Dodgin’ Dadbods: Fortitude Training

Yea for sure, huge respect for him, seems like the nicest guy as well.

With regards to making them hard, they’re already hard a basic level for me, but that might be due to the fact I do them once hate them and don’t touch them again for a year, then repeat that cycle, maybe some dedicated time to them would help (probably should given that I’m forced to do 10 mins of hard conditioning every session!).

Food today: shake after the gym - I try to fast until after conditioning workouts.

Lunch after some schoolwork was a 3/4# burger with cheese, no bun, on top of arugula, with boiled potatoes and a low cal zesty ranch

Another shake in a couple hours, just protein and water, then dinner will be turkey meatballs with some easy frozen vegetables that I can just microwave (carrots, peas, green beans, cauliflower). Little bit of soy sauce and sriracha and I’m golden.

@T3hPwnisher ventured into muddy waters - aka tried PB fit and greek yogurt together for the first time. Definitely like a healthy ratio of PB fit to yogurt, otherwise the yogurt taste is pretty overpowering. Was pretty good - definitely a great high protein, low everything-else snack.

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It’s obscene how much I look forward to it every morning. To get the ratio right, I use a protein scooper for the PBfit. That said, I JUST pulled the trigger on a pure peanut flour (only ingredients peanuts, no palm sugar or salt) so I’ll see how that goes. If it’s gnarly, I’ll throw in some monkfruit/steevia.

Although I’m also so depraved that I lick the leftover greek yogurt off the measuring cup, so my tastebuds are most likely gone.

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I use greek yogurt a lot - any time anything would be good with sour cream it’s gonna get greek yogurt instead. Can’t really taste the difference. Plus, just with some cut up strawberries or blueberries it’s delicious. Great neutral medium. It’s at the point where flavored yogurt is unbearably sweet. With enough ‘training’ you can really alter your taste buds. I could not STAND the taste of diet soda, and gutted through the zero cal stuff enough that when I accidentally had a sip of a regular pepsi the other day it was horrible.

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Ya know, I HAVE been missing sour cream a bit. I might try some greek yogurt next time. Appreciate the looking out.

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Tacos and chili :ok_hand:

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Breakfast was PB fit and greek yogurt. One day, and it’s grown on me. Plus, the PBfit has 8 grams of protein per 2 tablespoons and the greek yogurt has 16 grams per 2/3 cup. Damn.

Off to the gym for “repetition day”, which just means fun for me and pushing to failure.

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I wish I could like this post twice. It’s a great breakfast for sure: almost like getting to eat a bowl of peanut butter for breakfast.

Which is something I used to do in college.

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I eat Greek yoghurt most mornings. It is food from the gods. Throw in some frozen blueberries and you’ll probably do a sex wee wee

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@T3hPwnisher myself and my eldest can just autopilot on a jar of peanut butter. Most peanut butter isn’t too bad, but some of the more sugary/fatty types can really add up after 30 spoonfuls.

@ChongLordUno yeah, I used to do blueberries/strawberries/a bit of raw honey with it, amazing stuff. You’re a brit, aren’t you? My friend’s family owned an Indian restaurant when I lived in Bristol, and some greek yogurt got me through some friggin’ spicy curries. Also good to coat the chicken in seasoned yogurt before cooking. So many uses!

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Yes mate I hail from Glasgow, Scotland aka North Britain :uk:

Where funnily enough, they make the best curries !

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Repetition Day

DB Incline, slow negatives
80s 10, 8, 7 dropset to 65s x10

DB Tri extensions on decline bench
25s 3x15, 1x12

Pullups
3x12, 1x8 dropset to light close grip lat pulldowns for some slow reps

Lateral Raises
25s 3x15

Machine preachers
2 plates 3x10, last set dropset to 1 plate for a bunch of reps

Everything was slow, making not-so-heavy weights difficult but super effective, muscles were super pumped.

Need to go shopping and get more protein so had to use a 40g Muscle Milk shake (non-dairy). Not bad though - 3 grams fat, 6 net carbs, 2 grams sugars, 40g protein, 220 calories. Just expensive or I’d drink them more often. Planning on something stupidly high protein in a little bit, but have some schoolwork, and then last minute registration stuff for my son going into kindergarten first.

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Glasgow where they make good curries and tough people. Can’t believe you described it as north Britain. Lol

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@simo74 @ChongLordUno reminds me of this tweet from years back

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Conditioning

10 rounds of 2min-on 30sec-off heavy bag work. Lead hook is starting to feel fairly powerful.

5 rounds of 20 captains chair leg raises and 20 bosu ball crunches

4x25 neck extensions with 10# plate on head.

Tired today, not quite feeling it, but just went and pushed through, feel great now.

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I’m a staunch unionist matey

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I have 2 strip steaks to cook up later and I am finding it so hard to wait.

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Tomorrow I have a bunch of stuff to do and I wasn’t sure if I’d get the workout in, so I did it today. Definitely could have used that second day of rest, I really didn’t realize my triceps were sore til I started warming up, and then my shoulders were SUPER tired from boxing yesterday. Nothing miraculous happened.

ME Upper

Worked up to 170 1x5 on the OHP

80s 3x10, 1x8 on incline DBs

Cable Rows 14 on the stack 3x10, 12 1x12

Chest supported rows, elbows flared for upperback emphasis
2 plates 3x10

Captain’s Chair leg raises, 10# db between legs, 4x15

Good sweat, not a terrible session, but everything felt heavy - tomorrow would have obviously been the better choice but I can’t guarantee I’ll get to workout at all, so it is what it is.

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Alright, what’s the best way to increase this? Was it Deep Water’s pressing workouts?