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Fantastic.

A few classics here. You can do negative splits with the stones or tire. Basically, flip the tire or carry the stone as far as you can in 5 minutes. Rest 5 minutes. Then go further than you did before in 5 minutes. The original RX comes from @Alpha and was actually 10 minutes of distance, but that will most likely annihilate you for days. Don’t let the tire flips get sloppy, as that’s how bicep tears can happen.

Another comes from a buddy of mine. Do an EMOM (every minute on the minute) tire flip workout of the following: filp the tire, jump onto the near end, jump over the far end, get off the tire, flip it back to start, rest for the remainder of the minute. Go for 10 minutes. If you feel froggy, go for even longer.

Oh god, I just realized how terrible of a pun “feeling froggy” is on a workout with jumps, but I’m going to keep it.

That EMOM approach can work with stone to shoulder as well. Go for triples.

I also like “stone grace”. Do stone to shoulder for 30 reps as fast as possible.

Since you’ve got multiple stones, you can set up “stone suicides”. Stagger the stones a certain amount away from each other. Start at a starting line, run to the nearest stone, pick it up, run it back to start, then get to the second nearest stone, repeat. And again, you can add onto it by putting them all BACK to the start. And if THAT’S not enough, put the tire at the end and go for max flips after you got the stones back.

The suicides can either be run multiple times with short rest between rounds, OR you just do 1 gigantic round of them until you get rhabado. I actually prefer the former, because after 1 big round, you’ll always recover eventually and think “damn, I coulda done more”, but if you beat yourself to hell over a few rounds, you can make that “last” one really feel like the last one.

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Those all sound awesome man…thank you for that. And never even thought about doing a stone grace…gave me a “man why didnt i think of that before” moment. If you end up asking any more questions it will be a while before i can answer. But thanks again

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Get after it dude! Happy to contribute. Stone Grace is awesome. Blows up my lower back something fierce.

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Saturday pm workout

Came into this feeling not super into it…i put my son down to bed and sorta nodded off with him for a bit…cue the typical dad “im just resting my eyes” joke…and so i just felt kinda foggy i guess.

Legs and a smidge of biceps

Empty bar front squat for warm up 2x10
Hamstring curls 2x20 (set 2 close to failure)
Step up super set with banded bb rdl x 3 sets
Bss x 3x12/15/12

Preacher curl 4 sets to finish off bi’s

Side bends for the obliques x 3 sets

So with legs everything was feeling good and i was getting a pump ect…but nothing was hard until i got to the bss. I didnt do tons of volume there…but it was all good work and good reps. It was that set of 15 that hurt the most. I didnt go nuts with how many leg movements i did either though…partly cause i didnt want to be totally wrecked for tomorrow but i also just dont have the motivation to train legs the way i used to. At least not right now.

The bicep work was where i went a little nuttier. The first 2 sets where to get some blood in the muscle and have my elbows ready. The third was really close to failure and the fourth was a really long set…a lbs drop plus mechanical drops. That helped mentally…even though it was just curls.

Looking forward to doing some mindset conditioning tomorrow using what @T3hPwnisher prescribed to me.

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I have taken monday/tuesday and i will take today too off of training. We started a massive roof on monday, and its reasonably steep, but not so much that we need to harness up. Plus plenty of wind. It is darn hard work and i cant wait to get our roofing done so we can start our stucco jobs.

Anyways…all i have been doing is recovery stuff so im ok for the next day of work…stretching, contrast shower, super deep bw squats ect…plus eating a lot of the right stuff.

My plan is to get back to some regular training starting thursday or friday night, and carry on through the weekend. I want to hit up some hard conditioning on sunday including a mindset challenge.

So…onto the stressors mentioned a couple posts ago. My wife was recently diagnosed with something that explains her chronic pain. I cant remember the name of the syndrome, but it causes a lot of the problems she has, and unfortuantly there isnt a ton that can be done about it. With her pain and this syndrome, the doctor said that she will get arthritis, possibly starting as early as in 5 years depending on how things go. That really sucks and its had me down for a while. She was just prescribed a cbd oil to see if that will give any relief and she will be meeting with a dietician at the end of the month.

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Thursday apr 15

A.m. 3 sets preacher curl - 1st set reverse, 2nd set hammer, 3rd set standard

Did this to get some blood around the elbows in the hopes that they would loosen up and feel better. Worked like a charm.

Weird morning in regards to wake up, food and so on. Wound up hitting the timmies drive thru.

