Sydney is the one I ran. Not nearly as big a marathon as the current majors but iconic course…at least when I ran it. Over the Harbour Bridge, past the Opera House through some incredible parks and then out to and finishing next to the Olympic Stadium

Not a fast course by comparisons but I enjoyed it

I'll yell your name if you get in to London

Hey loco Good to see you're still at it. Congratulations on your success in marathons. I hope you're doing just as well with poker. Went through a brief stint of early morning running about a month ago. Felt pretty good. Well tbh it was more like a cross between walking and jogging but I certainly worked up a sweat. When's the Sydney marathon on? I'm intending on doing a trip to Sydney so I may be able to incorporate it in at the time you're here so we could meet. Obviously dependant on whether you want to meet and how busy you are at the time. Let me know closer to the date and I'll pm you.

it's generally held in Sept.

Oh excellent.Thanks wrath

Don't remember you, I am old.

Or where you that burnette female from back in the day. I also remember a blonde female from back in 2012, when I first started logging.

I passed on the Sydney marathon. I am just trying to survive summer in texas right now. Will lottery tokyo/london again in November through the 4 star medal lottery.

If I can lottery into tokyo or london for 2025, then I can just pay a tour guide for the missing one and sydney is easy to get into.

If I didn't follow my boys athleteX and Nippard I would turn into a dinosaur.

Long length partials? WTF, I see that in the gym I would have cried donk alert.



The other shocker was that machine study that showed machines just as effective as free weights. Wat.

I just incorporated long length partials, anything to shorten my full body workouts while getting the running back up. Just a little, after my last set and keep going with partials. Massive lat pump with a crazy lactate explosion.

They are just as effective for almost anyone after their first few months/years of training. They are actually more effective in super advanced hypertrophy athletes. That rhetoric bashing on machines when we were coming up was straight ******ed; you can tax a targeted muscle a lot more if the load is externally stabilized. If I had access to an American bodybuilding mega-gym I'd probably train about 80% machines, 10% db/bb, 10% bw exercises.

Lengthened partials... basically do the hard part of a partial rather than the easy part and its still effective. Nobody is shocked. I'm not going to start programming them suddenly or anything, too fpsy.

Well I kinda of stopped running. Maybe 12-15 miles a week this year and probably 2 lifting sessions a weak.

My gf had a miscarriage and she got depressed. So I ate away my sorrows. Kind of felt like a horror film. One day there is a heartbeat and a few days later she at ER giving them a urine sample due to pelvic pain. She comes out of the bathroom crying with chunks of fetus in the urine cup. I bit my finger to see if I would wake up.

Doctors and nurses were mean. But hey let's charge you 10k for letting you use our bathroom to drop a fetus. Will give you a 5k uninsured discount, please come again.

Anyways, hadn't weighed my self in years. I know I was maybe 164 earlier in the year. Came in at a blistering 171 today, after basically being 160 or less for a decade.

She is feeling better now, my solution was to approve all expenses for the wedding. Its spiraling out of control, she wants 3 dresses. It's already at the most expensive salon in the richest city in Latin America.

But you know what, who cares. I am old. WTF am I going to do with my money. I am rich not quite great white rich but still well off.

It's in April so i need to cut. I thought of maybe logging my calories again to help out some of the newbs, but lol the forum is dead. Now it's just a family of 15 active posters, who mostly all know how to cut.

Back to logging. I want to be 156 tops at the wedding.

Lol wtf happened to me. I use to rail at folks that would come in to the forum looking to lose weight for a wedding. I would criticize that it wasn't a valid reason, that they needed to do it for health and keep it off. None of those guys ever became a reg, they sailed off to the soulman/yugo dadbod world.

I have terrible longevity genes, I can't do that.

Instead of logging calories I will just up the running mileage for now. Summer is almost gone, texas fall, winter, spring is sweet.

