[quote]mjnewland wrote:
are the lever belts legal in all federations? I’ve been wondering about that. It looks monster badass, and if I had 60 bucks, I would buy one for coolness alone
I would get it pink and not get a better color until I deadlift 600 (currently stuck at 405, so prepared for long term pinkishness)
old lardass[/quote]
yep… they are legal in all feds that i know of.
I think I’ve figured out why you never see reverse hypers and glute-ham raises in commercial gyms.
It’s not the price. Adductor machines are as expensive as either of those pieces of equipment yet you’ll find them in every 24 Ow-er Fit or Ball-eyes Gym
It’s misdirected marketing.
If someone marketed those things as the best ass toners and shapers rather than hard core strength dev or recovery-promoting (in the case of rev hyper) they wouldn’t be able to keep them in the warehouses due to demand. Sell ‘em with the little placards describing how to use them attached, just like the LifeFitness or Flex equipment. We’d have a friggin’ p-chain revolution!
“No dangerous squats or deadlifts! No painful bar knurling to cut into your hands and shoulders to get that sexy hard tushy shape you’ve been yearning for! Just jump on the Ass Toner Millenium, or better yet, the Ass Toner Millenium Pro, swing away and watch the shape of your buns and thighs change for the better in a matter of weeks! Call 180-MY-FINE-ASS to get yours today!”
Man I want a cut of the profits for BusDev. 5% will do.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
To your enthralled internet audience, of course. Ok, new log, new beginning. What are your current goals? Why late to the game?[/quote]
…I’ve always wanted thralls.
Guess you could call me a thrall-seeker.
Now I can have them. The internet is wonderful!
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I think I’ve figured out why you never see reverse hypers and glute-ham raises in commercial gyms.
It’s not the price. Adductor machines are as expensive as either of those pieces of equipment yet you’ll find them in every 24 Ow-er Fit or Ball-eyes Gym
It’s misdirected marketing.
If someone marketed those things as the best ass toners and shapers rather than hard core strength dev or recovery-promoting (in the case of rev hyper) they wouldn’t be able to keep them in the warehouses due to demand. Sell ‘em with the little placards describing how to use them attached, just like the LifeFitness or Flex equipment. We’d have a friggin’ p-chain revolution!
“No dangerous squats or deadlifts! No painful bar knurling to cut into your hands and shoulders to get that sexy hard tushy shape you’ve been yearning for! Just jump on the Ass Toner Millenium, or better yet, the Ass Toner Millenium Pro, swing away and watch the shape of your buns and thighs change for the better in a matter of weeks! Call 180-MY-FINE-ASS to get yours today!”
Man I want a cut of the profits for BusDev. 5% will do.
[/quote]
Can you come up with something for hardwood lumber???
That is funny as shit… Sadly true but funny as shit!
[quote]barryjenkins00 wrote:
How bout,
“Yang me, crank me, don’t wake me up and thank me.” Can’t believe they make belts that small. Mine costs about the same and I get my money’s worth. Never be green with all the animals that die.[/quote]
Well - I guess women,midgets and stick figures need belts too…
You sure do get your money’s worth.
PETA’s been calling and asking questions about you. They got their eye on you, I think. You should wait for those animals to be daid afore you eats them. I mean: there’s rare, and then there’s what YOU do…
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I think I’ve figured out why you never see reverse hypers and glute-ham raises in commercial gyms.
It’s not the price. Adductor machines are as expensive as either of those pieces of equipment yet you’ll find them in every 24 Ow-er Fit or Ball-eyes Gym
It’s misdirected marketing.
If someone marketed those things as the best ass toners and shapers rather than hard core strength dev or recovery-promoting (in the case of rev hyper) they wouldn’t be able to keep them in the warehouses due to demand. Sell ‘em with the little placards describing how to use them attached, just like the LifeFitness or Flex equipment. We’d have a friggin’ p-chain revolution!
