November is a magical month. Men across the world will forgo the confusing art of shaving and develop impressive and intense facial hair. Some may call it “No Shave November”. We have called it Novemburly. Many know it as Movember. Either way, you’re participating.
Movember started in 1999 and has developed into a month-long fundraiser for men’s health, particularly cancer. Cancer is a pestilent adversary and 70’s Big is joining the fight to kick it in the BALLS. Combine fighting and facial hair, and we’re there. However, this time it’s to raise money.
There are two ways you can participate: either create a profile and join the 70’s Big Fundraising team on us.movember.com, or donate to the team or one of our members. Either way, click here and get started (the team is on the right).
Edit: Even if you only donate one doll-hair, that will help. Various team members will be doing amusing things for donations, so keep an eye out.
Contest Prizes
Whoever raises the most money on the 70’s Big Movember Team will receive $50 bucks, a 70’s Big t-shirt, and their choice of one of my e-books or FIT. That’s right — raise the most money for a badass cause, grow some facial hair, AND get cash and 70’s Big gear. I’M GOING TO PAY YOU TO GROW FACIAL HAIR, SO GET STARTED.
Do I need to grow a mustache?
Movember emphasizes shaving at the beginning of the month and growing a mustache. Since Jacob Cloud and I already have sweet facial hair, we’re certainly not going to SHAVE it. Instead, grow whatever you want. If you have a beard, show it off. If you don’t, then either grow a ‘stache or don’t shave all month. Pick one, join the fundraising team, and LET’S FUCKING KILL CANCER.
And now a word from co-captain Jacob Cloud and his cat Weezer:
We’re making a new line of shirts for Movember — all proceeds will be donated to the 70’s Big Movember team.
Check the shirts out here.
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I am also offering a squatathon video. I weigh roughly 250 so I will load up 275 on the bar and squat a rep and at the top of each rep will cookie monster grumble whatever 2-4 word phrase you want. So for just 2 dollars! You can be part of a Patrick Stroup squat video.
Some suggestions for phrases.
“Gordon Fuck”
“Lascek would get it”
“No Butthole No Care”
“Marotta has AIDS”
etc.
mobro.co/patrickstroup
and when you toss 2 bucks in send me a message with your phrase or maybe even just your name.
Whoever raises the most also wins my approval of them as a person, arguably the most valuable prize of all.
Unfortunately, I can’t grow any facial hair due to work, due to interference with facepiece seal. However, I will have epic sideburns by the end of the month.
Do what you can within regs. KILL CANCER
–Justin
I wonder also if the 70s Big Community can help raise awareness against angry beard-cutting Amish cult leaders? This is the most heinous crime I’ve ever heard of.
Also, the guy’s last name is Mullet. You can’t make this stuff up.
“On October 4, the men are accused of bursting into an Ohio home and holding an Amish men down as they attempted to cut his beard and hair off with scissors and a battery-powered shaver.
There were more attacks, with victims including children as young as 13, who were targeted by as many as 27 members of the gang.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052020/Amish-bishop-cult-leader-Sam-Mullet-rules-community-iron-fist-harsh-punishments.html#ixzz1cePCzLcs
@milksteak what kind of facepiece do you use that can seal with big sideburns but not with a mustache? Respirators usually allow for mustaches but no sideburns (e.g. firefighters, construction workers, etc.)
Last year I had a sick mustache for Movember because I had inadvertently grown a beard leading up to it (grad school will do that). My lady friend has put up with it, begrudgingly, the last two years. I may not risk it this year.
Think scuba instead of respirator.
–Justin
I was on track to participate in Movember, but I just got word that I have a job interview in 6 days! It re-begins on November 9, Movember.
I’m a member of another team (run by a friend who lost his dad to prostate cancer), but I’m in. I pledged to my friends that I’d spend all day on the 22nd squatting and pressing (315 and 175 respectively), one rep for every 10 bucks donated, ten reps on the hour every hour until I hit the total. Fifteen minutes later and I’m already committed to 63 squats and 63 presses. Gonna be a long, awesome day, baby!
wreeder – does your lady friend support cancer, or does she support kicking cancer in the BALLS?
If my lady friend can put up with my ridiculous face all the time, surely your lady friend can cope for a month.
In it to win it. I like the squat-a-thon and pressing ideas. Maybe I’ll do a neverending barbell complex…
Training question for Justin and the gang: what are some cues for squat depth?
I want to do USAPL meets next year, so I’ve been obssessive about going deep. But – my coach said last night that I’ve been going too deep (“bottoming-out”) and losing hamstring tension in the process.
How do y’all find that sweet spot that’s below parallel, but not ass-to-grass?
@milksteak
Sounds like a solid candidate for the pencil-thin mustache.
@Jacob the Cloud
She supports not being seen in public with a mustachioed me. She tells everyone that I look like a pedophile with one, so naturally they agree. It doesn’t help that she could easily get away with telling people she was 16 and I could pass for 25+. (For the record I’m 22 and she’s 21)
dude i fucking loled real hard at justin’s video
the part where he says
BACON. AND BACON. AND BACON. AND BACON.
hahaha
I’m in… but my wife won’t let me shave my beard.
Also, nobody fucks with the Lascek.
Great podcast. I lack the ability to grow any facial hair other than a dirty crustache due to my Ecuadorean herritage but I will support you fellas in spirit.
I have a question regarding the podcast and the jerk section of it. With regards to Dr. Hartman’s thoughts on wrist and forearm placement I have found in my training that I have to jerk with the bar on my finger tips in some of the same way that Dimas and Sudas does because, I am not sure if it is inflexibility or anthropometry, when I put the bar in my palms, I tend to press up and out with my arms rather than with my legs. With the bar on my finger tips I don’t even think about pushing up with my arms at all. Is there any downside to this technique as I somewhat inferred from Dr. Hartman or is it simply a matter of personal preference and body type.
I don’t want to hear any lame excuses from anyone about someone not liking their beard, mustache, mutton chops, whatever. I have an 8 month pregnant wife who hates my beard and pleaded with me to shave it. Since I’m not a small child that can’t make my own decisions I told her “It’s for cancer” and I created my fund raising page. I also am in a friend’s wedding this month, and I will rock my bushy face mane with my tux like a proud lion.
Justin, I have something of a TM question.
I know there should be a 30kg/65lb difference between a volume day and intensity for the squat.
But what should difference be for the press?
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