Health and Fitness

About my left hip and leg injury… it’s getting better already now that I’ve settled down on lower body workouts some…

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For last week’s deadlift session, I decided to go really light this time… wicked light… deadlifted like 20 lbs. I’ve tried like 65 lbs. for the first set but it was still slightly painful and then I went even lighter like 20 lbs. on deadlift. Since I settled down on the deadlift last session, I don’t feel any left hip pain anymore. My left hip seems good and no longer hurting but I’m still feeling it on my upper left quad slightly. It’s all getting better already.

Yeah, like I said before in a previous post when you’re injured and feeling pain you either gotta stop training that body part completely or you can train super light. You’re not gonna make the injury go away by continuing to train it ’cause if you continue to workout through an injury, you could make it worse or you can make the injury go permanent.

Like I said above, I’m still feeling slight upper left leg pain, just a tiny bit. Maybe it will go away in a few days and I can go back to heavy deadlifting again we’ll see. I’m gonna take a week off of barbell squats this week and will try to deadlift on Sunday if I’m completely healed.

Yeah, getting injuries do suck and yes, I do get ’em once in a while. There are so many lifters in the bodybuilding and gym world who claims they don’t get “injuries” but don’t believe them. They are lying… everybody gets lifting injuries… EVERYBODY. It’s normal. It happens so big deal.

When lifters get injuries, they get so scared and get all panicky. They worry that they’ll lose their progress when they have to stop working out to rest and heal the injury. Will you lose muscle and strength for healing an injury? It all depends on how bad the injury is. If it’s a bad injury, it could take months to heal and you’ll definitely lose some muscle but you’ll get it back soon enough. If it’s a minor injury and it only takes a few weeks to heal, you won’t lose muscle and strength… in fact, you might get even more.

When I get injuries, I don’t panic and continue to stay positive. Continue to hit the gym. I either go light weight or work around the injury, there are ways to do that. I had the upper left quad injury for a while and figured out a way to get rid of it faster just by settling down on the weightlifting some… either stop lifting the part or go light weight either way. The injury will go away quickly if you do that.

I want to get back into heavy deadlifting again to try and get that 300 lb. pr back but I want to do it injury free and I came up with a plan. I’m getting all better now.

When you get lifting injuries, don’t freak out and stay positive. I just continue to go about my day when that happens and continue to stay active and move around. Hopefully I’ll be completely healed by this weekend, if not, I’ll give it another week.

I love deadlifting. It’s my favorite workout of them all and I need to do it carefully and responsibly without getting myself in the hospital or ending up in a wheelchair, lmao.

People say my deadlift form is real good but not really… I’m still trying to make it perfect.

Kev

Local music

Will I return to the Capital Region music scene? Probably not… I have no desire to as of this moment, life is real good…

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Some of you may wonder if I’m ever going to get back out to the local music scene aka the Capital Region. Will I? I don’t think so. I’m not too worried about getting back out there anymore and I lost interest in local music as a whole.

You hear a lot of talk throughout the community how the scene is “thriving” and how the local music scene has gotten so much better. Well, in my eyes, we haven’t gotten any better so don’t believe all the hype. From what I’m seeing there are still no music venues around the area and there are bands/solo artists out there still playing to empty venues. The music scene has always been the same it’s always been.

I’m also not so thrilled with the talent around this area ’cause I haven’t really heard anything good in a long while. There are a few local bands that I actually dig but lately, I haven’t been hearing anything that interests me.

On top of all this, I’m also not thrilled with the attitudes of some of the bands & artists around this area. This area has some of the most egotistical and narcissistic musicians I’ve ever seen (not naming any names, btw). Too many around either think they are “rock stars” or they want to be rock stars, take your pick. That “rock star” attitude has never changed with them even to this day, I see. They are still the arrogant jerks even to this day.

I also have no desire to come back when this area’s local music scene is very liberal with their politics. Almost every band and solo artist you’ll see around here are all liberal. Most everyone around here are all Trump haters for sure. I’ve always believed that this area would be more supportive of me and my music if I wasn’t a “conservative” and a “Trump supporter”, but I don’t give a shit whether they do or not. Liberals ruin everything, even local music scenes. I wish they would keep politics out of music but they never learn.

I almost wanted to come back to the music scene and actually thought about it but I don’t think I will. I am still playing music. I am still playing my guitar and singing. I haven’t written new originals in a long while but I’ve been learning cover songs more than playing originals lately which I feel proud of doing.

