You should totally get one. It doesn’t have to be huge either; even a few extra cubic feet/100 L or so can make a substantial difference.
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Haha not exclusively no, mostly frozen mash (convenience again) chips and hash browns. Yup cook for the whole family.
Another thing I do quite often: buy a large chicken, do a Sunday roast then use leftover chicken for a curry the next day.
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We got one as a wedding gift. It was my brother’s so it was a bargain. We’re still using it 12 years later.
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Work for today:
30 x clean and press (60kg)
Notes:
- Just a quick way to get some heavy-ish work in because tomorrow mornings lifting session will have to be cancelled. Hopefully still get a run in. Being a house husband sucks.
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I imagine so. My dad became one for a few months last year. It was quite funny watching him vacuumed while wearing a pink cooking apron 
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Visions of Freddie Mercury spring to mind!
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And don’t pretend you don’t enjoy them.
I love Queen so no denial there!
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I did not in fact get a morning run in. I think we all knew that wasn’t going to happen though. I did manage to grab some kettlebells on my way in last night though so:
Work for today:
“The Eagle” 8 rounds:
8 x double racked front squat (16kg and 20kg)
Farmers walk around the flat
Notes:
- Forgot how much of an asskicker this can be even with light weights.
- May get another session in later as well. Forgot to do my end of week round up, which is a bad sign on week 2. Will write it up in a bit.
Week 2(?) T-ransformation Challenge:
Weight: up (209lbs I think?) Could be bloat, but not very likely. Almost certainly a day or two of shoddy nutrition and very definitely a lack of NEPA. I’ve spent nearly the whole week at home looking after my little girl which has definitely made me a lot less active. Am still trying to shake off the lethargy and boredom. Either way: I’ve taken the plunge as @ChongLordUno suggested and farmed my nutrition out to an extent to CarbonDiet app. Started yesterday and will be on 1790 kcal until my next weigh in next week. My goal is to be super strict for this week with the mindset of tricking the app into giving me more calories next week.
Training wise: I think I did ok. Maybe not the shock to the system I expected when I thought I had the week to myself, but 3 lifting sessions, 3 runs and a few bonus sessions is definitely more like it.
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Extra work for today:
1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1
Dan John armour building complex:
Double kb clean, press, squat (16kg & 20kg)
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you wouldn’t e tricking the app of it’s wrong 
why is it clean, press squat and not a squat-clean, press?
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More work?
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Because of the fact you have to clean the bells to the rack position before you can even squat them. Clean-press-squat is a natural progression. You could theoretically do clean-squat-press, but the former order is generally more practiced.
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Because Dan John says so.
The mindset is helpful, whether it actually gets me my extra calories or not. Easier mentally to cope with low calories for “just one week” than forever. If you’re going to eat an elephant, got to do it one bite at a time.
@Voxel I’m not sure whether this was aimed at me or anna, but yeah. Trying to make up for a lack of NEPA with extra workouts.
@kdjohn that might be the logic, but also because Dan John says so. My instinct would be that press is more difficult than squat, so it should be done fresher.
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It was aimed at Anna. The squat-clean press flow would use fewer joules of energy than clean, press, squat and not that I know Dan, I know he likes complexes for burning fat. Making the exercise sequence efficient would be anathema to the purpose.
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You disliked modicum approaches? If you don’t have a problem with patience, I’m starting to come around to that straight deficits isn’t the “best” way to go about things.
I try to not pay too much heed to diet, as that can be a rabbit hole for me but if I were to shift gears to reducing body fat I’d either
- go for CTs most recent article where he suggested maintenance on training days and just being patient. Deficit on off days. This is what I’d do if I had a family, or wanted to retain a more traditional meal frequency.
- Go by @EyeDentist s playbook. 15 x lbs on training days, 1/2-2/3 that on off-days and intermittent fattening. This is what I’d do if I had no social agenda and didn’t worry about building habits I’d have a hard time breaking out of. Most people would probably not have that be a risk factor.
Current lethargy aside, I’m somewhat restless physically and tend to use my body quite often for shits and giggles. Handstands there, lever work there, horse stance bullshit now and again. And with all that considered I’m pretty sure that the nutrient flow I have with more traditional meal frequencies is put to good use.
But if all I did was walk (modest amounts) and had a sedentary job, and didn’t have any major mental stuff pertaining to food option two seems like a excellent approach.
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@Voxel I like moderate, I intellectually know that it’s the solution to a great many things in life, however I’m very, very poor at executing it. I know this approach can work for me, because it has before.
Work for today:
Jumps: 2 x 5
TB press (ss. Pull ups):
5 x 30kg
5 x 30kg
5 x 35kg
5 x 40kg
10 x 45kg
Push press:
8 x 60kg
7 x 60kg
5 x 60kg
Giant set (5 rounds):
10 x TBDL (105kg)
10 x dips
10 x rows (60kg)
Notes:
- Lacking a lot of power in jumps today, so cut the last set. Also it was pissing it down and I decided it wasn’t worth getting drenched for one set of jumps. I owe that for whenever
- Trap bar press does what I want it to do: a heavy(ish) pressing movement that doesn’t hit my ego because I have no idea what I’m supposed to be able to do with it.
- Push Press was a massive disappointment. Expected 15-20 in one set (don’t know why), so 8 was a disappointment. Pretty sure I could have strict pressed that fresh.
- Giant set was an ass kicker, as expected. Very happy with the dips though, starting to feel like I imagine dips feel for other people. Could really pump them out.
- No run today, because time and also I’m feeling really beat up. Will probably get that in tomorrow morning and may get a kettlebell session in later.
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Cool, then don’t mind me!
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I think of it like cleans so the squat should be second…and you can let them flow together easily…which means cheating LOL.
@dagill2, I tend to do better with a harsh approach towards nutrition, as well, but it’s only for a week. I need to pull one of those out myself but I just keep eating too much. I’m really fighting the urge to bust out the My Fitness Pal app again. I substituted rice for cauliflower rice this week. Maybe that’ll help.
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