cherenkov

It's supposed to be a squat. Her torso should remain almost entirely vertical, knees should bend, butt should go down like sitting in a chair, then standing back up by driving the legs straight until fully standing. Weight should be on the heels, core should be engaged and glutes should squeeze at the top of the lift. Elbows should be in, not out that far. And the bar should be parallel to the ground and level, not tipped to one side. Notice how he does not bend forward at the waist at the beginning of the lift:

To be honest a lot of it is mental. Everything starts to hurt and you're very tired but if you have that mindset going where you are willing yourself to move forward, to never ever quit no matter what, that the payoff is worth it you can endure just about anything. One more inch, one more foot, one more yard, one more mile. And you get through it.

That is not "very good" ... she's got the bar at a 30 degree angle from horizontal and leans her whole upper body forward!

Eight and a half hours continuous from hit the water to cross the finish line.

It has not been easy. But I had to train as I would compete, and I did. Today I finished the Ironman 70.3 Ohio. It was hot, blazing sun, lots of wind. Went out with one goal and that was to cross the finish line under my own power. I have done so. Exhausted now. The medal looks like Ohio. Nice. The obstacles that get me are the ones requiring grip and upper body strength. You're gonna do great.

Stressed out tired people eat more.

Are they faking the accents then? WTF is up with that.

Rocked another Obstacle Course Race this weekend:

I voted for Shitney.

Accurate.

I go for hard saddles and padded shorts myself.

I just make donations to Pink Pistols and Operation Blazing Sword.

Larger road races usually have porta shitters along the course, typically at the same relative distance as other aid stations. In trail races you avail yourself of the bushes if there are no porta shitters. There is no glamour in endurance sports. I'm pretty sure hundreds of people have seen me taking a piss at this point. It is considered polite not to stare.

Throughout the entire time she's been on the show and we've been hearing from her father, he has always referred to Libby having to have a man support and provide for her. There has never been a single reference whatsoever to her being able to support and provide for herself financially or to care for her own home. Her father has never indicated anything of the sort that he wanted to raise her or instill in her any sense of independence with regard to her basic needs and being able to meet her own expenses for daily living. Everything has been that she needs a man to provide, and that he needs to provided in a comparable lifestyle to that which her sisters enjoy. Libby cannot cut the grass or pay her own bills through actual employment in a profession because Libby has been raised not to be able to do any of that. She is a child.

They would be horrified at what I eat when I'm doing serious endurance stuff because it's literally "Anything goes if it won't make me shit my pants." I ate shrimp cocktail in the middle of a trail marathon because one of the aid stations was themed as a cocktail party. Yep, also drank a flute of champagne. Then I belched for 2 miles.

Lots of fun. The up and down the ski slopes made the non-obstacle parts of the run really challenging (insider secret is most everyone walks up the slopes) and most of the obstacles were pretty good. Some of them are more of a mental challenge than others, like Human Frogger, that take a lot of focus. Nailed 27 obstacles out of 30. The Slice o Pizza was a good one, and the mud and water in Pole Land were frigid as all hell. Actually made the lake in Dunk Dunk Goose feel like a warm bath by comparison. Hit a few bumps on the Water Cooler. It's a fun race. Loads and loads of mud. Definitely into doing it again.

Another one done:

I can't even remotely imagine that "workout" being a challenge or worth doing for anyone not supermorbidly obese and damn near immobile.

Mud on the Mountain at Seven Springs this Saturday.

Those of you who aren't Yinzers may not know that yesterday was the Pittsburgh Marathon. Despite a training plan that left a lot to be desired, an extreme avoidance of all bad weather and almost every long run I was supposed to do, I went out there with 3420 other participants and took on the full Marathon. Between full and half marathon, there were 15,165 of us on that course. I finished my worst marathon ever due to poor training and teh decision to spend the evening before eating delicious but greasy food. I did the 5K on Saturday as well, so that netted me a Steel Challenge for the weekend. The first Medal Monday of 2019:

I was wondering because I have found stuff on packaging is not always accurate. If it is something that causes you issues then it makes sense that you don't use the food scale.

You don't oil for a lifting competition, those are for physique shows. Physique shows require actually being able to see muscle definition which is impossible on someone Whitney's size. And Ashley is over 200 pounds. She is probably closer to 300. She has gained a lot of weight since having the kid.

I'm far from being a top contender in my weight class for lifting. They out deadlift and out squat me by double what I can do.

Six repping half your body weight on deadlift is not a feat of strength. I rep *more* than my own body weight for three sets of six. Whit is very weak compared to me and I weigh a lot less than 200 pounds. I would bet my ass I could out 1-RM her in a powerlifting competition any day on any lift at all.

I'm going to do a long run tomorrow and then take it very easy for the rest of the week with no running over 2 miles.