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Gym:

TKEs on leg extension: 3x20/leg@light weight

Leg curls: 3x20/leg@light weight

Calf raise machine (DL so as to not put weight on left knee): 1x40@40kgs, 2x30-35@50kgs, 1x20@30kgs

Light squats: 3x6@bar weight

Core, massive foam roll/stretch

Very light session just to get some blood flow going around the legs. Knee felt fine throughout, prob could have done squats but there's no need to rush it. I'll see how it feels on the weekend, write this week off and hopefully just start again next week.

CORRECT. somebody get hyperdunk in here to read that.

yes, internet has coarsened me. thanks for the reminder.

but that's like my use of "retarded" -- i'm just not going to do it anymore. never did before starting on this and lyle's forums, won't again.

gay people aren't a minority? what planet do you live on? is greece like 70% gay or something? can gay people get married there? can they adopt children? is there absolutely no discrimination against them, in the workplace or elsewhere? do they, in fact, enjoy the advantages of being the group in power? and yes, one can say when you're over the border. it's when the group you are denigrating is an oppressed group, and you are in a group of power relative to that group. you and i are straight white men. we are ALWAYS in a group of power.

also, i think you misunderstood me. calling something gay makes the world worse for gays. calling someone a pussy makes the world worse for women. it's the same principle. pussy is worse.

Quote from: LBSS on September 19, 2012, 09:52:55 am

dislike gay slurs and the use of "gay" as an insult. please to be using them elsewhere but not here.

BULLSHIT!
That's hypocritical and too politicaly correct. Ive got nothing against gays. It is the same like calling someone a pussy, it does not make you a mysoginist and does not mean you inimidate women etc etc etc. Of all people i thought you would be more open minded. I do understand how you see it, i just believe that some expressions lose their etymological origin, just like the pussy example i mentioned! We could argue about how clear that borderline is though, i'll give you that.
Anyway it's your journal and i will respect your personal sensitvity on the subject, not being sarcastic or mocking here, true talk.

no, you are wrong on this. you are right that some expressions lose their etymological origins and become inoffensive. for example, i guess, "suck" or maybe to a lesser extent "bitch." some do not. for example, nigger. but the word "gay" in american english (can't speak for the brits) is still used as a term FOR GAY PEOPLE. calling something gay in a pejorative context associates things you think suck with gay people. therefore, it implicitly denigrates gay people. i'd guess that "gay" as an insult is probably moving in the direction you're talking about, away from its origin and toward a generic insult like "stupid." but, for the time being, but it hasn't lost the etymology yet. calling something "gay" or calling someone a "faggot" to put it/them down contributes toward making the world a more difficult place for gay people to live. do not like.

calling someone a "pussy" is the same. you suck, therefore you are like a person with a pussy, therefore you are a pussy. we all know who has pussies.

full disclosure of my own guilt: sometimes i call things "retarded." i never did that growing up, nor all the way through college. only picked it up in the last couple of years, probably from spending too much time on the internet. but it's in the same category as "gay," in that using it as an insult makes the world a worse place for people with mental or psychological disabilities. so i decided to stop doing it.

also, fuck putting me or anyone down for being "politically correct." that's a term used by bigoted people who don't like to be made to feel uncomfortable in their bigotry, so they invented a term to invalidate the viewpoint of anyone more compassionate than they are. you can't say anything after someone has called you "PC." they've taken you out of the conversation. everything you say from that point on can just be cast aside as "oversensitive."

there is such a thing as being oversensitive, but i draw the line at casually insulting, as a straight white male, members of oppressed groups. even indirectly.

also, as a point of clarification, you don't have to have anything against gays or even be homophobic for your use of the word "gay" to be offensive.

in the end, if you disagree with me, that's fine. i appreciate your respecting my personal sensitivity.

will spend some time at work today procrastinating by making a spreadsheet so i can track shit a la The Bearded Statistician. i love his weight chart.

Quote from: vag on September 19, 2012, 10:13:27 am

The australian front squatter ain't got shit on me, this is how you do it ( 2,5 years ago ) :

http://www.adarq.org/forum/progress-journals-experimental-routines/vag%27s-journal-age-vs-vertical/msg5442/#msg5442

  

true, true. forgot about that chart. will use it as a model. 

yeah! midgets guys! shoulda throwed that guy through a window! that'd show him. that midget.

god you're exhausting. REST UNTIL IT GETS BETTER. lift upper body if it doesn't involve putting weight on your ankle. rehab properly. worry about strength when you have two healthy legs.

If you're a one-leg jumper you probably want to take care of your bodyfat and bodyweight

At 6'5 you probably need something like what, ~25 inches do dunk no problems on 10 feet.

read the original post, breh. his reach is 97", which does hardly seem possible. and i thought i had t-rex arms! but anyway, assuming it's true, 127-97=30. (assuming 127" touch is required for dunking. which, looking at my own hand, is about right.)

MORE VOLUME OF SQUATTING. if your squat sucks, why are you only squatting once a week?