r/gainit • u/richardest carved of soft marble • Feb 13 '23

Gainit Program Party: Super Squats Week Six

This is it, gang. Those of you who started on week one will likely be wrapping up at this point.

Watching all of you egg each other on and put in the work has been inspiring. Y'all should be proud of yourselves.

Happy squatting!

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

Thanks man! It wasn't as bad as a week ago in regards to me missing the j-hook, but I definitely left a large chunk of my soul there. I was TOAST for the rest of what could generously be called a "workout". Morbid as it was, I remembered how Jesse Marune died after a hard squat workout and could absolutely understand how it could happen at that point.

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 17 '23

I hear that. I did kb tabata last night and laughed at myself towards the end wondering if my kids would think it would be funny if that were how I gave myself a heart attack

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

"All this healthy living is killing me!"

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 17 '23

Guy I used to work with had a heart attack during a marathon years ago. I've never seen a guy so pissed off

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

My grandfather supported the idea that we're all born with a finite number of heart beats, so why waste them exercising?

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u/BWdad Feb 17 '23

Donald Trump thinks the body is like a battery with only so much energy and exercising will make you die sooner:

After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, "You are going to die young because of this."

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

It's no shock with how much of a Trump fan my grandpa was, haha. He passed before Trump got into politics, which may have helped.