Skip the doc! I regret seeing mine yesterday.I doubt I'll go to a doctor lol.
My wife said I got a package today, so I assume that it came in.
I get that pain sometimes. It passes.
Skip the doc! I regret seeing mine yesterday.I doubt I'll go to a doctor lol.
My wife said I got a package today, so I assume that it came in.
That's what I figured.Skip the doc! I regret seeing mine yesterday.
I get that pain sometimes. It passes.
CG is convinced something is wrong with me when there really isn't. Load of crap. Stupid JO'sThat's what I figured.
I hate doctors, every time I go they try to tell me there is something wrong with me. (except for army medicine, they are convinced there is never anything wrong with anyone)
That's why I don't go lol.CG is convinced something is wrong with me when there really isn't. Load of crap. Stupid JO's
I figured as much lol.Sucks..
It's meh.Back ok?
Those were low bar, FWIW.I'd say play with high bar vs low bar to find a position where you're more vertical at the bottom. It'll make a bigger diff when you go heavier
I try to keep it tucked so I don't overdevelop the extensors of the neck and to properly strengthen the deep C-Spine.I've found that I tend to stay more vertical at the bottom when I keep my chin up, if that helps at all.
Thanks bro. The sled drags were awful.Awesome updates brother! Love how you do the vids!!
I see your reasoning.I try to keep it tucked so I don't overdevelop the extensors of the neck and to properly strengthen the deep C-Spine.
Thanks buddy, good to have you along.Subbed. You've got some cool stuff going on in heah.
Generally, low bar is my stronger squat. I noticed that as well, they weren't uncomfortable for the lower back but they were too much like GMs.Just smashed pizza myself. Squats are strong man. Are you more comfortable with high or low bar? Couple reps almost turned into a GM it seemed.
You gonna compete yet man?
Lol, I love me some post workout pizza.Pizza!! You bastages!
I noticed that as well. Tight hip flexors are also part of that issue, its a work in progress lol.Accessory work for the heavy squats. Your setup is nice and the drop is good but your lower back and core deficiencies are preventing you from sitting back at the bottom causing you to lean forward instead. Your shoulders (upper back) are rising after your hips which is the opposite if what you want. Reverse hypers, seated safety bar good mornings with feet forward, glute ham raises, and hyperextensions should help make your posterior chain much stronger which will improve your form and probably help you pass 4 hundo relatively quickly
Manly excellence lol. Had a buddy show me this today, worth the read.Viking Supremacy - By Hammer of Thunor
Posted on August 29, 2012 by Shatner
The Movement
I wanted to introduce you guys to a movement I'm founding called Viking Supremacy. That's not white supremacy. White supremacists aren't particularly supreme, so right off the bat it's false advertising. I'm tired of race politics anyway, and I'm especially tired of race politicians. I want to get back to the fundamental question when it comes to supremacy: do you do anything interesting in your life or are you content to do nothing much other than displace space? This is an arrogant movement and a stratifying movement. This isn't meant to bring people closer together, but to drive them apart and grade them according to their awesomeness.
I'm calling those men who commit themselves to a life of intensity...Vikings. Vikings were the nastiest, baddest and freest men to ever walk/row the Earth. They spread awesomeness, mayhem,destruction and their seed everywhere within reach of their longships, and they never even asked permission first! Even their afterlife was a vision of manly excess, with every day in Valhalla starting off with an epic melee in full battle dress, and ending with an all night drunken bender and hot serving wenches. If you're going to aim yourself at all you might as well aim high, so I'm not going for pirates or samurai or cowboys...it's ****ing Vikings!
The Problem
Now naturally every movement is a response to something. No movement has any value unless it addresses a real problem with how life and society are going along. Viking Supremacy (Vikingism for short) addresses what is not only the biggest problem of the last few generations, but what may actually be the biggest threat humanity has ever faced...people have become absolutely ****ing boring! The information age has crafted the lamest, meekest and most risk averse humans ever known to history. These people suck, they need to be told that they suck, and I'm gonna goddamn well do it. It wasn't but a scant few decades ago that our entire culture revolved around winning, intensity and pure testosterone. Then the proliferation of glowing rectangle based forms of escape sent almost everyone into silent worlds of vicarious adventure where everyone gets to win but nobody has to lose. Well guess what?Losing is a necessary part of stoking the desire to win, and nothing can replace the awesome feeling of actually winning in the real world. If you have never been tested against other men,you cannot yourself become a man, and you most certainly can't be a supreme one. Someone has to fight back against this dull, stale, mundane and insipid culture of quiet moderation, and it might as well be me since I hate it so ****ing much.
The Creed
How does Vikingism address the problems I just desribed?How does committing yourself to being an ass-kicking mother****er who sticks his boot up the world's ass and never apologizes for it going to solve the problem of people sucking so damn bad?Well, I don't think people want to suck, they've just been lulled into it and having some shining examples running around to show everyone the right way to do **** can have a ripple effect that re-energizes the culture and leads to a new era of manly excess and testosterone fueled glory. If not, it can at least lead to a few awesome dudes living awesomely for a short span of time and getting to enjoy being so ****ing awesome. But what is the essence of Vikingness? What is it that defines a life of awesomeness in contrast to the ordinary modern life? One word: intensity! A Viking Supremacist seeks out intense experiences, intense relationships, intense activities and intense scenes. The ordinary ******* seeks out pleasant experiences, tenuous relationships, safe activities and quiet scenes. Now there are people who like intensity out there right now, and they're damn cool people to hang out with, but a Vikingist makes a full and knowing commitment to it, he sees the meaning of life in the process of ordering himself rather than just attending to his desires as they arise.
