Djeez--Sounds like the beer might be part of your problem, but maybe if you try a slight caloric deficet or eat more smaller meals per day it might help. There's one thing that seems to help me.

If any of this hurts, of course, don't do it. Lay on your back with your arms at your sides and your legs straight in the air with your feet flat. Raise your rearend and lower back off the floor using your stomach muscles, but keep them pulled in while you do it. You don't need speed, but more concentration on the muscles.

I won't do crunches. They never did a thing for me either.


BassB'-- I got a call from someone I know that had about the same thing happen to him. He went to the hospital it was so bad and he passed out. He's used about every drug imaginable except heroin, but he didn't tell them that. He insists he had a heart attack, but after the tests were run nothing showed up at all. He hadn't done any drugs for awhile, but was with a friend and did some then. It was about 2 or 3 days later that he had the problem.
Maybe old times are catching up. Hopefully it was just major heartburn. Let it be a wake up call though. You're too cool to have things happen to you at this age. Get a physical before you start thinking about the gym.

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Nice!

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I'll quit doing your mom to save money! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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Maybe once you start working on your health a little more the other stuff in the way of bad habits will taper off. Just think of it as a hobby that doesn't stay fresh forever and maybe you'll just up and quit.

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if youre just going to be a troll and ignore the fact that strangers are trying to save your ass, stop posting in this thread

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Sorry Tranz, didn't mean to ruin your precious thread.

But yes, I'm going to do my best to start living better.

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I went to Curves again today. My face didn't start getting red until my second time around on the machines, but I pushed a little harder then. My heartrate went up to 120, but I couldn't get it any higher. I tried. And so far my knees don't hurt like last time. I couldn't figure out which machine was doing that either.
I had a protein shake and water prior and since I had a little shake left over when I got home I finished it off. Snacked on fruit and a few almonds and still felt hungry later one so I grabbed a peanutbutter on 12 grain bread. That hit the spot. Spag with meat sauce tonight.

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i quit smoking....and i bought a half stack and a new guitar. i already workout a decent bit. and i'm a scrawny 17 year old anyway...so oh well.

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No modding!

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Haha! Busted! I saw that and wondered who'd catch it. Make him do 2000 push ups for it. hehe Aye Chihuahua!

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i didnt say im going to suspend you or anything. i dont understand why youd take the time to point that out, that was a member to member suggestion to either start taking our advice seriously or stop wasting our time

i guess we're all mods deep on the inside


in other news chest and arms day tomorrow, yayyy

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my insides aren't very deep. i have no desire to mod.

on topic. i just ran like 3 miles. pretty much because i was bored. now i'm bored and tired.

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Well said, Captain Internet.

My new office fixture is a stack of 6" steel spikes so I can bend metal in between work things.

And these poor people already think I'm mad.

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You're only wasting YOUR time replying too it. Sorry for ruining your life.

I have genital warts and I keep having sex with infected grandfatherz. W@T shoudl I D00??

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LOLZ!!!?!!

In other news, my biceps are HUUUUUUUGGEEEE! MTM, watch out.

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Fuck.

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Well, you must get quite a workout trying to dodge those suckers.

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hhmm i think i need to do a little more fitness running, i might go into the 3000m run in my schools athletic day

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Bent rows, cheaters, one arm preacher curls, lat pulldowns (front), shrugs and deadlifts today... the first routine I've done in well over a month.


Someone post their routines and shit. I wanna know.

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I didnt mean it BB you're a sexy bitch as it is.

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chest and shoulders day

smith benching
preacher
standing curls
cable cross over
tricep pull down

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Well, I mimicked some of the routines from Curves today with my new resistance band and did the jogging in between. I think I have to put more concentration into it doing it this way and have to balance more. I don't have a/c like they do at the shop and since I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't sweat much it feels pretty good to actually be sweating now. I can go from one thing to another without so long a pause between and there's no distractions. Plus Ry Cooder on slide guitar is pretty darn cool to work out to. I got my protein, complex carbs, and some fruit right after I stretched to cool down.

Now if I could just quit thinking of fbs everytime I do squats I'll be all set.

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Clown. Every time you feel your hips drop at the bottom of the movement, I want you to imagine me behind you screaming. THAT is 'power out of the hole'.

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Going to work out today for the first time in almost three weeks. Money got so tight I had to cancel my gym membership. I survived on push-ups and the like.

Regarding smoking, those of you who do : Quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit. quit.

I used to smoke a pack of Camel Filter 100's a day. My guide to quitting smoking :

Decide to stop. Don't do the "Well, I'll smoke the rest of this pack ... " If you decide to stop, I don't care how many you have left, trash them. Swear that you won't buy another pack. You can't smoke if you don't have cigarettes, right? Of course.

