Awesome intensity Alpha! Man you amaze me! When life gives you brain tumors you make Arnold Swartzenegger jokes! You need to post some pics of your nuts next to the anal beads or just your nuts… just saying…
nlmain: respect. That is so weird about you. Have you had any signs of it at all showing up? Sometimes it is amazing to see people dealing with issues and yet still getting it done in so many other areas of their lives. It is crazy that you have not had the problems all of the others with your condition have had. Maybe you are a superhero and just don’t realize that you have powers yet!
PMPM: Wow i didn’t even know that you ever checked this thing out! Welcome! But no, alas i just have a regular old pituitary Adenoma…the problem is that it is making my pituitary secrete too much of some hormones and not enough of others, which is apparently giving me a couple different diseases…However, they say that people with my condition usually get really really fat…i haven’t at all, but have grown 2 inches taller since i found out about this…weird. Anyway thanks for checking in!
xandrewx: Thanks for the kind words brother! and the brain tumor doesn’t scare me, the amount of guys wearing skinny jeans does…Oh and consider the pics of my nuts done…expect a PM soon! thanks for checking in man!
Thanks for reading everyone!
Hey! 1000 posts! I talk waaayyyy too much
still reading…here and there! 
[quote]Alpha wrote:
PMPM: Wow i didn’t even know that you ever checked this thing out! Welcome! But no, alas i just have a regular old pituitary Adenoma…the problem is that it is making my pituitary secrete too much of some hormones and not enough of others, which is apparently giving me a couple different diseases…However, they say that people with my condition usually get really really fat…i haven’t at all, but have grown 2 inches taller since i found out about this…weird. Anyway thanks for checking in!
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You can PM me the nut pic as well.
I’m bad about log stalking. I don’t check in with every one every day, but you get gossiped about as a “good log to follow.”
The prolactin issue made me think that maybe you had the same sort of cyst as my friend. She’d never been pregnant, but was lactating like she had just delivered! Be grateful you don’t have to worry about leaking nipples.
When she had the cyst, she was probably about a size 16. She’s now a 4. Her thyroid hormones went back to normal, her boobs stopped leaking, and the absence of seizures really helped. When she got the Total Recall procedure, the only evidence of the surgery was her nostril split a tiny bit, and she had a stitch on her stomach where they’d removed fat to stuff up into her head to keep her brain from leaking out her nose.
I’ll definitely be following you more closely now.
It seems unreal how you take this all in stride. I bet your Mom gets mad at you for making jokes, huh? 
Wishing nothing but the best for you Alpha!
MIM: i thought you had forgotten about me!! and i honestly keep my mom pretty is the dark about all of this…she is a worrier…and she will be better off not knowing. But she also knows that i kind of have a personality that doesn’t worry about much ever…to me, honestly, this is just one more thing that i can make look stupid for trying to F with me. Thanks for checking back in girlie!
PMPM: i can TOTALLY make stuff come out of my nipples! i had to do it for a few doctors yesterday in fact! But man that hurts me! like a titty twister from hell! If that is how it is for you girls while breast feeding, i am not sure how any kid ever survives! i would punch a baby right in the throat for pulling a stunt like that!
on the upside, maybe this is why my bench had gone up! i really need to get a tumor that helps my deadlift though…stupid tumors…
Consider the nut pic sent and thanks for stopping in PMPM!
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“You learned that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it done”
-Jack youngblood
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10September2010: Training
Insert: 50 alternating 40lb Dumbbell Turkish Get-Ups
Strength: 5/3/1 week1wave3 and Giant Sets
1a. Weighted Semi-Supinated Pull-Ups: 115x5, 125x5, 100x8, 110x7, 90x8
1b. Standing Barbell Military Press: 160x5, 185x5, 210x5, 200x4, 185x5
1c. Wood chops: 5 Sets of 8 reps each side
2a. Bent Dumbell Row: 110x12, 110x12, 110x12
2b. Incline Barbell bench: 245x8, 265x8, 245x8
2c. Wood chops: 5 Sets of 8 reps each side
Extract: As fast as possible
10 Turkish Get-Ups with 40lc Dumbell (Alternating)
8 40 lb lateral raises
10 wide grip pull-ups
run 800 meters
10 Turkish Get-Ups with 40lc Dumbell (Alternating)
8 40 lb lateral raises
10 wide grip pull-ups
run 800 meters
10 Turkish Get-Ups with 40lc Dumbell (Alternating)
8 40 lb lateral raises
10 wide grip pull-ups
run 800 meters
Notes:
-Was definitely fighting a little bit of the Deadlift flu today while getting through this…the time laid off and then hitting it hard yesterday took its toll on me today but I get through it and was happy i did.
