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Yep Deerwood is light years ahead of all the courses on the reservation but it is also light years ahead in that monthly bill as well. Luckily I get to play it a bunch with a vendor who also lives in Kingwood. I don’t think Deerwood is Mag Creek level hard but it does have some quirks that can bite you if you don’t know the course at all. What I like about it is they keep it in great shape despite the hurricane damages and they just redid the greens. It also isn’t a boring course and has some pretty scenic holes plus it has the Tin Cup hole.

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The game is a pick em for good reason. Nobody has a fricking clue what is going to happen.

I'm not sure any result would be surprising.

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This is exactly how I felt going into the Auburn game this year and it played out exactly like I thought it would.

I agree. Times were much simpler then. Hand held cell phones were just becoming a thing but everyone wasn’t addicted to their phones like they are now. Internet wasn’t really a thing either which is just another addiction. Our military just got done pushing Iraq’s shite in back to the Stone Age. We didn’t really have any military threats which kinda sucked to a degree because we started gutting that same military. Ducks still migrated to Louisiana.

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The Smith machine sucks.

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Gonna disagree. I rotate it in pretty much for Inclines only though. Not saying it is a staple exercise because honestly I am pretty well all db's but it is a good change of pace exercise. To each is own.

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My biggest thing is safety and good schools. I can drive to entertainment etc.

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Got several buddies in League City and one in Friendswood. All have kids that that have made it through high school into college. None of them have complained about schools at either place. What I like about a Houston burb is being able to go eat and do stuff without having to drive unless you want to go into the city. You can certainly do that in League City. It is a self contained place unlike Kingwood where I live that doesn't have a ton of good places to eat or do much like the Woodlands.

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i wish i was 17 benching 405....do you understand how rare that is?

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I couldn't sniff 405 when I was 17. Shite, I thought 225 was heavy then. If you could put 3 plates on you were a man walking around boys at our high school and we weren't exactly a pushover at football. There may have been a dozen dudes that could press much over 315. Heck 405 is a milestone that most advanced lifters never hit.

Bama made a strong push about 5 years ago tapping into the Houston area. We live in a H-town suburb and I have a son that graduated back then. Bama recruited his high school pretty hard. Obviously I wanted him to go there but he got into aviation his Junior year and wanted to become a pilot so he ended up at LA Tech on damn near a full ride but several of his buddies ended up in T-town. They all pledged fraternities and said that over half of their pledge classes were OOS'ers with lots coming from the NE with the rest lol Texans and Georgia kids that couldn't get into UGA.

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I don't understand how someone thinks they can DL 455 from a disadvantaged position (balls over your face, bar too far from their legs, etc.) I get that people panic in a crisis, but it should take 3 seconds to realize to run to one side of the bar and hold it up so you could roll out from underneath it.

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There was so many mistakes that happened with that lift I am so lucky that I was able to walk away from it. It changed how I lifted moving forward forever. Honestly I have been caught a couple of times previously to that situation on flat barbell bench without a spotter where I couldn't get it and had to dump the weight but I never use pins. I learned that from when I first started lifting. Makes a hell of a racket doing that and you look like a tool in the process but you are walking away with nothing but a bruised ego. I should of caught that he put those on the bar before even attempting that lift, especially with a spotter I didn't know and especially with that weight. I will never make that mistake again. As for spotters, I learned that you damn well better trust that person can get that weight off you if shite hits the fan because you tear a pec doing flat barbell bench, you might not even be able to even see saw the weight off of you.

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She is really enjoying herself but when shes older and there is nobody there for her she will probably have regrets of being childless and single.

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Obviously answers are going to be completely skewed if you already have kids or not but this is a situation I am seeing with my 70'ish year old parents and some of their friends that did not have kids. Their friends that either couldn't have kids or just said no are coming to the realization that they really don't have anyone to depend on. Not saying this needs to be a factor in deciding to have kids since even kids abandon their parents but it is something to consider.

A could have been me moment reading this. Back in maybe my early 30’s I was doing chest and for some reason started with declines. I remember this day vividly because I went to the gym on my lunch break so wasn’t lifting with my morning crew. We lifted pretty heavy back in those days and honestly that was my first mistake because I should have never went as heavy as I did without a trusted spotter. Anyway I used to use 315 as a gauge on how good my chest day was gonna be since that weight is usually the start of my working sets. Well I repped that pretty easy and wound up going to 455 as my last set. I actually did have a spotter. Older guy that I knew pretty well that was strong for a 60 year old but not really a meathead lifter kind of older guy that I really should have trusted going that heavy. Well I got the first rep clean and went for a 2nd. Bad mistake. I got it about halfway up and hit failure but the old man failed to grab the bar to rack it when I started struggling so it hit my chest and with it being a decline it pinched my elbows back so my pressing ability was severely compromised. To make matters exponentially worse, he put safety pins on the bar that I for some dip shite of me reason didn’t catch prior to this so we couldn’t dump plates to one side. He immediately goes bat shite crazy yelling help at the top of lungs and he tries to deadlift the bar up and gets it about 4 inches up then loses it and drops it right on my upper sternum and my elbows are even more pinched and the bar is rolling toward my throat. I am literally thinking this is it. I am about to die when a dude about my size runs over and helps get it off me. That dude literally saved my life.

Moral of that story is never lift more weight than you can handle without a trusted spotter because if something goes sideways on a barbell chest lift you need someone that can at least handle that weight and never ever use safety pins on a barbell bench press.