MrFreefall383

Oh yeah, I've already taken that into account. The pushups I'm simply working myself into condition, I haven't done many pushups over the years, but once I have a baseline, I'm pushing it over the moon. Flutterkicks are already a 4-count as per Stew Smith, so that's not a problem. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Relationships are so difficult because you're trying to convince someone else to accept you as you are, which is the most difficult thing for any human being to do, everyone has prejudice, whether they believe it or not. Talk about a losing proposition. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Been running again lately, dropped back down to 1.5 miles to work my speed back up. Ran 2 miles again finally, below 8 minutes per mile, so I'm happy about that. Been doing at least 150 ab exercises everyday, either flutterkicks or situps, with arm haulers for lower back, and pushups and pullups on alternating days. Unfortunately, based on simple and rough calculations, my body fat is probably sitting around 16-18%. My gut is trimming down slightly, but still not quite enough to see my abs, so it's time to really get serious, double my numbers and add crunches. Time to get the body fat down to below 10%. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Good news... well, I passed my NYPD medical and initial background exam easily. I figured it would be a problem because my pulse was way high when I was checked at MEPS a year ago when I was trying for USCG OCS. But it wasn't a problem, eyes and ears are just as good as they always were, blood pressure within normal range, and I don't have enough to hide to fail an initial background assessment. Though I'm not going to keep pursuing NYPD, it's still a good baseline to know that I can pass their medical, which bodes well for Coast Guard enlistment. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

It's the sad end of an era. That's the kind of voice that could give anyone goosebumps. What an incredible talent. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Good news... well, despite my getting lost on the way to my NYPD medical exam last week, I got it rescheduled for the end of this week, won't miss the next class if I can get the rest of my testing done. On another note, I got another contact to figure out my plan to join the Coast Guard and become a rescue swimmer. I'm going to call him tomorrow morning and discuss the details with him, see what he says, how practical it is, and what to do if it doesn't pan out. And started studying for the ASVAB, definitely going to kick its butt. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Yeah, Discovery Channel is my best friend too. And Dirty Jobs is simply an awesome show. There are a few factors here. First, the fact that some of these jobs, the average person wouldn't have known existed, or didn't think they were as dirty as they actually are. Second, Mike Rowe is nutty as squirrel turds. Third, who doesn't love seeing Dave Barsky hit in the face with slime? Anyway, awesome show, I'm gearing up for the marathon on Monday. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

I deal with anger by ignoring it. I've perfected the art of tuning out my emotions when it really counts. And if that doesn't work, I work out until I'm too sore and tired to give a shit, then I just get sarcastically obnoxious. Or I just get drunk. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

She's a babe. Extremely hot, especially for a science geek. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

I don't fear death, I fear failing to accomplish my dreams. I could've failed to become a licensed skydiver, but I didn't because I knew I could do it and I knew I could do it well. I trained both on and off the DZ, made sure that I never failed an IAF jump, always improved and learned from each jump I made, and still do. Death can affect any of us at anytime, so there's really no point in pussy-footing around thinking you're going to cheat death or prolong its onset. You could stay in your room all times of the day, and you go out to the store to get some milk and get run over by a drunk driver. Death is not to be feared, it is simply to be expected. As for my choices in life, I've firmly decided I want to be a Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer. My chance of death is much increased, but I can make a difference by prolonging the onset of death for others until that time comes. I'm going to take advantage of the time I have, use it the best way I know how. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

