Sorry I genuinely didn’t mean that to be insulting, reading it back I get it now, that’s what I get for multitasking. I was just curious because you normally lay things out.
Sounds interesting, I’ve got one of the l those buttons permanently on in my head.
It was a totally accurate reading of the situation, to be honest. That’s exactly what I’ve done repeatedly, everytime its “time to bulk”. This time needs to be a bit different, so I’m looking at a more disciplined way to “eat more”, rather than just let my inner fat kid take over. I can’t stress enough how much I can eat if I allow myself an excuse to do it.
I’m just popping in cuz Anna summoned me.
So, how you doin, Dagill? I’m not caught up on exactly where you’re at or how you got there, but I’m a wealth of bro science and sarcasm if you need either.
I’m doing pretty good mate. Healthy, happy, roof over my head, beautiful family, all that jazz. I don’t have 21" guns or a 2000lbs deadlift yet, so obviously a bit of a loser, but I’ve made my peace with that.
Good. So even if you don’t accomplish some amazing feats of strength or endurance, you’re still doing alright.
Do you have a happy place in your mind that you can go to when the lifting/running gets ugly?
I don’t know how much amazing feats of strength or endurance benefit my family, but I can take a pretty good stab at how much it would cost them and that maths doesn’t work for me. This is just a hobby that has the nice side effect that they may get more quality time with me in the long run, and thats nice.
Never really felt the need to, to be honest. If I really need to push the boat out on, say, a high rep squat set or whatever, I concentrate almost entirely on the victory. Its not even about the results at that point, its about being able to walk around the next day feeling like a pavement cracking mother fucker because I know what I did. I can go back and forth and weasel my way out of doing the work if I focus on anything else.
Work for today:
Jumps: 10
Snatch Grip High Pull:
3 x 3 @ 60kg
Squat:
10 x 5 @ 80kg
Press:
1-2-3-4 @ 60kg
Pull ups:
7-6-5-5-4
Dips:
7-6-5-5-4
Notes:
This is worth more than abs or a crazy deadlift for sure
10 sets of 5? Is this the strength focused 5/3/1?
Its a program called Morningstar that only uses 3 main lifts, done every session with a variety of rep schemes. 10 x 5 FSL was squat today and is honestly laughably easy.
Every time I see you post a run, I have to try (and fail) to convert km to miles in order to have any frame of reference for the work you are doing haha.
How are you liking the Morningstar program? It looks pretty simple but brutal on paper, may want to give it a run once I get a real gym again
You won’t have much luck converting my running times into speed, because there’s always warm up/cool down walks in there, sometimes walking breaks as well if its an interval run and some of the older ones included my daily work as well. Usually somewhere between 5 and 9 mph is my actual running speed.
Morningstar is really good for just going in and getting work done. Not a lot of thinking or originality involved. If you were doing it in a commercial gym, you’d have to think a bit harder though. There’s a lot of work so if you aren’t supersetting or giant setting, you won’t get it all done in a reasonable time.
Work for today:
7-6-6-5-4 pull ups and dips
Rushed to get this done, I can’t see much chance of getting anything else done today. Probably just as well, right calf is feeling a bit tweaks, don’t really want to run on that.
Is there logic to where you add the daily rep to this pullup/dip program? Is it always 5 sets or will it become 6 sets if the first 5 become AMRAP?
Its the Russian Fighter Pull Up program, link below. But you add a rep first to the easiest set, then slowly move them to the harder sets ie.
5-4-3-2-1
5-4-3-2-2
5-4-3-3-2 etc.
I assume at some point I’ll be unable to add to the top set, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Roger that!
Looks like a good progression for daily work.
Pullups are still on my no-no list for elbow reasons, I do a couple here and there but I miss them terribly!
PS Roger that, in the US, means “I understand and appreciate that”. In Arvo-land where “rogering” is a verb, would “roger that” mean… fuck that?
Haha that’s a point I’d never considered - we understand Roger that in the affirmative way, although it definitely could be used as a double entendre.
Also no idea what what Arvo land means?
How do you feel about inverted rows?
I wouldn’t know about arvo-land. Definitely an aussie phrase
Haven’t tried inverted rows since the elbow issues started. I felt they were a way to use less load than pullups, which I never had a need for as I was great at pullups.
But perhaps it’s the perfect prescription now for rehab! I’ll give them a try soon.
Just bodyweight, with feet supported and body roughly horizontal, right?
Whatever angle you can do easily, set up wise. If this is a high frequency thing, you need to be able to do it with minimal set up. Focus on the contraction at the top and extension at the bottom.
Taking a few days away from training because the whole family are suffering with what I assume is the black death reincarnated.
In other news: I’ve decided that my “return to the gym” will be centred around the idea that picking stuff off the ground and putting it over my head is cool and I should do more of it.