Very sorry for your loss, Holliday.

The difference between this and the Ramsay technique is basically using a water bath for more even temperature (+ goat cheese instead of creme fraiche, which seems like a nice touch/alternative). I have my doubts that this will make a huge difference - I've taken to abandoning water baths when making hot emulsions like e.g. bearnaise and have noticed exactly zero difference in taste. Book looks nice though!

Leave it to the French to skip baths imo.

Hate to be a texture weirdo, I've had really good french omelettes like this (haven't tried making at home for whatever reason), but I still prefer diner-style eggs over fancy man eggs because I haven't so far been able to get past soupy eggs = undercooked. I'll have to mess around with this at home, I guess.

That's why we invented eau de toilette monsieur!


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Holliday,

Sucks man, but it seems like your worldview is coming in handy wrt the grieving process?!

Maybe? I'd buy some squares, and you know DT would be in for 20 or so.

The flyover after national anthem right into Hester taking it to the house was pretty awesome, hugs all around. Then the rest of the game happened (I was closer to Reggie Wayne on that TD from the upper deck than D Manning)...and then the rain. Which we were unprepared for (south Florida weather prediction <> upper Midwest predictions).

Except I'm the logger...go online to check, write very few actual checks and goto bank at most 1/month (self employed). But I still log every transaction - probably nightmares from college when 1 month into freshman year when I didn't think I'd need to work, saw checking balance of $10, then decided to get a job. Scarred deeply.

Thanks guys, yo.

Condolences Holliday.

In reading through your log occasionally, I'd hope to have your strength in dealing with things that you need to on a daily basis with your wife. Best to you.

+1 to this.

My condolences Holliday.

Condolences, man.

The Holliday has heart, that's fosho. When the war comes, he is a lock first round draft pick, most likely top3. Can't think of a guy I would rather have backing me up when I run into enemy fire. While a guy like EV will just piss his pants and let me die, like that scene from private Ryan or whatever war movie that was.

Glad you're alive LOLco. Was worried for a bit. Mexico. Or North Mexico. Unsure where you were.

That's funny, because I just got back from Asia but I am in north Mexico.

LOL USA always and forever.

whatever happened to btm? I miss his stories.

banned for not posting photos

Anyone have an opinion on renaissance periodization hypertrophy routine? https://renaissanceperiodization.com...ning-template/

Looking to switch from an intermediate powerlifting program to focus on physique/aesthetics. $100 seems a bit silly but the internet seems to have terrible/random programs so maybe worth it to save myself the hours of research/programming?

I would absolutely recommend AGAINST it. Lots of people do high frequency training, and almost all of them are more successful with both their own training and their clients training compared with Dr. Mike. his PhD does not change this.

I was actually sent Dr. Mike's exact offseason cycle by a mutual acquaintance, and I don't believe he's claimed natty either. So he can't really hide behind "but I'm natty and people/coaches with better results aren't!"


There a lot of coaches/ebooks/paysites/free programs on how to structure a higher frequency program that people have had a lot better results with. Dr. Scott Stevenson's Fortitude Training is cheaper/better. Jordan Peters is another high frequency guy. His site costs $6 a month or so and has lots of informational videos. I signed up for it and can send you the programming articles, but they're written VERY colloquially and informally.

Good ole' DC training has been around forever. It gets to a lot of the same conclusions on high frequency training as guys like Dr. Mike/Scott got to, but did so a long time ago and in a decidedly broscience/anecdotal evidence way. The 3 day split as written definitely suffers from having and imbalance in pushing vs pulling and really needs more scap retraction. The back+chest+shoulders day that include deadlifts are going to be very long and challenging and burn you the **** out. The biceps+leg days were approximately as difficult as they should be. I did the 4 day split for about ~9 months with a little extra upper body pulling volume but kept the push and legs days pretty much the same. Put on about ~8kgs without much bf% gain (after pics in my log).

Push/Pull/Legs/off and variants are also really popular, but you end up working out 5.5 days per week it can be awkward to balance with your schedule.

imo the best option is the upper lower split like jordan peters describes. It addresses the biggest flaws with DC training. It's really pretty simple, on one of your upper days you do about 70% pushing exercises and 30% pulling, then the other you reverse. Then on the legs day, you do about 70% quads and squatting exercises 30% hamstrings/dl assistance, then the other legs day you do deadlift (or variant) and 70% hamstrings 30% quads. I will pm you the Jordan Peter's article later.

Finally, on Dr. Mike's site, he includes some articles titled something like "tips for chest hypertrophy" or "chest hypertrophy guide". If you click there, he gives sample programming for the week for that bodypart; you could easily piece together a routine just from that and adjust as needed.

Despite the fact that I don't believe the science is anywhere near conclusive on higher frequency routines, I actually greatly prefer this style of bodybuilding training and still do it this way. I definitely wouldn't pay anything for Dr. Mike's works though and think there's better ways of doing things that involve less FPS.

Thanks for all the information! I'd be interested in those Jordan Peters articles.

I think DC training could be a good start for me (minus extreme stretching and questionable nutrition, not sure those have any value). At the very least its 6 weeks of low time investment while I learn more about these sorts of routines.

Fortitude Training is a bit more expensive than RP fwiw.

So no squares this year? Wtf

Well the fantasy league and survivor pools died, so this seems fairly unsurprising.

Another spectacular OP.

Happy Super Bowl.