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Uploading your minds

BendtheBar — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:34:52 GMT

Google futurist claims we will be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years | Mail Online

We'll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years, Google expert claims

Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years - an event known as singularity

Our 'fragile' human body parts will be replaced by machines by the turn of the century

And if these predictions comes true, it could make humans immortal

African Keyhole Garden

BendtheBar — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:13:25 GMT

Keyhole Garden - How to make an African style raised bed - YouTube

Watermelons

quigs — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:56:44 GMT

I am so hungry for a nice sweet juicy watermelon. However I have bought 2 this summer and they were not sweet. What is the best way to pick a watermelon?

Taco Bell Power Protein Menu

ElementalVirago — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:07:10 GMT

Taco Bell To Test 'Power Protein' Menu

Discuss.

High Fat Diet on a Bulk

SecondsOut — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:09:20 GMT

Recently, I've been eating a lot more fat than carbs. I'm not really doing it on purpose, I've just been wanting high-fat stuff like eggs, nuts, bacon, and whole milk. I'm fine with it, just curious to get your thoughts on high fat diets while on a bulk.
I'm not trying to get this effect, but I've found articles on different sites that say high fat diets -- particularly saturated fat -- affect your hormones. Specifically, some say fat intake boosts your test level (obviously not as high as gear). I can say that I've made a lot of progress in the past on a high fat diet, but I wasn't eating like that to boost test.
So what are your thoughts and experiences with high fat diets? Have you noticed quicker, more noticeable gains while eating high fat compared to eating high carbs?

Mori's Gonna BE STRONG!!!

RobMoriRB — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:24:23 GMT

After I walked off my job two weeks ago all I knew I wanted to do was to lift heavy ass weights. Latly I have been stuck in a trashie mood till now. I am starting to turn everything around and start to cross train, and see where it will take me. Finding my self with no clue where I want to take my lifting, I been doing soul searching, and two things are common. 1) I want to work on my Olympic Lifts 2) I Want to be strong all a round.

On the assistance work it can be from pulling an atv with weight to fat grip(axle) lift to caarreing barrels for distance. ONE thing is for sure, chalk will be used, blood will be spilt, cuts will be made!!!

I will be starting a this log called Mori's Gonna BE STRONG.

Routine BREAKDOWN:

Monday: OLY Work
Wednesday: OLY Work
Friday: OLY Work

Routine:

Day 1
Snatch
C&J
Squat
Chest&Arm assistance

Day 2
C&J
Squat
Snatch
Back assistance

Day 3
Squat
Snatch
CJ
Leg assistance

If anyone has any excersices they think I should try just post them :)

STARTING MONDAY JUNE 24th!!!!

Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth

BendtheBar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:39:42 GMT

The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth - YouTube

Dave's Try to Not Be Weaker Than Piss Powerlifting Log

Paradox — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:57:24 GMT

Well, I'm sitting in the airport in Moscow. I just finished my first Raw World's, the write up can be found at the end of my last log or this thread:

(Will link when I'm home)

Worlds was quite the experience. I'm a half decent lifter at home, not the best by any means, but lifting at Worlds showed me I have a LOT of room for improvement. I finished 8th, almost 7th, out of I think 10 lifters. There were truly mind boggling numbers thrown around in both my weigt class and all the others. For Christ's sake, there were a couple woman who just about out totalled me.

The biggest thing I learned is that all the top lifters seem to have one common factor in their training, which just so happened to agree with what I thought:

Volume.

A fuck ton of volume. Hurt your soul types of volume.

The goal for my next meet, which I believe will be Eastern Canadians in November, is to greatly improve my work capacity in terms of volume. I'm hoping to total at least 660kg there, maybe a bit more. I had a bit left in the tank for squats, probably near 7.5kg, and the weight loss affected the bench quite a bit. If I fix up my deadlift technique a bit, 660 should be easily obtainable.