I will also try the 6 star london/tokyo marathon lottery again. There is no way I could take the montecore at any distance now. Wat.

sorry for the miscarriage, not a fun experience....particularly when the Mrs hasn't had a baby yet. We had one before baby #1 and it's not a nice experience and also emotionally draining because over and above the loss, there's the fear of 'am I going to be able to have one' which is uuuuuuuggggee for the lady. The hospital experience sounds traumatic too. You absolutely have to go for 'just in case reasons', but there's literally nothing they can do to help once the miscarriage process starts and she ends up having the worst day of her life in a public place at great expense.

they are remarkably common though. Once we had our first one, we found out that a huge number of our friends had had at least one. It just wasn't really talked about. There's definitely some value in looking into hormone levels in the Mrs and discovering if progesterone and estrogen are in the right balance. But I'm sure it'll work out well

loco at 171 while bro-weights-only feel wrath is currently at 178, down approx 20 from peak cardio fw. I'm aiming to drop another 4 ish over the next 4 weeks to get into full beach preening mode ahead of Aus summer now that I'm a soon to be single. it would be a nice gesture and very good for content if you could add another 4 and we could weigh the same.

(fw total...6 pregnancies, 3 kids)

I'm really sorry to hear that, man - not much more to say other than I hope getting a bit more regular with your fitness helps, and congratulations on the upcoming wedding.

Sorry you had to go through that, locobro. Hope you get back to feeling like yourself soon. I'm sure it's a lot to process.

I've got no doubt you'll be a Greek statue again by April.

that sucks man

but your post got me thinking

was wealth creation from pokerz, abp related ventures, or other?

Yeah just a tilting situation. Hate doctors and lawyers. This doctor not bad but super annoying it took 6 hours to tell us there is nothing in the uterus. No ****, it's in the urine cup bro.

Nurse was ridiculous. No kidding she looked like young Jenna Jameson. Huge massive boobs and big injected lips. So rude. Injects gf and she vomits what looks like diarrhea. She says nothing while vomit is pouring down her cheeck and neck. I have to forcibly tell her can she get some napkins. So stoic and dead eyed.

But yeah they work in the ER and this is nothing for them. If the doctor would have just come in 5 hours earlier and said, it looks like a miscarriage let me take quick look at ultrasound. We would have been saved 5 hours of praying that it was a hematoma.

Very sorry to hear

So sorry to hear that, hope you guys are doing better

Anyways, we move on. I guess what made it so much worse was how bad my fiancee took it. I am not a catholic conservative woman, so I don't know how she felt.


8/27
Front squat 3x4 135
RDL 3x6 155
Leg ext
Leg curl


Ran 4 miles sat. Ran 3 miles sun. Monday ran 3 miles and then lifted lats. Monday evening did 3.5 miles with 5 big hills.

It's hot as fack in texas, average pace about 9:45 mile. I am actually not that slow once you adjust for temperature and that I am fat.

For now, get mileage up to 25 a week and hit each major muscle group twice a week. Maybe some running program after that. No lifting program, clicking buttons for that.

Certainly not dogecoin like Thremp. And certainly not real estate like you.
Just cards. Definitely should be a lot higher if I would have invested wisely.

I don't know man, I started getting into some of these books. Real estate was about getting old folks to sell you property off market for below market. Multifamily was about overcharging tenent8 folks so government pays. Multifamily was also about raising rents on below market rents. Storage is about raising rents on folks who don't want to move their shiet. Also checked out some LP real estate stuff and becoming an accredited investor but then saw some whisperer guy on twitter saying the GPs are all scamming. What gives?

I am not going to trade my scamming for more scamming. I basically legally scam casinos out of money. But I sleep fine doing that because casinos are beyond scummy.

So anyways I have an apartment in mexico. A house in usa. My poppa's ranch in mexico. And plenty of cash. Mostly in boring stuff like dividend stocks and s&p, I also got some gold n silver.

What do you suggest man? I am an investment donk but I don't want to scam regular folks. Should I get some dogecoin? I sold all my bitcoin at 8k a pop, so that was a tragedy. Teach me.

