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Adama T. is the leader of this group. Adama was born in a village call Songo, which is ~36 miles away from Magburaka town. Adama is approximately 37 years old. Her husband is a driver and they have two children who attend primary school. Adama has twenty years of experience in business. She sells palm oil, the most popular cooking oil. With this loan, she plans to expand her business to also sell rice.
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About Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT)Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT) is Kiva's oldest field partner in Sierra Leone. SMT began operations in 2002 as a microcredit program of the NGO Child Fund Sierra Leone under a USAID program to assist the reintegration of ex combatants back into their communities. Today, SMT offers group, agricultural, individual and salary loans to micro-entrepreneurs through six branches and one sub-branch in rural, urban, and peri-urban areas. By providing small loans and other financial services, SMT empowers poor clients to generate more income to help their families, improve their wellbeing, and create a more vibrant private small-business sector in Sierra Leone.
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Woodstock - The words in the Woodstock Academy-produced program previewing the game: "It will be a difficult task for the Centaurs to beat New London again without these two players in the lineup."
Oh, they of little faith.
The Centaurs did indeed sweep the season series from New London, even without injured starters Will Bourgeois and Chris Lowry. Woodstock tractor-pulled its way to a 32-28 victory Friday night, assuming a two-game lead over New London in the Large Division of the Eastern Connecticut Conference.
Woodstock coach Greg Smith called this "the best win" during his five years as head coach.
"To have (New London) coach (Craig) Parker come up here with a New London team and to have us come out with a W," he said, "it feels awesome."
Woodstock (12-1, 5-0) survived New London sophomore Collin Sawyer's 3-point attempt with 4.2 seconds remaining with the Whalers trailing by two.
"He's a good shooter and he got the shot we needed," Parker said. "It almost went down for him."
And so ended any bouquets coming from Parker about the rest of the game.
New London turned it over 17 times, shot 24 percent (11-for-45) and scored the fewest points in a game since at least 1980. The Whalers (8-6, 4-2) also failed to capitalize much on Woodstock's scoring drought that spanned from the 4:27 mark of the second period until 3:15 remained in the third.
New London didn't lead by more than two the entire game.
"I don't think either team was doing too much," Parker said. "An awful display of basketball. But you know what? At the end of the day, they won the game."
Sawyer led New London with 12 points and Keith Porter scored eight.
Ian Converse led the Centaurs with 17 points, including two free throws in the final seconds to seal it. Senior guard Tristan Welch had 11 points, including a 3-pointer with 4:14 remaining that gave Woodstock a 28-25 lead.
Smith, who was surprised New London played as much zone as it did, was perfectly happy with the game's tempo, or lack thereof.
"I told the kids that I've never lied to them and I'm not going to start tonight. This one's going to be tough," Smith said. "We had to hold the score low and coach Parker kind of let me. We were fine with a score in the 40s, but even better in the 30s and 20s."
Woodstock plays five of its last seven on the road. New London, meanwhile, all but lost its chance to win the ECC Large Division.
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Continuing in my hat quest, I have three new ones for this week. I started the week off with this striped hat, perfect for a young man!
I'm calling it "Right on Target" and I know exactly the little fellow I'm handing it off to. Not the best, especially if I wear it the way I usually wear hats, pulled completely down around my ears.
The next one is a pink version of my Summer Trail Hat.
Again, pulled down on hard on my head to protect my ears on cold, cold days, not a great look for me, but not horrible. However, I know that my niece will be adorable in it!
Finally, another new design. This is one I've been wanting to do for a while; a delicate lacy beret. When I put this one on, I immediately thought of my dear little friend, Qwynn.
Okay, so I'm insanely in love with this one. I'm thinking that I've got to make one with beads, and give it a shot in fingering weight yarn as well. I'm a little partial so I think this one looks the best on me of the three.
Stephanie took all the pictures, and she thought I looked good in all of them. She's pretty swell that way.