When you go your first eight hours or so without a smoke, your brain will be giving you hell at that point. Whenever you get a strong urge to smoke, breathe in really deeply, slowly. Chew gum. Drink lots of water if you don't want to binge on junk food. Then again, binging on food might not be a bad idea if it keeps you from smoking, once you get over the third day it tends to wane. By the second or third day you'll have trouble sleeping, so have some Benadryl/Nyquil/Zanex/Whiskey/Horse Trancs handy to get you to sleep. During the three-four days of quitting, don't leave the house unless you are going to work, or hanging out with a friend who does'nt smoke. Just don't put yourself in a situation where you can buy cigarettes, if possible. Whether or not you actually buy them is not really the problem, as you're intending not to. But just having the mental strain of having to see a pack is going to drive you nuts.

I don't recommend that you use nicotine gums. From working the front register at a Walgreens, when I was about to quit smoking I asked a lot of people using the gums how they worked for them : About half of the people who have used them failed while using them, and the other half simply adopted a very expensive chewing gum habit. A very small percentage succeeded.

After you're done, you'll have a new profound hatred for cigarettes : A simple but deadly luxury item that does not let you stop using it. Its ridiculously unfair for a company to include ingrediants that cause the user to suffer a nervous breakdown if he/she simply decides to cease use of the product. It was'nt right when they put the cocaine in Coca Cola, and its still not right when they're mixing jet fuel with tobacco.

Thanks alot!It works like a charm!It's been a long time since I've felt this nice burning feeling on my stomach, hehe.

Gahahahahah

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That's cool. Glad it helped.

fbsweetums, what the hell does that mean?

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It means thank Baby Jebus that I'm not there slapping you on the cottage cheese, woman.

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Ooo baby! Get me all excited.

Damn it, now I'll laugh when I do them. Thanks a whole lot.

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I received a sample of NO Xplode when i purchased some Nitrix, and I tested it out today. A lot of my friends take it and claim it gets them all fired up and really helps their workout. So today I tried it and I was pretty disappointed. It definitely gave me some energy (not as much as I'd hoped), but it was more like nervous energy between sets and stuck with me too long after my workout. I still feel a bit jittery and aggressive, and I'd rather not because it's 12:30 and I have to get up in 6 hours. I guess it works for some people, but it just didn't cut it for me.

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Today's workout:

Push Press
3*3 warm up
6*3 pyramid up
9 singles

Evil OH Complex
(dumbbell snatch to overhead, lower to shoulder, jerk to overhead, windmill)
2*3 per hand

Evil Seesaw Press
3*1 (just testing how hard this is... fucking hard)

Woodchop
Twisting 4*8
Side to side 2*8

Back Extension Iso Hold
2*30 seconds

Fiddled with a calf machine on the way out, but my heart wasn't in it and calf machines are gayer than Tranny's arms day.

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Fat people in the gym provoke me.

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There's a diabetic girl (girl since she's about 20 years younger than me) we were talking to at Curves that's very much overweight. She said her blood pressure has come down since she joined in November and she's lost 10 inches. If overweight people are trying to help themselves then more power to them. It might save their life.

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I threw a mature, good-looking female black belt a few times yesterday. THAT was yesterday's sweet fucking workout. I even broke a sweat.

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i hate fat people

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You're gonna have a fat kid and have to eat those words.

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Does any one know some good workouts for your arms ? I mean the whole arm. workouts for shoulders, forearms, biceps. My arms are pretty skinny and I wanna tone them up a notch.

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Shoulders - Shrugs
Delts - Military press with a fucking BAR
Forearms - Reverse grip curls with a fucking BAR
Biceps - Cheater curls with a fucking BAR, and I also like preacher curls with dumbbells.
Triceps - Kneeling french presses with an ez curl bar, dips.

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never gonna happen with me, it'll be excerise and playing sports for my kid when i ever have one

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Today's workout:

One-armed overhead kettlebell squats
Lots*A few



That's more like it.

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Shoulders and back day today.

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Speaking as one who shunned organised exercise for years and still get an urge to take a running jump and escape through the nearest window whenever a stepping machine is mentioned, this sounds perverted.

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It's hard, if that's what you mean. One-handed OH squats make your back feel like someone has battered you with a lump of reinforced concrete.

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I've got a mattress that does that! When I was winging around an old compressor I got I was thinking it would make a great weight for something like that, but sweaty fingers on the spindle would probably fling it on a Harley or something equally unpleasant. I'll just rescue the pretty copper wire in it.

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Yeah I know, old post, but I`ll answer just to revive this topic anyway, and probably get some feedback too.

