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Even though I need them more than ever. Between the high(er) volume workouts and the various parts breaking down, one rest day for every three of training is a requirement for me.
I know it's a good thing, but I just want to train, train, train. It's an illness.
Maybe I will do some "active recovery" like conditioning stuff! Yeah!
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You sound like a warrior!!
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Even though I need them more than ever. Between the high(er) volume workouts and the various parts breaking down, one rest day for every three of training is a requirement for me.
I know it's a good thing, but I just want to train, train, train. It's an illness.
Maybe I will do some "active recovery" like conditioning stuff! Yeah!
Spend those days searching the web for new attachments, weights, bars, racks, benches
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Spend those days searching the web for new attachments, weights, bars, racks, benches
I like the way you think!
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You sound like a warrior!!
Meh, I doubt that. I do enjoy my time under the weight pile, though. Meditative.
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Even though I need them more than ever. Between the high(er) volume workouts and the various parts breaking down, one rest day for every three of training is a requirement for me.
I know it's a good thing, but I just want to train, train, train. It's an illness.
Maybe I will do some "active recovery" like conditioning stuff! Yeah!
Do cardio instead bro.
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Didn't you own a Specialized Stumpjumper? ???
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Didn't you own a Specialized Stumpjumper? ???
I do! I don't ride it as much as I used to.
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Meh, I doubt that. I do enjoy my time under the weight pile, though. Meditative.
Don't sell yourself short. Go to war with the weights everyday. I walk into the gym carrying a sword and a battle axe because I know combat is coming.
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MOS typical gym attire:
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I do! I don't ride it as much as I used to.
C'mon mayne, get out and ride. I put around 100 km each week on my full susser, it's damn addictive.
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Do cardio instead bro.
Joon, cardio is the tool of the devil. :D
Maybe some HIIT drills.
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C'mon mayne, get out and ride. I put around 100 km each week on my full susser, it's damn addictive.
I may see if the missus wants to do some circuit HIIT in the driveway. It frequently leads to hot sex. Not in the driveway, though. Although nobody can see us from there....
Nah, too many rocks and shit.
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Do cardio instead bro.
AHAHAAH!!! "cardio". If I wanted to be healthy I'd eat a carrot.
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Even though I need them more than ever. Between the high(er) volume workouts and the various parts breaking down, one rest day for every three of training is a requirement for me.
I know it's a good thing, but I just want to train, train, train. It's an illness.
Maybe I will do some "active recovery" like conditioning stuff! Yeah!
here, try this:
- reduce the intensity of your work outs such that you are able to work out more days.
- Ice baths/soak after each work out
- Quit your job and sleep all day to recover from you work out.
- "Supplements"
- One or two grapefruit each day to increase Test production, it worked for Kai.
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Inline
here, try this:
- reduce the intensity of your work outs such that you are able to work out more days. Crazy talk
- Ice baths/soak after each work out Will consider
- Quit your job and sleep all day to recover from you work out. A tad extreme, but will consider
- "Supplements" Way ahead of you
- One or two grapefruit each day to increase Test production, it worked for Kai. Will get on this ASAP
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Don't rest=problem solved. :)
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Don't rest=problem solved. :)
Finally, some sensible advice.
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Inline
why is quitting your job to focus on your bodybuilding/weight lifting such a difficult decision? your lack of dedication sickens me ::)
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Finally, some sensible advice.
We train similarly. Rest days are only not enjoyable when you feel you haven't earned them.
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AHAHAAH!!! "cardio". If I wanted to be healthy I'd eat a carrot.
Whats wrong with cardio? ???
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We train similarly. Rest days are only not enjoyable when you feel you haven't earned them.
The thing is that I *do* feel like I earned them. I busted my ass in the gym for the last three days. I just want to be able to bust my ass everyday and still grow and not get injured. A little juice helps, but it isn't a perfect shield. Also, carb cycling down is a downer too.
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Whats wrong with cardio? ???
Steady-state cardio increases cortisol which can depress test and increase fat stores. Somewhat counter-intuitive, I know. "Studies show" that HIIT type training doesn't have the same deleterious effects. Cardio for extended periods of time "in the zone" can pretty much make you fat.
