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re: the front squat, you're a bit wobbly on the way up and dip your elbows and torso forward before you recover, but it's a PR lift so it's kind of hard to say whether that's a general thing or just because this was especially hard. do you have vid of submax sets?

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: ITB a bit tight on both sides
MENTAL STATE: good
STOPWATCH: 09

- warm up

- depth jump @16" x 4,4

- DLRVJ build ups x 3 (one, two, three, four-step)

- squat MSEM 285 x 6

- squat MEBM 230 x 16+4
had to rack the bar after 16 reps, rested about 30s and then did four more to get to 20. safety first.

- push ups x F (40)

- kroc row 80 x F (23/side)

- pull up x 7,5,5
to make up the different between kroc reps and push ups

- stretch

good workout, pushed myself a bit harder than usual which is something i should be doing more of. 40 pushups is almost definitely a PR.

what did he do last fall?

basically he announced in a crazy internet-training-guru-style advertising page that, while most people had known him as an expert on nutrition and training, he'd been living a double life as a gonzo pornographer and was going to release a tell-all book (and maybe videos? or something?) about his experiences. he's obviously since taken it down, but it was pretty obvious even at the time and even from the remove that i have from him -- i've been a member of his "secret" forum for years but never a major poster and i've only had a little personal contact with him -- that something wasn't right. the grandiosity, the verboseness made it seem like a manic or at least hypomanic episode. and i'd suspected for years that he was at least depressive. bipolar makes perfect sense.

uh, aren't you the same height as me? your reach is probably a little higher because i've got shortish arms but not THAT much higher. i touch 7'6 standing still, which means bottom of palm at rim is about 35-36".

WEIGHT: ??? scale not working again
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder during OHP (?)
MENTAL STATE: okay, a little sluggish
STOPWATCH: 09-10

- warm up

- DLRVJ build-ups @80-90% x 18 + SLRVJ x 2/leg

- superset x 2
-- DB OHP 55s x 5,7
-- pull up +20 x 6,6
weak. left shoulder bugged during first set of OHP but not second. concentrated better on that one. pull ups felt very weak.

- stretch

I don't get the "need" for what he wrote. Meaning, why would you "apologize"?

because he was a deeply shitty person to a lot of people over the years, a superficially shitty person to a lot more people, and because he did something completely insane and weird last fall that threw a lot of people for a loop.

i think this should go in the thread hall of fame.