It’s done me pretty good. A lot of people never believed that I never set foot in a gym until I was 40. I’ve noticed that I’m my line of work young guys get bigger and stronger really fast and then as they get older they get really efficient and then you get skinny. It’s probably hormones too. And less hard hard grunt work. Much more technical stuff
You pushed it that's the key
@toddthelineman Skiing must be fun, but how do you find a place to ski in Sept many places for it? @toddthelineman and dont get injured you're worrying us!
Right on the river that runs right through my town. You would be freezing for sure, but if you do it almost every day it’s just a little chilly, but then it warms up and you feel warm even though it’s only 70 or so. I waterski into November. Heavily invested in wetsuits and drysuits. Heated seats in the boat. Hot water tapped from the engine. You can fill your wetsuit with hot water. I like to set a bonfire, everybody go skiing and then change into dry clothes by the fire. Friends have hot tubs. I would like one but I think sauna instead
Yeah, I have abused it before. Like I would just keep taking more and more whenever I want to keep my energy really high. Then you get dehydrated and crappy feeling and constipated. You can get nauseous. I never do that now, ever, but it stays in the back of my mind you know?
That's awesome and I know you love the skiing
but we need to redo the formula.
Higher doses and abuse of kratom is REALLY bad for you, straight up like taking an valium or another type of drug in this category. I suggest you really watch the doses and keep them low. @toddthelineman but I know you know this already
That would be great! All I have to do is replace me with four of me. At least four. Then I can live out my dreams.Waterskiing > training > work
Yeah it can be very mild, almost like coffee, or it can be very obviously toxic and act a little bit like several different drugs, but make you kind of sicker? I’ve stopped recommending to people unless they are already going to for sure be on opiates for life, then maaaaaybe I will try to explain that maaaaaybe it’s a better option.
Damn you guys are more Canadian than Canadians lol. Pretty sure I won't see anyone skiing or wakeboarding on the lake from now on it's gotten so cool at night. Ur seriously committed
Everyone on the team gets depression in the winter. We have a few meetings throughout the season. It’s like being in an actual tribe. And then it’s just… over. All the kids go back to school. Everybody gets back to the lives they’ve neglected for five months.
Not a bad lifestyle. 7 months of work and 5 months of neglect. Pretty sweet if you ask me.
it’s an amazing life, honestly. Hard to sustain.
Ya last winter was bad. We had a ton of snow load too collapsing shit everywhere. Hopefully it's better this year but based on the current conditions I don't think so.
The dream is coming
I think if you're talking about coffee deloads then kraton deloads would also be something you should consider tbh.
No training but good food, I see you cooking it up high protein
@toddthelineman
bros yeah makes you wonder how they did it 100 years ago
We used to think about that all the time, it was even part of my training. I wouldn’t know how we would get something done, like cross a river overhead, or find stuck cable 1000s of feet alongside a road. “How did they do it the first time” my foreman said stuff like that all the time. That and “figure it out!”
bros yeah i saw a show on that Hoover dam and Panama Canal and how many died. like 25K died in panama canal building it
as long as your joints don't take a beating
Oh they certainly have, but it’s the life I chose. Holding pretty good!
@toddthelineman nice work getting some quality steps in. Sometimes work will put it on ya for sure
bros yeah malaria not good
FACT!
Yeah a trick ski, you know them? Like a tiny wakeboard with no fins, but your stance is forward, one foot in front of the other, instead of sideways. It’s reeeeeaaally hard and really fun. Your balance has to be perfect so it feels really like you are floating. I hadn’t ridden one at all this year because I was doing so much in the pyramids, jump, and barefooting. Well use it or lose it I guess because I could barely get up. I finally got the balance right and was riding, tried to jump the wake like I used to and buried it. Idk why those little skis can make you fall so hard but I saw stars and it jacked my jaw enough to make my ear hurt.
Ah no.. ya I've seen them, never tried one tho. Kinda looks like skateboarding on water with some of the board tricks guys can do.
A trick ski is like, the slipperiest thing ever. They way your body rotates is such a small space is the devil in it. And it’s flat so if you catch an edge it digs and there’s no recovery. I go 19 mph. The direction of the board is solely determined by your position and how you pull the handle. It’s a very unique feeling. Pros make it look easy. YouTube Erika Lang trick ski. It’s unbelievable what she can do, and there’s dudes that go even harder
Holy shit you ride too? Brother we need to ride next summer I can venture out to T.O. no problem.
This so true in Canada. It's ridiculous! They just charged some homeowner with assault for tuning up a dude who broke into his house with a crossbow and the burglar was already wanted by police too.