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Long time no see! Its been a while since we uploaded a news post based on the latest release on Desura so its about time we get up to date and release one :) We found an artist to create the enviroment, ground, characters etc... so soon you will see spacebit in top-notch visual goodness!
We are also available on Indievania Indievania.com for $5.99 as a special 40% off which includes the Spacebit Updater for constant earlier updates.
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Any support and friendly comments you could give us over there would really be awesome and much welcomed! We really also reccomend to check out the many other games on there if you haven't already, almost every single one of them deserves your support in my opinion!
The Spacebit website has been completely reworked, including a new forum which can be found at www.belusia.com
Visuals!! our main focus at the moment is improving graphical quality, completing the new environment art, improving particle quality, effects etc.
Playing this stable version is very different from the current version on Desura. That's why we have the Tips and Hints section to help you with some of the things that changed in the game you would not have known prior to this massive update!
We have found a new 2D artist and will have more news of him during this week. Bert, our music composer has been working hard on new media for the background and main menu. Bram has been working hard on the menu art as well as the trailer/intro. Jeno has been busy working hard on the item icons, check the new art out in the compilation image!
And i've also been working on a side project we called Arena. Check it out over here: Moddb.com Ben has been programming multiplayer and is right now focusing on liquids once again. He is concentrating all his awesome brain power on improving quality of everything like liquid and improving performance to allow for more unique and interesting liquid related things.
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www.belusia.com is live, the home for Spacebit is online and this will be the permanent home for Spacebit.
New video incoming and also a new update for Desura!
I have also setup a forum which will be going online today for Spacebit! The forum is made from scratch by myself and its going to be a permanent home for Spacebit.
Spacebit is nearly fully released, to celebrate this special time Spacebit is now 50% OFF! for only a limited time
Hello everyone,
A new update is coming soon, It will include the new liquid as shown in the videos. A change to the main menu to make it easier to create, load games. Automatic machine gun turrets and a planetary beacon which will try to contact human life.
There has also been big improvements to the code to reduce crashing.
I have win8, but the previous version had the game that was going perfectly, it's just as install the latter that I will, if I have everything installed
Hey PedroKof can you add me on Skype and we can figure out the problem in a real time environment I'll send you my details.
if you fail me whatever I do, I have tried to uninstall and reinstall, even deleting the folder, but I feel the same, same error after edit settings.txt and like you said I get the error at startup
What windows version are you running? And you have installed .net and XNA frameworks, yes? Game doesn't work without them.
impossible, when I give the game play does not start get error Spacebit stopped working, something happens ... :)
can you create a new character and try use all the possible maps.
error:loading sound effects data setting default system error message 4785714
this is the error message I get, if I have everything installed correctly, all other games are perfect me.
Go to Content/Files/settings.txt
Then you will see something like:
Window Mode
800 x 600
0.4142857 (change this one to 1)
0.4357143 (change this one to 1)
Then that will fix the problem, let us know if this worked :)
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Johnny Cash once said that one of the secrets of his 32-year union with June Carter Cash, his wife and fellow country music legend, was separate bathrooms. ''The lady needs her space,'' he explained recently. ''Not everyone can afford it, but it can be a real marriage-saver.'' The Cashes' his-and-hers bathrooms say as much about the couple's personalities as they do about their nearly five decades as Nashville's reigning monarchs.
Johnny Cash's surprisingly tiny bathroom had been much larger, but he converted most of it to a library for his books on topics ranging from the Bible (''I own every translation'') to ancient Greek and Roman coins (which he collects). ''Every writer has an upper room,'' Cash says, ''and this is mine.'' The space left over for the bathroom hardly seems big enough to accommodate the Man in Black, who at 68 and in spite of ill health hasn't lost his dark, magnetic presence. But the bathroom is luxurious nonetheless, with velvet-covered walls and an onyx sink.
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Build Big Arms and Strong Wrists
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One of my overall goals is to build my arms up to 20″ cold (no pump).
