Early morning fasted session, aware of how little I’m getting done and how I’ve regressed, over the last month, so despite despising early morning training, I had some time, and I’m going to use it.
Seated OHP:
40, 60, 70, 80kg x 5
60kg x 15
Chin ups:
Bw, 10, 15, 20kg x 5
10kg x 8 drop to bw x 5
Spider curls with ez bar: 18kg x 20 x 3 sets
S/s
Dec crunches: 10 x 3 sets
Because it’s early I kept things off spinal loading as much as possible. Kept it short, didn’t have that much time. Did some work though.
Lingering symptoms of the flu still dragging on me.
A whole lot of oats, cinnamon, greek yogurt, whey and a banana in there somewhere as well. I will weight 220lbs by the comp!
Speaking of comps, I got revenge on my running friend who got me to do the 5k a while back. I forced him to sign up for a marathon with me - I’m running a marathon in October. Anyone who’s read this log long enough knows I hate running and that I never do the cardio I know I need to do, plus I’ll be 40 by then, so what better way to force myself to do cardio, push myself about as far out of my comfort zone as possible and build upon the growing sense of midlife crisis (strongman comp, skydiving licence and now a marathon) - kidding no crisis here, I’ve always enjoyed challenging myself in stupid ways.
If the above sounds like a terrible idea for revenge, it is, but he’s never run a marathon and he’s a generally cautious guy, took him about a week to come round to the idea. Also I used the term revenge tongue in cheek, he’s a brother in Christ and good friend, it’s definitely pushing him outside of his comfort zone, but that’s what good friends are for right?
Also just booked the summer holiday - Zante, going back to Greece!
You are insane. Good luck on the running. For some reason when I hear/see the word ‘marathon’ I automatically think of the movie “Run Fat Boy Run”. I love it. First, I think about how they say marathon differently, and then I think about the line where he says “I’m not fat; I’m unfit.”
Perhaps it will motivate you in your training to watch that sometime.
I hope to someday book a proper vacation/holiday. We go to a lake a few hours away, but if my parents didn’t own a house there then we wouldn’t do it. We’re terrible at creating memories for our kids…
Insane for hating running and signing up for a marathon? Yea probably .
Not heard of it, might have to watch it on a longer treadmill session!
I’m confident that isn’t the case, in your journal over the years I’ve seen you building garden play set, take your kids to the gym, talk about the way you parent/think about your kids. These are the real parenting things that make real memories, a sunny holiday abroad is a luxury and can make memories, but if absentee parents take their kids on that sort of holiday the memory will likely be of absentee parenting just in a hot country.
I have some really fond holiday memories of my parents taking me camping, walking in the woods, playing board games, presence and intentional time matter so much more to kids than location. You left your high stress job despite the financial hit, to pursue a job that has more purpose and meaning to you, I’m confident that’s made you a better husband and father and means you’re a values driven man, I have no doubt you place a strong emphasis on family and create some amazing memories for your kids, even in the every day and seemingly mundane.
Thank you for the encouragement. In the absence of alcohol, I have time to use. There’s something about Christmas break, specifically New Year’s Eve, that brings our family together to play board and card games. I hope to continue that throughout the year because it’s much better than staring at a screen (that applies to all of us).
We’ve taken our kids on several vacations and they don’t remember half of them. Alex is right. It’s the day to day things they remember.
We did this too and it was so much fun! My kids are getting ready to fly the coop and I am trying so hard to enjoy the little bits of time that they are willing to spend with me. But I think those will be the things they remember and look back on with fondness.
Was going to post today to mark a win and then I saw @BethB and @T3hPwnisher discussion something very similar.
My 16 year old daughter has not eaten breakfast in about 3/4 years, I can’t remember exactly when but she’s always point blank refused and said she feels sick when she eats breakfast (I never forced the issue as she eats outside of breakfast and is a healthy weight). She came in to my bedroom this morning to tell me she had breakfast - scrambled eggs!
She’s been making an effort to cut sugar and processed foods and has taken to eating my eggs and greek yogurt, she’s also started eating more fruit, I’m delighted that my grocery bill is increasing, that’s a bill I’m happy to cover.
We were struggling for time on Tuesday and my wife and myself had to go out, and so we did freezer food, my daughter was legit annoyed at eating it because she’d made such an effort.
Got to tread carefully and make sure she doesn’t get to wrapped up in it all, but just having her eat breakfast and switch up snacks from processed crap to solid alternatives is awesome. I’ve not said a word, just modelled the behaviour - great to see it catch.
That’s an outstanding victory! Quite often, the lack of appetite at breakfast is the result of late night binging, which tends to happen BECAUSE…we skipped breakfast. A vicious cycle. So awesome that she’s on the path to breaking it, and endeavoring to eat well. Great on you to support and model.
Yep! I’ve read this and experienced it multiple time. If one can fight the late night hunger urge a couple nights and make sure to eat breakfast, then you can break the cycle.
My son was eating almost nothing but carbs during the cross country season. His running was suffering. When we figured out what was happening my husband told him that if he started eating eggs for breakfast and started his protein shakes again he could probably cut 10 seconds off his race time. Sure as shit, his next race he ran the fastest race he ever ran.
This is like my 14 year old. She rarely eats breakfast and getting her to eat anything I would consider good food through the day is very hard. She seems to live on peanut butter mixed with oats and protein powder, or just cookie dough that she mixes herself. I want to blame social media as I know she watches these vids where they show easy things to make. The weird thing is come dinner time she will happily eat a steak and veggies. I am trying to pick my battles with her at the moment as she already tells me I am strict and grumpy!!
I think both @alex_uk and myself would say that these comments are only brief moments in time. My kids are great and it is definitely not all doom and gloom, but the truth is as they grow older they do change and we have to accept that and learn to change with them. The good thing is no matter how much we disagree all my kids still give the best hugs.
100%, not taking it out of context.
I just have 2 daughters, both already very different, but i grew up with a lot of brothers so their tempraments are taking some adjusting to. I have to be far more considerate than is my tendency.
They are still awesome and i genuinely love hanging out with them.
Great convos in here as always and I’ll bounce back to it tomorrow, but just finished drill night and did a little session with another lad on station (his suggestion which was cool), need to get it down before I forget.
Farmers walks - 15m up drop/turn/back - 50kg per hand x 10
Sandbag to platform 50kg x many
Did this as a switching station thing so constantly on the go, the moment you finished farmers walks your on the sandbag station doing max reps until the other person finishes then your back to farmers walks. This was killer for my lungs.
Axle floor to overhead: 48kg x 40ish
We did you go I go on this until it became clear the other guys overhead strength was waning way earlier than mine, so I said do 10 more to him and then I doubled for every single he did from that point on, then he doubled his final so I had to do 4 unbroken at my most knackered.
None of that was fun, but it was good to get it done, and nice to train with others.
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I’m excited to see how this goes.
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Alex is right. It’s the day to day things they remember.