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Strong safety/Free Safety OLB about 100 lbs, ago. Of course I stopped playing after 9th grade like a dumb ass. My parents didn’t explain to me that as a 5’6″ pipsqueak I was going to shoot right on past these manly 9th graders who were the first to 5’9″ and had blazing speed but had peaked. By 12th grade shoulders were broad, I was up to 6’1″ and much stronger, but I was stuck playing hoops trying to get that schollie.

Coulda been a contenda.

My son’s old High school is playing for state title game tonight at 4:00 PST against one of those No-Cal catholic schools. He would have been a big part of the team too, so for one night I am really bummed that we had to move.

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[quote=Blogstar]Interesting read, Cardiff…

How long should one dead lift, in weeks or months,before going anywhere near at the percentages 80-90% of max and start increasing. Or should you just try to figure that out and get rolling?

I can do 10×200 on squats, about parallel, maybe more rested. I figure that is about where I would be dead lifting for reps? And yes, I do work with my hands.[/quote]

I’ve not gone more than 2 months, but I am at heart lazy. The thing is Pavel would have you doing two sets of 5 plus whatever warmup you would do. If you start very light and work up to it, you might feel a little unworked.

Recently I started back, and went right to 180 so at week 1 end I was 215, week two 240, and that was really starting to challenge me. Week three, I developed this blasted pain in my right heel, most likely plantar fasciitis. I stopped. I don’t know if it was starting back too soon, too fast, not stretching the heel or just bad luck. I tend to think it was bad luck doing something else or just age, but who knows.

My rule of thumb when I once got up over 300 I started to plateau a little was this. If I can at least do three reps, go ahead and add 5 the next day. On the way to that, I was topped out twice, and I simply went backwards giving my body another chance. What I mean is let’s say 280 was hard to conquer. Maybe go back to 240 or something and give yourself 8 workouts to get back to the weight you were having trouble with.

I don’t know that any program is meant to be forever, but for experiencing rapid gains quickly without too much bulking up you can’t beat it. However it won’t sculpt the pects or biceps if being beach sexy is the goal. For that you’d need something with a ton more reps (and food).

I am really thinking it’s been a month and trying to lift through this heel issue. These things take forever to heal so at some point I have to get something going. It doesn’t always hurt, maybe I pick good times of day.

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[quote=Blogstar]What I don’t get about the dead lift is how people can hold the bar with their hands with hundreds and hundreds of pounds? 1/3 of a ton maybe in some cases?More? That’s just scary.

Good job, Scaredy.[/quote]

I grip lightly, hook with fingers. also both hands go overhand in kind of a sumo deadlift.

I also drop the weight when I am up over the knees. I bought bumper weights and we drop them once we get close the thigh which saves grip. Once the weight is that high off the ground all the good stuff is done. Getting it off the ground is all that really counts as far sudden burst of strength. This guy took Pavel’s stuff with a 130-lb little girl and got her to deadlift 3X bodyweight. All this with almost no body-weight gain. Gold medal winner Allyson Felix

http://www.dragondoor.com/articles/the-holy-grail-in-speed-training/default.aspx

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[quote=squat250]the book that has brought things into focus for me is POWER TO THE PEOPLE! by pavel tsatsouline.

what’s in your head matters.[/quote]

Excellent Comrade. Pavel=Good. Used to be Free on Google Books. Doesn’t seem to be now.

Of course I was deadlifting before I went all puss with this damn plantar fasciitis. Got some better shoes, and less pain now. Need to fight through it.

Squat did you ever get one of those Manta Ray’s for squating? Excellent for us old warriors…

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]

Can you imagine the meeting that followed THAT broadcast? Oh, to be a fly on the wall…[/quote]

Was the reporter named Burgundy?

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We are roughly 14-15 years into a term life product that was 88/month for 500k on both of us.

I honestly didn’t think to shop around. Now that she is getting treated for breast cancer we are kind of screwed. She gets a little through work and I get a little for her from work, but I think we’ll have to wait until this 20 year expires (assuming she’s going to make it) before anyone will insure us. Apparently many are now insuring Stage 2 survivors but you have to wait a couple of years.

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[quote=CA renter][quote=flu][quote=CA renter] With all due respect…Some people aren’t as lucky as you who have a guaranteed government pension that doesn’t need to self-manage their own finances you know… Some people actually have to “work” to have their money grow….Think about that one….[/quote]

Flu,

I do manage our own investments and the bulk of our money came from investments. If taxes were fair across all types of income, we wouldn’t have such a huge disparity in income/wealth in this country. Taking it further, if wages were taxed at a lower rate than investment income, workers would actually be able to dramatically narrow the wealth/income gap between labor and capital. Please explain why this would be a bad thing.[/quote]

CaRenter, how much in taxes is the govt. getting on the first 20-30k of income? Most can wipe that out with some combination of deductions. Low income folks get money back from the benefit for the working poor. My point is I don’t know how much more you could lower income taxes at the low end? Most of those lower income workers pay in nothing as it is.

