You’re catching up - six pounds to go.
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Good work. Might want to see a doctor about your blue piss, though.
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Haven’t ye heard if ye drink enough fish tank cleaner ye’ll cure yerself of the coroner?
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Store had another 3 lb ground beef thing there. Grabbed it.
Breakfast: bacon, 8 eggs, cheese, toast
Lunch: 1 lb ground beef with italian seasoning on top of the alfredo broccoli pasta from last night.
Half pound burger and 4 boiled eggs in a couple hours. Had a protein shake between breakfast and lunch too.
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Today:
77 and sunny. Up early and to Walmart, managed to keep myself from touching my mouth or getting near anyone while I scooped up some stuff for the kids and some bike tubes. Got kinetic sand and played with the boys for a while with it, then got my wife’s bike out from the shed, where it’s been all winter, and fitted new tubes on it, adjusted the brakes, and colored with sidewalk chalk outside with the boys while my wife took a 45 minute ride around town, which she’s been wanting to do.
Once she got back, a delivery guy showed up, and my mom, in NY, had ordered a learning STEM-like kit for the kids, so I worked with my oldest while we build a long mechanical grabbing-claw and my youngest stuffed and decorated a cloud pillow with the wife, and then my kids took turns while I grabbed 10 socks from the laundry and set them up in various high-hanging places in the house and instructed them to bring me 10 socks using the claw. They each got a few rounds of that.
Then I got their bikes out, tuned them up, and walked around the half mile complex loop 4 times with them, then I got Alfie and ran a couple times around with him, sprinting up the hill that’s there and jogging the rest. Then more sidewalk chalk, more kinetic sand, onto coloring, puzzles, and boom, they were done early. It was just an awesome day. Kids are so reactive to the world around them. The more I keep them occupied, the easier they are to deal with. The more I try to ignore them (sometimes you just have to for a little bit), the more they act up. The calmer and more patient I am, the calmer and more patient they are.
The louder and angrier and more aggressive I am, the louder and angrier and more aggressive they are.
I added that last part because I try to be calm, and generally am, but I lose my cool from time to time (verbally, we don’t hit, or usually even spank, except extreme situations), and when I realize the reaction that my reaction had on them, it’s always an eye-opener. I can make some magic happen when I take a few deep breaths and analyze the situation. After all, how can you control anyone when you’ve lost control of yourself? Days where the kids are just enjoying themselves, laughing and just being kids, are the happiest days of my life right now.
Sorry for the musings y’all, it’s just a noticeable strain having the kids home all day every day right now, and I need a place to spill my incoherent thoughts out.
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Thanks for scrubbing away all remnants of the giant shit you had probably just taken
Sounds like a good day. We stayed inside all day and it sucked. The wind was ridiculous and made it unpleasant to be outside. The highlight of the day was my daughter helping out with her own birthday cake. She enjoyed it. It’s too bad the kid doesn’t get to have a party this year.
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Sounds like a good day Flap, thanks for sharing.
AM workout on pushup bars:
3x10 with 4 second eccentrics
3 seconds down, 1 second pause, halfway up, 1 second pause, back down, 2 second pause, all the way up x5
Same cadence for second set but dropset to regular pushups x6
Same cadence for 3rd set, dropset to regular pushups x5, to knee pushups x12, to pushups on the stairs @ 45 degrees x20
Complete and total failure. 6 sets, made them all hard for myself, got a good chest bump and called it after the last set. Could keep going but had to remind myself it’s just accessory work for my chest since this program doesn’t have much chest work.
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This is kind of a rhetorical question, but how many times do you need to hit failure to stimulate a response? One, three, more?
I need to send a message to Dr Schoenfeld to see if he’ll study that for us - one set to failure vs three sets and five sets.
I guess my point is that I think you did enough for hypertrophy purposes.
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I think either Thibs or Paul had an article that had 3 times as the optimal. Cant remember the name of the article or if it had studies or anything (helpful I know)
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Bit more helpful.
Fun fact: if you can do to failure 3 times, you didn’t go to failure the first 2 times.
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I should’ve just checked my bookmarks…
I had a chat with my dad today and listened to him rant about the fitness industry for a bit (he thinks someone needs to write stuff for people like him in their 60s). I had the thought that I’ve probably read and forgot more stuff about training than he’s ever read. This post seems to prove that. 
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So your muscles do not recover partially with a few minutes rest…you should see a doctor about that.
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Nope. After this, I was pretty much incapacitated for half an hour
What sort of doctor do you figure I should see?
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Does the same thing happen during a press, a row, a curl, a tricep extention, a dip, a side lateral, leg extention, ham curl, calf raise, a chin up?
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I honestly don’t know. I haven’t gone to failure in any of those movements in a LONG time.
I DID fail a 276 press recently, but it was a single.
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I get your point.
But i think @T3hPwnisher would lay for about half an hour if he did a failure set of any of the exercises you mentioned.
Pwn isn’t human, that is said with so much respect pwn.
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I’m assuming your comment was tongue in cheek.
You should have failed it 3 times.