pierinifitness
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Post by pierinifitness on Feb 14, 2020 21:31:19 GMT
So hard to view any of his videos and imagine what it would be like to have his mind and live his self-destructive lifestyle. Can't imagine what his upbringing was and the trigger point in his formative years that led him to be in the journey he took until the end of his death. Abused as a child maybe?
Anyway, what goes through my mind is that he is/was someone's child. Can't imagine what it would be like having a child/adult child like him. I hope he's enjoying the peace and tranquility he wasn't able to have during his time on earth.
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Post by Magnus on Feb 14, 2020 23:31:48 GMT
So hard to view any of his videos and imagine what it would be like to have his mind and live his self-destructive lifestyle. Can't imagine what his upbringing was and the trigger point in his formative years that led him to be in the journey he took until the end of his death. Abused as a child maybe? Anyway, what goes through my mind is that he is/was someone's child. Can't imagine what it would be like having a child/adult child like him. I hope he's enjoying the peace and tranquility he wasn't able to have during his time on earth. So-called 'normal' upbringing?....No, definitely not, but I would think that if he was at one time "abused" he would have at least briefly mentioned it ?... Not sure though. I'm more inclined to think that people like 'Herk' may simply be born a little more 'sensitive' than the average person, and when you mix that sensitive inclination with a shit-ton of self medication in the form of meth, the results can sometimes seem a little weird for us 'normals'.... speak for yourself, Here he is acting sort of 'normal' with a bunch of Mormon's (for his standards); maybe he's on a 'mission from God' (?) ...and he even plays the piano for them at the end
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Post by Magnus on Feb 15, 2020 3:47:47 GMT
What we know of Herkster's training: - Loved really heavy wrist curls (negatives)
- Links wrist strength to some kind of knockout punch ("the flinch"); had a few other martial arts combos up his sleeve like practicing kicking tree branches
- Doesn't like overhead work
- Carried round a log under each arm for a long time as an adolescent
Seems he really did ! ...
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Post by Alan OldStudent on Feb 15, 2020 7:11:27 GMT
He shows you don't have to have big muscles to be strong. Acquiring strength is as much about developing skill, coordination, and gracefulness as anything else.
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Post by Dave Reslo on Feb 15, 2020 12:14:21 GMT
So hard to view any of his videos and imagine what it would be like to have his mind and live his self-destructive lifestyle. Can't imagine what his upbringing was and the trigger point in his formative years that led him to be in the journey he took until the end of his death. Abused as a child maybe? Anyway, what goes through my mind is that he is/was someone's child. Can't imagine what it would be like having a child/adult child like him. I hope he's enjoying the peace and tranquility he wasn't able to have during his time on earth. So-called 'normal' upbringing?....No, definitely not, but I would think that if he was at one time "abused" he would have at least briefly mentioned it ?... Not sure though. He starts off that video you posted by saying he wanted to be strong to deal with a relative.
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Dave Reslo
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Post by Dave Reslo on Feb 15, 2020 12:21:18 GMT
What we know of Herkster's training: - Loved really heavy wrist curls (negatives)
- Links wrist strength to some kind of knockout punch ("the flinch"); had a few other martial arts combos up his sleeve like practicing kicking tree branches
- Doesn't like overhead work
- Carried round a log under each arm for a long time as an adolescent
Seems he really did ! ... Yeah he had a few videos kicking a tree or at least one time he had a sort of double forearm strike and rip. Sometimes he'd get cut practicing and at least once he thought some native American ghost was watching him. He always used to mention his special punch though called "the flinch", but I never saw any footage of it.
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Post by Magnus on Feb 15, 2020 14:37:37 GMT
So-called 'normal' upbringing?....No, definitely not, but I would think that if he was at one time "abused" he would have at least briefly mentioned it ?... Not sure though. He starts off that video you posted by saying he wanted to be strong to deal with a relative. Maybe (?)... in that video he said he had a "real hateful step-puke", but that doesn't necessarily mean he was abused. But then again times were different back then, and by today's standards many of us would have qualified as 'abused' by our parents and 'step' parents with what was commonly considered in those days as 'normal' ways of reprimanding children.... ex. getting hit with belts and coat hangers, etc.
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Post by fredhutch on Feb 16, 2020 18:50:23 GMT
Evidently Herk wasn't as tough as he thought he was.
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pierinifitness
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Post by pierinifitness on Feb 16, 2020 20:56:30 GMT
Mortal communism - we’re all equal in the grave with regard to fitness and strength, nada, zilch.
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Post by chanduthemagician on Feb 17, 2020 16:47:39 GMT
I think this is why Bruce posted about the wrist curls. He wanted us all to carry on the Herk's spirit. Build up those forearms and go punch somebody that needs it.
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Post by Magnus on Feb 17, 2020 22:32:37 GMT
I just wanna know how Herk managed to keep his teeth so pearly white despite a life of heavy cigarette smoking and drug abuse while living out of his car (?)...
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Feb 17, 2020 22:39:04 GMT
I just wanna know how Herk managed to keep his teeth so pearly white despite a life of heavy cigarette smoking and drug abuse while living out of his car (?)... We all have our priorities.
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Post by Magnus on Feb 18, 2020 0:26:09 GMT
Evidently Herk wasn't as tough as he thought he was. I wonder what finally did him in ?... There's a pic of his body lying on the side of the road next to his car. He's covered up by a tarp except for his arm sticking out of the tarp with a 'death-grip' on what appeared to be an empty water jug.... Weird
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Post by chanduthemagician on Feb 18, 2020 1:23:24 GMT
I just wanna know how Herk managed to keep his teeth so pearly white despite a life of heavy cigarette smoking and drug abuse while living out of his car (?)... We all have our priorities. Well, there is the video of him doing his own tooth extraction, perhaps he did his own whitening too.
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