Well, there does eventually come a stopping point. Lol. Hopefully no time soon.
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I’ve heard of the little death, but not in reference to sleep.
When we get old enough, the occurrence of a good night of sleep OR the other little death seem to be just about as frequent.
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And just as exciting. 
18/03/26 - 206.5 (massive chilli last night, more for lunch after this session!)
Mobility and walk 
1000% awesome C1 W2 D2
Warm up & 10 jumps
TBDL: 88kg x 5, 108kg x 3, 118, 138, 158kg x 5
S/s
Bench: 60kg x 5, 80kg x 3, 90kg x 5 x 5 sets
Alt DB curls: 10kg x 10 x 5 sets*
S/s
OH Tri cable ext: 40kg x 10 x 5 sets
DB SLDL: 25kg x 10 x 5 sets
S/s
Dip Bar Leg raises: 5 x 5 sets
Took the easier route on the push pull assistance, trying to ensure I don’t keep digging in the well of finite recovery! The deads felt harder than they had any right to, but my wrist is feeling particularly buggy right now, not sure if that’s Tyler twists which are featuring daily on my mobility routine - 10 regular 10 reverse each arm, each day. Buggy wrist also didn’t help bench.
*Probably 6 sets, but I lost count so to be sure did at least 5, it’s only arms after all.
Started the first set of SLDL then alerter went off and I’ve been in an incident since (currently sat on the truck typing).
Thanks it was a good call and had the good sense not to push too hard today, which made the session something that felt pretty good overall.
I notice a couple of posts on here recently that may have a similar sort of theme (@jdm135 and potentially @boilerman - excuse me if I’m speaking out of turn) but a lot of dudes on here work really hard, have families, train hard and often have additional responsibilities. I started a new series with my home group this week, around Sabbath - a religious idea but actually feels like an essential in today’s always on always busy society.
I’ll stick the video we did last night below, it is obviously Christian teaching, but seems relevant even without the faith aspect.
Ironically I cancelled last week’s home group due to having had about 3 hours of sleep due to babies and call outs, and having spent the weekend (including the Sunday, which I missed church for) laying the flooring. Then I watched the video about 30 mins before the start, on double speed because I was so pushed for time - it’s clearly a lesson I need!
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Way to get it done!
I think you saw my post over in @Frank_C’s log about Jordan Raynor’s Redeeming Your Time, but I figured I repost the title here, just in case: It seems on-point with your post.
And like that video, Raynor’s book is obviously from a Biblical perspective, but you don’t have to believe Jesus is who He says He is for some of what’s in the Bible to have practical value in making everyday life better.
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I did, and I went to buy it and got sucked down a theology rabbit hole (was Jesus omnipresent whilst being present in earthly body!) then forgot why I’d gotten down the rabbit hole, so thanks for reminding me, I’ll pick up a copy. Last book you recommended changed my life for the better so I take your recommendations highly!
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If you’re referring to The Intentional Father, I totally agree!
re: Redeeming Your Time. That one wasn’t quite as impactful from some kind of basic or fundamental life-function perspective, but it did help me re-frame my view of work as “good” and “worthy” rather than as some kind of necessary evil, and there were some other good reminders in there as well.
I sincerely appreciate that, but as ever, anything I recommend—training-related or otherwise—comes with the following caveat: YMMV.
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Yea I’d guess it wouldn’t have the same impact but still appreciate the recommendation and it sounds like a solid book.
20/03/26 - 204
I need to get some shopping in and sort my meals out they’ve been haphazard I’ve been essentially stagnant weight wise, not the end of the world and I’ve not been training consistently enough to warrant high food, but that’s going to change!
Morning mobility work and walk -
Big breakfast coming up, should be fine to get my Friday session in.
The sun is shining and it’s really pleasant, makes the morning walk delightful!
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Things like this make me smile! 
Have a fantastic day Alex!
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@alex_uk while I am not a very religious person, I find a huge amount of value in what religion teaches. I had some time tonight to watch the video you posted and I’m finding a lot of parallels to the way I have been living my life. Thank you for tagging me.
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No worries at all, glad it was of some benefit!
23/04/26 - 202.5
Mobility and walking
1000% awesome - C1 W2 D1*
Warm up & jumps
Front squats: 60, 72.5, 82.5, 92.5kg x 5
OHP: 20, 40kg x 5, 50kg x 5 x 3 sets, 60kg x 10**
Seated OHP: 60kg x 10 x 4 sets
S/s
TB rows: 78kg x 10 x 4 sets
Rev lunges: 25kg DBs x 5 x 5 sets
S/s
Ab rollout: 5 X 5
*Missed 2 out of the 3 sessions last week, honestly think I was/am dealing with some post viral fatigue, so didn’t hit Friday’s session, just makes sense to stay on week 2 again.