I am actually in a sort of HOA, but it’s just for river owners and it’s optional.
Thanks! Slow start for sure. Im lifting like a skinny high school kid and still getting sore. Crazy how fast my strength goes away
Agreed, you break in at night when you know my family is home I have probably some guns, definitely knives and bats placed strategically all over the house! Fuck 'em. The wife has a bat right beside her bedside table and as an ex-swat guy I've told her where to post herself at the top of the stairs if they come up. We don't have castle law here in Canada at all, but I fucking do.
I hear you brother. I went from 205lbs and got injured tearing my tendons armwrestling my whole family on fathers day and not letting anyone win (fucking ego), went down to 193... continued cycle and added a boatload of healing peptides and now back up to 205. Just keep at it bro!
You are absolutely right for that. I know a few cops and COs and they all have stories of running into people they’ve arrested or inmates. Even the state trooper who arrested me, he was followed into a Walmart and shot in the back and is paralyzed for life. He was for sure playing dirty, but weren’t we all? I did my time and moved on.
Something I would do hahaha. I love arm wrestling
I did my time too... after being medically retired due to mental fuckery after too many years on SWAT I went full self medicating mode (alcohol and drugs) and apeshit with PTSD and did 6 months in prison. It ended up being one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't mind prison, even the fact I was in the SHU too.
I was very fortunate. I was caught red handed with a suitcase full of weed and was supposedly facing 5-20. Wound up doing 100ish days all in because I was pulled over for no reason and the state trooper had a history of tearing peoples cars to bits and finding nothing. It’s crazy how he pegged me on site. He knew. But when I shave and grow out my receding hair and wear aviators I could play a starring role in a cop movie hahaha.
. It was shocking how easily I acclimated to being locked up. Never had been so stress free in my life. Never had so many friends. It was like camp. Workout twice a day, eat four times, play chess, read, shoot the shit. Sleep eight hours and a nap. One guy tried giving me a hard time and I kicked him in the face. He quit and kept his mouth shut. I’d have hated SHU though. I did a weekend by myself with no books or anything. That sucked! It bends time, soooo boring.
That’s tough man. A lot of people walking around with baggage from a different life. Even with my very short stay in a really nice jail that first night was transforming.
Yup, I did 20 years mostly traffic cop (gruesome) and 12 years swat (violent/loud) and got out after 20 and yes to all that that you mentioned is what I did. My entire story about addiction and then committing to the gym is about half way through my log somewhere.I was very fortunate. I was caught red handed with a suitcase full of weed and was supposedly facing 5-20. Wound up doing 100ish days all in because I was pulled over for no reason and the state trooper had a history of tearing peoples cars to bits and finding nothing. It’s crazy how he pegged me on site. He knew. But when I shave and grow out my receding hair and wear aviators I could play a starring role in a cop movie hahaha.
So I shut down my entire life and stored everything I couldn’t let go of in a friend’s garage and saved up all the money I could to help my kids while I was away and boom! Only 100 days
I think a lot about how police are constantly exposed to crazy shit. Depending on where you are it could just be dead bodies and gruesome stuff and shootouts like every day. Should probably cap the time with an early retirement and pension but what do I know?
See that’s a thing too. A lot of crooks would have been cops and vice versa if the circumstances were different. Both are craving action. But the average felon has far fewer really crazy experiences than the guys taking the calls for every crazy thing happening in their city. Big time criminal maybe seen a few dead bodies, maybe one under their belt. But a swat team cop? Often. For my work, in major cities, we used police as traffic control and you’d get to know them. Hear the stories like , “I blew a guys head off right here. It was right here. The chase ended here, he got out with a gun, boom! Like a watermelon”
I'm down. Hit me up if your out this way. Ya bro riding is my biggest passion in life. Started with dirt bikes at 11 years old then got my first street bike when I was 18. Since then I've always had bikes with the exception of about 5 years when shit really hit the fan with my addiction. Couldn't live without riding though... I'd go crazy
Haha nice. Sank skiing around the boat. That's when you know you're really out there.
It’s one of the few show acts I have a 100% failure rate. I’m left foot forward and we go ccw around the boat, so in the last part of the rotation I’m just going so fast and have to turn sharply. Right foot forward skiers are facing the boat the whole time, but it’s behind me. I know lff skiers that can do it every time, but they’re really good at everything, not like me.
