@Friedrich you too!
12/26/2025
Woke up feeling well rested. Per plan I decided on last night,
Half-Murph. In other words, 1 mile run to park, 50 pullups, 100 pushups, 150 squats. Calisthenics done in about 12:30 like this:
EMOM:
4 pullups
8 pushups
12 squats
13th EMOM was just 2/4/6 to top off the numbers.
1 mile walk home after.
Feeling great.
This split is WAY faster than my previous go-to of 3/6/9. In fact I could add 10 seconds per round and STILL be ahead. Fewer position transitions make it more efficient. But also I think my capacity has improved.
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12/29/2025 WOWZA what a Monday.
Amazing to be off work - from all the jobs - and enjoy a weekday with no real obligations.
Wife had some other moms and their kids over, so I ran errands for like 4 hours. Including a great gym trip:
Snatch.
Worked up as usual, going about EMOM, then slowed down to get a few reps at 135, a few at 145, and two at 155.
Then I dropped to 135 and did 3x2 overhead squats, meaning each was a full snatch followed by another OHS.
Then a bunch of BTN pressing, which felt surprisingly good, even some BTN from the bottom snatch position, a few pullups of course, and that was it.
Loads of fun.
While out and about, I got a rubber mat at home depot. Not the horse stall mat I was hoping to find, but possibly something I can drop the crumb rubber plates on, at least, for some home workouts.
I’m planning to set up an O-lifting space in the garage so I can get more reps in.
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Wednesday 12/31
No actual training session, but plenty of activity. Nice hike with the family.
Photo dump:
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@TrainForPain am I supposed to tag the transformation in my log, or tag my log in the transformation thread?
Also, did my undies pic get me banned from posting photos lol - I can’t pist any of my hiking photos from yesterday. It just gets stuck on “Processing upload”.
If you put the tag in your log, people will find it if they search that tag. Just puts everyone’s log in a pool.
This one I don’t know! Sometimes I’ve had to log back out and back in to clear glitches like this, especially from my phone.
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#t-ransformation-2026 @TrainForPain did that tag work?
1/2/2026 Friday
Man it’s weird to write 26 on the dates. I’ll get used to it… eventually.
I put this in the T-ransformation thread but it’s also my log entry for the day:
MURPH.
1 mile valley run.
100 pullups, 200 pushups, 300 squats, broken up into 25 EMOM rounds of 4/8/12. Paused the EMOM for 1 minute in the middle, meaning the calisthenics took just under 26 minutes. Full thing was 48 minutes (second run was SLOW).
1 mile run home, back through said valley.
I don’t think I look the part, but I’m in pretty good shape when it comes to GPP LOL.
I’m EXACTLY where I was weight-wise at the start of last year - I noted my weight on 1/1/25 at 191lbs, and on 1/1/26 at 190lbs.
Also - last night, about a 1 hour surf session. Mostly cardiovascular work, there weren’t many waves and I was sprinting hard for every one of them. Solid work there honestly.
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1/4/26 Sunday
Per Dan John’s direct advice, did a broomstick session to work on snatch receiving depth. Around 30ish full snatches with a pvc pipe.
And a few front squats and OH squats with 85lbs because it was handy.
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1/5/2026 Monday
-1 mile run
-20 minute ish oly session (garage)
-1 mile run
The session:
Some stretching/contortion (need to actually set up a methodology/drills/positions for this. I need to work on mobility, I know that, but if I don’t have a structure I just won’t do it.)
3x8 front squats, then 3x8 OH squats, all with just 65lbs. Goal was movement, not pushing weight.
Then some broomstick snatch drills, continuing the Dan John approach to improving my receiving depth.
Then a very few, very light snatch-related drills with 65lbs and finally a snatch or two or three at that weight, again focusing on receiving closer to the bottom of the squat. This felt fine.
Overall notes:
This setup - run a mile, train in the garage, run a mile - is something I used to do in my old house a long time ago. I FINALLY set up my garage here to enable the same.
Glad I did.
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Wednesday 1/7/2026.
Had no time whatsoever to think or extra time to train - this day went off the rails, between work and other obligations. I had exactly 30 free minutes so I laced up my shoes and ran 3 miles in 26:28.
That’s 6 laps around my block, so benchmarkable for improvement even if it’s not truly 3.0 miles.
Doing what I gotta do. Would have much preferred a leisurely drive to the gym with a podcast, an o-lifting session, leisurely drive back. But it’s not that kind of day!
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THAT…is such a beautiful scenery my goodness.
I’m glad yall had fun there.
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Thursday 1/8/2026
Kinda like yesterday- just jumped outside for a 1.5 mile run, no big deal but more than zero!
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1/9/2026
Super rushed, trying to accomodate others in the family instead of just doing what I want. Planned a gym trip and ended up only having like 20-30 minutes to lift.
Snatches.
Worked up to 135, over around 20 reps or so. once there did 4 reps at 135 and 6 at 145.
I was “off” today - they didn’t quite feel right, so I didn’t earn the chance to train with 155 which I’d wanted to do. I was catching super high, and my feet were insanely wide to get a little recieving depth instead of keeping the feet reasonable and just dropping confidently. Damnit.
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Saturday 1/10
20 pullups - 5, 10, 5
50 pushups - 20, 20, 10
20 front squats, 1 set, 75lbs.
Plus a dog to the park situation.
Good activity.
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Monday 1/12
Half murph (1 mile run, 50 pullups, 100 pushups, 150 squats), followed by around 1.5 mile walk.
Calisthenics were EMOM 4/8/12, which is a good rhythm and takes about 40 seconds (give or take) per round.
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Tuesday 1/13
Spent close to an hour in the early morning moving my body. Trying painful stretches and contortions, doing weird kneeling hip stuff, and even a couple light barbell activities, plus a short walk.
I’ve been having tailbone pain and it seems to be related to my uptick in running, plus the hours I spend sitting in front of a computer. Was hoping to address whatever imbalance is causing that.
Tuesday night was an absolute nightmare. Today (Wednesday) morning was a continuation of the same. Not lifting related issues. As a result all bets are off - I may try to get a gym trip but fitness is not my priority today. @Bagsy I have 3 email addresses for you, LOL, not knowing which one to use - could you ping me from whichever one you prefer?
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