On March 08 2013 04:12 mordek wrote: Shoveling has to be one of the worst movements ever. It's impossible to do in a way where you feel you're not messing something up.
I haven't done any extensive shovelling, but lifting heavy shit made fucking shit up infinitely harder for me. By the way, is anybody here into bodybuilding?
I follow a bb-style routine, but have no interest in competing. Why do you ask?
On March 06 2013 10:38 sc4k wrote: I am slowly approaching my 'reset' target. I was comfortably doing 160kg squats but with poor depth. I had to reset to 100kg and I have broken into 150kg x 3-5 territory. So soon I will be at my target of 160kg. Then on to the big 200...wonder how long that will take only squatting once a week :/
On March 08 2013 04:12 mordek wrote: Shoveling has to be one of the worst movements ever. It's impossible to do in a way where you feel you're not messing something up.
I haven't done any extensive shovelling, but lifting heavy shit made fucking shit up infinitely harder for me. By the way, is anybody here into bodybuilding?
Well yes but it just feels like there's no proper form to it. You're always doing it in a disadvantaged position. Being strong definitely helps but I was just talking about the movement being awkward.
On March 08 2013 04:12 mordek wrote: Shoveling has to be one of the worst movements ever. It's impossible to do in a way where you feel you're not messing something up.
I haven't done any extensive shovelling, but lifting heavy shit made fucking shit up infinitely harder for me. By the way, is anybody here into bodybuilding?
I'm thinking about trying a competition when I'm done with uni in 2-3 years but not sure yet, we'll see I guess. Should have put on some good mass by then.
On March 08 2013 04:12 mordek wrote: Shoveling has to be one of the worst movements ever. It's impossible to do in a way where you feel you're not messing something up.
I haven't done any extensive shovelling, but lifting heavy shit made fucking shit up infinitely harder for me. By the way, is anybody here into bodybuilding?
Well yes but it just feels like there's no proper form to it. You're always doing it in a disadvantaged position. Being strong definitely helps but I was just talking about the movement being awkward.
I definitely agree when you're digging something at foot height, it's kind of awkward. Switching sides helps though.
On March 08 2013 04:12 mordek wrote: Shoveling has to be one of the worst movements ever. It's impossible to do in a way where you feel you're not messing something up.
I haven't done any extensive shovelling, but lifting heavy shit made fucking shit up infinitely harder for me. By the way, is anybody here into bodybuilding?
I follow a bb-style routine, but have no interest in competing. Why do you ask?
shoveling is something you get used to. It's not like it's a task that really takes any thinking. My dad used to install outdoor wood burning furnaces as a side job, so I got to help him dig the trenches to put in the piping. Usually 3-4 feet deep and 20-40 feet long 1-2 times every weekend. And I was TINY.
I was using a BB-style routine for a while. They're fun just for a change, and good ones are definitely more effective at putting on mass than other types of routines, but I don't have any interest in ever being a bodybuilder, so I stopped it.
ankle mobility was pretty shit and i felt unable to do heavy squats (hip mobility is nice though). injured left arm is much better but still making me unable to lift heavy. i was actually gonna go for bench&deadlift but some ohp and light cleans were more manageable (plus im scared my ohp has dropped a lot)
in all, hopefully fully healed by monday ...
no smoking for 5 days now (also nofap) and no chance of me going back to it, so far. ive got nicotine-free herbal cigarettes for the habit periods, and they taste pretty gross but still fulfil their role (ie i have one when walking in the street, when waking up, but not often). i just considered myself "sick" this week so any feeling shit is related to me "feeling sick" rather than "needing to smoke". it works. also helps thats im living with grandmother currently, so there are no stress triggers (my mom/her bf can trigger me to want to smoke pretty easily).
ankle mobility was pretty shit and i felt unable to do heavy squats (hip mobility is nice though). injured left arm is much better but still making me unable to lift heavy. i was actually gonna go for bench&deadlift but some ohp and light cleans were more manageable (plus im scared my ohp has dropped a lot)
in all, hopefully fully healed by monday ...
no smoking for 5 days now (also nofap) and no chance of me going back to it, so far. ive got nicotine-free herbal cigarettes for the habit periods, and they taste pretty gross but still fulfil their role (ie i have one when walking in the street, when waking up, but not often). i just considered myself "sick" this week so any feeling shit is related to me "feeling sick" rather than "needing to smoke". it works. also helps thats im living with grandmother currently, so there are no stress triggers (my mom/her bf can trigger me to want to smoke pretty easily).
