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I managed a new personal best bench press on Monday of this week. 295 lbs is now my current best and only 20 lbs short of my goal of 315 lbs. Of course this is not a strict "pause and push" lift like would be required in a power-lifting competition. I'm perfectly fine with this as I'm not lifting in competitions and not masquerading it as if it was such a strict form as required in such a competition. In case I hadn't mentioned, my previous best was 290 lbs. I took off approximately 10 weeks from lifting and this resulted in a loss of strength back to a max of 260 lbs. So after 11 weeks of training I've gotten back what I had plus a little. The moral of that story is once you gain that hard won strength, don't lose it by being lazy.
So now, how to get the next 20-40 lbs. I've been feeling a lack of endurance so I'm shifting for the foreseeable future to a higher volume and lower intensity workout. It's hoped this will up my endurance and solidify my current strength level. I also want to focus on pulling movements and create a more balanced strength as I'm weaker in those movements. Then there is the injury issue. Injuries are always a concern, even for young athletes. So at a young 53 years old I've already suffered a few injuries and arthritis is becoming a concern. I'm a somewhat stubborn older person and will pursue my 315 lb goal with my currently aching shoulder(s) as long as they allow and/or new injuries don't force me to abandon my goal. Wrist wraps have abated the wrist pain from an old injury, so there is that. Now to go study the internet and those who have been there and done that for the next workout that will allow me to join their ilk.
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“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
― Robert E. Howard I believe most people in the United States of America would consider themselves to be civilized. However, when, if ever, does civility become a liability? Perhaps when those lacking civility are continually treated with it by those more civil than themselves. Hence, as noted by Robert E. Howard, there's a decrease in courtesy. Yes, the tolerance of civility has become a liability. Consider the quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." Although I haven't been there, it's noted by our unbiased media that our prisons, as well as those in other places, are over crowded and full of people you'd wish for neighbors. It's also said that our prisons are biased or over represented by some races. Just like a movie, surely all these prisoners are innocent and didn't do anything warranting their placement in such a facility. Sadly, for a small number of prisoners, this is actually true. They are innocent and those responsible for this atrocity will never be held accountable. If you don't understand the reasons for this situation, my best attempt to explain it to you will be inadequate. I had so much more sloshing in my grey matter, but it's been lost to other distractions. Anyway, be responsible for yourself so we can all do our own thing without offending each others sense of civility. Also, we may avoid the annihilation of discourteous collisions. Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan: Wait until you see it. Norman Ellison: See what? Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan: What a man can do to another man. from the movie Fury. It's sad what one human can do to another human. We most recently witnessed this, as a nation, in the Las Vegas Massacre. So once again it's all the news to demand the government regulate us so these things can't happen. One side generally say that if these objects used to harm humans were unavailable then humans couldn't and wouldn't harm another, at least by those means.
I'm not a great student of history, but from what I've read and heard, humans have been harming one another for as long as humans have been around. Sometimes it's a murderous act and other times a defensive act. One usually considered wrong and the other a right. One absolute we know from history is that those that gave up their arms were at the mercy of those that didn't and mercy was rarely given. I believe those that search for an answer to this dilemma will always find disappointment because if there was an answer it would've been found by now. So we are left with defending ourselves and others as best we can from the evil that would do us harm. Also, hold in high esteem those that have defended us and others in the face of evil. |
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