If I were to ever play live again then I would try to play a few gigs in Saratoga Springs and that’s about it. I don’t think you’ll ever see me play in the city of Albany again, though.

As of this moment, life is really good. Just keeping my focus hitting the gym 4 times a week, focusing on bodybuilding & powerlifting. I’m still keeping myself busy in life even though some don’t think so.

As for new original music, I’m still itching for new stuff and trying to come up with new stuff. Even though I don’t play live hardly at all anymore, I’ll always play music for the internet. Always.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Gonna have to stop deadlifting and squatting for a little while ’cause I have a slight hip & leg injury unfortunately…

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For the first time in a long time, I have an injury but it’s not terribly bad and it’s not that serious. I won’t go to the doctor ’cause all the doctor is gonna do is tell me to stop going to the gym and that’s one thing I can’t do. Yeah, I have a slight hip and leg injury… it’s on the left side. I won’t stop working out at the gym but there are ways to work out around the injury… you can still workout the parts that are not injured. For example, I can still train the calves, I can still train the hamstrings and I can still train the right leg only but not the left leg.

Some of you my ask, how did I hurt myself a little bit? For the leg injury, I blame the leg press ’cause I’m not a fan of the leg press and for the hip injury, I blame deadlifting on that ’cause maybe my form was off a little bit?

Honestly, I had the leg injury for a long while and was trying to figure out a way to get rid of it. Earlier this summer, I took a week off when I was out on vacation. That didn’t really heal it all the way. Then when I came back home, I started training with light weights to see if that will do it but nope, even training with lighter weights will make the injury come back or make it worse.

So I thought, “Fuck it… mabye I’ll take a little break from barbell work completely” until the injuries heal completely. That’s the idea, I guess. When you’re injured, you can’t continue to train that hurt body part ’cause that’s not gonna make the injury go away. It’ll go away if you stop training it and you need to stop training it until it goes away completely.

It sucks but I gotta do what I gotta do. It’s probably gonna take me a couple of weeks or a little more to heal the injuries all the way.

It’s weird ’cause I stayed pretty consistent with barbell work for a long while and now I think I’m gonna have to stop for a few weeks but I won’t stop working out. I’l just move on to machines and dumbbell work. I think it’s a good idea for me to take a little hiatus from barbell lifting completely ’cause my left shoulder is bothering me a little bit, too… haha.

I haven’t had a lifting injury in a long time but no regrets getting them, though ’cause you can learn something from them. Getting injuries may make you want to take form more seriously ’cause bad form is the main reason people get lifting injuries.

I’m not terribly bad so don’t worry so I won’t need any crutches or anything.

I want to be completely injury free when lifting the big three: deadlift, bench and squat. So once my injuries heal completely, I’ll get back to barbell lifting asap and get back to heavy lifting. It may be a few weeks or a whole month, we’ll see.

Kev

Celebrity/musician deaths

RIP Franco Columbu: 1941 – 2019

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Two time Mr. Olympia champ and movie actor, Franco Columbu just passed away yesterday. He suddenly passed while swimming in Italy and suddenly drowned after suffering a heart attack while swimming. Franco won Mr. Olympia in 1976 and again in 1981. He wasn’t just a bodybuilder and actor, he was also a licensed chiropractor in which he practiced in Los Angeles for many years.

Franco was lifelong best friends with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Before Franco’s passing, he and Arnold continued to train at the gym together. Sly knew Franco for a little bit as Franco trained Sly during the Rambo years. Sly trained with both Franco and Arnold during the 80’s.

When it comes to bodybuilding, this is how I would want to look someday. You’ll never see me on a Mr. Olympia stage ever but I do want that look. That’s why I got into bodybuilding to begin with. I’m hoping to get that big and muscular look like the pro bodybuilders. I’ve been bodybuilding for 10 years or a little over and already people are saying to me that I’m already getting that look kinda. A lot of people give me good feedback on my physique saying that I’m getting bigger and bigger. Franco is an inspiration in the bodybuilding world and I hope to look like that one day.

Kev

movies

Dolph Lundgren and Carl Weathers reunite in instagram photo gone viral check it out!!!

