Box Squat
3×2 @ 45
2×2 @ 95
2×2 @ 135
2×2 2 185
8 sets of 2 @ 225, 1 minute or less between sets
Deadlifts
135×3
8 singles @ 225, 30 seconds between each.
Pullthru
3×10 @ 100
Side bend
2×10 @ 20
Incline Situp
3×8
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Training, ME Bench 7/19/12
2 Board Press
45×10, 5
95×5
135×3
185×3
225×1
235×1
240×1
Pullups
3,2,2,2,2,2
3 Way Shoulder
2×10 @ 10
DB Triceps ext
3×10 @ 15
ME Squat/Dead 7/16/12
I found my way back to the gym. Still there. Max Effort isn’t really what this was. Took it really easy, but I’m still going to be pretty sore tomorrow.
Low Box Squat
45×5, 5, 3
95×3
135×3
185×3
225×1
245×1
Good Morning
3×5 @ 45
Lunge
2×5
45 degree Back Raise
2×8
Pull Down Abs
3×20 @ 100
Things That Will Never Happen: Healthcare Edition
228,000 Medicaid records were accessed unlawfully by a state employee.
But, that will never happen when the IRS has access to the information, right?
Things that will never happen
The Government will never abuse it’s power to stop you for not wearing a seatbelt.
We see stuff like this, and either say “it won’t happen here because we have the right people in charge”, which is just stupid, or we don’t make the connection between this obvious overreach of power and giving the government more power.
It’s About Time
It’s about time the US Army stopped (some) of the advertising spending. And it’s about time one of the Tea Party folks in Congress actually did something to cut spending, even if it’s just a little bit.
Oh, wait. She’s not a Republican.
Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., who tried last year to end military sports sponsorship programs before her amendment was defeated, commended Tuesday’s announcement that the Army would end a 10-year run of sponsoring NASCAR.
“This program was not effective,” McCollum told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. “By eliminating a wasteful program, they’re protecting taxpayer dollars and they can refocus those dollars on recruiting efforts that bring in well-qualified recruits to keep our Army strong.
“The Army now joins the Navy and the Marine Corps in pulling out of NASCAR as far as sponsorships go. Now I’d like to see, as they haven’t been able to show us any numbers that any of these sports sponsorships work, that we bring an end to the sports sponsorships.”
Where is the Tea Party, anyway?
You are too stupid to handle your health care choices
The people who think the government needs to be more involved in our health care need to see things like this
The approval is an unambiguously good thing—or so you would think. The saliva test in question, made by OraSure Technologies and known as OraQuick, costs less than $60 and takes just 20 minutes to self-administer. According to statistics an FDA advisory committee presented at a hearing in May, it holds the potential to prevent the transmission of more than 4,000 new HIV infections in its first year of use alone. That would be about 8 percent of the roughly 50,000 new infections we currently see annually in the United States. (About 1.2 million people in the U.S. are now living with HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of whom about 20 percent don’t realize they have it. Since the epidemic began in the early 1980s, about 1.1 million people have been diagnosed with AIDS, and more than 619,000 have died from it.)
The scandal is that the approval of a rapid home test for HIV did not occur until last week—about 24 years after the FDA received its first application seeking permission to market one.
24 years.. Why? Because the government thinks you are too stupid; so stupid, in fact, that it’s better you spread HIV than know you have it.
There was great concern that the patient receive proper counseling, both before and after the test. The patient needed to appreciate the possibility of false positives, so he wouldn’t panic unnecessarily if he got one. He needed to appreciate the danger of false negatives, so he wouldn’t become reckless, endangering sexual partners. And he needed to understand the options and support groups available in the event he received a true positive. (On top of all these concerns, many AIDS activists at the time were opposed to almost any form of HIV testing out of fear that results could be used to ostracize and persecute HIV-positive people—though one hopes that public health concerns were paramount to the FDA, rather than political pressure and hysteria.)
So naturally, we want to entrust the government with more decisions about health care. Because if the right people are in charge…? I don’t understand.
Windy Recycling Day 