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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 03, 2012, 04:29:28 pm »
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 03, 2012, 12:40:10 pm »
oh, well, that makes sense.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 03, 2012, 12:39:47 pm »THE BEST LAID SCHEMES O' MICE AN' MEN
GANG AFT A-GLEY
robert burns. that poem is awesome, the opening lines are just awesome:
wee sleekit, cowrin' tim'rous beastie,
oh what a-panics in thy breastie?
thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi' bickerin' brattle!
i wid be laith t'rin an' chase thee
wi' murd'rin' prattle!
my totally un-poetic translation (real poets have translated it but i can't be bothered to find one):
little sneaky, cowering, timid beast
what's that panicking in your breast?
you need not run away so quickly
with angry squeals.
i'm not going to run and chase you
with a murderous stick!
even good translations have NOTHING on the original, though. wee sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie...best description of a mouse in the history of the english language.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 03, 2012, 12:31:24 pm »arm as relaxed as possible and roughly at heart level, yes.
If I let my arm rest against something (like the margin of a table) in an effort to relax my biceps, the value grows from 13 to ~15.
value of what? i always took my bp lying down, for what it's worth.
The high value. I think it's the systolic pressure. If you have 150 with 85, I mean the "150".
then why did you omit the 0's? whatever, anyway, that's weird. also, yes, the higher number is systolic.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 03, 2012, 11:23:41 am »arm as relaxed as possible and roughly at heart level, yes.
If I let my arm rest against something (like the margin of a table) in an effort to relax my biceps, the value grows from 13 to ~15.
value of what? i always took my bp lying down, for what it's worth.
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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT
« on: October 03, 2012, 11:03:57 am »
yup, looks like the "s" in "https" was the issue. weird.
the calculators do pop up when i click on the text, but they still just show up as text. the icons showed up when i first opened up the forum earlier this morning but now they don't. except the gorilla.
the calculators do pop up when i click on the text, but they still just show up as text. the icons showed up when i first opened up the forum earlier this morning but now they don't. except the gorilla.
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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT
« on: October 03, 2012, 10:31:57 am »
putting in youtube videos doesn't seem to be working. it's happened to me a couple of times now: copy past the url, highlight, click the youtube button on the toolbar, post, "#invalid youtube link#."
also the weight_converter and 1RM_calculator icons aren't working for me, they just show up as text.
also the weight_converter and 1RM_calculator icons aren't working for me, they just show up as text.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 03, 2012, 10:04:33 am »
arm as relaxed as possible and roughly at heart level, yes.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 02, 2012, 04:32:28 pm »
so either you saw an idiot doctor or this is not as concerning as you think. try another doctor?
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 02, 2012, 01:37:02 pm »
so....see a doctor? this has been a problem for a long time and a medical professional has never given you any kind of advice or diagnosis?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 02, 2012, 01:36:07 pm »
i don't think west nile is person-to-person contagious, either, and it's been cool here the last couple of weeks so mosquitos are way down. so my guess is it's some other kind of virus.
anyway, i feel better now so whatever, we'll see what they say when the blood work comes back.
anyway, i feel better now so whatever, we'll see what they say when the blood work comes back.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:31:29 am »
THE BEST LAID SCHEMES O' MICE AN' MEN
GANG AFT A-GLEY
robert burns. that poem is awesome, the opening lines are just awesome:
wee sleekit, cowrin' tim'rous beastie,
oh what a-panics in thy breastie?
thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi' bickerin' brattle!
i wid be laith t'rin an' chase thee
wi' murd'rin' prattle!
GANG AFT A-GLEY
robert burns. that poem is awesome, the opening lines are just awesome:
wee sleekit, cowrin' tim'rous beastie,
oh what a-panics in thy breastie?
thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi' bickerin' brattle!
i wid be laith t'rin an' chase thee
wi' murd'rin' prattle!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:30:50 am »I swear you're the most overanalyzing guy on this forum at this point.
That would be entropy, he is the king and he knows it.
yeah but he does it for himself.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:26:41 am »
doubt you've taken enough creatine to fuck with your kidneys that severely. how often do you measure BP? did you do the reading at home or was it done at the doctor's office?
if at home, take it again in the morning, right after you wake up. get up and pee if you have to go and then go back to bed and lie down for five minutes or so before taking it. 161/90 is high but it's not at danger level for someone your age unless it becomes chronic. about six years ago i got measured at like 150/90 at the doctor, repeated on a few visits. she freaked out a little and ordered lots more tests and shit: x-rays, MRI. then i left for chile and spent a whole year taking my own measurements like every two or three days. it was consistently 138/85 or so, which is still way too high.
but then i got back, went back to the doc, and my BP was 120/70. five years later, got it measured last week when i went in for being sick and it was 122/80. so it was just a false alarm.
TLDR: don't worry yet.
if at home, take it again in the morning, right after you wake up. get up and pee if you have to go and then go back to bed and lie down for five minutes or so before taking it. 161/90 is high but it's not at danger level for someone your age unless it becomes chronic. about six years ago i got measured at like 150/90 at the doctor, repeated on a few visits. she freaked out a little and ordered lots more tests and shit: x-rays, MRI. then i left for chile and spent a whole year taking my own measurements like every two or three days. it was consistently 138/85 or so, which is still way too high.
but then i got back, went back to the doc, and my BP was 120/70. five years later, got it measured last week when i went in for being sick and it was 122/80. so it was just a false alarm.
TLDR: don't worry yet.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:20:06 am »
@adarq, yeah that vid has been posted at least once. i think the craziest moment is right at the end of the first squat, when he turns his head to look at the hook on the rack -- that's a near 3xbw squat and he's so relaxed he can turn his head without thinking about it.