I don't have any particular knowledge in this area, but my mother has been living with us and working through profound depression and anxiety for the past several months. For such a severe case, I...

Educational day yesterday at Gold's:

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I was pressing behind a Smith machine (there are two, because they're twice as important as the power rack?), and the guy using it was watching me grind...

I've been doing it to the chest since I still can as I work my way up, and it does make sense to me. I just figured I'd drop it when I needed to in order to make my reps.

I suppose the alternate...

This is a bit of catch-up I'd rather post before I continue putting up this week's workouts.

I think it was Saturday, 11/5 that I got out an old pair of rollerblades that my brother-in-law left...

If you think that, then I guess I see no point in arguing it with you. Believe as you wish. I shall, perhaps, play the same game and harbor the private belief that you are not really a man, but...

Thanks. The significance is that you find a lot of real-world themes re-worked in Tolkien, often far enough that the impact is entirely different and it's easy to overlook. For example, the...

Makes sense, but for the moment I'm just focused on getting a full chin the regular way, so I can take the training wheels off.



My belief is that this is really a consequence of having low...

You know, I'm not sure if this is a serious question or not. If so, I actually answered the question briefly, though perhaps cryptically. To be just as brief, though perhaps clearer, Gandalf is...

I normally avoid these discussions, but you did ask--poor sod.

First, the disclaimer: I'm not going to critique the quality of the film as a film--I am solely interested in the understanding or...

Whales are so mythically, preternaturally mighty that it takes that many pages just so you can grasp that Ahab's vendetta is against more than mere flesh and blood. What's a few dozen pages of...

Sorry to be quarrelsome, but this is the kind of misunderstanding of Middle Earth that makes it no fun to talk to people who have seen and liked the movies. It armors them against actually...

I just came back from an ortho visit, which went much better than I expected. He more or less agreed with Rip's concerns on the summary I made up and particularly the desire to look for tears with...

I think this is also appropriate for the thread:



The fact that nobody in the book actually refers to Moby Dick as a big white whale does nothing to diminish the Barry's immortal words.

Huh--literary discussion on SS? I want to play....

To me, Moby Dick is in some way that is difficult to explain more like the Lord of the Rings than any other book I have read--both were similar...

Cycle 4, Week 5

Sun. 11/06/2011

Press: 102.5x5,5,7

These may be coming along OK, since this is only 5 lbs under my PR weight (though I was set to increase it at the premature end of the last...

Cycle 4, Week 5

Thurs. 11/03/2011

This would have been my once a week bench day, but at this point I'm dropping them entirely until the shoulder heals and I know what is happening to it when I...

Cycle 4, Week 5

Tues. 11/01/2011

Press: 100x5,5,9

Another press day, in keeping with my plan to only bench once a week.

Curls: 50x10 + 30x15

Yeah--knees on the pad put the bar too far out in front of my chest. I tried the shins so my center of mass would be closer to the plane of the bar, where it would be on a free chin-up. It seems to...

That's what I thought, I just wanted to confirm that I'd read between the lines properly and that wouldn't end in overtraining. Us very literal-minded people like to have it spelled out in small...

I don't know what I'd be looking for there. I managed to sleep on the other side last night and the shoulder feels good today, but I'm not sure I can do that consistently.

I've now done both a...