Demigod before 35 (Aldebaran)

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Vid from saturday’s deadlifts. Okay it is the goon light but yeah it looks like my dieting down will be quite short actually lol, I am quite ripped!

28/08/21 - Supertotal 4

A. Muscle cleans and press 3 x 3 with 40 kgs

B. Hang Clean + Push press 3 x 3 with 60 kgs

C. Power clean + Front squat + 2 Jerks 5 x 1 + with 65 kgs

D. Clean pull + Clean and jerk 5 x 1 with 70 kgs

E. Clean and jerk 5 x 1 with 75 kgs

F. Deadlift 4 x 5 with 145 kgs

G. Assault bike 20 mins

Nice session as well. Still have som trouble with this lift. I power clean almost as much as I clean. I have trouble with the bottom position. Can’t catch it full squat, lack of knee and thoracic spine mobility, I catch it a bit bend forward or I let the bar crush me. Hard to be truly stiff and braced when you pull with like 60-70% of your max power. More work to do here

Jerk is fine-ish but the bar doesn’t travel truly upwards but backwards. And I lack balance as well. More work to do!

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2405

The scenery is nice and all, but I come here for the half naked French men.

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2406

fk… you as well. LOL

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The plural intrigues me. But whatever floats your boat man.

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2408

Maybe he thought you were French :wink:

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31/08 - Supertotal 5

A. Squat 4 x 8 with 100 kgs

B. Bench press 4 x 8 with 80 kgs

C. Pull-ups with light band + Abs roll-out + Back extension (weight behing the neck) 4 x 10 + 8 + 10

D. Rower 3 x 500m

I was feeling like absolute garbage this day. But at the gym is was better. The sets of 8 felt way better than those of 10 last week. Honestly it wasn’t a hard session despite everything. I only did 3 sprints this week (still one more than last week) because my stomach was upset and I wasn’t in a good spot lol. My friend challenged me so I went all out on the third. But either I have to icnrease the resistance if I want to do many rows, or I just to do fewer but more powerful. I only did 1:36 for the 500 which is bad but I really wasn’t that tired afterwards (last full out 500m got me on the floor for 5 mins). My cardio is getting better

Here’s the squats. Getting used to the absence of mirror. Trying to squat more upright and use more quads (this is the most I can with my bodytype and mobility lol) for more transfer to olifting and honestly I like it

For the non-gym stuff. The other day I was doing the 20 mins assault bike and it felt like torture because it was so boring and annoying. And I was just thinking to myself, what kind of pussy am I that I can’t do the same task for 20 mins. Maybe I have ADHD or some kind of asperger like my mother said or apps and such has detsroyed my attention span but come on, I am so soft. Probably we aren’t confronted to enough difficulties nowadays.

I feel like I’m always defaulting to an escapism. Pain in the gym, video games, alcohol, doing many things at the same time, social attention etc…

The only true limits we face are the one we inflict upon ourselves. I’ve always been the one preventing myself from progressing.

Sure I have problems, girl trouble, money trouble (still not fired, still using the money I was supposed to pay my school with months ago…), I’m used for free and discarded by the bosses at the gym who i thought were my friends for years, but you know there will always be trouble and difficulties.

This weekend I was at a festival. it was nice because I was with someone who wants to hire me. But I defaulted to escapism at the max.

I didn’t eat, I walked 45 000 steps, and I took so much stuff (I hadn’t in more than a year) than I thought I was going to OD.

Took me 3 days to recover, but honestly I’m still quite tired today. I do not want to do this ever again.

Also, how do you want to progress like that?

I think I want to do a dry September and do not drink a single drop. I started counting my calories yesterday.

Doing stupid shit won’t help me with my troubles nor anything else.

We are our choices… And how we react to events.

Last day at the gym this friday, then new stuffs begin.

Website will be out in a few days, and I’ll start writing my articles soon. It’s beautiful!

I’ll also do them in a video format later, but I don’t know if I should invest in a camera, and also what should be the setup? I have no nice place to shoot

I also shall be in my own YouTube video, professionally edited soon, talking about sports

Coaching and publishing the programs will begin as well soon.

I’m gonna work more on the website today and on some exercise videos this afternoon

It needs more polishing, but my logo is coming over

Nouveau projet

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I must have missed this earlier in your log. That sucks. People, in general, are greedy a-holes. Sorry to hear about this.

That logo is cool.
Looking forward to seeing your content.

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I didn’t mention it before. The coach I was with this weekend talked to me about it, and it’s true, I have worked a lot for them this month for free and with a level of implication that no one else before did apparently (like I had to replace at last notice coaches for classes I had never done before like boxing).

I just calculated I worked for around 700€ worth of work this month and I was still paying the membership, and the boss was pestering me for the 30€ worth of protein bar I ate when he knows I still don’t earn benefits and literally earned nothing this month (he earns 15000+ € per month). And I’ve known him for years. And he said that they were giving something to interns when they were working well, but that’s how it works.

I was with my boss’s cousin this weekend as well and he said that he loves him but money really got to his head. Like he only judges people and was dating a girl only because her parents are rich.

So yeah, mcdonald’s or somewhere else it’s the same shit. I’ll be my own boss so the only one I can be disappointed with will be myself ^^

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This.

