Caveman Power

[stand@desk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuZsaA6X8UU

An older YouTube Video, but I still love it..totally ERE..Caveman Power Style! Get out there and Workout!

Music: Pearl Jam, Inside Job

[Angelpie]

I used to have a cat who would lay on a scarf and let me use him for a weight.

[7Wannabe5]

I used to have a BF who could use me as a weight. He did 500 push-ups every day. Unfortunately, he also believed that he could train/discipline himself to win at craps. Maybe discipline is like logic in that it's pretty much wasted effort if you start from a false premise.

[JohnnyH]

3 minutes and less than $30 worth of equipment?... Even going so far as to abuse nature towards his selfish means?... This man does not care for our brave fitness workers and fitness equipment manufacturing base.

I used to have a BF who could use me as a weight. He did 500 push-ups every day. Unfortunately, he also believed that he could train/discipline himself to win at craps. Maybe discipline is like logic in that it's pretty much wasted effort if you start from a false premise.

lol, I can imagine the intense concentration face bending the dice/forces of reality to his will!

[7Wannabe5]

I was attempting humor but, seriously, he was a serious athlete (somebody who made money throughout his life engaging in sports) and that was how he approached it. He practiced throwing dice, starting with a certain configuration with a certain hold, and kept track of his statistics. Like practicing throwing difficult shots in basketball. The odds of winning against the house at craps are better than most other gambling activities but in the long run you are going to lose. So, the question (in my curious mind) was whether it was possible to apply any amount of skill/discipline in your favor and even ever so slightly improve your odds. IOW, I did not know for certain how absolutely random the results of throwing little six sided cubes against a certain kind of surface in a certain way might be. Anyways, I found it entertaining and I ate way more $$ in free shrimp than I lost betting.

My point relevant to this thread being that just doing one simple zero-cost exercise like push-ups but at a very extreme level of 500 a day is pretty much enough to get/keep you in pretty great shape. I'm 5' 9" and not skinny and he could lift me to the ceiling pretty easily.

[JohnnyH]

I think it is actually possible to spin dice well enough to get an edge... but I think it is very difficult, especially in a casino setting and the dealers are trained to spot it. Do you know how it turned out?

I was thinking he was using mind bullets, like in the movie Scanners.

[7Wannabe5]

JohnnyH said: I think it is actually possible to spin dice well enough to get an edge... but I think it is very difficult, especially in a casino setting and the dealers are trained to spot it. Do you know how it turned out?

Well, he was part of a very loosely affiliated "team" of controlled throwers who bet with each other so that was another variable. It was my impression that the dealers didn't choose to interfere with the practice but they did enforce certain rules that did make the result more random. Either they didn't care because they didn't believe that it did lend an edge or maybe they tolerated a certain amount of it because it would draw more clueless gamblers to the table. Dunno.

Anyways, I believe he lost a good deal of money but if you were forced at gunpoint to risk/waste your money at a casino, betting with a controlled craps thrower might be one of your better choices. But if you were going for the most fun with some tiny hope of knowledge helping your odds I would choose playing the ponies.