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We haven’t see Carl Weathers on the big screen in many years so you’re all probably wondering what he looks like right now. Well, here he is. Carl Weathers the man himself and he’s the former Rocky star at Gold’s Gym in Venice where he ran into Rocky IV cast mate, Dolph Lundgren.

Some of you may ask where has Carl Weathers been? Is he still working in Hollywood? It may seem like he has disappeared for a while but yes, he is still acting believe it or not. He really hasn’t gone away. Carl’s been mostly doing voice over work for children’s animated movies for example Carl did voice over work for a character in “Toy Story 4”. As for live action work, Carl just had a role in the Star Wars TV series for Disney+ in “The Mandalorian”. I can see why people would think they haven’t seen Carl in a long time since his last major motion picture role was in “Action Jackson” in 1988. That was the last big movie that he did.

We may never see Dolph and Carl reunite in a Rocky movie ever again but they can still reunite on the big screen somehow. There’s a pretty good chance that Carl might get added to the Expendables cast so could we see Carl in Expendables 4? That could happen and it would be cool so hopefully it does.

This is a cool photo and Carl is looking good. Carl hasn’t changed a bit except his hair really white. Well Carl is 71 years old now… looks like he’s not into plastic surgery and all that stuff.

Enjoy the pic!

Kev

music

Steven Tyler explains what it’s like singing for Led Zeppelin for rehearsal… it was originally going to be for the Led Zep reunion tour that never happened…

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After Led Zeppelin’s reunion show at O2 arena back in Dec. 10th of 2007, Led Zeppelin were planning a full reunion tour but Robert Plant didn’t want in on it. Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham were all for a full reunion tour… and they were getting ready to go on without him so they started looking for singers. They rehearsed with two different singers: Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. After those two rehearsals, the tour never ended up happening ’cause Led Zeppelin kept getting a public backlash for continuing on without Robert and John Bonham.

Steven here goes on the Howard Stern show explaining how he got the Led Zeppelin rehearsal gig and what it’s like practicing with them. It’s a very cool story and Steven seems like a very nice man too.

Imagine what Led Zeppelin would have sounded like with Steven Tyler on lead vocals? Can you hear it? Steven singing all the Led Zep hits??? “Immigrant Song”, “Stairway”, “Heartbreaker”, “Dazed and Confused”, “Ramble On”, “Rock and Roll”, “Black Dog”, “No Quarter’, “Achilles Last Stand”, etc. Tyler would have nailed them all and killed it. When I listen to Aerosmith music, I’ve always thought Steven’s vocals reminded me of Robert a little bit. I hope somebody recorded that rehearsal with Steven and hope it gets released to the public someday. I’m sure everybody’s dying to hear what Steven sounds like singing Led Zep songs. I’m sure Myles Kennedy did a good job with them too.

It’s sad that a reunion tour never happened but if only Jimmy Page ever gets his solo album out then we can all enjoy that for now.

I can’t blame Steven for going for the rehearsal gig ’cause they’re fucking Led Zeppelin. How can you say no to that? You’ll be insane if you did!

Kev

movies

Thoughts on the new “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” D23 footage…

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This isn’t an official 2nd teaser trailer. It’s just a special look that was shown at the D23 event. I would have to say that this footage was beautifully put together. Only JJ Abrams can put together a tiny video that compiles all 9 Star Wars films. This video footage even included the three prequels which was awesome.

In the past, I used to never be that much of a Star Wars fan but Disney is making me appreciate Star Wars more and more. I guess I’m turning into a pretty big Star Wars nerd myself ’cause I’ve just started re-watching the first 8 Star Wars movies this week. I’ve watched “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack Of the Clones” over the weekend and they weren’t bad movies at all. They were pretty good, I must say. I haven’t seen those movies in a long time and they really grew on me after re-watching them. I’m planning on watching Episode III “Revenge of the Sith” this week and am going to re-watch the original trilogy this weekend. Then next week will be episodes 7 & 8.

Some of you may ask, why am I re-watching the Star Wars movies all over again? Well, for one, I need  a memory refresher of the story. I’m re-watching the Star Wars series in order from 1 – 8 and then I’ll watch Episode 9 when December comes. Plus, like I said Disney is making me appreciate Star Wars more and more so I’m re-watching to help celebrate and have fun. Another reason is that Star Trek doesn’t make good movies anymore so that could be another reason why I’ve been getting into Star Wars more.

