Android app...?

[BigShot]

Coach,

I saw the thread you posted a while back about the iPhone app where you said the Android version was in the works. Can you confirm whether or not this is it? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.na.ss

I see it has the same W logo as the iPhone one but wanted to be sure I was buying the right thing before I splurge my hard-earned £0.61 on it.

Also, after hurting myself first time round... followed by a couple of years of "so broke I couldn't afford to get to the gym, let alone train there" I've just started back on SS. I'm sure you'll be like a particularly happy pig in some particularly high-quality shit to know I'm drinking the damn milk this time. Good form and so many calories they're trying to get back out. That's the basic idea, right?

[Mark Rippetoe]

This is the WARM-UP app, not THE app, which is not yet ready. And I am pleased that you have decided that I am right about your training.

[BigShot]

Thanks, Coach. Yes, the warm up app. As I said in the PM I sent a short while ago I'd found the answer before you got to this thread. Sorry for bothering you with it.
I'm not sure I was aware there was a "the" app in the pipeline. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for that.

As for deciding you were right - I was never actually in any doubt about that, I just over-thought things and somehow contorted them to the point it could be right to need to drink a metric* buttload of milk while simultaneously being correct to eat more and only drink a bit of milk. Still uncomfortably full all the time (thus it felt I was doing something right), but getting far less in (wrong).
Please don't ask me to explain why or how I got to that conclusion though. I have no idea and it's quite clearly bullshit.
This time I paid for just shy of 5 gallons of milk before I paid for the gym membership. Start as you mean to go on. I'm not quite able to stomach the whole GOMAD yet, but I'm working it up it bit by bit. I should be there well before I start breaking my currently-weak PRs.

* I do live in the EUSSR after all - people go to prison for lbs and gallons here.

In the gym today someone started telling me to put a block under my heels for the squat and to change the diet side of things too. My answer?
"I'll see what the coach thinks. I just do what I'm told."
Don't worry though - I have no intention of asking you what you think about it. I already expect the answer would come in a more Texan version of "Don't be so fucking stupid. Have you learned nothing?"

Who'd have thought it might make sense to just do what I'm told by someone who's been doing this since before my Dad's eye twinkled in my Mum's general direction?
Funny how that works out.

[Mark E. Hurling]

The EUSSR. Thanks for that. Something else I can use to piss people off with. Right up there with Ћє Pєορlє'ς ЯaϊnЬoш ЯєρuЬlϊcж of Кalϊғornϊa.

[BigShot]

Happy to oblige, Mark. Enjoy it.

I'm very sad to say I didn't come up with it though. Here's a blog from one of the British MEPs (Memeber of European Parliament) - and he's talking about it like it's already become somewhat old, boring and OTT:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...t-this-poster/
Take a close look at the picture.
For an extra bonus-thought, first count the number of hammer and sickles... then count any of the religious symbols it's alongside and see if any one of them outnumbers it.

The hammer and sickle represented as the majority symbol on a poster dealing with religious faith. It doesn't get much more blatant than that - it is a cornerstone belief/faith of the EU. It's the only symbol on there that represents a political idea rather than some aspect of religious belief.


(I wasn't joking about going to prison for lbs and gallons by the way, though I have just realised I overstated it a little. People have been convicted of criminal offences for selling in imperial units, but not imprisoned. Funnily a Polish restaurant owner was prosecuted for selling beer in litres instead of pints too. Things are just THAT messed up here. The case against him was dropped in the end.)

[Mark E. Hurling]

I'm very sad to say I didn't come up with it though. Here's a blog from one of the British MEPs (Memeber of European Parliament) - and he's talking about it like it's already become somewhat old, boring and OTT:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...t-this-poster/
Take a close look at the picture.

Daniel Hannan, eh? I've seen him on some of our own TV a few times. Funny and profound in his commentary. Kind of like Mark Steyn, but then it could just be the accent. I'm surprised I haven't seen that poster image on a bumper sticker some here in LA-LA land. But no doubt someone in Hollywood will have a lapel pin or bracelet made up for it soon.