I guess I’ll just throw in some core work … finally 
Week 1: day 5- lower body
Pistol squat: 3x10/side-11lb paint can
3x(10 pistols+10 single leg rdl)/ side
20-1 kB swing with air squats btw swing sets
- Easier than expected but took longer than expected and hamstrings dead, swings workout got hr up and a lot easier than expected
Everything is feeling really sore (even the abs??) but I really want to workout. Plus it’s weekly grill night
@Pinkylifting
I found 45lb kB available online, should I buy one or two
I’m guessing you are asking for permission to train…?
I don’t know what to tell you. Experiment and find out if training while sore works for you or not. Meaning, train a few bodyparts while they are still sore:
- If you beat your performance on last workout weights substantially, then this is something you can continue doing.
- If you do not, compare against letting your body rest. I.e., repeat the training allowing at LEAST a day (preferably two) after soreness have subsided and see if your weights are up.
Continue doing the one that let’s you continually improve rather than succumbing to what you want to do if performance and improving is more important to you than the other thing.
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Quite the opposite
Everything hurts but many people train feeling worse
Well, then don’t? Rest, recover, and eat and enjoy yourself.
Try and learn when to trust your own biofeedback. Sometimes it’s warranted to push. Other times it isn’t.
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One is versatile, but two does give you more options and, importantly, more weight e.g front squats.
If everything is sore what value are you getting from a workout? What are you trying to accomplish in the session?
Sore muscles are already creating additional calorie requirement for repair, more than you’ll actually get from a poor session.
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Not true. When a muscle is sore most people, with few exceptions, won’t train it.
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I can’t clean them
I was thinking farmers carries with the 2 kB s and rdls but I’m not sure if getting the two is worth the cost since I could still do pistols and heavy swings
What benefit do you gain from doing RDLs and farmers walks that couldn’t be replicated with 1 kb?
On the soreness front: consider a tonic workout. Best of both worlds. You achieved something of value without running yourself further into the ground. Think mobility work, very light bodyweight stuff, things that get blood flowing into targeted sore areas and stretch where you need to stretch but without placing additional recovery demands on your body.
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Good point- I wasn’t sure either which is why I asked Pinky to see if I was missing anything
Just to discuss soreness and people training through it: I am in my mid 30s and I train through soreness now. I never did that at 18/19 because I never got sore at those ages.
You gotta earn training through soreness.
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I’ll probably at least go for an extra walk
Somehow I usually feel a lot better at some point later (it’feels like a weird physical iteration of the hot cold empathy gap)
I didn’t even do that much 
So I went on a walk and am less sore.
Unfortunately, my body is still on strike and probably looked a bit drunk at some point stumbling when my hamstring decided to turn off
@Voxel
9 lamb chops + 12 cups of watermelon + 600kcal from earlier => 2700ish for the day
- funnily enough, I don’t feel stuffed, really good actually (except for the food baby ) I honestly feel like I could put down more lamb and watermelon
How do you measure water melon in cups? It’s either I ate 1/4 of a melon, 1/2 of a melon or maybe like a few slices… But cups? 
Kinda off topic, but: I’ve seen “cups” in a lot of American receipts and that is also very confusing. Is there a standard cup size? I have very different cups in my kitchen!
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A standard us cup is 225ml
Edit: I polished off 2 more chops cal total 3000 - and still feeling good??
At least I’ll feel good for tomorrow’s workout. Unfortunately, I’ll probably have to get up all night to use the restroom
We cubes the melon- it’s one of those American sized ones that literally weighed 25lbs- 1/4 or 1/2 melon is simply unfeasible
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Week 1:day 7- upper body
kB press: 3x(5r+5l+4r+…)
kB row: 2x(2x(10r+10l))
Push-up: 2x(15-15lb pack+30 unweighted)
Conditioning: 3x(800m run+50squats)-15lb pack
- felt good but upper body stuff harder than expected, really good chest pump from the push-ups, conditioning felt amazing!
Woke up looking like jello probably water
@Voxel I look worse today than after past weeks cheat even though I’ve had similar calorie/ carb/ sodium numbers
I don’t know what you want me to say…?
I’m certainly happy that you are eating. Elated, even. And so it pains me to add “but…”. But…
I don’t know if this almost OMAD+ eating style nets as more or less stressful to the body and its digestive tract than eating smaller meals but you did consume about 80% of your daily calories in one seating. @mertdawg?
But, that’s also 54g of fructose and I don’t think your liver is too happy about that. That will lead to fatty liver eventually. Just as alcohol abuse would.
And from a training/recovery standpoint this,
does not seem ideal.
I know there are competitive eaters that are skinny that yo-yo their caloric intake (Sonya Thomas, Takeru Kobayashi) but I have no idea what their health markers long term are.
And as far as this goes,
I think that is something you’ll just have to accept as part of this dietary routine. I’m guessing it’ll be back to normal in a few days.
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