Observations over the past month:
1.) I had two people compete in this past weekend’s powerlifting meet in Burlington, VT in the 100% RAW Federation. Elaine Neal and Kim Furlong both did phenomenally! Both women set world records in the deadlift, with Elaine “The Tank” Neal just missing 318 and Kim pulling an easy 285. There were three other women competing in this competition and the weird thing was that even though Kim and Elaine BURIED everyone else in the DL, they themselves got owned in the Bench Press.
It led me to two conclusions:
1. The reason why our pulls are so much better than everyone else’s is due to the back work we do.
2. Doing a cycle of just upper body push work can’t be as bad for you as I once thought. If doing all pushing work were as bad as I thought, then everyone there would have had serious shoulder impingements.
2.) If your military press goes up, your raw bench press will go up.
3.) I need to work in more hoizontal pulling exercises.
4.) I recently just bought a house and I realized that I have a lot of shit. I mean A LOT. Too much shit in fact. I think everyone should move every year so that they have to get rid of their stuff and buy new stuff. This will stimulate the economy and help people get rid of their crap, thus in turn pushing out old crap by way of yard sales.
That is all.
August 21st, 2008
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I was watching TV and saw an ad come up for Nutrisystem. There were 3 women; one lost 83 lbs, another 3 dress sizes and I really don’t remember what the third one said because I was too stunned. Underneath each results listing there was the line “Results Not Typical”.
Um…why would you buy something that basically says, “We get great results, but most of those results are flukes so don’t expect much”? What results are typical? Yet, this company is doing great! Hundreds of people sign up every month because they want to lose the weight without having too work hard. If weight loss were easy, we would all be thin.
From now on, every time I meet with a potential client and they ask me about my success stories, I am going to start the conversation with “Well listen, these results aren’t typical”. I wonder how many new clients I will get!
August 12th, 2008
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“You are only as strong as you are weak.” I have said that a lot in the last few days, referring to why you use supplemental and auxillary lifts to increase your main lifts. The purpose of those lifts is to work on your weaknesses. For instance, I was squatting today and I couldn’t get over 440. It felt good going down but coming up I couldn’t prevent it from pitching me forward, even with the elbows thrown forward. So I can only conclude that my upper back and/or abs/lower back are weak. I hate abs and I don’t work them that much, so it would make sense that that is what is weak.
This is true in life, not just in the weight room. If somoene is very rude that person probably won’t have a lot of friends, so therefore their inability to be nice is that weak aspect of them. Until they fix it they will not have a happy life.
You are only as strong as you are weak.
August 11th, 2008
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I think that people don’t fail enough in life. Hear me out. If my personal best in the deadlift is 500 lbs, and the next week I hit 505, should I stop or keep going? Most people would stop. After all it’s the smarter thing to do. However, what if I put 510 on the bar and nail it. Should I stop then? Or, should I go till I fail? If I put 515 on the bar and don’t lock it out…did I really fail?
I don’t think so. Yeah, I didn’t get the lift, so I failed in the literal sense of the word. However, I accomplished a very big thing. I now know what I can’t do. So next time I know what I am trying to get. If we take that into life and now you’re sitting at a coffee shop drinking your coffee (with honey) and you notice a very attractive person sitting alone looking very bored. Do you go over and talk to them? What if you crash and burn, or fail? So what! At least you tried. At least you know that the person is not interested in you.
You fail 100% of the time you don’t try.
August 6th, 2008
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