GO ABBA GO!!!

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I cannot reveal the secret, but it has much to do with cayenne pepper and okra. I've had some success with Yankee women, but in general they aren't much on okra.

It's totally up to you, but I think you'd be more successful substituting mace and Rohypnol.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The reformer is a machine resembling a medieval torture device in appearance. There are a variety of springs and pulleys and ropes that you use to move a platform around while you're in various positions on or above the machine.

The description reminds me of the 'trapeze' an ex-BF used to make vague references too.

ETA: "The Cadillac" looks like the contraption he had in mind.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Of course Less hasn't checked in crying yet. He at least is a man....................or dead.

I am such the man. Having lived here since birth, I didn't even get up off my couch (or spill my drink).

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
The description reminds me of the 'trapeze' an ex-BF used to make vague references too.

ETA: "The Cadillac" looks like the contraption he had in mind.

You ever watch Dr. 90210? Dr. Rey's wife who is like 90 pounds took a special class with her buddy in one of those machines.

It looked like a rower.

[Hank Chinaski]

so I'm going to Beijing Olympics. How does one get tickets to the events? Well, all tickets for the States pass through one company. You sign up and request as many tickets as you'd like up to like 50 total.

The site warns that several events will likely oversell and there will need to be a lottery.

My wife and I both max out. Several things are silly cheap: Archery is $5 per ticket as an example.

We got the results back from the lottery. We each got like 12 of 48 requested tickets. I know there aren't that many people going, and i know these things will all be on stubhub or ticketbroker or whatever. So now I'll end up paying $50 for the $5 arcery tickets.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
so I'm going to Beijing Olympics. How does one get tickets to the events? Well, all tickets for the States pass through one company. You sign up and request as many tickets as you'd like up to like 50 total.

The site warns that several events will likely oversell and there will need to be a lottery.

My wife and I both max out. Several things are silly cheap: Archery is $5 per ticket as an example.

We got the results back from the lottery. We each got like 12 of 48 requested tickets. I know there aren't that many people going, and i know these things will all be on stubhub or ticketbroker or whatever. So now I'll end up paying $50 for the $5 arcery tickets.

Did you get any events you don't want to go to? Seems you could probably swap out. Rhythmic gymnastics for archery or something in the secondary market.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Did you get any events you don't want to go to? Seems you could probably swap out. Rhythmic gymnastics for archery or something in the secondary market.

Good idea. I'll look into it. We got overlapped Boxing and artistic gymnastics. I'm no archery fan, nut it seemed a safe event to get. I was just shocked that it went. We got 3 blocks of artistic gymnastics, which was supposed to be the most wanted, after swimming.

Actually everything else is so expensive that the ticket cost is insignificant, even from Stubhub. But it still pisses me off.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Good idea. I'll look into it. We got overlapped Boxing and artistic gymnastics. I'm no archery fan, nut it seemed a safe event to get. I was just shocked that it went. We got 3 blocks of artistic gymnastics, which was supposed to be the most wanted, after swimming.

Actually everything else is so expensive that the ticket cost is insignificant, even from Stubhub. But it still pisses me off.

Is artistic gymnastics the regular kind or the kind with ribbons? I think that I'd care the most about opening ceremonies. After that, I think it'd sort of be fun to see the obscure sports like table tennis or white water canoeing.

Though, I'd really get a kick out of watching women's beach volleyball.

You're not going to chant "U.S.A! U.S.A!" are you?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Is artistic gymnastics the regular kind or the kind with ribbons?

regular.

I won't chant. My plan is to try to get close to world class athletes and get answers to Fringey's workout questions, I'll be in like Flynn.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
regular.

I won't chant. My plan is to try to get close to world class athletes and get answers to Fringey's workout questions, I'll be in like Flynn.

