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2004/05/09, 03:29 PM
Well, I guess there is an interest here. I guess we need to have caregories and assign them to a person to monitor and compile results. For instance a few folks like Andrews squat, bench dead competition so Andrew you just volunteered to run that one:big_smile::big_smile: If its ok with you how'bout folks IM their s/b/d and you just apply your point system and post results every other week. I volunteered big Andrew because his scoring method gave me a headache.
We need to decide some things like how % of lift will work. Do we start with personal records or where we are when the challange starts.
I volunteer to track BF% and measurements. I think howdie suggested a point system for positive vs ngative gains/losses. Would it work to categorize waist and abdomen as points for negative inches and other body parts as points for positive inches?? And again should we start where we are right now??
We need a stat keeper for weight gain/loss, and any other categories we want to have.
And guys, puleeease do better with the geezer jokes. What you are shooting at me is really lame. I can have my employees send some suggestions if you need them. They are brutal.
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Foolish consistancies are the hobgoblins of small minds.
Charlie
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2004/05/09, 04:13 PM
Oh yeah.... Lana, I will be happy to compete in the girly lift division but I have to be able to change in the girls locker room.
And hec, thats fine just don't poop where you step.
danidatagirl, there will be no separation of the sexes, I jokingly suggested that to get a rise out of certain wimminz here. The fact that Amy hasn't responded to these jabs is making me nervous. She scares the crap out of me.
Is everybody ok with a 2 month time frame??
Princess, I noted your lil cracks on another board....I never forget and paybacks a bitch your hineeness.
Ok, howdie you are from Texas. That explains alot. :big_smile:
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Foolish consistancies are the hobgoblins of small minds.
Charlie
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2004/05/09, 05:22 PM
hey now!
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2004/05/09, 05:33 PM
yes charlie, i know it explains why i'm able to be both freakishly strong AND devastatingly charming and gorgeous:big_smile:
and where is asimmer? i think you've got the right to be nervous, she's probably got something cooked up especially for you...
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2004/05/09, 05:46 PM
I volunteer to track whatever you need me to Charlie. I know it is going to be hard enough for you with the alzheimers and all.
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Would it be classified as overly competitive if I refused to let a 4 year old beat me at chutes and ladders?
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2004/05/09, 05:49 PM
thats fine with me, i'm not in school no longer so i have free time........are we doing squat, bench and deadlift? Or do we want military in there.......that way we have the 4 hardcore/ best compound core movments in there.
I think it would be easier if we just started clean....i'm not good with percentages or anything......I see no real point in teling me the maxes now, I saw we start from zero. And is say 2 months or so..im me your maxes........best part about this system....is that girls can compete with the guys, since i'm using your bodyweight as the donominator anything else let me know,...when it starts......what the lifts are? etc.
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.......adversity causes some to break, but others to break records!
......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened
......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn
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2004/05/09, 06:34 PM
am I supposed to be upset about the girly lift comment?
I already know I would pick charlie up and press him for reps, so his big talk doesn't bother me. He can't outrun me with those crabby old knees and smoker's lungs, anyhow.
Now, why on earth would I scare you, charlie????
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2004/05/09, 07:29 PM
Andrew I vote for 3 lifts with no military press. I would love to enter the 3 lift deal. My shoulder is still recovering from rotator cuff surgery and I can't play if we do militaries. But do as the majority says.
"Press Charlie for reps" God that makes me hot......
yes mam, no mam yes mam no mam...That was my "hec da rec talking to asimmer imitation"
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Foolish consistancies are the hobgoblins of small minds.
Charlie
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2004/05/09, 08:50 PM
I am in with the 3 main power lifts bench dead and squat. My legs the size of red woods are going to reak fear in the hearts of mere mortals.
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I am that
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now and forever.No one holds command over me. No man. No god. I am a beast and that is enough.
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2004/05/10, 12:06 AM
ok cool fine with me.............I was gonna suggest the clean.....but I thinks thats more dangerous than the military, and is quite noisy if you lose yoru grip when it hitts the floor lol..............but 3 lifts it is!..................when we start?......and whens the lift off end??
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.......adversity causes some to break, but others to break records!
......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened
......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn
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2004/05/10, 03:18 AM
Charlie I'm not too worried about you remembering my jibes, they say short term memory is the first to go with alzheimers :laugh:
Her Royal Heinous
Princesslodgey
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2004/05/10, 05:18 AM
Charlie, if you need a little help in a category, I'll lend a hand. I know how busy the computer gets at those "homes", plus, I'm pretty good with a spreadsheet.
This is starting to sound really exciting! It seems the last few challenges at work, a lot of people sign up, and in the first week, there is lots of people in the gym, after a while they drop off. It'll be great to take part in one where everyone is motivated!
