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It’s 1AM or thereabouts and I’m getting all geared-up for a bad-ass 8-week diet regimen.

I hear my access to Adderall, still a juvenile introduction to my habits, is going to be cut short.

I need something to help me focus. Music might work, as I’ve been intending to “catch up” and have a damn opinion as to what I actually like.

No idea where to start. I find this:

I'm a non-Kanye kinda guy.

I’m just going to listen through it. I see some familiar albums in there, and I don’t intend to skip them.

Not very far at all right now: on Loveless.

I was quite surprised by Neutral Milk Hotel. I wasn’t blown away by what I heard, but I didn’t feel trolled for having listened to it. Both were expectations I had going into it. I might listen to it again.

So far, with My Bloody Valentine, I’m more impressed by how I feel when it’s taken away. I had to take a break mid-album to watch a deadlift video and I felt surprisingly cold for it. While I’m listening it just feels like a new sort of normal.

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Marvel Masons

Day #6: Your favorite organization

Illuminati

This was a tough call. I mean, the Illuminati doesn’t have a ton of characters to its membership. However, their influence is ENORMOUS given their top positions in their relative communities, and I think calling that calling them a “team” is erroneous for the fact that they refuse to publicly admit working together.

Your idea is bad and you should feel bad.

I just cannot help but have a mental “FUCK YEAH!” moment when I see these characters together.

I used to have that with the Avengers, but those fuckers keep swapping around their roster that it’s pretty much Thor-yeahing at this point.

Just say no.

I just really like world-shaking events are portrayed as “eh, maybe” bureaucracy.

Rather, Namor avoiding getting his shit fucked up by Hulk because he refused to get involved. As much as I’m not-that-into Namor on the whole, in this he really shows off his clout as a ruler. He understands the limits. He’s also a prick about it, which makes me happy.

Do something to Hulk that could piss him off? No. No thank you. Have fun with that.

Also, there’s an alt-verse version where Doom replaces Richards on the memberlist. As well it should be.

If you truly understand what these characters mean to the Marvel Universe of Earth, reading the first issue devoted to them will give you chills. I can’t think of another organization that has done this that wouldn’t be better described as a team.

And since this post has been Namorwanked pretty hard already, I’m not going to bother writing anything relevant for these bits. Tony is easily my least favorite of the group (followed by Richards) so…

SICK BURN!

You don't even have to read it.

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Marvel [scream]

Day #4: Your favorite royal

Accurately depicts my last breakup. Flight to moon included.

Today was a little tougher, it was between Black Bolt and Namor. Obviously I’ve chosen Black Bolt, but why is difficult.

I know that on first impression I hated Namor. I didn’t like the faggy character design and his origin didn’t interest me in the least.

I don’t remember my first impression of Black Bolt, I’m sure it was with the 90s animated X-men…

For some reason, also, I always call Black Bolt, Banshee. Probably because he screams so righteously.

Aside from what I vaguely remember to being a battle with Phoenix, all I really have in the way of childhood memories is having an action figure of him with really shitty articulation and having cut off his little wing thingies with scissors.

I also sort-of remember my cousin Jesse giving him some kinda praise when I was little, as well, probably in relation to my having this action figure.

I also never thought Black Bolt was an angry queen.

Seriously.

If Atlanteans all styled their eyebrows like that, they deserve to have been sunk.

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Marvel Divaday

Day #3: Your favorite diva

I only really knew her from watching the spidey cartoon as a child.

And I liked Catwoman better at the time. Just made more sense to me that she’d wear all gray, being a burglar, rather than BIG FLOPPY MESS OF WHITE HIGHLIGHT WTF.

But that wasn’t really the function of Black Cat. Catwoman was more the cat-burglar side of the coin.

Black Cat was the cocktease.

Peter’s got the sexiest redhead in the world by far. But shit, if I were Spiderman, aside from wanting to kill myself, I’d be chasing that pussy too. Red made me look like a bumbling idiot around the brohemians at school, but Cat’ll punk me infront of the goddamn Rhino.

THE RHINO.

