hahaha it's funny because I have taken jack3d straight before and the effects were wonderful but was tough to do lol.

lol natty gainzzzz, all natty brah. I have Wayyyy to much energy right now for no sleep. I think there is more then meth in this chit.

410am now and I'm at the airport sitting by the gate headed to Miami first then to the Caribbean. I got 4 hours of sleep or so and feel pretty good, just excited. I know it sounds nerdy but I signed up for the free 7 day trial of DC just to download a **** load of poker videos so I have something to do on my flight. Gotta work on em leaks. Plan to play in some live MTTs this year and maybe ill see loco in one of them. Anyway, my workout yesterday was decent for no sleep. I have been foam rolling whenever I do legs and feel like it's been helping my hip flexors. However, I feel that when I go down into squat position I'm leaning too forward or something, I dunno. ill post the video.

This was my last HBBS form check (not from yesterday)



Yesterday's HBBS form check

Couldn't stop staring at forearms, please cover them up so i can look at form better next time, kthx.

Your low back is rounding a bit at the bottom either due to extra depth or not being able to keep it straight and neutral. Really push out your stomach/abs (not just forward but in the back and all around) and get that belt locked in. Also make sure that you have enough room at the bottom of your squat between your legs to hit that depth without running up against your pelvis and forcing movement in your low back. I don't HBBS but afaik this stuff shouldn't be too big of an issue on just below parallel HBBS.

You really need to feel the weight more on your heels. See how your right heel comes off.
Once you fix that you will probably stop losing the weight forward like that.


I have a membership for one of the sites. It expires in three weeks. PM me for access. I have already reached my genetic potential in the pokerz, so I don't need that stuff. Been paying for it for years and haven't logged in over 15 months.

Training sites use to be the key to online poker riches. And while a lot of that has died down, any idiot can still go from zero to hero by making 100k online. I cannot help you. Do not ask me. Do it yourself. Lol at working at GNC and saving up to visit your girlfriend. You should be living in the Caribbean with her, making an easy 100k online a year.

Have a good time in the carribean man! enjoy it!

You high bar and your base isn't too wide. I think a .75 inch heel would do wonders for your form.

Poker Rant

I'm probably way over estimating my skill or the lack of skill of others or way under estimating the impact of the enormous rake... but I swear I could crush the sh*t out of my local cash game if I played 40hrs/week... and it's some bullsh*t 2/5 short stack joke. My view could also be skewed because I only play once every few months and on a Friday/Saturday night...

I'm fairly sure I'm wrong... but goddamn the play is like the early 2000s online. Every pot is multiway, people making ridiculous coldcalls/overcalls pre and post flop. Calling down 2nd pair. All of the classics.

I am trying to get an idea of what 2/5 means in Australian. Are Australian dollars and US dollars exactly equivalent and/or are you automatically converting it to American dollars?

I need to get some kind of equivalency going. Like say I wanted to get a 1 month RealityKings subscription (in reality I would definitely go annual, but lets just suppose). It would run me around $25 US. What would that be Australian?

Australian dollars and American dollars are relatively close (1AUD == 0.93USD about now).

So in Australia, AUD$25 would be roughly equivalent to a one month subscription to RealityKings or alternatively roughly the hourly salary for an unskilled worker such as a waitress or those people that come to the office at night and empty everyone's small trash bin into a larger one to be removed from site.

I hope that helps should you ever visit Australia and gain employment as a waitress or one of those people who tip the small bins into the big bins.

Here in USA#1, those folks make about $6-7 USD an hour.

Thanks Yugo. Haha I never work out my forearms either, must have been from all the years of playing baseball.

I am constantly telling myself to keep my chest up and back straight so I'm not sure what else I can do. What do you mean get belt locked in? Maybe my current stance is not optimal like you mentioned. When I front squat none of this is a problem so I find it weird that depth, back position, and stance seems to be such a problem during these.

Very interesting, never noticed that. I will work on that next time I squat.

Thanks, will def PM you. Haha dude when I graduated college I was living in the Caribbean for a year with her living it up. Lifted, drank constantly, was in the casino/beaches all the time, played online poker quite a bit but that did not turn out well. I blame pokerstars for denying me to play on there because the Caribbean is considered US for them. I told them it's not the US, the part where I am living but it was a wasted effort. I would have a SNG god playing on stars by now if that would have worked. Instead, I am forced to play cash games now which I don't enjoy as much and grind grind grind. I work at Vitamin World and at a Hospital full time prob like 60 hrs a week so it is a brutal grind. Online poker is hard as fk these days, it's disgusting how many regs there are at every damn table.

Thanks man, i'm sure ill see you on our skype group lol.

Can you elaborate?

