LC has been delivering top lolz overnight.

You are correct. There is no point. My cousin is the reigning 130lb no-gi jujitsu world champion. He walks around just praying that someone starts something so that he can whoop their ass.

Exactly this.

Also this. One of the stupidest things I have read recently (and I spend a lot of time reading H&F).

So many lels.

I've expanded to team SALLTS (snitch always looks and lifts the same).

lol'd

lol'dx2

Literally read that as: Now I am just fat and lift mediocre weights, just another Soulman lost in H&F

Yes, I know.

Purchased my return ticket to Hawaii. Can't wait. Might not come back this time. Working on the beach is simply an exquisite life.

The half squat reference - he's sort of right, but he totally ignores (or doesn't know?) why that's the way it is. When you do a full squat, your glutes and hamstrings fire near the bottom and provide a resisting force to your quads. That makes the movement good for the knees when you do it right. When you half squat, you're using all quads, so there's shear force in the knee joint.

The rest of the video - meh. He's all over the place with some truths, some half truths, and a lot of missing the point of stuff.

But that link below says I'm elite Seriously though, I'm obviously something short of elite (the guy in USPA nationals who's older & lighter than me that out-lifted me by > 200 lbs proves that), but I dont feel like a novice either. The USPA classifications seem fair to me. By that, I'm above Class I now and will hopefully (probably?) hit Master in the next meet, which is a notch below Elite, which is below International Elite. I do have an outside shot at an Elite DL (596).

Nice - did he do any work on it?

Just some basic stuff to see where I am and give me some stretches to work on.

Must have been late-night or drunk tindering. Got a notification for a match I'd swipe left like 95%. Not a fatty, but pics are kinda blurry. Debating whether to pursue it or enforce standards and block.

Deodorant: clinical strength Gillette or go home.

I think I saw you as the op of a writing thread in the lounge- is your primary profession writing? What genre(s)?

If only you had a YouTube channel

BK,

I write some but am primarily an editor. I mostly acquire romantic suspense and young adult novels.

Thank you, it's been extremely painful this last week, and I was amazed at the lack of ROM compared to my right side.

The meet I'm going to this weekend uses a monolift--any huge difference from squatting from a rack?

That's what the block feature is for. I've definitely hit yes to some uglies by accident. I've also hit no to some hotties by accident as well. It's a rough life

Tinder variance is hell. Welcome to the long run.

You'll likely be a bit stronger, but it's probably better to just stick with your initial goals until you have more experience with it.

BUT, one thing did almost **** up my first attempt. I was pretty nervous and in kind of blurry/rushed/panic mode, and I was so used to walking out squats [with suboptimal form I guess] that I kinda unracked from the monolift with a weird stance. You're allowed to "walk out" from the monolift, but they said you should tell the judges beforehand, and I didn't want to **** up yet another thing, so I just squatted with the weird stance I was in. I picked a good opening weight, so it was easy anyway, but I learned for the next 2 attempts that I would be setting my optimal stance BEFORE unracking the weight.

lol

My brother-in-law was all giddy that tinder had come to Android; he somehow does amazingly well with the ladies even though he's like 6'2" 250, so it will be interesting observing this from relatively close by

You can still walk it out if you want. Just tell the judges.

You don't have to be good looking to do well with the ladies, but of course it doesn't hurt. Confidence is arguably more important with lots of women than physical traits ime. I used to work with this dude that was 300 pounds at 6'3 or so and he would have plenty of success with girls you'd think wouldn't give him the time of day.

Awful news all around for H&F

None of us are gonna make it.

Nah, you just need to be browbeaten continuously for a year into actually talking to chicks that obviously like you, a la aura, and then everything will magically work out

Or you can use your cat as the best tinder wingman, a la fredd, and snag yourself a hot chick

Or you can plow your way through a seemingly endless supply of slightly hipster skanks, like BTM, hoping that your equity in not catching HPV continues to hold up

Lots of success stories in the last few weeks

when will it be my turn

If the 87 in your username references your year of birth, you have three more years.

First time in a while I can be glad to be afflicted with the olds. Advanced on PL and nearly Elite on DL on maxes in the past 12 months. Am not Elite by any measure, unless compared to Wendy's patrons at lunchtime.

And thanks for posting Gordon Ramsay How to Make eggs....as someone who eats 5 eggs for breakfast everyday it was a nice breakthru from typical fried or regular scrambled. Had for dinner last night (with some chopped broccoli) & breakfast today. Need to grocery shop tho.

You make it sound like 6'2" and 250 lbs is a bad thing.