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You don't need to wear two sports bras! There is hope!! I have several sports bras that are comfortable and supportive (and only require one). I'm a 32 or 34 H or HH, depending on bra make, and I absolutely love the Freya sports bras. You can get them with or without an underwire (depending on your sport). I also just picked up an Anita sports bra, and I'm really looking forward to trying it out. I can't stress to you enough how important it is to go and get a sports bra that's made for the "Holy Moly" size.

There's a strongman contest at my gym in Richmond on 9/29, if any of you are up for hanging out and watching / competing. It should be loads of fun.

This is a freaking awesome resource. Gold star for jdanger!

The more I think about this, the more I think that it doesn't work for outliers (height-wise) at all. I'm 5' tall. There's no way I'd be comfortable weighing 120 lbs. I think I'd feel very frail, and prone to the vapors. I think somewhere between 2.25 and 2.5 is right for me. When I'm 150 lbs, I'm a bit heavier than I'd like, but I lifted more weight at 150 than I can do right now at my (squishy) 165. I would like to move down to the 135/140 range and see how I feel there, but that's going to take some time and dedication.

This is really interesting, and I would also like to see these numbers for women. I'm around the 2.5 mark right now, and I've got about 20 lbs that I'd like to lose before I'm back in what I think of as "proper shape". I'd have to gain another 15 or 20 lbs to be a 3, and then I'd look like Danny DeVito. No dibs on that. I'm guessing it's got to be closer to 2.0 for the female "ideal". I'm totally making this up right now, but thinking about my female lifting friends that lift competitively, that seems a lot closer.

Can I get that on Amazon? I'd pay a lot of USD for that.

I spend a LOT of time doing overhead squats, especially on snatching days. It reminds my body how it feels to be under the bar, allows you to get the bar into the right position for receiving the snatch and is a pretty nice addition to the workout, to boot. Olympic lifting is hard work. It's well worth paying someone who knows about them to coach you for a session or two to make sure you don't teach yourself any bad habits that will be harder to un-learn later.

I spent a few weeks looking for just the right "T-Rex hates pushups" shirt and finally settled on the one from Spreadshirt. I was terribly disappointed. The sizing was all wrong, the color of the shirt was different than it showed online (to the point that you couldn't even see the T Rex or the writing, really), and that shirt and the other ones I bought there all feel like the absolute lowest quality shirt. It made me so, so sad. I ended up giving my T Rex shirt to my sister, who is 5 inches taller and about 45 lbs heavier than I am. I hope you picked a shirt type that works out better for you - I think everything that could have gone wrong with mine definitely did.

Spezzy, I talked to my friend that ordered from the custom link that I posted. She said their sizing through the body was pretty accurate but that the thighs were kind of tight for her (and she does not have especially large thighs, imo). She said it was only $31 and that the woman was really great to work with. And, if you contact them, they can make the thigh sections customized so you don't end up with legs that fit right and a top half that's falling off of you. She said to contact the woman that makes them and include the circumference of your thigh halfway between the hip and knee and to tell her that you're going to lift in it, not wrestle. They need to be a lot tighter for wrestling. There's also a women's cut neckline, so if you're busty (like me), it won't be too low-cut for you to wear.

I have a friend that just ordered her first singlet about 2 months ago. She gave me some advice about buying one (for when I'm ready to enter a comp myself), but didn't include the sizing. I can ask her what size she ordered. She's about 5'5 and 140ish, so that would probably give you a pretty good idea. She also said to get one with a zipper in the back, with the pull attached to it. No zipper - squeezing in through the neck hole (and stretching it out). Also, this is a thing: http://customsinglets.com/designstudio.htm Make your own fancy singlet!

I've spent time in NYC and Chicago. The cities have a very different 'feel' to me. If I had to live in one of the two, I would prefer to live in Chicago over NYC if I had to pick one of the two. Chicago is broken up into areas of the city that feel more like neighborhoods and people actually make eye contact with one another. It didn't feel as cramped as NYC, or as commercial.

You're referencing the split jerk. Like jdanger mentions, there's also a squat jerk, and a power jerk (which looks more like a push press, but with a re-dip, for simplicity's sake).