-since this is going to me my last round of 5/3/1 before changing some stuff up, i am really going for some higher reps on my 5’s week…then mid reps on my 3’s and just screw around on the 1’s
-Everything felt ok, but like I said, i was just a little run down…waking up at 0300 probably didn’t help much either…but these excuses don’t make the truth not the truth…
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-other than that i am feeling great now, and plan on doing a long ruck run tomorrow morning in honor of 09112001…If you think about it, commit something you do tomorrow, even if it is just a few moments of silence to those who were lost 9 years ago…
Go hug your loved ones, you never know which day will be your last with them…
Supposedly god never gives you more than you can handle. Unfortunately, you seem to be able to handle a lot.
Hey Alpha i thought of you when i saw this video.
I’ve been following along, and you guys at the 5100block have a nice start going so far. Also good luck whatever happens regarding the pituitary adenoma.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
Supposedly god never gives you more than you can handle. Unfortunately, you seem to be able to handle a lot.[/quote]
Yeap. It’s a catch 22, but knowing Alpha through his writings, he probably welcomes the challenges thrown his way. Makes him stronger.
Alpha,
Actually, when I asked about focusing on lifts, I meant more along the lines of, how do you maintain your current strength levels with squats while trying to bring your deadlift up to a new PR? Or do you just focus on bringing everything up together?
DoubleDuce: God and I are boys. i am happy with things. Life is way too cool to worry about lame stuff like this.
Heracles: i dig the vid man, thanks for posting it! and thanks for the compliments about 5100block.com,lots of work is going into it so it means a lot brother!
BLU: that makes sense to me! It just is what it is man. Nothing to worry or fret about. it is just another thing to beat that’s all.
Benos: Oh sorry man, i misunderstood. But i actually do not try to focus on any lifts in particular. I just try to beat my log book in everything every day…then when my maxing out time rolls around, i just try to beat them all. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it does not…Thanks for asking though man.
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just got back from a long run. Not sure how long or far…just running and remembering.
Stop forgetting…
I have actually only done 3x10 for one month of all my training time[proud to say that =)]. I do superset every pushing movement with a pulling movement, haven’t incorporated the weighted abs though. I plan on adding an insert and extract 6 weeks out from wrestling season to start really getting my anaerobic endurance back up. Thats also when I plan to do the workouts you were doing on the first few pages of this log. This is my last week of 3x6 workouts. Next week im doing 4x4 and will continue that for 3 weeks. Then one week of 5x3, then I’m maxing shooting for 285 bench, 465 Squat, and 525 dead. Then comes the Alpha inspired workouts
love the rant. as a woman who travels alone I often get people worried and asking me how do I do it.
Your #1 answer covers it. Don’t look like prey. be smart, stay in public places, don’t get drunk or stoned. Always be aware of what’s going on around you and keep as little cash on you as possible and the rest in the safe.
#2 There’s just something about having the husband build a fire for us when we are out camping. We hike like 10 hours straight in the wilderness and I am not worried. What ever happens we can deal.
#3 We bought a new condo and had to install all the light fixtures, appliances and cabling. He did it. I find that sexy as hell.
#4 He never asks what’s for dinner if he sees there is nothing on the stove. He will ask me if I want some pasta that he plans to whip up for himself. yeah, I’m lucky.
alpha that man-code rant was epic!What do you think is a good fighting style to try for people who havent done any before.I am happy{or unhappy not sure which ha}to say that I am 20 and never took or delivered a punch.I have dished out some mafioso backhand slaps though if that counts for anything ha.
#2-4 is sexy as hell!
Slowly I’ve been learning to play those roles too, through the years. Especially now since our son is getting older.
My hubby grew up doing that stuff. And now shares camping, fishing, hunting, surviving, cub scouts with our son. I let him take care of it, but I feel helpless cause I’m unsure of so many things when he is away.
