Yes pressing movements are the most affected by weight loss. The shoulder joint is particularly affected and becomes more instable than it already is.
Also, deadlift PR, which is the lift that has the most effect on CNS, + core and back fatigued are way more important for pressing than we think
Thanks guys!
This is too long. Don’t bother reading it. Just a place to write my thoughts and straighten myself out.
I finally have a few minutes to think about things. It’s more than just one bad press session - I had a major lifestyle (job) change a couple weeks ago, and in a few more weeks we’re having a 4th child, so there’s a lot going on and I need to be straightened out so I can do my job and be there for my family. The lifting is insignificant in comparison, but I think the bad session was a symptom - the next symptoms would be getting snappy with my family, or dropping the ball on the job; and those are unacceptable.
So a bit of post-mortem:
This combination of total work output, fatigue, rest, weight loss, nutrition, physique etc is not sustainable and something (work, family, lifts, runs) has to give.
So for today, Saturday 4/10, I’m taking it easy. Some light home improvement projects but nothing tough; walk with the family but no weight vest; I’ll do my swings tonight but no HTFU circuit. Had friends over last night and drank a beer, had a sandwich with actual bread on it, and a cookie!!! And, perhaps most importantly, slept in this morning, getting over 8 hours of sleep for the first time in a while.
And from now on, I’m going to have to compromise on some of my inputs and outputs. I need more sleep; so on weekends and one weekday every week I won’t wake up super early for running/dailywork. Perhaps I’ll eat more carbs? I’ll reduce the runs to just one per week. And, I accept that as a result, I may not have awesome abs. I really liked where the physique was headed but I can’t afford to reduce job performance or attention to family, and I’m not going to burn myself out.
Make smart choices, be there for family, do your DAY JOB, and be strong. Abs are a luxury.
4/11 Sunday
Great day yesterday. Roadhouse, very little diet discipline, nothing strenuous. Lots of family walks and 60 nightly swings of course.
This morning, back at it: HTFU in 6:56 - WOW that’s an improvement, tells me the r&r was needed.
Fooled around with my empty barbell as well.
I’ll have moderate diet discipline next few days. Weighed 175lb this morning, 4 up from Friday.
Can’t make tomorrow’s gym trip so I’ll push it to Tuesday but looking forward to it.
That sounds like a very wise choice - kudos to you for keeping a proper perspective.
Let it all out @jdm135 my main man
We’re all here to lend an ear.
Mate it sounds tough as fuck because it is.
This life PULVERISES you and us men have no one to turn to which is why we seek solace in the training log.
Let the training be your saviour and free you mind from the chains of life that demand every fibre of our being.
This shit is our meditation. We thrive under the bar.
And this shit about the cookie man. Like Frozen, let it go.
We’re men.
We eat like maniacs at time however such is the way of man. We feast on sin so embrace it and train so fucking hard that the cookie becomes anabolic
I agree completely, you’re making the right call.
You can be proud of the PRs and the hard work you just did.
Unfortunately, we often miss the big picture in these situations. When we do PRs we only think of the next one and keep wondering “why am I not PRing again today?”
These efforts took a toll on your body. You’re being smart, and this is the good call for the future and long-term progression as well as your family and happiness.
I am 100% with you. Running feels good but is deceiptively hard on the body and to recover. Carbs are amazing for recovery and the best natural “supplement” to lower cortisol (you’re under stress and lots of work right? So get your carbs!). And sleep is a given.
What if my day job is to have abs? 
So fucking true mate.
People assume PRs are like Pringles: once you pop, you just can’t stop. Unfortunately, eventually regression to the mean is inevitable.
@doomyguy @aldebaran @ChongLordUno @dagill2 Thanks for the encouragement guys!
60 swings as always last night.
4/12/2021: Monday
175lb again today. Feeling great. Can’t go to the gym due to scheduled obligations, so I’ll do DL and FS tomorrow. For this morning,
HTFU in a new record time of 6:39, absolutely blown away by how much easier this is now.
That was too easy so since I’be been looking at a lot of logs and everyone including @dagill2 is doing the “juarez valley FS + Burpees” I did a lite version on the living room floor, with the 50lb KB, goblet squats.
9 GS, 5 burpees, 1 GS, 5 burpees
8 GS, 5 burpees, 2 GS, 5 burpees
7 GS, 5 burpees, 3 GS, 5 burpees
6 GS, 5 burpees, 4 GS, 5 burpees
5 GS.
Time: 9:12. Sweating like crazy, good session. The burpees are the hard part at this weight.
Now I’m a bit behind schedule gotta eat, dress, and keep all the balls in the air.
4/13/2021
Last night 60 swings.
today
DEADLIFT 5/3/1
10x135
5x190
5x220
10x250
FRONT SQUAT EMOMS
Ten doubles 165lb
FRONT SQUAT WIDOWMAKER
95lb 23 reps
PRESS
95# 8 reps because I’m still mad about Friday
ABS
20-15-10-5 decline situps and captains chair supersets.
Great session.
And cookies are technically in the carbs family - right? 
4/14 Wednesday
60 swings last night
2.1 mile run this morning, untimed.
Feeling awesome.
Leg DOMS set in almost immediately yesterday, I think I was feeling it before the widowmaker… so not the delayed onset I would expect…
Sore in the glutes and inner thighs.
And some lower ab/oblique soreness which is common after FS.
That was a serious amount of work man.
And front squat widowmakers, are you crazy? Awesome
Thanks. I felt great about the session until I saw your log, I’m not even in the same ballpark!
Lol I still feel great about it. But lots of room to grow.
Owning it @jdm135 my main mucker.
Full ownership
4/15 Thursday
60 swings last night
Today:
HTFU in 6:43
Added a 5th round, total 8:47
Lol I’m ready for you @alex_uk
It’s like aTV commercial: “in just 8 minutes a day, you can lose fat and build muscle!” LOL.
But that’s not bad for a day off - 60 swings, 60 rows per side, 60 diamond pushups, 20 goblet squats, faster than you can cook a 4-egg omelet.
Oh it’s on now!
Out of interest what weight are you using?
50lb.
That’s good we have a fair comparison for competitiveness!