HOW CAN YOU NOT LOOK COMPETENT NEXT TO THE RHINO?

BLACK CAT.

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Marvel Doomday

Day #2: Your favorite villain

You know, he technically could fit quite a number of slots on this list.

The only reason he didn’t make the top spot was I wasn’t immediately in love with the bro when I first met him. I thought he was just a dumb robot guy.

But then I learned how much he HATED RICHARDS.

I have an honest respect for a man who rules a country, amasses otherworldly (that is, beyond political) power, has legions of followers of both the minion and citizen variety… but most importantly NEVER LETS GO OF A GRUDGE.

Lex Luthor is kinda like this in DC, only Lex is stupid-looking. Even after he tried the whole GREEN + POWERED ARMOR thing he just… no.

See the difference between Lex Luthor, whom I’ve never liked and doubt I ever will, and Doom is this: DOOM IS MASTER.

Lex whines about how he doesn’t have superpowers on his own. Doom furrows his brow (WHICH IN TURN FURROWS THE BROW OF HIS METAL VISAGE) and seizes powers for himself. You think you’re the herald of Galactus? Fuck your surfboard. I rule. SNATCH!

I suppose in this case, fuck your hammertime.

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Thems Beach Muscles

Workout for Friday, October 1, 2010

Incline Dumbbell Bench

1. 40lbs. x 5
2. 50 x 3
3. 70 x 2
4. 80 x 7 (too heavy)
5. 70 x 7
6. 70 x 7
7. 70 x 7

Dumbbell Curl

1. 5lbs. x 3
2. 10 x 2
3. 15 x 7 (too heavy)
4. 10 x 7
5. 10 x 7
6. 10 x 7

I should note, I’ve yet to record a rep of dumbbell curling on this site that wasn’t performed lying against that incline bench. Smashing my back against something is the only way I can easily tell if I’m shoulder-cheating or not.

The way I’m going to implement weight increases is, next time I do this workout, the second set will be with the increased weight but probably not for all 7 reps. So for the benching it may be something like this next workout:

1. 80 x 7
2. 80 x 2
3. 70 x 7
4. 70 x 7

Cardio

1 mile in 20 minutes, 149 calories, on the treadmill. I just hit the fat burn button and plugged in my info. Not really a whole lot else to say because everything kept changing automatically. Shot for a 130bpm and was surprised at how much of an effort it took to get to it.

Other than I told some dude I was doing volume work so I wouldn’t have to do cardio, and then twenty minutes later he gave me the queerest look as he walked past me on a treadmill.

MY BACK IS KILLING ME I HATE REPPING DEADLIFTS OH MY GOD.

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Marvel Memepool

Day 1: Your Favorite Character

Pic related.

When I was little I picked my heroes by superpower usefulness. My friends picked their superheroes/powers likewise.

When I say friends I mean targets of teasing and mockery.

When they pick “eye beams” and “stronger den da HULK!!!” and “ooh ohh no I want mind powers I’d fuck up the Hulk!” I realized a list of things:

1. Playground etiquette precludes me from being more powerful than everyone at the same time.
2. Fags don’t know Thanos, and since most kids only knew the cartoons, Galactus isn’t a threat and Doom’s robots aren’t that useful.
3. Oh, right, I don’t get to be villain.
4. Fuck these rules suck.
5. Oh shit I’m going to get my ass kicked.
6. TELEPORTATION!
7. Bobby already picked Nightcrawler.
8. I don’t want to be a black guy. Or Wolverine.

And I wasn’t at the point yet where I even thought about being a girl so Blink was out of the question…

So I picked Quicksilver and got laughed at because I’m fat and I can’t/couldn’t run.

Anyway the point is I need a healing factor so I can troll people with real superpowers. I’m not sexy enough to be a mainliner with plot armor. I need recoverability.

Plus Deadpool gets a lot of neat teleporty shit! BONUS!

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Getting Cut?

Considering following this routine.

Still gotta get my diet right though. I’m such a carb fiend.

