl 15kg x 8 too heavy for good form 7.5kg x 12, 12 strict and slow as h*ck db seated hammer curl 10kg x 12, 12, 12 ab circuit x 3
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Umbriago posted:If lifting weights is an MMO then I'm just grinding through the mid levels killing basilisks and dreadlords If lifting weights is an MMO then lifting weights is loving awful. Don't burn out! I am in awe of your db shoulder press, it's near enough twice mine. Also I wish I had helpful people in my gym, I struggle to get even polite conversation sometimes. Am I a douche if I ask if the old flame is a mutual acquaintance?
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Umbriago posted:Bless me Strumpy for I have sinned, I spent last night drinking Fosters. Awesome granddad story  My paternal grandfather served in the US Army at D-Day in Normandy and was stationed in England for some time. His family had emigrated just a few years before his birth from Newcastle upon Tyne. Which is apparently now well-known for having Britain's version of Jersey Shore. Because the US version just wasn't enough, apparently. 
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