Weightlifting Circle??

Michelle Steiner said:

Actually, they want high-school graduates under the age of 34.

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Support the troops: Bring them home ASAP.

Well, it's now 42 or something, and I think they take GEDs...?

Michelle said:

If we wanted to know the real scoop, we went to the Overseas Weekly.

And just why did it die out, that paper?

Army Times is adequate, it seems to me, for this more homogenized Army.

Prisoner at War said:

for this more homogenized Army.

[censored]? Did he say [censored]????

In article <[email hidden]>,

Prisoner at War said:

Quoted message said:

If we wanted to know the real scoop, we went to the Overseas
Weekly.

And just why did it die out, that paper?

I didn't know that it had died out. Shows how far behind I am; it died
eight years before I retired.

BTW, my comments about knowing the real scoop are to be taken as sarcasm.

The Third Armored Division web site has a history of the paper; I
extracted this tidbit from it:

"The least popular publication at the Pentagon is the Overseas Weekly
...." - Time Magazine, 10/20/1967

"[The Overseas Weekly is] personally repulsive."
- Robert S. McNamara U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Newsweek Magazine, 7/18/1966

"Greatest little paper you ever saw. Any time I wanted to spread the
word in the Division, I told the Overseas Weekly."
- Maj. Gen. Walter Kerwin, Jr. Commander, U.S. 3rd Armored Division
Quoted in OW issue of 10/14/1966

<http://www.3ad.com/history/at.ease/overseas.weekly.htm>

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Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Michelle said:

I didn't know that it had died out. Shows how far behind I am; it died
eight years before I retired.

BTW, my comments about knowing the real scoop are to be taken as sarcasm.

The Third Armored Division web site has a history of the paper; I
extracted this tidbit from it:

"The least popular publication at the Pentagon is the Overseas Weekly
..." - Time Magazine, 10/20/1967

"[The Overseas Weekly is] personally repulsive."
- Robert S. McNamara U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Newsweek Magazine, 7/18/1966

"Greatest little paper you ever saw. Any time I wanted to spread the
word in the Division, I told the Overseas Weekly."
- Maj. Gen. Walter Kerwin, Jr. Commander, U.S. 3rd Armored Division
Quoted in OW issue of 10/14/1966

<http://www.3ad.com/history/at.ease/overseas.weekly.htm>

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

I didn't catch your sarcasm, but any paper the chain of command
doesn't like can't be too bad...but while Army Times hasn't offended
any brass, AFAIK, they do give a bit of an airing to various less-than-
flattering issues. That their editorial board was for getting the
troops home ASAP while Bush was still calling such positions "cut and
run" was pretty brave, too, considering that they sell to the military
and risked heavily offending their readership, not to mention possibly
threatening their right to sell on military installations.

I do wish the Army Times would get a clue and stop calling Army posts
"bases," though. WTF??? They seem versed well enough otherwise in
military "linguistic ethos" to spell "soldiers" with a lower-case "s"
while spelling "Marines" with a capital "M"....

Prisoner at War said:

Michelle said:

I didn't know that it had died out. Shows how far behind I am; it died
eight years before I retired.

Quoted message said:

BTW, my comments about knowing the real scoop are to be taken as sarcasm.

Quoted message said:

The Third Armored Division web site has a history of the paper; I
extracted this tidbit from it:

Quoted message said:

"The least popular publication at the Pentagon is the Overseas Weekly
..." - Time Magazine, 10/20/1967

Quoted message said:

"[The Overseas Weekly is] personally repulsive."
- Robert S. McNamara U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Newsweek Magazine, 7/18/1966

Quoted message said:

"Greatest little paper you ever saw. Any time I wanted to spread the
word in the Division, I told the Overseas Weekly."
- Maj. Gen. Walter Kerwin, Jr. Commander, U.S. 3rd Armored Division
Quoted in OW issue of 10/14/1966

Quoted message said:

<http://www.3ad.com/history/at.ease/overseas.weekly.htm>

Quoted message said:

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

I didn't catch your sarcasm, but any paper the chain of command
doesn't like can't be too bad...but while Army Times hasn't offended
any brass, AFAIK, they do give a bit of an airing to various less-than-
flattering issues. That their editorial board was for getting the
troops home ASAP while Bush was still calling such positions "cut and
run" was pretty brave, too, considering that they sell to the military
and risked heavily offending their readership, not to mention possibly
threatening their right to sell on military installations.

I do wish the Army Times would get a clue and stop calling Army posts
"bases," though. WTF??? They seem versed well enough otherwise in
military "linguistic ethos" to spell "soldiers" with a lower-case "s"
while spelling "Marines" with a capital "M"....- Hide quoted text -

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Shava_X said:

That's basically it. It easy to have half a dozen or more people all
running at a similar intensity at the same time and place. To do that
with resistance exercises, You are more or less locked into bodyweight
exercises. How many people can do bench press at the same time in one
place? A similar reason may explain why few if any of those runners
groups meet at gyms to have a group run on the tread mills (or did i miss
those?).

