Random Thought Thread

yoko said:
That's how I roll my wife is used to it hahahaha


I'm pretty much the equivalent to a half Asian Chris Farley
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GmpaJim said:
I’ll bet your tow motor had brakes. Ours didn’t.
My Dad’s theory was a trifecta. Saves money, increases focus on the job & teaches driving skills.
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Good brakes and enough traction that you could pull a tree over with it. It weighs a full ton more than the entire shipping container, which helped to make that move less sketchy. Jo was freaking out a little bit because some of the angles, which is hard to see in the pictures but that is a hilly spot and we were going across it at an angle, but it was under control.

Mark was driving the truck and his backing skills are strong. It was a beautiful parallel parking job.

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Nathan the Machinist said:
Good brakes and enough traction that you could pull a tree over with it. It weighs a full ton more than the entire shipping container, which helped to make that move less sketchy. Jo was freaking out a little bit because some of the angles, which is hard to see in the pictures but that is a hilly spot and we were going across it at an angle, but it was under control.

Mark was driving the truck and his backing skills are strong. It was a beautiful parallel parking job.

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Dang, he basically white knuckled a Seesaw with little to no steering on uneven earth and nailed it like a pro.
That’s frickin impressive.
 
Standard78 said:
Dang, he basically white knuckled a Seesaw with little to no steering on uneven earth and nailed it like a pro.
That’s frickin impressive.
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Yup. I had to use the side shift on the forklift to get it perfect, but he got it within a couple inches. All 40 ft of it.
 
"I may be old(er), but I ain't dead, yet".

Hit a benchmark this week.

Injured my lower back several years ago and gave myself a slipped disc. Over the years, it had gotten to the point where it would slip out of place several times a day, every single day, from simple everyday things.

Bend over to put on my shoes? It would slip out of place. 10 minute car ride? 50% chance of it slipping out of place. 15 minute car ride = 75% chance. 30 minutes or longer in a car = 100% chance it would slip out of place. 🙁

Was pretty lucky that when it slipped out (the bump on my lower back was pretty obvious), it didn't impinge on the spinal cord/nerves, so no pain/numbness. It just stiffened up my lower back and forced me to tilt my pelvis/round my lower back to avoid pinching that disc and turning it from a slipped disc, to a herniated/ruptured disc. I was also fortunate that I knew how to carefully manipulate it back into place with 100% success. Usually took about 30 to 90 seconds.

Back in 2020, while working out with a 140lb weighted vest and an 80lb dumbbell, the stupid disc slipped out at the bottom of a rep doing goblet squats. I immediately put the dumbbell down, but in just standing back up with the 140lb weighted vest while that disc was out of place (no way to take the vest off from the bottom of the squat position), I strained my lower back.

Stiff and sore for 4-5 weeks, and I realized trying to avoid putting stress on my lower back since the injury years ago, wasn't working.

Decided I needed to see if I could PT/rehab/strengthen my lower back to see if I could at least reduce the frequency of that disc slipping out.

When I tried to start off with 'light' deadlifts with just a single 45lb plate on each end of the bar (for folks who don't lift, a standard Olympic bar weighs 45lbs, so 135lbs total), I never even got it off the ground before my back told me that I'd regret it if I continued trying to pull.

I literally started back from scratch, doing bodyweight and range-of-motion and mobility/flexibility exercises.

Slowly worked my way up. By the time I could deadlift 225lbs x 5, the disc was only slipping out a couple times a week vs several times a day, every single day.

Somewhere between 275lbs x 5 and 295lbs x 5, I realized that the disc hadn't slipped out in weeks.

This week, I managed to deadlift 200% bodyweight x 5 reps. 😁

Doing 5 deadlifts with 135lbs (a 45lb plate at each end of the bar), is now light enough, that it's my first warmup set, and doesn't really require prep/focus. I can just slide the plates on and do a quick 5 reps to start warming up.

