How long has this plateau lasted? Bench takes a pretty long time to progress and its damn frustrating sometimes
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Hell, Iād say the last 3 years? I took a 1.5 year hiatus from lifting due to deployments with no gyms, when I got back into it the gains came pretty quick, working up to about 225x5 in a few months, but damn if I havenāt been stuck there since
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01June25:
Squat:
365x4 RPE 8 (PR)
365x4 RPE 8
DE deadlift;
5 sets of 320x2
Wide stance slant board upside down SSB squat:
195x10 RPE 8
195x10 RPE 8
Single leg RDL:
70x10 RPE 9
70x10 RPE 9
Seated cable row:
160x15 RPE 9
160x12 RPE 9
GHD Sit-up:
+15x15
+15x11
Conditioning:
30 min incline treadmill walk. 10 Inc, 3.3mph
Notes:
- super happy with squat today. 365x4 is a PR, and this was definitely not a max effort set. Felt I had two reps left in me, honestly maybe even a 3rd on that first set, though it would of taken my soul lol. Tried to really slow down my squat, really sinking into the hole. Felt good, felt strong, all lower body lifts just continue to skyrocket.
- Did notice on the second set that my wrist wasnāt set right. Not sure, maybe I put it in closer than usual, maybe I just wasnāt flexible today, but it cocked back pretty good during the set, mildly painful lol.
- The above fact actually is making me question if I should get an MRI of my shoulder. My bench is just stalled, shoulder hurts like hell from my last workout, and every other aspect of my training is going great. Beginning to wonder if itās really just an injury Iāve refused to acknowledge rather than my spinning my wheels on training.
- Deads felt fantastic.
- Single leg RDLs are confusingly difficult lol. If you asked me to RDL 140x10, thatās easy, a warmup. But split it and go one leg at a time? My glutes are spasming by the 6th rep
In other news, wifeās recent PRs:
- 160x12 back squat
- 105x7 bench
- 205x5 deadlift (way submax but moved well)
- 270x10 hip thrust
- And today she got her first Pullup!
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damn i love reading this shit. Quality
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02Jun25:
Flared DB bench:
70x10 RPE 7
70x10 RPE 7
70x10 RPE 7
70x10 RPE 8
70x10 RPE 8
Seated DB press:
70x8 RPE 8.5
70x8 RPE 8 (felt a bit easier than the first)
55 Inc Tate Press:
50x10 RPE 8
50x10 RPE 9
Deficit push-up:
ROx12 RPE 8
ROx12 RPE 8
Pushdown:
75x15 RPE 9
75x13 RPE 9
Rear delt fly:
20x15
20x15
EZ curl:
75x12 RPE 8
75x10 RPE 8
Standing abs:
80x12 RPE 8
80x12 RPe 8
Slow tempo hammer curls:
2x20x12 (done while messing around as wife did her last few sets)
Conditioning:
30 min incline treadmill walk:
3.3mph, 10 incline
Notes:
- db bench moved well. Shoulder wasnāt hurting, reps felt pretty clean
- Shoulder press was TOUGH. The jump from 60 to 70 was huge. Had a heck of a time kicking up the DBs lol. 80s next week is gonna be tough, but Iām shooting for it.
- Noticed that if I left my elbow drift forward a bit on db OHP, my shoulder hurt like hell. Staying a bit more to the side didnāt aggravate it .
- Tate presses felt good. Still fighting the bounce a bit on the bottom, but flexing the hell out of the triceps even so.
- Pump city from there
@simo74 besides bench, everything is really progressing well. Stronger on accessories, squats getting cleaner and stronger, deadlift form is getting crisp while strength climbs, leaning out a bit, arms still 17inches, getting faster. Training, diet, and recovery are the best theyāve been in a long while, and itās paying off. Except bench. Because bench hates me
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04Jun25:
Deadlift:
460x1 RPE 7-8
405x7 dead stop
Front squat:
215x5 RPE 8
215x5 RPE 8
Stiff leg deads.
275x8
275x8
Supported BSS:
155x12
155x12
Pulldown:
170x14
170x11
Spread eagle sit-up:
Notes;
- pretty happy with deadlifts. Went into this lift a little under recovered, some schedule craziness, so wasnāt entirely in the zone for these lifts. 460 wasnāt really a struggle, but mentally it felt heavier than it should have. 405 still moved pretty well on the AMRAP set. Again not a PR, but a dead stop PR, and again stopping the set when form started breaking down vice when I couldnāt move the bar period. Bar speed still felt good on that last rep, could just feel myself starting to hitch the top end.