Well, I wasn't thinking of bench presses en masse or something, like a
whole platoon doing push-ups for morning P.T. in the Army. I was just
wondering why weightlifting circles or "clubs" haven't sprung up like
we have with runners' groups.

Quoted message said:

i have never had any problems having a workout partner who was at a
different strength level than i. In fact, it almost always works out that
way. But if the workout group gets larger than 3 or 4, it just gets
cumbersome and naturally seems to starts breaking into smaller groups.

You're right about that -- but big runners' groups sort of break up,
too, into groups of seven or eight. What I'd had in mind, though, was
about three or four weightlifters who get together to spot one
another.

I guess being depend on weightlifting equipment, which means a gym
membership, really hampers the "spontaneity" factor necessary, unlike
with runners' circles.

Prisoner at War said:

Well, I wasn't thinking of bench presses en masse or something, like a
whole platoon doing push-ups for morning P.T. in the Army. I was just
wondering why weightlifting circles or "clubs" haven't sprung up like
we have with runners' groups.

The school I used to attend (University of Melbourne) had a powerlifting club.
They used to go to powerlifting competitions together, train in the same
(small/cosy) gym, etc. This is probably the closest to what you're looking for
that I've seen. I haven't seen anything similar elsewhere (but haven't really
looked either).

Cheers,
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Elflord

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:52:27 +0000 (UTC), Elflord <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Prisoner at War said:

Well, I wasn't thinking of bench presses en masse or something, like a
whole platoon doing push-ups for morning P.T. in the Army. I was just
wondering why weightlifting circles or "clubs" haven't sprung up like
we have with runners' groups.

The school I used to attend (University of Melbourne) had a powerlifting club.
They used to go to powerlifting competitions together, train in the same
(small/cosy) gym, etc. This is probably the closest to what you're looking for
that I've seen. I haven't seen anything similar elsewhere (but haven't really
looked either).

Cheers,

BTW, the "oil up" sessions afterwards are LEGENDARY!

Cheers,
--
Elflord

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Elflord said:

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:52:27 +0000 (UTC), Elflord <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

On 2007-10-01, Prisoner at War <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Well, I wasn't thinking of bench presses en masse or something, like a
whole platoon doing push-ups for morning P.T. in the Army. I was just
wondering why weightlifting circles or "clubs" haven't sprung up like
we have with runners' groups.

Quoted message said:

The school I used to attend (University of Melbourne) had a powerlifting club.
They used to go to powerlifting competitions together, train in the same
(small/cosy) gym, etc. This is probably the closest to what you're looking for
that I've seen. I haven't seen anything similar elsewhere (but haven't really
looked either).

Quoted message said:

Cheers,

BTW, the "oil up" sessions afterwards are LEGENDARY!

Cheers,
--
Elflord

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Elflord said:

Prisoner at War said:

Well, I wasn't thinking of bench presses en masse or something, like a
whole platoon doing push-ups for morning P.T. in the Army. I was just
wondering why weightlifting circles or "clubs" haven't sprung up like
we have with runners' groups.

The school I used to attend (University of Melbourne) had a powerlifting club.
They used to go to powerlifting competitions together, train in the same
(small/cosy) gym, etc. This is probably the closest to what you're looking for
that I've seen. I haven't seen anything similar elsewhere (but haven't really
looked either).

Cheers,

All over the place.

Westside in Columbus, Ohio being the most obvious example. MFW's Bob
Mann belonged to the MPA club. They ran their own gym in Winnipeg. There
are many other examples.

--
Keith

Elflord said:

The school I used to attend (University of Melbourne) had a powerlifting club.
They used to go to powerlifting competitions together, train in the same
(small/cosy) gym, etc. This is probably the closest to what you're looking for
that I've seen. I haven't seen anything similar elsewhere (but haven't really
looked either).

Cheers,
--
Elflord

Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but most runners' groups --
as observed by the article originally cited -- are made up of almost
complete strangers, not people who work at the same company, attend
the same church, or are on a team...kinda like them bicycling clubs,
for that matter.

No such thing for weightlifters. Too bad! Could really use a spotter
for forced reps, damn it....

Prisoner at War said:

Elflord said:

The school I used to attend (University of Melbourne) had a powerlifting club.
They used to go to powerlifting competitions together, train in the same
(small/cosy) gym, etc. This is probably the closest to what you're looking for
that I've seen. I haven't seen anything similar elsewhere (but haven't really
looked either).

Quoted message said:

Cheers,
--
Elflord

Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but most runners' groups --
as observed by the article originally cited -- are made up of almost
complete strangers, not people who work at the same company, attend
the same church, or are on a team...kinda like them bicycling clubs,
for that matter.

No such thing for weightlifters. Too bad! Could really use a spotter
for forced reps, damn it....