This clip has been making the rounds over the past few days, and I didn’t want to be the last person in your sports blogging world to say, “hey, check out this guy using a weight bench to swim and/or tear every muscle in his body.” Who needs a spine, anyway?

This is my new excuse for half-assing it to the gym. Sometimes I want to change it up and do a new exercise, so I’ll find a bench of a machine and just sit there mentally trying to figure it out or physically trying to adapt my body to however I’m supposed to sit, and … no. Occasionally I’ll look up an instructional video on YouTube and work my way through it. But how am I supposed to do that when I know the entire gym is armed with smartphones, and are just waiting to pounce on my futility and upload it to mass applause? I’M JUST TRYING TO WORK OUT MY DELTOIDS, WHATEVER THOSE ARE, STOP LOOKING AT ME.

Anyway, I hope the follow-up to this video is him jumping into a swimming pool and swimming super f**king fast.

[h/t to Bob's Blitz]

We sometimes receive video and picture tips that are rather vague, and they’re not always easy for our crack research team (read: two homeless guys addicted to meth) to figure out. For instance, Croatian bodybuilder Robopanda sent me a clip of a soccer match this morning, and while I know that I can call Las Carretas for catering services, I don’t know much else about this game, nor do I need to. Because there’s not a chance in hell that I would ever go to a soccer field that is also home to a billion bees.

During this soccer match of unknown origins, bees swarmed the field and attacked the players, and while I’m no beeologist, I do know that if you’re being attacked by a bee, let alone thousands of bees, you need to get the F out of Dodge. You are not supposed to lie down and stay perfectly still and/or swing your arms wildly as if fending off a rapist. Additionally, I think it’s safe to say that you shouldn’t drape a large piece of cloth over someone being attacked by bees to trap them in with his face. But maybe these soccer players knew something I don’t.

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