P.m.
Farmers carry x 4 rounds
Tire flip : flip, jump on near side of tire, jump to far side, flip again x 1 round x 6 reps? …interrupted and couldnt continue

Fully intened to get chest/shoulders/triceps done, but will do it tomorrow instead. Life stuff takes precedence. I hope i used that word right haha.

Some of my food issues were really giving me problems today. I was super tired when i got up this morning, and had no appetite and no desire to eat my regular foods. Its hard to put things into words but i do have a variety of issues with food…definitely dont have a good relationship with it anyway. This is what led me to go to timmies cause i knew if i didnt i just wouldnt eat and that would mess me up more.

I barely ate lunch as a result. For supper my wife and i went out and i got popeyes. Darn was it good…but it wasnt helping me any…oh well. Tomorrow is another day.

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Seeing some results here despite so many life challenges and set backs…abs are coming in again and im feeling strong…at least strong for what i have been doing. We will see how well things can keep going.

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Hell yeah dude. Keep at it.

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Saturday training

Did a lot of walking today…we went out for a while and then had fun in the backyard as a family. I did some tire flips too cause i wanted to…and my wife caught some good pictures…i will throw up one or two of them here.

P.m. workout :

Arms/delts

Dips x 8/10/7/5
Grip compromised chins x 7/7/5

Empty bb curl x 100 reps (last 25 were thumbless reverse grip)

Band tricep push down heavy band x 50 reps dropset to lighter band x 30 reps…1 min rest…heavy band x 20. Total of 100 reps

Preacher curl x 12/10/8+7 right*/9+9 left*
*dropset

Empty bb ohp x 25/25/25 (facepulls between sets)
Side raise x 15/15/12

Dumbbell wrist curl x 2x20 focus on a hard contraction

This was one of the best arm pumps i have had in a long while, and the shoulder stuff felt good too. But my arms…man they just responded like crazy for some reason and blew right up. Musta done something right. Maybe watching a frank mcgrath video right before training haha

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Gonna get some abs and legs in tomorrow

Post workout meal : ham and cheese sandwhich

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Thanks man…much appreciated!

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Those arms are looking pretty meaty!

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Thanks…having short arms is helpful for that haha :t_rex:

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Good stuff in the back yard. Kids watch you do that and you become the WSM to them.
Sorry about the health/life stuff. Wish I could say more but I’m not good at finding the right kind of encouragement. You’re a hard working SOB with well-aligned priorities and that can make up for a LOT of bad luck.

And with a job like yours, de-prioritizing training until less intense workdays is definitely the right call. Gotta be able to pay the bills first.

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Thank you so much man…i really appreciate what you said. More than what i can put in writing.

And thats a good point about the kid watching me too…hadnt really thought about that but it makes sense.

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My kids were in the basement gym with me Friday. My daughter was a late arrival but my son was there for awhile. I tried to teach a 4 year old boy how to squat properly and I think I made progress! I’m going to try to get them to join me again today.

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That sounds awesome man…i want to get our boy one of those foam toddler weight sets. He is always trying to play with the kb but its too heavy haha. Talk about entertaining gym partners

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I made a mini “slosh pipe” (Dan John T Nation article) for my kids. Good for backyard time.
Oh man if you had an old bicycle wheel you could do tire flips and he could do the wheel!

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Those are both good ideas man, thanks! I want to build him something to climb on too cause he loves climbing on anything he can. The boy is fearless

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Monday
A.m.
Holding off till 9 for work today due to weather…starting another roof, probably our last for a while…which im not disappointed by.

20 min walk
Various stretches

I dont count this as training…this is basically just a start to the day and getting the body/mind ready for work.

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So we threw down another roof this week…didnt train during those days but i did a bunch of recovery stuff. It takes a lot out of me in a way im not used to…stucco and drywall is one thing but roofing is just different. I am gonna get some training in over the next few days and possibly a good bit of walking. Im feeling sore and tired but i have been eating good so im not terrible either.

A.m.

  • Rdl x 20/20/20 super set with face pull

  • Bb row x 10/12/15 superset with tricep push down

  • Ohp x 8/10/10 superset with upright row

  • Preacher curl x 3 sets

Basically this was a feeder session of sorts to work the areas of my body that were hurting. Did the trick and i feel way better. I hung paint cans on my bar to act as weights cause i didnt feel like messing with bands. Not a heavy workout…just something to get blood going where it needed to be.

I will be getting some plates soon here…not all that i want obviously cause that would be expensive. I will be getting them in stages. Cant wait to have that iron clangin’ again.

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