Originally Posted by
stuffedsuperdud
No, because really, it's a hopeless situation, and she is not magical. But at least these days I look super dapperdandy on first dates. Story: I once crashed and burned on a first date and was done by 8:00PM. Called her to see if she wanted to go see Man of Steel. Went to her in the same clothes, mom jeans that smelled like my Rehband sleeves and a torn Ninja Turtles shirt I had gotten to commemorate the first time I squatted 315. She went, "Dude please tell me you changed between there and here..." and I went, "Uh...no...no I didn't." The next day, we were at the Ralph Lauren store in Beverly Hills, where she forced me to drop over $400 on "respectable" shirts and pants; when I protested, she went, "You cheap bastard, I know you have the money. What are you saving up for, a house for your nonexistent wife and kids??" Le sigh. I walked out looking like if Jose Canseco and one of the store's mannequins had a love-son....and haven't looked back since.
Training:
Ugh....busy week coupled with poor sleep, endless stupid meetings with guys that will probably be out of a job soon, and this damn cold that just refuses to clear out. I had a few minutes today, so I remember Steel going, "Well, just squat and leave then":
Squat:
45lb x5
135x5 no hands!!
225x5 no hands!!
^Always wanted to try this circus trick...
315x3 paused
335x2 paused
Here I did something stupid. It was an unfamiliar squat rack, so I got nervous and raised the safeties an extra hole before attempting 355. at the bottom, the bar hit the safeties and came to a full stop. I crouched at the bottom, the weight off my back, and wondered what to do. Decided to try standing up with it and did:
Pin squats from the bottom:
355x2 RPE 346
Holy shit that second rep was hard.
Fixed the safeties and did:
Squat: 355x5x3 nice and easy
Then called up CG and Rugby and saw the terrible pre-Justice League movie. This had all the ingredients for a great movie, but then cynical Hollywood financiers took over and we're just given yet another paint-by-numbers mash-up of action scenes followed by a reminder that they're making 24 more Justlice League movies right the fuck now! Bleh. Bonus bleh: seems like Ben Affleck didn't want Henry Cavill monopolizing the shirtless scenes, so they included a sweaty montage of Bruce Wayne doing CrossFit in the Beatcave....only to put on an Iron Man esque suit that seems to do all the work for a human anyway....because contrary to what CFHQ says, CF isn't going to give you Kryptonian powers. Double bonus bleh: Apparently they mixed up Bruce Wayne and Frank Castle, because unless I suspend all my disbelief and assume that theirs is a world of naught but less-lethal rounds, it seems like Batman shoots 1000 people to death with everything from small arms to what looks like multiple GAU-8/A Avengers mounted in the Batmobile and the Batwing.
Now drafting a change.org petition for a new franchise starring Wonder Woman and Mercy Graves.