It’s honestly something I appreciate about travel: it’s when I get to really get creative because of limitations. This past week, I gave myself the limit of 20 minutes of work and only 24kg kettlebells/bodyweight to work with. I actually DID have more weight to play with, but didn’t want to spend time dailing it in each workout. I was with family, and wanted to maximize that family time.
Some of the workouts were duds, but some were absolute and total burners, and NOW I can bring those “back to the lab” and keep tweaking.
It sounds almost kind of liberating to be limited to certain pieces of equipment. I have so much shit at home that I don’t know what to do with it without some sort of direction. I think once I build up a bunch of different ideas that I “like” to do I can just grab from them when I want.
I really enjoy reading your e book and it’s helped me a lot in understanding a base of what a quick conditioning session should look like. I can also play the comparison game on the forums to see how I match up to you and @SvenG and @mr.v3lv3t and everyone else who runs the stuff you’ve come up with. Not necessarily in an “I beat you” or “damn I suck” kind of way, but just to see where I’m at.
I hear you on “too much stuff”. I get a wild hair every once in a while to just scrap it all and start over with a set of stands and a barbell, like “the old days”, haha. With your case, “schedule” can be the task master. “I have 20 minutes: how can I make it suck the most?”
Yeah, but honestly it’s almost working in my favor. Yes, I may be working on an 8 day lifting schedule some weeks, but it’s allowing me an extra day of conditioning sometimes… Sometimes I get 7 day weeks, but I’m really not bothered by taking an extra day. It all has been seeming to work out super well, and finding new ways to obliterate myself in 15 minutes has been a nice change of pace haha.
@heretolog@tlgains yeah… Pizza is the best haha. I was going to get a meat lovers but ended up going for pepperoni and banana peppers, my favorite. Hot wings, too. They weren’t too spicy though.
@SvenG thanks dude, if I remember correctly, you used this protocol for some of your BBB stuff too?
@T3hPwnisher wow thank you dude. It’s been nice to just shut my brain off and just eat and lift hard. I think that’s all I need. I have been overthinking things for way too long, as I’m sure a lot of new lifters do. The forums are a blessing and a curse in that regard… so much information, but not a whole lot that really needs to be read.
Haha not even close dude. I’m just an idiot that makes leg day miserable. It’s just a little punishment for feeling good. By the way, I saw some of your physique pics in your log… you are certainly not inadequate. I’m hoping I can look like you do some day.
@simo74 haha thanks man, that means a lot coming from the guy that just crushed SS
I didn’t do that during Beefcake with FSL supplemental (but you’re a monster, so I’d expect nothing less!), but in my first run of BBB that’s exactly what I did. JW calls the AMRAP-style supplemental work Malcom X in Forever (@dagill2 turned me on to that), and as Pwn pointed out back then, it was a solid way to make the work harder when I felt like the BBB weights were too easy.
I absolutely stand by it, however i’ve also had success keeping the weight as prescribed and being really, really, really anal with regards to form and bar speed. Both seem to have benefits.
Wasn’t anticipating a very great session today, but 380 moved fast and 13 mins isn’t too terrible for the BBB sets. The 5x10 felt incredibly difficult today for some reason though. It more closely resembled the feeling of approaching muscular failure like deepwater than not being able to brace or catch my breath. Either way, got it done. Chuck steak, a massive salad with cheddar and blue cheese and a ton of peanut butter for dinner tonight.
killin it
