Hey Pretzel, how do you determine all the weird contraptions you're going to use for lifting each day? Do you have a plan, or do you just randomly select from a box of platforms, ropes, rubber-bands, chains, whips, etc.?
I have a coach and he sends me a training block with all that laid out. It's "conjugate," which is a system a guy at Westside Barbell in Columbus (Louie Simmons) essentially stole from the Russians/Bulgarians. The chains, bands, boards, blocks etc. are all accommodating resistance, which is basically adding additional weight at one end of the lift. So, for example, chains increase top end weight but deload at the bottom, which allows you to get practice picking up/holding a weight you maybe can't do full range yet.
Westside v. the World is on Netflix and is the best meathead doc next to
Pumping Iron, but with way more dudes wearing jeans and work boots to lift.
/lifting stuff
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- Time expands during short work weeks. Yesterday felt like a 56-hour-long Monday. Similarly, I thought I had been at the office 6 hours already, but somehow it's only 10:20.
/basicbitchthoughts
- We had a summer intern start and she is delightful, but I wanted to hurl when I realized "WAP" released while she was still in college. I am an old.
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Gojira - Stranded
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire
Steely Dan - With a Gun
Ramin Djawadi - The Night King
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Misunderstood