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5/29/2021 Workout Squat Clean Workshop Thoughts: I walked in completely unsure on how heavy I was going to be able to go for this since Carl and I got our second dose of Pfizer on 5/28 and my arm was sore enough where I couldn't lift it all the way up. We started with complexes to make sure we were getting the form as good as possible. I've corrected the hang pull that I tend to have. Next will be the grip. Color me shocked when actually pulling 125lbs (my current PR for squat cleans) wasn't too much of an issue. I still need to fix my grip when I catch the bar. I have a fear of the weight just breaking my fingers, so I tend to close grip when it gets heavy. Got completely psyched out when I went to go for 130lbs. 5lbs shouldn't make a difference, but it does lol. We all were also probably tired after doing at least 30 reps of complexes before getting to our PRs. Next week will be the retest of our squat cleans. I'm aiming for 130lbs. Until I fix my form enough, I'll be happy with just a 5lb improvement.

I don't trust myself with "near"/"far". Shit. Even @TurboR56Mini doesn't trust my own spatial awareness IRL lol. I'd have to run this like 10 - 15 times with people who absolutely don't care about my mistakes for me to get it down.

Steam :: Valheim :: Development news 28/05/21 STEAMCOMMUNITY.COM Time flies and summer is just around the corner. Here at Iron Gate, we’re still working from home, and we’re still looking for the perfect office. While those two things remain unchanged, exciting things are still... Development news 28/05/21 Time flies and summer is just around the corner. Here at Iron Gate, we’re still working from home, and we’re still looking for the perfect office. While those two things remain unchanged, exciting things are still happening within the company. The last couple of weeks we’ve been having interviews with several potential future coworkers, and we’re really excited to grow with more talent! While it may take a couple of weeks before the time comes, we’re really looking forward to introducing our new colleagues to you! We have in a way already received a new team member, say hello to Valheim the horse! We collaborated with our friends at Skövde ryttarförening (Sköve riding club) to get them a new horse (technically pony) for their riding school. Isn’t she a beauty? You will definitely see more of her in the future. (This does not mean that we’ll introduce horses to the game, but it does mean that Iron Gate will take field trips to the stables to meet our four legged colleague) Since last time we have as usual made some updates and fixes for the game. We, for example, overhauled the harpoon mechanics, added a pre saving message and updated the looks of the troll and two bosses! Our work on Hearth and Home is still going well. The update is starting to take shape and the past month has been very productive, with many new items and mechanics being finalized. There are of course many more things we want to make before the update is released, as we don’t want to rush it. In our last devblog we explained how we work, wanting to let things take the time they need, and not setting a release date before we know for certain that the game is in a state that we can proudly present, and the response we got was fantastic! We are eternally grateful for having such a kind and understanding community! We are very proud to get to be on this journey with all of you. In our last two updates we gave you some sneak peeks, and this time is no different! We all have a great time reading your theories on what the items could be, some are more correct than others, but they are all equally creative. This month we present to you these pictures, what do you think they could be? We are looking into hosting some sort of Q&A, hopefully in June, where we can answer your questions about the game, development and the team!

For anyone who wants to watch, or at least have the countdown in the background until showtime (at least the countdown is actually really cool!):

5/27/2021 Workout Rowing Thoughts: I absolutely despise cardio. I hate spin class things. Every time I do these endurance things, it's just a reminder that I'm built for strength and not endurance lol. I also learned today that the rowing instructor also does SoulCycle. Makes sense. I've changed my strategy on dealing with this. I'm here for rowing. Not for anything else. So, when it's time to do the bodyweight movements... I'll do maybe 3 reps then continue using the time as rest before the next 12 minute rowing clip. Nope. I absolutely do not care that I look like a slacker. I'm sorry... not sorry. The dumbbells provided go up to 8lbs. What am I supposed to do with 8lb dumbbells when we do thrusters and renegade rows? My thrusters are usually at 75lbs, and renegade rows are at 45lbs lol. So, yeah. I'll take it as a rest time hah. I will say that I have been able to do all three rowing segments without pausing... even the damn sprints. Best split time is still 1:53. To be fair, I never though I would ever get it under 2:15. Today's best split was 1:55. While I absolutely loathe this class, I just tell myself that it's strengthening my will power as well. Because I want to stop usually 5 minutes in and run away lol. If I survive a 45-minute endurance class, maybe I'm just getting slightly better. Total meters rowed: 7,451m