The way I see it, if you are going to get big, you might as well build strength to go along with it.
And if you are going to be strong, then by all means get as big as you can.
With these things in mind, I give you Scale Weight Curls.
A Scale Weight is a block-shaped weight that is used in industrial settings where scales are used.
These weights are calibrated to specific measurements and have handles so that they can be placed on the scale quickly and easily in order to test that a scale is reading accurately.
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Scale Weight Curls can be done like any other curl. They can be done free-standing or braced, and can be done in alternating style or both at the same time.
For me, performing them standing has gotten too easy, so I have been doing them in more of a Preacher Curl style, off my Glute Ham Machine. This allows me to keep the movement more concentrated (although cheating is not completely eliminated).
Also, what I look for is to try to keep my wrist in a neutral position throughout the full range of motion. This strengthens the wrist a bit more.
I can usually get up to 3 extra reps per set if I let my wrist buckle, so once I feel that I am losing my neutral position and breaking into ulnar deviation, I generally just stop the set.
Here is a video showing some recent Scale Weight Curls.
Scale Weight Curls
Scale Weights are somewhat hard to come by, because they are a specialized tool, sort of like anvils, and they can be cheap, but I have been lucky enough to score a couple over the years.
Believe me, the collection of grip tools I have amassed has taken me literally years to develop, tons of time to research, and of course, big expenses in order to build.
If you can't find Scale Weights, another alternative is to try and curl your Kettlebells. Since the kettlebell handle sits out away from the rest of the bell, they will actually be much tougher to curl, and the weights will drop, but you will still get the Leverage Curl effect.
Still, I like the Scale Weight Curl a little better than Kettlebell Curls, just because I can use a bit more weight to challenge the biceps more, while also challenging my wrists.
To take it even further, you can attempt to curl your Scale Weight or Kettlebll in a supinated position. When you do this, you will have to CRUSH DOWN on the handle BIG TIME, or else you won't be very successful.
I hope you enjoy this variation of Curls.
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Did a Lack of Grip Strength Break Joe Theisman's Leg?Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Grip Strength for Linemen
Did you know that a Lack of Grip Strength is heavily to blame for Joe Theisman's career ending due to a blind tackle by Lawrence Taylor?
Don Warren, Tight End for the Washington Redskins, was the man with the assignment to keep Taylor at bay on that one, fateful play.
Had he been able to get a secure grip at the line of scrimmage, things could have gone much differently for Theisman,
but because Warren did not secure his grip in "the Fit," Taylor came crashing down on the QB, and Theisman's hopes for a lengthy career came crashing down as well.
This is one of the most often replayed video clips in sports, because it resulted in such a horrible injury.
Naturally, injuries like this don't happen every time a Lineman or Tight End can't control their opponent on the other team.
But until Grip Training is taken as seriously as footwork drills and conditioning in football, you can bet that many more Line Backers will be busting through the line, sacking Quarterbacks, and making tackles behind the line of scrimmage.
For the coaches and players who are ready to make a difference in the control they and their linemen have on the field, I present my latest product, Grip Strength Training for Linemen.
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Build Grip Strength Faster – Double Blob CarriesMonday, April 14th, 2014
It's hard to argue with the Grip Strength enhancing capabilities of Block Weight training.
Block Weights make you lift with an Open Hand, so your fingers and thumbs work much harder than when training on regular-shaped barbells and dumbbells, plus they make your wrists and forearms work harder as well.
Most people train Block Weights with just one hand at a time, but if they are so beneficial, why not train with one in each hand (if you have them).
Last week, I posted some video on Blob Block Weight Holds for Time, even showing a cool weight-added variation with chains – SICK!!!
Today, I've got a couple more videos showing you how you can take your Blob and Block Weight Training to the next level.
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Double Blob Farmer's Walk
If you have a nice lawn or a big gym to train in, try picking up your Block Weights and then carrying them as far as you can go, Farmer's Walk Style!