Monday: Chest/Triceps

Benchpress 5x5

Close grip bench 3x6-8

Incline dumbell press 3x6

French press 3x8


Tuesday: Legs

Squat 5x5

Standing barbell calf raise 3x8

Barbell lunges 2x6-8


Thursday Chest/Shoulders

Bencpress 3x7

Militarypress 4x8

Incline Flyes 3x8

Frontraise 3x8


Friday: Back/Biceps

Deadlift 4x8-10

Chins 3xwhatever I feel I am able to do

Barbell rows 4x6-8

Seated curls 3x6

I work the chest twice a week since its something I feel I need to improve. I`d do heavier sets with lower reps for deads, but I used to have serious problems keeping my back straight, so right now I use lighter weight to make sure I can keep my back straight.

Pretty good man

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Today's workout:

Deadlift pyramids (triples from 60 to 120), topped out with singles at 150kg, which went up EASY. Estimate another 15kg to max. Not bad for the chronic laziness of recent times and the spastic PhD schedule.

Chins 6*4 - surprised I got all of them after deadlifting, really.

Butterflys (upside down iron cross w. dumbbells) - 3 sets of 10 static holds. FUCKING OUCH. This exercise is brutal.

Seated row 3*lots - mixed it up, rest pause sets, one-hand eccentrics, the works.

My workout partner was jetlagged so I kicked his arse.

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FBS, Do you work out at a Fitness First?

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

Fitness First is a miserable piece of blow-dried shit which represents everything that is wrong with normal gyms and the normal gym-going public. I'd rather fuck my own earhole than drop a workout at a Fitness First.

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I didn't feel feel like doing anything today, but I did do some floor stuff. And for shits and grins, I did some crunches and I actually liked doing them. My old unco-operative muscles actually co-operated. I guess the gut's getting stronger or something.

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its allways good to take a brake from your regular workout. yesterday i took a brake from my routine and worked on my abs. i work them during the week but i mostly focused on abs yesterday.

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Lost a 1-on-1 basketball game today, 5-7. I was winning 5-2, pwning the guy with a lay-up and a couple of three (two) pointers, until my lungs caved in, so I couldn't play with full energy and my defensive capability went down the drain. I smoke too fucking much.

So what are some nice and effective ways of improving stamina?

Stop smoking, lol, I have the same problem about the lungs giving away.

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Thank goodness for fbs and squats. I didn't hurt my back as bad as I might have when I had to drag my 82 year old friend from his bathroom and help him get up. It wasn't til after the fact that I realized the muscles in the lower right side of my back around to the front of my waist had done something they shouldn't have. IcyHot time. It feels like when you get a fart stuck. Annoying as hell and making me conscious of my movements, but I got the old guy on his feet at least. A few years ago I doubt I could have done it.

Then I came home and found out my neighbor with heart trouble died about an hour ago.
Hell..........

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running and don't stop fucking running

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I can do 100 normal pushups fine, but I can barely do 24 handstand pushups--leaned up against the wall--with great difficulty.

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shrugged with 70 on each side

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Not much working out for me for awhile. I screwed up my back a good one. A regular doc appointment on Tuesday morning, but hopefully it won't be like this by then. I just have to move slow bending for any reason. The guy weighs 120 pounds, but I'm just glad he wasn't hurt.

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Shrugged with 160 on each side

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FUCK!!

I was doing a backflip, on a trampoline, I had done a few and always landed on my knees, but then something went wrong and I landed on my knees and my shoulders and I heard a looouuud craxk in my back... that fucking hurt! I'm just a little afraid that I may have fucked something up in my back but I think I´m ok, since it doesn't hurt that much now, only when I bend it back... gonna see how I´ll be in the morning...

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My bench is up to 5 sets of 5 at 175. I've been rather lazy lately though, i have to really hit it hard this week.

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I went to the doc today and he said when I lifted I have a strained lumbar. I told him what's I'd done for it and he said ice and anti inflammatories. Even though the packs of those say not for asthmatics he said not all are allergic to them .Since I'd taken them before it was okay. I haven't taken any today though and it only hurts when I bend to the left side which is my injured side.

But! On another note, my flax seed oil, walnuts, almonds, eggbeaters, exercise and that crap has brought my bad cholesterol down to 137 from 167 a couple months ago. My good is still only 44, up form 43 3 months prior, but a little more work and more fish and i think I can get that up. My blood pressure was 120/72 which is back to normal.

RARRR!!!! (beats on chest like gorilla)

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Ooooo - well exercised and cocky like something weighing at least fifty kilos more than anything else in the djungle - that's the way a woman should be.

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roflmao That's me!!!!!!

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Today I did something dumb.

My crew didn't turn up, so I did my workout (push press from pins, one-legged deadlifts, suitcase deadlift deadlifts, plate pinch grips, reverse holds)...