But my calories are in order, so, I’m not really complaining THAT MUCH…

Workout for 9/29/2010

Deadlift

1. 135lbs. x 5
2. 185 x 3
3. 185 x 3
4. 185 x 3

I’m really thinking I should learn how to do power cleans if I’m going to be doing pulls from the floor at volume. Or Romanian DL. Something. This just felt weird and I don’t feel comfortable lowering the weight much more than I already did.

I hate having to rebuild my DL from nothing. That’s what I’ve BEEN doing up until now.

I might just keep up with the triples and just apply the changes described in the article to everything else.

Aside from that though, I wasn’t feeling totally recovered from my previous workout. This weight felt really good, a lot better than failing a single would have, because I had planned to push the weight again.

If I make it to a second cycle of this workout I’m going to bump this ten pounds and keep doing triples.

Seated Dumbbell Military Press

1. 10lbs. x 5
2. 20 x 7
3. 20 x 7
4. 20 x 7
5. 20 x 7

I just guesstimated the weight on this cumbersomely-named exercise based upon my lateral raise performance, rounded down to account for me not really having ever done this exercise seriously.

Felt weird, but not in a tweaky sort of way. I’ll be bumping this next workout as well.

Body Weight: 169.5lbs
BF%: 18.9%

Fat black man on crunch machine calls me over to show him how/what-for I’m using the bio-impedance fat-tester thingy. I show him.

“You’re 18%?”
“Apparently.”
“You don’t LOOK 18.”
“I’m wearing a shirt.”
“It hides that much?”
“If you stand up straight.”

I’d stick him in the high-3os, easily. If I had felt like wasting time I probably would have fucked with him some more, but at the same time I didn’t want to interrupt the burn he was going for in his abs.

To… tone his midsection.

I guess.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA~

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Back to Shoulders

I am going to have to either stop chinning or lateral raising.

Chinning: Compound movement that has realistic utilitarian purpose.

Laterals: Makes my shoulders bigger and I like that.

Tough call.

Workout for September 26, 2010

Body Weight: 172lbs.
Body Fat Percentage: 20%

Fed/Fasted: Fed. Fasted ten hours before working out, but the day prior I ate a LOT.

Pre-workout EC taken at 9:15AM.

ChinAss

1. 42lbs. x 5
2. 42 x 5
3. 82 x 5
4. 117 x 3
5. Bodyweight (172) – 4 negatives.

Did some lat activation stuff from a dead hang that I didn’t count, after.

Lateral Raise

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 55 x 5
3. 70 x 3
4. 85 x 2
5. 105 x NOTHING. Got a fourth of the way up and wouldn’t budge.
6. 95 x 1 – and ow, man.

In retrospect, pretty foolish thinking I could handle post-deadlift poundages after doing something already stressful to the shoulders.

Crunch Machine

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 70 x 3
3. 100 x 2
4. 120 x 3 – increase.

Finally getting somewhere.

I really shouldn’t have done any vanity training and just got to the cardio that I wound up too sapped to do at all, but whatever. My caloric deficit hasn’t been that great (in more ways than one) so while that is definitely an argument for increased cardio… it also meant I felt capable of DOING the lifting.

If I can lift, I’m going to lift. End of story.

Twist

1. 40lbs. x 5
2. 50 x 3
3. 70 x 2
4. 90 x 5 (increase! Grunted like a boar though…)

Calf Raise

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 75 x 5
3. 75 x 5
4. 75 x 15 – increase

Dumbbell Curl

1. 15lbs x 5
2. 15 x 5
3. 15 x 9 – increase

I just alternated arms, was starting to feel tired and I wanted to finish up. No idle rest.

Pushdown

1. 27.5lbs x 5
2. 32.5 x 5
3. 32.5 x 5
4. 32.5 x 5 – could have done more, but stopped short. Increase.

I don’t want to risk over-fatiguing my triceps, even though the rest before my next incline bench session is probably sufficient.

TIME: 10AM – 12:22PM

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captin amurica

ok guys

i no ppl tink jus cuz he dont have ‘real powers” or ba mans car or belt dat he only does thro his sled but no

he is AMURICA

how moare powr do u need?

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