Nothing extraordinary, it just feels like I caught a cold. My sinuses aren’t behaving in their customary manner. No congestion, just draining and a mildly irritated throat.
I have a routine that I follow when a cold is coming on. Avoid going out, rest as much as possible and get plenty of fluids. Let my body focus on healing.
Now that I think about it, except for having more soup, it’s indistinguishable from my normal routine.
Yesterday, I benched 185 lbs, a personal record. That’s two 45 pounders, two 25’s, two 10’s with a 25 pound bar.
On Tuesday, I maxed out on the bench press at 175 pounds, which is 5 pounds more than my high school maximum.
To be fair, I mostly screwed around in my high school Physical Fitness class. We were supposed to be running or lifting, but by telling the coach that we were running in the back gym, we could do flips and jumps onto the high jump pit.
My brother and I are 16 months into our work-out routine. That’s the longest I’ve ever stuck to any fitness program. Working out so consistently, I wasn’t concerned about damaging something by attempting a max lift.
I’m currently doing two sets at 155 pounds. It’s rough, but I can get about 10 reps in for each set. Based on that, I should be able to max out at around 200 pounds, but I want to slowly approach the max.
Conventional wisdom is to do three sets of 8 to 12 reps, three times per week. We only do two sets to get more different exercises in. Two visits to the gym per week gives us more recovery time.
CNBC: Nestle launches Vital Pursuit
People take these to work, and eat with their friends. “Healthy Choice” and “Lean Cuisine” invite criticism if you courteously accept a cupcake that someone brought in for Dessert Thursday. “Hungry Man” announces that even you don’t believe you are big-boned. “Marie Callender’s” declares that you really are better than them.
More food brands should be named like a military operation.
Taco Bell could move into frozen meals under the “Rolling Thunder” or “Urgent Fury” brand
Have a “Vital Pursuit” for lunch with a couple of Red Bulls, and you are Tommy Lee Jones, going after The Fugitive. Your afternoon plan may be to teach Algebra 1 to a bunch of mopes who sniffed out all the dry erase markers, but you’re ready for that too.
Those old movies, with a manly star like Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant, made an impression on me. The tough guy could be stranded on an island, living on the prairie or on the African Queen, and they always manage to shave. Invariable, if the fella isn’t shaving, it’s because he is drunk all the time.
In The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart explains it. “A man alone, he gets to living like a hog.” Inevitably, a woman throws all the booze away and civilizes him.
Politico: Far Right wants more babies.
Real Clear Politics: Have more babies.
Based on recent articles, we are supposed to worry about not having enough babies and people who worry about not having enough babies.
Back in the 1980’s, before we were afraid all the time, I supported several environmental groups. Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund and a few others. Never Greenpeace, they were already crazy. World population was an issue of interest, so I supported a group called Negative Population Growth.
They were completely reasonable, but in retrospect, I can see how they could go off-the-rails in a catastrophic way.
Maybe it’s Obama’s fault or capitalism or something, but my retiree health care is garbage. I don’t know, maybe it’s fine, but being a public school teacher, I never had to pay for much. Paying the first $8000 doesn’t sound like good coverage.
This is the only photo that is related to this gruesome tale that you’d want to see.
Planet Fitness doesn’t judge perverts.
Working out with my brother has been going well. We have worked out three times per week for over six months. We’ve only missed three or four days in that entire time. I’m working out with 150 lbs on the bench press. That’s 30 lbs more than I did in high school. I am up at least a couple of plates on every station. It’ a shame that has to end. We have to resign from Planet Fitness and find somewhere else.
The guy in the photo was shaving in the women’s locker room at Planet Fitness. The woman who took the photo was in the women’s locker room along with other women and a 12 year old girl.
It’s clear that this man does not sincerely believe that he is a woman. He looks to be in his 40’s, so isn’t some mixed up kid. He is sporting a man’s haircut. Shaving in the Planet Fitness locker room emphasizes that he is a man, and is an attempt to mock the women who are present.
The man is a degenerate who finds it gratifying to make women feel powerless and humiliated. If he wanted to be sensitive to their reasonable concerns, he could have changed in a stall or before he came to the gym. Alternatively, he should have made every effort to appear to be a woman.
The woman who took the photo, because she wanted photographic proof, had her membership cancelled by Planet Fitness.
Boycotting Bud Light was easy because it sucks. There is a Planet Fitness gym near my house, my brother’s house and almost anywhere I’m likely to go. For $30 per month, it’s a great value. Finding a suitable alternative won’t be easy.
We will have to ask about the transgender locker room policy at any gym we consider.
Since Davy and I started working out, I wanted to encourage symmetry. Some machines allow for a different weight for each arm. It made sense to start with the highest weight that either arm could handle. I don’t want to develop a lobster claw, where one arm is much stronger than the other. That might be a fiddler crab I’m thinking of.
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