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I originally gave "The Long Night" a C- But after a few days I revised it to an F Obviously the shit looked epic, but having the Dothraki snuffed out via a moronic strategy for a gorgeous cinematic and then two episodes later having them wreaking havoc with NO explanation as to how they survived is ...

Season 8 was a pile of poo, if you agree and you haven't seen this video:



But if you liked it, that's cool too. No big deal.

bo·na fi·des

a person's honesty and sincerity of intention.

"he went to great lengths to establish his liberal bona fides"

documentary evidence showing a person's legitimacy; credentials.

"are you satisfied with my bona fides?

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Thanks Bram, the quote actually jives with what I was trying, unsuccessfully to describe. Mahalo for the info.

That's been an area of confusion for me for years - what IS a plyo. Appreciate you bringing it up because I didn't know what the correct term was and had to get to searching.

Thanks for the reply PL54...

I thought box jumps are not an example of plyometrics; that's just jumping. Plyometrics have to have an element of rebound, i.e., you jump and then jump again with the absolute minimum of contact with the ground. No? I always step down when I box jump, but I'm trying to keep my joints around. But I...

I see your point on plyo's. Although I will use some variations for conditioning, like medicine ball slams, I also use some purely for explosiveness, such as a box jump.

If technique isn't compromised, do you find fault in using a medicine ball slam for example in a complex with other exercises?

Loved that movie, Tommy Caldwell has a great story

Ahhh shit, been a busy year: Red Seas Under Red Skies - sequel to Locke Lamora (reviewed above) - easy to read, pirates/fantasy/caper Wrecked - Book 3 in the IQ series - Sherlock Holmes in the 'hood. Loved it, best book of the series Team Human - digital philosopher talks about the downsides of soci...

ve·rid·i·cal
/vəˈridək(ə)l/
adjectiveFORMAL
adjective: veridical
truthful.
coinciding with reality.

I'm mainly into words that are redundant with much simpler to remember ones.

I miss the insane John Ducane hyperbolic ad copy :(

April 28th-May 11th Same shit, more or less. Upper Body Day Lower Body Day Full Body Day Lots of surfing. A couple meditation sessions a week. Continuing to rotate when I do my stabilizers, like do I do band-side walks at the beginning on leg day and rotator cuff at the end on upper body day? Or in...

Discussion and you can log-in/load screens quickly. Hmm, nice change. ---- Right now, 3 day split Lower Body - various low body stabilizers + squats, lunges, calves, hamstrings, hip extension Upper Body - chins, bench or push-ups, rows, abs, obliques + arms or shoulders (optionally), upper back stab...

https://www.redbull.com/us-en/san-diego-best-city-mtb

Haven't ever rode in San Diego, but grew up mountain biking and go when I visit family and friends. Gotta check out Noble Canyon.

April 12th-April 27th Experimented with some different training ideas: 1) doing high-volume, stabilizer-only days, mixed in with high-volume strength or speed days.... 2) and high-volume stabilizer and strength days..... They both sucked. Have recently settled for moderate volume strength or speed ...

Not a huge fan of plyometrics except in very limited and specific application. Strength training needs to be very specific to your goals. And by that I mean The Whole program not just the specific exercises. Never forget carryover is usually very overrated. Can you go into more detail on the above?...

Information goes a long ways. If you believe or suspect that the yelling you've been doing is extremely counter-productive, then you can look for other solutions. I don't need more pain-in-the-ass family members :) So I passed the info on to a couple choice people. Haha, maybe they'll yell at me ove...

Now the reason I'm enjoying this....I have been trying for a while to tie a bunch of different elements together for my surfing: 1) Dynamic Movements for joint health and increased surfing performance 2) Stabilizer Training for the same 3) Strength Training yadda yada 4) Explosive Training yup Up to...

This guy came up in my youtube feed and I quickly have devoured 20+ videos. He's the strength and conditioning coach for American Top Team - one of the top MMA teams out there - and pumps out videos on mobility, strength, explosiveness, endurance, etc. His workouts seems to be, generally: A) Dynamic...

Another one that comes to mind is telling yourself that you love what you're doing. In college I was an abysmally shitty cyclist, but I read an article by Marco Pantani, the famed hill climber in the Tour de France about how he got so skilled at hills. https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/1819759/thumbs/o-L...

What's your 1 rep max and your height and bodyweight?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/well ... -kids.html

I've got a couple family members that verbally UNLOAD on their families and children....and those children got some issues.

Thought this was a good read

March 23rd-April 11th Today marks 1 month without social media (more or less). The main sites I stopped visiting were this one, Reddit, Facebook and instagram. I'll estimate an extra 90 minutes of free time a day. The benefits include: * More reading * More surfing * More eye contact (my phone is n...

Thanks Odin! Hope you're doing well :) ---- This was an upper body workout I gave to a a guy yesterday, perhaps the hardest one I've ever designed. Please note that he performs external rotation work on a separate day: 2 sets elbow by side, 2 sets elbow on knee. The sheer volume of upper body stuff ...

I dunno, I'm originally just here to workout and maybe share or checkout cool shit. But I feel that all the forms of social media kinda run together: clicking like a lab animal for the next hit, while on the major platforms they also study you as you click. "The Dawn Wall" was a good film, "Lost Cit...