Thom Van Vleck
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HAHAHA….good one, Chad….I was thinking of something else but that works just fine!
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderCongrats, Dave! You’ve come a long way from that double quad blow out! Who would have thought!
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderTully, looks like a great meet.
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderI just don’t get the kettle bell interest. Here’s what’s funny. I loaned them a steel log, a 2″ thick bar, stones….and I got them back cause they don’t use them, but they still have three of my kettlebells.
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-Rounder…..Walk right in and it’s around the back
Just a half mile from the railroad track.Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderDan, I feel like the Crazy Irishman in Braveheart….
I know I’m crazy!
I used to study with a fellow Marine in College and one day I joked about “climbing the clock tower with a high powered rifle”. He looked at me and then talked for 15 minutes about how he would do it…”timed incendiary bombs to start fires all across town, creating chaos, then booby trap the clock tower, set up decoys all over campus (rifles hanging over roof top ledges), doors booby trapped”….well, needless to say, the average person would have been a little concerned. But seriously, today…he’s a captain in our Highway patrol and if there were a guy to do what HE said he would do, he’d be the guy to stop him….takes a theif to know one….
Dan, don’t you know if ONE guy does it…he’s crazy. If two guys do it, it’s a consipiracy…if THREE OR MORE do it…it’s a MOVEMENT. We just need one more guy to join us!
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderDan, it is in there under OCD related disorders and a subtype or part of Body Dismorphic Disorder.
Maybe I was trying to make a point by putting my “fictitious” disorder under the Personality category. Some guys get so locked into what they are doing they don’t realize the damage they are doing to themselves and others.
I made this tongue in cheek because you start calling guys out on mental health….someone might go postal on you! HAHA…
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderIt was coming….he just decided I needed to be here more than there with his timing. He was a good guy, 91 years old!
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderGee, Al, way to sell me out when you told me not to come when I found out my great Uncle died and the funeral is Saturday.
Dan, Science changes all the time. EVEN gravity here on earth has shown variation once we were able to measure it. What happens the next great leap in technology? What are you gonna say then? I would have been right had I known all the facts.
Let’s face facts right now. The greatest factor in how strong someone is, is GENETICS. After that, it’s willpower, character, drive…whatever you want to call it. And LASTLY….amounting to a tiny amount…is the routine you follow. What about nutrition? unless you are malnourished then it’s bullshit. All of it. That’s right, I said it. The only thing that will significantly boost your gains that you can ingest is controlled by the FDA.
So blow it Vet boy and Army boy……this MARINE has duty to pull this weekend and it reminds me of active duty….the MARINES did all the work while everybody else got to march in the shiny parades!
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderScience is a religion. You choose to believe it or not.
We have a joke about my mother never admitting she was wrong. Sure, she’s made statements that were wrong but she always seems to point out “had I known ALL the facts, I would not have been wrong” so she basically states that she was never wrong because had she known everything, she would not have made that choice.
Gravity is an interesting “law”. I have seen rapid changes related to what we know about black holes and gravity just in the past few years.
My point is, science is a tool….but whenever someone starts throwing “science” out as the “reason” for they are “right” I immediately see someone with an agenda.
That being said, I love to read what all you guys write on here. What’s a damn shame is when it becomes a pissing contest and all everybody wants to do is discredit the other with their own “science” (empirical or otherwise). I like to see guys try new stuff…you never know….just the other day it was discovered that a certain percentage of the population have an extra tendon in their knee. It came up when not everyone reacted to surgery with the same results. Amazing we can think we know everything about human anatomy and not catch that!
I like the line “Everything works, nothing works forever”. Let’s keep the crazy crap coming….sometimes the craziest stuff ends up being true (like the earth being round…who woulda thought!).
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderMe and John O’Brien are planning on it….barring more snow…and right now that’s the forecast.
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-Rounder[b]Quote from dwagman on January 29, 2014, 09:32[/b]
Al, it actually makes little difference whether your study found significance or not.I reject your reality and substitute my own!
You guys are killin’ me…..
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderI think that type of lifting also takes a certain mindset (as well as conditioning the “neuro-muscular pathways”). What I mean is I got a couple of 900lb RR car wheels (give or take) and with the bar and set up was somewhere around 1700 to maybe even 2000. I could not warm up much for that and I fought and fought that. My Dad was there watching and I think he was rehearsing his CPR and call 911 as my face was turning purple. Then, I seemed to reach a threshold of pain tolerance and it came up…..then I seemed to be able to lift it at will. Just my thoughts…I’m no Dan Wagman with “science” to clutter my thoughts! HAHAHA
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderThe few…the proud….mostly few. But none of my friends are Marines. HAHA
Thom Van Vleck
Jackson Weightlifting Club
Highland Games athlete and sometimes All-RounderWhat do you mean I never lift….you can’t tell just by looking at my fabulous physique! I admit….my abs are a little overdeveloped. HAHAHAHAH
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Jackson Weightlifting Club
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