Geoffrey Taucer

That's mostly genetic; some people naturally have a lot of muscle mass, some people are naturally leaner. Diet will have some effect on it, but for the most part you're stuck with what you've got.

Can we, like, disable the building's fire alarms during the jamspace concerts this year?

Brush, check your PMs.

Best thing in the world for arms and shoulders, in my opinion, is rings. They're cheaper than weights, and you can do so many different exercises on them. And as for how well they work, well, look at your male gymnast and judge for yourself.

I'm on doctor's orders not to do any rings strength for a week; I'm pretty much counting down the hours until friday, when I can start up again. I got a pretty decent ab workout yesterday, and spent a bunch of time working on shoulder flexibility.

Ok, I'll try to dig them all up within the next day or two and I'll send you a PM. Do you just want a list of the rare ones or what? -Taucer

O rly? I've got a pretty decent set somewhere, if I can find them...

Love the epiano.

Zell from Final Fantasy 8 (even though I hate that game)

My goals, which I hope to achieve by my first competition on January 24th: 1) I want to be able to make it through my entire competetive floor routine (five tumbling passes) without being completely drained by the final pass. Endurance is my biggest issue on floor; my final pass has to hit a minimum difficulty threshhold, and I just don't have the energy for any skills that hard by the time I get to my final pass My plan for this is to work floor routines every day, starting off with easy, watered-down routines and building up more and more as my endurance increases, until I can eventually throw all my hardest skills in the same routine. 2) On rings, I want to be able to comfortably and consistently hit and hold a maltese and an inverted cross, and I want to be able to press from maltese up to planche. Right now my cross is pretty strong (at least it was before I injured my shoulder last week), but my maltese and my invert aren't consistent. My plan for these is simple; lots of rings between now and January. I'll do some light rings work every day, and heavy rings strength every other day. In addition, I will start running regularly. I'd like to run 3 miles at least twice a week, if I have the time.

Haven't heard back from Steben, so I started a new thread: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=468148

Welcome, one and all, to OCR Fit Club. This thread is intended as a place for anybody in the community who seeks to better their own physical fitness to discuss their workouts, their progress, and gather tips from fellow fitness enthusiasts. There are no strict rules, and anybody at any level of fitness is welcome to participate. However, participants are encouraged to lay out specific goals and refer back to them to measure their progress. I'm going to steal some ideas from Steben's post in the old thread, and encourage everybody to make sure their goals are S.M.A.R.T.! Specific: Say more than "Be Healthy". You goals need to mean something. Measurable: Try to make your goal something you can measure. Numbers are nice here... do you have a set weight you'd like to see yourself at? Would you like to be able to run a mile in a certain time? Attainable: Don't pick goals you'll never be able to reach, at least within the time limit. Be realistic... but don't underestimate yourself either! Relevant: Don't pick goals without a reason. I could go through life without being able to bench press 200 pounds... I just don't have a need to be able to do that. However, a related, relevant goal might be to build arm muscle, to impress the ladies? Timely: Don't say you're going to go to the gym every day if you'll only have access to a gym during a few weeks of the summer. Keep in mind your other activities and base your goals on what you'll have time for. Lay out a health plan for yourself. Describe in as much or as little detail as you like how you plan to go about attaining your goals. Try to check in at least once a week to let us know how you're doing. You may post before/after pics if you like, but those are optional. Also, if you have any fitness expertise to share, feel free to do so! I will offer my own expertise in the area of strength training, especially upper-body strength. I have coached gymnastics for about 4.5 years, and I am training to return to competition myself on floor, vault, and rings. I may also be able to provide some tips regarding flexibility, though that's less of a strong suit for me. And, of course, if you would like to incorporate any sort of gymnastics into your health plan (which I highly encourage if your goal is to build more upper-body strength), I'll see what I can do to help you out. ********************************* Reccomended links (post your own with a description and I'll add them to the list) http://www.gymnasticbodies.com/ This is an excellent gymnastics/bodybuilding website with a number of strength building exercises. This site describes in detail how to work your way up to some great gymnastics strength skills, such as planches and front levers. You can also buy rings here.

You're in for a real treat, lemme tell you.

I saw "Another Soundscape" and came in expecting an awesome, somewhat quirky, primarily electronic mix with awesome synths and effects. Damn I'm good. Synths, as expected, are sweet. I especially love the bass. Piano is beautiful. The rainstick is an especially brilliant touch.

My shoulder is still sore and giving me trouble on crosses, but my malteses seem to be getting stronger and stronger, and I can finally do my inverted cross again (though not as low as I would like). EDIT: Ok, I got my shoulder looked at, and I'm under strict doctor's orders to stay off rings all week. Which fucking sucks, because I'm used to rings being the first thing I do when I get to the gym every day. EDIT 2: I PM'd steben about editing the first post or starting a new thread a couple days ago and haven't heard back from him. If I don't hear from him by the end of the weekend, I'll start a new thread on monday.

I'm gonna drop my claim on welcome to crocodile isle. I've got the whole thing planned out in my head, but I just don't have enough time to do it.

Yes, I've seen it. And also the picture taken a couple seconds later where they hugged.

Somebody post the pic of Dave and Jake shaking hands

I think perhaps a new thread is in order for a winter session.

Went through full routines on all three of my events on Sunday (though my floor routine was a bit watered down -- I don't have the endurance to throw all of my biggest skills in the same routine.)

Awesome, but way too short!

Just booked my room. God damn I'm looking forward to this.

My right shoulder had been completely crippled since friday, and yesterday I finally said "fuck it" and worked rings anyway. After about five minutes of rings strength, my shoulder completely stopped hurting. Go figure.

Actually, there has been more than one occasion where I did a remix and then went back to listen to the original and realized I didn't even remember the melody accurately.

No, I just go by ear/memory and see what I can do with it. Heck, there are some tracks I'm remixing for which I don't even know the original chord progression.