I’ve been thwarted – thwarted! – on a few occasions as of late with my internet research. This is a problem, because when I get what I want right away, it’s research, but if I don’t, then I start hunting for it, and there’s a very fine line between that and procrastination.
Problem the first: I was working with my trainer on low bar back squats, but had a really hard time getting into the starting position. They’re supposed to be a bit uncomfortable, but some of my reps were mostly working trying to keep the bar in place, and my legs got a break.
YouTube is usually great for instructional stuff, but all I could find were a mix of demos of the squat in progress and comparisons between high and low bar squats, plus some “hey, look at me squatting 400 pounds” videos (and don’t get me wrong, if I could squat 400 pounds I’d post it too.)
The texternet – I just made that up, please don’t let it be a thing but the non-video, non-picture part of the internet. Monomedia? Anyway, the texternet gave me a bit more to go on, minus pictures, and confirmed my suspicions: practice plus flexibility work will equal better squats, and there’s no magic cure this time around. For those of you looking for help with your low bar squats, this is the best I could come up with as of today.
Problem the second: On the way home last night I spotted a guy in a blue shirt with yellow lettering that said “Thrusters Suck.” A thruster is a combination of a squat and an overhead press:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhqIGYqELk
And they suck. More than burpees. But mostly I liked the shirt because it was a secret code shirt, where most people won’t even know what it’s about.
But do you think I could find it online? Is it possible that people still make shirts and sell them in… stores? Weird. Anyway, that led to a great deal of procrastination, thanks to Google Images and “crossfit shirts” (current favourite: “seems so short but sucks so quick.”
If the internet’s going to keep sucking time from me like this, I need to find a way to surf while I’m on the long runs. And at the speeds I’m going lately, that might actually be relatively safe, as long as I avoid trap doors…