August Archives

I’m kind of short on time this morning – namely, because yesterday I spent half the morning on the phone with Comcast trying to figure out why both our internet and cable keep cutting out only to be directed to their automated voice system like four times. 

Me:  Hi, our cable and internet isn’t working…….again.

Comcast:  I’m sorry to hear that, do you want us to refresh the signal?

Me:  No, I want you to jump into a shark’s mouth.

Comcast:  Well, Shark Week does start this week on the Discovery Channel, I’ll get right on that.

We’ve been in this apartment for about six weeks now and I think in total, I’ve called Comcast at least twelve times complaining about service – literally calling every other day.  One day the cable is “skipping,” and the next, our internet is painfully slow and/or our network is down or limited to local access only (whatever the hell that means).  Regardless, I’m about ready to scissor kick someone in the pancreas.

So, while I was supposed to spend the majority of yesterday catching up on work and other shenanigans, instead, I spent half of it on the phone with freakin Comcast. 

Nevertheless, I realize I didn’t blog yesterday, and I’m being a lamo today and just posting some cool things to check out, but assumimg I’m not throwin in jail when the Comcast guy gets here this morning, I’ll have some stuff up tomorrow.

I hate my life!

Glute Ham Raise:  Instruction and Common Mistakes – Zach Moore

Without question, the glute ham raise is a fantastic movement to help build a strong and aesthetically pleasing posterior chain.  Thing is, though, it’s often butchered by many trainees and what they end up doing is anything but.  Here, Zach – of IFAST – gives the lowdown on how to perform it correctly.

Attention Ladies:  Here’s PROOF That Lifting Heavy Weights Will NOT Make You Big and Bulky – JC Deen

A few weeks ago, JC wrote a phenomenal post on the marketing ploys (read:  straight up shadiness) of the mainstream fitness industry (magazines) to get women to “think” that all they have to do is lift those cute, little pink dumbbells in order to get fit.  Here, JC proves that training like a girl is anything but pink dumbbells.

Horrifying New Product Alert:  Body Fat Scales For Children – Dr. Yoni Freedhoff

The good doctor hits the nail on the head here.  Rather than shame our kids into losing weight, how about actually taking the time to make them nutritious foods?

 

Note from TG:  Recently, my girlfriend and I moved in together, which, jokingly, I’ve been referring to as Operation Co-Habitation.  Predictably, we’ve had to make a few compromises here and there – you know, with stuff like deciding which piece of furniture goes where (guess whose vintage Star Wars poster IS NOT the centerpiece of the livingroom?), who’s responsible for taking the garbage out (me), what night of the week I subsequently have that thing I have to do for that thing, oh gosh babe I completely forgot, I’m so sorry, I REALLY wish I could stay (Wednesdays, when So You Think You Can Dance? is on), and how many mulligans I get for leaving the toilet seat up (running dangerously close to hitting my limit).

In addition, we’ve seen the “meshing” of our personal belongings.  For instance, I’m looking at the bookshelf in my office right now, and right next to my copy of The Science and Practice of Strength Training is a book about How to Interpret Dreams (Lisa’s getting her PhD in Psychology).

Moreover, my movie collection (arguably the best in existence) has been “tainted” with the likes of Pretty Woman, The Notebook, and several other equally as likely to render me infertile atrocities.

… Which brings us to the title of my latest article on t-nation.com.   Recently, I made my girlfriend watch GoodFellas.  In return, I had to watch one of her favorite movies –  a Shakespearean play, made into a movie,  entitled ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.

I don’t remember much about it, honestly.  I blacked out.  But what I do remember was that I HAD to do something to increase my plummeting t-levels, so I figured what better way than to steal a movie title and write an article detailing some miscellaneous thoughts on the most manly exercise of them all…..deadlifts?

Much Ado About Deadlifting (<=== That’s the article)