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Joakim Jahlmar
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Al wrote:
"A post from Joakim that doesn't quote something I said. I must be slipping."
Well, maybe that canoe was up a certain creek without you knowing it, Al... paddle? ;)
Jodi wrote:
"Al we are the ugly stepsisters."
Well, if Al's any kind of sister to ya Jodi, I'd have to agree with the epithet for him. Not so sure about your self description though, sweetie. ;)
(Besides, I'm getting Disney's Cinderella into my head only substituting all the mice and critters with li'l transformed ponies... which I guess Jodi'd be Cinderella. Does that mean I'm the other ugly stepsister? I mean ugly I knew from before, but...)
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Jodi Moisan
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Joakim I'm feeling the love now, life is good again. :0)
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Moyer Hall
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all this athletic talk just makes me want to get my jock out of mothballs
and wear it around for a while.
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Pretty hot... just wash it first mmkay? Don't want you getting a mothball
rash or nuthin'.
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Tom French
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Okay, can I brag? I don't often -- I mean, I know I'll tell a personal anecdote at the drop of a hat, but do I brag?
Well, hell with it. Today, I brag.
At the gym today, I bench pressed 275 pounds -- for three reps! A personal best. For those that "gym," that's two plates and a quarter on each side. For those that don't, that's very heavy. I'd recently been doing reps with 245, (two plates and a dime) so I wanted to make the next jump (to 275), but was nervous about it. Well, today -- BAM! Put it up!
Okay, bragging over. Time to eat.
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Jodi Moisan
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Man that's impressive Tom, I just carried in a bag of water softner salt that weighed 40 pounds and I thought I was going to die, you just bench pressed 7 of those bags all together. Damn!
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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Wow...Tom is so strong....
Mmmmm...."Tom Strong"
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Al Cook
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I'm pathetically out of shape.
Neither attractive to man nor woman.
Think I'm going to go out and hang myself from a tree now...
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Wait Al, I have your Star Trek space ships here in HK, just waiting for your love...
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Steve D Swanson
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When I was working out the best I ever benched was 230, which was okay but since I weighed 240 at the time it meant I couldn't bench my weight which is what you need to do to be considered of average strength.
I could curl 150 on a bar for seven reps standing still which was decent and I could leg press 650 which the other guys in the gym said was impressive (it didn't feel all that difficult to be honest, maybe because there was no danger of that weight crushing my throat. Unless of course things went REALLY wrong).
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Steve D Swanson
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I'm more of a swimmer than a weight lifter though. I grew up in a pool and when I went back to it a few years ago I found it didn't take me long to get back in the groove and within a month I was up to 120 lengths (3 kms) in under an hour.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Jodi wrote:
"Joakim I'm feeling the love now, life is good again. :0)"
Well, if I can do that much with so little... heck I'll do it any day of the week darling and twice on a Sunday. Thus spake the Mighty Wha-keem.
[and some honeydew and milk of paradise for Al, freshly picked up on a recent visit to he knows where. ;) ]
Tom wrote:
"At the gym today, I bench pressed 275 pounds -- for three reps!"
So with the current currency rate, how many dollars would that be?
Sorry, but any bragging in the non-metric system will always fly me by a wee bit. I only know that it's much less than it looks like at first glance... and that sort of fails to get me impressed. Although you could probably divide that by at least 4 or something before you hit a point where I'd be in the game at all, so.... ;)
Al wrote:
"Neither attractive to man nor woman."
Well, I'd argue that attraction is not only in shape and looks, Al... and I'm betting you could sweet talk Santa's wife into some things that'd put her on Santa's naughty list.
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Steve D Swanson
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1 kg equals 2.2 pounds so 230 pounds is roughly 104 kgs. 275 is 125 kgs. 150 pounds is 69 kgs (actually 68.18 ad infinitum but rounding it up seemed strangely appropriate for this thread. I don't know why). 650 pounds is 295 kgs.
And let's see... how do I convert kilometers to the metric system. This is going to be tricky; Three kilometers is approximately (in a rough sort of half assed way) three kilometers when you use the conversion chart on the wall.
Hope that helps.
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