Friday, July 19, 2013

Training.

7/19 - T-Nation VALERIA Strength and Conditioning Test.  21 reps on Bench, Deadlift, Pullups & Curls for the proscribed/scaled weight for my bodyweight.  Holy Moly, that was tough.  Results - 26:20 at Level 1 scaled at a BW of 191lb/87kg.  At least I made the "Can't complete the Good level with the weight and reps suggested in under 30 minutes?  Sorry, you're not a strength athlete" cut off.  That would have been an ego crusher.  Bench was easy, the deadlifts were brutal.  Basically had to do 21 singles.  Easily what took the longest.  Pullups and curls were okay, but at that point exhaustion and conditioning were the biggest factor.  Going to do this, let's say, every 3 months.  I like it as a good overall strength & conditioning benchmark.

Then I came home and max rep checked my pullups and pushups - 17 & 45, respectively. Taking the next 2 months to focus on getting those numbers back up. Goal 50 & 100. Go Big or What's the Point?

Never too old.  Never too late.  Never give up.  
"These age 50-plus men and women aren't planning for retirement—they're pumping iron, rocking swimsuits, and getting spray tans. On Saturday, the 2013 NPC Southern States Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was teeming with women over 50. "When you hear the word 'bikini' you think of younger women, but older women can be in shape, too," organizer Peter Potter told Yahoo! Shine. "Although we have some open categories for all ages, we added 'over 50' because there was such a demand for it." Check out photos of these superfit contestants, then dust off your gym membership...  The oldest man who competed in the show was 75," said Potter."


"Mary Dent, 53, the winner of the over-50 bikini category. "I have three kids, ages 24, 13, and 10...""


Today's Internets - “I’ve been working on using ‘I’ and ‘me’ less.”

"A team of scientists has been able to engineer “stable and functional” blood vessels in mice using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells taken from humans. The blood vessels lasted for 280 days in the brain of the mice. The scientists are from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Stem Institute, Harvard University."


"I don’t think you should ever say anything that you’re going to have to apologize for later. If the heat gets hot, just let them get mad. How did somebody make you apologize? Did they literally hit you on your body? Let them be upset. It’s not the worst thing in the world. It doesn’t mean you’re going to be a pauper. It’s a desperate thing to need everybody to be really happy with everything you say. To me the way to manage is not to have 50 versions of yourself — I do this thing, and the next time you’re going to hear me is the next time I do another one."

"Cancer Rates Are Going Down
More Porn, Less Rape 
Longer Life Expectancy Stops Population Growth 
People Everywhere Are Getting Smarter 
Trade Creates Jobs and Makes People Richer
Local Biodiversity is Increasing
Markets Make People Nicer"


"Thailand's premier university has apologized for displaying Adolf Hitler on a banner alongside Superman and other superheroes, saying it was painted by ignorant students who didn't realize Hitler's image would offend anyone. "

LOL @ dating in the 21st century - Bad Sex | Chateau Heartiste
"It’s often the man who gets blamed for bad sex. He came too fast. He didn’t make me come. He forgot about foreplay. He wouldn’t go down on me. In and out, roll off. That was it. He never kisses me during sex. All he knew was one position — doggy style.  Women can be bad lays too, but when it’s the man’s fault there are two possible reasons for it. One, he was inexperienced. Women usually blame all bad sex on the inexperience and ineptitude of the man. This is a comforting thought for them, but the reality is that virginal incompetence accounts for very few poor sexual encounters. For every virgin clumsily popping his cherry there are 10,000 men with extensive sexual histories enjoying a romp in the sack. The second, and by far more frequent, reason for bad sex is that the woman wasn’t pretty enough to stimulate the man to answer the call of duty with enthusiasm. This reason — uninspired sex caused by female ugliness — is understandably disturbing for women to contemplate. There will never be a situation where one girl says to the other “He’s horrible in bed because you’re kinda gross-looking.”"

Are Feminists Finally Noticing That the Men Have Left the Building? * Hooking Up Smart: "Feminism flipped gender roles, and there is considerable confusion on the part of both sexes as they navigate a sexual marketplace that now seems upside down. Hymowitz addresses the question of how today’s women want both contemporary equality and old-fashioned chivalry: Women may want equality at the conference table and treadmill. But when it comes to sex and dating, they aren’t so sure. The might hook up as freely as a Duke athlete. Or, they might want men to play Greatest Generation gentleman. Yes, they want men to pay for dinner, call for dates…and open doors for them. A lot of men wonder: “WTF??!” Why should they do the asking? Why should they pay for dinner? After all, they are equals and in any case, the woman a guy is asking out probably has more cash in her pocket than he does; recent female graduates are making more than males in most large cities...