Star Wars is a great series and I can finally now see why it’s a huge franchise and why it’s a big deal.  I think Disney is doing an amazing job with the new movies. I loved “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi” and don’t understand all the hate. I also love the spinoff movies too: “Rogue One” and the Han Solo movie. All really good shit.

As far as the new footage from “Rise of Skywalker” goes, seeing all that makes me stoked for Episode 9 even more. It’s looking like that Rey turns to the Dark Side and C3PO turns to the darkside as well it looks like. I’m sure an evil C3PO is making fans go crazy and they don’t want it to happen probably but I think an evil 3PO is an interesting concept. Does C3PO join Palpatine? Or Palpatine repograms 3PO so he can be evil.

Another question is how is Luke Skywalker gonna return? You know he is going to come back in some form ’cause hence the title, “Rise of Skywalker”. Everybody knows what happened to him in “The Last Jedi” and there’s a pretty good chance Skywalker is coming back ’cause Mark Hamill is still casted in “Rise of Skywalker”. You never know what’s going to happen ’cause this is science fiction and anything can happen in science fiction.

I’m pretty stoked for Episode 9 “Rise of Skywalker” and I will see it in December when it comes out in theaters. I’ll be there for this one for sure. I’m glad they brought Palpatine back and I’m sure Ian McDiarmid is gonna kill it and knock it out of the park with that role once again.

Kev

True Crime

Almost 12 years of missing Jaliek Rainwalker…the police still haven’t forgotten… they are still investigating secretly and quietly…

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It’s now getting close to 12 years since Jaliek Rainwalker went missing. The media has stayed silent on the case for a long while and finally Don Lehman of the Post Star gives us a new update on the case.

Yeah, it’s been a long while since we’ve had new updates on the case. The Greenwich/Cambridge police still haven’t forgotten about Jaliek. They’re still working and investigating the case, but they’re doing it very quietly and secretly. That’s the update on the case so far

The local news media may have stayed silent on the case for a pretty long time but an un-named reporter did go to the house in Vermont to try and talk to Stephen but the reporter was ordered to stay away by Stephen himself.

I’m not going to bother explaining what happened when Jaliek went missing when you can just simply do a google search and read the article right here for yourself… there are also plenty of podcasts and youtube videos out there explaining the story.

https://poststar.com/news/local/behind-the-scenes-jaliek-investigation-quietly-continues/article_c9ff68a4-aa81-5949-815c-cd5b99ec4595.html?fbclid=IwAR2LycLdSL2HfKioQ3Mi-7DQ2f9fNEpXCjIlfJGJhqsWX4ejEuEcXrChM30

I think it’s safe to say that most everyone pretty much agrees that the adoptive father, Stephen had something to do with it. Most everyone believes it is homicide, including myself. There’s no doubt in my mind that Stephen probably killed him and dumped his body somewhere where he can’t be found.

Stephen continues to maintain that he has nothing to hide and didn’t harm Jaliek but he moved his family to Vermont, lawyered up and refuses to talk to anyone looking for Jaliek. Hmmmmmm… really.

You think that if you were being investigated in a missing person’s case, you would cooperate with the police so you can get the police off your back but Stephen doesn’t do that. Instead, he avoids people looking for Jaliek like the plague and hires a lawyer. Un-fucking believable.

12 years of missing Jaliek… still no remains and still no one locked up. The police really cares about Jaliek just as much as we all do and they want justice for jaliek too. All we want is justice for Jaliek. We want Jaliek’s remains to be found so we can bury him properly. A lot of us also want his killer or “killers” locked up. Lock up all those involved in his murder. It’s a tough case to solve ’cause Stephen covered his tracks too damn good.

Of course, not everyone believes that this was a homicide/murder. There are some that actually sides with the adoptive family and there are some who wants to blame Barb. Blaming Barb for the disappearance doesn’t make sense at all ’cause she wasn’t the last person to see Jaliek alive wasn’t she?

They think they can get away with it by staying silent but they won’t. They WILL get caught somehow and someway. I hope the police nails the adoptive father soon and fast. The sooner, the better though. They can go on with their lives, all happy happy joy joy but we will wipe those smiles off their faces once we do find Jaliek and we will find him somehow. The truth will get out there whether they like it or not. The truth is a powerful thing. You can’t stop the truth from getting out and it will happen. It’s gonna be slow moving but I think this case is solvable for sure.

