Fantastic idea! Why didn’t I think of this? Actually, the whole idea of rucking has been on my mind lately, but hadn’t considered turning dog walks into loaded walks.
I’ll have to try that tomorrow morning! Thanks for the great idea!
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Get to it girl.
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Hahaha I could only hope to be that cool! 
Compared to me you are practically glacial. 
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HA! I strongly disagree!
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Funny how our perception of ourselves can differ from what others see. Lets just agree that we both amazing and feel great about ourselves all weekend. 
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Good plan! 
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Today’s workout was a combo of Monday and Tuesday, but I ran out of time and didn’t get to everything.
Hip Thrusts: 4 x Failure with burnout partials at the end
Leg Press: 4 x 10-12
Seated Cable Row: 4 x Failure
Bentover Lateral Raise: 4 x Failure
T-Bar Row: 3 x 8-10
Dip: 3 x 7
Time to Reorganize Workouts
Thursdays are always insane, so I need that morning off from the gym. Here’s my new tentative plan:
Mon: Lower
Tues: Upper
Wed: Cardio/abs
Thurs: off
Friday: Full Body
Training with Lee Boyce
I don’t know how many years back this was, but didn’t realize how hyooge I was at the time. Maybe not my leanest moment, but who cares?
It’s kinda crazy how a muscular body can fluctuate from day to day just depending on carb intake, salt intake, time of month, and pump.
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You look like a superhero!
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Aww thank you!! 
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Huge >> lean
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Yay! And getting huge is a lot more fun than getting lean!
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I feel like nows as good a time as any
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Straight up my favourite read on TN. Thanks
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Huge is awesome - full support
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I ate about 40 grams of protein in one sitting (after yesterday’s lunch) in order to get videos for this Metabolic Drive pancake recipe. And it was my pleasure.
Eating in front of a camera is the craziest thing you could possibly ever tell me I’d be doing. Why? Because I’ve had a strange history of food insecurities… or public eating to be more precise.
At 13, I stopped eating in the cafeteria at school. I didn’t want to be seen putting food in my mouth in front of my boyfriend. Then for a couple years of high school, I’d try to make sure no one I had a crush on could see me eating lunch.
Bodybuilding and weight training in general changed all that, and I ate to fuel workouts without caring what anyone thought. My boyfriends were also my training partners, and I had such a sassy little attitude that their opinions of me mattered the least. If my coach said to eat, I ate.
But a little bit of that insecurity resurfaced occasionally through college and my twenties. So when I met Chris, he’d cook for me, but I was so insecure about how much I ate that I’d hold back at the dining table. Then on the drive home from his house, I’d swing by a convenient store, buy a can of Blue Diamond Smoked Almonds, and eat the whole thing when I got home.
So, eating in front of people was always a source of anxiety for one reason or another. And even recently, there have been times when I didn’t feel like I knew proper etiquette, and it would cause me to panic a little when dining at other people’s houses.
And now here I am stuffing giant fork-fulls of protein desserts in my face to get people as excited about our recipes as I am.
Some therapists believe that the best way to overcome a fear is by exposing yourself to it gradually and repeatedly. And while eating food in front of people is no longer a problem, I’m now also publicly owning everything about my relationship with food.
I’m not going to hide that I eat a lot, or that I take humongous bites on occasion. I also prefer to eat with my fingers more often than not. And while those characteristics might seem like bad manners, that’s how I enjoy food the most.
So I’ll do it. And savor every bite. In front of people or not.
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I feel this is huge in SO many ways. It’s a matter of “living authentically”. I’ve manipulated nutrition in SO many ways to accomplish various goals I had, and in doing so I DID accomplish those goals. I dropped my LDL from 200 to 64 with nutritional manipulation. I’ve dieted down to stupid lean bodyfat. I’ve blown up to over 200lbs at 5’9 in pursuit of hitting a lifetime max on my press overhead. But in all of those instances, I was eating in a manner that was so AGAINST my nature that I just existed in this state of perpetual anxiety and sadness.
Once I finally aligned how I ate with how I was, I felt this just genuine happiness and levity. It’s wild, and even crazier was: I stopped THINKING about eating. Like breathing: it just became something natural.
There’s so much to be said about ALL the facets of living authentically. TRULY being who we are.
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And I don’t think you even made it to your car before I ate all the leftovers. What was up with that?
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Oh wow, that’s worth celebrating more than any physique goal or PR. Congrats on all your positive changes! You’re an inspiration to all of us.
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We were so shy about being big eaters! It’s weird how quickly that turned around the very next year as newlyweds. 
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