Same. Same. lol
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Ooh final pickle question. My football coach used to make us drink pickle juice on hot days lol. Was he insane or does it actually hydrate
Every liquid helps āhydrateā but the salt (and thereās some potassium too) helps replace the electrolytes lost when you sweat in practice. So, itās like cheap LMNT or Liquid IV. lol
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Man, loved the disney post. So much to talk about in there.
We just took our 4 kids there a few weeks ago. I couldnāt ride anything because I would barf, but it was a good time.
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lol, pick apart my post whenever, or shoot me a text if you wanna keep it private
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That chicken teriyaki bowl is begging for a couple scrambled eggsā¦
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Chicken and eggs mixed together is absolutely delicious because of the extra cruelty.
I was able to get back and read the Disneyland post, and I have similar observations when I go on cruises. Itās good to get āback into humanityā for a little bit and remember what the rest of the population is living like. Helps calibrate our efforts and results. People are in such a steady state of decline that simply holding the status quo is progressing.
The part about men being in particularly rough shape compared to women is quite true. Generations of women being expected to maintain some sort of physical standard has at least ingrained an idea of effort in the gender (the sociological and psychological ramifications of it now withstanding), whereas men have always kinda been given carte blanche to peak in high school and decline in marriage. However, weāre in such a sad state of physical culture now that men donāt even peak in high school: they start DECLINING there, from a lifetime spent indoors with no regular physical activity. You see male bodies āout in the wildā and theyāre just feeble AND fat at the same time.
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We have become the people from Wall-E.
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And Idiocracy. Where the most average man 30 years ago is now a god.
DUDE I just started watching that (again) with my wife. Sheās not into it but Iām hoping to change her mind. Watching a few minutes at a time at bedtime.
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About that Disney trip -
Iāve taken my family more times than Iād have wished. I hate it. But, Iāll admit that this last time was pretty goodā¦ and maybe even enjoyable.
My oldest is 11 and my youngest turned 4 during the trip, and Disney has something for everyone.
Galaxyās Edge is very very well done, particularly with the in-character people just milling around āharassing citizensā.
My youngest now thinks Darth Vader is real.
But yeah, you see all kind of human bodies there, people who barely can walk, barely fit into seats, and Iād have thought the visitors have self-selected for people who are capable of walking in the sun all day - which is what you do at Disney.
And yes, the women look WAY better than the men. There are outliers, but by and large, the fit people tend to be the women.
Society is weird.
A society where nobody* has to put forth physical effort to bring forth food is weird.
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Slightly NSFW, but I was at the Cantina bar in there this trip. We got seated at a table with like 4 other strangers, and it just so happened that they were all coworkers with my brother in law. Work at the same ER in Arkansas. Crazy small world. So we all had a couple drinks, swapping stories, having a great time.
Well these two dudes in Stormtrooper getup come up to the table, one taps my shoulder from behind and goes ācitizen, do you have your empirical identification card?ā
(Remember I had a few drinks in me)
I turn around a go āwhat is this a fucking ICE raid?ā
Stormtrooper 2 is laughing so hard heās bent double, which was extra funny because they had the voice modulator helmets so his laughter sounds ridiculous. Stormtrooper 1, who had been the one talking to me, was dead quiet for like 5 seconds and just goes āidk how Iām supposed to respond to that.ā
Then we got a group selfie. Good times
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Flipping AWESOME
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20jun25:
Agile:
PVC overhead
PVC around the world
Hollywoods
T spine over GHD
Butterfly
Single leg hamstring stretch
Powerful:
20 yard A skips
20 yard each side lateral skips
3x3 bounding broad jumps
Strong:
Press: 45x10, 95x5, 115x5, 130x6, 130x6, 130x6, 130x6
10 red BPA in between sets
Built:
CGBP: 185x9, 185x8
Lat Pulldown: 165x12, 165x10
Seated Cable row: 145x11, 145x9
Superset:
Db preacher curl: 20x12, 20x15
Single arm cable extension: 25x12, 25x12
Conditioning:
Rower sprints 5 rounds
30 second sprint, 60 seconds rest
Notes:
- holy hell my traps are smoked from yesterday. I honestly canāt remember the last time ANY body part of mine was this sore. Woke up today and felt like and movement of the upper back was just touching fire lol.
- My headbands came in. I look like a fool, but these things work really well.
- A note on the stretching. Iām doing this all pretty quickly. Iāll hit one stretch, hold it for about 10-15 seconds, bounce a bit on it, then move to the next. All stretches done in about 5 minutes.
- Agility felt good. Focusing on being ābouncyā on my skips. The broad jump bounds felt good, hitting 3 in a row got some reactive jumps out of me; and I put a marker so Iād always try to beat the previous jump .
- All main lifts felt good.
- Rowing intervals were gnarly, but in a good way. Definitely keeping this one on hand
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I think you mean to say you look awesome!
Lean into the 80s, haha.
