It is exactly what you said. A sausage made with blood. We call it black pudding. Either made with pig blood and pork fat with some fillers like oatmeal or barely, or made with beef (cow)blood and fat.
We also have white pudding which is similar but it doesn’t have the blood, so is just fat and fillers. Both yummy.
Must resist urge to act like a complete child
5/3/1 W16D4: Wrestling Practice
Warm-Up, Hand-Fighting, Assorted Technique, Live, Sprints
First long/difficult practice I’ve had in a while, especially since despite the solid running times, I still need to get into proper ‘wrestling shape.’ Gassed or not, I was still able to work the everloving fuck out of pretty much everyone there. I let the freshmen and sophomores work their moves with some resistance, but the gloves came off for the upperclassmen lol. It’s good to be back.
Side note - I’ve always been one of those people who doesn’t get much DOMS/pump in my biceps - except when I wrestle. Which I would assume is because of stuff like working under hooks, but it’s always weird when they’re sore to the point of barely being able to straighten my arms after practice, which is something that pretty much never happens with curls or chins. Go figure.
5/3/1 W16D5: Press
Press: 5x45/75/95/115/135, 4x155
Clean & Press: 5x5 @ 135
Pull-Aparts: 4x50
Strict (Back Against Wall) Curls: 5x5 @ 65
Pretty poor top set, but I’ll just chalk it up to this being an off day. Pressing has been going well in general, so this isn’t concerning. Besides that, a solid day. Strict curls were surprisingly hard with light weight, so I guess that’ll be something to focus on for a while. Should help get my weighted chins into triple-digit territory.
5/3/1 W16D6: Easy Conditioning
Incline Walk: 10:00 @ 12% @ 4.0 MPH
Deep Water Ab Circuit: 3x(20 Crunches + 1:00 Plank)
Incline Walk: 10:00 @ 12% @ 4.0 MPH
Have felt pretty rough the past couple days - don’t think I’m sick, but not much appetite, a few headaches, and just generally feel off. I’ll get through it.
feel better soon
5/3/1 W16D7: Deadlift
Deadlift: 5x135/225/295/335/375
WG Chins: 3x10
FGDL: 3x1 @ 275
Cut short because my back feels pretty shot and I don’t want to reinjure it. Which is something I haven’t done in quite a while, so this is a little concerning. I’d imagine that the movement I’m using for my squat supplemental is mostly to blame here - I think I’m getting too rounded in the hole - and I’ve been stiff and sore since I did them last. I was planning on going to a wrestling practice today, so we’ll see if I can loosen everything up enough over the next few hours for that to work out. It’s going to be a pretty hard one because the team got beat on last night and lost 61-16.
You are most definitely going to run.
5/3/1 W16D7 Pt. 2: Wrestling Practice
Went home, warmed up and massaged my back, and it felt good enough to work with. I’m going to switch up my squat supplemental work, but false alarm otherwise.
Rather than actually detail the practice, an illustrative example:
Every now and then, we have a phenomenon called “rain” in the wrestling room. This happens when the team’s collective sweat evaporates, rises to the roof, condenses inside of an air vent, and drips/mists back out to form a cloud-esque mass. This only happens when 30+ people are absolutely pouring sweat, so it’s typically only seen once or twice a year, during the hardest practices, at the very end of conditioning.
It rained for about half an hour straight of live, and all the way through conditioning. People cried.
This is more to brag than complain, though. I’m glad I went.
@tlgains Most of our conditioning was actually monkey rolls and sprawl instead of sprints or something like an Indian run. I probably would’ve preferred the running lol
5/3/1 W17D1: Bench
Bench: 3x45/95/115/135/155/170, 4x190 (PR)
CG Bench: 2x5, 1x4+1 @ 170
Cable Rows: 4x8 @ 190
I’ve been thinking/talking it through lately, and I don’t think I’m going to compete with the wrestling club this year. I’d be missing quite a bit of school for tournaments, and I always preferred practice to competition anyways. Which is the opposite of how most people tend to be, but I just found it stressful to the point of not actually being enjoyable. I’m still going to go to practices like I have been, but that’ll be it for now.
The upside here is that I don’t need to worry about weight classes anymore, so I can stop trying to get down to 165 and go back to what I was doing beforehand nutritionally, during which time my training was going really well (this is probably the biggest factor for why training has sucked the last couple weeks. And being borderline sick for a good chunk of the time wasn’t helping). I can also train harder, accordingly. And to be completely honest, I find getting bigger and stronger to be more enjoyable than I ever did wrestling. It’ll be nice to be able to use it as conditioning and keep myself sharp/involved with the team, but without it being a huge commitment.
I’m going to take a day off, and then run BBBB again now that I can eat properly for it. TM’s will be dropped to 305/195/395/155, which are all about 85%. I’m excited in particular to see what happens to my squat, because after the last time l ran this I hit a 35-pound PR that I still haven’t topped in like five or six months.
Nice work
Between-Programs Day: Run (Treadmill)
2 Miles in 14:18 (7:09 Pace)
Pretty solid pace here. Excited to start BBBB back up tomorrow, not too much else to log.
lol what, you’re always kicking ass in here. Nice job on all the PRS lately
@boilerman Thanks for that! Maybe a bit of an overstatement on my end, but I’ve just felt off since coming back to MD. I’m getting through it, though.
5/3/1 BBBB W1D1: Squat
Squat: 5x45/135/185/200/235/260
Squat: 5x10 @ 200 in 13:10
Superset
NG Chins: 45x6/5/5/4/4, BWx11/8/5+2 (50 Total)
Dips: BWx17/17/17/15/10 (66 Total)
A very solid start. Much less cardiovascularly challenging than I remember my last W1D1 of this program being, which means that I’m coming into this much better-conditioned. Rather than my old “start a set every 4:00” strategy, I just got back under the bar whenever my legs and back felt ready to go. I grabbed a picture of myself on the way out, and I’m looking pretty solid. And the picture doesn’t show it, but I’m still reasonably lean (like, abs-in-good-lighting-lean).
Check out the Jim Wendler shirt, too. Perfect for starting the program in.
The ebb and flow of life- you’ll be in a serious upswing in no time. You’re performing in an awesome way for being subjected to subpar circumstances… it’s outstanding.
Looking jacked as hell too
looking real solid and you have years if this stuff to go yet, feeling excited for you.
Nice, dude!
@boilerman @SvenG @simo74 Thanks guys!
5/3/1 BBBB W1D2: Wrestling Practice
Went live with the varsity 170 and a few other guys around that weight to get them ready for a dual tomorrow against our rival team. I just go like 40 or 50% in all of these goes, since there’s not much of a point in having me just beat on them, and it’s a part of the lineup where we have a lot of less-experienced guys.
5/3/1 BBBB W1D3: Press
Press: 5x45/75/95/100/115/135
Superset (Press/Pull-Apart)
Press: 5x10 @ 100 (14:40)
Pull-Apart: 4x30
Alt Hammer Curls: 4x8 @ 45
Leg Raises: BWx15/15/15/12
Pretty tough for how light the supplemental work was - shoulders got super pumped after a couple sets, and pull-parts between each one got a pretty good burn going. The end of this program will have me doing this with 120 Lbs, which will definitely take some doing. I might switch to cleaning every rep at some point.
5/3/1 BBBB W1D4: Conditioning
Stair Climber: 100 Floors in 17:52 (PR)
My nose was stuffed as fuck for this, so breathing sucked. Still managed to knock 29 seconds off of my last time, though, so it ended up working out. Final heart rate was over 200.
