Strength in Interesting Places

[redbeard]

You'll be back to speed quick enough brother.

 

[guilineseguy]

Is that show any good, as in for adults (ok childish adults) ? or is it more of a kid-show?

Of course I am going to say it is awesome because I am a HUGE comic nerd. So you might or might not like it. But if you do watch it, watch it from the first episode on, because it does go in order, and if you skip around you won't know whats going on.

Both of the story lines were pretty awesome in themselves.

Winter solider is in it
Ultron
The Vision.

Lots of good shit.

 

[JauntyAngle]

I'm a little behind on your log Jaunty, but best of luck with everything. I too lost a ton of weight with the divorce diet once. Wouldn't recommend it for everyone, but it is effective.

Thanks, Calvus.

And yes, it's an effective diet, but really one that you need to think through before you take it on.

You'll be back to speed quick enough brother.

Thanks redbeard. I am pretty confident that my torn rotator cuff is going to heal and rehab completely, and think it's only a matter of time before I start hitting pressing PRs again. And if I can just stay clear of niggling back stuff, the other stuff should come back too.

 

[JauntyAngle]

All your gym are belong to us

Quick trip to the gym last night:

LISS: Stationary bike- 45 minutes lowish intensity, plus warmup
Yoga: Mini sequence based on Ashtanga primary series, about 25 minutes

Did a fuller yoga sequence than I have done for a long, long time, including headstand and shoulder stand. Actually felt really, really good afterwards.

Weights tonight.

 

[Tosa]

I look forward to reading about the wicked pump you will achieve.

 

[JauntyAngle]

I look forward to reading about the wicked pump you will achieve.

Well, you are going to get that a lot, since I am mainly going to be about teh pump.

 

[guilineseguy]

So are we going to get the Jaunty posing routine someday? Or just pictures snapped in the mirror?

Will you be doing the ever popular in Asia peace sign in said pictures?

 

[JauntyAngle]

So are we going to get the Jaunty posing routine someday? Or just pictures snapped in the mirror?

Will you be doing the ever popular in Asia peace sign in said pictures?

If I go down to Ko Tao next month, you'll probably be seeing a bunch of pictures of me on boats, by the beach, etc- plenty of good posing material. But I will cut my own fingers off before I do the stupid "v" sign.

 

[Pearse Shields]

The peace sign in a photo is hardly becoming of a well-heeled and scholarly gentleman.

Also, it looks really gay.

 

[JauntyAngle]

The peace sign in a photo is hardly becoming of a well-heeled and scholarly gentleman.

Or indeed a scholarly, well-heeled and jakt gentleman.

 

[Pearse Shields]

Or indeed a scholarly, well-heeled and jakt gentleman.

I prefer "yoked". After all, that's when bitches in the club make themselves known.

 

[guilineseguy]

If I go down to Ko Tao next month, you'll probably be seeing a bunch of pictures of me on boats, by the beach, etc- plenty of good posing material. But I will cut my own fingers off before I do the stupid "v" sign.

I hate how all the pictures I took with hot asian women, in asia, have all had the v sign.

 

[guilineseguy]

I prefer "yoked". After all, that's when bitches in the club make themselves known.

You might want to read this then

 

[JauntyAngle]

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are,
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Warmup
4 mins on c2 rower, bw squats & GMs, overhead squats

Squats
20kg x5, x5
40kg x3, x3
60kg x2, x2
80kg x2
90kg x3, x3, x3, x3, x3

Overhead press
DB- 10lbs x10
DB- 15lbs x5, x5
BB- 22kg x5, x5, x5, x5, x5

Chins
+2kg x5, x5, x5, x5, x5

Assistance
"50/20"- 50 lying tricep extensions (+22kg) and 40 lunges (40kb), each side

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Notes
Just adding these now as I was in a hurry before.

Mainly to say that assistance today was really hard, mainly because of the lunges. The weight of them was almost nothing, it was just the fatigue of doing them- it was more like doing interval burpees than lifting weights. Lying tricep extensions are usually fairly easy for me- if I really push the weight it just doesn't go up, otherwise I can crank them out. But doing them between the lunges made them moderately gross, too. Now I know that lunges really destroy me, I am going to make sure I stick at them, and push them harder. But I would like to know why they kill me so much.

 

[Stonebreaker]

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never -"

"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.

How'd the squats feel?

 

[TeddyRoosevelt]

I would post Invictus, as it has been my favorite poem for many years, but unfortunately I feel it has become a bit cliche of late. Time to find a new favorite, I suppose.

 

[MAAddict**]

Jaunty is this T3?

 

[JauntyAngle]

How'd the squats feel?

Actually, not the best. They felt light, but my knees felt a little clicky and unstable. But sometimes I get that when I am coming back. I am sure it will sort itself out.

Jaunty is this T3?

No. I am just doing a 5x5 LP for pressing, chins and rows and a 5x3 LP for squats and deadlifts.

For assistance I am using the super-awesome "50/20": you have to try to get 50 reps (in any number of sets) in 20 minutes, if you can do it, add weight next time. Except I am doing it for two exercises at once- today was lunges and lying tricep extensions. Other days are GMs and curls, and GHRs and chins. 50/20 is quite like 10s day in T3, as that also needs you to get 50 reps in a fixed time, and you progress if you can do it. I really, really like "50/20"- a brutally hard but very efficient way of doing hypertrophy-type assistance.

 

[JauntyAngle]

I would post Invictus, as it has been my favorite poem for many years, but unfortunately I feel it has become a bit cliche of late. Time to find a new favorite, I suppose.

As long as your favourite poem is not "If". What a raging cheesy cliche of hackneyed male values that is.

Not that my preferences are going to influence yours, but here are Jaunty's top poems...

1. Somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond (ee cummings)*
2. Ulysses (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
3. The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock (TS Eliot)
4. Porphyria's Love (Robert Browning)
5. Fire and Ice (Robert Frost)
6. He wishes her the cloth of heaven (W.B. Yeats)

My number one choice, the ee cummings poem, is a bit of a guilty pleasure as it is incredibly romantic. But it does it without being any way cliched and in fact the metaphors it uses are clever, original and absolutely beautiful. Apparently, ee cummings was somewhat bookish but was married three times, and each of his wives was a noted beauty who he wood with poetry. Normally I would say that such a thing cannot be done, but he did, and I can totally believe that "Somewhere I have never traveled" could do it.

 

[scoopj]

Damn Jaunty. You deep. I prefer the poetry of Andrew Dice Clay and Dr. Seuss, personally. That genre anyway.