Perhaps most significantly, she goes on to identify – for the first time in the mainstream media, perhaps, the concept around which the sexual marketplace revolves: female hypergamy. Far worse in the bait and switch category is women’s stated preference for nice guys and actual attraction to bad boys…enough of them are partial to the Charlie Sheens of this world that one popular dating guru, David DeAngleo, lists “Being Too Much of a Nice Guy” as No. 1 in his “Ten Most Dangerous Mistakes Men Make With Women.”"


That's. Glorious. 
 "Slater's 50/50 in San Diego knows that all too well, so, in honor of our nation's birth, they created the 'Merica Burger, which isn't just topped with bacon... it's MADE of bacon, including two bacon patties topped with bacon, in addition to bacon cheese, bacon bits, and plenty of bacon grease."

"Salon:  “But really, this is the same tired line we’ve heard from Oswalt and other comedians before.” Oh, it’s certainly tired, but not in the way you’re thinking, Salon.  It’s “tired” because me and everyone I know in the comedy business (as opposed to you and your fellow dullards in the professional outrage and desperate click-bait business) are tired of explaining ourselves to the 21st century schoolmarm brigade...

So goodbye, Salon.  I feel like I’ve graduated from you.  I’ve still got The Nation, and Garret Keizer and Slate and Talking Points Memo and The Jimmy Dore Show and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and Jim Hightower.  Oh, and Heather Havrilesky and the indispensable Cintra Wilson, both of whom you chased away from your own site like Mary MacLane fleeing the icy oatmeal of Butte, Montana in 1903.  I don’t have Bill Hicks anymore, and I’ve been missing him coming up on twenty years next spring.  And George Carlin, who’s been gone for five.  Greg Giraldo left in 2010, and then Patrice O’Neal a year after that. But if they were alive, I’d happily drive them down to your offices and watch them kick the living shit out of all of you humorless, frightened scolds.  I’d wait out in the car, though.  I’m a terrible hand-to-hand fighter.  No reach and spaghetti arms.  I try to make up for it in what I write and say.  Why don’t you?"


"Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody" - Robert Anton Wilson
"Listen, we get about 80 years on this planet, at best. Much of that time is painful. The night is dark, and full of terrors. If you find something that makes you happy, and it doesn’t hurt you or others, that is a great thing. Life is too damned short for the concept of “guilty” pleasures to have any meaning. I’m glad these people had this party, and that they had a good time, regardless of how they looked. I’m sorry it was edited in such a way that individuals were mocked, and the comments about autism and killing everyone in the video found in the comments section are repugnant."

Some of the finest basketball of the modern era.


""On our first album, there was a song he wrote, I can’t remember which one it was, but I listened to it and said, “Do you think you could take some of the ‘I’s and ‘me’s out of it?” And he thought about it and he was like, “Yeah, I think I can do that.” And he did. So 10 years later, I’m visiting him in Nashville. He’s in a wheelchair. He’s blind, pretty much. It felt so awkward. So I said, “What have you been working on lately?” And he said, “I’ve been working on using ‘I’ and ‘me’ less.” And I said, “Really?” And he said, “Yeah. Remember? You gave me that comment on the song? That’s what I’ve been working on.” Incredible. He didn’t mean it in the context of songs. He meant it in the context of life."  — Rick Rubin, on what he remembers most vividly about working with Johnny Cash."


"One of the assurances I keep hearing about the U.S. government's spying on American citizens is that it's only used in cases of terrorism. Terrorism is, of course, an extraordinary crime, and its horrific nature is supposed to justify permitting all sorts of excesses to prevent it. But there's a problem with this line of reasoning: mission creep. The definitions of "terrorism" and "weapon of mass destruction" are broadening, and these extraordinary powers are being used, and will continue to be used, for crimes other than terrorism...

Back in 2002, the Patriot Act greatly broadened the definition of terrorism to include all sorts of "normal" violent acts as well as non-violent protests. The term "terrorist" is surprisingly broad; since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it has been applied to people you wouldn't normally consider terrorists. The most egregious example of this are the three anti-nuclear pacifists, including an 82-year-old nun, who cut through a chain-link fence at the Oak Ridge nuclear-weapons-production facility in 2012. While they were originally arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge, the government kept increasing their charges as the facility's security lapses became more embarrassing. Now the protestors have been convicted of violent crimes of terrorism -- and remain in jail...

Meanwhile, a Tennessee government official claimed that complaining about water quality could be considered an act of terrorism. To the government's credit, he was subsequently demoted for those remarks."

Joss Whedon For The Win.

Ah, Liberia. 
"Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has shut down a government office suspected of issuing fraudulent birth certificates to facilitate child trafficking, a justice ministry official said Thursday. Deputy Justice Minister Benedict Sannoh told The Associated Press that the president took the decision to close the Bureau of Vital Statistics at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare last week due to "increasing reports of the issuance of birth certificates that have been used to procure passports and then used in return to facilitate the trafficking of children.""



