5/3/1 BaBY - c26w3 - summary
This post isn’t so much a summary of Week 3 as it is just some random updates because I haven’t had a chance to post them yet…
My kids kicked a$$ at the summer swim team Championship Meet on Saturday, 29 July: They both swam 3 events (the maximum), my daughter had second, third and fourth place finishes, and my son had a first place and two second place finishes—not too shabby! The team finished 2nd in the meet, and 2nd overall in the division. It was a good season!
We had the team banquet later that day, and my son received the Hardest Worker Award for the 2023 season! There are 117 kids on the team, ranging in age from about 5-6 years old to 17-18 years old, and he stood out among all of them this year! We didn’t know about the award in advance, and the coaches had some amazing things to say about him, so that was a truly awesome surprise. We are quite proud of both our kids’ effort, but this award was icing on the cake!
Anyway, here was my dinner at the banquet:
I get seriously giddy on banquet day each year—the meat is so good!
And apparently I’m developing some kind of reputation: When I was in line loading up my plate, one of the swim moms I don’t really know but who helps prepare the food said, “Oh good! You ARE here. We hoped you’d be coming—we made a lot of meat this year.”
That’s not a bad reputation to have, haha!
Also, this arrived last Thursday:
I’m super-pumped to try it out: I’ve use some of the individual ingredients before, but not from Biotest and not in combination. Biotest has never let me down before, so I’m expecting good things from Alpha Male!
I’ll be moving on to Cycle 27 today. Not surprisingly, my goals for the week are:
- Complete all 4 lifting workouts
- Complete 4 days of extra conditioning
- Complete 3 days of easy conditioning and direct yoke work
- Complete 3 days of hard conditioning
- Eat properly
I’m still trying to find the right balance between family life, training life, and work life—I’m almost a year into my new job, but it’s still presenting new challenges every day, it seems. I feel like I’ve been training a bit less overall since the end of 5x5/3/1, but I’m also not feeling like a zombie most days since then—at least not because of training. I’m going to keep the schedule in Cycle 27 pretty much as it has been in Cycle 26, and then re-evaluate in another 3 weeks to see where things stand.
I’m still carrying a lot more fat than I’d like, and I swear work stress contributes in a way I didn’t appreciate before. But that’s an easy excuse, and I know my nutrition still isn’t as dialed in as it was earlier this summer. I am making progress toward finding the right balance between eating correctly and consciously and not being an a-hole about food, so that’s good…
Like everything else, that’s just going to take time and consistent effort.
Finally, I’m cycling up my TMs on the main lifts:
Press - 130 lbs
Squat - 295 lbs
Bench - 235 lbs
Dead - 340 lbs
Clean - 130 lbs
and on the supplemental lifts:
Incline press - 130 lbs
Front squat - 205 lbs
Close-grip bench - 200 lbs
Straight-leg deadlift - 255 lbs
The first cycle of BaBY was awesome—despite what I said above, the workload is really clicking for me right now—so I’m super-pumped for the next 3 weeks!
Right, so that’s that. @kleinhound recently observed that:
brought him to the dance, and I couldn’t agree more: It means there’s hope for me yet, haha!
So, folks:
Let’s just f-ing go!