As mentioned in a previous post in this thread, about trying to see how close I could get back to my peak strength levels from 20+ years ago, I opted to be a stubborn coot and see how much progress I could make just from working out and eating right, without resorting to stuff like TRT.

Continuing to make progress, and while I'm on this side of the dirt, I'll continue to push myself.

Take care of your health, folks. 🙂
 
bluemax_1 said:
"I may be old(er), but I ain't dead, yet".

Hit a benchmark this week.

Injured my lower back several years ago and gave myself a slipped disc. Over the years, it had gotten to the point where it would slip out of place several times a day, every single day, from simple everyday things.

Bend over to put on my shoes? It would slip out of place. 10 minute car ride? 50% chance of it slipping out of place. 15 minute car ride = 75% chance. 30 minutes or longer in a car = 100% chance it would slip out of place. 🙁

Was pretty lucky that when it slipped out (the bump on my lower back was pretty obvious), it didn't impinge on the spinal cord/nerves, so no pain/numbness. It just stiffened up my lower back and forced me to tilt my pelvis/round my lower back to avoid pinching that disc and turning it from a slipped disc, to a herniated/ruptured disc. I was also fortunate that I knew how to carefully manipulate it back into place with 100% success. Usually took about 30 to 90 seconds.

Back in 2020, while working out with a 140lb weighted vest and an 80lb dumbbell, the stupid disc slipped out at the bottom of a rep doing goblet squats. I immediately put the dumbbell down, but in just standing back up with the 140lb weighted vest while that disc was out of place (no way to take the vest off from the bottom of the squat position), I strained my lower back.

Stiff and sore for 4-5 weeks, and I realized trying to avoid putting stress on my lower back since the injury years ago, wasn't working.

Decided I needed to see if I could PT/rehab/strengthen my lower back to see if I could at least reduce the frequency of that disc slipping out.

When I tried to start off with 'light' deadlifts with just a single 45lb plate on each end of the bar (for folks who don't lift, a standard Olympic bar weighs 45lbs, so 135lbs total), I never even got it off the ground before my back told me that I'd regret it if I continued trying to pull.

I literally started back from scratch, doing bodyweight and range-of-motion and mobility/flexibility exercises.

Slowly worked my way up. By the time I could deadlift 225lbs x 5, the disc was only slipping out a couple times a week vs several times a day, every single day.

Somewhere between 275lbs x 5 and 295lbs x 5, I realized that the disc hadn't slipped out in weeks.

This week, I managed to deadlift 200% bodyweight x 5 reps. 😁

Doing 5 deadlifts with 135lbs (a 45lb plate at each end of the bar), is now light enough, that it's my first warmup set, and doesn't really require prep/focus. I can just slide the plates on and do a quick 5 reps to start warming up.

As mentioned in a previous post in this thread, about trying to see how close I could get back to my peak strength levels from 20+ years ago, I opted to be a stubborn coot and see how much progress I could make just from working out and eating right, without resorting to stuff like TRT.

Continuing to make progress, and while I'm on this side of the dirt, I'll continue to push myself.

Take care of your health, folks. 🙂
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Good stuff, congrats on your progress.
I'm getting lots of PT right now myself (and not the kind Ted Nugent sings about).
 
bluemax_1 said:
"I may be old(er), but I ain't dead, yet".

Hit a benchmark this week.

Injured my lower back several years ago and gave myself a slipped disc. Over the years, it had gotten to the point where it would slip out of place several times a day, every single day, from simple everyday things.

Bend over to put on my shoes? It would slip out of place. 10 minute car ride? 50% chance of it slipping out of place. 15 minute car ride = 75% chance. 30 minutes or longer in a car = 100% chance it would slip out of place. 🙁

Was pretty lucky that when it slipped out (the bump on my lower back was pretty obvious), it didn't impinge on the spinal cord/nerves, so no pain/numbness. It just stiffened up my lower back and forced me to tilt my pelvis/round my lower back to avoid pinching that disc and turning it from a slipped disc, to a herniated/ruptured disc. I was also fortunate that I knew how to carefully manipulate it back into place with 100% success. Usually took about 30 to 90 seconds.

