Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Friday, December 11, 2009

Umm, not much to say

Training has been going consistently well over the past couple of weeks. I have routinely been hitting numbers that are good. For me. It’s all relative, OK? The latest, of which I was certainly happy about was a 5x3 Dead Lift at 455 and an easy Snatch at 230# today. Steady progress.

There is an Olympic Weightlifting Seminar at my gym, Crossfit Cheshire, in which Connecticut State record holder and former Masters National Champion Gary Valentine (brother of my favorite Bobby Valentine) will come teach and analyze lifts. He’s going to video tape the participants so it will be nice to see how bad my lifts really are. I’m interested in going, especially because it doesn’t interfere with any of Carlee’s races. Good times.

Because of a lack of interesting content I present to you some of my favorite Mark Rippetoe quotes:

Yes, if you squat wrong it fucks things up. If you squat correctly, those same fucked-up things will unfuck themselves

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar

Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.

Baby mammals drink milk, and you sir, are a baby mammal

I strongly advise against intentionally farting whilst moving heavy weights. Sometimes -- especially under those circumstances -- farts have a solid center

…and my favorite…

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general

Wednesday, December 2, 2009