It has been a very long time since I tried this out.
In March of 2008, I completed this run across the road from the Arnold Classic at Goodale Park.
Double Blob Farmer's Walk – 2008
Double Blob Farmer's Walk – 2014 – Part 1
After seeing Juha Harju having some fun with this test of strength recently, I decided that I had to give it a try as well. Below, I for my best distance in a very wet and hilly back yard.
Double Blob Farmer's Walk – 2014 – Part 2
As good as 83 feet is in this lift, I knew I had more in me. So, a few days later, we carried the Blobs back outside, only this time it was to the front yard, where it was a bit drier and a little flatter. I was very happy with the results, making it over 100-feet 3 separate times.
The carry of 121-feet, as far as I know, is a new "World Record," insomuch that it can be considered one, since it was done during training and outside of a contest format. Naturally, the tape is not flat either, making the distance somewhat subject, but sometime soon, maybe I will take the Blobs to a track or some other spot where it is flatter and we can get a more accurate measurement of the true distance.
Either way, the main thing is developing more strength. I have no doubt the training that I have been doing has been helping me develop more Grip Strength, specifically better Pinching Strength, which I will need on May 3rd at the Bragging Rights Grip Contest.
For more info on on the May 3rd Contest, go here => Bragging Rights Contest.
All the best in your training,
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Making Weight – The Story of My First Time Sucking WeightFriday, December 13th, 2013
I played a bunch of sports in my youth, but I never did any that involved weight classes.
My winters involved Basketball, so I never ended up Wrestling. My summers were jam-packed with Baseball, and that was all I did, so no weight classes in the warm weather either.
The Fall, once I hit High School, was the only time of year I lifted weights, and I just did the same program every other person that lifted did, since there was next to no guidance at all in the High School's weight room.
So, when Grip Sport instituted weight classes in 2012, I really had no idea what it meant to have to "cut weight" in order to "make a weight class."
When the weight classes were instituted, I was weighing anywhere from 265 to 290-lbs. I was eating whatever I wanted and if you go through some of my early 2012 videos, you can tell I'm not lying by my bloated face and lack of muscular definition.
But this year I really cleaned up my diet and increased my running and was able to drop about 50-lbs from early March to late September.
So, when I held the Holdfast Gauntlet at my gym on September 28th, fitting into the 105-kg (about 231-kg) Weight Class was rather easy for me to do because I was walking around at 232lbs.
But since September, my weight has gone up about 8lbs. I am still eating super clean, but I have not been doing the cardio as religiously. And while that may have put a couple pounds of fat on me, honestly, I have been KILLING IT in the gym for the last 4 months, have added Squats back into my training, and am just plain feeling like a monster pretty much every day.
Throw on top of that the fact that I celebrated Thanksgiving on the day of, had another one the Saturday after, and then had my birthday a few days after that, plus a weekend with my two biggest High School buddies thrown in there, I was staring at a scale that read 242-lbs on Monday of last week.
Let's re-wind a bit.
Holdfast Gauntlet
As I mentioned, I ran and competed in a contest at my gym on September 28th. I had no intentions of doing any more competitions the rest of the year, because I had only prepared for my competition up until that point.
But, less than a week after the Holdfast Gauntlet, my new Grip Training Partner, Luke Raymond, asked me with crazed, obsessed eyes and saliva coming out of his mouth, "When's the Next Contest Brother???"
Yes, I've got him talking like me now…
So, what am I supposed to do? Just tell this grip-obsessed, talented, and 2.5-closing grip-up-and-comer, "The next contest is next weekend, go have fun…"???
No way. I told him I would go along with him despite the fact that I hadn't trained for it so that he could get some more experience. This contest was the King Kong Grip Challenge and it was only 3 hours away. A drive-there-compete-and-drive-back-all-in-the-same-day kind of distance.
