aTm2004 said:

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The best was a regulation out of California. The rule was you are allowed to play badminton but only one person can play. I'll try to find the link to the order

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That guy was a whole lot better when he just focused on sports. Now he's just another guy who thinks everyone cares about his political views.

Not a lot of sports to talk about on a sports show almost 2 months into things getting shut down.

aTm2004 said:

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Isn't Gold's like $5/mo?

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Its $85 a month at my golds for myself and my wife and thats a basic membership. No spin class access or anything like that.

aTm2004 said:

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Not a lot of sports to talk about on a sports show almost 2 months into things getting shut down.

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guess he isn't that talented, then. Sports talk radio is really the dumbest of the mouth breathers.

JesusQuintana said:

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aTm2004 said:

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Isn't Gold's like $5/mo?

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Its $85 a month at my golds for myself and my wife and thats a basic membership. No spin class access or anything like that.

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Dang. Guess it varies from location to location.

expresswrittenconsent said:

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aTm2004 said:

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Not a lot of sports to talk about on a sports show almost 2 months into things getting shut down.

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guess he isn't that talented, then. Sports talk radio is really the dumbest of the mouth breathers.

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Translation: People who don't enjoy what I enjoy are mouth breathers and aren't as smart as me. Neither is the guy who built a multi-million dollar business in a competitive market.

Translation: I like sports and you like sports radio and claiming things worth 7 figures are actually worth "multi billion"

expresswrittenconsent said:

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Translation: I like sports and you like sports radio and claiming things worth 7 figures are actually worth "multi billion"

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I don't like sports radio. I live in Houston, where sports radio has been dead for years. Nick and Lopez briefly brought it back, but it was short lived. Where did I type "billion?" No edits and no B.

Most of what Clay says is idiotic or downright shilling.

But there's no doubt he was smart enough to build a very profitable business around yelling things into his customer base's echo chamber that they want to hear.

aTm2004 said:

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Not a lot of sports to talk about on a sports show almost 2 months into things getting shut down.

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He got all political well before this. He hasn't really been all that interesting since we were joining the SEC.

SoupNazi2001 said:

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aTm2004 said:

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Not a lot of sports to talk about on a sports show almost 2 months into things getting shut down.

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He got all political well before this. He hasn't really been all that interesting since we were joining the SEC.

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Probably because you disagree with his take politically and on the virus. I think he is hilarious and pretty accurate.

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Has nothing to do with that. I don't like my sports types to get political...... either way. If I want politics, I'll listen to a political show. I don't listen to political types to get my sports either.

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aTm2004 said:

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Not a lot of sports to talk about on a sports show almost 2 months into things getting shut down.

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He got all political well before this. He hasn't really been all that interesting since we were joining the SEC.

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Probably because you disagree with his take politically and on the virus. I think he is hilarious and pretty accurate.

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I don't listen to his show but do listen to his podcast from time to time and that's where he tends to get political. He's a lefty but not one who lets emotions drive him. He seems to be logical and looks at the facts over what social media is saying. He also calls out the hypocrisy on both sides, which is missing from many on both sides of the aisle.

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I watched the press conference and Abbott specifically mentioned throughout his discussions with business leaders on how they could safely re-open as part of the process to re-opening. He specifically mentioned that bar owners needed to approach his administration with some ideas for how they could safely open before he could advise it.

I am a person who goes to a gym 5-6 days a week and have been sorely missing it. When the outbreak was getting serious, I kept doing my workouts. I found it to be the most anxious activity of anything I did. I tried to wipe down my barbell before using, but then I realized all the plates I was handling would need to be wiped as well as I kept taking those on and off. Also, lifting causes people to breathe heavily, spit, grunt and do lots of things that made me uncomfortable. I wish they would require wearing a mask in the weight lifting area since it's not a true aerobic activity. Finally, social distancing seemed almost impossible when doing anything with dumbells, because all of the bros love to line up in front of the dumb bells for their exercises in the mirror. It was impossible to steer clear of people while lifting to go get the dumbells i needed for certain exercises. I would typically take them to another area of the gym to steer clear of people, but I found it troublesome.

I don't see how gloves help at all. I don't see a single mechanism that gloves can do to prevent infection. The minute I wipe snot out of my nose with my glove or block a cough my glove is pointless. At least a mask would physically block me from doing things like that.

I also swim a regularly and I felt pretty safe doing that. I've read that the chlorinated water kills CV. As long as it's one person to a lane, I never felt there was much opportunity to get infected.

Closing the locker room and water fountains seems like a good idea. I made sure to pack all my stuff so I wouldn't need to do that anyways.