You are now officially accountable to TLHF for you quitting smoking. This is like the 8th time. Don't relapse again.
On February 28 2013 04:36 FFGenerations wrote: THINGS I NEED TO CHANGE 6. quit smoking (failed that today)
THINGS I NEED TO DO 1. rally myself to quit smoking yet again (why cant i do that tomorrow???!)
FFGenerations December 07 2012 15:53. Posts 2506 i just quit smoking ~10 days after 4 days u will start smelling the street around you and notice your breathing is better after 9 days u will no longer ever want to smoke unless you are pissed off or drinking/drugs your breathing will be "amazing" and much deeper, clearer, like u can take a deep breath. fast track way to start smoking again in an instant is to drink/do drugs which u "need to smoke with". i dont drink and i cant do drugs living here so im good to go. get a vapouriser if u do smoke weed tho
FFGenerations December 04 2012 21:18. Posts 2506 last 9 days: nothing gave in another college assignment played FTL like an addict quit smoking (again) - 7 days, zero falter trying to nofap coz fapping apparently rapes my energy
On November 10 2012 21:47 FFGenerations wrote: you can quit smoking if you read and understand the following: + Show Spoiler +
you KNOW that ultimately you will have quit smoking. it is just, plainly, something you HAVE to do. something that WILL happen. it simply is a certainty. sometime in future years you WILL have quit smoking and be looking back at this moment. because it is a FACT that you will quit at some point in your life. in the meantime, you are just waiting for that moment to occur.
if you know "deep down" that you need/want to quit smoking, then you also realise that "deep down" you are just afraid to confront this. you dont quite have the mental strength to do it yet. you are okay just keeping smoking for now, with that nagging worry that you know you should be quitting, but you cant quite do anything about it yet.
after reading those paragraphs you should understand two things:
from paragraph 1: you will definitely quit at some point, its a simple fact; you're basically just waiting for it to happen
from paragraph 2: you are not strong enough to quit yet, so you're actually waiting until you are mentally strong enough to quit
what does this mean!? it means a few things.
first, you dont need to keep beating yourself up about the fact that you're smoking. you know that you will quit when you are strong enough to do so. you aren't quite strong enough right now, so there's no reason to feel bad that you're smoking!
second, most importantly, it means: Get ready. Be aware. one day in the future, maybe even just weeks away from now, you will suddenly realise that you have the mental strength to quit smoking. it could be that your emotions are suddenly balanced in a particular way, that a rare combination of events occurs to put you in that frame of mind, or even that you wake up one day and just randomly feel that today wouldn't be such a bad day to quit smoking.
Get ready, because this day will come, and you will feel it coming, and when it does you will need to remember what you know as a fact: you WILL quit smoking in your life. you are just waiting for the strength, on one fine day, to do so.
FFGenerations October 31 2012 09:05. Posts 2506 i can quit smoking tomorrow too (again), will have my last ciggy/s in a min
On April 27 2012 21:27 FFGenerations wrote: no smoking
FFGenerations April 21 2012 21:17. Posts 2506 quit smoking cold turkey or dont quit at all, half assing it will fuck you
FFGenerations January 13 2012 03:11. Posts 2506 Quit smoking as soon as I have 3 days free to do it (I get extremely sick, and also work a job with vulnerable people / dementia, so can't quit whilst working coz I will hit someone in the face)
Time to quit for good man. We're not going to let you keep doing this. You can do it.
