Up at 3:45 for an inconveniently early meeting 5 time zones away.
Unfortunately with the new puppy that didn’t go well, but that’s irrelevant here.
This meeting was disruptive to my routine, obv, as is the dog, but I’m rolling with it.
No gym, given that disruption - I’ll work from home - and it was raining, so not interested in calisthenics in wet grass.
Instead:
2.3+ mile hill run (to the end of the road, then turned around and ran up the first section of hill before stopping to walk)
Walk back.
Whole thing in just under an hour, as before.
3/21/2025 Friday
Off the routine again due to the puppy. Would have preferred a gym trip today.
~2.5mi hill run, then walk back.
Ran to the end of the road, which is 2.3 miles away. Kept running after the turnaround for further back up the hill than I did last time, so that’s progressive overload LOL.
Brisk walk back home. That’s it.
3/23/2025 Sunday
Off-routine gym trip. I can explain.
Mile run
Fooled around with snatch and clean and jerk, couldn’t catch a groove so:
20 rounds, once every 30 seconds. 95 lb. One full snatch, one pull-up.
I was in a new environment so from there I just messed around: lots of pull-ups, couple sets of toes to bar, three long loaded carries with a 70 lb kettlebell in each hand, a set of dips.
Tire flips, for the first time ever.
Another 1.25ish miles on treadmill, vrisk incline walk.
All this because I’m stuck on an Army base for 3 hours on a Sunday, taking my daughter to get her hair braided at someone’s home.
@atlas13 I haven’t yet; I was going to recommend the Schofield one if you find yourself in the area, but I’ve heard MCBH is great and can only speculate on what’s at JBPHH.
Weirdly, however, I wasn’t “supposed” to be allowed in at Schofield. The guy told me it’s active-duty or 100%-DV only, or AD-dependents, but he was cool and let me in anyway.
Nobody’s stopped me with my VA ID at the Marine base Camp Smith where I normally train, so I thought that was a pretty weird rule. Know anything about it? I wonder if they’d stop me from using JBPHH too…
After the bonus session yesterday, consider this part 2 of one session.
Mile run
Front Squat 4x5 - 95, 115, 135, 135.
Back squat 4x5 - 135, 155, 175, 195
Strict press 3 or 4 by 8
Decline bench press, a few sets
OK that def doesn’t seem like a lot. It felt like a lot, while doing it. The main point was to have some squat and push after all the hinge and pull yesterday.
3/28/2025 Friday
Run. 2.3 miles to the end of the road, kept running while turning back and came up the hill about 0.3 miles, just a bit further than last time I did this.
Walked the rest of the way back - around 2 miles as per math.
Proud of this one - almost a murph, totally had it in me, but was short on time and stuck to the plan:
-1 mile run
-30 min EMOM:
–3 pullups
–6 pushups
–9 air squats
-1 mile run back home.
All this, which is a total of 90 pullups 180 pushups and 270 squats, and I could easily have taken it to 100/200/300 in just 3 or 4 more minutes. Definitely had it in me. But a) i was out of time, on a tight schedule this morning - and b) this is what I planned on doing today, no need to call an audible.
Quite proud of that session, I’d say I’m in shape even if my midsection isn’t impressive.
4/2/2025 Wednesday
Logistical issues again, trained from home again. Another step up in my running game:
2.3 mile run
1.3 mile walk back
1 mile run back (last stretch mostly uphill)
Yep, love sandbags, but haven’t been using for logistical reasons around time of day and noise levels (and how close the neighbors are).
Plenty of sand around here though!
carrying a sandbag makes little to no noise mate, other than the sound of you heavy breathing like a train. The neighbors will just think you are pleasuring yourself.
Training is in the back seat of my life as I’ve said, but im still doing it and outperforming 99% of men my age. And, if I may be so bold, 100% of men my age with two jobs and 4 homeschooled kids.
Find a dude with a similar demographic to me in other areas of life, and he’ll be a couch potato.