The dream is over bro, every year games are getting tougher and even in the micros you are barely profitable calling a 5b shove with QQ. Makes me disgusted. This is why I do not waste my time and only play when I have free time.

I think you are under estimating the variance and how it hits you hard when you have a breakeven month. You may start to play worse and you need to be so consistent when playing live. I think most of us could be profitable but not make enough to play full time.

Gf is in class now for 3 hours so have a moment to update. I woke up yesterday at 2am and left my house by 245am to drive to NY to get to the airport for my flight which was at 545am. First time I ever arrived where there was literally no line for anything, pretty sweet. NY to FL plane ride lasted 3 hours and 15 mins and FL to Caribbean took 2 hours and 30 minutes. I slept most of the way and from FL to Caribbean I met one of my gf close friends boyfriend who is pretty huge. He had a Muscle Farm backpack so I started to talk to him about lifting and told him I knew his gf (fwiw, she is pretty hot). He is about 6'1 or 6'2 if I had to guess and is 240 lbs confirmed. He seems to be pretty knowledgeable about lifting but his bench is only meh. I was lifting with him today, we both were doing chest and he did 45x5, 135x8, 185x6, 225x8 x2, 255x5, 275x3, 295x2 but his sets were fast pace then did drop sets of 225x6, 205x5 +more but wasnt watching closely enough to remember.

Yesterday, had some solid HIIT sessions burned a good amount of calories which made me feel better about eating and drinking like chit. When we went to her school one of her asian friends told me my arms got huge and they look like Dragon Ball Z arms loool so typical for an asian to make that comparison. During her break today we went and grabbed some drinks and walked around. Tomorrow/Sat/Sun we will be hitting the beach and Saturday we have her banquet which will be a ton of drinking and eating.

Lifting wise, I am pretty annoyed and disappointed in myself. I thought my form was good on bench. Pretty sure when I did the 290 max out, my arms were flaring like a mofo. Way too much pressure on shoulders and I have been trying to concentrate on bending elbows more and then bringing arms out as I extend. I lost a ton of strength taking days off from the gym and am so concerned about joint health I don't care how much weight I do anymore. As for competing to 315, I really don't care anymore. I will make gradual gainz and I will get there someday but not going to go crazy trying to beat Monte. It is not worth snapping my chit in my early stages of my lifting career. From now on, I am just going to go hard when my body feels up to it. As you can tell, yes my left rotator cuff hurts quite a bit but only when doing flat bench. I have been stretching it a lot and taking a lot of off days but only slightly helping.

Looking at it again it's pretty slight, maybe not a big deal. Your ribs could be flaring, your knees could not be out wide enough...I really don't know but ideally you don't want your low back moving at all if possible when getting to the depth you're going for. Speaking of which, I really should video my squats, I wouldn't be surprised if I have the same thing going on.

11/21/13
Chest

Stretched shoulders

BB flat bench:
135x12
- more stretching for shoulders
135x15
185x6
205x6 (left shoulder hurt)
185x12
185x10 x2

DB incline:
70x10
80x10
90x7 x2
90x6

BB incline (70% power, 50 sec rest):
135x3
155x3 x5

Incline flys:
35x12
40x15
45x12 x2

Flat flys (trying to stretch out shoulders):
30x15 x3

Close grip bench:
135x9 x2
135x10 x2

As far as elaborating on the shoes, I was suggesting you get some weightlifting shoes with 0.75 inch heels. I think you would find the slight angle change would do wonders for your squat form.

Actually, yeah. This too. I was always super tilty when I played a lot online.

Ok cool, gonna look into ones that are within my budget. Saw the Nike Romaleos 2 Volt ones for $189 but that is out of my budget.

Yeah, me too but not so much anyway but then again I'm not playing full time.

Dinner last night was awesome. Enjoyed my Steak, every last bit of it.

Going to lift now, do some arms then hit the beach with that massive pump. Easy game.

Looks like too much sauce, not enough sear. But steak is steak, so well done sir. Are you north of the city by any chance? You implied you were like 2 hours away or so? I think I'm like 2.5 north.

I'm south of the city. What's the closest casino near you?

Ah ok cool. Kind of a longshot that you'd be north as well I guess, lol. Turning Stone is 1:45 to the west.

EV - you mentioned when you bench heavy your joints/tendons don't feel great. are you doing anything to try to correct that? it happens to me and I don't know if it's because of bad form or because heavy weights just do that to you...

Saw - TS was my 18+ go to casino. Haven't heard that name in a long time. originally from wmass used to make the 3 hr drive out there. remember poker room being kind of ****ty?

Haha nice, yea I used to love going there to play poker pre-21 as well. Poker room confirmed ****ty, lol. When I'm in Boston, my friends and I go to Foxwoods, which is a similar drive. Can't wait for those MA casinos...