Fish Of Doom

not really, squat one day, deadlift or do farmer's walks another, press and pull (rows or chins) the third day, repeat, and you have a perfectly sustainable routine for a few weeks. even if you're a newbie, if you actually start light, progress in small increments, and eat and sleep correctly like one is supposed to do, you could probably keep it up for a month or two and take advantage of the low loads (which for a while will be lower than in a BW routine*) to groove technique for the lifts and build up work capacity, until you need to reduce training volume and/or frequency to deal with the increased intensity. this does not however mean that i'm saying that anyone should do this (i might get on it myself if i stall too badly in the near future, though); i'm simply saying that it's not impossible. *not that there's any difference between weight training and bodyweight training, physiologically speaking. re: fitocracy: 1- "it's a waste of time, a way to pat yourself on the back for something that becomes a habit over time anyway, and generally just a way for people to feel they are a part of a community" applies just as readily to video-gaming forums such as this one (or probably most kinds of forums, for that matter). 2- if it helped me, and has helped other people, it's not a waste of time. if it has brought me friends, it's definitely not a waste of time either. 3- why the anti-gravitational fornication would reading a book (which i do a fair amount of, thank you very much, in fact i have a backlog of training books that i need to buy, many of which are from recommendations found on fitocracy, by the way) be mutually exclusive with having other people help me/helping others myself? i do both, and i'm perfectly happy this way. re: keyword ideas: if you're referring to the tags, i put them in simply because i find them funny. i see no point in you bringing something as tangential as that into this discussion, unless it is meant as some sort of attack on my person and/or what i wrote (btw, the board i got them from? not sure which you're referring to. i learned about the DYEL? meme from fito, knew about curls in the squat rack from pretty much every fitness source ever way before i joined, and the protein for the protein god one is just a mutation of a wh40k meme applied to protein).

might i ask what exactly your problem is? my comments were mostly tongue in cheek, as indicated by the use of smileys, as per standard internet communication guidelines. you, on the other hand, employed hyperbole to attack what i said. and i'll have you know that it's perfectly possible to work out 7 days a week, if one's intensity, volume and exercise selection are regulated accordingly. of course if you go high-volume, high-intensity and high-frequency at the same time, you're going to burn out eventually (and potentially very quickly), but that is what deloads, rest days or even rest weeks are for, as well as, given enough time and money, recovery amplifiers such as deep-tissue massages, uninterrupted natural sleep and supplementation such as creatine (or, in places where they are legal, and given knowledge on how to use them safely, anabolic steroids, if one were so inclined for whatever reason). as far as training logs go, i find them useful, the community in fitocracy has resulted in me making new friends, and i have both helped other people and been helped by other people as regarding workouts, therefore i have found it both fun and useful. if you have a personal vendetta against people who spam their workouts everywhere (and yes, i agree, that does get annoying), that is an entirely separate matter. feel up to a civilized discussion on the subject?

I recommend that you also cut sleep back to 6 hours, cut all protein from your diet, and do ballistic stretches before warming up. You know, for maximum effect. Oh, and run with 20 pound weights on your ankles. Yea bro, imo everyone should have a fitness blog. "Today I did 5 push ups and ran a mile, I want you all to know." my, my, someone is cranky.

good luck, nep! also, you should all lift weights :D

oh, you should see the one i started on relicnews. there's a surprisingly big amount of us nerds who work out.

necro-ing a little to share an interesting link: http://examine.com/ from the website itself: it's structured like a FAQ, and all the pages have sources (sometimes a lot of them), which is always a plus for those inclined to corroborate data.

discovered that it's better to find out how to store food BEFORE you cook it...

yup, not all aliens are stunnable. i use my assaults as stunners and keep the supports as medics mainly because assaults have more survivability in close combat (lightning reflexes is a godsend when trying to close distances)

you can save on weapon fragments by stunning aliens (easier said than done, though) and just capturing the intact weapons, thus not needing anything to manufacture them. best done with assaults supplemented by a sniper with disabling shot, IME.

mebbeth should do. alternatively, get dak'kon to do it/become a mage and do it yourself.

slipped on the street and got a big boo-boo on my knee

less politics moar funneh!

went to the local zombie walk and took a bunch of cool pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_8 nothing on my birth year (1990), but lennon died ten years earlier, and in dec. 8th 1886 the painter diego rivera was born (funnily enough my first name is diego).

dak'kon can re-train you as both a fighter and a mage, so if you have good gear you could just switch back in order to survive, and then just grind xp for mage levels elsewhere (killing abishai in the lower ward, for example).

hmmm... i can't decide whether i should just stick to my X-COM and PS:T playthroughs (which are being very very very infrequently revisited as is), or start replaying the blue planet: war in heaven campaign for freespace 2 in addition to them... dammit, i want war in heaven 2

woke up late, somehow bouncing out of my latest routine existential crisis in the process (might have been lack of sleep ), bought some pvc pipes i needed, went to the gym without having eaten (dumb idea) and now i'm eating ALL THE FOOD.

went to help my brother again on the last day of his prosthetic make-up course (i model the masks). pictures were taken, and much laughter ensued.

congrats!

went to the bank, then bought dog food, then went to the gym for a nice session of suicide-via-weightroom, then ate like a pig and napped for a couple of hours. now drinking milk and will soon fire up ze videogames (prolly some x-com and then some PS:T).

nope, the aliens stay as always, and you then proceed to slaughter them :D. alien advancement is tied to time and to which plot objectives you've completed, afaik. something that would be hilarious to try would be an entire team of sid meiers spamming mind control :D

I envy you. I wish I could go back and play Torment for the first time. You're in for quite the experience. i'm going to hell for this, but, have you tried dying and coming back to life without memories of the game? (floating, talking skull optional)

i'd advise actually opening links that get posted before commenting on them . it's simply an overview of the AD&D 2E rules used in CRPG adaptations, including IE games.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/187975-planescape-torment/faqs/8566 this might be of use to you. i miss thac0

Exact same thing happened to me. I watched four guys, who'd been with me from the beginning, get wiped out during the ufo landing mission. For the first time in over a decade I was yelling at the monitor as I watched them fall. argh. I'm thinking I should restart and manage assets a little better. Or use cheats to summon the 4 great XCOM heroes. oh yes. 2x meier, 2x zander, 1x levine and 1x kelly = PWN.