“No dangerous squats or deadlifts! No painful bar knurling to cut into your hands and shoulders to get that sexy hard tushy shape you’ve been yearning for! Just jump on the Ass Toner Millenium, or better yet, the Ass Toner Millenium Pro, swing away and watch the shape of your buns and thighs change for the better in a matter of weeks! Call 180-MY-FINE-ASS to get yours today!”
Man I want a cut of the profits for BusDev. 5% will do.
[/quote]
Seriously not a bad idea, but I think you’d need to rig up some kind of assisted GHR machine, just like you see with assisted dips and pull-ups. Otherwise most people couldn’t do them in the beginning, and they wouldn’t give it a second chance. The adductor machine at least allows the user to adjust the weight.
Couldn’t use my posterior in the marketing, though.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
skidmark wrote:
I think I’ve figured out why you never see reverse hypers and glute-ham raises in commercial gyms.
It’s not the price. Adductor machines are as expensive as either of those pieces of equipment yet you’ll find them in every 24 Ow-er Fit or Ball-eyes Gym
It’s misdirected marketing.
If someone marketed those things as the best ass toners and shapers rather than hard core strength dev or recovery-promoting (in the case of rev hyper) they wouldn’t be able to keep them in the warehouses due to demand. Sell ‘em with the little placards describing how to use them attached, just like the LifeFitness or Flex equipment. We’d have a friggin’ p-chain revolution!
“No dangerous squats or deadlifts! No painful bar knurling to cut into your hands and shoulders to get that sexy hard tushy shape you’ve been yearning for! Just jump on the Ass Toner Millenium, or better yet, the Ass Toner Millenium Pro, swing away and watch the shape of your buns and thighs change for the better in a matter of weeks! Call 180-MY-FINE-ASS to get yours today!”
Man I want a cut of the profits for BusDev. 5% will do.
Can you come up with something for hardwood lumber???
That is funny as shit… Sadly true but funny as shit![/quote]
I’ll fix it for you: Stop just selling lumber and sell fine goods made out of it. The next few years are gonna be the shits for people who just gather and refine natural resources - Prices are getting driven down by the big operators precisely to kill businesses like yours.
Hire a master cabinetmaker to design, build and detail stuff, get him some apprentices so he can focus on design and let the apprentices do execution. Get a web site together and market to upscale clients - people who have money to burn. You can do two tiers - rough stuff according to a pattern that people can build and refinish themselves, sell that in volume, and high quality stuff that rich bastards can swipe their credit card through the system for and which gets your business noticed. Worldwide exposure through the web. Gets you into manufacturing but the process chain should just be an extension of what you already do.
Oo! Oo! High quality inexpensive wooden squat/power racks! How many people actually go over 300 lbs in any lift? I think Bob Peoples trained in a wooden rack way back when.
Custom and personalized bonfires?
Hardwood lifesized replica collector cars? For those people who can’t afford the real thing, but want to look like they can. They can leave it parked in the garage and refuse to answer neighbors questions about it when they see it.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I’ll fix it for you: Stop just selling lumber and sell fine goods made out of it. The next few years are gonna be the shits for people who just gather and refine natural resources - Prices are getting driven down by the big operators precisely to kill businesses like yours.
Hire a master cabinetmaker to design, build and detail stuff, get him some apprentices so he can focus on design and let the apprentices do execution. Get a web site together and market to upscale clients - people who have money to burn. You can do two tiers - rough stuff according to a pattern that people can build and refinish themselves, sell that in volume, and high quality stuff that rich bastards can swipe their credit card through the system for and which gets your business noticed. Worldwide exposure through the web. Gets you into manufacturing but the process chain should just be an extension of what you already do.
quote]
I’m screwed… the Asians already figgered out how to do that shit… good thing i can weld. I’ll just make my own squat racks…
AAAWWWW shit. They do that in China too…
Well that’s what you get asking somebody who works in the service industry (I are a compooter injunere) how to fix yer bidness…
My field is likely to see a massive die-off due to outsourcing and off-shoring. At my current company we are opening satellite headquarters - not just Sales offices or training centers, but headquarters, in other countries and recruiting from local populations to replace U.S. engineers and programmers.