- Alrighty, BSS was heavy as hell. Working up to a plate each side with the SSB, most Iāve ever done on some type of lunge motion. Felt good, just hard.
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09Jun25: deload session
Squat:
5 sets of 315x12
EDIT: 315x2. Not 315x12. I can hit that, but it sure as hell is not a deload lol
Db RDL:
40x12
40x12
40x12
Done
Notes:
- many notes to come, but no time today.
- Just got back from a family Disney vacation. Absolutely wiped, getting in from a delayed as heck flight. Had nothing in me. Deload session today, will do another tomorrow, then get back to it.
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Glad you put that. I was thinking that I really need to lift my game
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Notes: buckle up, itās a long one
First of, starting off with a bunch of random thoughts that came to me this past week.
- spent 4 days in Disney over a long weekend. My wifeās family all flew in, and we took the various nieces and nephews to the parks. It was my first time visiting Disney world since I was 5 years old, and I honestly didnāt know much about it going in. But man, was it interesting.
- First off, holy hell did we walk. By my wifeās count, we averaged over 15 miles a day of walking. Pretty decent amount of time on the feet, especially given that there were a few hours of just standing in line in between all that walking.
- On that note, I have had some chronic ingrown toenail issues for as long as I can remember. Doesnāt really bother me, normally when it starts hurting I just grab a pocket knife and cut it out. Well, i definitely should have done that BEFORE Disney. My sock was squishy with blood by the end of that first day. Not a real injury or anything, but definitely unpleasant and very annoying.
- We hit up EVERY major ride in the parks. Space mountain, Tron, haunted mansion, tower of terror, the works. Some were pretty fun, though I expected a bit more thrill from the roller coasters. Definitely my own false expectations there, in my head I was thinking more of a bush gardens vibe, but it was apparent how child focused the parks were. But of all the rides, there was only one that was truly scary. āitās a small worldā. Holy hell. That ride is legitimately creepy, and I do not get the nostalgia some people have for it. Straight fever dreams lol.
- We also did a Snow White ride. Ride was fun, played a lot of Disney music along the way. They specifically played the āheigh hoā song that the dwarves sing. Now, I sing often. I am not good. But my showerhead is impressed, as is my cars rear view mirror. But as it happens, when the kiddos all started singing along, I joined in and learned I can do a damn pitch perfect āheigh ho,ā like the long one they do at the beginning of the song. Which led to my 3 year old nephew randomly jumping up and down and telling me to ādo heigh hoā throughout the trip, which I happily indulged lol.
- I have some decent camera skills with an iPhone. Not a pro or anything, but I took a short class on it onetime when I was younger and learned some tricks to take professional-ish looking photos. So, my wife was volunteering me to photograph strangers all the time when they looked like they needed a photo. I didnāt mind, but I also learned the pains of getting a kid to smile for a photo. Some of these dudes were straight up not having it. But, I did find a fun trick. Tell a kid to smile, no chance. Bounce your pecs a few times and ask the kid to flex? Most start giggling immediately, which if you time the photo right, you can get a smiling shot in before they get the guns raised (also some fun photos of the kid flexing on em)
- On the note of kids flexing, my wife taught the nephews (all kids under 5) how to hit a most muscular pose, and would randomly do it to get them riled up throughout the day.
- So many little kids running around Disney. (As it should be). Lots of overwhelmed parents. I realized I have some very strong feelings on communal responsibility for kids. I feel like if a kid is involved, every able bodied adult has at least some amount of duty to help out with the kids. Offer a hand with the stroller, open a door for mom, show some patience when the hyper stimulated 6 year old acts like a hyper stimulated 6 year old. Also, if a random little girl in her moms arms decided to place a pair of minny mouse ears on your head while standing next to you in line, then congratulations, you are now Minnie until told otherwise. (The wife was really cracking up at that one.)
- Went to the Star Wars area, and they had a ton of stormtroopers in full costume playing the bit. At one point, a some storm troopers āarrestedā a little boy. It was funny, but what was WAY FUNNIER was this kids sister, who couldnāt of been more than 5, wearing her Cinderella dress, who sees her brother being kidnapped, and SPRINTS over to the stormtroopers and starts THROWING HAYMAKERS. Idk this lil chick, but I like her style. Girls going places.