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2004/05/10, 07:58 AM
I would be in for the 3 lift comp but I still have trouble converting cement bricks to weigths...Charlie I think you had better farm out some of this....all this computer time may cause your eye sight to worsen and the bottlecap lenses you have now just canna take anymore!
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LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
7707mutt@freetrainers.com
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2004/05/10, 10:26 AM
Andrew, the point to the challange is to measure progress. If we turn in our maxes at the end, there is no bench mark to go by. I was hoping we could get progress reports every 2 weeks or so. Is that too much for you to want to keep up with?? If so its cool and I am sure somebody will volunteer to keep those stats.jcannuck says he can spreadsheet somthing so let us know.
Muttersnapper, I'm a farmin. I will keep BF% and inches lost and gained. If there are too many entrants in these categories I will beg for or draft help.
We still need somebody to track weight and total gains in lifts.
Anybody have anymore categories??
Is mybodycomp.comcool with everybody??
I think jdelts should compete with the Texans 'cause he is just plain weird. Princess Hi-nee-ness too fits in with the lone star folk.
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thats fine with me, i'm not in school no longer so i have free time........are we doing squat, bench and deadlift? Or do we want military in there.......that way we have the 4 hardcore/ best compound core movments in there.
I think it would be easier if we just started clean....i'm not good with percentages or anything......I see no real point in teling me the maxes now, I saw we start from zero. And is say 2 months or so..im me your maxes........best part about this system....is that girls can compete with the guys, since i'm using your bodyweight as the donominator anything else let me know,...when it starts......what the lifts are? etc.
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2004/05/10, 12:18 PM
ok cool, i'll do the lift ratio at the end....cause I missed this semester of math so I dunno about percentages lol
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.......adversity causes some to break, but others to break records!
......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened
......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn
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2004/05/10, 01:55 PM
mybodycomp.com looks great..
I can volunteer to track a category or two, I think I can handle the percentages - there's a handy little button for that in Excel :cool:
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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2004/05/10, 02:14 PM
I just tried the bodycomp.com. According to it my chest is out of proportion and I need to lose fat from that area...Hmmmmm
Oh Charlie, your payback took a strange form ....
I did a home visit on an old man during work today. I knelt on the floor at one point only to discover I'd knelt in a puddle of urine. Was he one of your friends? Did you put him up to it? My trousers smelled unpleasant for the rest of the day :(
never again will I besmirch the name of Charlie
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2004/05/10, 02:19 PM
Oh, am I competing against the texans or am I in a team with the texans competing against everyone else?
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2004/05/10, 02:26 PM
Princess, I am falling in love. :big_smile:
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Charlie
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2004/05/10, 02:30 PM
Sorry , I was rudely interrupted by work. That was actually a worthy and funny jab. Thanks. The Texas thing is a reference to a story I told Goodoldtex a while ago. When I was in bootcamp, the Navy put Texans in their own company...all by themselves. I don't know why.
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Charlie
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2004/05/10, 02:30 PM
princess i say with the combination of your biting wit and uh, favorable chest proportion, you can definitely join team texas:dumbbell::big_smile::dumbbell:
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Oh, am I competing against the texans or am I in a team with the texans competing against everyone else?
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2004/05/10, 02:37 PM
I want to be against team Texas. We all know only steers and queers come from Texas.
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Would it be classified as overly competitive if I refused to let a 4 year old beat me at chutes and ladders?
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2004/05/10, 04:38 PM
You now they grow us boys big up north! we eat raw meat and sleep naked in the snow!! north woodsman all the way:cool:
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now and forever.No one holds command over me. No man. No god. I am a beast and that is enough.
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2004/05/10, 04:45 PM
We sleep in warm beds with our beautiful wives here in dixie. We also have ovens and indoor plumbing.:big_smile:
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Charlie
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2004/05/10, 05:58 PM
oh hec, you aint seen my horns yet braddah...just don't get caught by them if you happen to go up against us...youll be sorry you did
Lift heavy! BE STRONG LIKE STEER!
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2004/05/10, 06:17 PM
What the hell am I? middle south?? I'm in tennessee......
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......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened
......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn
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2004/05/10, 08:39 PM
well. . . if it's gonna be for 2 months starting June 1st, guess I'm kinda out then. . . going on vacation for 3 weeks between June and July and then moving the end of July so. . . I'll just keep tabs and root you all on I guess. Will do my own "challenge" of not gaining 10lbs on vacation :big_smile:
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2004/05/10, 11:49 PM
I'm in. I'm from California. I wanna go up against Texas, just cuz it sounds like the cool thing to do these days. I might also propose a pull-up contest. I love pull-ups. I can't do that many of them, but with a competition, I might be able to do three sets of ten.