"Still conflicted by the nonsensical "send him to India to smash up the spider terraformer thing" ending to Man of Steel? Well, the clever "How It Should Have Ended" series has solved all those problems for you."

"Takeru Kobayashi set the record for cupcake eating (13 in one minute) so he needed something to wash it down. Here he attempts and easily accomplishes the infamous "gallon milk challenge." Keep in mind, that's whole milk he's drinking. This was filmed at Uncle Bob's Self Storage in Upper Saddle River, NJ."


All I got from this, is that according to this video, women in their 20's are way more fun.  How sexist.  Or ageist.  Or something.


Neil Patrick Harris and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are unfuckwithable.


Thursday, July 18, 2013

Training.

7/18 - last week I caught the video below of the woman absolutely destroying 25 chins & 50 pushups in 1:30 and likewise tried it for time [last Friday] but hit the wrong button on my timer and didn't get a proper read...  thought it was around 2:45 or so...

Anyway, caught her follow up video where she shaved 10sec off her time [also below] and was absolutely crushed today when I tried it again and it took me 3:05.  Ego.  Checked.  

So, today's PT - 25 chins/50 pushups for time - 3:05 -- then throughout the day gtg protocol, superset chins/pushups x13/26, 14/28, 13/26, 12/24 - gtg superset ng chins/pushups 3x10/20, 2x6/12, 13/26

Think I'm going to keep doing that 25/50 for time at least once a week until I can get it down to about 1:30 or so...

7/17 - hyperextensions, squats, calf raises, leg press, calf press, ab knee ups, crunches


Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Training.

7/16 - press, bench, dips, lateral raises/3 directions, wrist curls/ext/abduction/adduction

Remember the scale is just a tool - Before And After Fat Loss | eternalbones Height: 4’10 / Before: 102 / After:...:
"eternalbones Height: 4’10 / Before: 102 / After: 99 This is proof that scales are useless at measuring progress that one’s made in their fitness journeys. Although I’m only 3 pounds lighter, much of the fat on my body has been replaced with lean muscle mass. In 2012, I went from 120 lbs to 92 lbs. There wasn’t much to my body back then in terms of fat and also in terms of muscle. After I gained some of the weight back, I decided to recommit myself to pursuing the body I want. I wanted to reveal my progress photo to illustrate that squats work, lifting / toning works, clean eating works and above all dedication pays off. I’m proud of how far I’ve overcome and achieved thus far; this is only the beginning. "

Today's Internets - "They don't care about who you are..."

"One of the keys to happiness is not having a fuck to give about popularity contests or worry about what THEY will think. THEY don’t know a goddamn thing, THEY don’t care about who you are when you wake up terrified in the middle of the night. THEY aren’t worth your time and energy, so don’t put your sense of self worth and control of your happiness into their hands."










Cosplay is awesome.  Live the dream.





Monday, July 15, 2013

Training.

7/15 - deadlift, shrugs, neck nods/rotations/dt, upright rows, seated rows, db curls -- pullups, chins, ng chins, commando pullups

Impressive as hell - Before And After Fat Loss
"This is Troy McLaughlin he is such a motivation. He went from  575lbs to 230lbs and had 9 pounds of skin removed this December. Right now he is 215ibs and still going.  Incredible!"

Food Log.

Monday - Friday Afternoon.

7/8 - coffee, milk, Animal Rage, Animal Pump, Animal Omega, water, Universal Iso Whey,  eggs, Uni-Liver, bacon, butter, mayo, Armor V, Theanine, cheese, tomato, lettuce, cucumber, avocado, blue cheese dressing, Animal Flex

7/9 - coffee, milk, water, Animal Rage, Animal Pump, water, Universal Iso Whey,  eggs, ground pork, almond butter, ham, ground beef, cheese, mayo

7/10 - coffee, milk, water, Universal Iso Whey, Animal Rage, Animal Pump, ham, steak, butter, steak, Animal Omega, Animal Flex, Armor V, Uni Liver, Theanine

7/11 - coffee, milk, Animal Rage, Animal Pump, pork chop, water, steak, butter

7/12 - coffee, cream, Animal Rage, Animal Pump, water, pork chops, butter -- prosecco, tamarind shrimp, pineapple appetizer, mango tomato tango, green curry dorry, chocolate glazed banana

7/13 - fruit plate, coffee, water, sugar, milk, eggs, potatoes, french toast, ketchup, chili sauce, coconut drink, iced cafe latte, gac juice, pastries, seafood flaked salsa, yellow curry shrimp fried rice, mango sticky rice

7/14 - water, iced cafe mocha, wine, shrimp, bacon, beer, pork sandwich, bread, curry chicken rice, chocolate milk, reese's peanut butter cups

Weekend/Anniversary Blowout.

True Story.