So we tried clockwise, but that’s not how the driver throws it normally. He’s in his seventies and is a practically famous boat driver, it was still wonky. I’m missing something. That was also two years ago. It would be cool if I could just be the clockwise guy but he threw the boat the normal way. You can use different lengths ropes and do a two man Atb in both directions. I’m nowhere near that though. You have to duck under the rope and if anyone loses it you could hit each other. That could be really bad. Right now I don’t even know where I’m at. He signals, I cut, everything goes blurry hahaha, then I’m either flying out of the circle or sinking and trying to turn toward the boat. Almost got it last night although it would barely count since I was fully sunk and stopped
Sounds really cool and sounds like you're close too. It will just click one of these days and then you'll wonder why you couldn't do it before. Learning new tricks are funny that way
For sure! That’s how jumping and barefooting were
bros a lot of things can spread from mosquitos. can't you get HIV?
bros yeah people would fall into the cement and be gone forever
bros when i was growing up they said you could get AIDS from sitting on same toilet seat. so i never use public bathroom
Yeah I would do it if it was worth it. I wonder how many locals they had on that project who were just poor and willing to do anything. I do a lot of crazy stuff, but my safety record is pretty good considering I was always given the most dangerous and technical work for like 20 years. Some people treat workers like their lives have no value though. When I was told I had to crawl out across the lines 150’ in the air over I94 in Milwaukee so they didn’t have to buy a permit and shut the highway down I quit. Yes, I could have done it easily. But I’m not risking my life to save three multimillionaires $40k. For… $17/hr!
bros 100% they don't value workers. been that way for years. no different then when kings would send in infantry to battle when they knew they would die with 10:1 ratio
Glad we both made it out ok to move on to better things in our lives.I was very fortunate. I was caught red handed with a suitcase full of weed and was supposedly facing 5-20. Wound up doing 100ish days all in because I was pulled over for no reason and the state trooper had a history of tearing peoples cars to bits and finding nothing. It’s crazy how he pegged me on site. He knew. But when I shave and grow out my receding hair and wear aviators I could play a starring role in a cop movie hahaha.
So I shut down my entire life and stored everything I couldn’t let go of in a friend’s garage and saved up all the money I could to help my kids while I was away and boom! Only 100 days
I think a lot about how police are constantly exposed to crazy shit. Depending on where you are it could just be dead bodies and gruesome stuff and shootouts like every day. Should probably cap the time with an early retirement and pension but what do I know?
Great story haha. Ahhh yes, the pink mist in the air after a good headshot. Love it.
bros yeah you never know what kind of disease from other people. peopel are nasty
bros yeah
Yes, I take it for pain, although I can get away without it sometimes it’s become a habit. At my doses I can pretty much just stop but I’ll be crabby. Quality is very hit or miss And some people just don’t react to it or not the first time, like how some people don’t get high the first time they smoke weed. I’ve got degenerative disc disease among other things, so I can get ridiculous knots in my shoulders and spasms in my back that will put me right on my ass. Kratom is super effective for me.
This is a very good day I like the sleep and food looks very good! @toddthelineman protein is leveling up nicely and you're intake is good. Are you taking any psyllium?
Interesting. I sourced out good stuff years ago and was taking it for a month but never felt anything to speak for that it did for me. My best friend swears by it and uses it all the time. Back in the day when I was dealing drugs I would source morphine and never sell that but keep it all for myself. That was my drug of choice. Now my drug of choice is caffeine and testosterone! Unfortunately now I am more health consciences so the caffeine has to go for my heart sake but I will still have a love for caffeine. Might have to become a long lost love.
Hmmm. I had morphine too. I liked it. It made my friends puke. No one else liked it. It was too strong. We were kids you know. I always figured that it was people who had an affinity for opiates that kratom worked best for. That pokes holes in that theory. Kratom is strange. It’s almost an undrug. Like it’s an opiate but it’s not. If you take it and then take hallucinogens you can hold a normal conversation even during the peak. If you are talking bpc157 it takes like three times the amount to get your normal effect.
Hahaha thanks for the reminder. I neglect to fit psyllium into my day a lot. Because it has to be taken away from the supplements. And I’m still having flashbacks of getting sick with a belly full of psyllium and really constipated. I don’t think it was the psyllium that messed me up but
. Unpleasant
Weird about how that kratom will work. in my 20's I loved LSD and mushrooms. I used to make and sell gallons of shroom tea. I had a field I could pick twice a day until the rancher caught me. But glad all that crap is in the past and I have new interest like this forum.
Haha! Life is good these days.
Start slow 5 grams with a lot of waterHahaha thanks for the reminder. I neglect to fit psyllium into my day a lot. Because it has to be taken away from the supplements. And I’m still having flashbacks of getting sick with a belly full of psyllium and really constipated. I don’t think it was the psyllium that messed me up but
Nice work here
A day in the life of the human cable pulling machine. Where was the real cable pulling machine? Hopefully on the other end. My first job before I started college was working for my friends dad pulling cable from fiber optic up to 900 strand. His dad would sit on the back ho and yell at us all day. That's hard work!
