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Samik

2670 + 54 = 2724 Our complex's little gym finally added a bar, but it's rather wide grip. Incredible how much more difficult it was for me. Anyway, that's probably my last contribution for a while. My travels begin on Wednesday. I'll have to see how I do at the end of the summer, when I'm probably h...

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2504 + 132 = 2636

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2386 + 88 = 2474

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2264 + 77 = 2341

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04 APR: 41.1 + 3.1 = 44.2 - Eight weeks left before I head out on my trip, and my strength/cardio balance is all wrong right now. I'm in a mini addicted-to-lifting phase at the moment. Have to have to switch gears; the weeks are slipping away. (I guess doing something is better than doing nothing, b...

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2108 + 79 = 2187

Hit 17 last night, good and strict. Which is a high-water mark since '15JAN when I got 19.

Was a long slog to go from 16 to 17, but I'm also up in weight a bit, so, I'll take it I guess.

Now let's see if I can go from 17 to 18 in less than 2.5 months...

Samik

1900 + 92 = 1992

Going to make an attempt at another high-water mark soon. (Is there a more generally used term for something that's not a pb, but is a best in a recent time frame?)

sophyturtle wrote:I am helping

You are!

Samik

1599 + 30 = 1629

Zapheod wrote:We are moving this along pretty quickly. 10k will come in no time.

Yup, this one and the pushup one tend to scream by. Nothing wrong with that!

Samik

Why is picking the wings of a fly a dick thing to do? I spent a month this past summer backpacking in Colorado. The black flies there, in some places, are absolutely unreal. Slather yourself in 98% deet all day long - forget about it, they don't even care. I got incredibly good at killing these thi...

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Still working. Just elliptical the last couple weeks. Also variable durations and programs, so nothing to track really.

But, putting in good work.

I guess some would find ellipticals dull too, but I really like being able to just close my eyes and submerge.

Samik

1220 + 75 = 1295

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Hi all! I'm quite proud of this thread as OP, so it's great to see it necro'd! I have a fantasy that many years in the future, after the comic has ended and the community has dispersed, this place will survive in a vestigial form as a fitness forum for nerds. 27.3 + 4.8 = 32.1 Three laps up and dow...

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827 + 64 = 891

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Had another end of the world dream. These are not a common thing for me - this is the third one, lifetime, that I can remember. (Spoiler alert: I'm now 0-3 in saving the world.) So, in this dream, the universe is created and managed by intelligent entities. It is implied that these are neither divin...

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I wish I was hitting 16. 2 months ago I was barely hitting 4. Now I'm barely hitting 10. I would say that once you're hitting double digits, you're officially good at pullups . Everything after that.. just becomes a grind to keep besting yourself by one every now and then. I'm not sure I'm ever goi...

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http://startingstrength.com/articles/abs_rippetoe.pdf Rippetoe has his faults, but his Abs article is dead on, as far as I can tell (dramatic language aside). Agree with his position on abs. Very rarely do anything special for them beyond the work they get in deadlift, squat, pullups, etc. Never no...

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This time I did ~ 7:00 / 9:00 / 5:00 / 11:30, and finished feeling like death. I'll bet! That 5:00 in the middle especially's a real increase over what you were doing before, nice one! Good luck if you do opt for distance instead of speed next time :) Well, the first and third split are the downhil...

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Nice. That's a solid week.

603 + 40 = 643

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The siren's song of the elliptical is powerful. Just so easy to put music on, close my eyes, and go to work.

Still need to do real ground miles or my feet and lower legs won't be ready for the trail...

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347 + 16 = 363

Feel awful. Intended to do a full workout anyway. Got through one set and tapped out.

Still, haven't hit 16 in a while. Very strict, full range of motion, right through #16.

Can live with that as today's small victory.

Samik

Unfortunately had to work on Saturday so didn't get around to start. Hopefully this week goes better. Also, do sit-ups/push-ups count? Well, there's a 10,000 pushups thread as well, that actually made it all the way to 50,785 , but has not been posted in for over two years (used to contribute, but ...

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Followup to last year's saga: Shortly after that last post I shifted gears to trail work as I started to make plans for a summer of backpacking. In one sense (the sense of lugging myself and a pack up and down mountains), I got in without question the best shape of my life over the summer - by the e...

