I’m in my mid-thirties now, with no work-related fitness requirements. I’ve got a four-year-old daughter at home and we own two horses so life can get fairly busy. Been doing fine so far, but I don’t think I’m the role model I could be. I also want to be able to pick my daughter up when she weighs twice as much and I never want to say “not now, dad is too tired”!
I’ve been doing some weight training for the past two years but it’s been sporadic, at best. Not training hard enough, not eating enough, not doing any conditioning work, switching templates and programming… I’ve tried various 5/3/1 templates, some bro-split hypertrophy program found online, starting strength, to name a few. Last Christmas I stumbled upon TB, got all the books, and knew I had found my home when it comes to being as fit as possible.
I wrote about my base building + first operator block in the TB subreddit. In short, I did the base building from TBII followed by some 9 weeks of operator while cutting some weight. Now I’m on my first “real” operator block with right-ish amount of nutrition to go with it.
What I love about TB is there’s no guesswork needed, if you don’t feel the need to customize it. I can plug in my weights for all my lifts, pick 4-6 HIC sessions I’m going to be doing, and I’ll know all my exercise sessions for the coming 6 weeks. Is it going to be the ultimate, min-maxed, perfected training program? Most likely not. But when is life that way? I sure as hell know I’m going to be in better shape 6 months from now.
Operator week 3, HIC 3
General conditioning time! I did GC #6 from TBII. Still fairly new to KB training, so I’m doing sessions like this one, meat-eater 2, and fobbits with kb swings often. First time doing the full 5 minute rounds with the designated rest intervals