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Pretty much every market in the world looks severely overbought. I think a correction is coming, and it can be quite a substantial one. Then again, markets can stay irrational for a long time.

Do you think the markets have been irrational for too long at this point?

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I was prescribed ass stretches which have made a night and day difference in about a week. Makes me think I’ve been suffering unnecessarily.

Some glute stetches, typically the one on your back with legs folded over, I don’t feel in the affected side – but a few of them have hit the capsule and I think it’s going well.

I think I’m going to wind back a lot of my anti stretching, soft tissue rhetoric. A coach I saw on YT mentioned that sometimes if you don’t hold until you feel the area let up, you can aggravate it. Maybe my fast, adhd approach just made those areas angry.

Either way, I warmed up with some sled drags yesterday and pulled (I think) a lifetime double-overhand, no straps PR after not deadlifting since April. Didn’t feel the hips or the groin more importantly.

Afterwards I did adductor isometrics on the naughty/good girl machine.

I hope the kids acknowledged I wasn’t using straps. Everyone. Uses. Straps. These. Days.

 

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I want to invest over the long term, I’m not in for short-term gains…so are you saying I should wait or just go in now and eat it temporarily when it goes south?

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Joe I had a consult this week with an older, experienced sports physio with a bit of a medical background. Deliberately sought him out as I don’t want someone like me or younger.

He diagnosed me with hip muscle tightness that may have contributed to an adductor pull. I swear I thought I’d done a labrum but apparently not. He did speak about the surgeries and their outcomes. Made me think of you. Have you gone the conservative route?

Thinking of your nuts.

 

 

 

 

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The Shelby Starnes rabbit hole is crazy.

Look into it.

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It feels like the ricochet of the pandemic is coming. I never understood people acting like there were going to be no by-products of what was going on.

Maybe I should look at silver.

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Not really. His whole program is more concise than piecing YT clips together, but I don’t think there’s anything new in there.

 

I heard him on the Power Project again and I think his hip reco was split squats. Thought it could have been more involved; guess not!

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Sorry, Luke, I missed your post. I am doing the prescribed exercises sporadically, but making sure I do lunges and squats the way he prescribes, knees forward. Also trying to find the time for stretches, they are quite good.

 

Sango – has he got member-only hip specific routines that he might not have on YouTube?

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Yikes. Good luck!

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Yeah, I should get a session in soon. Let it slip a bit. Lower body always hurts in a good way afterwards.

Doing it in the gym is rare because people tend to lay about and stretch on the astroturf, but I bought a Spud Inc one and go to fields nearby. It doesn’t need too much weight to do what I need it to do. The thing about the gym is I can really load it up.

What’s up with your hip?

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My buddy Will, who actually trained Olympians said he’d never seen Poliquin at the Olympic Village training or coaching anyone, nor had he actually met any Olympian trained by him.

Intriguing. On that interview, just a waft of grift was present, I thought it was Ferriss.

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Generally just the “this feels too light, I’m going to add weight/max out”

Heard a great quote from Mark Bell last night to the effect of: handling heavier weights than you’re ready for on a given day is only negative input and telling your system how to move weight poorly.

 

 

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When I was 25 years old I would train, pull a muscle, felt it straight away and would be forced to stop the training session. These days pain is delayed. I would feel good during a squat workout, for example, push it and be proud of myself. Then couple of hours later I would feel something not right in my lower back. The next morning – agony. That’s why I have to really watch the numbers very closely during my workouts. I also stop at the slightest sign of strain or pain. Fuck it, I rather catch up at the next session than having to take a break for three weeks because of injury.

 

Very interesting!

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After a long time, mine arrived.

It’s everything I’d hoped it would be. A) I wish this was around years ago and B) I wish I would have known the importance of it years ago.

Also valuable because of how occupied gym leg machines get.

 

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Who are the discussers? Why you, dear reader. Eating well, a good night’s sleep, a solid effort in the gym, then repeating this for months on end….this requires grit, determination…insert your favorite synonym. What’s helped you? Are you struggling right now?

 

About 4 years I ago I read that “Peaking” book’s intro (in the IGx library) about how the author was extremely regimented and then flamed out @ competition time. I think after that day I dismissed the notion of being too dialed in – honestly I’d never get there anyway – I’m too chaotic and temperamental. Maybe this completely runs counter to the rest of the book!

What I do want to put my disclipline towards is just not doing the dumb shit programming wise anymore.

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More plates, more dates. If the bar’s not bending, you’re just pretending.

 

Yep. Gene Rychlak peroxide mohawk and speed-dealer Oakleys. ALL DAY BABAAYYYY.

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Seems there’s all this anecdotal evidence of treatments being borderline miraculous, yet the establishment is still leery about it all?

 

 

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If you do low enough volume each workout, that should be fine, no? I used to squat MWF, but just 3 sets of 10-20 reps…still put on some muscle and strength.

 

I find at the higher % ranges – I can do a lot of work in session and walk away fine – but then need a week to recover. I’m going to really limit the volume now gyms are open again to see if my frequency can be improved.

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What’s your goals, Luke? I used to want to Bench X, but now I don’t give two fucks. Healthy shoulders and tasty-looking man-titties and I’m good.

 

Yeah the biggest, sleaziest bench press possible!

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Bench pressing I’m now as legally wide as possible, but not all the time. I was very weak wide grip but gradually brought it up to be my strongest.

For years close grip was my go to and while it does me a lot of good, I think I left something on the table not looking at expanding it sooner.

Keep your shoulders healthy and you shouldn’t have a problem with gradual exposure.

 

 

 

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