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Conditioning:
VO2 max intervals:
4 min on, 4 min off, 3 rounds
7.8 mph
Notes:
- too damn hot for this, felt like i was melting lol
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So many good gainz coming from this, do it again and again
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23Jun25:
Work for today:
Agile:
Butterfly
Seated Hamstring
Weighted squat holds
Lunge extensions
PVC overheads
Powerful:
Snatch complex: 3 muscle snatches, 1 overhead squat
6 complexes at 75lbs
Strong:
Squat:
315x3
315x3
315x3
315x3
315x3
315x3
315x3
315x3
315x3
315x8
Built:
RDL: 205x10, 205x10
Superset:
Close stance dual kb slant board squat: 44sx10, 44x8
GHD sit-up: 10x12, +10x12
Conditioned:
2 rounds (I gassed)
80m backward sled drag; 115lbs
12 53lb kb swings
75 jump rope
Notes:
- snatches felt good. This weight is purposely very light. Not going for heavy, going for fast, and Iām getting it lol. Barbell flying. Muscle snatches because I donāt know how to really snatch lol. Throwing in an overhead squat just to practice and warm up the hips.
- Going back to some real submax work on squat. My form never felt better than when I was doing this, and I was only 5lbs away from my current PR, and that was done underway on a ship, so hard to compare. Iāve got a theory that the more technically proficient you are, the more you get out of higher rep or higher percentage work. But I am not built to squat, so I need to grease this groove a lot, which is why I think I get so much from the submax stuff.
- Still pushing the last set of squats. Not an AMRAP, just a higher effort set to finish off.
- I gassed on the conditioning. The heat just got me, I gotta figure out a hydration plan if this heat stays.
I canāt quantify how damn hot and humid it is around here right now, but when I was rolling off my knee sleeves, a puddle of water shot out the top. I donāt mean like I wrung them out, I mean when I started folding them over at the top, water shot out like a geyser. Need another example? I took my sled out for the drags. Had it out maybe 15 minutes total. Using rope for the drags, so didnāt touch the actual sled. When I grabbed the sled? It burnt my hand. I donāt mean āit felt hot,ā I mean I had to use a towel to get it back inside because I was feeling actual burns from touching the damn thing. I should weight myself before and after to see how much Iām sweating out, itās gotta be liters
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lol, Iām realizing my new training style REALLY targets my traps, and Iām 100% okay with that haha
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24 Jun 25
Work for today:
AM: Navy PRT
15 min warmup and stretching
Push-ups: 84 (max)
Plank: 3:15 (max)
2000m row: 7:44
PM:
Agile: did enough of this during the PRT
Powerful:
BTN Push Press:
45x8
95x3
95x3
95x3
95x3
Strong:
Bench: 200x6, 200x6, 200x6, 200x6
10 red BPA between sets
Built:
30 Inc db press: 65x12, 65x10
Db row: 115x12, 115x10
Superset:
Lat pulldown: 125x10, 125x10, 125x10, 125x10
Db fly: 25x10, 25x10, 25x10, 25x10
Superset:
Rope pushdown: 45x15, 45x15, 45x11
Lat raise: 20x15, 20x15, 20x13
Conditioned: done this morning
Notes:
- had my yearly fitness test at work today. Went well. Push-ups werenāt bad, and I still hate planks, but maxed anyway.
- Funny story on the row. I was planning to run it. But, I was the only one who signed up for the run, so they didnāt have the logistics to accommodate. They asked if I would bike it, but the bike is straight up cheating, so I asked if I could row instead. Sure, no worries. Well, I didnāt really think this through. First off, I really havenāt used a rower all that much. Second, I havenāt done a 2000m row in well over 18 months. Third, I literally had zero reference for the grading rubric. Like, none at all. I was about 2 minutes in when I realized that I had no idea if I was crushing it or failing. So, there was a dude next to me rowing. I saw his āestimated completion timeā was about 6:50, whereas mine at that point was about 8 minutes. So I got worried, and started to haul ass on the rower. Thing is, that doesnāt really help. When I was doing more strokes, my time got worse. Had to play around a bit, found that going slower and pulling harder actually net me better times. Ended up hitting the 7:44ā¦. Only to realize thatās an outstanding score on the Navy scale. And the dude next to me? Turns out he did Heavyweight Crew at Georgetown, and maxed by close to 30 seconds. Maybe a bad guy to use as my reference lol.
- Anyway, I feel a 7:44 row fasted in the AM with questionable rowing form isnāt terrible. In my head, I think with some dedication I could manage around 7, but thatās a future goal lol.
- Edit: I just looked back in my log, and my PR 2000m row from 2 years ago was exactly 7:44. I was rowing a bit more then, Iām also stronger now and about 15lbs heavier, so pretty content with that performance
- Onto the lift. Unfortunate that bench day happened after this, was definitely a tad shot from the pushups. Not bad, but I could tell. I can crank 84, but it does take it out of me.
- Super hot out, sweating like crazy, lots of pump work. jacked and juicy today.
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