Rauiri,
Can you tell me what Kempie’s salt cure for torn calluses is?
Had I only known this in Manchester! http://www.strengthmill.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1595&goto=nextnewest
In other news my weight lifting shoes are at home today. Yay solid heals
and my PPST and Strong Enough? are awaiting collection at the post office. Tis a good day for moving heavy things.
Regarding today’s workout- I’m gonna clean these off the ground, and report back.
Kyle-
Well, maybe I got it wrong but this is what I did and it worked well.
1- Put salt in really hot water (as hot as you can stand) to the point it is starting to crystalise. Wash affected area three or four times.
2- Dry and then apply a layer of superglue on the area. Kempie said he used a loc-tite one with a little brush applicator but I used regular tube stuff.
It doesn’t look pretty but it’s waterproof so you can still shower or wash your hands or whatever. Eventually it comes off or falls off but the skin seems to heal in underneath. If you apply too much then it goes on in a thick layer that will crack and get caught on stuff and come off, so less is more.
Shane – welcome to the club. I nearly knocked myself out doing a thruster before.
So I’ve been thinking about the tabata experiment, (apparently I have nothing else to amuse myself with) and am trying to come up with something interesting to do. Now if the goal is just to implement the tabata protocol into your workout routine then the Gant Gimes approach is the best option, however he made a couple of interesting claims in his thread that I’m curious to validate, if possible. First that you can get the same results from tabata once a week as GTG three or more times a day, and second that you don’t get the same results from pacing. So how to test? Ideally we could get three people doing the same exercises and assign one protocol to each. The problems being 1) you need three people that care enough to stick to it and 2) two people are putting in the time but potentially getting suboptimal results. So my thought was to pick the three exercises (pullups, pushups, and squats) and assign each to a protocol and rotate the protocols every four weeks in order to randomize it somewhat. The test will have to be max reps in addition to any benchmark workout chosen (e.g. Cindy) and I still need to work out the details. For example I can’t do GTG on squats because that would take forever so I’ll probably sub pistols for the GTG portion. So I guess the upshot of all this is, I’m going to give it a try, does anyone else have any interest?
Oh and Shane, I once nailed myself so hard with the bar I chipped six teeth. Ah, good times. And for the record, I finished the WOD that day (I think it was a scaled Fran).
47.6, 50.1, 60, 62.5, 65, 70, 82.6(F), 75(F), 70
the two fails i did the full front squat but couldnt push fully through
worked on cleans, push jerks and snatches with a naked bar then did max rep pullups with a 20lb dumbbell 4,4,3 and dips with the dumbbell 10,10,10
just looking at the main site and see that they have closed cross fit santa cruz, and in a beautiful “america” moment symbolically sent all the equipment to a marine training camp.
50, 55, 60, 62.5, 65(f), 65, 67.5(f), 67.5
I was pretty happy with this workout because I was able to find a technical solution for why I failed on the 65 and 67.5, and then get those weights. Mainly it was a matter of coming up explosively enough to get the bar up and then get my head through to go to full extension. Cleaned off the ground, but I don’t think that was a big deal, because it was my press strength that was the limiting factor as always.