I feel so left behind 
… everyone else seems to have an adequate home gym or access to a commercial gym while I’m stuck here with just my two kettlebells
And, with my kidney situation, I can’t do cool the cool hard workouts I see others doing
I basically have a mini meltdown every day.
Check out @aldebaran s log. I felt he received plenty of tips and links while expressing similar sentiments as you are. Anyone that can do 30-10-30 on squats or split-squats and not feel as if that’s enough for their legs is not someone I can help out. I don’t know if that’s too much for your kidneys though as it is metabolically heavy but then overcoming isometrics should be a good way to maintain and continue to develop strength.
Look less at others, this is just general advice I feel you specifically can benefit from. Whenever you do look at others it seems to drive you down the wrong path in so many ways, so you should stop doing that as much as possible. Ideas and inputs are fine, and that’s about the limit as to how much you (you you, not “you” in general) should worry about what others do.
I will definitely focus a LOT split squats in the coming blocks and work on convincing my mum to let me get a damn barbell and proper weights
Shrimp squats are also cool, way better than pistols IMHO
I’ve been loving pauses
Overcoming isometrics are a different beast
Check this out,
Somehow training at home invites beard growth. Maybe not in you, but generally this seems to be the case. I’m guessing training at home results in higher testosterone levels, there has to be a causation here, not just a correlation. I’m sure of it. Hence the added facial hair.
You could focus on other things instead.
Like fixing your health.
I don’t want to advise you too much here, but immediate reaction is just to reiterate that your low hanging fruit is in the kitchen, not the weight room.
If I were in your situation though, and assuming adequate nutrition, I would see it as a big base building opportunity, and be looking to do a whole lot of Wendlers WaLRUS style training and probably do myself far more good in the long term. Please note, in case the italics wasn’t enough, that would rely 100% on adequate nutrition. Please do not try this with your current approach to nutrition, it will not work.
I agree with the above. Honestly, now might be a good time since you aren’t asking for help with anything in particular and this is just adding to an ongoing discourse: when you ask me things, you trigger a problem solving and people appeasing behaviour and while I’m happy to help ordinarily I’m more and more concerned to think any reply of mine has the opposite effect. You need professional help and an adequate nutritional intake and decrease the level of stimulus you impose on your body. After all of those three have been accomplished and sustained for a long time (years, not days) will there be any point to putting a detective hat on when something seems amiss.
Honestly, at this point it feels like taking one of those car chassis they use for WSM and worrying about the aerodynamics. The car has no engine and no wheels, fitting a spoiler will not make it go quicker.
Awesome metaphor is awesome
Week 8: Day 2
Pistols: 2x12/side 1x10/side, 2x4/side, 1x3/side- 25lbs, 2x8/side-11lbs, 12 breaths between sets
KB Rows: 1x20/side, 2x(10/side+5halos/side), all w/25lbs
Tabata burpees
The reps dropped only because I failed. Probably should have kept going with the 11lb@dagill2 WaLRUS training looks very interesting, but I’m very confused as to how I’d construct a proper progression. Also, I don’t have a weighted vest and the KB in backpack doesn’t work well for pushups
I think focusing on the program suggestion rather than everything else uttered is a mistake 
I’m sure you could make it work, but remember this bit?
Please get yourself and engine and some wheels, because I’d love to talk aerodynamics with you. I think you’ve got a lot to show us there.
I don’t quite understand the program and I need one
yes
Not nearly as much as you need other things. You could have the best program in the world but that won’t be enough to mitigate all the other variables pulling in opposition of both your proclaimed goals and the goals you are empirically chasing/clinging to.
Anyway, someone else can help you parse walrus if they want to. I’m tucking in for the night. Take care. Sorry for my blunt tone these last few days, but it comes from concern and worry
@dagill2, @vision1
I need help figuring out a training plan for weeks 9+
I plan to use the same exercises, but replace shrimp squats with split squats
I feel like an upper, lower split works better for me, so I was thinking
Day 1: Jumps, pistols, RDL
Day 2: press, heavier rows, something with swings or carries
Day 3: off
Day 4: Sprints split squats, core
Day 5: pushups, lighter rows, something with swings or carries
Day 6: something easy
Day 7 off
I’m just not sure about a progression scheme, volume etc
Of course, if you guys have a better idea, I’m more than open
@Pinkylifting I’d also like your thoughts
It’s less of a program, more of a “make your own adventure” for building a base. Jim hasn’t really fleshed it out into a full blown program.
I echo this, but would like to add that in my case there’s also an element of curiosity as to how much you could really achieve. The vast majority of the lifters on this site have long ago accepted that we’ll never be world champions or even competitors on that kind of stage, whereas with yourself there’s that big question mark in my mind.