- There was a style trend that I noted, and hated. Idk when ātactical swagā became a thing people where in day to day life, but some of it is ridiculous. A bunch of 40+ year old out of shape guys with some shirt covered in guns saying āif I fall, avenge me.ā Or some other absolute blow hard tactifool nonsense. Sir, you are at Disney world. Letās tone it down.
- Keeping the trend of people at Disney, I saw quite a few people in motorized scooters. A lot of them were just overweight, and couldnāt handle all the walking. I get itās a lot of walking, but also, man itās a sad state to be in where you can even run around a theme park with your kiddos.
- That being said, I absolutely LOVED seeing the moment I heard someone yell āwatch out,ā then I turn to see two easily 80+ grandparents in their scooters hauling ass down a path, racing their grandchildren while cracking up all the while. Wholeheartedly approve.
- Now speaking of the people. Not a lot of athletes walking around. Look, this may sound weird, but Iāve been in a uniform since 18. Iāve spent a lot of my time either on a ship, or in military towns. And even there itās not like everyoneās in shape, but it was interesting just how RARE a good physique was for anyone looking older than 25.
- Too further break that down, the men are getting smoked by women in this regard. At any point, I could look around at Disney and see women who looked in shape. Not saying they all did, but I could find a few in the crowd whol obviously worked out. The same canāt be said for the men. Not saying I didnāt see athletic dudes, but it wasnāt near proportional.
- I feel like strength is just nonexistent for a lot of people, and you could tell the difference most with the fat ones. I saw plenty of 300lb guys walking around Disney. Some of those guys? Fat, but still walking around no problem. Sure they canāt run, but they can walk. But man, there were a lot who seemed like just walking was taking em out. The difference? I think some of those guys were strong, so even though they had to walk a ton, they could support their body weight, the other guys just couldnāt carry that load around. (You can tell the difference between the two by looking at calves lol.)
- I normally do a pretty decent job eating healthy on vacation. That did not happen at Disney. At all. Finding healthy food in those parks is nearly impossible, even when actively searching for healthy options. I could have done better if I had been more willing to depart from family, but that wasnāt on the table for me. Few days wonāt kill me but damn, that mouse is diabetic lol.
- Also, $17 dollars for a turkey leg and another $6 for a drink with it? The mouse is also a capitalist haha.
Alrighty, now on to some training notes:
- I had a bit of a training revelation while at Disney. Playing around with the kids, just wrestling on the ground. I went to stand up, and I did a ākip upā from my back to get up. Iāve been able to do these for as long as I can remember, not a fancy thing for me or anything, though I havenāt done one in a long time. Well, I did it. But shit. It felt bad. My knees both hurt, my balance was off, ankle didnāt like it, and I barely landed on my feet. And that bothers me.
- Iāve been a little bored with training lately. Leaning more into powerlifting. But itās not jiving with me. I feel stiff. My mobility isnāt good, Iāve got aches and pains. I feel āstrongā but not āpowerfulā if that makes sense. Iām also feeling a lot of fatigue. I think this is partially because Iāve essentially just combined a powerlifting program and a running program. Was banking on my better recovery to be able to handle the workload now that Iām sleeping a bit more, but I think Iām still burning the candle a bit much.
- Iām realizing I donāt really care about powerlifting. Donāt get me wrong, I care a lot about lifting, I specifically mean I donāt care about the specific sport of powerlifting. Itās just not filling the itch Iāve got.
- So Iām trying to figure out what I really want. Trying to take a bit of a philosophical look at training. Why do I train? What do I like? Whatās important to me? And honestly, the answer is just to be an athlete. I got into lifting to be a better athlete, and performance has always been the metric I care about.
- But I say āathleteā not āstrength athlete.ā For a reason. I think thereās more to being an athlete than 1rm strength. Being agile, explosive, conditioned. Dangerous, capable, fit. And while powerlifters are definitely strong, I donāt know about the rest. I knew all this, but I had enough of an athletic background that I felt I had that base covered. Maybe itās just been enough years since I played sports, maybe itās part of aging, or maybe Iām just getting out of shape, but I donāt feel like I just innately have that āathleticā ability outside of strength anymore, I gotta train for it.
- I think strongman would be a better fit, but itās still not entirely what Iām looking for. Donāt get me wrong, Iād love to do a strongman comp for fun, but I donāt know if itās entirely what Iām looking for. I guess it depends on how you train strongman. I grew up on Alsruhe, and love that style of training, but in many ways I feel like his training is almost an anomaly in strongman training. āCrossFit Strongmanā almost.
