Nice benching hehe!
Do you refuse to eat it or you don’t have any at home?
Guys also should have a nice booty. It’s not just to be ladies’ eye candy, but the booty is not only one of the strongest muscle, it is also super important in lower body stability and balance => more strength
I’m eating it by the pound!
Just want more and more of it…
God now I wish I had some
My meat portions for the last week were ground beef mixed with a little BBQ sauce, rolled into 1/2lb balls, then smashed flat in a skillet. Got a nice char on the outside. So good.
So, so good.
I could never eat ground Turkey or beef again in my life (unless it was Taco Bell) and I’d be thrilled. Been eating ~8 pounds a week for 4-5 months now I believe. Mostly turkey, but it’s so close it might as well be the same.
Edit: same for white (jasmine) rice.
Stop listening to hunger or fullness signals from your body/mind.
Eat the same things every day.
Want to get bigger, is the scale going up-keep eating the same.
Want to get bigger is the scale not going up, eat more.
Want to get smaller, is the scale going down, keep eating the same.
Want to get smaller, scale isn’t going down, eat less.
Its not rocket science.
I’d burn out on the ground turkey for sure. Less confident that’d be true for ground beef, but maybe I just haven’t been at it long enough.
For sure, dude. And I think you’re living proof that it works!
All this talk of meat is getting me hungry. I have been cooking up a big pot of chilli with minced beef, every week for more than 2 years now. It has 2 kilo’s of meat (4 1/2 pounds), with beans and tomatoes etc. I spilt it into 10 meals and eat 2 a day at work every day of the week. Some nights of the week I will come home and ask the wife what’s for dinner and if she answers something that is made with mince beef It is really hard not to say…oh not again!!
Last 2 weeks I have switched it up and made it with 1kg of minced beef and 1kg of minced pork, tastes real good and it feels like I am having something new. LOL
Dinner at Simo’s! Who’s in?
P&FLT - c2w1d6 (c2 redux)
Friday - 13 August 2021
Workout: Deadlift, 1145-1250 (65 minutes)
Warm-up
Throws + jumps
Begin: 1202; End: 1244; Duration: 42 minutes
Deadlift - 110x5, 140x5, 165x5 | 195x5, 220x5, 250x5 | (195x5)x7
Ab wheel - ramp (8) - 20, 20, 20
Dip - BW - 25, 25
Pull-up/chin-up - BW - 10/(7+3)+3/3, 6/6, 5/5, 5/5
Push-up - 35, 15
Cable crunch - 40 - 25, 25
That went really well. I was hungry going in, but my schedule didn’t allow a pre-workout cheeseburger today. That feeling went away soon enough, but I then got really, really thirsty a few sets in. I don’t drink any fluids during my workouts, but normally I don’t get thirsty. Anyway, just downed 32 ounces of water, so that’s that.
Deads were awesome today. I had veins in my neck and shoulders that I’ve never seen before popping out on that top set, so that was cool. Feeling fatigued by the end, but everything was still fast and smooth.
Ab wheel was tough, but found the groove eventually, and I got all the dips in each set this time, no collapsing. (The last 3-4 in the last set were a grind, but…) Pull-ups/chin-ups felt much better today than any time earlier in the week, and I got 10 pull-ups on the first mini-set, so that was cool too (even if I had to do 7+3 on the chins immediately following). Cycling through assistance moves between main/supplemental sets really seems to help… Why is it I only do that on deadlift day?
Cable crunch with 40 seems better, though I’m going to have to focus on keeping the work in my abs—think I was getting a bit sloppy there and letting my arms and lats do too much of the work.
Anyway, really happy with today: so far, so good. Sled and BPAs to follow.
P&FLT - c2w1d6 (c2 redux)
Friday - 13 August 2021
Workout: Hard conditioning, 1415-1440 (25 minutes)
Sled push - 16x50 yds, 90 + sled = 177 lbs
Goal: 15:00; Time: 14:03
BPA - red - 3x(10 high + 10 mid + 10 low)
Felt slow, was slow. Took about 2-3 minutes between sets of BPAs. Definitely a punch-the-clock workout.
P&FLT - c2w1d7 (c2 redux)
Saturday - 14 August 2021
Workout: Easy conditioning + calves, 0810-9040 (90 minutes)
Weighted vest walk - 20 kg - 35 minutes
Bike@120 bpm - 15 minutes
Seated CR - mtor - 170x6, 190x6 | 210x6 + isofail: 14s
Jump rope tabata - 8x20/10 - 2 rounds, 30 seconds rest between
Fasted. Level of effort for this work was surprising—didn’t sleep well, so maybe that was the cause. Ellen, burpees, BPAs to follow later.