... then they turned up. So I did another workout (squats, 45* back extensions, butterflys).

I am dead.

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Did you break any blood vessels? Blossom any 'rroids? If no you're just the same little wussy man you've always been. Go for 3 next time.

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If you were here, I'd cut your damn throat with a blunt cinderblock, you rude old gimp. My eyes look like roadmaps of New Jersey and everything still hurts a day later. I hope you get blood in your stool.

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If I do I'm blaming you. You pain in the ass.

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Haahaha.

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I bought roofing bolts. Now I am going to try to bend them.

I need help.

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plane tickets are too expensive. bend them yourself, you sissy

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Why not just put them in the roof?

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Fun drinking game: Bending bottle caps over backwards. Me and a friend did it last night, and goddamn that shit is hard, and it cuts your hands

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Oh, it's so tempting......

Bolts? Bolts have threads. Why do you use bolts over there?
The ole man and I went out and did some more tree pruning and burning and my arms got fatigued by the end. I think that's the most he's done around here that's been really tough for ages. It was nice really. And I got him to drink some of my blueberry power shake when we came back in the house. I put yogurt in it and he doesn't like yogurt, but he drank it anyways.
I watched a bellydancing fusion workout today and I think I'm gonna start doing a bit of that. Looks like a good glute workout, too. I gotta get back on the horse again.
Man, do I feel wired..............

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I don't understand you. I mean, what's the point of all this pain you're putting yourself through? Granted, my right shoulder and elbow are pretty badly scraped and the small of my back has taken enough beating to have the bruise settle down and stake a permanent claim... but chicks dig a backspin-kick-freeze-handsstand.

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ya'll should try manually screwing long carpenter screws into wood. the screwdriver torques you lower forearm good, i just did some an hour ago, fixing up something

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Haha yep, I know what that's like.

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Yeah, it tends to twist the ligaments or whatever is in the back of my hand the other side of my palm, too. I've got petite little hands.

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hand strength is underestimated, my old judo/aikido sensei was a overweight dude, looked like an white version of a chinese restaurant buddha, but the guy would crush your hand or wrist demonstrating moves just by grip alone


too bad drumming doesnt create a similiar effect, but i will have toned arms forever

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Maybe your old teacher could crush that guy in your avatar.

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Fuck yourself, stupid child.

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Oh? And then what?

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What size are these bolts... I'm gonna give some of this shit a run.

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Those look like what they call stove bolts over here. Pretty darn big things. Were they case hardened steel?

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Those are a 6 inch, 5.5 inch and 5 inch respectively, with diameter 1/4". What are called 'cupheads' here. I smashed 'em. But you see, bolts differ very greatly in grade... the equivalent bolts with 'hex' heads are much harder and I can only JUST bend the 6".

Be careful. You can turn your hands into bloody putty if you're not careful.

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At work today I had to move a 30 foot piece of microllam (demon probably know what this is) in a building by myself... and I also had to get 40, 2x12x26 boards on top of a roof... and the fuckers were still wet with sap and water

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...do that all the time. It really impresses people......I think....

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You've got to quit using that flexible carbon fiber steel, and try bending iron or stainless steel.

The bolts however, that's awesome. HAIL to you cunt.

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at work today i watched a training video about what happens if you inhale carbon monoxide

i hate to one up you, but...

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That's what happened to powers' when he was on the back of the trash trucks. lol He got a little more daine bramaged.

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i do crunches to cyrptopsy and swim in my backyard. 6 packin it up BITCHES N CUNTS

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due to a tightening schedule (going away for the weekend) i had to cram in back and shoulders with legs

full body work out, i feel owned

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Fuck yeah that sucks, the last time I max deadlifted and squatted on the same day I felt like shit.

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pix plz? I didn't know you were a contortionist. It sounds like the guy crammed on top of the cabinet in the commercials.

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What exactly is the difference between Clean & jerk and Clean & press?

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Clean and jerk, the weight is 'thrown' overhead and caught. Clean and press, the weight is pressed from the front squat position to overhead.

Clean and press used to be an Olympic competition lift until '72, but it was hard to judge - to get the press, people used to bend backwards so far it was freakish and unnatural. Eventually, the O-lift people cut it back to just Snatch and Clean & Jerk.

Both are good lifts, but the C&P is easier to learn.

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Yeah ok thanks. I was thinking about starting to do Clean and jerk, but it does sound and look pretty hard to do properly. I think I might try clean and press instead then.

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They're both lifts with fairly heavy skill components. If you want to do them, get taught properly. It's easier to learn the one-handed snatch, power clean, push press, or any number of similar lifts which do the same kinds of things.

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