Henrik Kesler

This is going to be a HATEFUL playoff rivalry for the next half decade. As a fan of good rivalries, I'd like to see this reach Vancouver/Chicago levels of hatefulness.

Shades of the Canucks in 2011. Good god.

That was a very un-Sharks looking 5 on 3.

Smell is a big part of the experience with scotch and bourbon. Slowly add water until you find a tolerable level, then slowly wean yourself off the water. I'm a bit of a purist, so I think good whiskey should NEVER be diluted with the sugary garbage we know as soda.

Blues have to fix that abomination of a powerplay. If there was one thing that cost STL the series, it was the absolute ineptitude on the PP.

Who gives a frack? Fans who care more about never having a player wear another jersey than having a winning team, that's who. The bottom line with Kesler is this: the Canucks have been outscored when Kesler is on the ice the last two seasons. As a team, you CANNOT be outscored when your second line is on the ice and have a hope in hell of even remotely contending. For this reason, Kesler needs to be moved and replaced via free agency.

Besides the elbow to the head, looks like a possible torn groin. THAT is domination of the highest sense. If there is one thing LA does better than any other team in the league, it's shot generation at even strength. It's why they are so damn hard to beat.

It's certainly an ass kicker. Accumulation sucks. Transmutation just really hurts, and realization is fun (and painful). The percentages I laid out are for the main lift of each training day. I then do a supplemental movement (something that helps move one of the 3 main lifts) and then a little accessory work. As I get stronger, I'll need more accessory work, but right now I can get stronger without it so no need to add it until I need it for the extra volume. Buy potatoes 10lbs at a time. Buy rice in bulk. Oats in bulk. This too. I'm partial to fresh meat, but otherwise I agree. I buy my carb sources in bulk so that I really only have to buy they 1-2 times a month instead of ever week. I also buy my favorite cut of beef (top round) in bulk when it's on sale.

It's a favorite of mine. Good stuff even though I prefer the Islay single malts nowadays 90% of Irish whiskey is tamed down from what it should be. Tullamore Dew, Powers, Pffafly...they're all about the same. Pick one and try it. So I take it you're a youngin. Do not do a disservice scotch by putting with jello. FFS man, even cheap scotch does not deserve a death in jello.

It is a top line, if you think a 60 point player is a first liner, which I do. However, in CDC world, anyone under PPG is a second liner and anyone in the 40-50 range is a third liner/borderline plug.

Ummm what? Essentially have 3 second lines and a third line is #BostonModel, and if you haven't noticed, they've kicked a lot of ass the last 5 years...

Kinda, but not really. The percentages listed are for someone who trains in gear and thus have no relevance to someone who trains raw. For a raw trainee, the percentages need to be higher and the volume needs to be toward the high end. My protocol is essentially this: Accumulation: 5x5 @72-78% (start at 72% and jump 2-3% each week for 3 weeks then deload) Transmutation: 4x4 @ 84% (week 1) 4x3 @ 86% (week 2) 4x3 @ 88% Realization: 4x2 @93-97% 5x1 @ 97-103%

The Avs terrible puck possession defense is getting destroyed tonight.

Wendler's isn't bad but it's really tailored to the guy who already knows quite a bit and is fairly strong. There are much better options for a beginner and intermediate lifters. Personally, I think block periodization is the tits, but it's not for training nerds, not the casual trainee. It doesn't make sense to me. There is no objective measure for measuring progress, and there really is no set plan for progression meaning that countless trainees can spin in circles since they don't know about progression. If you can manage not to get lost in training no-mans land, I imagine you'd make great progress because the protocol forces you to not be a puss. It would seem to be good if you're doing lots of isolation work since you are trying to make the muscle work and building muscle. I wouldn't recommend it to a low level athlete (high school) for a myriad of reasons.

Same here. I love having prescribed work to do, dreading it, and then completing it. Having a concrete, objective goal to shoot for in training makes things so much clearer about what needs to be done in the gym because there is a logical way to get there, and that is through progressive overload. IMO, typical bodybuilding routines set lifters up for failure because there is no mapped out plan for adding weight to the bar over time which is the single most important factor in getting bigger. If you don't force the body to do an ever increasing work load, progress stagnates.

Tarasanko is sooooo filthy. He and Versace (Jayden Schwartz) have been incredibly dynamic for St. Louis.

So, shouldn't Etem be getting a 1 game suspension for his little gutless display in the last 10 seconds?

Well, I would have been pissed if Pittsburg won that game after putting in 1 period of effort. Great to see CBJ not give up and make an sweet comeback. We've got a series folks, and it's because the Pens aren't as good as the media wants you to believe.

In case anyone was wondering, Brian Bickell is still a fracking plug of the non-fighting Tom Sestito variety.

Pens better give the posts a love tap. Hella lucky bounces out there.

I think I know what the issue is and what needs to be done. Based on symptoms and location, I either have a winged acromion (part of the scapula that comes to the clavicle) or a bone spur that binds in the bottom of the bench press. Best guess is that surgery is required and I'll have 3-4 months of recovery time. Either way this is better than continuing to try and work around it, making no progress, and then having 3-4 months of recovery/rebuilding to do another 6 months down the road Most people don't understand that lifting is about Stress, Recovery, and Adaptation (SRA). The goal with training is to Stress the body such that homeostasis is disrupted. This Stress must be sufficient enough to disrupt homeostasis, but small enough that the body can Recover and Adapt such that the baseline is moved slightly upward. The goal of training is to STIMULATE, not annihilate. Doing more volume than necessary to never get past early intermediate levels of strength. Although this video is about SRA and powerlifting, but the basics of the lecture apply to ALL training. As for the combo of heavy and light weights, you seem to have it about right based on the accumulated fatigue from the heavy sets proceeding the lighter work. I'm going to get it checked out soon. For now, I'm going to avoid doing things that make it hurt which are mostly bench and press. Chinups, laterals, and rows don't bother the shoulder at all. If you aren't running AAS, strength work is VERY important for getting bigger. Sets of 5 do a half decent job of putting on size while building tons of strength. Interestingly, from a muscle physiology perspective, if you want to get bigger the optimum weight ranges ranges for size are 5-7RM and 10-12RM working very close to failure (to recruit the largest MU's based on the size principle.) tl;dr: If you want to get bigger and aren't on gear, training with a pretty even mix of sets of 3-5 and 10-12 is going to yeild some sweet results provided you (1) work really hard and push yourself, (2) have a plan for adding weight to the bar over time, and (3) eat enough.

Pittsburg's trash bottom 6 rearing it's ugly head in the form of CBJ domination. The penalties aren't helping either. C'mon C-Bus.