You will never read the questions closely enough to produce the right answers, and if you do produce a useful answer, you will do one word (e.g. "Motrin") that appears stupid, obvious and annoying, rather than actually doing a longer answer (e.g. "I really think whatever the company that produces Motrin puts into the 'inactive' ingredients makes the ibuprofen work better, and that Motrin brand ibuprofen is superior to Nuprin and Advil and generic store brand ibuprofen") that would make sense.

So unless you get a personality makeover, it will be useless.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
You will never read the questions closely enough to produce the right answers, and if you do produce a useful answer, you will do one word (e.g. "Motrin") that appears stupid, obvious and annoying, rather than actually doing a longer answer (e.g. "I really think whatever the company that produces Motrin puts into the 'inactive' ingredients makes the ibuprofen work better, and that Motrin brand ibuprofen is superior to Nuprin and Advil and generic store brand ibuprofen") that would make sense.

So unless you get a personality makeover, it will be useless.

Poll:

"Step outside your front door and run. If parts hurt later, eat Motrin." is useless.

"Go to a health club, pay $40 an hour for a device that makes it look like you're in traction, and where you have to wait an hour to get on. If parts hurt, soak in a tub for an hour." is great?

When answering the hypo remember that the subject complains about not having time to get workouts in.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Poll:

"Step outside your front door and run. If parts hurt later, eat Motrin." is useless.

"Go to a health club, pay $40 an hour for a device that makes it look like you're in traction, and where you have to wait an hour to get on. If parts hurt, soak in a tub for an hour." is great?

When answering the hypo remember that the subject complains about not having time to get workouts in.

I don't think I complain about not having time to get workouts in. The Motrin thing was to me, not ppnyc.

This highlights the fatal lack of attention. I don't run. I do the elliptical. That is it. The only time of day I am willing to work out is after work. The "elliptical-only" and "after-work-only" restriction will probably subtract a good 10 years off my life and increase my lifetime medical costs by $1.39 million (in today's dollars) and may quite possibly cost me any chance at a meaningful relationship in the city of LA . . . but so be it. That crap is too abstract when the alarm goes off two hours earlier than the absolute latest I can get up.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't think I complain about not having time to get workouts in. The Motrin thing was to me, not ppnyc.

This highlights the fatal lack of attention. I don't run. I do the elliptical. That is it. The only time of day I am willing to work out is after work. The "elliptical-only" and "after-work-only" restriction will probably subtract a good 10 years off my life and increase my lifetime medical costs by $1.39 million (in today's dollars) and may quite possibly cost me any chance at a meaningful relationship in the city of LA . . . but so be it. That crap is too abstract when the alarm goes off two hours earlier than the absolute latest I can get up.

Another thing you could do (and ppnyc too) is buy a pedometer. I think the prevailing theory is to try to take 10,000 steps per day. It's interesting to wear it and see how many steps you walk on an average day.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Another thing you could do (and ppnyc too) is buy a pedometer. I think the prevailing theory is to try to take 10,000 steps per day. It's interesting to wear it and see how many steps you walk on an average day.

ARGH. I am not concerned, as far as the board need be concerned, that I am working out enough or that I'm losing weight or whatever. I was whining about being sore, and then I was sort of sharing my general interest in the non-interval training intensity vs. valley working out method and how it affects my resting heart rate (lower) and how quickly I return to my resting heart rate (more quickly) and how hard my heart seems to have to work to produce the same outcome (not as hard).

I am going to try more stretching and taking ibuprofen earlier and consider my pain issue, which was my only workout issue as far as the board need be concerned, resolved.



ETA apparently I have a viscerally negative reaction to being lumped in the same group as ppnyc.

[Hank Chinaski]

everyone has shortcomings, so don't think the following constructive criticism means I don't still like you best. The following thought:

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't think I complain about not having time to get workouts in.

is kind of, just a little tiny, weeny bit, maybe kinda, sorta, contradictory to this:

The only time of day I am willing to work out is after work.

or even this:

That crap is too abstract when the alarm goes off two hours earlier than the absolute latest I can get up.

at least for those of us raised English as a first language. Maybe that explains the disconnect.