YES, ONCE AGAIN, EVEN MORE BULLET POINTS

-Ever notice how fat people seem to be overly concerned with recovery and skinny people seem to be overly concerned about overtraining?  Kinda a funhouse mirror moment.  Recover too much and you get fat.  Don’t train hard enough and you don’t gain muscle. 

-What did you do to earn that cheat meal?

-On the above, why is it that the people that want me to have a “healthy relationship” with food tend to be in poor shape?  Seems like the people that are winning aren’t having a great relationship with food.  If anything, it’s an abusive one.

-I need more gym music, which really means I need Nine Inch Nails to release a new album.

-You didn’t lose muscle on a cut; you had less muscle to start with than you thought you did.

"It's only because I messed up my tan!"

-If you ever find yourself starting a statement with “People say” or “I’ve read somewhere” and can’t actually remember WHICH people say this or WHERE you read it, just stop.  Nothing you’re about to say is helpful, and you’re just deluding yourself.  If the information was good enough that it was worth remembering, so was the source.

-All of the people I look up to are pessimistic, damaged or psychotic.  They’re also really great at what they do.  I wonder what it says about me and about life.

-Now that Eddie Hall has announced he’s retired from ALL strongman competition, where will the fans go?

-We’re all stupid in different ways.  My generation was stupid by following workouts in muscle mags.  The current generation is stupid by following social media advice and the 5x5 craze.  There will ALWAYS be someone out there willing the prey on the stupid and gullible, and there will always be a wizened group of veterans looking at it, laughing, and remembering.

-Damn curious how so many trainees know the benefit of caffeine and taurine as it relates to training but just about none of them can tell you what vitamin A or K do.

-I’m trying to get LASIK, and I’m excited, because maybe after it happens I can finally judge bodyfat% and who is and is not using steroids using just my eyes, like so many other people somehow manage online.

-I took Stan Lee’s passing about as hard as Paul Kelso’s.  Both amazing storytellers with a huge influence on my training, and I’m sure I’m not alone.

You are bound to have liked at least ONE of the people in this photo...and it was the Juggernaut

-Hook grip is a meme.  That’s right, I said it.

-Watched the Ronnie Coleman documentary on Netflix.  It’s honestly not bad.  Reminded me how much I miss that era of lifting.  However, also found myself tuning out when it came to the actual bodybuilding competition aspect.  I still just plain don’t get that.  I have nothing but respect for the guys that can actually commit to a show and pull through, but I’ll never understand the motivation.

-I can’t tell if the internet is further radicalizing crazy people or if they were already there and I’m just now finding out about it, but either way I keep seeing the same photo of some narrow shouldered bodybuilder and hearing about clavicle lengthening surgery and it’s making me weep for the future.

-What is the point behind questions about “how much damage did I do” or “how long will it take to recover from X?”  What will you do with this information?  Will it at all change how you move forward? 

-The amount of Nazis being found out in powerlifting is becoming alarming.  I genuinely don’t know what to do with that information, but it seems noteworthy in some regard.

-“Recovery is more important than training?” Oh really?  Cool, let’s try an experiment.  You do zero training and spend all your time recovering.  I’ll go train and have awful recovery.  Guess which one of us is going to turn out better than the other?

Who do you think is going to get stronger between the two of these photos?

-Can we please stop saying “side lateral raises”?  If it’s lateral, I know it’s a side raise.  It’s right up there with saying “katana sword” or “bo staff” or “boot shoe”.  “But what about rear lateral raises?”  Yeah, cool, keep that, just like how we say “front squat” because we know that, when we just say “squat”, it means the bar is on our back.  Also, swear to god, if I see “lat raise” again, I don’t know what I’m going to do, because it’s that sort of laziness that makes people THEN say things like “lateral pulldowns”

-“Jim Wendler is a VERY confusing author”-the words of someone who never tried to read anything Louie Simmons ever wrote.

-“How do I meal prep?”  Really?  Make dinner, but when you make it, make it for 1 more person than you need to feed.  Congrats: you just made lunch for tomorrow. 

-In a world where you can get a direct answer from elite coaches/athletes and follow their programs (Tuchscherer, Simmons, Tate, CWS, etc etc) WHY are people still in such a rush to follow Instagram stars with fake names?  When I started training, at most we had some articles on the web and MAYBE the author still had a forum or a Q&A, and WE had it good, because the generation before me relied on magazine articles, in person advice and MAYBE a phonecall if they were feeling brave, and now that the chance to get great advice is rapidly available, no one wants to get it.

-Now that belt squat machines are becoming more widely available, I can’t wait to see what sort of bizarre mutations people come up with regrading how to train with them.

-I bought a bottle of apple cider vinegar.  It now hangs out in my supplement drawer, unopened.  I’m wondering if this may just be a reminder for me.

-I’m going to scalp the next person who asks if creatine causes hair loss.  I can’t tell if that is ironic or not.

"No Alanis: it's unfortunate"

-While talking movies, I watched “Transformer”, which was the documentary on Kroc’s transition from male to female.  Please keep the comments tame on this one, but in general, if you are/were a Kroc fan, it’s worth watching.  It honestly features enough lifting to satisfy the meathead audience, but I was also just curious about what had been happening, and it created a good summary of things.

-That said, I STILL can’t figure out Kroc rows.  But the shirt is still cool.