Training like Dorian produced my best results in the 90's. I too feel horrible for the people out of work. My wife and I are thus far beyond blessed. I'm still working full time and even getting overtime. My work has a great gym, so I'm not missing any workouts. At all. She actually has two full time jobs which she is doing from the home. The one job is usually about a 45 minute drive and the other involves travel as well. So, she is saving probably conservatively two tanks of gas each week.
I remarked to a buddy earlier today in the work gym that I want the govt to get checks out yesterday to only the people that need them. There is no reason we should be getting anything. I'll take it, no doubt but it would really feel dirty. Especially the plan where we'd each get a grand plus $500 per kid and we have two of them. That would give us 3 grand. I'd make damned sure to put it into the economy the second we are back up and running. But you get my point.
I'd like to start a social media campaign calling for everybody that is working and can afford it to get the fuck out of the house as soon as it's safe. Go out to eat. Go out for coffee. Go to movies. Etc. Etc. If we are locked down for 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks or whatever. When we go back out to eat, instead of tipping 20%, tip 40% for the same amount of time things were sidelined.
I have lots of assholes here at work that want us shut down to get the "2 weeks of paid vacation". I keep telling these assholes what if in that two weeks we lose clients resulting in lay offs, etc? Jealous because they perceive people are getting paid to stay home.
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Don't be concerned with me. I am retired but I have a healthy pension. That job I was referring to is a part time retirement job that I do for the Sheriff. When I was working my job had many gyms in different locations. Some top shelf ones too. That is a big benefit to being employed with a work gym. Glad you are doing well financially. Sounds like you two are a hard working couple taking care of your kids. I have four kids but they are all adults so no additional checks for me. All of my kids are employed so far through this mess. It does seem the whole neighborhood here is out of work. If the country isn't opened up soon we are going warp speed to a Depression the world has never seen before if this country doesn't open for business soon. 50,000 last year died from pneumonia last year in this country. No panic or hysteria over this contagious upper respiratory disease. This flu season 36,000 died from the common flu. No hysteria in the US. Under a 1000 dead from Corona and the stock market crashed, people's life savings are gone, millions out of work, GDP is going to crash. Enough of my rant.
I have trained with high intensity forever. I was heavily influenced by Arthur Jones as a teenager and later by Mike Mentzer. In my 60's I can't help wonder if I made the right decision in my training life. As you know that one set to failure after warm up is brutal. Danny Paddila said when he tried high intensity he didn't get the results he wanted and he was using maximum weights. I don't want to put words in his mouth but he said dreading workouts was also a factor. His exact words were the workouts got scary.
I chat with Bill Pearl from time to time and he said in effect if workouts get so hard you will dread training then miss workouts. He said training longevity is a big part of training. It certainly appeared both Mentzer brothers gave up training in their 20's. Could the brutality of the workouts been a contributing factor?
I could be wrong. Viator by many accounts trained with volume. He was the poster child for Jones but a guy who trained in the same gym with him said he was using 16 sets a body part. I have had a lot of success using one or two work sets per exercise. Just as I age my joints are paying the price for the many decades of training I have. Too much grinding and tears. I feel I could give a lot of good advice to younger guys but who would listen?
One is to keep your shoulder joint flexible. It might cost you some pounds off your single but it will save your joint.
I beginning to think that muscles grow best through muscular endurance and not through strength training for single rep maxes. In other words volume. I'm going to give it a valid chance soon. Maybe next week.
