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Aye, Scottish Johnny. You got my allusion.

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ET- The guy you’re talking about sounds like the type that would also sit in another guy’s recliner!

Yes he would, Lance. Yes he would.

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When I was in college, I did a routine where I did a week of 5×15 on every exercise. Not sure if it did me any good, as I was 19 and just about anything would have worked, but I was swole up like a tick after those sessions. Good articles Thom. I also agree with your stretching on. I just never seem to keep my stretching routine consitant, though.

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Pretty good company, Chad. Congrats!
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Merry Christmas All-Rounders!

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No one more deserving! What an ambassador.
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PS. Lance, love your tagline!

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Congrats, John. Always a great contributer!
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Well, aint I a nincompoop! Sorry Scott. Believe it or not, I know the difference betwixt them.

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One day away. Looking forward to it. Leroy is expecting a big payday for his well being.

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Hoping to start focusing a little on the heavy lifts.

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ABSOLUTELY DESERVED! Congrats Denny!
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Safe travels and big lifting!

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Good stuff, SJ! Thank you for doing this.
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I have no problem with your training or your scientific approach. Where my problem lies is the manner in which you present it. It often comes off as very condescending. Maybe I should have just left it alone. But, fact of business is that sometimes your posts come off as offensive (you knew that or you would not say “But at the risk of offending some of you.” That is not unlike the guy prefaces an insult with “No offense, but…”)
I do know their are scientific approaches that would have been beneficial and still could be. But to pretend that a body does not deteriorate with age just does not make any sense. I aint looking forward to it, but I reckon some time I will kick the bucket. And if it is not from accident or disease, it will be because the machine simply wore out over time. There are things I can do to slow this down, but the aging process is an inevitability. That was my argument.

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I dont need a study to see what I can see with my own eyes every day. Your rhetoric does resemble a broken record, only a rather insulting one. Maybe you are just trying to argue against formulas, but it come off as Dan the Scientist is all knowing and you guys are a bunch of fools who have trained in an ignorant idiotic way. It is tired.
I dont know about chronological age, but the miles put in certainly take their toll. I wish you would have written me a science based approach to wrestle that would have prevented my opponent from twisting my knee and shreading my meniscus. Or one that would have prevented both my shoulder labrum from tearing in my last wrestling match. While better form would have prevented by back injury, I dot know if there is any science based method of walking that would have prevented me from stepping in that hole and severely spraining my ankle. Or one that would have prevented me from severely spraining it again by chasing that cow.
See, it’s not just weight lifting that takes a toll on a body. My grandpa was the toughest guy I ever knew. Strong as heck, but never trained weighlifting. Though he never participated in a scientific study in the confines of a laboratory, I could see with my own eyes his body and strength deteriorate with age. I dont think he was pulling any smoke and mirrors. Back then they did not have any science based methods of bucking hay or any of the other labor intesive activities he engaged in all his life. Maybe they do now. But I saw it, dont need a study to tell me that.
That being said, I have no idea how the formula was developed or what exactly it was based on. So, while it may or may not be mathematically correct, you are not going to convince me that the vast majority of people, weightlifters or not, do not experience a deterioration of their bodies as they age.

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