The annual Testify Strengthlifting Challenge took place this Saturday (04/06/24) at Testify Strength & Conditioning in Omaha, NE, and you can view a recording of the meet. For the women, the Best Lifter Award (Morgard the Manatee) went to Jamie Morrissey, and for the men, the Best Lifter Award went to Grant McCaulley. In the master's division, the Best Lifter Award for the women went to Jill Weber, and the Best Lifter Award for the men went to Grant McCaulley. Full meet results

Jamie presses 59 kg for a PR on her second attempt at the Testify Strengthlifting Challenge, held at Testify Strength & Conditioning in Omaha, NE, this past weekend. Jamie went 7-for-9 and set PRs in the press and deadlift. [photo courtesy of Phil Meggers]

At the Testify Strengthlifting Challenge, Jill deadlifts 108 kg for a PR on her third attempt. Jill went 7-for-9 and set PRs in the squat, press, and deadlift. [photo courtesy of Phil Meggers]

In his first strengthlifting meet, Bob presses 119 kg on his 3rd attempt for a solid PR. Bob set PRs in all three lifts, and we look forward to seeing more big lifts from him at the Testify Fall Classic in October. [photo courtesy of Phil Meggers]

Brendan Korpiel

I've been doing these for a couple of years now. It involves getting an allergy test to see what seasonal allergies you are allergic to, and mixing them in a vial for a subcutaneous injection. It begins with something like 0.01 mL 1:10000 of the final dose, and works up to maintenance dose 0.5mL 1:1. You come back for the shots every week or so, slowly building up the amount and dosage. It uses the principles of stress-recovery-adaptation to facilitate this.

I do feel like it has improved my seasonal allergies. Just wondering if you have ever heard of this or known someone that has tried it.

Mark Rippetoe

It has made the medical services industry a lot of money over the past 70 years. I don't know if they work, probably not.

Jdcuth

It depends. Let’s say you have a clinical immediate hypersensitivity reaction (includes angioedema/anaphylaxis/acute asthma) but in this scenario more likely hayfever. You get it on a seasonal basis so work out a likely culprit (e.g. tree pollen) and then get your specific IgE tested and it is very raised - immunotherapy may help. But blanket testing multiple specific IgE can show lots of false positives i.e you have high levels against something but all it means is you are sensitized and the allergen causes you no symptoms and immunotherapy in that context would be useless

Oso Rojo

Not exactly lifting related, but somewhat related.

Does anyone know of a brand of casual shorts that fit guys like us that squat regularly?

I found a great solution for my dress pants, buy them 2" larger than I need and have the tailor cut down the waste to file. Full rise dress pants in a world that seem to love low rise.

Jason Donaldson

I've been pretty happy with Duluth Trading Company for both pants and shorts.

Then again, I rock the cargo pockets, so I'm talking purely about function here.

Sebastian Ohanian

J crew performance shorts fit great and are inexpensive if you get them on sale.