Thanks for the hostile takeover! I posted numbers when I joined the forum, but most of them are pretty old. Will you be taking over the power lifting threads, too? I foresee those numbers changing for me sooner than the Oly stuff (because moving like an Olympian is hard work).

I've lived in/frequently visit a few of the cities on your list. Your trip is going to be amazing. Philadelphia You've had lots of great suggestions here. I'd make it to South Phily to Federal Donuts, for sure. Awesome donut flavors, all made in-house, and around 11 am, they switch to fried chicken. There will be a wait. It will be worth it. Oh, and their coffee is also locally roasted and is amazing (says the husband). DC Adam's Morgan has a ton of great little restaurants. Don't go too late, or the collar-popping jerks turn up, but go eat falafel at Amsterdam Nights. It's some of the best falafel I've ever had. The DC Zoo is near there and is free and a great time. Walking around by the museums is also cool, albeit touristy. It's still a neat area and some things should be seen. The food in the Native American Smithsonian museum is diverse (and delicious). Savannah Make the drive to Tybee Island to eat at the Crab Shack, if you like seafood. It's a little out of the way but you will get a ton of food, see some alligators, and have a ball. A good low country boil shouldn't be missed. Orlando I lived here for a few years. I agree with the poster that said Islands of Adventure is the best park in Orlando - it's been my favorite for years. And, Busch Gardens in Tampa is also amazing - world class zoo, great roller coasters if that's your thing, and a great experience every time I've gone there. Food in Orlando is easy, too. Fuji Sushi in Winter Park is so good that my husband and I would meet there for lunch and make a dinner reservation for that same night. Siam Garden (Thai food) is also in Winter Park, right around the corner from Fuji Sushi, is incredible. Winter Park itself is a neat little area with eclectic little shops and out of the touristy area. International Drive has a ton of touristy stuff, but also has great restaurants, like Cafe Tu Tu Tango. That's a tapas place that will have people painting, belly dancing, reading palms, etc. in the "performance area" of the restaurant on any given night. Oh, the trip to Cape Canaveral to the Kennedy Space Center is worth it, too. Pair it with the bird watching on Merritt Island. That would be a really nice, relaxing day. New York Williamsburg (Brooklyn) might be a little more built up now, but my husband and I had a great time there a few weekends ago. We went into a little Irish pub (waiting for a restaurant to open for dinner) and had a few drinks. It was a great neighborhood place a few blocks from the first subway stop after crossing the water. Then, we had dinner at Traif, which was phenomenal. (This restaurant is not for the religious - traif = food that Jewish people cannot eat for religious reasons. Everything on the menu is 'against the rules' and freaking delicious.) Get tickets for a show. TKTS is a great way to do it if you don't care what you see. I've seen a few different things on Broadway and always had a great time. Times Square is chaos. Avoid at all costs, unless you just *have* to see it. I'd much prefer hanging out in the Village or SoHo. Just get off of the subway at Christopher St and go walk around. There are all kinds of things to see, places to eat, and so on.

I agree with GoToTheGround. IBJJF events aren't like other events. I am one of the owners of US Grappling and I can tell you that we have people competing at our events that don't belong to any BJJ club or even train BJJ. Your skill level is decided based on your time training in any art that involves submission grappling (wrestling, judo, sambo or even MMA). I hope we do a good job making people feel welcome at our events even if they're not a BJJ practitioner. GoToTheGround, I also agree about how ridiculous knee reaping has gotten in recent years. Disqualifying someone because his foot moved an inch (especially when the opponent moves it for him, no less) is just silly. If it's a lower level division, warn them and reset the offending foot. We're approaching our 100th event (I think number 94 is this weekend), and I'm happy to say that we still try and keep things as affordable as possible. If you register in advance for our events, you can enter four divisions for $90. That will also get you some sort of swag - shirt or bag or something. Events like the IBJJF that keep increasing the costs and adding more and more rules (I know of another organization that wouldn't allow a wrestler to compete in a singlet, for example) just makes it harder for your friendly neighborhood grappler to compete regularly.