Sullydog's Geezer Training Log

[carson]

Good job for Mrs. Sully. Good lifts for you but as I understand it you have some students breathing down you neck. You have only your good coaching to blame...as I hear it.

[bob g]

…Also, can you tell us what would have happened if Grouchy had come to Waterloo?

Sully asked this excellent question in The Big Medicine Thread. Since it deserves a profound response of an historical nature I’ll answer it here.

Next month will mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s final little adventure. You see, Buonaparte and about 200,000 of his pals were looking for a bit of a Midsummer diversion and went all walk about in Southern Belgium. Who wouldn’t? It’s a nice place.


But just off stage to the east there was a bit of a cock up. Marshal Grouchy was supposed to be taking care of Napoleon’s right.


But he got tangled up with some blasted Prussians and couldn’t find the big battle field. You know, the one with almost 300,00 nicely dressed guys and thousands of horses shitting all over the place.

Then it rained a lot and some other Prussians commanded by Blücher came crashing in to save the day for The Allies.

In conclusion, if Grouchy hadn’t screwed the pooch, if he had actually showed up at Waterloo, we would not have benefited from two hundred years of gardening and mucking comfort and hygiene.

The end.

[Jonathon Sullivan]

[Jonathon Sullivan]

I'm working in the ER over my contract these days, and stuff with Greysteel, book project, SSCA, and teaching at the University have me buried. It's really hard to train consistently. I've lost about 5-8% off my top lifts in the last three months.

Finally went to a split pattern. Training one or two lifts a day whenever possible. Did a short run of LP to try and catch up with myself. Seemed to work well. Have to figure out what will work for me in September-October. 2016 will be better, but all this year I seem to be running harm to stand still.

Seriously: if you are committed to your training, DO NOT OPEN A GYM. Everybody will get strong but you.

[Jonathon Sullivan]

But your functionality will improve.

You're getting more opaque by the day, KOTJ.

Hey...that rhymes.

[carson]

How many shows did this track appear on shows from the 50s and 60s? I know I saw it on "You bet your Life" many times.

[Jonathon Sullivan]

Yes, I still train. All the time. Pick up a PR here and there.

I been busy.

[Jonathon Sullivan]

I live.

[Karl Schudt]

But do you even?

[Jonathon Sullivan]

But do you even?

Most certainly.