TOTHO 1 Year Anniversary and Bios

[Bubble Boy]

On 08-15-2008, TOTHO will have been in existence for 1 year.
It started innocently enough: a small group of +40 year old lifters stumbled across one another in the S&P forums / training logs; we group high fived, and decided to start a club.
The original members? The founding elders?
Flak, Hunto, Old Man, and myself.
Ahhhh, the smell of moth balls and lint.

A name or two was proposed for this group of over 40 year olds (Weezers and Geezers, etc), but Flak (I believe it was Flak), came up with the final name:
Taunters of the Hooded One.
TOTHO.

Criteria for membership?
Over 40.
And actively staving off the grim reaper with a work out plan of reasonable manliness.
Golf? NO. Bye bye.
Lifting weights. YES. You're in.

To mark this anniversary, I'd like my fellow members of TOTHO to type up a little bio of themselves. Especially work out related accomplishments and the such.
Don't be shy fellas.
If you got it, flaunt it.

According to Flak's sig, this is the current TOTHO membership.
So sound off old farts, let's hear your story:

billyboyce
bloodangel90
Bubble Boy
carryaglock9
Dog Soldier
flak
Goon Dog
GoRiders
Green Monkey
hunto
No Quarter
Old Man

 

[Old Man]

Did we lose any members this year to the hooded one?

 

[hunto]

Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's always something unusual.

6'0"
235#
42 yrs old

Current (as of Aug 10 2007)

DL 325
BP 205
Squat unknown
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{[squat started at minimum- 85 lbs]}
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update as of Jul 09 2008 -

DL 495
BP 240
Squat 365
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1100 total
Wilks = 297

Goals for Jun 2009:
DL 585
BP 315
ZS 405
+++++++++++++++++++++

I never lifted steadily in my life. I came here after reading mma news and posting in heavyweights, and wandered around the training forums, mainly standup and SnP. I kept reading about a lift called the deadlift, and I thought, I can do that. So on August 10th '07 I started keeping a log, and began recording my deadlift numbers. At first I could only do 275; now, a year later, I'm at 495.

I could see people my age starting to do the doctor routine for everything, and I made up my mind not to do it. I decided that keeping healthy via lifting and exercise would head off many doctor visits. So far it's been effective.

 

[flak]

Wow. Thanks, Bubbles. This is unexpected.

First, hunto came up with the name TOTHO, not me.

Also, bloodangel90 was a founding member, I think. Can't remember precisely, but he got in early, anyway.

We need to invite Keith Wassung to join. He's sort of a force of nature, so I haven't ever asked him.

Um, my story is this -- for years I had been pretty well settled into the complacent, inactive, fat, overworked dad routine. And in the fall of 2006 something changed very abruptly -- I decided I really needed to get back into shape. This was part of a larger thing I'm gonna call a mid-life crisis, for want of a better explanation. I'm not gonna bore you with the details.

Anyway, I started eating better and started exercising. Family finances being what they are I was limited to activities that are inexpensive, and family scheduling being what it is I didn;t have a lot of options re: when to work out.

So I started exercising during my lunch breaks at work. I'm a PR rep at a university. So I did cardio stuff and mostly aimless machine-based resistance training on campus.

Strangely enough, the thing that led me to S&P, indirectly, was an article in the bodybuilding magazine Musclemag International. It was all about the importance of compound lifts, and it caused me to re-think what little I knew.

I started doing more barbell training, and started looking for more information. Somehow (I can't remember exactly how) I came across S&P circa spring 2007. I spent a couple of months lurking and trying out some of the things I read.

I actually signed up on Sherdog in late June. S&P changed my outlook dramatically. I started doing exercises I'd never tried, and soon joined the university's powerlifting club. I've gotten much stronger.

Sometime in the first couple months I was here, bubbles realized I was even older than he was, and we agreed to seek out other geezers to form a half-assed club. Which became TOTHO.

Without getting too weepy, S&P changed my life. It gave me a way to lift weights that made sense, that kept me motivated, that helped me get stronger and stay relatively injury-free. Most of all, it helped me feel a little saner.

Also, I have been a headbanging music nerd for longer than many of you have been alive. So I feel like my best contribution may be this...

15 Albums You Should Own...

Bad Brains -- Bad Brains
Black Flag -- Damaged
The Dead Boys -- Louder, Younger and Snottier
Dead Kennedys -- Plastic Surgery Disasters
Iron Maiden -- Number of the Beast
The Jimi Hendix Experience -- Electric Ladyland
Led Zeppelin -- Physical Graffiti
Megadeth -- Peace Sells...But Who's Buying!
****llica -- Master of Puppets
Misfits -- Walk Among Us
Motorhead -- Pretty much anything with "Ace of Spades" on it
Sex Pistols -- Never Mind the Bollocks...Here's the Sex Pistols
Slayer -- Seasons in the Abyss
Van Halen -- Fair Warning
ZZTop -- Fandango!

 

[flak]

Did we lose any members this year to the hooded one?

Not that I know of. Though some of the guys I badgered into membership early on haven't posted in S&P much, so I'm not sure what's going on with them. Maybe they'll check in for this thread.

This first year we did get our first member who turned 40 after TOTHO started -- GreenMonkey. And we recently got our oldest and currently strongest member, 58 year old competitive powerlifter billyboyce.

 

[magicman531]

yeah for old people!


*eyes perverted old man*

 

[Cmart]

I can join in 4 months. And I got two words:

Odd Haugen.

 

[SingleDoubleGuy]

Goals for Jun 2008:
DL 585
BP 315
ZS 405
+++++++++++++++++++++

Setting your goals back in time? Is that how you want to win the DL race against Chase?

 

[Bubble Boy]

Bubble Boy, 43 years old.
Married 16 years, couple of munchkins, two dogs, a cat, yada yada.
Judo is my sport of choice.
Starting up a little boxing though.
Fought an amateur mma cage fight this year...LOST. :icon_cry2

I drink a lot of beer. Working on that one.

My PR's:
Deadlift: 350 lbs
Squat: 255 lbs
Bench: 225 lbs.

Presently I'm on a Coan program to get my numbers up.
GOALS:
Deadlift: 405
Squat: 315
Bench: 250

Flak, I have owned, or presently own every album on that list except The Dead Boys and Slayer.

 

[Bubble Boy]

We need a logo still. A really kick ass one.
I'd like to make some TOTHO t-shirts just for fun too...

 

[graedy]

eBay

 

[graedy]

eBay

 

[liquid!]

 

[bacon]

Who's got the longest balls?

 

[Old Man]

Who's got the longest balls?

My Dad modified his toilet because his were hitting the water. If it's genetic I'm screwed.

 

[hunto]

Setting your goals back in time?

Nice catch. Date changed.

 

[Bubble Boy]

Can you modify that so that we're not in a wheel chair? Maybe a walker?

 

[Bubble Boy]

Who's got the longest balls?

I'm out.

 

[zop]

The grim reaper.... the blind fool.