It was what we call a Mega Comp, because on one particular day, there are multiple locations all over the world contesting the same events and the results are compiled into one massive database.
Despite the fact that neither of us trained the specific events for this contest, we both did very well. I was able to secure a Top 10 finish and Luke got some outstanding experience.
Luke is an athlete. He has a decent understanding of how to do an event just by being shown and told how to do so one time. Some guys have been competing for 10 years now, and still don't understand the right way to do the events.
He also loves competition, and I think it is something he misses, sort of like the Michael Jordans and Andy Pettittes who retire from their sport too soon and end up coming back a few years later. Only in this case, Luke isn't trying to go back and re-live the glory days of High School sports. Instead, he is testing himself with something new and enjoying every minute of it.
Even though I had a good finish in the King Kong, I was overwheight for the 105-kg class. I weighed in above the limit for the 105-kg class because I was so stressed out from the Holdfast Gauntlet, I gave myself like 4 cheat days. I ended up being 234 or 236 at weigh-in time, and it was so cold, I just was not interested in trying to cut weight to make the 231 mark by running all over the place.
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On the way back home from the King Kong Challenge, we made plans to compete at Gripmas, which was held this past weekend. And we both committed to making weight for our respective weight classes – the 93-kg for Luke and the 105-kg for myself.
But, it's not time to talk about that yet.
Almost right smack dab in the middle of the early October King Kong and the early December Gripmas was the mid-November Thanksgripping.
I dread long drives alone, so I checked with Luke about it and he had something going on that prevented him from making the trip to Columbus, Ohio for Thanksgripping. I needed something else to justify the trip, so I called up an old buddy, Paul Knight.
You might know that name, he is one of the best Gripper Closers in the world and when he is peaking, perhaps the absolute best in North America. I asked if he was available that weekend to work on a little project we had talked about off and on for over a year, and as it turned out, he was.
So, I made the trip to Columbus for the November 15th Thanksgripping contest, and on Sunday, Paul and I shot a complete DVD on Gripper Training, which will be coming out in early 2014.
JL Holdsworth, the promoter for Thanksgripping and the owner of the greatest Grip Sport surname in history, did not do a weigh-in, so I have no idea what I weighed that day. I am sure I was overweight, but not significantly, since I had dialed my diet back in and had been doing several 15-minute Jump Rope sessions per week. I was feeling awesome from the good eating and feeling strong from re-instating Squats, but hadn't monitored my actual weight very closely, so I am not sure.
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Once that contest was over and in the books, it was time to get serious. I knew I had to get "ahead of the game" by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, because if I packed on fat during that period, I would only have about a week to cut off the excess in time for Gripmas.
Despite my best efforts, when I scaled myself on Monday morning of last week, 242 was staring me in the face and I knew that I had my work cut out for me. That is what two Thanksgivings and a bunch of beer with buddies will do to you.
And like I said, I have no experience with regards to how to cut weight, so I just laid out a plan for eating, cardio, and training.
Eating & Cardio Plans
- Breakfast Plans: Each morning would be hard boiled eggs with a handful of broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. This is actually what I eat 3 or 4 times per week anyway. The other days I make an omelet. But, I knew there would be fewer calories in total with the hard boiled eggs and veggies so I went with that.
- Breakfast Result: Total success. Between making extra eggs ahead of time and my wife helping me out a couple of days, my breakfasts could not have gotten any better in my eyes.
- Lunch and Dinner Plans: Each lunch and dinner would be chicken breast and steamed vegetables with yellow mustard for flavor. This is close to what I eat multiple times a week, except I usually put some kind of seasoning on the chicken that has a ton of salt on it and I usually use brown spicey mustard for a little added kick. Those condiments don't add a lot of calories, but they are loaded with sodium, so I cut them out in order to reduce water retention.