- Which actually got me thinking about CrossFit. Which, no. I remember going to CrossFit gyms in the past, having not done CrossFit, snd smoking a lot of people there. But I think thatās because CrossFit classes are very different than how real athletes train. And how they train may interest me a bit more.
- Ultimately, I want to build the attributes I had when I was big into wrestling or rugby. I was strong, I was fast, I could move, I could jump and throw. And now, Iām still strong, and Iām pretty decent in a straight run, but Iām not movable or powerful in the way I felt like I was. And Iād like to get back to that. Not stopping strength by any means, but adding back the rest of that athletic training.
- Which ultimately, means Iām going to start trying to train like a collegiate contact sport athlete. Jumps, bounds, plyos, heavy compound lifts, Olympic lifts, hypertrophy work, various types of conditioning, dedicated mobility.
- Not entirely sure how Iām going to do that yet, and Iām going to ease into it. I have a couple old injuries Iāve never addressed that Iām going to get checked out, starting some mobility work, then will add some plyos and jumps, gradually just building more and more into this more athletic endeavor.
- Going to draw a lot of inspiration from Brian Alsruhe, Will Ratelle, Judd Lienhard, John Welbourne, various CrossFit guys, and Wendler.
- This isnāt a big change right now, more of a gradual shift im looking to make, but wanted to get some thoughts out there.
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Try and find any that are over 50 mate. now that is like a needle in a haystack.
Great post by the way, loved the observations about Disney land. What would you say is the ideal kids age to visit, to enjoy the vibe but also get to go on all the rides ?
I hear you about powerlifting and the stiffness. T%hat is why I started doing all those burpees and sandbag work a few years back. This reminds me that I really need to do more of that again. I have been pretty stiff and immobile lately.
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You ever try BJJ? If you liked the training you did for wrestling it could be just what the doctor ordered. And if you really go down the rabbit hole it could be an outlet for athletic competition.
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I really am with you on this one! I just got back from Portugal and they love children so much there it was the perfect destination for a young family like us. Everywhere (airport, attraction, grocery store, restaurant), it seems that if they see you with a child, they will put you at the front of the line. The attention our son got at restaurant and in airplane was phenomenal. Everybody was helping.
I got back in Canada last week and while at the grocery store, my son was not having it. Crying all along. After I was done, I was waiting to pay, the line was long and he was in my arms crying hard. Nothing to do, he wonāt stop. Everybody was looking at me but nobody offered help or for me to take their place. Itās okay, I donāt expect it but damn I was like, those Portuguese have something good going on.
I remember feeling that way. Training was including a lot more plyos, olympic lifts and calisthenics then. I also remember stretching A LOT. I did a lot more classic lifting and running in the last months/years and I feel it when I play on the ground with my son. I may take some inspiration from here now and then.
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12Jun25:
Work for today:
Agile:
5 min dynamic stretching
50 rope skips
Powerful:
Depth jumps off bench: 5 rounds of 1.
Single leg short lateral hops: 25 per leg
Strong:
Deadlift: 135x5, 225x3, 315x3, 365x3, 405x5, 405x5, 405x5
Built:
Supported BSS: 60x10, 60x10
Slant board goblet squat: 35x10, 44x10, 44x10
Superset:
GHD: 8, 8
AB Wheel: 10, 10
Conditioned:
- Rower intervals: 90 seconds on, 90 second rest, 5 rounds
- 45 min lawn mowing
Mobility:
15 minute Pliability stretching routine
Notes:
- Need to sit down and actually plan something, went in today and just trained by feel.
- Hotter than hell, the garage is toasty.
- Doing some plyos felt pretty good, landings didnāt feel rough and I had some good āspringā on the depth drops. Balance felt pretty shit on the single leg hops, needs more practice.
- May do 531 for main work. May find something else, may just program something for myself, not entirely sure yet.
- Deads felt good. Sweaty, used straps just due to that, but still moved as expected.
- Went lower weight on BSS and goblets, and damn they smoked me. Going extra controlled if the eccentric, stretching ROM on the bottom, almost some active stretching. Completely fried.
