Dude!
Shockingly unbelievable results on the deadlift adjustment!
Great work!
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Thanks Flats, really great to hear that. It feels like an entirely different movement for me now, I’m really hopeful that this can now improve and finally make some significant gains in kgs!
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Apologies, us 'Mericans tend to forget that UK food comes pre-chewed and pre-seasoned with only salt.
#slander
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The pie and ash you can eat without chewing but those jellied eels aren’t going anywhere without a good mastication
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What the hell is that
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During the 2nd World War, a lot of british had to take shelter in bomb shelters and bunkers to stay safe from the air raids.
Many brits chose to starve than eat this particular food ration, which is why theres still such an abundance of it.
In efforts to reduce the overstock of said food item, they’ve attempted an aggressive marketing scheme to make Jellied Eels with Celery Sauce seem cool and contemporary.
The largest problem they have faced is the inability to masticate the jellied eels, because most british households have a total of 12 adult teeth. Its logistically quite challenging.
*nothing in this post is historically accurate whatsoever. I think.
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This is Pie and Mash potatoes with liquor gravy and jellied eels. It is or was popular dish in the East of London, goes back to Victorian times I believe. The liquor gravy is made with chopped parsley leaves, chicken stock, butter, flour or cornflour (sorry @Andrewgen_Receptors no Celery here and not left over from the war). The eels used to come from the River Thames in London but these days I don’t think there are many eels in the river so they must come from somewhere else.
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So at the absolute epitome of England’s access to exotic food and spices… they chose eels caught in their local “relief” (read: “shit”) river, and potatoes they plucked from their back yard…?
And they seasoned it with parsely?
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Yep, my grandparents were both from London and my Grandad would always want to get this to eat when we visited them. I have horrid memories of being a kid and trying to eat a soggy tasteless pie, with lumpy potatoes and some green liquid poured on top that tasted of damp grass, don’t even get me started on chewing the eels and spitting out the back bone.
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The British conquered the known world, exploring for exotic spices, and then decided they didn’t like any of them. Yet somehow you people eat this….
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We also eat a truck load of Indian curry mate. It is the most popular takeaway food in the UK i believe.
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……Partially redeemed.
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Man with the malady I was suffering with I would have felt for sure you’d have gone with the bad teeth trope, felt like a missed opportunity…
But you nailed it second time round!
- my Mrs likes roll mops, but they aren’t a British invention so at least that’s not our fault!
It’s not my favourite flavour, I much prefer chilli, cumin, coriander, turmeric, etc.
Haha yea but I bet the most popular curry in the UK is either Korma or Chicken tikka masala; the blandest and sweetest of curries! I’m a big fan of Dhansak.
Morning weight: 199.75
Walking update - back to getting it done everyday after the weekend break, today combining it with commuting for efficiency sake, about 2 miles total. Making the best use of the train time, updating T-nation!
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I was always a Jalfrezi man.
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For the love of all that is Holy.
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I’m sure you’re already swishing warm salt water around your mouth a few times a day clear away infectious goo and relieve the pain from your tooth. But if not…
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Thanks I am indeed, also got a jet wash/aqua flosser, that’s seemingly resolved the worst of the issue, just a bit of residual swelling to go.
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26/02/25 - evening
LP w1w2d1 - part 3!
B1) Deadlift rows: 60, 80, 100kg x 8
B2) RDL: 60, 80, 100kg x 8
B3) RKC plank: some time x 3 sets
C1) DB farmers: 20, 25, 30kg x 30 secs
C2) GHR x 30 secs x 3 sets
C3) Gladiator deadlift: 20, 25, 30kg x 30 secs
Finally done day 1. I was feeling discomfort in my shoulder on the rows and rdls, I was using straps and not sure if that just disengaged my grip a little and added pressure on the tendon, didn’t push it super hard because of this. It’s linear progression so expect across the board increases as the weeks go on anyway, hopefully my shoulder keeps improving and this becomes a non issue.
Hammies were feeling it from set 1, lats to a lesser extent as well, felt them all the way through, good those things need more growth!
Went light on the assistance GS - this was feeling out the gladiator deadlift - weird movement, and keeping cautious for the shoulder, this GS is mostly just feeling the muscles.
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Deadlift Rows are awesome. I never even noticed you started doing them, unless I missed some posts. Have you done them before ?
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I may pursue this as an alternative to the Rack Pulls that my hams and lower back have been double-nopeing for a while.
Thanks for the idea!
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