Strength in Interesting Places

[chia]

Nice squatting man. I agree, sets of 10 are killer. And doing 5 sets sounds absolutely brutal. But when you squat with high volume you'll grow for sure!

Oh yeah I think I forgot to get back to you on this, but I know some folks in Krabi town who own the Good Dream hostel and the people over at Jam Club. They helped me out a lot after my incident there.

 

[SlaveToTheDark]

* walks in
* notices that J. looks like a rapist
* walks out

 

[JauntyAngle]

* walks in
* notices that J. looks like a rapist
* walks out

It's because I wear Rapist Glasses. Everyone's wearing them these days:



You Croatians are miles behind the latest fashions.

 

[JauntyAngle]

Nice squatting man. I agree, sets of 10 are killer. And doing 5 sets sounds absolutely brutal. But when you squat with high volume you'll grow for sure!

Oh yeah I think I forgot to get back to you on this, but I know some folks in Krabi town who own the Good Dream hostel and the people over at Jam Club. They helped me out a lot after my incident there.

It's only going to get worse, too. It takes a while to get to the point where you can judge the amount of weight you need to make each set a really hard set. Like this time, I definitely could have done a little more. I'm glad I don't need to do 5x10 again until next Friday.

I don't know those places... did you say they are in Krabi town?

 

[DrBdan]

My legs are getting sore just looking at all of those squats.

Jon Lajoie is awesome. His "Hands" video always makes me laugh.

 

[JauntyAngle]

Kabul: T3 Squat Programme- Week 1, Day 2

Warmup
Sun Salutation Ax3, Sun Salutation Bx2
C2 rower- 2 minutes

Overhead
Power clean or power hang clean to start each set:
20kg x5 (strict), x5 (push)
30kg x3 (strict), x3 (push)
40kg x2 (strict), x2 (push)
53kg x5
53kg x5
53kg x5

La elevaci

 

[JauntyAngle]

Jon Lajoie is awesome. His "Hands" video always makes me laugh.

Yes... ever since his 'Hands' video, 'pretending to be a U2 fan' and 'racist gardening' have been two of my favorite activities.

On another topic:

As everyone will know, I've been trying to battle prejudice by providing images of women of all different colours and creeds. Lately I've been doing something to battle prejudice against ladies of African ancestry, so now I feel I should now do something for the blondes. So here we are:

 

[LitteringAnd]

The way that blondes are persecuted in this country makes me sick to my stomach. Once again I applaud your pursuit for equality for all hotties.

 

[JauntyAngle]

The way that blondes are persecuted in this country makes me sick to my stomach. Once again I applaud your pursuit for equality for all hotties.

"Give me your Hot Blondes, your saucy Asians,
Your foxy Latinas yearning to be oggled,
The curvy redheads of your teeming shore.
Send these, the buxom African-Americans, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Inscribed over the entrance to 'Strength in Interesting Places'

 

[Stonebreaker]

And now we have an Englishman living abroad in southeast Asia taking the words written by an American woman about eastern European refugees for a statue built by the French and changing them to honor the hot, scantily clad young women of the whole world.

Sherdog is a strange and wondrous place indeed.

 

[JauntyAngle]

And now we have an Englishman living abroad in southeast Asia taking the words written by an American woman about eastern European refugees for a statue built by the French and changing them to honor the hot, scantily clad young women of the whole world.

If something is worth honoring, it is worth honoring in style.

 

[dinpappa]

a) what is La elevaci

 

[JauntyAngle]

a) what is La elevaci

 

[DrBdan]

'La elevaci

 

[JauntyAngle]

You should wear a Dia de los Muertos costume when you do them:

My life will not be complete until I have one of those, and also a video of me DLing in it.

 

[dinpappa]

Haha, i want plates with skulls on them! That would be awesome for "D

 

[scoopj]

Nice work in here Jaunty. Bet you're loving that new squat rack.

 

[JauntyAngle]

Nice work in here Jaunty. Bet you're loving that new squat rack.

Yes, the squat rack makes such a difference. So easy to rack and unrack, and having safety bars gives you more confidence in the exercise.

 

[JauntyAngle]

Jaunty's T3 programme: Week One, Day Three

Warmup
Sun Salutation A x3, Sun Salutation Bx2

Offering to Sq

 

[JauntyAngle]

I wanted to note for my log, first, that I love my new exercise selection. I mean, look at it:

Monday: Squats, Bench/BOR or Press/Chins (alternating)
Wednesday: Deathlifts, Bench/BOR or Press/Chins (alternating)
Friday: Squats, Bench/BOR or Press/Chins (alternating)
Optional Assistance: Dips & face-pulls

How nice is that? It has squatting twice a week, deathlifts once a week and not on the same day as squats, a push and a complementary pull every day, and as in SS, you get to press and bench twice every other week. And it has all of the basic strength exercises.

Second, although it is early days, I am pretty sure that I really like T3. I wanted to do sets of 5 and 3 in my programme, but also some hypertrophy work, without yet moving to 5/3/1 and monthly progression. T3 does that. I like the approach of, instead of trying to go for a weight that will let you do 3 or 5 sets across, going for a weight where you might only be able to do 1 set at that weight, then next set decreasing it just enough so that you can only do one at that weight. It's like every session, you're going for a conservative try at a 10RM, 5RM or 3RM on the first set, and then fatigued, slightly less ambitious tries each set after. I also like the relaxed, informal progression- just try to add some weight to the first set and one of the other sets each time, and try to beat the previous tonnage within the same time limit.