- This rower workout was awesome. By which I mean it sucked lol
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@simo74 honestly, I am VERY out of touch when it comes to kids. I can tell when they are under 2, and then they all look about the same until about 20, so anything in that range and Iām just guessing. BUT, we did have a 3 year old, as in literally turned 3 in Disney, so Iāll use that as reference. I would say, 4-5 is about the age Iād begin thinking about it. At that point the kiddo should be tall enough to ride all the rides, which is a major plus. Also old enough that you donāt need to worry about changing diapers or putting the kid down for a nap. (I think. Idk, sound reasonable to me. I gotta read a book before I have kids lol). Iām not sure when most kids stop using strollers, but that would also be a good time to consider, because finding a spot to park the stroller can be mildly annoying, as can just the act of pushing a cart around all day. That being said, the 3 year old still had an absolute blast, so itās not like the trip was wasted or anything, just more of a logistical hurdle for the parents really.
We also had a 4 month old in the group. There were lots of people with their infants at Disney. The 4 month old seemed very impressed at anything with a lot of colorsā¦. But a 4 month old is also essentially a potato that is capable of crying and pooping, so itās not like they realize the Disney colors are any different than just having colorful toys lol. So definitely later than 4 months.
Some of the āmagicā probably goes away as the kids become teenagers, they still have a blast but itās the difference between āholy shit I just met Princess Cinderellaā and āoh cool, that lady is dressed like Princess Cinderellaā ya know?
@BrandonCrawford ya know, Iāve actually got my blue belt in BJJ. Havenāt stepped on a mat in 6 years though, was just a thing I did for a while in college. It was a lot of fun, but at least where I did it, wasnāt really a āworkout.ā You practiced skills, and did some sparring, which I did like, but Iād still need to supplement that with my own training for athletic stuff. That was just 1 gym though, so idk how universal that applies. Maybe I will look into that again. I was never very good to be fair, but I was a good enough wrestler that I could control the mat well enough to use like the 4 moves I actually learned lol.
@Hugo_Fillion funny enough, some of my I laws are currently living in Tokyo, and they mentioned the same thing. How the culture in Japan just gave such priority to parents. (Iām sure the population crisis has something to do with that).
For all my sports, in high school and college, it seemed like the exact same format. Stretch, plyos, Olympic, strength, accessory, condition. Only real difference between sports was normally the type of accessories and conditioning we did. Seems like a good place for me to get back to, though not all at once. I straight up DO NOT have the mobility to do any Olympic lifting, and Iād rather focus some time on getting that back, and THEN doing some Olympic lifts, vice trying to muscle up weight that I just can get the form on
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You can always start with some high pulls from the hangs or power snatch from the hang when you are ready to start. Not that hard on mobility and still great to lift heavy weights violently. It can reintroduce the movement pattern progressively.
I like how you divided your training: Agile, Powerful, Strong, Built and Conditioned!
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For sure dude, I didnāt mean that the sessions themselves would be the entirety of your workouts, just that potentially leveling up/competing in BJJ could scratch that athletic itch and your training could vector towards that. I tried it for a summer during college as well, I was a skinny geek back then so wasnāt very good but I was scrappy and had a crazy gas tank from running so I would usually tire my rolling partners out, haha.
FWIW Iām going through exactly what you are right now - I competed in olympic weightlifting from 2015-2022, got bored with it, and have been chasing shiny objects ever since. Thatās why I empathize with your situation.
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14Jun25:
Work for today :
Agile:
Cat cow stretch
PVC pipe overhead
Kneeling lat stretch on bench
Hollywoods
Brief break when I noticed a storm knocked out about a 20 foot branch last night. Great.
Powerful:
3x3 med ball slams
3x3 med ball overhead throw
3x1 rear overhead med ball throw:
Strong:
Superset:
Press: 45x10, 95x5, 115x5, 135x5, 135x5, 135x5, 135x5,
- first three rounds: rotator cuff cable work: 3x10x10lbw
- Rest of the rounds: BPA, rx10
Built:
CGBP: 135x8, 170x10, 170x9, 170x8
Lat Pulldown: 160x12, 160x10, 160x7
Seated cable row: 120x12, 120x12
Superset:
Wide grip shrug: 170x25, 170x25, 170x25
Db curl: 30x12, 30x12, 30x12 (HC)
Conditioned:
1 mile easy run: 9:30
Notes:
- sitting down tomorrow to really plan out a training block, but today felt damn good.
- Need to plan out mobility better
- Doing some throws felt great, though i definitely got some looks from the neighbors just yeeting a medicine ball in the front yard
- Press felt good. Purposely going a little lighter, and really stretching the ROM. Not quite touching collarbone, because I just canāt get there, but definitely under chin.
