2005: What I Have Learned

[quote]PSlave wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
sic 10-52 wrote:
Just don’t ask her to shave your balls.

Hmmmm…probably won’t happen. I totally trust her, but no clippers, razors, or scissors are allowed around there. Can’t be too careful.

I’ll second that one. Don’t think I’d do it myself anyway, what about razor burn, or ingrown hairs? Fuck that.[/quote]

Not a problem at all, gets a little itchy when your sweaty but a little powda, ( Ha I said powda ), will take care of it.

Bullpup

  1. I like lifting weights.

  2. YOU have to like your body composition regardless of what everyone else thinks.

  3. The people who have known you longest don’t always know you the best.

  4. I really LOVE being a mom to two boys.

  5. CW’s programs work for me and are FUN!

  6. Its good to go outside your comfort zone.

  7. I do best on a schedule.

  8. I like lifting in the morning.

  9. I would rather work to live than live to work.

What I learned about me, in '05:

  • The more often I lift, the better I feel, mentally and physically.

  • I can “maintain” on 1 good lifting day a week, but “maintaining” makes me feel like crap mentally.

  • Drinking diet soda is a nutritional dry hump. Sort of satisfying, but frustrating because it reminds you how good the real thing is.

  • Chewing gum fights hunger.

  • Hard-boiling a dozen eggs on Sunday is a great idea.

  • Nuts are good, but I eat too many at a time.

  • Shaving everything from the waist up is a rude awakening, in terms of how you really look. Just remember to leave a Happy Trail.

  • I need to walk the walk more.

  • 2 scoops of Surge after a workout makes me recover better than 1 scoop during and 1 after.

  • I can function on 4 hours of sleep, but I’m not pretty in the morning.

  • 2 Spike caps at 2:00 p.m. are good, but a 15-minute nap would be better.

::Not exactly training-related::

  • Great jobs have a knack for falling into my lap. I am a lucky bastard.

  • The iPod Nano was the best birthday present I’ve gotten in a long while.

-I could listen to Disturbed all day long.

  • I don’t care that I’m the only person I know that loved ‘The Devil’s Rejects’.
  1. There are no excuses for being skinny. There is no limit to how big I can actually get.

  2. Learned how to write about politics far better, being as my arguments are more solid than they were before. Mostly because they will get ripped apart if they’re not.

  3. Dan Fouts can say what he will. He will always be a bastard to me. A funny one. But still a bastard :wink: Kind of like Rainjack.

  4. Writing more makes me a better writer. Even if most of it is crappy little opinions written on a weightlifting website.

  5. Shugs and TC have had an unbelievable influence on the way I write. This of course, may not be a good thing.

  6. It is, contrary to what I previously thought, possible for me to EAT MORE.

  7. I drink too much. I still don’t care, but at least I recognize it.

  8. God, if he exists, has both a sense of humor and a sense of irony.

  9. No matter how many weights you lift, you die anyway. Most difficult thing I’ve ever dealt with.

  10. That no year can ever be as horrific and dark as this one was- therefore, my life is bound to get easier, and therefore better.

What I learned in 2005:

-I respond extremely well to 10x3 & 5x5 programs with core lifts.

-My pulling is lagging behind my pressing.

-I need to OH press more often than I bench.

-My arms grew 1.25" this year from doing ZERO direct arm work.

-OH Squats are fantastic for correcting stength/flexibility problems.

-I love Front Squats and hardly do back squats anymore.

-I don’t get enough sleep.

-I don’t do as much GPP as I should.

-If I get off track with my training and nutrition, I get depressed, sick and everything in my life suffers.

-I have come to realize recently how much I love my wife and need her in my life.

-I’m tired. I’m emotionally tired and drained and I need next year to be better than this one.

I enjoy lifting weights - I actually look forward to going to the gym on lifting days.

I hate cardio days - I dread going to the gym on cardio days.

I have horrible eating habits … I used to eat horrible food in horrible amounts at horrible times… Now I just eat horrible amounts at horrible times. Thanks, Dr. Berardi. =D

I put too much effort into a workplace that doesn’t realize it.

I don’t know half as much as I thought I did about lifting and the other half was all wrong.

Not everyone understands how to budget - most people who make budgets don’t stay with them … Kind of like a diet.

I’m a “computer geek” who likes to laugh at people when they insist they know what they’re talking about, but don’t.

I listen more than I talk. This way I can make fun of people for being ignorant when I try to correct them.

The two health related online forums I participate in are helping me to change my life. Thanks, ya’ll.

I have learned.

Be careful not to tell people something you know they cant keep to them selves.

I thank god everyday for taking cancer away from me.

invent the 25th hour…

listen to your body when you need to take a day off.

Being a DJ is easy and fun, owning the company is hard…

Tip 15% if you plan on going back…

ask for help more often…

having my 19 month old yell daddy and run to me for a hug everytime I come home from work…

Learn to put up with wifies crap so I can continue with the one above…

Knowledge is power…

Joining the Marine Corps instead of going to college to play football best descion I made to date…this would be mine for every year

being over 30 is great…except when the cute blond serving me my coffee says have a great day sir…

dj

Haha, no it’s not but #5 certainly appleis, way too much porn. #6 should probably read I go out too much, but actually I have toned it down quite a bit and am feeling much better.

V

[quote]sic 10-52 wrote:
Vegita, this is your alternate screen name, right?

WhiteLable412 wrote:
5. Learned to talk to more girls and not sit in on weekends

  1. I didnt go out enough

  2. I looked at too much porn.

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Man, 2005 definitely a year of ups and downs. What have I learned?

  1. Cancer CAN kick your ass

  2. I can kick right back

  3. Sometimes you need to “clean house” in both your personal and professional lives

  4. Wanting to be good at something isn’t the same as being passionate about being good at something

  5. I need to eat more protein and less carbs if I don’t want to own “fat Jeans” anymore

  6. I am good at lots of things but not GREAT at any of them… yet

  7. The only things I care to be great at are being a wife and a mother, we’ll work on that in 2006 and 2007.

  8. When you’re given a 2nd chance at life, you need to take advantage of every minute of every day.

  9. Be as nice as you can to as many people as possible, you never know when you’ll need a helping hand. But, on that same token, know when to cut your losses (see #3)

  10. T-Nation is the best place for learning. Having met several people from here live and in person this year, I feel like I have extended my family… with people who understand me and my goals better than my real family. Thank you.

  11. 2005 was the year of Cancer. 2006 and beyond will be much better, both from being cancer free and from what I’ve learned and how cancer has humbled me. Today is 10 months, 16 days as a survivor… but who’s counting, right?

Happy New Year everyone!