**Had friend from navy training with me and he went up to 60kg and only got 4 reps, so had to inspire him (he’s super competitive), it worked, he got 7 after that.
Booked to train with him again on Friday, should be good! With this week hopefully improving over the last few on energy terms (mind you got hammered with call outs and woken by babies Saturday & Sunday into this morning, but so far feeling fine) it’s time to push food again!
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25/03/26 - 204
Mobility and walk 
1000% awesome - C1 W2 D2
Warm up and jumps
TBDL: 68kg x 5, 108kg x 3, 118, 138, 158kg x 5
S/s
Bench: 60kg x 5, 80kg x 3, 90kg x 5 x 5 sets
Accessories Giant set
A1) DB curls: 12.5kg x 10 x 5 sets
A2) OH Tri cable ext: 40kg x 10 x 5 sets
A3) Hanging leg raises: 5 x 5 sets
A4) Glute bridge: 10kg x 10 x 5 sets
Done in about 50 mins.
Limited on time so picked accessories I could giant set and not die on. Solid session, no desire to do it, sleep is dire, but the funniest thing, if you just go ahead and ignore your feelings and do stuff, it gets done and you feel better about yourself, if not the actual thing itself.
Sleep routine being so messed up is the reason I’ve missed the last 2 days of walking and mobility, good news I actually miss that, I enjoy both things more than I realised, might get some joy/excitement back for training if I’m lucky!
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I hope you find some joy. There is only so much time available, hopefully you can squeeze as much joy out of it as possible. 
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I’ve gone back to a couple of weeks of Dan John’s ES4FL as was beginning to get fed up of what I was doing. Been a nice change and going out at the crack of dawn with a weighted vest and some headphones has been a real nice change of pace.
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Yea it’s a lovely thing to do, particularly if you’ve got a busy, stressful life, gets you in a good headspace before life kicks off! On which note…
27/03/26 - 205
Mobility and walk - mornings have been getting away from me, mostly due to late nights squeezing my morning time (and some poor motivation, today in particular).
1000% awesome - C1 W2 D3
Warm up and jumps
Front squat:
60, 75kg x 3
87.5kg x 5 x 5 sets
Overhead press:
42.5, 50, 55kg x 5
Seated axle:
68kg x 5 x 5 sets
S/s
Seated cable row: 100kg x 10 x 5 sets
Giant set:
Pushups: 5 x 5 sets
Ab rollout: 5 x 5 sets
Axle hip thrusts: 48kg x 10 x 5 sets
I miss back squat and straight bar deadlifts, think I’ll finish this cycle and then switch back.
My abs have some deep DOMs but I can’t really see why, only that I’ve been working in a lower rep range and really focusing on using the intended muscles…yea that’ll be it, they’re actually working.
Also aware my glutes are probably a significant weak spot, all day sitting, nothing direct for them, physically they’re not as visible as they were when I was younger. I’ve been doing BW glute bridges on the mornings where I get to the mobility work, I find it hard to activate them, so I’m working on that through mornings and accessories, I figure it fits in with the core/single leg work, BSS quite often get me feeling glute DOMs so they’ll be in the mix as well.
Push ups just in there to finish off 50 reps whilst being a shoulder healthy press, so a little restorative.
Also realised my axle is 8kg, which means my TB is 27kg not 28kg and all my lifts recently have been out by 1kg, not sure I’ll ever recover from that discovery.
Good session overall, still got the malaise but getting it done and at the end of the day that’s all that matters - I think that’s the last time I’ll mention it, no point even acknowledging it, I think I’ll just fake loving it again until it becomes a reality.
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Also aware my glutes are probably a significant weak spot, all day sitting, nothing direct for them, physically they’re not as visible as they were when I was younger. I’ve been doing BW glute bridges on the mornings where I get to the mobility work, I find it hard to activate them, so I’m working on that through mornings and accessories, I figure it fits in with the core/single leg work, BSS quite often get me feeling glute DOMs so they’ll be in the mix as well.
This is definitely what gets us all as we age. If you ever watched the show “King of the Hill”, they talked about Hank’s “diminished glutes syndrome”, and Dan John talks about how glutes and shoulders are the two muscle groups that really seem to signal youth, strength and vitality. When you see middle aged men in real bad shape, it’s always a giant gut paired with no glutes whatsoever, which is a terrible double whammy of high visceral fat and minimal lean tissue.
(It’s sad how easy it was to find that image by google searching “Overweight middle aged white male”)
And, of course, the best possible quite from Paul Anderson
“The guy with the biggest butt lifts the biggest weights”
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Haha, for sure! It’s definitely the way.
That was another thought, my lifetime max conventional deadlift to squat is basically a 1:1 ratio, and I don’t think I’m strong enough for that to make sense, I’m hoping building an oversized ass will boost my deadlift.
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