Alpha,
In addition to my lifting, sprinting, BB complexes and jumping rope, and strongman training, I have been running a few miles 2-3 times a week for the past couple months. The longest distance I have ran at one time has been 3.25 miles. I have been running about 6-8 mile a week. For the past two weeks I have felt a big drop in sex drive and not able to “perform.” I never have a problem with this. I remember reading about how too much aerobics can drain you and lower your Test and HGH levels. I know that I am not running a tremendous amount and that athletes and military guys do a lot of running. I feel that adding the running is the only thing I have really changed in my training/life. Do you think that the running could be a cause of my problem?
Thanks.
BHulk: Sounds great man! Are you going to log all of this so we can keep up with it somewhere?
nlmain: thanks so much! It is good to know that being manly is still a good thing from a woman’s perspective! Sounds like you hit the jackpot, good for you! Just keep remembering that when he does something completely stupid! thanks so much for checking in!
MIM: That is Awesome! See guys, girls dig competent guys…who don’t look like Just Bebber…And don’t worry girlie, learning that stuff is not hard at all…more just time spent doing it…Also read Cody Lundin’s 98.6 Degrees: the art of keeping your ass alive. It does a good job of covering the basics in a non-textbooky way. thanks for checking in!
Animal Mother: You just have obviously not spent enough time on my HUB looking at my progress pics…Nah man, it sounds like it could be a bit of over training. Are you getting enough rest and food? and are you feeling depressed at all? Let me know.
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From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:
“Did you not call this a glorious expedition? And wherefore was it glorious? Not because of the way was smooth and placid as the southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror; because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called fourth and your courage exhibited; because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome. For this, was it glorious, for this was it an honorable undertaking. You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species; your name adored as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honor and the benefit of mankind…Oh! be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the sigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on their foe.”
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Due to getting delayed on flights and idiot people, by the time i got home from work today, my gym was already closed, closed so this is what happened instead:
Ran 1.5 miles
4 long hill Sprints
Ran 1.5 Miles
1 REALLY long hill sprint…then stretching…
From the quote of the day today…If you have never read Frankenstein (or think that the book is named after the Monster as opposed to the Doctor who created him) than you should…
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i want bolts in my neck…
Alpha
[quote]Alpha wrote:
Animal Mother: You just have obviously not spent enough time on my HUB looking at my progress pics…Nah man, it sounds like it could be a bit of over training. Are you getting enough rest and food? and are you feeling depressed at all? Let me know.
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Not feeling depressed or anything like that. Sleep has been very good as well. I got 8 hours all but one night this week. Nutrition is good too. I do a 24hr water fast once a week but I don’t think that negatively affects me in that way. I don’t think it’s my training right now because I am not currently working up to a 1-5 rep max or anything. I’ve been keeping the reps a little higher in the 6-8 range.
I’ts funny because despite this little problem, I have been feeling great, I’m not tired/run down and my joints feel great.
Hey Alpha, it’s really motivating and just straight up bad ass that you would realize that the gym’s closed, but still get out and do what you did. Inspiring bro, keep that shit up forever!
Animal mother: i have no idea man. I honestly hadn’t heard that about doing too much conditioning work…I will have to read up on it. If i come up with anything i will let you know. I wish i had more to give you man.
inkaddict: Ha thanks man, i really need to get back to a gym the has 24 hr access! Thanks for checking in though brother!
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“If you are pained by extreme things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”
-Marcus Aurelius
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13September2010: GPP
I am in a lame hotel with a gym that has nothing worth playing with but a pull-up bar. So This is what I did.
1 Burpee
15 Pull-ups
2 Burpees
14 Pull-ups
3 Burpees
13 Pull-ups
4 Burpees
12 Pull-ups
5 Burpees
11 Pull-ups
6 Burpees
10 Pull-ups
7 Burpees
9 Pull-ups
8 Burpees
8 Pull-ups
9 Burpees
7 Pull-ups
10 Burpees
6 Pull-ups
11 Burpees
5 Pull-ups
12 Burpees
4 Pull-ups
13 Burpees
3 Pull-ups
14 Burpees
2 Pull-ups
15 Burpees
1 Pull-up
then i loaded up my backpack with as much stuff as i could find and went for a 2 and a half hour ruck…
Notes:
Doing the ladder between the Pull-ups and Burpees was tough! the ruck was nice, but i was next to busy roads the whole time, which it totally not my style…
Overall not bad considering…
Tomorrow i will be in another hotel but should have access to a real power rack and such so squats should be on the menu…we will see.
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