@TurboR56Mini and I loved Dark Matter. I legit did not want to watch the last half season when I found out it was cancelled. It was well known that Dark Matter had a storyline intended for 5 seasons. At least Killjoys was able to finish their story. I wish Defiance was able to properly wrap up their story. Honestly, I legit hate how most TV shows are owned by mindless American shops. Because American shops don't know how to not do anything that isn't a procedural show. Look at all the fantastic shows that got ported to the US, whether it's anime or not. Sherlock was amazing. Luther was amazing. Most people's cult favorite anime shows are freaking mini-series (Parasyte, Death Note, Clannad, Elfen Lied, etc). Tell the story. Have a beginning, middle, and end. Don't waste studio money on filler BS. Look at the Watchmen mini-series or Lovecraft Country. I find it hilarious that people will praise these well-produced stories, grab everyone's attention, yet American studios are still "nah... we're terrified of telling an actually good story within a timeframe." Supernatural was a 5 season story. I stopped watching around season 11... and seasons 7 onwards were infuriating. Agree.. but at least it's some competition for Disney. Disney's MO (more ramped up now) has always been to buy whatever they aren't producing if it looks worth it. Going to bet that Disney was bidding on MGM as well, but they didn't see enough possible profit to outbid Amazon. Disney seems to own everything, and if they don't, they are probably looking to buy it. At least Amazon can attempt to compete. I'm still not thrilled about it though.

So, who wants to click it? 😂

We, occasionally, "test" our employees on clicking things. Especially with passwords. I work directly for the President & CEO of the company. Every Executive I have ever supported knows they are never to touch anything about their passwords. They want their password? They ask me if they are too lazy to look in their password locker app. What does my current boss do during IT Security week? She clicks the button and gets phished.

I am one of the few who cannot stand Ubisoft games... Dunno why. Just bothers me enough to stop playing them. But, I'm glad you're enjoying Days Gone! I was quite surprised how much I enjoyed it due to the genre of zombies. I totally, mentally, shitted on it when I saw the announcement of it and thought "another zombie game? ew." Really loved how they gated some of the weapons and tied it to the story. I just wish there was more.. story development? The gameplay, however, is stellar.

If only it was that easy................................... Should put it on a shirt too lol.. and walk around corporate offices when we all get stuck back in cubicles.

Thanks! my 1 rep max for a deadlift, currently, is 225lbs (102 kg) about.. Original PR is 260lbs, I need to work on my deadlifts to get there again! Yeah, I'm moderately sore today. I skipped my gym session this morning. There's no way I would have been able to do a god awful amount of toes-to-bar, walls balls, and burpees lol.

I find this slightly unsettling.. but I hope it means that we can have more stellar shows like The Expanse rescued from the cancel-happy executives that run the cable production companies. Stop cancelling my sci-fi shows, damnit.

Once this gets released, I'll probably post in here about progress. For now, I'm going to put on my own calendar this State of Play showcase: Discover the Forbidden West in our next State of Play BLOG.PLAYSTATION.COM A uniquely crafted countdown towards the debut of Horizon Forbidden West gameplay.

5/25/2021 Workout 15 minute EMOM (every minute on the minute) Minute 1 - 10 heavy deadlifts (175lbs) Minute 2 - 15 weighted hand-release push ups (10lb weight, yet still scaled on knees.. dunno) Minute 3 - 20 weighted sit-ups (25lbs) Thoughts: I don't know why, but going to a 5AM gym session just seems foreign to me at the moment. However, with summer coming, I'll take the much cooler morning temperatures than the steamy, hot, disgusting temperatures at 5:30PM or 6:30PM. CrossFit gyms and those types have this thing about never turning on the AC... and rarely turning on the heat. And, I'm really okay with never turning on the heat lol. It's just the lack of AC. I get it... I GET it. Especially with our Hero WODs being to honor fallen soldiers... but, I hate the heat. I hate humidity. It's just.. gross. Anyway. This wasn't terrible. I love deadlifts. I just never really want to go heavy on them during a workout if I can't absolutely focus on my form. I originally had on only 125lbs, but got some looks on it.. so I slapped on the 25lbs plates lol. 175lbs it is. It's not that I can't deadlift them. I obviously can do 10 reps of it, and I need to improve my grip strength. I just like rest time between movements lol. My issue has always been the push-ups. I alternated between doing the weighted push ups scaled on my knees but with a 10lb plate, and doing strict, no scale push ups with no weight. I'm finding that the hand release is making me want to stay laying on the floor and not do anything lolol. Sit ups are good. These aren't an issue, but I really need to work on my obliques more. All in all. Good session. I enjoyed quite a delicious nap after the workout lol. Naps after workouts are so underrated.

Sort of... yeah. But eventually, they intertwined with Thor and X-Men. There's a storyline with them an Celestials, which a lot of us know about because of the Dark Phoenix saga in the comics. Random theory could be that this is how MCU starts to explain mutants showing up in the MCU world, then we get the X-Men... We have to remember that MCU is also thinking about Phase 5, whatever that is.. and if they are setting up X-Men to be the group in Phase 5, this is one way to do it. Phase 4 looks like it will be about the next set of Avengers, Young Avengers, East Coast/West Coast Avengers.

We don't have a dedicated thread for Eternals. So, I figured since a new trailer was posted, I would start one. I'm starting to get a bit excited for Phase Four and for this movie!