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Steady-state cardio increases cortisol which can depress test and increase fat stores. Somewhat counter-intuitive, I know. "Studies show" that HIIT type training doesn't have the same deleterious effects. Cardio for extended periods of time "in the zone" can pretty much make you fat.
lmao...no disrepect intended to you at all my friend but that is single handily the most stupid thing I ever heard.
When injecting exogenous testosterone (often times 100 times more than what your body is capable of producing) the last fucking thing on earth you need to worry about is anything effecting your test levels and certainly not cardio ::)
You also don't need to remotely worry about cortisol guys like Big J in my gym and Arnold used to train for 5-6 hours a day on crazy splits hitting each body part 3 times a week 6 days a week.
Over training and CNS exhaustion will only generally affect elite athletes like marathon runners, MMA athletes who would trains like 30 + hours a week.
99% of gym rats don't even need to worry about it.
Of course if you are severely dieting on very low calorie or carb diet (like the gal diet) they yeah not crazy amounts of cardio.
But running hard for one hour at a time is not gonna make you fat or make you lose muscle or be detrimental to your progress.
If anything it will improve everything so long as you take in proper nutrition and rest and make you lose fat.
You don't need to do cardio but if you get sick of weights nothing wrong with doing a bit of cardio, steady state of HIIT....unless you just don't like it and are lazy. :D
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lmao...no disrepect intended to you at all my friend but that is single handily the most stupid thing I ever heard.
When injecting exogenous testosterone (often times 100 times more than what your body is capable of producing) the last fucking thing on earth you need to worry about is anything effecting your test levels and certainly not cardio ::)
You also don't need to remotely worry about cortisol guys like Big J in my gym and Arnold used to train for 5-6 hours a day on crazy splits hitting each body part 3 times a week 6 days a week.
Over training and CNS exhaustion will only generally affect elite athletes like marathon runners, MMA athletes who would trains like 30 + hours a week.
99% of gym rats don't even need to worry about it.
Of course if you are severely dieting on very low calorie or carb diet (like the gal diet) they yeah not crazy amounts of cardio.
But running hard for one hour at a time is not gonna make you fat or make you lose muscle or be detrimental to your progress.
If anything it will improve everything so long as you take in proper nutrition and rest and make you lose fat.
You don't need to do cardio but if you get sick of weights nothing wrong with doing a bit of cardio, steady state of HIIT....unless you just don't like it and are lazy. :D
Fair enough.
I just don't get a lot of value out of cardio for the time invested. I would rather do 20-30 minutes of HIIT than an hour on the stair master (God help me). When I ruptured my achilles, I was not able to do a lick of cardio for 3 months. Total weight gained: zero pounds. Kept it in check with diet and upper body weight lifting.
Of course, some of that may have been due to the catastrophic atrophy in my legs during that period :-X
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Even though I need them more than ever. Between the high(er) volume workouts and the various parts breaking down, one rest day for every three of training is a requirement for me.
I know it's a good thing, but I just want to train, train, train. It's an illness.
Maybe I will do some "active recovery" like conditioning stuff! Yeah!
Plenty of things for you to do on rest day, go shopping for new disco thong and purse, buying grapefruit at the supermarket, buying stuffing to put into your thong to appear big, posting craiglist ads for bathroom hook ups, so you should be very busy on rest day.
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An off-day "bonus" workout if you just feel like going to the gym when you're not scheduled to :
http://forum.simplyshredded.com/topic/3067/screw-cardio---do-complexes-on-your-rest-day/
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Plenty of things for you to do on rest day, go shopping for new disco thong and purse, buying grapefruit at the supermarket, buying stuffing to put into your thong to appear big, posting craiglist ads for bathroom hook ups, so you should be very busy on rest day.
I'll save foozle the trouble: the post above sucks.
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Plenty of things for you to do on rest day, go shopping for new disco thong and purse, buying grapefruit at the supermarket, buying stuffing to put into your thong to appear big, posting craiglist ads for bathroom hook ups, so you should be very busy on rest day.
I'm sorry, what?
