Quote from: Jay_wolf on March 24, 2009, 05:34:10 PM
oh my goodness , Im a 13 inch bicep and 42 inch chest... Damn u make me tiny. then again i dont work out lol

Im with you on that one man.  The best part is when some one our size casually knocks a measured 950psi punch in front of guys twice the size only hitting 700's.  Wanna talk about ruining some ones day and putting a little more motivation in thier work outs...lol (not sayign it was me...because i cant prove it. as far as anyone knows im just bullshitting)

My punch strength is miserable, but honestly punching doesn't win a fight.

Kinetic energy is mass times velocity (squared) over two.
An increase in mass gives a two-fold kinetic increase, whereas an increase in velocity gives a four-fold kinetic increase. 
So, velocity wins over size where punching is concerned. 

Funny, I was just having this conversation earlier today with a guy.  He was stating his belief that hitting kids with an open palm to the face, then he failed this week's EMT testing for the upteenth time. 

Just let me get my hands on ya in a fight though and you'll wish you'd landed a few more punches.  Anyone remember that scene in Rambo where he rips the guys throat out??   

No Gym today.  It was clear all day and it's supposed to pour tomorrow so I decided to swap days and tackle replacing the 7 gaskets associated with the valve cover and the coils on the Jag.  Fuching pain in the ass but I got it done.

Probably going to double back on my lats heavy tomorrow and do a mid level on my traps, delts and triceps.

oh no the punchign vs grappling debate...lmao.  All im going to say is to win a fight, you must be versed in each.  And being the stronger person in grappling doesnt always mean a win, though it certainly helps. Ive thrown and submitted many men larger and stronger than me. And the throat grab, yikes.  That is a really scary thing. If youve never had it happen to you, dont let it.  The only good thing you can ever gain from beign on the wrong end of one is that they just gave you thier arm to f%$k up if they dont crush your laranyx first.  And if all else fails...run like hell.  Aint no shame in living.

Yeah, being the little guy that always forgets he's little, I can attest to the scariness of that throat grab.  Getting knocked out, lacerations, hell, even broken eye orbit... I don't give a crap anymore.  It's always the same thing, just a thud, some stars, and some burning-icey feeling if there's a laceration.  Ear punches don't even hurt, choke holds are boring (even when you're in them), blah blah. 
But, losing that airway, or diaphragm spasm/paralysis... that's hell.  Pissed off my karate instructor once, and was gifted with a sample mule kick.  The broken 10th and 11th ribs were nothing compared to the diaphragm paralysis.  Hell, I didn't even feel the ribs. 
Course, I haven't lost a tooth before.  I heard that's sh!tty.  I've had them come through my lips, and class rings come through the lips to meet the teeth, but not completely lost. 

And, I've never had a dislocation or break.  Why are people always scared to break things, except ribs?  Not counting the ghetto-boxers, all they know is the One-Two.  Why is everybody else always too scared to snap something?  All I want is to get away with a nice, clean radius-ulna break.  Alas...




Eh.  My bad.  Thread hijack, plus looking like an idiot. 




Terry, you've aced a PT test, regularly, right?  Did you ever get "the letter"?  You know... the one that you can't mention to civilians without looking like an attention-whore?  I've searched and searched my records, and I can't find mine.  I thought it might give a little credibility to these things I talk about, which people don't seem to believe. 
You know the one.. invitation to the Q-Course, etc?  No need to say it on here.  Just wondering if you got one. 

My best official APFT was a 264.  Aced front and back and obviously barely passed the go, but ask me what my 4 mile time was!?   

I broke my ass bone(highly technical medical term) in Basic trying to show off on the rope and fell hairline fracture of my collar bone after being hit by a car on my bicycle, near seperation of my thumb/ horribly broken and distended carpometacarpal, can't count the number of lacerations that should have been stitched that I 'fixed' with superglue instead.......but wait, never broken a rib!!


I know a guy who just washed out of selection because his endurance sucked.  Ran 11 minute PT's, but his 4 mile was near mine and 6 mile significantly slower.

I feel sorry for those guys.  Let's not talk about it, though.  The civilians will start calling BS, and I really don't wanna hear it. 


