Welcome to the open forum and weekend WB Fitness challenge. Today I have a fun one for you guys. One of my favorite figures in history is a fellow name Thales of Miletus. He is, as the great Tibor Fischer says, card holder one. Sure, he probably robbed his stuff from others too, but history doesn’t go back far enough to remember it.

So who is this guy named Thales? Well, about 600 years before Christ he invented science. That is, he came up with a system whereby theory and hypothesis replaced an appeal to the gods for answers about the natural world. The guy invented fucking science.  Anything else? Yeah, he invented geometry. So for you guys who didn’t do so well in geometry class, he is the guy to blame. He is also card holder one in philosophy. He predicted, using nothing but his brains and powers of observation, a solar eclipse. He created an almanac which allowed him to become wealth successfully predicting olive harvests.

The point is, next time you hit snooze thing about Thales.

100% chance that Thales was jacked.

Thales believed that there was an underlying cosmological principle to the universe, an arche, which ran through all things. Think of an acorn which becomes an oak tree. There must be something that is part of the acorn that is also part of the oak tree.

Thales believed, according to that lying bastard Aristotle (he knows what he did) that the first cause or principle arche was water. Water runs through everything.

So the WB Challenge this week will be a water challenge and a fun one. Being that one of my favorite things to do are drop sets and that we waste time in the shower not getting gains here is the Thales drop set.

Get two gallon jugs whether from water or milk or whatever. Fill them with water. A gallon of water weighs just about 8.5 pounds which is perfect for our volume lifting. Take a knife and poke a small hole in the jugs and when in the shower start curling them. Curl them until all the water leaks out. This is the essence of a drop set, keep moving lighter and lighter weight.   When they are empty refill and repeat. See how many times you can fill those jugs and curl them until they are empty before you hit absolute muscle failure. Oh, and remember, at the top of the movement make sure there is a good bit of muscle contraction!

And of course, feel free to leave comments or questions below and J.Nyx, Lou and I will get to them as soon as we can.