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The wife and I set up a brutal circuit in our driveway.
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I was pretty pumped that I could hang with her. Her conditioning is vastly better than mine.
The driveway slopes down to the street about 250m from the house. You can see a bit of "the meadow" that is my front yard.
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The wife and I set up a brutal circuit in our driveway.
(http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx132/_aj_gb_/6B92FA67-566E-42DA-8B74-F73D0E373665_zpss0bq2pzo.jpg)
I was pretty pumped that I could hang with her. Her conditioning is vastly better than mine.
The driveway slopes down to the street about 250m from the house. You can see a bit of "the meadow" that is my front yard.
You are a cool dude aj. I am man enough to admit that I was wrong about you.
Where you a sheep at the beginning? Probably.
Did you forge your own path? Absolutely.
Can I borrow $20 bucks?
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You are a cool dude aj. I am man enough to admit that I was wrong about you.
Where you a sheep at the beginning? Probably.
Did you forge your own path? Absolutely.
Can I borrow $20 bucks?
(http://i1156.photobucket.com/albums/p569/Vincebertolini/031a3d27f578f76fecbc887786d0d28b.jpg)
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Plenty of things for you to do on rest day, go shopping for new disco thong and purse, buying grapefruit at the supermarket, buying stuffing to put into your thong to appear big, posting craiglist ads for bathroom hook ups, so you should be very busy on rest day.
have you ever considered never logging into getbig again? Just curious.
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If you hate rest days -don't rest! I and many others work-out everyday! we believe it's a better way to burn bodyfat, we will take it easy 1 or 2 days a week and lift for full body muscle pumps and practice posing. You can work-out 7 days a week with no issues especially since you take a small amount of anabolics(you won't go catabolic) . I can't take a day off myself,I at least have to do a light full body workout and also train stubborn areas and fine tune areas and practice poses. No such thing as over-training when on cycle even if it is a light cycle.
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If you hate rest days -don't rest! I and many others work-out everyday! we believe it's a better way to burn bodyfat, we will take it easy 1 or 2 days a week and lift for full body muscle pumps and practice posing. You can work-out 7 days a week with no issues especially since you take a small amount of anabolics(you won't go catabolic) . I can't take a day off myself,I at least have to do a light full body workout and also train stubborn areas and fine tune areas and practice poses. No such thing as over-training when on cycle even if it is a light cycle.
^ This
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I usually rest on hate days.
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If you hate rest days -don't rest! I and many others work-out everyday! we believe it's a better way to burn bodyfat, we will take it easy 1 or 2 days a week and lift for full body muscle pumps and practice posing. You can work-out 7 days a week with no issues especially since you take a small amount of anabolics(you won't go catabolic) . I can't take a day off myself,I at least have to do a light full body workout and also train stubborn areas and fine tune areas and practice poses. No such thing as over-training when on cycle even if it is a light cycle.
Well I didn't rest, the 40 minutes on that circuit was pure hell.
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i used to hate them to bro but when u get my age n the old joints n bones ache alot u appreciate them alot more ;)
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if you don't want or need rest days you ain't training hard enough. end of story.
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Did you forge your own path? Absolutely.
Forge my own path? I am a bodybuilder on a bodybuilding website. Admittedly, I still suck at it. Hardly avant garde here.
