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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 03, 2012, 11:23:41 am »
Quote from: Raptor on October 03, 2012, 11:18:08 am
Quote from: LBSS on October 03, 2012, 10:04:33 am
arm as relaxed as possible and roughly at heart level, yes.

If I let my arm rest against something (like the margin of a table) in an effort to relax my biceps, the value grows from 13 to ~15.

value of what? i always took my bp lying down, for what it's worth.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT
« on: October 03, 2012, 11:03:57 am »
yup, looks like the "s" in "https" was the issue. weird.

the calculators do pop up when i click on the text, but they still just show up as text. the icons showed up when i first opened up the forum earlier this morning but now they don't. except the gorilla.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT
« on: October 03, 2012, 10:31:57 am »
putting in youtube videos doesn't seem to be working. it's happened to me a couple of times now: copy past the url, highlight, click the youtube button on the toolbar, post, "#invalid youtube link#."

also the weight_converter and 1RM_calculator icons aren't working for me, they just show up as text.

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 03, 2012, 10:04:33 am »
arm as relaxed as possible and roughly at heart level, yes.

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 02, 2012, 04:32:28 pm »
so either you saw an idiot doctor or this is not as concerning as you think. try another doctor?

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 02, 2012, 01:37:02 pm »
so....see a doctor? this has been a problem for a long time and a medical professional has never given you any kind of advice or diagnosis?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 02, 2012, 01:36:07 pm »
i don't think west nile is person-to-person contagious, either, and it's been cool here the last couple of weeks so mosquitos are way down. so my guess is it's some other kind of virus.

anyway, i feel better now so whatever, we'll see what they say when the blood work comes back.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:31:29 am »
THE BEST LAID SCHEMES O' MICE AN' MEN
GANG AFT A-GLEY

robert burns. that poem is awesome, the opening lines are just awesome:

wee sleekit, cowrin' tim'rous beastie,
oh what a-panics in thy breastie?
thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi' bickerin' brattle!
i wid be laith t'rin an' chase thee
wi' murd'rin' prattle!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:30:50 am »
Quote from: vag on October 02, 2012, 08:11:02 am
Quote from: Raptor on October 02, 2012, 07:47:47 am
I swear you're the most overanalyzing guy on this forum at this point.

That would be entropy, he is the king and he knows it.

yeah but he does it for himself.

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: High blood pressure
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:26:41 am »
doubt you've taken enough creatine to fuck with your kidneys that severely. how often do you measure BP? did you do the reading at home or was it done at the doctor's office?

if at home, take it again in the morning, right after you wake up. get up and pee if you have to go and then go back to bed and lie down for five minutes or so before taking it. 161/90 is high but it's not at danger level for someone your age unless it becomes chronic. about six years ago i got measured at like 150/90 at the doctor, repeated on a few visits. she freaked out a little and ordered lots more tests and shit: x-rays, MRI. then i left for chile and spent a whole year taking my own measurements like every two or three days. it was consistently 138/85 or so, which is still way too high.

but then i got back, went back to the doc, and my BP was 120/70. five years later, got it measured last week when i went in for being sick and it was 122/80. so it was just a false alarm.

TLDR: don't worry yet.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:20:06 am »
@adarq, yeah that vid has been posted at least once. i think the craziest moment is right at the end of the first squat, when he turns his head to look at the hook on the rack -- that's a near 3xbw squat and he's so relaxed he can turn his head without thinking about it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 01, 2012, 10:17:47 pm »
doc called again this afternoon, just to check in. i feel fine now. i actually felt fucking spectacular this morning but unfortunately it had worn off by the time i got to the gym tonight. still no word on the west nile, i'm supposed to call back on thursday if i haven't heard from them. my roommate is now sick, presumably with the same virus.   :-X

BW = 176
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = right wrist feels like i jammed it (?)
FATIGUE = low to moderate

- warm up

- DLRVJ x 7
bad, mostly 31-32, one 32.5

- squat 275 x 8,8,8

- SS1: dip x 10
- SS1: inverted row x 10
- SS1 info: 5 rounds, minimal rest between exercises, ~30s between rounds. will up reps and decrease sets next time.

- hanging leg raise x 10,10,10

- ab pull down x 30

- stretch

pissed about the jumps, i felt pretty good but the explosiveness was just not there. oh well. squats were very solid.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT
« on: October 01, 2012, 10:10:22 pm »
if there is no more up-voting and down-voting, how will i know i have satan-like powers?

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 01, 2012, 04:27:09 pm »
vag did you post that again because it was just so awesome, or because you didn't see that raptor posted it yesterday?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: how much squat for athletes?
« on: October 01, 2012, 09:42:48 am »
Quote from: entropy on September 30, 2012, 11:45:56 pm
Bumping this thread because I have been wondering what's a good goal for a front squat if you're not a natural backsquatter. If 2bw olympic backsquat is a good goal for athletic purposes, what's a good goal for FS? 1.8?

My reasoning for 1.8 is that i've read that a good olympic lifter should be able to front squat 90% of his best HBBS, so 90% of 2bw is 1.8bw. For an 80kg/176lb athlete that would require a FS of 144kg or just shy of 320lb.

On the other hand, elite olympic lifters are very efficient so perhaps 2bw for ordinary mortals would translate to a FS of around 85% of HBBS so it would be a FS of 1.7bw. So the same athlete as before would require 'only' a front squat shy of ~300lb. Is this reasonable?

Just my conjectures of course, would be interested in hearing others opinions

IT DEPENDS. christ.

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