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120 + 58 = 178

Turns out housemate had a decent doorframe bar, so back in business.

Sabrar wrote:Will also join to get some peer-pressure for motivation. Trying to start this weekend.

Peeeeer pressure.

Samik

6.9 + 3.2 = 11.1 mi Same route as last time: a 0.8 mile hill that climbs 400ft, going up and down twice. Went ~32:30 this time, which doesn't actually reflect an improvement, as all the time gained was on the downhill. Last time, since it was the first time out, I took it real easy, especially downh...

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24 + 30 = 54 Don't have time to go to the gym today or tomorrow, couldn't really find anything great to hang off of around my house. Wound up just hanging off a wallish thing and dragging my way up and down, for a kind of half pull-up half bicep-curl motion. Stayed pretty strict on depth and height ...

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Slugs can survive extended refrigeration. Got my celery out of the fridge, broke off a couple stalks, felt something slimy on my thumb, figured it was a little bit of rotting leaf (celery has been in there about a week), absentmindedly tried to rub it off with index finger. It's sticking. It's movin...

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Get on the horse should equal fall off the horse plus one. Or something. I might be rambling because I too am feeling too much from a mild workout today. I think the saying you're looking for is two steps forward, one step back? That's been the essential character of my fitness journey. An entire (...

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Going to restart this for 2017, like dimochka did with the pull-ups thread. I have exactly 21 weeks to get back in shape, before taking off on a fairly aggressive summer backpacking tour. I did three months off this past summer, and had a wonderful time, but spent half of the summer just hiking myse...

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I'm in. I have exactly 21 weeks to get in the best shape of my life, before I begin by far my most aggressive summer backpacking tour.

In for the night, but I will begin at some point shortly here. Just wanted you to know you weren't alone.

Samik

Thesh wrote:Religion has barely come up this year, and Donald is hardly a devout Christian.

Thanks.

Samik

Honest question from someone who is, as yet, mostly politically uninformed: as an atheist, should I be concerned? If so, how concerned?

Samik

I actually beat this game. Once. Won a cute stuffed panda for my wife. You have to JUST miss the pin on the way in, and let air drag work its magic. Or, you were the one guy that weekend the carnie let win, so as to convince everyone else it's not a scam. Does anyone miss the indoctrination of lunk...

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Ok new (concurrent) game, guess what city people are talking about from their description of its Wikipedia talk page. StClair, you are from Eugene, Oregon. Samik is Nashua, New Hampshire. This one was really hard, but commodorejohn is from Duluth, Minnesota. It was tricky because his user infobox s...

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Hey I like this game, let's all list glosses of the talk pages of our respective home-places. I thought this sounded like a good idea. Then, I remembered that I grew up in the most boring city in America. ⋅ Distance from the sea? ⋅ Pictures ⋅ South ---- and neighbor...

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When people use old email threads as containers for all future correspondences, because they are lazy and it's easier to just hit 'reply' than 'compose', so that I keep having emails show up with long-since-irrelevant subject lines.

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This is Captain Speaking, your captain, speaking. I always say that if my last name had been "Lee", I would have joined the military and done everything in my power to become a General. Then, whenever I answered the phone, I would say, with very ambiguous cadence/tones, "General Lee ...

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Well, since that post, I lost a lot of time. My back pull was much worse than I thought at first - I woke up the next morning essentially immobile, lost a week of work, and didn't make it back to the gym for a while after that. Then , I came down with the a serious case of the flu and missed more ti...

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My all-time best mile on a treadmill is 5:53, acquired some many years ago. I don't know what my best time on any other surface is. I run at a 1% grade, which I have read is plenty to more or less reduce any other advantage factors to not-worth-worrying-about levels. The number of times in my life I...

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I finished a longplay of this a few days ago. I had never heard of it before, knew absolutely nothing about it, had no idea what I was getting into. I think I literally just clicked a link in the youtube side bar... and 12 hours later... This game demolished me, in a way that I can't remember a piec...

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I didn't have any feelings about Rousey or Holm in particular. I liked the outcome because it's good for women's MMA. First Rousey came along and made everyone finally take women mixed martial artists seriously. Then Holm goes and proves Rousey wasn't just a fluke of nature. I'm saddened that someon...

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