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when i was younger id take advantage of my rest days n do what id call active rest,go mountain climbing,ride youe mountain bike thru the hills n hard trails,go hiking ect,u burn fat n alot of times n aint peoples bodies burning out from lifting,its being in the gym everyday day in n day out, believe it or not we all hit a point in our lives where we just get aggitated from never taking days off from gym,mentally u start to feel like a slave to the gym and instead of enjoying going to the gym u hit a point where u feel like its a job n thats when u know u need 1 day off aweek or even 2,i was the same way in my younger days,i felt like i was shrinking on my days off, i felt guilty like i fucked a broad behind my wifes back or something, it got crazy. all im saying is do what makes u happy n if u dont feel mentally or phsically burned out i guess your ok, be careful tho cause if u r looking to make it for the long haul n keep doing these for the next 30yrs or so dont burn yourself out, sometimes to much motivation backfires n is almost as bad as not enough, theres was a point in my life back in the 90,s where i couldnt take a day off n it hurt me bad,mentally n phsically, dont look at a day off as something negative, just remember n remind yourself that nice, new and thick muscle fiber is growing in your body n u r getting stronger by that
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when i was younger id take advantage of my rest days n do what id call active rest,go mountain climbing,ride youe mountain bike thru the hills n hard trails,go hiking ect,u burn fat n alot of times n aint peoples bodies burning out from lifting,its being in the gym everyday day in n day out, believe it or not we all hit a point in our lives where we just get aggitated from never taking days off from gym,mentally u start to feel like a slave to the gym and instead of enjoying going to the gym u hit a point where u feel like its a job n thats when u know u need 1 day off aweek or even 2,i was the same way in my younger days,i felt like i was shrinking on my days off, i felt guilty like i fucked a broad behind my wifes back or something, it got crazy. all im saying is do what makes u happy n if u dont feel mentally or phsically burned out i guess your ok, be careful tho cause if u r looking to make it for the long haul n keep doing these for the next 30yrs or so dont burn yourself out, sometimes to much motivation backfires n is almost as bad as not enough, theres was a point in my life back in the 90,s where i couldnt take a day off n it hurt me bad,mentally n phsically, dont look at a day off as something negative, just remember n remind yourself that nice, new and thick muscle fiber is growing in your body n u r getting stronger by that
Haha! I love the cheating analogy. It's just like that!
I am just not capable of zero movement rest unless I am sick. I really should get my Stumpy out for a spin. I need to tune it and put my knobbies back on.
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Even though I need them more than ever. Between the high(er) volume workouts and the various parts breaking down, one rest day for every three of training is a requirement for me.
I know it's a good thing, but I just want to train, train, train. It's an illness.
Maybe I will do some "active recovery" like conditioning stuff! Yeah!
then dont rest. keep training. the body will adapt.
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The wife and I set up a brutal circuit in our driveway.
(http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx132/_aj_gb_/6B92FA67-566E-42DA-8B74-F73D0E373665_zpss0bq2pzo.jpg)
I was pretty pumped that I could hang with her. Her conditioning is vastly better than mine.
The driveway slopes down to the street about 250m from the house. You can see a bit of "the meadow" that is my front yard.
Your wife squirts on the driveway, or your power steering fluid is leaking.
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Your wife squirts on the driveway, or your power steering fluid is leaking.
Lol!!!
What normal person has pallets in the backyard?
Aj is like Mel Gibson for the doomsday preppers.
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Lol!!!
What normal person has pallets in the backyard?
Aj is like Mel Gibson for the doomsday preppers.
Haha! It's the front of the house. Those were for my winter pellets so yes, a bit of prep.
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Haha! It's the front of the house. Those were for my winter pellets so yes, a bit of prep.
Colonial style house? You would be living my dream bro.
The rural New England area is still largely intact.
You want to retire in bliss? Retire to New England.
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Colonial style house? You would be living my dream bro.
The rural New England area is still largely intact.
You want to retire in bliss? Retire to New England.
Yep, colonial. This pic is from the winter.
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that is a pretty picture
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Yep, colonial. This pic is from the winter.
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Oh lawd!!!!!
I can see it now.......aj wrapped in just abearskin rug, as I slowly descend down the staircase.
"There will be fireworks tonight" I think to myself.
Little did we know that South Korea, had control over aj's chest region.
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Oh lawd!!!!!
I can see it now.......aj wrapped in just abearskin rug, as I slowly descend down the staircase.
"There will be fireworks tonight" I think to myself.
Little did we know that South Korea, had control over aj's chest region.
Lmao.
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if you don't want or need rest days you ain't training hard enough. end of story.
somewhat true but what I am trying to get across is there are so many muscles and as bodybuilders there is always areas that need improvement. I think 5 days a week is plenty but you could def use the other 2 days to work on fine tunning certain muscle areas you might be lagging or are not up to par. The few days where my work-outs are not as intense are just days where I catch up on these lagging bodyparts even if it's just forarms or maybe more work in the glutes. Now big muscle groups are diffrent but you can definately knit-pick and always find something to work on and improve.
