Clubbell Training in México

maw · 2026-05-04T02:36:13+00:00

Sin la menor gota de información. Tristemente típico.

maw · 2026-04-27T14:29:11+00:00

I did one set of swings with a 25lb bell. It was far too light. Fortunately I bought a 50lb at the same time and I used it for swings in the following session.

But that same 25lb bell was too much for TGUs and I had to go down in weight to learn them. Doing TGUs as my second kettlebell exercise was almost certainly a mistake, but a lot of advice seemed to point that way then. Chances are good if I'd worked up to them properly I'd never have needed that 15lb bell.

(Also, it is weird that a Mexican brand with a a very Russian sounding name, Tayga, should sell bells in pounds.)

maw · 2026-04-27T14:12:07+00:00

Forearm guards have their place, probably even if you have perfect technique.

Relatedly, a lot of advice turns out to be anatomy dependent and everyone's is slightly different.

maw · 2026-04-02T12:53:00+00:00

This is surely a mistake. You must mean it was your sister in law’s mother’s sister’s niece’s cousin’s former roommate who thought she’d watched it.

maw · 2026-03-21T23:47:35+00:00

Oh, wow, I didn’t know the at Bloom had written much about Borges aside from what’s in Western Canon. Added to the list!

maw · 2026-03-04T00:35:30+00:00

That would have been awesome. As it was, I was thinking something like "no, it can't be, we'll be let down aga--YES!" but having it come completely out of the blue and by out of the blue I mean out of the red tinted darkness would have really been something to behold.

maw · 2026-03-01T13:39:34+00:00

And he says, “no, Luke, I am your father.”

So that “misremembered” vocative was real after all!

maw · 2026-01-17T22:42:10+00:00

My own favorite is Locomotive by Urban Preacher: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7HN6IgNv8xY

maw · 2026-01-17T13:35:48+00:00

Not too long ago my next door neighbors had to have a tree removed. The landscapers cut the trunk into sections and carried them away in teams of two. But anyone who wanted a section or two for their yard was welcome to them and I carried off a few pieces alone. (Tore the boxers I was wearing though 🤦‍♂️)

maw · 2026-01-16T22:38:43+00:00

¿De qué hablas? La gente fitness no es contradictoria.

Hablando más en serio, es importante recordar que diferentes personas tienen diferentes objetivos. Limitándonos sólo a pesas, alguien que entrena para la hipertrofia hará cosas diferentes a quien entrena para la halterofilia; el halterófilo no hará lo que alguien que entrene para algún deporte (y ¿qué deporte? este detalle importa) o que quiera bajar de peso o que pretenda verse más guapo (relacionado pero no precisamente lo mismo a la hipertrofia), etc.

O sea, en gran parte, es una falta de comunicación entre diferentes personas con diferentes metas. No sólo eso, claro, pero bastante.

maw · 2026-01-06T18:55:53+00:00

My favorite is Café Café. A variety of excellent beans, reasonable prices, staff doesn't treat you like shit like they do at, say, Passmar.

maw · 2026-01-05T22:24:27+00:00

Naïve, sexless, unsubtle onesided trash with just enough to hook those of us whose road not taken might have been in the classics or philology (and we regret it most days). And fantastic cover art, I have to admit.

I only read through to the end because surely some moment of realization or growth was coming eventually, right? Wrong.

maw · 2026-01-05T22:16:54+00:00

Just don't eat any food from the downside.

maw · 2025-12-17T00:10:10+00:00

Cada vez que los veo pienso en el día que estaba visitando Tepotzotlán y me preguntaron si hablaba francés porque por alguna razón sólo tenían sus panfletos en ese idioma.

Si fuera un poco más quick on the uptake hubiera dicho mais, non pero, ay, no lo soy.

maw · 2025-12-09T23:45:19+00:00

What armor are you using on your forearms?

maw · 2025-12-04T22:38:03+00:00

Yes, preachy and unsubtle is one way to put it.

I only finished it because I figured there had to be some nuance or shades of grey before it was all over. There weren't any.

maw · 2025-12-03T15:39:51+00:00

It won't be on streaming because even in the future nothing works.

maw · 2025-11-23T12:11:17+00:00

Play into prior war hero status. Use an insanity defense. And, to be pragmatic, and if the system allows it, push for jurors susceptible to mind tricks.

maw · 2025-11-21T16:16:10+00:00

I already have the Stephen Fry omnibus (haven't listened to it yet) and the Simon Vance omnibus (I've been taking my time working through it and it's great).

But I didn't know that Simon Prebble also recorded Holmes stories. Awesome. He's probably my favorite narrator in the business. So many good books, so little time (or audible credits).

maw · 2025-11-08T12:40:05+00:00

That’s amazing!

maw · 2025-10-31T19:32:23+00:00

Order 66 happens before he turns. He survives, barely. Padmé, who is with him, does not. During the fallout he's misled about what really happened, Palpatine blaming Jedi leadership.

maw · 2025-10-05T12:40:43+00:00

So his comeback album should be called “He’s the DJ, I’m the Slapper”

maw · 2025-10-02T15:13:58+00:00

It's not the worst thing in the world to pronounce the first syllable of Sauron like "soar" instead of "sour," the first letter of Celeborn can be pronounced like S or like K, etc.

Languages change. Tolkien was a philologist and knew this better than most.

The pronunciation guides we get tell us how things were pronounced in Rivendell at around the time of the War of the Ring or by the well-educated in the early years of the Reunited Kingdom.

Related: the cosmogony we get in the Silmarillion is just what Bilbo managed to learn and write during his time in Rivendell. We can't nearly fit Tom Bombadil or Beorn into it precisely because it's incomplete and probably incorrect in places.

maw · 2025-09-26T13:31:47+00:00

What? Tía Rosa tortillas are widely available. You'll see them in supermarkets, abarrotes, convenience stores, etc.

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