Also been looking at small businesses a bunch but nothing interests me except bringing the world's greatest taco to Texas, but working restaurants blows.

I do have a back up plan. Hit up casinos til I am 50 and then retire from that and become a school teacher. I would like to teach physics, calculus, and cross country. Maybe have a gym even if it's low margins. That sounds like a good life.

That's a great plan! I'd have loved Mr. loco as a young Melkerson.

As far as investment advice, it's very hard to do better than just shoving it all into some combo of Vanguard Total Market and Vanguard Total Bond. At your age and risk tolerance, I'd recommend a pretty close to 100/0 split. But if you're going to retire soon, then maybe throwing some bonds in there isn't terrible. You can do better, but it requires effort. What I've described requires none and beats the vast majority of strategies.

It turns out LPWhisperer was the actual scammer and was attempting to blackmail Fort.

FWIW most of those guys were running the same strats as multi-billion dollar REITs. Works great when you can borrow at 3 and lever in 5 caps. When your 5 cap is a 7 and you can borrow at a 7. ggwp you're broke!

Ugh, yeah, that is really rough. Surprisingly rough imo/ime.

This was our experience too. Quite common and no one talks about it much.

Good to see you back at least loco. I'm a huge donk now. Tracked calories for a month then fell off...trying to get back on it.

I get you yugo. I had a bad diet day yesterday, my ytf mentality is strong right now. Real strong.

So I eat a banana and three little tacos + a pupusa for lunch. That's probably 1000 Cals. I hit the gym.

I hit up a double smash burger with Avocado no spread. All great but i am walking a ton. At 15000 steps and thinking in my head I am starving.

No control, two slices of meat lovers pizza. WTF. I use to rail against nasty gas station pizza. This was a little better but definitely not Giordanos.

I am still walking and at 4am I get my favorite candy protein bar, that happens to be 360 cals. So maybe 3000 cals.

WTF.

Gotta go back to the basics. More protein and overall more filling foods. Should have had 4 steak tacos and no pupusa for lunch. Maybe Greek yogurt for snack.

It's like I've always said. Food becomes a combination of habit and addiction and spirals out of control into a brutal habitddiction. Right now I am loving pizza, even gas station pizza.

I did say no to the cheddars rolls and the bread at the Italian restaurant. Small steps.

Also I been regularly eating the chips and salsa from mexican restaurants. Oh the travesty!! Young loco fainting on his couch.

Small steps yugo. Exercise you enjoy. Good food selections you enjoy. I have no choice, I have to bring back salads, soups, ceviche, steak and veggies, etc etc etc. Slowly we can beat out this YTFian habitddiction.

7/28
4 miles tread 37:37
Avg hr 120

Incline bench 155 3x6


Had a better diet day yesterday. BBQ but sides of cabbage and green beans. Roadhouse filet 10oz with chili and broccoli. Only ate half a roll. Logging helps, you don't want to log duds. I was stuffed all day. Color me shocked, protein is filling.

Man... everything in this post is depressing AF. Making me reconsider my recent 180 on marriage being actually okay. Thank god my lady doesn't seem to care about the legal marriage part, just the religious part. And already too old for another child.

The miscarriage is really tragic and the hospital bill for it is an outrage.

Bro, I was pretty blue last year October/November and cutting+cardio got me right out of it. There's something about restriction and lots of cardio that makes you happier because you have this sort of "Reverse hedonic adaptation". I think whatever goes on hormonally from cardio is also more happiness promoting than whatever is happening from weight training. When you can't eat what you want anymore, you derive happiness and satisfaction from progressively more mundane things. Just the feeling of sunlight on your face when it's 50 degrees outside at 7am or a pretty girl smiling at you at the gym are suddenly euphoric experiences you wouldn't have even noticed if you were satisfied, full, and could just randomly have cheesecake. The buddhists are right, mayne.

Anyway good luck, you should join our family of 15 active loggers who all know how to cut. **** this 156 noise, see how maximally shredded you can get all natty rather than setting a target bw.