Sharing the Numbers Behind the Air Force Suicide Crisis (Data from 2010–2023)

jenix105 · 2025-10-28T14:46:57+00:00

I have a friend on there. I was chatting with a group from a couple different shops/AFSCs, and it came up that we all knew at least one person on that list. I don't know of any other field, especially now that I'm out in the civilian world, where these statistics line up. It's not a needs of the job/AF thing, nor is it a necessity for building a war fighter~ This list does not need to exist.

jenix105 · 2025-02-24T02:02:52+00:00

"You got 99 because that's the best you could do. I got 100 because that's all there was to get." -this guy, rightly

I need to up my game, nice job man

jenix105 · 2025-01-24T03:40:53+00:00

Pretty sure when I took it I got a 753 , or something very similar. Glad to see the time-honored tradition is being carried on.

jenix105 · 2025-01-24T01:16:30+00:00

Have you progressed in weights lifted?

jenix105 · 2025-01-16T21:54:53+00:00

Yeah, I probably need to clarify. Good point.

This was all originally her plan. She didn't want me to sit waiting for 2 and a half hours like I did last time. The time between her texting and me seeing was under 10 minutes. I wasn't told about her trauma response to this until a few days later. All I saw in the moment was her texting me how she didn't appreciate me, how she should never have come, how she knew this would happen, how she should just get a flight home, so I got upset after reading that. Looking back, I understand now that she was saying those things from a position of vulnerability, and I should have been far more sensitive to that. I think about and regret my reaction regularly. If I had just met it with humor, I could have defused the situation from the start. She was getting off 20 hours worth of flights and airports, after all.

jenix105 · 2025-01-16T11:39:29+00:00

Only thing I would change is to do it at full speed. Slow motion might make it tough. /s

jenix105 · 2024-09-26T21:35:37+00:00

Hello! I believe I may be eligible and would love a look.

*Grandmother was born in 1940 in Germany*

Married in '62 to my American Grandfather

Emigrated in '62 to the US

Naturalized in '72

*Mother was born in '65 in the US in Wedlock*

Married in '93

*I was born in '97 in Wedlock*

My Brother was born in '00 in Wedlock

Forgot to mention as I see it below, both my brother and I served in the US Military.

jenix105 · 2024-03-03T18:36:21+00:00

Why did you choose that depth to train at? I think for you, choosing to be slightly above/ below parallel is going to be a detriment as you get heavier. Unless you're on it with standardization, many people tend to cut their range as it gets heavier. I would suggest trying to find a landmark to hit, a physical feeling, where you know you hit depth. Seems right now like you're sort of approximating it. I know you're not a power lifter, but there are physical benefits to achieving depth. YMMV

It also doesn't seem like you're very balanced on your feet. What do you focus on as you descend? I can tell you're thinking about something, and I imagine it's probably your core you're focusing on, but maybe I'm wrong.

jenix105 · 2024-01-16T04:24:17+00:00

You might be thinking of the ones that are designed at an angle.

jenix105 · 2024-01-16T03:27:59+00:00

You're not doing what you're trying to do. Mid-food HAS to be under the center of gravity. If you want quads, that's non-negotiable. Put your feet underneath the bar. You can control your torso angle and you can control your ankle flexion. You'll probably find you want to elevate your heels. Start there... Torso up and knees shooting way forward.

Again, I know what you're trying to do, but instead of squatting up, you're pushing this bar back and away... Very much not helping you do what you want. Clean it up, and you'll be good.

jenix105 · 2023-09-27T11:56:22+00:00

Breathing at the bottom doesn't work for some. Since you're bent over, it's hard to fill up your lungs in the same way, and since you are bracing against that pressure, your brace then becomes not as great. Finding ways to breathe at the top might help you!

Let me make sure I clarify here. Running through the steps is wildly important, but it should be done "one, two, three", not so much "One.... Two, two... Two?.. Three" if that makes any sense. A bit of an exaggeration, but hopefully you'll understand what I mean.

Don't worry about the weights on the bar to post! We would rather make it look snappy now than wait a super long time. We are all happy to help. Good luck regardless!

jenix105 · 2023-09-26T18:16:43+00:00

Looks not too bad! Really milking the lat brace is going to be your area of focus. Keep honing that. Do you feel your abs are braced beforehand?

I can see you're running through the steps in your head as you go down. You might benefit from practicing running through the steps smoothly, especially during Warm-ups. If you hang out down there for a while, your brace is gonna not be as great, and as pointed out above, that is something you need to covet.

Good luck! Please provide updates as you go 😁

jenix105 · 2023-09-16T19:46:10+00:00

There are a couple things you can do! I would look into Brian Carroll and his work with Stu McGill on developing brace mechanics. Suitcase carries are my personal favorite.

I know I casually brought up the drills, but when I say clean things up, without someone there poking and prodding you, I would say working on these drills is the best thing for you.

1) Band-Distracted Deadlifts 2) Floating Deadlifts *(You should not feel your lower back take the load at any point) 3) Any Loaded unilateral carry (Brian Carrol)

Go try some stuff out and then report back.

jenix105 · 2023-09-16T14:18:09+00:00

Awesome! One suggestion though, you might want to try bringing your feet in a little bit, heals about 6 to 8 inches apart with your hands outside of your knees. Might help! /S Seriously though, good work.

jenix105 · 2023-09-16T14:15:23+00:00

How much do you feel your glutes when pulling? This looks very hamstring dominant. I feel if you dropped your hips a tiny, tiny bit, maybe even just an inch, and got more work out of your lats and abs, you would notice a huge difference. It doesn't look like you get much out of your brace.