- Lunch and Dinner Results: Unfortunately, my wife also made a huge container of Sloppy Joes for me and expected the entire container to be gone before I left. She made it with ground turkey meat, so that wa sbetter, but I am sure the Manwich Sauce was riddled with sodium. To try to even things up, I mixed the Sloppies with steamed Broccoli and Cauliflower to make them a bit better. This actually tasted amazing, and I am considering it for future meals when I do not need to watch my weight for a comp.
- Cardio Plans: On that Sunday morning, I looked out the window and noticed the Field I ran in all summer wasn't overgrown anymore. I stopped doing my Field Running partially because the grass got super high and I was afraid I was going to have a Giant Spider crawling on me or a rapid raccoon would end up attacking me. I went out and did 20 straight minutes of jogging, so I planned on doing that on a daily basis. It was actually quite relaxing.
- Cardio Results: Never ran again, but I had good reason. First off, I forgot the time had changed, so by the time 6PM rolled around, the time when I was doing my runs in the summer, it was pitch black dark out, so I was afraid I'd end up stepping in a rabbit burrow and breaking a lower leg like Sid Vicious did off the top rope. Plus, it was now hunting season, and I would probably either spoil someone's hunt or run the risk of getting shot, since I run so gracefully I resemble a deer now. Instead, I did a daily 5-minute Bike Sprint, a daily 3-song Jump Rope Stint, and three Cardio Circuits that week. I actually think the combination came pretty close to what the running would have produced and I was left with more energy at the end of the week due to the shorter duration cardio efforts.
At the beginning of the week, I was emailing with Chris Rice about my plans to cut weight to make the 105-kg mark and he also sent me an article that covers how the UFC Fighters can cut 20 to 30 lbs in one week in order to make weight for a fight. Here is the link: How UFC Fighters Cut 30 lbs in a Week.
So I read the article, which I thought was quite good, although I wouldn't recommend it as a weekly approach to weight loss by any means.
And, I decided to take some before and after photos of myself as a way to document everything.
Here are the photos:
Left: Monday Morning. 242lbs. Right: Friday Night, pissing brown. 227 lbs, so I thought…
So, I embarked upon the uncharted territory of purposeful dehydration. After several years of pushing daily hydration and filling a gallon jug with water and not being done until it was gone, I would now set up a schedule to purposefully dehydrate myself.
Dehydration Schedule:
Monday: 2 Gallons of Water
Tuesday: 1 Gallon of Water
Wednesday: .75 Gallon of Water
Thursday: .5 Gallon of Water
Friday: Only water I drank was in coffee or the food I ate.
I should also note that from Monday to Thursday, I also was taking three servings of generic Metamucil, in order to clear out my colon as much as possible of any clogs. I believe this to have been a complete waste of effort, as I have been eating so much fiber over the last 9 months that most of that junk is completely gone. I saw no change in my stool size or frequency at all.
For food, all I ate for protein all day long Friday was hard boiled eggs. For cards, all I ate all day long was broccoli, cauliflower and carrots. Honestly, I felt pretty darn good on this "diet."
In the UFC article, the writer talks about feeling absolutely horrible. I did not. I felt some cramping in my neck which I thought was probably due to dehydration, but other than that I felt pretty good.
So, when we got to the hotel, I had packed my spot-calibrated scale that I used for the Hodlfast Gauntlet. Confident it was accurate, I placed it on the floor of the hotel room and weighed myself – 227-lbs. A 15-lb drop in weight from Monday across 5 days. I sat down and ate a few more pieces of broccoli and two more hard boiled eggs so that I could get some decent sleep.
Luke stepped on the scale and was weighing 206. I laughed at him and pointed while jumping up and down. Pissed off that he wouldn't be able to eat or drink anything that night, he went to get a shower.
The Magic Shower
When he returned from the shower, he stepped back on the scale and this time, to our surprise, was 203 lbs!!!
"How could that be?"
I then remembered I had heard long ago that a scale won't work right on a carpet. We had weighed ourselves on a carpet.