P&FLT - c2w1d7 (c2 redux)
Saturday - 14 August 2021
Workout: Extra conditioning, 1345-1425 (40 minutes)
Ellen WOD - for time: 13:09
3 rounds of:
a) 20 burpees
b) 21 alternating DB snatch - 35 lbs
c) 12 DB thrusters - 2x35 lbs
140 1-pump burpees - 5x28, 28-second rest between
BPA - red - 3x(10 high + 10 mid + 10 low)
Went to the amusement park with my son for a few hours this morning, then home for lunch and straight into this. Honestly not sure how I got it done, but I did. Thrusters tried to eat my lunch again—and in the first two rounds they did—but I found something in the last round and absolutely crushed it. Also beat my previous Ellen time by over 2 minutes.
Burpees immediately following were tough, but they’re in the books. BPAs are what they are; took about 2 minutes between sets, give or take.
P&FLT - c2w1 (c2 redux) - summary
Felt good to get back on track this week. Coming into a 3s week after the time away was tough, but restarting Cycle 2 was definitely the right choice—would’ve been a 1s week otherwise, and pushing that might have been counterproductive.
Hit all my goals for the week. Only blip was some chocolate fondue for dessert to celebrate my daughter’s birthday on Thursday—a far cry from my miserably strict behavior last year (that she noticed), and well worth the dirty calories on so many levels.
Goals for this week:
Sticking with 20 kg in the weight vest for the foreseeable future: that’s roughly 20% bodyweight, and I’m not sure there’s really any added benefit to more weight for a 35-minute walk 3 times a week. Also swapping out some of the burpees I’ve been doing for swings: they’re a good way to hit my core and PC with a bit more work and, let’s be honest, I just need a change of pace.
P&FLT - c2w2d1 (c2 redux)
Sunday - 15 August 2021
Workout: Easy conditioning + calves, 0750-0855 (65 minutes)
Weighted vest walk - 20 kg - 35 minutes
Seated CR - mtor - 170x12, 190x12 | 210x12 + isofail: 15s
Jump rope tabata - 8x20/10 - 2 rounds, 15 seconds rest between
Fasted. Cut the rest between jump rope rounds to 15 seconds, which is almost pointless: just 5 seconds more than the off period for each on/off set. I’ll probably just move to 16 straight sets for these later in the week.
Planning to try Fran WOD later today, followed by burpees + swings and BPAs.
P&FLT - c2w2d1 (c2 redux)
Sunday - 15 August 2021
Workout: Extra conditioning, 1035-1120 (45 minutes)
Fran WOD - for time: 12:58
21-15-9
a) Thruster - 95 lbs
b) Pull-up
100 1-pump burpees + 20-kg KB swings - 25-15-14-13-12-11-10; X-second rest after each set of X burpees + swings
BPA - red - 3x(10 high + 10 mid + 10 low)
Well that was humbling! That workout very quickly became a struggle just to get the work done—time didn’t matter. At all.
But it was a learning experience, too. Lesson: Use 65 lbs for now. Oh yeah, and: There’s a 9-minute time cap. Hah!
I didn’t stop to consider that a thruster is kind of like a fast front squat into a press—fast being the key word here—until about the second or third rep of the very first set. My front squats aren’t super strong or anything, nor is my press, so why I thought I could do 95 lbs fast and explosive for 21-15-9 reps…
Well, anyway, had to break these down into mini-sets (12+6+3, 9+6, 9), and I put the bar down between each of those. Also broke the pull-ups into mini-sets (7+7+7, 5+5+5, 3+3+3), and used different grips for each mini-set—but I went in intending to do that.
So, that WOD crushed me, but I think in a good way. I’ll come at it next time with some experience and there’ll be no where to go but up.
I like the burpee + swing combo, got my HR up and had my glutes on fire. Definitely liking the change of pace, too. Did the BPAs.
Already cut the grass (on Friday, after pushing the sled), haven’t started the next phase of landscaping out back yet, and it’s not blistering hot outside, so I’ll be cleaning out the attic for the rest of the day. (@kdjohn - Manual labor is the worst.)
great way to look at it mate. You did some work, learnt something and next time you will be better. Quality
