...everyone assumes that you're just overcompensating! Or maybe they will just call you pretentious. Why? Because they despise your intellectual hard work? No. Because deep inside, they wish they weren't such a lazy ass. They don't want to be a foolish mocker.
http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2011/07/word-of-the-day-pot-valiant.html
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Monday, December 06, 2010
Squatting ad nauseum
a) Performing squats after a big breakfast nauseates me
b) Performing squats after a big breakfast makes me nauseous.
b) Performing squats after a big breakfast makes me nauseous.
If squatting after breakfast makes you sick, then a) seems technically correct, but b) is frequently used in common parlance.
Unfortunately, b) means that squatting after breakfast makes you sickening (to others), which might be true depending on what you ate. Either way, avoid a heavy stomach on squat day, for your own sake and others.
Unless you're as crazy as these guys. Legend has it that Arnold used to venture out into the woods of Austria with booze, tobacco, and a 250 pound barbell. He and his buddies would perform 100 squat repetitions per set, and who knows how many total sets.