My company has sectioned itself off in to a U.S division and a “rest of the world division.” Separate companies to all intents and purposes. This and the influx of H1-B visa holders (a.k.a indentured servitude) has driven to price of my services down to ridiculous levels. I am lucky to have a job right now and could be replaced by a Romanian with the right education and who would cost half as much (in real terms) at any time based on skill set. Fortunately my experience counts for something and thank God for cultural + language barriers…
Nobody’s safe right now, truth be known. Drug dealers, and government employees maybe. Not meaning to equate the two in any way other than stability of employment (sorry Hel).
hey cool new log.
how much shit is on TV?
tons, yet there is no work.
last year and this year will clearly top it.
Worst year ever- I made more at say 23 when I was new to the business.
TV is done. Finished.
I am going to to something else.
I would gladly pay for some wood products
asside from wenge cabinets and walnut counter tops
wood pellets for a stove
stall bars, like in old russian gyms
kmc
Why is this thread about helping each other with wood? Trading wood??
Isn’t this a training site? And why is there no power-rack pic.? No slinglet pic? All the things we were promised from your last thread?
Some of us don’t have anything else to look forward to. Maybe I’m just cranky from this spring snow…LETS GET PHYSICAL!!!
Z-getting bigger-man.
[quote]zildjianman wrote:
Why is this thread about helping each other with wood? Trading wood??
Isn’t this a training site? And why is there no power-rack pic.? No slinglet pic? All the things we were promised from your last thread?
Some of us don’t have anything else to look forward to. Maybe I’m just cranky from this spring snow…LETS GET PHYSICAL!!!
Z-getting bigger-man.[/quote]
bcz they weren’t no camera boss. haokinya not have youtube? I’m faymus on teh interwebs now, dog.
What’s a slinget?
[quote]sfp wrote:
skidmark wrote:
I think I’ve figured out why you never see reverse hypers and glute-ham raises in commercial gyms.
It’s not the price. Adductor machines are as expensive as either of those pieces of equipment yet you’ll find them in every 24 Ow-er Fit or Ball-eyes Gym
It’s misdirected marketing.
If someone marketed those things as the best ass toners and shapers rather than hard core strength dev or recovery-promoting (in the case of rev hyper) they wouldn’t be able to keep them in the warehouses due to demand. Sell ‘em with the little placards describing how to use them attached, just like the LifeFitness or Flex equipment. We’d have a friggin’ p-chain revolution!
“No dangerous squats or deadlifts! No painful bar knurling to cut into your hands and shoulders to get that sexy hard tushy shape you’ve been yearning for! Just jump on the Ass Toner Millenium, or better yet, the Ass Toner Millenium Pro, swing away and watch the shape of your buns and thighs change for the better in a matter of weeks! Call 180-MY-FINE-ASS to get yours today!”
Man I want a cut of the profits for BusDev. 5% will do.
Seriously not a bad idea, but I think you’d need to rig up some kind of assisted GHR machine, just like you see with assisted dips and pull-ups. Otherwise most people couldn’t do them in the beginning, and they wouldn’t give it a second chance. The adductor machine at least allows the user to adjust the weight.
Couldn’t use my posterior in the marketing, though.[/quote]
We could tie jumpstretch bands around their necks and fasten the other end to the ceiling…
Funny, that’s almost exactly what came to mind.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Well that’s what you get asking somebody who works in the service industry (I are a compooter injunere) how to fix yer bidness…
My field is likely to see a massive die-off due to outsourcing and off-shoring. At my current company we are opening satellite headquarters - not just Sales offices or training centers, but headquarters, in other countries and recruiting from local populations to replace U.S. engineers and programmers.