The Prescription
If you like lists and easy to remember guidelines, then this is the part you've been waiting for. It's the gist of what makes up the Vikingist lifestyle, distilled down into bullet point format. Read it. Understand it. Internalize it. Live it. There aren't any DON'Ts because that's just not how a Viking Supremacist rolls.
DO -Be fearless. Live large and with confidence, truly owning the space you occupy. Vikings didn't worry about whether they were right or wrong, and neither should you. If you're right you're right, and if you're wrong you're right. You don't have to give a **** what's going on within in the brains of every little whining **** you come across. Stand up tall, do what you want to do and forget the rest.
DO -Have real opinions that matter, and say them out loud. Your favorite phone app for finding a ****ing Starbucks is not an opinion that matters.
DO -Leave your house. You sure as **** aren't gonna kick ass and take names from inside of a sheetrock prison cell.
DO -Make friends, make enemies. You need a crew, a gang, a band of nasties to go around with and make trouble. You also need people you hate and want to choke on sight, because *****ry brings out the best in men.
DO -Lift weights. Get bigger; get stronger; get bigger and stronger. Feeling awesome is easier and more natural when you actually ARE awesome, and being weak and pathetic is most definitely not awesome. Be the beast.
DO -Get jacked on adrenaline. Live an "up" lifestyle and do things that keep your brain in go-mode. Thrive on stress. Drive yourself hard and make lemonade out of so many lemons. R&R is for bitch mode pussies...and women. Be 100% focused, 100% of every waking minute. A Viking Supremacist is always ready to go all in when the moment calls for it, and his body chemistry reflects that. You can have all the rest and relaxation anyone could ever dream of after you're dead, unless you get called up to the big leagues in Valhalla and the party rocks on. Burn twice as bright for half as long.
DO -Have fun. The whole goddamn point of being a kickass Viking type mother****er who isn't to be trifled with is so nobody can stop you from having the ****loads of fun you know damn well you deserve. Now if you're a rotten angry sonofabitch, be a happy angry rotten sonofabitch. Laughter is the best medicine, so if you aren't the type to laugh WITH people, you might as well laugh AT them.
DO - Arm yourself and train for melees. People who live massively and awesomely attract lots of attention, and often that attention is not admiration. Envy and spite are your new traveling companions, so you need to be 100% prepared to show what a Viking is all about and kick the living **** out of the people who test you.
DO -Push the limit. You don't know what you're really capable of unless you've gone to your absolute edge. Did someone tell you a story about trying something and failing?**** him. He's not you and he probably sucks and doesn't have the resolve that a VIKING has like you do. People who live out lives of failure like to go around warning people not to do **** because they want you to suck as badly as they do. Laugh at these people.
DO -Talk massive ****. Don't let pathetic weakness happen around you without commentary. Weakness is a condition that spreads like a virus when people are silent and polite. Be the medicine.
DO -Listen to 80s music and watch 80s movies. The 80s was the kickass decade because everybody was living out loud and going balls deep into everything and everyone. You need to saturate your brain with sounds that inspire action and beastliness, so absorb that culture, draw in all of its raw energy and then turn it out onto all the boring little ****s who inhabit this lesser decade.
DO -Level up. Learn as many skills as you can that don't just involve pushing buttons. You aren't saving princesses, killing terrorists, or conquering intergalactic forces of doom...you are sitting in a ****ing chair and staring at a rectangle. Get the **** up and learn how to do something.
DO -Indulge your whim. Moderation is for ***gots. You can't be a candle that burns bright by only taking little tiny puffs of oxygen at a time. Burn ALL the oxygen as fast as you can get it and be too goddamn bright for mortals to even look at comfortably. Stop living the eternal life and health fantasy, realize you are perishable, and go out of the world burning instead of rotting. Which brings me to the next point...
DO -Up The Dosage. There's one feature common to all men of the modern world who have any semblance of the prior glory of more interesting times: they UP THE ****ing DOSAGE. Augment your body with all the exogenous chemicals that are designed to max out your beast mode and turn you into a walking tidal wave. Being average sucks. Being awesome for being average also sucks. Be more awesome than nature intended. **** nature! **** her good and hard.
Conclusion
Live on the edge and WAY the **** over the top. The journey is reward, not the destination. You can't control how or when fate will strike you down, but you sure as **** have control over how you're gonna live your life in the mean time. Don't waste your hours away in a hidey hole. Join the ranks and let the interesting reign over the dull, the strong over the weak, the arrogant over the humble, the Viking over the thrall.
Way to be behind the times....First time I've seen this! Subbed.
May have to look into that....They have that 175 weight class for strongman. Actually getting to compete in it would be fantastic. There was a strongman event right next to our power meet. I almost missed my flight because I was too caught up watching them press the axle.
Good workout man. I think tate press is my favorite triceps supplemental exercise.
I really liked them. A lot of stress on the elbows but no pain so it wasn't a big deal.Tate press was a big key when my benching was strong. Get good at them.
Is it weird that I don't think I have any hand towels?If they ever bug you, just wrap a hand towel around the handles to fatten up the grip.
I want an earthquake bar, fat gripz, 14" cambered bar, Buffalo bar, and Texas bar.....Of course, fat gripz are best. I just look to the nearest thing I see.
Lol sounds sketchy.I can knock $500 off of that wishlist with PVC and hand towels, bruh. I think it's my calling in life, to rig up wonky lifting setups.
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