FFGenerations December 07 2012 15:53. Posts 2506 i just quit smoking ~10 days after 4 days u will start smelling the street around you and notice your breathing is better after 9 days u will no longer ever want to smoke unless you are pissed off or drinking/drugs your breathing will be "amazing" and much deeper, clearer, like u can take a deep breath. fast track way to start smoking again in an instant is to drink/do drugs which u "need to smoke with". i dont drink and i cant do drugs living here so im good to go. get a vapouriser if u do smoke weed tho
FFGenerations December 04 2012 21:18. Posts 2506 last 9 days: nothing gave in another college assignment played FTL like an addict quit smoking (again) - 7 days, zero falter trying to nofap coz fapping apparently rapes my energy
On November 10 2012 21:47 FFGenerations wrote: you can quit smoking if you read and understand the following: + Show Spoiler +
you KNOW that ultimately you will have quit smoking. it is just, plainly, something you HAVE to do. something that WILL happen. it simply is a certainty. sometime in future years you WILL have quit smoking and be looking back at this moment. because it is a FACT that you will quit at some point in your life. in the meantime, you are just waiting for that moment to occur.
if you know "deep down" that you need/want to quit smoking, then you also realise that "deep down" you are just afraid to confront this. you dont quite have the mental strength to do it yet. you are okay just keeping smoking for now, with that nagging worry that you know you should be quitting, but you cant quite do anything about it yet.
after reading those paragraphs you should understand two things:
from paragraph 1: you will definitely quit at some point, its a simple fact; you're basically just waiting for it to happen
from paragraph 2: you are not strong enough to quit yet, so you're actually waiting until you are mentally strong enough to quit
what does this mean!? it means a few things.
first, you dont need to keep beating yourself up about the fact that you're smoking. you know that you will quit when you are strong enough to do so. you aren't quite strong enough right now, so there's no reason to feel bad that you're smoking!
second, most importantly, it means: Get ready. Be aware. one day in the future, maybe even just weeks away from now, you will suddenly realise that you have the mental strength to quit smoking. it could be that your emotions are suddenly balanced in a particular way, that a rare combination of events occurs to put you in that frame of mind, or even that you wake up one day and just randomly feel that today wouldn't be such a bad day to quit smoking.
Get ready, because this day will come, and you will feel it coming, and when it does you will need to remember what you know as a fact: you WILL quit smoking in your life. you are just waiting for the strength, on one fine day, to do so.
FFGenerations January 13 2012 03:11. Posts 2506 Quit smoking as soon as I have 3 days free to do it (I get extremely sick, and also work a job with vulnerable people / dementia, so can't quit whilst working coz I will hit someone in the face)
Time to quit for good man. We're not going to let you keep doing this. You can do it.
On March 08 2013 04:12 mordek wrote: Shoveling has to be one of the worst movements ever. It's impossible to do in a way where you feel you're not messing something up.
I haven't done any extensive shovelling, but lifting heavy shit made fucking shit up infinitely harder for me. By the way, is anybody here into bodybuilding?
I follow a bb-style routine, but have no interest in competing. Why do you ask?
Was curious whether I'd get a decent frame of reference for the next round of progress pics. Currently running PHAT on a bulk and making great gains; although all those months of neglecting arms are really biting me in the ass. I got a relatively huge back and legs, but my arms are so small. They're growing though, so that's something.
On February 28 2013 04:36 FFGenerations wrote: THINGS I NEED TO CHANGE 6. quit smoking (failed that today)
THINGS I NEED TO DO 1. rally myself to quit smoking yet again (why cant i do that tomorrow???!)
FFGenerations December 07 2012 15:53. Posts 2506 i just quit smoking ~10 days after 4 days u will start smelling the street around you and notice your breathing is better after 9 days u will no longer ever want to smoke unless you are pissed off or drinking/drugs your breathing will be "amazing" and much deeper, clearer, like u can take a deep breath. fast track way to start smoking again in an instant is to drink/do drugs which u "need to smoke with". i dont drink and i cant do drugs living here so im good to go. get a vapouriser if u do smoke weed tho
FFGenerations December 04 2012 21:18. Posts 2506 last 9 days: nothing gave in another college assignment played FTL like an addict quit smoking (again) - 7 days, zero falter trying to nofap coz fapping apparently rapes my energy
On November 10 2012 21:47 FFGenerations wrote: you can quit smoking if you read and understand the following: + Show Spoiler +
you KNOW that ultimately you will have quit smoking. it is just, plainly, something you HAVE to do. something that WILL happen. it simply is a certainty. sometime in future years you WILL have quit smoking and be looking back at this moment. because it is a FACT that you will quit at some point in your life. in the meantime, you are just waiting for that moment to occur.