While the local news media seems to have stopped caring, the Jaliek Rainwalker case seems to have exploded in the podcast industry which was pretty amazing to see. The longer he stays missing, the more people start to wonder and that’s how it goes.

We will find you, Jaliek and I’m still thinking of you, buddy. I want answers like everyone else. Glad to see that the police still care.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Video: Criticizing women is not allowed…

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I usually don’t post videos like this but I feel that this one is totally worth it. All you male readers, you should really check out this guy’s channel if you want to learn more about women ’cause this guy has good stuff on his channel. I’m addicted to his channel ’cause he has good content about women and the dating scene.

This guy is so correct that you can’t criticize women anymore in this day and age. If you do, you’ll get called a misogynist, a woman hater and you’ll get crucified for it. No matter what you say or even if the criticism is not even all that bad, you will get crucified no matter what. I know the feeling ’cause I’ve been there. I remember I used to criticize women on my blog for how they treat men in the dating scene and all that stuff and I got crucified for that a little bit. The reason we can’t criticize women anymore is ’cause of the feminist movement that’s been going on lately and also because of liberalism. The feminist movement and liberalism destroyed everything about being a man. It’s just sad and very scary to see all this.

Not only that women crucify men for criticizing women, there are even some men that do it too. Whenever other men see a guy criticizing women, they’ll usually try to play hero and defend women just to make women feel better.

I don’t hate women at all and I’ve been unfairly accused of that over the years of my life. We should have every right to be real about them, ya know? Not all women out there are goddesses and princesses. We should have every right to call out their bad behaviors, their attitudes and all that stuff. When you do, you better be ready for a backlash.

We can no longer talk about how horrible some women are in the dating scene. It’s just bullshit and unfair thanks to feminism that destroyed everything about being a man.

I’m still single for a pretty good reason ’cause some women out there can be evil. Not all of them but some. When it comes to dating and relationships, I’m only being careful with myself. I want a “good girl” in my life, ya know? Someone who will stay loyal and someone who actually cares. I’m looking for the love of my life. I’m not gonna be one of those men who has on and off relationships with the same woman. I’m not gonna be one those men who has different kids with different mothers like what seems to be going on nowadays. I’m not gonna be one of those who’ll get destroyed by women. I’m not gonna be one of those guys who’ll get used for sex, money and all that stuff.

This is a great video and should be watched by all men out there. You should check out this guy’s other Red Pill videos too ’cause it’s good stuff. I learn more about women ’cause of this guy.

Kev

Politics/war

Candace Owens doesn’t support the trans movement that’s been going on lately and I don’t support it either!!!

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This post will probably get me in trouble but I don’t give a shit. In case you all haven’t figured me out by now, I’m one of those who will tell the truth and be honest with my feelings no matter the consequences.

Candace Owens announced here that she doesn’t support the new trans movement that’s been going on in America lately. Yeah, I know this transgender thing is nothing new… it’s been around for decades long before Kaitlyn Jenner but it hasn’t gone mainstream until Kaitlyn Jenner.

I have noticed that more and more people claiming to come out as “trans” in America. It’s happening all over America even in your local area. I ranted about the transgender thing in my blog before but I don’t mind doing it again.

Yeah, so a man puts on women’s clothes, women’s makeup, a women’s wig and talks like a woman… this man wants you to call him a “woman” even if he still has a penis. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way in my view. If they still have a penis, they are still a man and don’t get me started on this “hormone therapy” crap. It’s the same thing when a woman wants to pretend to be a man… she wants to look like a man and talk like a man but she still has tits and a vagina. Ugggghhhhhh….

I’m with Candace Owens totally. I think she has a lot of balls for tweeting that too and makes me a fan of her even more. I used to think I was alone about my feelings on the transgender thing but thankfully, it looks like I’m not alone at all…. lmao…. I hate everything about the transgender movement and it’s very scary. To me, these people who want to change their gender are just people with lots of problems and they need help. Mostly these people who want to “transition” are just people coming out of a divorce so is it divorce that makes them want to change? Possibly. I also blame bad parenting ’cause there are parents out there who purposely change their kids genders even when they were kids. Disgusting. I’m seeing that a lot too. Parents who make boys look like girls and girls who look like boys.

I’m proud to be a man 100% and I’ll never change. These transgender people scare me. Call me transphobic all you want but I’m always going to identify their true gender as to what they were really born as.

Kev

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