That's why I want to do it. At least in my humble and insignificant opinion, there is no professional capacity more honorable than saving lives, and so much the better if you're risking your own existence in order to save the lives of others. Even if I was only a swimmer for a few years, and saved between 15-30 lives in that time, I would still be able to die knowing I made a difference, and that kind of draw is hard to find anywhere else. Going back to fitness, I went to the pool again tonight. I've got a medical exam for NYPD tomorrow all day, gotta be there 6:30 in the morning, I should really relax and unwind so I'm not stressed out at the exam, but I went anyway and swam roughly 2000m with the fins and snorkel. Ankles are feeling better, but now everything else hurts. It's a good hurt though, the kind of hurt that makes me want to go right back out and run a few miles and then swim some more. I guess I find it surprising that at my ripe old age of 24, I still have that motivation to kick my own ass that hard and do it again the next day. So tomorrow, if I'm back early enough, I'm going for a run. And if not, I'll go for another swim. And either way, I'm getting in at least 200 flutterkicks. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Ah yes......the dreaded SEAL workout. Nothing like the old pushup pyramid. I would try emailing him again, I've emailed him like 3 or 4 times and got a response within 1.5 hours....the quickest was 15 minutes. As far as the ankles......yoga and stretching would probably be a good start, but I think just like running you have to slowly work your way up with fins. Good luck with the rescue swimmer thing, there's SEALs that flunk out of that school it's pretty tough. Just remember, you can do anything you put your mind to. Pushup pyramids are insane. Those really kick my ass. Yeah, I think my best option is just time and regular workouts using the fins. They're feeling a little better, but I think it'll take a couple months before they're really feeling good. I worked up to running 6 miles daily at one point near the end of my time as an undergrad, so I know I can do it with swimming. As for SEALs failing out of A-School, that doesn't surprise me. There's no way to prepare for how much swimming there actually is in A-School. Those who make it through the school are merely the less than 50% who want it most. And I want it more than most. The most amazing story I've heard about those guys is about one of them that was trying to get on to a ship during a storm.....fifty foot waves, out in the middle of the ocean. For those of you that don't know how they get onto ships in huge storm..........the ships hang nets over the side and the swimmer gets dropped off a ways out and swims in and grabs on to the net and climbs up.....because of the waves they have to time their approach with the waves.....getting slammed into the hull of the ship by a fifty foot wave could easily kill you. Anyways, either through his timing being off or the unpredictable waves, he gets slammed into the side of the ship. Breaks an arm and both legs, but due to the size of the storm the helicopter had to turn back. The next day they picked him up. He swam the whole night with two broken legs and a broken arm..........that's one tough mofo. Just remember, you can do anything you put your mind to. Yeah, they're crazy committed bastards. The mission comes above anything else. Just finished reading a book written by a former rescue swimmer who just retired from the service last year, and he states the mentality of a USCG Rescue Swimmer as, "I'll save that victim or I'll die trying." One of his stories was during his time in Mobile, Alabama, he received written reports from three rescue swimmers and their flight crews, they were tasked to save the crew of one fishing boat, only to be re-tasked with rescues of two others. First swimmer rescued the crew of one fishing boat, throwing up several times along the swim to the victims and back. And the hoist hook bent, so the ground crews fueled a new chopper and swapped them over and added a swimmer. Second swimmer swapped with the first to save the second crew and a dog, both swimmers threw up multiple times on the way there and back because of the rough seas, but managed to save everyone anyway. Third swimmer handled the original call, threw up several times himself, and pressed on to rescue every one of the crew of this fishing boat. All told, the three swimmers and two flight crews saved 12 survivors and one dog from these three sinkings in just over three hours of combined flying time. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

That just blows my mind. I knew cats were coordinated, but I didn't realize they could be trained like that. That's unbelievable. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

That's some funny shit man. I couldn't stop laughing, still can't. And sadly enough, most of those are pretty true. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Ah yes......the dreaded SEAL workout. Nothing like the old pushup pyramid. I would try emailing him again, I've emailed him like 3 or 4 times and got a response within 1.5 hours....the quickest was 15 minutes. As far as the ankles......yoga and stretching would probably be a good start, but I think just like running you have to slowly work your way up with fins. Good luck with the rescue swimmer thing, there's SEALs that flunk out of that school it's pretty tough. Just remember, you can do anything you put your mind to. Pushup pyramids are insane. Those really kick my ass. Yeah, I think my best option is just time and regular workouts using the fins. They're feeling a little better, but I think it'll take a couple months before they're really feeling good. I worked up to running 6 miles daily at one point near the end of my time as an undergrad, so I know I can do it with swimming. As for SEALs failing out of A-School, that doesn't surprise me. There's no way to prepare for how much swimming there actually is in A-School. Those who make it through the school are merely the less than 50% who want it most. And I want it more than most. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Stew rocks. I did his 4-week Navy SEAL introductory workout a couple years ago, and it handed me my ass. I did send him an E-mail a little over a week ago, and never got a response unfortunately. It was a fairly basic question about how to build up my ankles so they wouldn't hurt so much using fins, but as I said, I never got a response. Strange it seems, as everyone I've spoken to has said he's good about responding. Maybe I sent to an old E-mail or something, so I'll double-check and resend this week. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

this would help you out ......... http://store.stewsmithptclub.com/coguhereswsw.html No worries, already been a Stew Smith fan for years. Just ordered that a week ago, been browsing it to figure out what my local resources will allow, and what they won't. Unfortunately, I'm not going to have the time or the equipment to do that whole 6 week workout right now, so I'm simply creating my own fitness plan based on his recommendations and my own resources and other fun ideas I've come across in reading other books and learning about fitness. And to ACME, I will. Thanks. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