Broken coccyx, that thing is annoying in the way it hurts! 
Jumped in a turret once and didn't see the M240-mounted grip poking up.  My tank raped me. 


You've been hit by a car?  Ya got me on that one. 

   I knew you tankers bonded with your vehicles but DAMN.   About the only good thing that came from breaking my ass were the copious amounts of drugs.  Other than that, they told me 'Don't f%$king do that again idiot' and pushed me on the bus back to barracks.

Twice I've been hit by motor vehicles.  Once when I was a youngin while on my bicycle then again on my GS.



My lats are kinda numb right now   I went apeshit and puked while repping 205 on rows

I'll post some pics of my row setup in the other thread for jackass to see how to actually build muscle.

I think ive gotten pretty lucky with the injuries. ive never broken a bone in my body.  Unless you count the nose 10times.  And ive broke every knuclkle cept the thumbs.  Ive had pretty bad stuff happen and i walked away with no more than over all soreness.  Most of which people would never believe. 
Thread unjacked.  lol  I need to start working out again.  Ive gained 20lbs since september and i can feel it.  blah.  Time to break out the interval runs , iron mikes, goblet and pistol squats, pull ups, push ups, ets ets.

I forgot about the time I slammed a saturn into the back of an early 90's explorer at 40mph.  I was out of the car and assessing the situation before it stopped moving.  Walked away from that with a mild concussion and staples in my forehead

Damn my back is fuching blazed, tomorrow should be fun.

You're killing it, dude. 
Were you doing a cut cycle before this?  Don't take this as whiney, but I think your next cardiovascular training is gonna do you well. 
I was thinking that your last thing was your gut pulling blood away too quickly after you drank a shake, not being used to the strain.  But, I'm starting to think that you might need more total blood volume or lack oxygen-exchange efficiency, leading perfusion loss and making you shocky. 

Or, you're just killing it. 

I gotta hand it to you, man; can't question the dedication.  Inspiring stuff!



If you hit hard enough to need staples, then you had a coup-contre-coup cerebral contusion (you bruised your brain on the side you hit, and the opposite).  They call it a concussion cause most people know what that is, but I'm hoping to freak out a teenager or somebody when I start working. 
Med-geek stuff, I guess, but maybe you can use it to pick up strange.   

Sometime in the next two weeks (things are supposed to get a little more lax at work) I'm going to start a cardio routine on days I don't lift.  I'll probably start with a few spin classes and elliptical then work my run back in.   

Staples in the forehead sucked.  Bad. (OK, not as bad as titanium pins through my thumb)  I've still got a gnarly scar there too so I'm not sure why I couldn't have just superglued the Buddha Loves You

Vasculature running through your forehead.  Supposedly, skin glue would have impeded their flow and given you partial facial paralysis.  I dunno.  Saw it on TV. 
Not the most accurate of sources...



Speaking of which, the last ER is this week.  15 years, and they end it just as I decide to go pre-med.  The universe hates me. 




Heh heh, spin classes.  You might find that sponsor you've been hoping for.  (Snicker, snicker...)

Or, they wanted to charge me 1500 to put a few staples in my head and rip em out 2 weeks later...........

That sucks about ER, but it sucks even more that the creator died.


There is some serious tail in the spin classes at my gym, it'll be a good thing.

Rows, Shrugs, and Close-grip Military Press.  My back is blazed.......again and my triceps are spasming.  I peak rep'd 230 on the row and stayed light on shrugs because I left my straps in the locker (only went up to 505)  Stayed at 115 for higher reps on the CGMP's, gotta figure something out because it put a lot of stress right on the thumb I fuched up.  Actually the first time in the last 6 months I've had any real pain out of that thumb.

A piece of neoprene foam, maybe. 
Why are you doing them close grip?  How much tricep focus would you lose with normal spacing?  Maybe make up for it with skull crushers. 

Massive difference in tricep isolation between a normal grip and close grip.  It's insane.  I think I'm going to hit a medical supply store and see if they have a splint that I could make work.

interesting.  How does it hurt, and where?  (Just as a learning experience for me, not so I can attempt to give advise.)

The exercise or the thumb?

The exercise isolates the triceps brachii almost exclusively while obviously still using the deltoids.

The thumb is that deep dull bone pain you get when you break something, but it subsided within an hour