- Goal for strength work is to never fail, and hardly struggle. I want the last rep of every set to still be crisp. (Did Wendler say that years ago? Did I run 531 for years while ignoring that principle? ā¦. Mind your business). Iāve noticed my strength has always been best when Iām not struggling the main lift. Fastest squat gains were doing tons of submax sets. Best deadlift was when I wasnāt even deadlifting, best overhead was when I was doing a lot of bodybuilding work. And benchā¦ is bench lol. Clean reps between 70-90%, will vary rep schemes but always ending the set with a few in the tank.
- Accessory work? High intensity, either too failure or within a rep or two. Less focused on weight than just flexing the hell out of the muscle, and pushing strength throughout the range of motion, but always at a high intensity
- Run felt fine, just a short jog. Planned something longer but I needed to take a chainsaw to that fallen tree lol.
@Hugo_Fillion thatās the plan! Also looking into some squat jumps and explosive trap bar deadlifts. Sort of working to train closer and closer to OLY lifting before I actually start.
And itās a new format Iām trying to play with lol, almost a way of making me acknowledge that Iām training all the aspects.
@BrandonCrawford definitely man. It is a ton of fun, and I would love to get on the mat again. Heck, maybe Iāll take a page out of @T3hPwnisher ās playbook and sign up from some grappling competitions with no training lol. See how much of it Iāve still got in me.
And honestly, thatās kind of my thought process with all of this. I think I WOULD still like to do a powerlifting meet, or a strongman comp, or hell a 5k, whatever. But instead of going into these things thinking āI am a powerlifterā or āI am a strongman,ā it will just be āhey, Iām an athlete, and this is some fun athletic thing I decided to do.ā Taking out some of the dedication to individual sports, putting that dedication into the type of fitness I just value as a person, and letting the results lie where they do.
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More notes:
- been doing the āpliabilityā app for 15ish minutes every night. Also doing my own stuff that is a combo of supple leopard and just stuff Iāve done in sports. FWIW, I actually feel like my own stuff is loosening me up better, not sure if I will continue with the pliability deal.
- Iām going to write a training book. (Ebook? Manifesto?) Now, letās be 100% clear , I am not writing a book that I intend to publish as an expert guide to training. I am do not qualified for that lol. But, Iām a big believer in writing down goals and plans. Sort of a āguiding principles guideā of things I believe in, that I can go back and reference to make sure that I donāt let myself stray too far away from my base. I notice I can get a bit obsessive chasing different things that look interesting, trying new things here and there, until I eventually look at my training and go āwait, wtf am I doing? When did I stop doing X?ā Maybe a personal training principles is a better name for it. Either way, itās happening.
- in a similar vein, making my own little recipe book. Just going to print out stuff I make and put it into a binder. I am entirely happy living off of monster mash for most of my life lol. BUT, my wifeās really starting to get more interested in the nutrition side. (Side not, after hitting 170x12 on squats, she is getting pretty proud of her strength, and I think really wants to chase some numbers. i think her interest in nutrition is really coming from an interest in gaining strength, which makes me absolutely psyched) while i will happily live on mash, she will not lol. Also, we are going to have kids eventually (current plan is 4ish years from now), and I canāt just feed my kid mash everyday lol. So, upping the meal prep game a bit. Trying to basically do one new recipe a week, while keeping the rest of my meals normal lol.
Also, wife is away for army stuff for the next 8 weeks, so Iām going a little nutty on training and nutrition becauseā¦ well Iāve got a ton of free time and I gotta do something lol.
This weeks nutrition plan:
Meal 1: Monster Mash
8oz 93/7 ground beef, 1 cup rice cooked in bone broth, 1/2 cup mixed veggies
539 calories, 53g protein, 17g fat, 42g carb
Meal 2: Same as meal 1
Meal 3: Chili
8oz 93/7 turkey, black and kidney beans, diced tomatoes and tomato paste, chili seasoning (need more next time, came out a little bland), 1 cup of cauliflower/broccoli āriceā.
523 calories, 55g protein, 14g fat, 42g carbs
Meal 4: Chicken tendies
12 oz Costco lightly breaded chicken strips by āreal goodsā (just tried these, they are amazing)
Handful of baby pickles
360 calories, 63g protein, 15g fat, 12g carbs
This is lower calorie than I have done in a while (getting back on track with the cut post Disney), and i feel like Iām eating more food than ever. Pretty good feeling. Will update next week for the next round of meal preps. Looking to do something with that Ninja Creami (my wife has an insane sweet tooth lol, so lot of potential there)
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And you could still add more veggiesā¦ 
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