I used to do dips on saw horses. If you dip like a maniac, they’re sketchy. Under control they’re fine.
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I do everything like a maniac, so not sure what to do with this info.
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I’ve seen two separate people post these.
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20 mins jump rope, 20 minutes stretching. Doing some cardio tomorrow and saturday, then back to it sunday (i’m doing sun-thurs instead of mon-fri).
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sounds like a recipe for some serious calf doms
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This month be a fine time for cardio, me thinks…
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A pump maybe, but if you’re jump roping properly your feet are barely leaving the ground. Look at pro boxers, it’s honestly looks like their feet don’t even lift up.
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Nothing today besides stretching.
And eating.
Lots of eating.
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Are you still on the dozen eggs?
Not a dozen, but no less than 6 and usually around 8-9. I’m eating more than a pound of meat every day. Lots of fish, and lots of steak. Ground beef has taken a backseat, but I did have a burger patty today.
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Honestly, adding it up, it’s closer to 2 lbs of meat almost every day. My appetite is pretty big at this point, I’ve had very few carbs and it feels like I’m always hungry. I ate a fuckload of green beans for lunch today along with half a chicken.
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Carbs always seem to kill my appetite…except fruit
Roasted with crispy skin?
It’s ridiculous how you will have a voracious appetite on that program and yet still feel like you are just BARELY recovering between workouts. One of the few times you can out train a diet.
Deep Water: Beginner Program Week 2, Day 1
Squats
135 3x10
Deadlifts
185 10x10
Lunges 65 3x10
Sit-ups 3x20
Squats felt explosive, like it was hard to keep myself from leaving the ground. Obviously, again, baby weight, but it’s lovely squatting without searing pain. Deadlifts - started easy as shit, but I trusted the process and didn’t up the weight, and was sweating balls by set 10.
Lunges were different than last week - I was more physically tired from deads than squats, but my legs took way less of a beating than squats, so they hurt less and weren’t as wobbly.
Sit-ups were hard to gauge because on the 10x10 deadlift day, presumably to save your lower back, he nixes the planks in between sit-ups, but I could tell that immediately, my abs are stronger/have grown adjusted to the work, because instead of getting a cramp halfway through my first set, I ripped through the 20 and rested only about 20 seconds through each set.
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just came here to say I really enjoyed reading your log as of lately. I like the meal pics, and I have immense admiration of your work ethic and the way you quickly built a working home gym and used it two crush a really difficult program, followed by an even more difficult one.
Also, I wanted to thank you for the advice of doing sets of pullups casually during the day. I have seen very rapid progress in around two weeks. The other day I knocked off 15 overhand pullups, whereas a few weeks ago I could barely go over 11 or maybe 12. I can probably get to 20 underhand chins too. I’m now starting to feel way more comfortable with the movement, and I feel much more stable and solid during a given set. I’ll keep at it until I can do at least 20 controlled pullups in a set, then I’ll start adding weight. Now that I’m more stable in a hanging position, I’ll also start incorporating hanging leg raises. Let’s see if working abs with a hard exercise like those makes me better in some way.
Also, I gotta say your pics have had me miss eggs so much. I haven’t had them in at least three months, because I found I was probably intolerant to them, and saw big improvements in gut health after taking them out. But man, every time I see a pic of your meal I wish I could just make myself some scrambled eggs with cheese, or have them in a wrap with meat and veggies, or whatever haha. I’m hoping my intolerance will eventually go away so I can have them again (I used to have some intolerances as a kid, even pretty severe, that went away on their own growing up).
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I really appreciate that dude. Truth be told, despite others doing BTM, you were actually a big inspiration for me, consistency-wise. I’ll tell anyone that comes on here that you said you were gonna do a year of 5/3/1 and just buckled down and did it, and ended with the smoothest first-400 pull I’ve ever seen. Just awesome stuff. Super glad the pullups are working well for you, nothing teaches your body to pull your weight up like pulling your weight up a lot, haha.
Yeah, I’m not sure what intolerances I have, because I definitely get some acid reflux and heartburn from time to time, but overall I’m not in horrible discomfort ever from eating any particular thing, and I’m blessed for it, despite still finding it hard to get the necessary stuff down.
Thanks again buddy, and your home efforts are coming along nicely, along with your initiative to rent that equipment from the gym owner.
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Hmm. Week 2 day 2 is upon me, and this time, it’s not the clean pulls that scare me, since my quads don’t hurt - it’s leaning over in the BB row position, because my hams are pretty sore. Hopefully, I can use it like a bit of a weighted stretch and maybe even get some recovery from it, but active recovery can be pretty painful.
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Deep Water: Beginner Program Week 2, Day 2
Pullups
4xfailure 16, 14, 8, 6+10 assisted
BB Rows, strict, slow eccentric
155 4x10
Clean Pulls
155 3x10
60 second plank and 20 sit-ups, 3 rounds, no rest.
Upped the weight on clean pulls, good working weight for technique. Pushed past failure on pullups and made the rows hard for myself. The ab work was still miserable, but I completed all three rounds without any rest this time, although I let out a pretty loud (and slightly dramatic) groan a couple times that alarmed my kids, I think.
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Me, to my body: Alright, with Deep Water, everything else can catch up to my arms!
My arms, laughing:
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I just think your arms take over because they can.
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