But sorry if I missed it: What’s “OWL” here? Any special meaning?

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It’s frustrating when shit-heads have so much power over your life.

On the other hand, It is awesome that you got so much free experience. What did you think of boxing class? Did conducting the class get your brain working, thinking about how You might train boxers?

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It could ahah… Overloading Weights something :joy:

But no It’s just derived from my tatoo which is an Athenian owl. Got “raised” in Greece and this country holds a special place in my heart. I studied in communication and I just logos, and I like logo that are more than just letters, like animals. People like them too.

So I just arranged an athenian owl so that it holds a dumbbell instead of olive tree branches ahah.

The owl means the wisdom, and well I want to provide smart coaching. I love studying sports, reading studies and articles, quoting them in my own articles. I love learning and I want to transmit that through my coaching and programs (and potentially some explore new things like conjugate with french contrast or the 2 weeks pendulum trainings).

Smart training to me would backed up both by science and years of practice (elders, coaches, mentors…)

Oh yeah my brain has been thinking about combat training for some time now. I have a few friends who are really good in combat, it would be nice to explore this. I also really like their way of training in the gym (lots of explosive movement with a bit of hypertrophy and endurance). I really like Phil Daru or Kyle Dobbs and I took inspiration in their training and teaching for the program I wrote with a colleague who plays football for athlete in offseason who play that kind of sport (soccer, handball, basketball, general athleticism)

This particular class was more of a boxing and cross training mixed class

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Optimal Weight Lifting

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It’s actually great lol!

01/09 - Supertotal 6

A. Tall clean + Power jerk 3 x 3 with 40 kgs

B. Power Clean + Push press 3 x 2 with 60 kgs

C. Clean pull + Clean + 2 Jerks 5 x 1 with 70 kgs

D. Hang clean with pause at knee + Jerk 5 x 1 with 75 kgs

E. Deadlift 5 x 4 with 155 kgs

F. DEADLIFT??? :smirk:

I switched the 2 weightlifting days this week so that I could do the same session as my friends.

We did the whole weightlifting thing as a giant EMOM training for 21 mins, alone in the cross-training room, with super loud music blasting. It was awesome hehe.

Last clean and jerk of the day (we did some more heavier after the EMOMs). Really, when I focus, respect the weight, try not to rush it, it goes way better.

Then the deadlift was fine! If I got “angry” and explosive it was way better (was still a bit tired).

Then we did some stupidities :joy:

Day 2 of the diet. Not aiming for much fat loss, just deepening a bit the abs and losing a tiny bit on the handles. Some naked frenchman for @dagill2

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Great looking c&j!
I had a tandem deadlift for reps in a strongman team comp once… god what a stupid event! Never again for me, haha.

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Jesus was it 500 kilos or something? :joy:

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Nah, 360 kg without straps or something.

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02/09/21

Military fun cruise

45 mins rower
Every 5 mins do either 10 burpees or 20 push-ups + 20 squats

I was still feeling miserable and tired that but I decided to suck it up and move my ass and do something. It wasn’t that bad actually.

04/09/21 - Supertotal 7

A. Muscle snatch 3 x 3 with 40 kgs

B. Power snatch + OVH squat 3 x 2 with 50 kgs

C. 2 Snatch pull + snatch 5 x 1 with 55 kgs

D. Hang paused snatch 5 x 1 with 60 kgs

E. Snatch 5 x 1 with 65 kgs

F. Deadlift 4 x 8 with 135 kgs

G. Assault bike 20 min

Was really not in the session, focusing on life troubles instead. Tired, and my thumb calus teared mid session so I finished with straps.

It was a tough one. I failed my first full snatch. But I kept going and it was way better afterwards.

The 20 mins of assault bike were also better than last time, easier.

Only clip I have left of the session. I think that’s the first hang snatch, where I teared my hand

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2421

Positioning is looking good on the oly lifts mate.

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I have a friend who’s high level in olifting, she gave me a long list of many things that were wrong :joy: (but that was on the C&J, to be fair my snatch is better)

06/09 Hike

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My ass was sore the day after.

07/09/21 - Supertotal 8

A. Bench 5 x 10 with 75 kgs

B. Squat 5 x 10 with 95 kgs

C. Band Pull-up + Abs Roll-out + Back extension 3 x 10

D. Assault Bike 20 mins (I did the wrong cardio today lol)

It was tough. Super hot and humid. I thnik the hike took more out of me that I thought. The weekend as well. Was quite tired monday. Still stressed about the girl. trying to give some space to things and stand back on things so that I get less emotional.

Got my first ever paying private coaching monday before the hike. She loved it and took 5 sessions and I’ll be coaching her kids as well. It was great and stressful (as all first things are!).

So happy that I got my first check ever for being a coach lol! (until then it was always for free, not anymore, like the joker would say)

My website is out, it’s at owl-performance. fr of course it’s in French but you can still check it out and tell me if it’s ugly or something ahahah. It was made by hand by a friend.

So I started yesterday to publish my articles on the blog and will continue to do so there and on instagram and all. The new life begins!

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Website looks magnifique mate. The picture of you deadlifting in the coaching section is sick, back looks quality.

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