Back in 2020, while working out with a 140lb weighted vest and an 80lb dumbbell, the stupid disc slipped out at the bottom of a rep doing goblet squats. I immediately put the dumbbell down, but in just standing back up with the 140lb weighted vest while that disc was out of place (no way to take the vest off from the bottom of the squat position), I strained my lower back.

Stiff and sore for 4-5 weeks, and I realized trying to avoid putting stress on my lower back since the injury years ago, wasn't working.

Decided I needed to see if I could PT/rehab/strengthen my lower back to see if I could at least reduce the frequency of that disc slipping out.

When I tried to start off with 'light' deadlifts with just a single 45lb plate on each end of the bar (for folks who don't lift, a standard Olympic bar weighs 45lbs, so 135lbs total), I never even got it off the ground before my back told me that I'd regret it if I continued trying to pull.

I literally started back from scratch, doing bodyweight and range-of-motion and mobility/flexibility exercises.

Slowly worked my way up. By the time I could deadlift 225lbs x 5, the disc was only slipping out a couple times a week vs several times a day, every single day.

Somewhere between 275lbs x 5 and 295lbs x 5, I realized that the disc hadn't slipped out in weeks.

This week, I managed to deadlift 200% bodyweight x 5 reps. 😁

Doing 5 deadlifts with 135lbs (a 45lb plate at each end of the bar), is now light enough, that it's my first warmup set, and doesn't really require prep/focus. I can just slide the plates on and do a quick 5 reps to start warming up.

As mentioned in a previous post in this thread, about trying to see how close I could get back to my peak strength levels from 20+ years ago, I opted to be a stubborn coot and see how much progress I could make just from working out and eating right, without resorting to stuff like TRT.

Continuing to make progress, and while I'm on this side of the dirt, I'll continue to push myself.

Take care of your health, folks. 🙂
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Twice a deadlift has destroyed my disc. 1st time was a 585lbs single. 2nd time (required surgery) was the 14th or 15th rep of 375lbs. Keep up the progress, I have to start from scratch like you did.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
Twice a deadlift has destroyed my disc. 1st time was a 585lbs single. 2nd time (required surgery) was the 14th or 15th rep of 375lbs. Keep up the progress, I have to start from scratch like you did.
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Yikes. Sorry to hear that, man.

Hope everything goes well.

One of the things it took me a long time to learn, was to listen to my body. Most of the times I got hurt was from pushing further than I knew I should.

Nowadays, with the DL progression for example, I stick to 5 rep sets. It gives me what I consider a comfortable safety margin.

When I'm ready to add another 10lbs, I know for a fact, that I'm strong enough to get at least 3 clean reps at the higher weight, usually 4, and on occasion, I've even hit the full 5 reps the first time at the new weight, but if I can only get 3 (or 4) and the next rep feels like it would be too close to the limit (defined as not knowing whether 100% effort will clinch it or not), I stop. There's always the next workout.

When I get strong enough that I can do 5 reps at a particular weight, and still feel like I have another 1 or 2 reps in me, I don't. I stop at 5, and the next workout, I add another 10lbs.

Not going to failure ensures that I don't sacrifice my form when getting tired, and I've found that it allows me to recover quicker. I'm not stiff and sore for 3 days or longer. Just mild soreness for 1, maybe 2 days. I've actually made faster progress than I did when I was younger, because I've been able to avoid training injuries by not pushing for that last 1% every time.

I haven't even tried a 1RM in decades, and won’t ever be trying one again. Seen (and had) more injuries from pushing to hit that new PR that turns out to be juuuust a bit too much.

No idea if I can get back to 100% of my peak strength levels (lost quite a lot of muscle/strength since the beginning of the millennium), but more is more, and as long as I can keep making progress, I'll keep pushing (even if progress is never as much/fast as I'd like 😅).
 
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