if you know "deep down" that you need/want to quit smoking, then you also realise that "deep down" you are just afraid to confront this. you dont quite have the mental strength to do it yet. you are okay just keeping smoking for now, with that nagging worry that you know you should be quitting, but you cant quite do anything about it yet.
after reading those paragraphs you should understand two things:
from paragraph 1: you will definitely quit at some point, its a simple fact; you're basically just waiting for it to happen
from paragraph 2: you are not strong enough to quit yet, so you're actually waiting until you are mentally strong enough to quit
what does this mean!? it means a few things.
first, you dont need to keep beating yourself up about the fact that you're smoking. you know that you will quit when you are strong enough to do so. you aren't quite strong enough right now, so there's no reason to feel bad that you're smoking!
second, most importantly, it means: Get ready. Be aware. one day in the future, maybe even just weeks away from now, you will suddenly realise that you have the mental strength to quit smoking. it could be that your emotions are suddenly balanced in a particular way, that a rare combination of events occurs to put you in that frame of mind, or even that you wake up one day and just randomly feel that today wouldn't be such a bad day to quit smoking.
Get ready, because this day will come, and you will feel it coming, and when it does you will need to remember what you know as a fact: you WILL quit smoking in your life. you are just waiting for the strength, on one fine day, to do so.
FFGenerations October 31 2012 09:05. Posts 2506 i can quit smoking tomorrow too (again), will have my last ciggy/s in a min
On April 27 2012 21:27 FFGenerations wrote: no smoking
FFGenerations April 21 2012 21:17. Posts 2506 quit smoking cold turkey or dont quit at all, half assing it will fuck you
FFGenerations January 13 2012 03:11. Posts 2506 Quit smoking as soon as I have 3 days free to do it (I get extremely sick, and also work a job with vulnerable people / dementia, so can't quit whilst working coz I will hit someone in the face)
Time to quit for good man. We're not going to let you keep doing this. You can do it.
This. Quit fucking around.
You can do it mate. I had a mate who smoked over a pack a day and he quit cold turkey he could do it and so can you :D
Every time you feel the need to smoke do some exercise instead. Just something you can do anywhere without looking ridiculous. Some BW squats, at home push ups, standing calf raises, whatever just supplement it with something else We believe in you.
Just failed my first squat today, wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. 170 lbs on the last rep of 3x5 I was pushing with everything for 5 seconds but I just sank down to the safetybar and got out. Sucks to fail but I'llgive ot another go on sunday.
On March 08 2013 04:12 mordek wrote: Shoveling has to be one of the worst movements ever. It's impossible to do in a way where you feel you're not messing something up.
I haven't done any extensive shovelling, but lifting heavy shit made fucking shit up infinitely harder for me. By the way, is anybody here into bodybuilding?
I follow a bb-style routine, but have no interest in competing. Why do you ask?
Was curious whether I'd get a decent frame of reference for the next round of progress pics. Currently running PHAT on a bulk and making great gains; although all those months of neglecting arms are really biting me in the ass. I got a relatively huge back and legs, but my arms are so small. They're growing though, so that's something.
Well, if it's any consolation, I've picked the last 4 winners of the Olympia correctly and I've met Phil Heath
I actually thought it was awful. The guy isn't even in the shape where he can be smug; even if he would be it's offensive and discouraging from a postive decisision that too few people make. Fitness should be a healthy decision, let's not make it toxic. As insulting men's physiques is something that directly attacks their masculinity, this is little more than bullying for public entertainment.
Wow really... did you watch it completely? It was a prank, get over it. Also it doesn't look like he's not in shape, actually looks like he's pretty in shape to me. Would be a better prank if a completely non-trained person would do it. Some people take it way too seriously..
On March 10 2013 07:12 NeedsmoreCELLTECH wrote: I actually thought it was awful. The guy isn't even in the shape where he can be smug; even if he would be it's offensive and discouraging from a postive decisision that too few people make. Fitness should be a healthy decision, let's not make it toxic. As insulting men's physiques is something that directly attacks their masculinity, this is little more than bullying for public entertainment.
Dude, what video did you watch? That was all it was.