Plus I always think it's best to work-out everyday to keep the fat burning effect going on. I think taking a few days off can slow your progress down. hell even doing a nice cardio session is fine along with a small work-out. I do agree training 7 days a week balls to the wall is not necessary! If somebody has to do that then your correct something is wrong. Alot of bodybuilders lie! The bodybuilders who are coming up and hungry train twice a day. zIt's actually the top bodybuilders who don't trai as often due to their booked schedules and all the traveling they do. Right now their is a freak NPC competitor who is training 2 times daily trying to get that pro card.
No such thing as over-training when your using anabolic steroids,HGH,anchileries and other peptides.
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Colonial style house? You would be living my dream bro.
The rural New England area is still largely intact.
You want to retire in bliss? Retire to New England.
It's peaceful, however, the bi polar weather can drive you nuts and after the first foot of snow it gets old!
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Summer is always welcome!
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It's peaceful, however, the bi polar weather can drive you nuts and after the first foot of snow it gets old!
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a158/pjcd1/IMG_0045_zpsb83348ff.jpg) (http://s11.photobucket.com/user/pjcd1/media/IMG_0045_zpsb83348ff.jpg.html)
Summer is always welcome!
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I am sure it does. I am a Florida boy, so I am sure I would hate the winter quickly.
I always laugh at people who want to come to Florida for a vacation. Maybe I am spoiled.
Go to Hawaii instead.
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I am sure it does. I am a Florida boy, so I am sure I would hate the winter quickly.
I always laugh at people who want to come to Florida for a vacation. Maybe I am spoiled.
Go to Hawaii instead.
Maui is heaven on earth and FL in winter does offer a nice respite from the psychotic NE winters. I'v always been about 40 miles from Boston but on a few acres with plenty of woods around. No income tax, cap gains or sales tax makes NH attractive. Also close to mountains, ocean and lakes.
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I live in NJ where we get a real winter and a real summer. I want it to be summer year round. Hope to move down south where the houses and taxes are less. The people I've met from southern California seem so happy. If I lived where it's 80 degrees and sunny year round I would be too.
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I am sure it does. I am a Florida boy, so I am sure I would hate the winter quickly.
I always laugh at people who want to come to Florida for a vacation. Maybe I am spoiled.
Go to Hawaii instead.
Why do you laugh at people vacationing in Florida? I just got back 2 hours ago from spending a week in Sandestin, on the panhandle. Me and my wife had an incredible time. Beautiful beaches on the gulf side. Tons of bikinis to check out as well.
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have you ever considered never logging into getbig again? Just curious.
:D
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I live in NJ where we get a real winter and a real summer. I want it to be summer year round. Hope to move down south where the houses and taxes are less. The people I've met from southern California seem so happy. If I lived where it's 80 degrees and sunny year round I would be too.
Used to travel to CA a lot and love San Diego weather. Almost moved there a couple times but could not come to terms with the crazy taxes. South has definitely become more appealing as I've gotten older.
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Why do you laugh at people vacationing in Florida? I just got back 2 hours ago from spending a week in Sandestin, on the panhandle. Me and my wife had an incredible time. Beautiful beaches on the gulf side. Tons of bikinis to check out as well.
I have lived in Florida my entire life. You become used to it.
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I live in NJ where we get a real winter and a real summer. I want it to be summer year round. Hope to move down south where the houses and taxes are less. The people I've met from southern California seem so happy. If I lived where it's 80 degrees and sunny year round I would be too.
same here oldtimer,i lived in jersey my whole life also n u r right the winters r cold n the summers get hot, i just moved to delaware recently cause it was cheaper to buy a house n theres no taxes,plus most of my family live down here now.i miss jersey tho bigtime
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I have lived in Florida my entire life. You become used to it.
Yea, I get what you mean. It is like every May I see people from all over the world come to Indianapolis to watch the 500. It is the worst track to watch a race at.
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Its good to see that there are real hardcore trainers who enjoy lifting on this site and not just juiceheads.
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