Q about the mcmaster-carr washers. From the FAQ

That part # yields http://www.mcmaster.com/#91081a046/=3je05f, which is a pack of 1.

Just searching for 2" washers, I also found http://www.mcmaster.com/#90108a046/=3je5gd, which are the same but zinc plated and in packs of 5. Maybe the FAQ needs an update, or maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

I'm also curious where it is said that each washer weighs 10oz, or were they just weighed by someone independently?

i mentioned it somewhere, but i would get the zinc plated and just get two packages. it's a few dollars more, but they won't rust. i don't know where the 10oz came from, but i double checked before buying using the measurements online and the density of steel to figure out that they were definitely close to 10oz.

epoxy two sets of two for 1.25lb weights and then the single washers can be used for 0.625lb weights.

lol@this video I found

http://www.noob.us/humor/arnold-schw...ing-dumbbells/

<3<3<3 in so many ways

I used to babysit here and there for one of top young American females and it'll take me some time to get specifics, but I think you're really, really wrong on this one.

Here are some more form videos. Press and DL.
Didnt have a tripod in the gym, wanted to be discrete as possible so had to use things in the gym to set the camera on, so you cant see the weights above my head clearly.

Press 5X105

Looks like my lower back sucks at being straight, I cant get rid of butt wink on my squat its always rounded.

Deadlift 2X185 Warmup

I felt like my back was rounding really bad and barely got the 4tth rep up so I decided to quit.
Deadlift 1X4 240lb edit* idk why I put it in as 1X4 240lb when I did all the others different.

my gym switched to hexagonal plates a couple months ago

thank god they kept a few metal round 45 plates because deadlifting with hexagonal plates is mad gay

To elaborate on the beer example for the not so eloquent readership. Light beers are only sold of mainstream beer brands. Ergo we shouldn't compare an Imperial Stout to Bud Light since they aren't competitors in any fashion. The beers that Miles listed, while delicious aren't really similar in any way to light beers. When you look at something like Budweiser/Bud Light. There is less than a 10 calorie difference when adjusted by alcohol volume. Over the course of a drunken night this could result in a difference of 100 calories, over a full day... 200-300. This is akin to sparing yourself cheese on your burger at a Fourth of July party or asking to be shot in the face with a 20 gauge instead of an 18 gauge.

If we include some sort of steady consumption rate and a rate for your liver processing alcohol, we'll find the gap between the two closes appreciably for someone drinking heavily as the onset of drunkenness will happen more quickly eliminating the need for further beverages.

Of course this is a rampant exercise in futility, but the merits of light beer are overstated.

For a further point of relation, MGD 64 provides as much alcohol as ~80 calories of a Budweiser. While this is a much more healthy savings of caloric consumption (19% vs 9% in the prior example), any man or woman who'd subject themselves to this swill for a moderate reduction of caloric consumption should be immediately submitted to the Mark Rippletoe Center for Mass Eugenics also known as "The Center for Stopping the Pirating of My SS DVD".

-Elbows in front of the bar at the bottom of the lift.
-Lock out those knees. You're not supposed to get any drive from them. Try keeping your quads tight to prevent them from unconsciously bouncing.

Thanks, I tried really hard to keep them locked, Im getting near a stall and the weight is really really tough. Im going to try 110 on friday and see what happens, may need to reset and microload.

The elbows in front trick helps get more weight up cause you decrease the distance traveled and make your starting position more solid.. You can also get your hips involved in exploding the weight up. I assume you've watched all of these:

http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Press_Videos

I have not, I have the SS DVD. Ive only watched it once though.

hendricks, squeeze your glutes very tight during the press and it might help you out.

Il try this and elbows further forward on friday, hopefully I complete all 15 reps at 110 with the improved form.

Any recommendations on DL form? Im more worried about that than my Press form.

It looks like your hips are rising too fast. This is really common on work sets when straining to get the weight up, but you did it too on your set of 185 so maybe its a technique problem. To avoid this I think about really dragging the bar up my shins which forces my butt to stay down for a little bit longer.

If you always need such a lot of time to reset, you might have a form problem, i.e. the bar isn't coming down where you picked it up, i.e. the bar isn't moving in a straight line. The hip problem that has been mentioned appears during the third or 4th rep. First two reps are pretty decent imo.
During the last rep you can see pretty clearly that the bar moves pretty far in the horizontal plane. So there you def. have a hip problem. You might have to set it up higher so that your shins don't push the bar away when you start the rep or the bar isn't too far in front of you at the start of the rep. You need to keep your tightness when you let the bar down. While you can do it fast, you can't round your back. Atrocious deterioration of form on the way down is pretty common and you can tweak your back badly doing it. Just concentrate of keeping your core muscles as hard as possible during the whole drop.

edit: watched the warump set. Yeah, you squat down pretty far. Try keeping the legs a little straighter. That should give you a slightly straighter lower back and help with the straight bar movement. People will generally tell you to set up your hips very high. In my experience, this is a very individual thing though. When I keep my legs very straight and set up very high, I almost fall forward and can't push through my heels. So you need to find your technique. It looks pretty decent, but just before you start pulling, you squat down a little bit more. That's not that great.

Ding. I'm almost certain this is what caused my back injury. I was lifting 220lbs for the first time and was more worried about making noise with the weights than I was about my back and the rest is history.

My throat hurts. A lot. This sucks.

Anyway, if you haven't read this blog yet, you should. One of my favorite gems is:

lol, Rip would've made a good marine drill sgt i think.

Rip quotes are the best.

http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wi..._Mark_Rippetoe

I'm trying to remember where I heard this, but it goes something along the lines of this:

The reason light beer is so popular in America can be traced back to prohibition. In an effort to make more money, bootleggers would add water to their beer to make more of it, so they could sell more of it. Much like the way drug dealers cut their drugs with various things to make less potent and have more volume.

Somewhere along the line, many Americans acquired the taste for this light watery beer, making beers like bud light, coors light, miller light, etc. very popular to this day.

Personally I can't stand the light watery American beers. Brown ale is my favorite, and thick Belgium style unfiltered wheat beer is a close second.

I love that gallon of yoghurt comment.

I was already really drunk at the wedding reception on saturday. There was a cold 40 of OE waiting in the hotel room for afterward. I was also very hot. Thus I chose Bud Light.

lol Do you even know when they first made "light" beer?