So, the complete geniuses that we are, we placed the scale atop the credenza beside the TV so that we had a more sturdy surface. Why we did not take it to the tile floor in the bathroom I have no idea.
What I do know though, is that I was now weighing 233-lbs. 2 Pounds over my 231 limit.
So, all the dehydration efforts, I only lost about 9-lbs. Looking back, my dehydration probably did work effectively due to the sloppy joe's I ate or something. But regardless, I still had to cut off a couple more pounds.
But I did not rely upon a magic shower. Instead, I put my sneakers back on and bundled up and went to run around the hotel to burn off some calories and get rid of more water.
It was snowing out BIG TIME. As I ran, I remember wondering if all the snow I was inhaling through my nose and mouth was negating my dehydration tactics. I remember wondering whether the moisture in my beanie was sweat or just snow that had melted. Was I making progress, or shooting myself in the foot? I was already so dehydrated, my feet hurt and both achilles tendons were sore, and they just kept getting more sore with each stride on the pavement as I went around the hotel and convenience store complex. My only solace was the fact that it was snowing and the accumulation and slush were padding my strides somewhat.
The snow was both my enemy and my partner.
I made myself do 10 laps. Each time I passed by the South Door, two dudes speaking Spanish and smoking cigarettes stared at me. I was just waiting for them to make a reference to "el guero corriendo," so that I could talk back to them in Spanish to surprise them, but it never happened.
When all was said and done, I finished my 10th lap and went back inside and I had been running for 40 minutes, twice as long as I had run in any of my Field Running jaunts from the Spring and Summer. So I was proud of myself in that regard.
I weighed in again, once more atop the credenza, as I tried to remember which Dr. Seuss book mentions a credenza, and I had gotten all the way down to 232 and a couple of ounces. I jumped in the shower and went to bed.
When I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was weigh in. I was now 229 on my scale.
Luke and I jumped into the car with no food. Just black coffee and we made it to the Grip Comp location within about 20 minutes. I weighed in at 229 something. Luke was 203 something. We both made weight, and it was time to put the feedbag on! We started by consuming a Gatorade Gel Pack apiece and chugging an entire 32-ounce Gatorade. We then proceeded to eat about a half dozen eggs each, bacon, toast, and more goodies prepared for us by Chris Rice's wife, Teresa, and amazing breakfast – thank you so much to the Rice's.
And that is my story of my first ever cutting experience. All in all, it was not that bad of an experience. I lucked out and got no headaches and didn't cramp up or collapse on the floor.
Going forward, I plan on continuing to train super hard with the goal of adding muscle and strength. I also plan on keeping the cardio in there and eating clean to continue to reduce bodyfat. I'd love to be able to pack on another 10lbs of muscle while also dropping 10 more lbs of fat. Since I am Squatting and Deadlifting again, I think the strength and muscle gains are easily fathomable. With the diet dialed in and the cardio, I think the fat will come off too.
This post has already gotten much longer than I ever would have intended, so I will not speak of my events at the contest, at least not right now. I will however, post the videos. Enjoy.
Gripmas Videos:
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The Blob – The Grand-Daddy of all Block WeightsThursday, October 3rd, 2013
The Blob: The Benchmark One Hand Pinch Feat
There is one Grip Strength Challenge Item out there that is parallel with closing the #3 Gripper, Lifting the Inch Dumbbell, and bending a 60D nail. It is the Blob.
This feat of Open hand / Pinching Strength was started by Richard Sorin, who when moving a bunch of broken dumbbells from one storage area to another tried pinch gripping a half 100-lb York Dumbbell. This lone half-100 was the only one of many that thwarted his efforts, and he set himself the goal to train his grip until he was able to not only lift it, but MASTER it.
This Grand-daddy of all Block Weights, which has been found in countless Grip Contest Medley, Grip Gauntlets and other Grip is called the Blob.
