Mahler's Monday Morning Motivator (NOT) - JP Fitness Forums

Mahler · 10-10-2007, 10:09 AM

To faithful readers:
I was working on post number 10,000 for Men's Health on Sunday night as well as my motivator and things started to go wrong. When I got to work Monday morning, I was unable to get to the web and it went downhill from there. I had to have a hard drive replaced and all of my software reloaded. I lost some things, including a few fleshed out future motivators. It has taken a few days to get things in a usable format although I now face the task of reconfiguring all my software and programming. I had to do the 10k post from memory and it was not the post I had hoped for, but the MH guys are being very receptive.

Like other difficulties we face, it's time to pick up the pieces and move forward.

OldGuy · 10-10-2007, 10:40 AM

Link to the 10,000th post.

So you total over 17K post between the 2 forums. That's far in excess of JP and LD, the two leaders here. You're the classic forumite I've heard about in guru blogs. :p

Congrats on 10K. It was well said.

Steve-O-68 · 10-10-2007, 11:05 AM

I think it was a fantastic post John. Even if it didn't meet your expectations, it exceeded many others.

Bill2380 · 10-10-2007, 11:11 AM

One for the vault.

kingkop182 · 10-10-2007, 11:40 AM

Great post,John.

I remeber a picture floating around of you and Alwyn from the Summit (the one where he's giving you the pretend punch). I bet it was great to finally the man whose program's helped you get where you are today (and give you an ass whooping along the way

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Mahler · 10-10-2007, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by OldGuy

Link to the 10,000th post.

So you total over 17K post between the 2 forums. That's far in excess of JP and LD, the two leaders here. You're the classic forumite I've heard about in guru blogs. :p

Congrats on 10K. It was well said.

Yes, just some guy that doesn't know anything, ignores all the advice and gets crappy results.

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Originally Posted by Steve-O-68

I think it was a fantastic post John. Even if it didn't meet your expectations, it exceeded many others.

Thank you. My original concept was much more grand, but I can try to piece that together for another day.

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Originally Posted by Bill2380

One for the vault.

Are you saying I should be locked away.

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Originally Posted by kingkop182

Great post,John.
I remeber a picture floating around of you and Alwyn from the Summit (the one where he's giving you the pretend punch). I bet it was great to finally the man whose program's helped you get where you are today (and give you an ass whooping along the way

)

It was Alwyn's programs that gave me an ass whupping. I would be far better off if he had just physically beat the crap out of me.

delcyphr · 10-10-2007, 02:00 PM

There are many people who serve as a valuable example to others, but darned few like yourself, who can do it while also maintaining a sense of humility and of humor.

Brilliant post. Thanks for living a life that made it possible to write it. Looking forward to the second Myriad!

K-Court · 10-10-2007, 02:07 PM

Good post, John. Except you forgot to mention the Clubhouse. Gheesh.

Chris Correia · 10-10-2007, 02:54 PM

You're disgusting.

Ooops. I mean inspiring.

You're just so friggin' Mahler.

RedLefty · 10-10-2007, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by kingkop182

Great post,John.

I remeber a picture floating around of you and Alwyn from the Summit (the one where he's giving you the pretend punch). I bet it was great to finally the man whose program's helped you get where you are today (and give you an ass whooping along the way

)

The best part was the veral whoopin Alwyn gave him:

"I'm noot naming names, but when soomebody shortens tha rest peeriods that I wroote, they're just fooking up the progressions later. Cough... John."

Mahler · 10-11-2007, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by RedLefty

The best part was the veral whoopin Alwyn gave him:

"I'm noot naming names, but when soomebody shortens tha rest peeriods that I wroote, they're just fooking up the progressions later. Cough... John."

That was funny, because Alwyn and I discussed that by e-mail and he told me that I could shorten the rest periods based on my performance. He just didn't want that to be a common practice because everybody would do it and then complain that they were not making progress.

Of course, shortly after that he had me doing 10 sets of deads for 3 reps at 15 second rest periods. AC = The Punisher.

GG300 · 10-11-2007, 08:26 AM

Nice job and Congrats

RedLefty · 10-11-2007, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Mahler

That was funny, because Alwyn and I discussed that by e-mail and he told me that I could shorten the rest periods based on my performance. He just didn't want that to be a common practice because everybody would do it and then complain that they were not making progress.

Of course, shortly after that he had me doing 10 sets of deads for 3 reps at 15 second rest periods. AC = The Punisher.

Ah, I see. I still get his point, though. If you shorten the rest periods too much early in the program, later on you just can't make then any shorter. Eventually you'll have to build a time machine and use negative rest periods.

That would be cool. But if I had a time machine I probably wouldn't use it to optimize my workouts.

austintwo · 10-11-2007, 02:47 PM

Wow . . . .

Didn't realize you'd hit 405 DL John - way to go!!!

Thanks for everything you bring here.

FlyinM · 10-12-2007, 05:03 AM

Excellent post, Gramps.

Truly inspiring for sure.

P.S. Where's the check for the picture of Alwyn and you? LOL

BFG · 10-13-2007, 09:10 AM

Can I wait until Im 52 to hit it as hard as yuo do dont think I have the energy right now :-)

Nice post mr

tossedup · 10-14-2007, 09:00 AM

Great post Mahler. You are truly and inspiration to all of us.