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A mask is pretty detrimental to heavy lifting. One needs to be able to breath fully, especially since most heavy barbell lifters use the Valsalva maneuver to brace their core. I think you were probably being unnecessarily anxious honestly. While strength training may not be a traditional "aerobic" activity, breathing is vital and masks restrict that. Heck, many feel that a good session of 3 sets of 5 reps of full ROM low bar back squats at about 80% ones estimate 1 rep max gives one more in terms of aerobic capacity while training than doing HIIT. Though I do short HIIT type training once to twice a week to increase my stamina during heavy lifts, but I digress.

Agree on the gloves. Also, there's now debate among gyms that the gloves weren't supposed to be on the list and it was a mistake that was supposed to apply to staff while cleaning, which is supposed to happen a number of times a day. Also, chalk. I started thinking about this while doing dead lifts yesterday. Chalk is used to dry out the hand so one isn't sweaty and will have a tight grip on the bar, especially under heavy loads. I wonder if chalk, because on that, wouldn't automatically kill viruses by drying them out. I have no idea. Anyone who may can chime in. One interesting result of using chalk, I won't touch my face as I do not want chalk to get in my eyes, nose or near them. And that was a major reason cited in the past couple of month on why we should wear masks and gloves. To remind us NOT to touch our faces. The owner and I agree, we will over look the glove thing, other then I will wear them if I clean. Still, we will be on people's butt a lot more now to wipe off and re-rack etc. I won't require that the plates be wiped down. Just the pads and seats, handles etc.

Look, I think they know that social distancing is damn near impossible at a gym with free weights. While they will say what they need to say, the reality is, there is no way to realistically keep a gym truly that clean and to limit the potential to spread things where people train very hard. You have to breath, in ways that are similar to the power a sneeze has if you are lifting heavy. Granted, a guy doing a 300lbs plus squat or 400lbs deadlift or a 300lbs power clean will get socially distanced, but not because of Covid, but for more pressing safety issues like not having that weight dropped on them. Most of the measures are to put people at ease. Nothing molre. We all should have been wiping equipment down way before Covid-19. Now maybe the idiots who didn't will start. If they don't, I'll be having a word with them.

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HotardAg07 said:

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I watched the press conference and Abbott specifically mentioned throughout his discussions with business leaders on how they could safely re-open as part of the process to re-opening. He specifically mentioned that bar owners needed to approach his administration with some ideas for how they could safely open before he could advise it.

I am a person who goes to a gym 5-6 days a week and have been sorely missing it. When the outbreak was getting serious, I kept doing my workouts. I found it to be the most anxious activity of anything I did. I tried to wipe down my barbell before using, but then I realized all the plates I was handling would need to be wiped as well as I kept taking those on and off. Also, lifting causes people to breathe heavily, spit, grunt and do lots of things that made me uncomfortable. I wish they would require wearing a mask in the weight lifting area since it's not a true aerobic activity. Finally, social distancing seemed almost impossible when doing anything with dumbells, because all of the bros love to line up in front of the dumb bells for their exercises in the mirror. It was impossible to steer clear of people while lifting to go get the dumbells i needed for certain exercises. I would typically take them to another area of the gym to steer clear of people, but I found it troublesome.

I don't see how gloves help at all. I don't see a single mechanism that gloves can do to prevent infection. The minute I wipe snot out of my nose with my glove or block a cough my glove is pointless. At least a mask would physically block me from doing things like that.

I also swim a regularly and I felt pretty safe doing that. I've read that the chlorinated water kills CV. As long as it's one person to a lane, I never felt there was much opportunity to get infected.

Closing the locker room and water fountains seems like a good idea. I made sure to pack all my stuff so I wouldn't need to do that anyways.

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A mask is pretty detrimental to heavy lifting. One needs to be able to breath fully, especially since most heavy barbell lifters use the Valsalva maneuver to brace their core. I think you were probably being unnecessarily anxious honestly. While strength training may not be a traditional "aerobic" activity, breathing is vital and masks restrict that. Heck, many feel that a good session of 3 sets of 5 reps of full ROM low bar back squats at about 80% ones estimate 1 rep max gives one more in terms of aerobic capacity while training than doing HIIT. Though I do short HIIT type training once to twice a week to increase my stamina during heavy lifts, but I digress.

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I'm guessing the bar rolled back onto his throat and cut off his oxygen. Luckily, he was able to re-rack it. Disregard the dumb edit and music. The original account that posted the unedited version is private.

https://instagr.am/p/B-5KycKH_Ii

That video. Yes, proof one needs to breath. The rest of the video? WT absolute F is going on there, lol.

I know. The original one was just the lift, re-rack, and fall with no music, but the account is private and they credited this one. I went to it and this is the only video of it. It seems to be his brother (he tags in the post) and that account is private. I was like "eh, no nudity or cussing, so let's go with it."