Now my libertarian hat says that’s a good thing as it puts more money into the economy, but I am wondering what you are defining here? Is it the first 50k in wages?

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[quote=UCGal]My best friend and I have done blind taste tests PROVING that ding dongs in the foil wrappers (the ones sold in boxes) taste better than ding dongs sold in the 2 packs. This taste test was done 25-30 years ago. May need to update the results.

Just saying.

Note to self – a box of ding dongs, foil wrapped, might make a good funny christmas gift for her.[/quote]

All healthy eating paleo or low-carb or vegetarian stuff aside…

That foil wrapped HoHo was straight from the Gods of shelf-life chemical based confections.

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Apparently it was on cnbc, I thought it might be a hoax because it wasn’t showing up in their search function. Turns out after some checking several articles weren’t showing up, so it was a search engine issue.

In any case I still am not sure if this is real or not.

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I ate some rattlesnake at the “Rattlesnake Roundup” in Sweetwater Texas back in my West Texas days. Kind of chewy and not much flavor if you’ve ever tried Alligator it was that same feel.

College kids used to help fund school by collecting up Rattlesnakes for the roundup, where they were paid by the pound. In their pits, they are somewhat docile and you just reach in with the snake tool and pull them out. My neighbor used to get snakes as well. He was a total redneck, I sat there and watched him milk the venom one day and show me how he puts the venom in his 357 hollow tip bullets. Then he’d put a layer of wax over the venom to supposedly keep it from spattering when the bullet was launched. He was nuts I took my one year old over as he prepped a deer for hanging in his garage. Showed me how you have to carefully cut away this piss sack so as not to spoil the meat. Anyway it would freak my kid out watching that snake’s mouth come open during the milking. We kept our distance.

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This is tough for me as I suffer from the same aversion to debt as Squat. Kid is Sr. and certainly can play baseball in college it’s a question of whether it’s D1-D2-D3 or JUCO. Since he was late to the party getting good, D1 is probably out as most schools are done with 2013s (though there will be some spots popping up).

I have squat (no pun scaredy) for cash. His ACT 80th percentile and considering he didn’t study, I am fine with that. He doesn’t have a desire for a technical degree (Eng/Match/CompSci) and is thinking some kind of bus. degree and Law.

I am curious why a Law school would care where he started if he kicks ass on the LSAT? So what if year one and two were at Podunk CC? Also wouldn’t a law school look favorably on someone who played a major sport? Those kids are up at 6:00 for lifting every day before school, I mean for an ncaa athlete it’s brutal.

In any case I’ve probably short-changed him mentally, because he’s showing defeatist signs, as in “what does it matter I am going to a JUCO”. Not too bad, I think I got him turned around but he did get a C in College Algebra (lots of AP and Dual-Enrollment classes) this first term, but should be able to work it to a B for the report card. I digress.

There are probably many nice schools that would love him but if the school is 40k and they give him 25% for the sport, that’s still 30k. I just haven’t even looked at schools like that, why bother? I have high income and no savings so folks like us don’t even qualify for government backed student loans. The only loans are immediate payback. So I’ve told him it looks like JUCO is in your future son, make the most of it.

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In Cali I’d be voting Johnson all the way.

In Florida I am a bit spooked and will pull the Romney lever.

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There is some nasty stuff out there on Valerie Jarrett. I have a feeling if Obama loses this thing, there is going to be a radar target on her head for screwing this whole thing up.

Of course that’s part of winning and losing, if he somehow pulls this thing out, she’s a genius. I don’t think she’s making too many friends out there. And you know how it is if they happen to lose someone will sing.

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Plex has been pretty nice, I’ve been experimenting with that lately.

Plex is a media server you setup on a pc and you subscribe to the Plex channel with your Roku (or Apple). I don’t use Itunes much so I really didn’t bother looking at the Apple TV since Roku has what I need. I am sure it’s fine.

I can’t cut yet because of sports. That and the only shows I do watch (Dexter, Homeland, etc. ) are on the pay channels. Those I can get elsewhere but I just can’t put up with the whining and crying. Maybe when the kids are out I can cut the cord.

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Yikes I see Navy Fed at 3.25 for VA? I don’t qualify for membership with them since I didn’t join before getting out but dayyymmm.

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