Homebrew Closet

Check out the new beer closet!

Got 90 beers bottle conditioning on the shelf and 2.5 gallons of a cider-mead combination in the carboy on the floor. We will be doing a partigyle brew within the next couple weeks so that cider-mead will soon be joined by 5 gallons of a Belgian tripel and a gallon of some sort of session beer.

We also have a temperature controller on the way to wire into our spare fridge we picked up from a friend, so we’ll also have a nice little fermentation chamber for the summer.

HA

Belts in the Weightroom

You know what really chaps my ass? People not realizing how retarded it is to wear supportive belts throughout the duration of their workout routine. Wearing a belt every once in a while for very heavy lifts is one thing (although I still disagree with it), but wearing one while doing bicep curls pretty much makes you a douchebag. Not only does it look stupid, but certain parts of your body will become extremely over-developed if you never take off your belt because you will no longer be involving your core muscles in the exercise.

Think about it like this: your core is a child, and your upper-body and lower-body are its parents. The parents are always fighting because they both want to shine in their own way and they both want the support of the other for selfish reasons (you want to be jacked and you spend a lot of energy figuring out how much time to spend working out your lower body and how much time to spend working out your lower body). The parents would be divorced by now if it wasn’t for their kid, which is the glue holding the family together (your functional strength starts from your core, when your core is weak your athletic abilities are extremely limited no matter how strong your other muscles are). The parents know that their kid is the glue of the family, and now they have a choice on how to raise the kid. If they hire a chaperone to be with the kid 24-7 and always keep an eye on him and not let the kid take on any risks or challenges (always wearing a belt), the kid will become weak and may rebel from the parents (you will have a weak core), and then the parents will lose their glue and the family falls apart (the different parts of your body will not learn to function together as a team). If the parents teach the kid good morals and let it think for itself and take on challenges (not wearing a belt), the kid will grow strong and the family will stick together and the parents will work out their problems maturely (your core will be strong and you will be able to use all of your body to achieve maximum athleticism).

So that’s how I feel about that, I see people like this way too often at the gym.