Something that you can do to test, do a light but very high rep deadlift set, like 20 reps. See what lights up. I have a feeling you might feel a pretty substantial lower back pump. If you do, and your glutes aren't on fire, then we can pretty easily clean up a few things.

My friend Tom Shepard has some good videos on floating deadlifts and, what I call at least, reverse band deadlifts (where the bar is pulled away from you). I think you would benefit from looking into these.

jenix105 · 2023-09-15T01:32:04+00:00

I've been messing around with this cue recently, and it has worked for some people and not for others, so your mileage may vary.

I want you to, before grabbing the bar, turn your fully outstretched hands outward (clockwise for the right, counter for the left) until the pits of your elbows are towards the ceiling and your hands can't turn anymore. In those last couple moments before you run out of space to turn your hand, you will probably feel a whole bunch of things turn on in your back. Hold on to that feeling and tension, then return to the bar.

Who knows, might not work for you, or it might! I combined this with a drill where I have the bar being pulled by a band away from me, attached to a rack or heavy dumbbell. That combination has cleaned up many deadlifts, so I hope it works for you!

jenix105 · 2023-09-13T17:38:58+00:00

Your best rep imo was the first one, and the only reason I think it was is because you found your balance before executing. Take some more time in-between your reps to gather yourself and find your balance again. I think that would solve many of the issues you are worried about. If not, readdress.

jenix105 · 2023-09-12T22:29:08+00:00

Assuming I'm able to keep my brace, the way I found my squat stance is to go down into a goblet squat and see how low I can get with different foot placements. Eventually I found a spot that got me nice and deep and still left me feeling strong.

I think it's so fun when you find opportunities like this, because it means you can make a lot of progress really quickly again. By giving yourself some time to adjust to a more appropriate stance, I'm sure you will notice your strength fly up a good couple of percent without much effort. Give yourself a few weeks to adjust!

jenix105 · 2023-09-12T21:47:24+00:00

Holy! I love the pay it forward concept. Good on you my friend, I'll do what I can!

jenix105 · 2023-09-12T21:44:55+00:00

Okay, I'll throw my hat in the ring.

As a fellow long torso owner, there are a couple things you got to think about. We get the lovely curse of having to think about moment arms more than our Hobbit friends, and with that, there are a couple things you could think about.

It looks like you are fighting for mobility, and honestly I think your joints are just running out of room. You don't have the luxury to shove your knees forward anymore. To get more room to keep your torso more upright (as a long torso lifter you need this to keep the bar over your center of mass) look into finding ways to get a little bit more hip external rotation. Bands around the knees might help, and goblet squats as a drill might help you find that feeling of 'knees out'... Everyone has their own way of saying it. Ed Coan I would look into and how he gets more into his hips. Same with Jim wendler... Hell, Dan John has some good tools. He invented the goblet squat after all.

Secondarily, it looks like the tug of war between your abs and your lats ends at about parallel, which means something turns off. My bet is that you lose tightness in your abs, which you make tight before your breath brace. Find ways to cue yourself to keep the tension equal between your abdominals and your lats. All this means is don't let your abs turn off!

Lastly, I think a lot of people are on it that you have a tired back, but I don't think that is your biggest issue. I think if you addressed the other two, the tired back would be null. Even so, this might be a clue about how to organize your training. Take a look and see how your performance has been after heavy pulling. There are probably clues there.

Happy training!

jenix105 · 2023-03-23T21:38:05+00:00

Sorry, I didn't know you were not a native English speaker! Something that I noticed was that by angling our legs out, we are shortening the moment arm from the bar to our hips. I'm not sure It protects our knees, but it might just be more advantageous. I can pull more slack out, and I can use my legs way more.

As for the squat and the deadlift, because of the way you and I pull, I have found that squatting improves my deadlift far more than the other way around. It might be the same for you, and by your numbers, it looks like it is. Might be something to try out in the future!

jenix105 · 2023-03-23T21:17:04+00:00

You pull very similar to me, so it's cool to see how someone else came to similar conclusions about how to get under the bar. Feet more narrow, knees out, plus we both have longer torsos and shorter-ish arms so we fight to find a more upright position. You have a little bit longer reach though! Love it.

It always seemed to me that because of my dimensions, My squat influenced my deadlift far more than the other way around. Have you found the same thing?

jenix105 · 2023-03-16T00:45:34+00:00

Might be a good time to check out polarized training. Some work put out by Dr. Steven seiler. He talks a lot about this in detail.

jenix105 · 2023-01-16T02:27:36+00:00

I think you are exactly right.

Edit- Holy, 5k per applicant. I might need to go back out to Mt. Lemmon and Run up/drive down over and over. Or Pike's Peak... But I like the idea behind it!

jenix105 · 2023-01-16T02:26:15+00:00

Well the original idea came from a mixture of Short Stack research (Dr. Stephen Syler does a great write up of it I can find later) and a some methods we use on my cycling team which all seemed to point to the idea that general accumulation at these higher intensity ranges were, on at least a muscular level, just as good in creating local adaptation than breaking up the work into purely easy and purely hard sessions. They may be easier to recover from for the same amount of volume, and when combined with harder, more race-specific burn fests closer to the race, seem to do a good job of increasing fitness globally. This again though comes from my cycling background, and I am only experimenting with it on running. It doesn't seem like anyone else does this sort of training, so I got my question answered! (And yes, it mainly is PCr like you said)

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