No formal plan here, just working out like a lunatic. Been swimming regularly, did about 150 pushups and 200 situps yesterday, swam over 1000m today, going to do some pullup sets a little later once I've had some dinner, and going to try to do at least 100 flutterkicks. No weight loss to speak of here, I'm a skinny guy anyway, but I've actually gained a couple pounds of muscle in the last couple weeks, so I'm happy about that. Still got a long way to go though, as I've firmly decided that I want to become a Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer. I could get through Basic easily at this point, probably make it through the Airman Program with little trouble, but AST A-School would still kick my ass. I've got two years to build up to it though, so I should be able to do this easily. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

So basically for the extra rwhp and a couple mpg, intake tune exhaust and lighter wheels for looks. Maybe a saleen suspension for nicer handling, asides from that, leave it be? Someone turned the exact car into a track car, running 904 rwhp. Waste of $ in my opinion and now its a track car. I just wanna get a little more horse power. Aside from the vette, if I put a supercharger on it I could take everything stock including the gto but the gas mileage and blowing headers didn't seem worth it haha. Actually, I'm saying don't modify it at all. No suspension mods, no new wheels for looks, no intake or exhaust, not a damn thing. How do you know what the shortcomings of the stock suspension are without driving the shit out of it at the limits? And you can't do that safely on the street last I checked. And as far as turning a car into a track car, you need to corner, so 904 whp is absolutely useless. I'd rather have a car with under 400 hp, decent torque, and a suspension that puts that power down exactly the way I want it everytime. My car's upgrade process is short and mapped out, I know exactly what I'm doing to the car because I've raced it and know where its shortcomings are. Eventually when I do turn it into a track car, the intent is to bring it to about 350 whp, and tune it until I can haul ass around any corner without having to think about how the car's going to take it. I suggest looking at www.scca.com, check the tab entitled "Solo", and that should give you an idea of what kind of racing I'm talking about. Imagine an extremely tight course full of tight corners, slaloms, kinks, all designated by road cones on a big parking lot. Fun shit. Check it out, get a dozen races under your belt before you start modifying it, you won't be disappointed. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

What you've described sounds exactly like the symptoms I get right about when I have to buy a new pair of running shoes. If you don't have proper cushioning, the impact of your feet hitting the ground will do damage either to your feet, ankles, shins, and/or knees. To answer your question, I try not to go more than 400 miles on my shoes if I can help it, and that's assuming I'm running regularly. If they're in storage for any period of time, I can assume I'll get fewer miles out of them. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

To answer your statement, it's not that I'm seriously against the Mazdaspeed 3, but the basic design just doesn't work all that well for what its intention seems to be, and simply slapping a turbo in it and upping the power significantly isn't going to do a whole lot to the fact that the chassis doesn't handle high performance driving very well. It's like slapping a bottle of nitrous in an Impala intending for it to handle corners better. It just makes no sense. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

More control of the car. If your not racing or buying a muscle car with an aggressive tone and engine, then theres no real bennefit except for what you like... I

It's a Mustang GT convertible. Don't modify it, that's an A-to-B car, whether you like it or not. With a coupe, I would've suggested taking it to some autocrosses, seeing what the car's really capable of in stock form, and once you're comfortable with how it handles high-load corners, then start slowly modifying it piece by piece, intention and purpose in every part. Don't just modify a car for the sake of modifying it. Especially if it's got some stock power and handling. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

First, you can't just solve the problem of DSC by turning it off. You've still got the weight of the system to contend with even if it's off. Second, why have to modify the stock engine mounts just so they won't break? That seems pointless. As for the experts question, Motortrend wouldn't know their ass from their elbow. Try reading Sports Car Magazine, the official publication of the SCCA. They recently had an article on the Mazdaspeed 3. As writers who are committed completely to racing, and to expanding on the theories of effective racing, they were highly anticipating the release of the Mazdaspeed 3. They reviewed it, tested it, and found that based on its performance characteristics it wouldn't dominate D Stock as they expected. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche

Squirrels that are veterans of SERE? Fuck, that's some bad shit. "If at first you don't succeed... well, so much for skydiving." - aviation cliche