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07-17-2006, 09:15 PM
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New Member Intro
Hey y'all, just wanted to introduce myself. Been browsing the forum for a little while now, great resource! I found the forum through the Fit Cast, which I found out about from EC's website. A little background, I've been lifting for about nine years since I started high school, trained for football in H.S., wasted a bunch of time in college with mainstream bodybuilding crap, then finally started doing some good stuff in the last couple years. Right now I'm kinda in transition, I did a basic westside template for a while and put on some serious strength, now I'm trying to put more emphasis on conditioning, flexibility, and mobility, not just strength (still definitely training for strength, just not my only concern). I'm also interested in aesthetics, but I just concentrate on performance and the looks usually take care of themselves, you don't see many fat elite athletes. I did a local powerlifting meet in April, my first time competing, I squatted 418, benched 325, and pulled 474, all raw at a 196 bodyweight. My gym PR's are a 435 parallel squat, 375 bench (touch and go) and 475 deadlift.
Hope I can learn some stuff about my new goals, I'm sure I will, and I hope I can contribute as well.
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07-17-2006, 09:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Beverly, MA
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Wow, glad to have you here!!
I am amazed you listened to the show then found the forum. Good Deal!!
Just wanted to say welcome and glad you like the show!!
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07-17-2006, 09:28 PM
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Welcome!
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"Why do I keep going to the gym? Because I have cultivated this inner psychotic voice that laughs at me and the end of each and every set. It tells me I'm weak. It tells me I'm soft. It tells me I've been weak and soft all my life. And after it berates me for a good 60 seconds, I tell the voice to get bent because I'm busy getting stronger." - Me, in response to a co-worker asking me why I keep dragging myself to the gym
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07-17-2006, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Larrabee
Wow, glad to have you here!!
I am amazed you listened to the show then found the forum. Good Deal!!
Just wanted to say welcome and glad you like the show!!
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Thanks Kevin. The Fit Cast is awesome, I've listened to every episode. The magazine is a GREAT idea too!! I'm just so sick of all the misinformation in the mainstream fitness media, it's time to start bringing proper training styles to mainstream America! |
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07-17-2006, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason B
Thanks Kevin. The Fit Cast is awesome, I've listened to every episode. The magazine is a GREAT idea too!! I'm just so sick of all the misinformation in the mainstream fitness media, it's time to start bringing proper training styles to mainstream America!
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Thanks, I promise no "How to feel like a champ in bed" articles. Or features with the best $4000 jeans. that is unless we get free jeans.  |
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07-17-2006, 09:41 PM
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Welcome to the forums, Jason. Glad to have you hear. Maybe we can help you with those wussy lifts of yours!
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"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
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07-17-2006, 09:49 PM
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Fitness Expert
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Newton, MA
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Originally Posted by Jason B
I found the forum through the Fit Cast, which I found out about from EC's website.
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Ya hear that JP? I done good! 
Welcome aboard, Jason. |
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07-17-2006, 10:04 PM
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Nutrition/Fitness Expert
Join Date: May 2006
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Jason, welcome to the boards.
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07-17-2006, 10:15 PM
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I think, therefore I post
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Originally Posted by Eric Cressey
Ya hear that JP? I done good!
Welcome aboard, Jason. |
It's about time you start earning your keep around here! :p
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www.jpfitness.com
http://forums.jpfitness.com
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
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07-17-2006, 10:22 PM
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You that wide sumbitch that posted your pic at t-nation? Welcome!
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07-18-2006, 12:28 AM
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I normally try to be early in welcoming someone, but I kept the computer off as much as possible (it was up to 94 degrees here and I have to protect this old computer).
Welcome, make yourself at home. There's left overs in the fridge (leave the beer alone, and the rum) and calbe on the TV. Feel free to make coffee, but clean up after yourself. You mother doesn't browse these forums.
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07-18-2006, 02:16 AM
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Welcome, nice lifts.
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Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1.4.84.
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07-18-2006, 02:22 AM
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Welcome
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sidney J. Harris
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07-18-2006, 02:54 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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welcome to the boards
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07-18-2006, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by RockHard
You that wide sumbitch that posted your pic at t-nation? Welcome!
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No, I never posted pics at t-nation. I read there a lot, but hardly every post, the board is just so busy.
And thanks for the welcomes, people!
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I do not eat. I FEED.
I do not sleep. I RECHARGE.
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07-18-2006, 07:46 AM
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Welcome aboard. Great to have you here.
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07-18-2006, 07:51 AM
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Welcome. I'm guessing there are a few things that we can learn from you. I look forward to it.
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Past performance is not indicative of future success.
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07-18-2006, 07:52 AM
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Back on Track
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Welcome aboard Jason.
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Thanks, I promise no "How to feel like a champ in bed" articles. Or features with the best $4000 jeans. that is unless we get free jeans.
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-Kevin Larrabee
I guess that means I will have to keep my subscription to Men's Health.
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07-18-2006, 08:30 AM
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Link-Zilla
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Alabama
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Isn't synergy great?
Welcome Jason.
Lisa
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Exercise and nutrition play equal roles, and the motivation and discipline to stay consistent are really the glue that holds a program together.
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