Thursday, April 19, 2012

Thoughts about life, crap, training and stuff....

People that hold on to anger and resentment baffle me.  They really do.  Your'e pissed off at someone, so you sit around and wreck your own day with negative bullshit, and this does what exactly?  Seriously, what good did it do you?  I'm not saying that you can never be angry, but I think there has to be some balance there.  Someone said something about you or to you, that pissed you off.  Knee jerk reaction is that it makes you angry.  Sure, I get it.  But wasting a whole day or longer stewing over shit like that is ridiculous.  If someone killed your best friend I can see being mad about it for a day or two, but people need to keep this shit in perspective.  The only day you are ruining with this shit, is your own.  Remember, when you hold a grudge you're letting someone live rent free in your head.

Jones vs Evans this weekend.  I hate both of these guys, but for some reason I find myself leaning towards Rashad.  I think you saw some chinks in Jones armor against Machida and no one knows Jones better than Evans.  I think Evans wins this weekend.  And I'm saying, if I HAD to put money down it'd be on Evans.

I can see why a lot of guys who have done this IF diet cut their training back to just a couple of big lifts per session.  The one thing I notice is that I feel fine early then proceed to hit the wall pretty fast.  It is the first week and I understand that may change, but it's good that I've always been a bit of a lower volume guy.  Let me also say that I think this is a good diet for a guy wanting to shed fat or do the body recomposition as talked about, but this is most definitely not a diet to use to gain mass on for an intermediate or new guy.  Hell no.

Shirts should be in soon.  I'm only doing 2 sizes.  Large and X-Large.  If you claim you need a XX lose some weight fatty.  I can see an exception there for like 6'10" guys but I don't think there are too many of you walking around.

Jamie and I will be doing the podcasts every week for those that keep writing "you guys should do this every week."  Just pointing out the obvious here, that he and I have both talked about the fact that we have been planning on doing these weekly.  And let me also say for those sending in pron clips, make sure in the subject you address them to either me or Jamie.  I have no interest in vomit or hardcore pron.  I'm pretty sure whoever sends me a clip with that has a girl with a great butt in it is going to win.  Just tossing out hints there.

Sucks that I won't be in Iowa this weekend competing.  Not just because of the meet but because a lot of good friends will be there and I really dread that I will miss that time.  Always cherish the times you get to spend with good friends.  You never know when that will be the last time you are able to.

Friday is almost upon us.  It's possible my weekends of living like the king will be coming to an end, but we'll see bro.



 

19 comments:

  1. Hi Paul,
    I don’t want to be bother you, but I want to fallow the SPPC Challenge idea correctly. Unfortunately, life put me in some situation and I want to adapt my program accordingly. So, I will have a big exam in august 25 and until then I must to work from 8 to 17 and after I will study till late in the night. It is possible to change SPPC into a 2 day full body session? Any ideas about this, please ? In the remaining days I will do conditioning and restoration like is prescribed (my problem is that I don’t have the time to go at gym three time at week and I don’t have a home gym) ? Can you give me please some guidelines for the 2 day program ?

    Tank you and sorry for my insistence,
    Marius

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  2. Paul,
    So I wanted to know your opinion on why our society is getting weaker? In other words, why is it that you see either a lot of fat people or very skinny people? You dont see very many guys that have size as well as a good body. I feel like everyone is brainwashed by what society expects of us. I know youre busy but if you can elaborate on this a bit i would appreciate it. Thanks for the info man.

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    1. Prosperity and liberals.

      We have become the society of anti-Spartans. I think that sums it up in every way you can think of.

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    2. I agree and I think it ruins peoples lives. Its a bunch of bullshit, this kind of thinking is exactly what stops people from going balls out in anything they do in life. I know ive allowed it to affect me. That shits not going to happen anymore.

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  3. Paul, it seemed like you wrote that first paragraph for me. Lately I have been carrying around anger with. You put things in perspective. I feel better about today already.

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    1. Let it fucking go man. Enjoy your life and your day. You can go out with a scowl or a smile.

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  4. When ask for Q for you and Jamie, someone had mentioned training for the older guy (mid to late 40's). Will you be addressing that either here or in another chaos and pain?

    In the meantime, awesome info, thanks for everything!

    Ron

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    1. What we're going to do each week is list what segments we are going to talk about and then just have Q&A's for those segments.

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  5. Gonna have to get bigger to fit those L shirts!

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  6. Will you guys be putting the podcast up on iTunes? Loved the first one. Listened to it a second time last night.

    D.

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    1. We're gonna try. Jamie is already looking into it.

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    2. Also for monetization if you don't want to get sponsors, you can do what some of the comedians have done (Adam Carolla, Bill Burr) and get an affiliate link with Amazon.com and have people click through using that link when they go shop at Amazon. Then you guys would get a small percentage of whatever they end up buying. Seems to work well for those guys and doesn't cost your loyal listeners anything to help out.

      D.

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    3. I had one but I never made a dime off it so I eventually took it down.

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  7. I don´t know very well the LeanGains IF, but I am runnning warrior diet (since last May) and lifting by the 5/3/1 NOV template. Since I moved to NOV template, I experienced the earlier hits to the wall. One thing that helped me is eating 3 eggs a couple hours before trainning. More food would screw up the fasting, less than that didn´t work. Probably because of the fat, eating eggs works better for me than calorie equivalent whey protein shake.

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  8. No love for medium size guys, Paul?

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    1. Shouldn't we rename medium size to average size? This would keep dudes from buying mediums.

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  9. You're right about medium size being average size, but even if I weighed 220 I'd still need a medium because I'm only 5"8 and a large is simply too long!

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    1. If you were 5'8" and 220 lean you'd be a super jacked mother fucker and a large would be super fucking tight.

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    2. Yeah it would be super tight but it would also be super long. Heck some large size shirts are tight on me as it is, but they are all too fucking long.

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