My company has sectioned itself off in to a U.S division and a “rest of the world division.” Separate companies to all intents and purposes. This and the influx of H1-B visa holders (a.k.a indentured servitude) has driven to price of my services down to ridiculous levels. I am lucky to have a job right now and could be replaced by a Romanian with the right education and who would cost half as much (in real terms) at any time based on skill set. Fortunately my experience counts for something and thank God for cultural + language barriers…
Nobody’s safe right now, truth be known. Drug dealers, and government employees maybe. Not meaning to equate the two in any way other than stability of employment (sorry Hel).[/quote]
this makes me ill… my father has worked for General Electric for most of his adult life. He works in a light bulb plant. Over the past few years they have slowly moved their work to other countries such as Mexico becuase the labor is so cheap and no unions. THIS is what is ruining our country. NOTHING is made in the USA anymore. Therefore the middle class is shrinking. Pretty soon there will only be the filthy rich, those that used to be the middle class but are now homeless becuase they lost their job and then the huge group of people that once lived off the middle class but is also homeless because there’s no one to foot the bill for them.
I guess there’s a bright side… Socialism won’t work if there’s no one to pay for it.
Late to the party as usual. I saw a Monolift on sale locally (salt lake city) for $1,750. I told all the golds managers in the area about it hoping one would buy it, but they didnt. They guy who is selling it has/had an underground gym in his basement, but his wife made him sell the mono. I don’t think anyone bought it yet.
Note to JWilly, sell your woodies to stair parts makers. LJ Smith in OH, Leepers in CA, there are some others as well, they all use hardwoods and they don’t dry their own lumber. Don’t bother with Coffman/Visador in VA, they have their own kilns and rough mill. Check with window and door makers too. Kolbe & Kolbe comes to mind cuz they have a line of hardwood windows (or they did when I was in the stair biz).
The margins suck, but these guys go through some serious wood.
Skid, I love your idea for selling GHRs and reverse hypers. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to go into business with EliteFTS and sell their stuff to gyms in the west. I could sell in the intermountain region, you can have the west coast. we will rule the meathead world. bwahahahahhah
It’s BENCH day! Gonna work the two-board today. Chest and shoulders feel good. Haven’t decided on a 2nd movement yet but it just might be dips.
Elbow is getting better and better. Little twinges still, but I can apply force with it in the fully flexed position now without crying. So I will. I really want to work lockouts. I think I see aerobics steps in the squat rack in my future.
MJ - come and hardsell the morons at my gym a power rack, woodja? Doing so at gunpoint would have my blessing.
just embrace it people americans lets all just yell we suck.
Im kidding but only half kidding.
and please no spangly singlet pictures…
tell us about the bench.
2009-3-27
Weight: 181
3 scoops MMP
Bench
w/u
barx15
135x10
185x5
225x3
2 board Manpon
245x3
265x5
275x4,3,2 (PR Reps +1)
265
275
Dips
BW+40x20 (baseline PR)
EZ bar Floor face presses
70x15
90x10
110x8
160x6
180x6,5
160x7
Decline situps
15
25x15
45x10
65x8
45-degree HyperEx
15
45x15
65x8 (These might be a missing link)
I’d have had the third rep on the last set of bench, but I set up my grip off center. Had to dump the third rep. I had more bar to the right of me than to the left. Right side is my weak side. I’m letting the manpon take the weight at the bottom and not staying tight throughout the set. Gotta fix that. Arch is getting better. Kept getting a hip flexor cramp when I arched more, but now I know it’s possible to.
Face presses can end up any where between my eyebrows and my chin. I don’t care, they work my triceps really well and don’t hurt my elbow. Still can’t do strict press downs or extensions with the right elbow.
Saw this article and thought of you:
http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/articles/Body+weight%2C+Leverage%2C+and+Lifting+For+Strength/
Start shoveling it in, skinny boy!