I'll continue running Sheiko CMS programs, but I'll be adding front squats to Wednesday and Saturday. Tuesday and perhaps another day will be light assistance work as per usual. I don't have a great deal to tweak, I just have to keep training. I won't be doing nearly as much box work for deadlifts, only deficits, pauses and normal from the floor work. Fixing up technique will make lockouts a non-issue.

I haven't weighed myself since the meet, but seeing as I lost 7kg in a week since leaving Canada by the time I weighed in, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm well under 100kg. I'm ball parking 95-97kg. Therefore, the first week or two of training will use training maxes at 85 or 90% of what I hit at the meet. There is no reason to start too high. In fact, it's stupid.

That's all I can think of right now. I'll post training, etc, as soon as it happens.

Marshall Freakshow Johnson Appreciation Thread

BendtheBar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:34:54 GMT

Marshall Freakshow Johnson: Why do I train? - YouTube

new to the site

zach90 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:46:08 GMT

hi my name is zach and im actualy coming over here from the muscleandstrength website which i have been apart of since 2008. im really interested in doing a powerlifting meet but i have no idea which fed to join or which meet to pick. i will be wanting to compete in florida if that helps

Gilliam Ward 1107@165 raw!

J_Byrd — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:31:51 GMT

This is the woman who owned and ran the gym I was training at just before the move. Good woman, strong as hell 2! She can beat a lot of guys in that class!

No raw meet at the XPC Arnold

J_Byrd — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:20:04 GMT

Just saw that a post from Steve Denison that said there will be no XPC Raw meet at the Arnold, do to another fed running a raw meet already. I really hate that as I thought this was going to get the best of the best raw lifters all together at once. Apparently it will still be held, just 2 weeks later.

Seriously?

quigs — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:55:12 GMT

I heard today that they either did or are wanting to introduce a kid on Sesame Street that has a father who is in jail. Why? Do we really need to put this on a show like that that if for children? I really hope that my source was wrong and heard wrong as well because I do not agree with this at all.

Body temps

angie828 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:50:59 GMT

So my husband is always so hot, and I seem to always be cold. I know that men are suppose to be warmer than woman but it is crazy how the house can feel comfortable to me, yet be so darn hot for him that he is breaking out in a sweat, or the house is very cold to me, but yet he says that it is not cold enough for him. What gives?

Calling btb and anyone else who could help

LindenGarcia18 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:39:26 GMT

I started my new diet plan the other day, going for 2700 calories.

The diet I picked was one from bodybuilding.com, a teens 12 week trainer. (of course, I'd be on the diet allot longer than 12 weeks)

this is it. Bodybuilding.com - Male Teen Muscle Building Video Guide

I understand that what I need to do is establish a starting point, and move on and tweak things from there once I know where I'm at. However, I want to get it generally right, and not way off like some where suggesting it we're.

I understand everyone has differing opinions on what is the right ay to do something, and what's the wrong way. However, these opinions normally only differ slightly, and all end up heading towards the same result.

Steve gave me a great analogy today.

Someone wants to climb a mountain, and when he or she askes people who have been there and climbed said mountain, they all had differing approaches they took to get there, even though they all came out with the same result.

This makes sense, although if I am in fact way off with the diet, like some we're suggesting, then I'm not going to reach that goal, because what I'm doing isn't a variation of many ways to get there, its a blockade.

Basically, I don't know weather I'm eating too many carbs. Someone said there was no way I should be eating that many, so I'd like to get some opinions on weather this is an OK diet, or weather the macros and portion sizes need tweaking and how to do it.

I tried to PM you BtB but it wasn't working for some reason so I wrote this thread up instead.
Seen as this is an actual thread now rather than a PM as it should've, to the others who've also like Steve really gone out of their way to help me through this (you know who you are)
I'd appreciate your input too as I know you and BtB think on the same lines, If you have time and are willing to help me once again of course (that goes for btb too, don't want you to spend time helping me if your busy)

What I do want to avoid now that this has gone public though is the criticism.
I'd like maybe to just go one thread without being criticized for annoying people,over complicating things, or not listening.

I'm trying my best to understand.