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2004/05/11, 03:10 AM
The really funny thing is that it doesn't matter what size you are now because we're looking at change in results...
so me, a relative newbie, has the potential to make bigger gains than the seasoned campaigners....
and I'm also prepared to cheat :laugh:
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2004/05/11, 03:13 AM
Only joking - team texas has no need to cheat
we will reign victorious on August 1st (or whenever it is we finish)
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2004/05/11, 04:08 AM
that's exactly what I was thinking, but I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag.
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2004/05/11, 10:16 AM
Yes, the challange should finish up August 1....Well for everybody except the Texans. They will probably finish a few days later.
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Only joking - team texas has no need to cheat
we will reign victorious on August 1st (or whenever it is we finish)
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Charlie
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2004/05/11, 10:17 AM
June 1st will be here before we know it.
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2004/05/11, 02:02 PM
I am eating pizza and cupcakes exclusively until June 1. I plann to be the size of the Outback Blimp. Danielle, did you get my IM?? You never know with those things cause the IM'er doesn't track outgoing stuff.
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Charlie
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2004/05/11, 01:33 PM
It is coming fast.. question is, should we let ourselves go from now til then so we have greater room for improvement..
Technically we have two free weeks to eat what we want and slack off freely, right?? :laugh::laugh:
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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2004/05/11, 01:37 PM
I was thinking the same way datdani, but I dont think I can do that. I am going to get back in the gym next week. My neck should feel better by then.
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2004/05/11, 02:18 PM
Ok Charlie you convinced me. I am not going to do anything.
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Would it be classified as overly competitive if I refused to let a 4 year old beat me at chutes and ladders?
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2004/05/11, 02:25 PM
Team texas is in trouble I just hit 3 reps using 70lbs dumbells on incline today.
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now and forever.No one holds command over me. No man. No god. I am a beast and that is enough.
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2004/05/11, 02:52 PM
and now stepping up for team texas...
i hit 5 reps with 45s on inclines 2 weeks ago - tomorrow i'm going for 50s :dumbbell::angry::dumbbell:
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2004/05/11, 02:54 PM
I had a diet coke with my cupcakes.
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Charlie
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2004/05/11, 02:56 PM
Okay I am going to create a spreadsheet to track the competition on the three powerlifts: bench, dead, and squat.
I am thinking that the weight should also be maintained in this spreadsheet.. for the weekly ratio to be correct, the new body weight will need to be re-entered along with the new lift weights, right??
**Action for everyone who wants to be included**
Some time in the next week or so, send me an IM with your name, your starting body weight, your current maxes, and your experience level.
Questions to be answered before sending info:
1.)What are the experience levels? Novice, Intermediate and Professional?? Or just Beginner and Advanced?
2.)Are the maxes 1 rep, 3 reps, 8 reps, or does it matter since we're doing percent improvement??
Also, unless there is a way to post the file here on the site, I can do one of two things.. post it on my home web page through the cable company, or create a yahoo group to post it to (never done this but I think it's free) or.. if anyone has a webserver that would host it, that's cool too.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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2004/05/11, 03:03 PM
I am interested to see how we are going to track all of this confusion.
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Would it be classified as overly competitive if I refused to let a 4 year old beat me at chutes and ladders?
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2004/05/11, 03:18 PM
I went for a chicken sandwich AND my salad..
diet coke? I'm disappointed charlie!
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I had a diet coke with my cupcakes.
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2004/05/11, 03:24 PM
You all are wasteing your time...I hit 75lb deumbell shoulder presses 6 times last time I :dumbbell::dumbbell:did shoulders!
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LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
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2004/05/11, 03:33 PM
Mutt, It will be % of increase so when I stop eating cupcakes and start eating meat the old man is gonna spank you so hard you'll be hollering Y'ALL QUIT!!!!!!
Which reminds me, We are doing the squat bench deadlift thing. What other lifts do we want to put in as individual lifts??
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Charlie
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2004/05/11, 03:38 PM
Boys, you keep putting up numbers of what you used...what % of body weight is that? Howdie's impressive display combined with her lower bodyweight must be quite impressive. I'd fear howdie if i were y'all.
Charlie...you're damned right the texans might come in a day late...we always have to kick a few extra asses on the way back in...can't let the fun die that easy.
I took a shower last night :)
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2004/05/11, 03:39 PM
And I'm locking up the sheep Tex. You make 'em nervous.:big_smile::big_smile:
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Charlie
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2004/05/11, 03:42 PM
Disregard the experience level question.. after further offline discussion with a buffalo it is no longer relevant.
We'll all compete against each other, newcomers and longtimers alike.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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2004/05/11, 03:44 PM
So I guess i am stupid this afternoon explain the % thingie
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LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
7707mutt@freetrainers.com
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2004/05/11, 03:47 PM
Don't sleep on my sneaky strength. I am taking all comers, except for asimmer, howdie, datdani, mutt, charlie, tex, bigandrew, bb1, and mmaibohm. So bring it on!!!!
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