Your workouts sound amazingly intense. I'm tired from just reading about them!!

That one was brutal. They've all been pretty intense but that one took the cake. I'm toying with my thresholds of recoverability. I think a lot of people get stuck in the idea of doing too much.

While it certainly happens, especially with crazy crackhead model wannabes who refuse to eat and run until they're nausious... I think a lot of people have room to toy with.

It's fun pushing the envelope a bit.

I'm really not the suck up that I appear to be- -well I am but generally only whenit has some benefit to me... sucking up to you doesnt get me anything so it's got no ulterior motives.

anyone who's spent more than 2 1/2 minutes with you knows that you place a high value on your own ethics and integrity and your partner and friend are the same way... you wouldn't sell out and compromise who you are and what you represent for a few dollars... be who you are and love what you do and the money will find you..

Ok now flex for auntie mal... I haven't harassed in like minutes

Nope. It only gets you busier.

You suck up to me

I hire you for zero dollars an hour to help me with my site.

Everyone wins.

Err, I mean....

I win.



That I appreciate more than you know.

ah but i learn things...

and there's that secret naked picture archive too

Yea, there is that.... shhhhh

Thanks for the stretching advice Steve. It hard to get good answers sometimes. I swear I read one article for beginning weight trainers that said " A 10-20 minute stretch before and after" and then later in the same article his other "tip" was to "Get in, get out. Do your lifts and don't socialize. You should spent 45 min-1h in the gym" Not bad advice, but how in the hell do you stretch for 40 minutes and leave in an hour?

I am more tired and sore than I have been in a long time. I'm going to take it easy over the next 10 days before my half marathon I don't know how you manage to do such intense workouts...oh yeah, it's because you in hella good shape. LOL

Hahaha, I've seen crap like that too.

If I'm not out of the gym in 60 minutes, generally speaking, something is wrong.

Look at it like this; if you're doing your 10 minutes of dynamic stretching stuff before lifting, you're well ahead of most everyone else. At least based on what I see in the gym. Geez, I mean, people look at me like I'm an alien when I'm doing my dynamic stuff while they sit there doing their static stretching.

I saw that you were real sore in your journal.

You need to get yourself a foam roller!

And do some active recovery, like short walks, light stretching, etc

So your half marathon is in 10 days?

I don't mind the looks. I get those doing my unweighted warm-up. I do that just for form and planned to stop after 30 days or so when I'm comfortable but now I think I may keep it up just so that one day I can follow the unweighted squat with about a 300lb squat about the time people start whispering.
I'm sure they already think I am crazy anyway. I have been there 2 weeks and haven't done a curl yet.

"Heh, look at the guy. What a moron. He trains his entire body each session and leaves out his biceps. I should go help him but he would never listen."

Hahaha, I can hear the whispers now.

That's why I've always loved going to new gyms. I always where baggy clothing. Not pants below my ass baggy... but I don't rock the tight shit most tools in the gym wear. It's hard to tell that I have some size and strength packed.

I just do my 'funny looking' dynamic stuff while they stare.

Then I throw 315 on bench and pound out a few and go up from there.

All of a sudden the tides turn and they want to know, "why do you do all that silly stuff before you train."

Thats exactly what I'm waiting for. So far I have made it without speaking to a soul. I hope it stays that way but I am sure sooner or later someone will try to "straighten me out" I seen a big redneck guy give a guy some advice last night while I was on the elyptical. He walked in in work clothes went straight to the DB rack, about fifteen minutes later he comes limping out and I hear him tell the guy "I pulled something in my calf" How the hell you pull a calf muscle doing dumbbell rows?

Hahaha....

On Monday I actually tried to out last this guy doing biceps. He was there when I got there and after 75 minutes he was still going strong.

In that time I had trained every single muscle and he had only done biceps.

He was wearing a tank top that had what looked like spaghetti straps with slits cut in the back.

Grunting and whatnot.

He kept catching me shaking my head, lol.

How much hair gel was he rockin? Did he at least have the decency to not do them in the squat rack?