The story of how the first Blob came to be and the early history of it is an amazing one. Throughout the first few decades of its existence, it stopped the likes of Richard, John Brookfield, Wade Gillingham, and many others DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS at first, until they were all ready to re-group, re-strategize, and re-formulate their plan of attack.
Since then, thousands have tested themselves against the Blob in various venues across the Nation and around the World, only to have it laugh in their face like the bully at school.
But despite all of the valiant attempts that were colored by failure, there have been a few stories of dramatic inspiration that have spurred others to forge ahead with their training in order to tackle the beast…
Stories such as Rick Walker who at the time he first lifted it in 2003 was only about 200-lbs…
…like Chad Kovach who has successfully lifted the Blob with hands about 7-inches long…
…Brad Martin, who succeeded in lifting it after just a few weeks of training and hands under 7.5 inches…
…even Richard Sorin himself, Blob Pioneer, has average sized hands and can lift the Blob today, some 20+ years after first challenging himself to do so…
…and still, there are many other accounts of people putting in months or even years of dedicated time to finally accomplish the revered feat of lifting the Blob in a Pinch Grip, the true test of Open Hand and Thumb Strength.
Unfortunately, many people talk themselves out of lifting the Blob before they even try.
They think because the have small hands, they have no chance. The documented cases above prove this not to be so, in fact, as long as you can get one of two different finger and thumb combinations over the edges of the Blob, you will be able to lift it.
People think that because they do not own their own Blob, they are doomed to never develop the strength needed to lift it. Nothing could be further from the truth, as there are many suitable options that can be used in order to cultivate the wide-pinch strength needed to slay the Blob.
And many have been told that because they have little experience with Grip Training that they have two chances to lift the Blob: Slim and None. Absolute hogwash. Grip History is filled with accounts of average Gripsters accomplishing Blob Lifts and other Gigantic Feats with little training time under their belt.
The fact is, large hands, owning a Blob, specialty equipment, and years of training are indeed NOT prerequisites to becoming a Blob Lifter.
What is necessary is knowledge. Understanding key points about Blob Lifting such as technique (yes, there is technique; don't let anyone fool you), chalk application, positioning and leverage, as well as the proper way to train on the Blob, are what you really need.
These factors will ease the frustration of the misses, the failures, and the heartache.
These intangibles will fill in the blanks between your desire to succeed and your ability to feel success.
These elements are the ones that will make you what you want to be – a Blob Lifter.
And now, all of these things are available to you in my brand new ebook, "Lift the Blob."
If you want to Lift the Blob or any other goal Block Weight that is in your sights, then you need this ebook to help guide you.
If you want to find out more about what kind of information is in Lift the Blob < = click that link. Or if you just want to get started right away, click the button below.
All the best in your training.
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- Hyperthyroidism (Graves disease)
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- Basedow, BASEDOW DIS, BASEDOW DISEASE, BASEDOWS DIS, Basedows disease, Basedow's disease, Basedow's disease (disorder), Disease Basedow, Disease Basedows, Disease Basedow's, Disease Graves, DISEASE GRAVES', EXOPHTHALMIC GOITER, Exophthalmic Goiters, Exophthalmic goitre, exophthalmos goiter (etiology), exophthalmos goiter (manifestation), Family history, Flajani, FLAJANI DISEASE, Goiter exophthalmic, goiter exophthalmos (etiology), goiter exophthalmos (manifestation), Goiters Exophthalmic, GRAVE DISEASE, Graves, GRAVES DIS, Graves disease, Grave's disease, Graves' disease, Graves' disease (disorder), Graves' disease with exophthalmos, Graves-Basedow disease, GRD, HYPERTHYROIDISM (GRAVES DISEASE), HYPERTHYROIDISM AUTOIMMUNE, HYPERTHYROIDISM GRAVES DISEASE, struma exophthalmic, Toxic diffuse goiter with exophthalmos, Toxic diffuse goiter with exophthalmos (disorder), Toxic diffuse goitre with exophthalmos
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