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Quote from: adarqui on October 04, 2016, 12:05:26 pm

^^ from LBSS's reply & maxent's reply to his reply, everything is cool.

Quote from: maxent on October 03, 2016, 04:41:15 am

Quote from: LBSS on October 02, 2016, 05:59:37 pm

trying to compare yourself to entropy is a fool's errand.

It is indeed depressing to anyone who respects your truly exceptional talents to see you of late apparently spending a great deal of time on shallow, negative polemics that contribute almost nothing in the way of real knowledge or deep truths to the subject matter they deal with. Instead of utilizing your major talents in the difficult business of discovering new viewpoints, and new understanding and techniques, you make a spectacle of yourself indulging your minor talent for innuendo and derogation. There are occasions on which it is desirable for a person with an outstanding reputation to devote some effort to pointing ·out the flaws ina significant proposal. But it is fatuous to waste time attacking one so weak that it can be demolished by high school debating tactics that avoid serious consideration of fundamental issues and deal only in hostile innuendoes, unsubstantiated arrogant opinions, and trivial nitpicking.

but wow god damn what a post. I feel like saving that and using it in case I want to make someone feel bad about a post on a forum/facebook etc. scathe factor 9001.

that's definitely overboard when you look at it from the perspective that LBSS does respect you, your consistency, your hard work etc.. (as you basically mentioned in your last reply to him). when I read his comment I personally didn't perceive it as an insult - seemed more directed towards your tendency to flip the script, go off on tangents, focus on things that many perceive to be insignificant (certain bodyweight goals etc).. stuff like that.

FYI, it's from a 1970s exchange between John Backus and Edsger Dijkstra about some high level programming shit, which is probably why it seems really out of context:

https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your-breath-away-5b903624ca5f#.lw8wqxtdx

lol, thanks for the link!

goblet position, or out in front.

also, to help prevent your back leg from contributing to the step up, lift your down-foot toes off the ground. makes it harder to push off.

following a coach is good, it just seems weird that he would prescribe 5x30m@50% as a workout, even for recovery. that should take just a minute or two, it's barely a warm up.

does your coach have an overall plan that he's shared with you? and does it have a target, such as a meet, toward which you're working? it might help to see everything you're doing in the context of a months-long plan that has a time-bound goal.

god damn

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: headache
MENTAL STATE: okay

- warm up

- MB OH toss x 5,5
powerful, hitting ceiling hard on all throws

- SL SVJ x 5,5/leg
good

- squat 315 x 2,2

dragged self to gym. headache was gone by the time i finished warming up for squats. now gonna go play tennis.

EDIT: later

- tennis x 45 mins
really fun, played my buddy. he was a little rusty so i beat him easily in the end, but he ran me around a bit.

SF, like NYC, is sick if you have a really high-paying job. seriously, average one-BR rent in my best friend's neighborhood is $3,400. not a typo: three thousand four hundred dollars a month for one bedroom. he (a teacher) and his wife (landscape architect) live in an efficiency that they moved into five years ago and was below-market then. his brother lives in the apartment right below theirs, by himself, but he's an engineer at square and makes $200K. oakland/berkeley are a little cheaper but not cheap. actually berkeley would be a tight place to live. you would get diesel from running all the hills.

or austin, my friend's brother is a programmer and super happy there.

or LA, go turn T0ddday into a distance runner, or let him convince you to run the 400/800. 

to clarify, i wasn't trying especially hard on the C2 last night.

did nothing but a bit of stretching and mobility stuff today.

last night:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: stuff, nothing bad
MENTAL STATE: blah

- warm up
felt wack so i went off script a bit. did C2 500m in 1:41 at resistance setting 3. that would be in the top 90 times recorded on the C2 website for the USA in 2016. lol.

- some random crap, easy jumps, glute activation

have felt under the weather off and on and body has been achier than usual this week. going to NYC on saturday so i might just take it easy the rest of the week.