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So back spasms and leg pain are history?
Nice comeback workout too! 

thanks vag.

the leg felt a little weird but i was paying really close attention to it and there was no pain. weirdness might have just been me projecting onto it.

BW = 175
SORENESS = quads
ACHES/INJURIES = mid/upper back
FATIGUE = high (?)

- warm up

- squat 275 x 5 | 285 x 5,5

- OHP 105 x 5,5,5

- chin up x 8,8,8

- ab pull down x 20,20

- stretch

shit workout. no idea why i was so wiped out to begin with. tried a couple of DLRVJ during warm up but they were so bad i decided to just bag it and go straight to squats. kept those light so as to stroke my own self-confidence. reps were all strong and solid, which you'd expect at those weights. OHP and chins were weak, in part i think because of the back tightness.

whatever, better luck next time. time to eat some food and go to sleep.

Ah, how nice, a whole page with fancy styling and a lot of smartass talking to tell us that you have the same goals and that you are going to do exactly what you were doing so far.


Jokes aside , i think it is very solid and i also think you like doing that scheme. Whatever else you tried, you tended to stop it after a few sessions, this one 'fits' you well. Its proven to work too since you had great progress, both in the weightroom and on the wooden court.
So keep it up, you don't change a team that's winning!  

PS: How much time does it take you to complete that workout? Looks really long!

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.

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.

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

  

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, we don't really disagree. I had 'nigger' in my mind as the extreme example that proves me wrong. In the end it's all about what i said, where you put the borderline.  Imho, the borderline of symbolic or direct translation of the insult is defined by the racism the society shows to the specific people group. You could see the 'gay' calling with different perspective , legalizing it's use shows an acceptance to them. They are not a minority or a racism subject, so it's innocent and safe to use it. It's all grey there as i said , noone can really say when you are beyond the border. It is a matter of personal sensitivity. In some cases it is more adjective and in other it is more subjective. Wether gay and their current acceptance in the community is adjective or not , i am unsure. To make my point clear , i don't understand why calling someone gay makes the world worse for gays while calling someone a pussy does not make the world worse for women.
Meh , too much debate about something we actually agree and is also very much off-topic.

I remember when some black basketball player came here in Romania, being the only black guy in town, everybody was calling him "nigger".

In fact, even the REFEREE IN THE GAME said "foul, nigger". Sounds like Dave Chappelle doesn't it?

Nobody thought that was an insult, they thought that's the proper way to address a black guy.