Wednesday Training

Close Grip Bench - worked up to 315x11
Chins - weighted - 6 sets of 5 reps @ 45lbs.
Dips - weighted - 5 sets of 10 reps @ 45lbs, 1x15 @90lbs

Thursday Training

Squat - 435x5
Clean - 205x5

The effects of last weekend's food poisoning really caught up to me on Thursday. I did the workout I set out to do and no more. Very run down from the week. BUT - still on track.

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Recently Dave posted some pics of himself in his training log. (see here... Dave Tate Training Log) These pics were from Ye Olde Wrap Around days - when Dave sported the Cul-de-Sac hairstyle made popular by Captain Stubing (Skipper of the Love Boat). Now Captain Stubing was a kind, good hearted man who decided the open seas and the horny lust of the Swinger Generation a better educational system for his daughter than public schooling. But who am I to judge such an experienced seaman?

Dave posted these pics to show everyone why he began shaving his head. Now in my estimation, the Hair Horseshoe was well beyond covering up and needed to be relieved many years prior. But Dave held on as many of us do. Hoping it is barely noticeable or even distinguished.

For most, this is not the case. Obvious exceptions to this rule are Jason Statham and Kimbo Slice - these guys can pull it off. But few of us have the sex appeal of Statham or the YouTube awesomeness of Kimbo. So we must undergo the blade treatment.

Now what Dave needed was an intervention. I was lucky enough to be sat down by Jason Ferruggia in Boston several years ago and got a stern lecture on the state of my hair/head. it wasn't easy, but a good friend doesn't allow this kind of thing to happen.

I held on for a little longer and eventually gave in. A fine decision and one I am glad I made.

Since arriving here at EFS and working under Dave and developing a very unique friendship (try having your boss as a friend and things can get a bit fucked but it can work...). One of my main duties is keeping Dave on track with fashion and other assorted things.

I do not claim to know fashion but I know what ISN'T fashion. So I keep Dave straight as possible in this regard - I do so with my usual polite way of speaking such as:

"Dave, that's f*cking awful. Take that off."

It's subtle but I think he gets the message. A message Issac never gave the Captain.

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Be that friend, find that friend,
Jim Wendler