Yeah I have a fiber jetting machine. But that duty it wouldn’t push unless I helped it. 432ct fiber. I’ve done 900pr on poles. Pretty much nobody runs stuff like that anymore. It’s a few pounds per foot! Makes sense you’re so strong. Pulling that stuff by hand is about the hardest job you could possibly have. We pulled runs so heavy you had to pull a rope first, just to pull a steel rope, then winch it. You could break poles easily. Those days are over. No one can do that stuff anymore. Eh. Some know how, but they’re pretty old. Maybe some in-house telephone crews stop run legacy systems in weird places.
I think about that all the time, but don’t be so sure. I’ve hit 195 twice before. Once natty and once I was taking a little bit of a lot of things for a looooong time. Too long. It’s not going to be easy. I could do it easy if I ate pizza and cheesecake everyday, and took as much gear as it takes. But my blood pressure would be very bad. Everything bad.
Man, that was 32 years ago when I did that. We had a cable pulling machine but sometimes we would burn it up and have to pull by hand. There be like 4 of us on the cable playing tug of war. I remember pulling cable in a hospital from street underground all the way up fighting it all the way up just dumping lube down the conduit praying it would move. At least out on the road ways the boss would hook the bucket on the back ho to the cable and pull. Then I became a carpenter. Then got a degree in networking and telecommunications and stayed a finish carpenter. Then eventually just became a home remodeler.
That old liquid lube was so crap lol. Been there pulling lines. The new foam stuff works a lot better I find.
I was pulling something else in those days lol
I wish I got into a more conventional trade. I really do. I made 4k today. It’ll be gone like dust. You have to train every single person you hire. And your customers managers and directors. Man I’m tired
Training is a bitch...any way to improve the situation? What's the solution?
Idk man.
I feel you. That's why I am trying to niche down to work I can handle alone and just make a decent living and not have the stress of employees. Hope it works out for me. Hope things get better for you.
You seem like you’ve got a good handle on it. I’m going through it right now, but when I step back and look at the big picture I’m fine. I just have to remember it was kind of worse when I was an employee doing the same thing, but someone else was hiring my help. Even worse help but I couldn’t fire them.
That's more like the @toddthelineman I know. Getting after it like a maniac mad scientist lol. We're still at that age where we can grind our asses down and we'll rest and enjoy the fruits of our labour in the years to come when we're too old to grind like this anymore.
I just put in another 13 hours. My only help right now is an ex gfs son. I was his only father figure growing up. He came to work with me on his 18th birthday and his mom served him a notice to vacate.
Your doing great bro! You got this. The fruit of your hardwork with that boy seem to be showing signs of fruit of your labor and love. Full respect bro. I been a hard ass to my oldest son. Just like you I don't want to be but feel like they don't listen until I lose my shit. My brother told us today good thing he is leaving for 13 weeks in green and not orange. It's so true. I don't want my son going down the same hard roads I did. I couldn't stop telling him how proud I am of him and I love him as he left for boot camp today. Keep leading that boy he is making you proud getting feed back from others like that.
Man I hate yelling. Have had so many heart to hearts. Then wind up yelling. It’s not that bad.
You would think, but young men will be young men. I was a young dumb man at one time as well. Advise as best you can and he may have to learn from the hard knocks of life like a lot of us do. But sleep well at night that you gave him the best advice.Man I hate yelling. Have had so many heart to hearts. Then wind up yelling. It’s not that bad.
The carrot right now is him getting his first vehicle. Of coooooourse he wants to buy something ridiculous that he can’t afford the insurance for. I’m trying to get him in a white truck so he’s not getting pulled over all the time. If I was a cop I would pull him over every day hahahaha. Told him if gets a work truck I’ll pay him to use it and his gas. No brainer right?
You didn’t fail at all, you just stepped away for a bit and now you’re back logging again. That alone makes you a winner because most people never even restart once they stop. Work will slow you down sometimes, that’s just life, but showing up here proves you’re still in the fight. Keep tracking, even if it’s light, because that’s how momentum builds. @toddthelineman I do like your food pics, sweet
EVO family love your way!
It happens,life gets in the way. Don't let it get you down. Just pick up where you left off and keep getting it.You didn’t fail at all, you just stepped away for a bit and now you’re back logging again. That alone makes you a winner because most people never even restart once they stop. Work will slow you down sometimes, that’s just life, but showing up here proves you’re still in the fight. Keep tracking, even if it’s light, because that’s how momentum builds. @toddthelineman I do like your food pics, sweet
For sure
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