Dodgin’ Dadbods: Fortitude Training

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Just keeping my once-a-week (or every couple weeks) update thing going. A&P II is quite more in-depth than the first one was. Should get my acceptance letter to the school of nursing, provided I got in, in the next couple weeks. Just beasted a test on the autonomic nervous system, special senses, and the endocrine system today, and dissected a cow eye last weekend, with my youngest son watching. After I had taken it completely apart I let him glove up and poke around with it, take the retina out, etc. I love dissections and have a few more to do this semester, so he’ll be watching when I do 'em.

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Training-wise my running is where it needs to be, my biking is where it needs to be, and I’m pretty sure my swimming is okay but I’m gonna go swim a mile tomorrow and just keep at a 2x/week swim pace.

Today was a good gym day too -
Did a giant set of:
Incline dumbbell press with the 75s for 4x12
Lat Pulldowns at 16 on the stack for 4x12
Max set of pushups x4
Max set of pullups x4

Then 4x25 of muscle power cleans with 85 pounds - just the barbell and a couple 10s on either side - and 0 technique, just from hip to overhead in one, ugly motion, and in between every set I did 15 jump squats.

Finished with 10 minutes on the assault bike just going as fast and hard as I possibly could.

Honestly - it doesn’t read like much, but it took a lot out of me and went well. I really miss following a program and can’t wait to again, but I also love just walking into a well-stocked mostly empty gym and just creating something to beat myself up with.

By the way, I watched the LEGO Batman movie with my kid, which honestly might be the best batman movie, and I figured @T3hPwnisher would appreciate the quote from the character that Rosario Dawson does the voice acting for: "I’m not a Batman hater, but we don’t need an unsupervised adult man karate chopping poor people in a Halloween costume.”

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I could not agree more. It’s such a fantastic movie.

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Today:

Slept in ultra ultra late due to first day alone with no kiddos, 'twas amazing, can’t wait to do it again in another several years, haha.

Did hams

Superset
Single leg plate-loaded leg curls for 4 sets of 15
Single leg SLDL’s holding a 50# db for 4 sets of 12

Superset
GHR negatives as low as I can get them - 4x5
Roman chair hyperextensions (ham focused) 4x25

10 minutes of lunges

Giant set
Donkey calf raises 110 3x20
Seated calf raises 90 3x20
Tibialis curls 50 3x30

Wow, those fucking lunges. I used to be able to go almost nonstop for the 10 minutes. NOT the case anymore. Gotta bring them back, such a great way to get some leg work in. Another great one I used to do was sprinting a quarter mile, lunging a quarter mile, jogging a quarter mile, walking a quarter mile at a high school quarter-mile track.

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The past couple workouts have featured a lot of hang clean and presses - no leg drive on the press. Supersetting them with lateral raises, pushups, pullups, etc.

Gonna ride 30 miles tomorrow morning.

Unrelated thought: the pharma forum has long been a place of morbid curiosity for me, but some of the new characters crack me up. There’s an inverse correlation between the amount of gear someone has taken and the amount of help that they believe you get from gear. Taking inhuman amounts of gear for literally years on end with no breaks whatsoever and ending up looking okay apparently leads people to the conclusion that gear isn’t effective - not that they don’t know what they’re doing at all, of course.

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Glad your log is infrequent, because it’s easy to catch up on and so good to read.
I’m happy to hear you’re progressing at things that matter.

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Just a second to brag about my kid:

I took him to a pump track (like a bmx/mountain bike loop with some jumps and bumps) where there were like 16 people on it, all kind of taking turns, ranging from 6 years old (his age) to 30+. The other 6 year old was kind of shaky on it but his dad said he’d been doing it for over a year now. This was my 6 year old’s first try on it, and to his credit, he went, but halfway through ate it pretty hard on the other side. A kid who was about 10 rode around to him, picked his bike up and helped him up, and told him ‘good job’. A bmx dad who was GNARLY helped him around and tried to show him some stuff, but my kid, understandably, was so nervous about other people watching him and about having fallen hard, that after he got back on his bike and rode over a couple bumps, that was it and didn’t want to go anymore. So, I rode some trails around the park with him, and of course, he eats it AGAIN because he’s still kind of nervous about the other fall, and this fall was hard, haha. Like SLAMMED on the ground hard. Anyways, I convinced him to get back on his bike a second time with his knee bleeding (not by making him, just by encouraging him and telling him he could do it), and he did it - got back on and finished the trail with me.

Anyways, so I’m proud of him getting back on twice after 2 falls in one day, but more importantly, I got up at 6 am the next day and woke him up and asked him if he wanted to go try the pump track when there was nobody on it. We got there at 630 and it was completely empty. I had him just ride around and hit his brakes wherever he wanted, and we did that a few times. Then I just asked him if he could do one more bump. Kept doing that til he made it halfway, then we did the second half a few times, and finally, before I knew it, he rode the whole track all the way around 2x without stopping or wobbling. He was just so happy and proud of himself. He’s got the same thing I had when I was a kid, which is a combination of anxiety, not the greatest coordination, and being too concerned with what others think of him, so to see him just attack his fear head on and get through it was just so fucking awesome. He had wanted to try that day, so I don’t regret letting him go on the course with all those people, but in retrospect, having only ever ridden on flat ground, it was a massive undertaking to try to figure out a course on a new type of terrain with a small crowd of people watching, where he can’t stop for fear of being run over and doesn’t know how to handle turns or jumps.

For the umpteenth time, doing something that you’re not afraid of, no matter how gnarly it is, is not courageous, and doing something that you ARE afraid of, no matter how insignificant it is, is the definition of courage. I’m taking him back before school tomorrow at 6 again. Gonna get him flyin’ over those bumps and back riding with the big kids and the adults to show off his prowess.

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Also, today after my regular hypertrophy stuff which consisted of supersets of chest and back, and some ab work, I did a half hour of AMSSAP (as many superset as possible) of 5 clean + press with 115 and 10 burpees, and it was absolutely miserable. I wish I knew even a ballpark # of how many sets I did, but I was just in my head, going all out for as long as I could. I gassed pretty quickly, but kept the sets going with minimal rest. Great, simple workout. Would do better if I hadn’t done hypertrophy work beforehand, but whatever. Can improve next time.

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I don’t have the words. Great.

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Loved reading about your day with your son. Cherish these moments mate as this is what life is all about. Quality

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Today was 15 supersets of 5 clean and press with 115 and 10 burpees in between, as little rest as possible, woweeeeeeee. Followed it up with 3 8-round assault bike tabatas (20 work 10 rest).

Also got in a 3 mile run at lunchtime at work. Lot of weird looks from the crowd of my coworkers that are standing around each other chainsmoking cigarettes with masks pulled below their mouths. I used to smoke, so no judgement on the smoking, it’s just a funny image, and the looks I get just scream “what’s wrong with you”, so the whole thing is a bit amusing.

Got a lot of work this week - 2 tests, a lab practical, and dissecting a sheep’s heart, all for A&P II - I’m so, so glad I took this class instead of taking it with 4 other nursing classes in my first semester.

STILL haven’t heard back from nursing school, although I check in on a student forum from time to time and noone else has yet - the acceptance emails generally go out October 1st, if past years are to be trusted, but as I’ve said before, the program is more competitive now than it’s ever been, so it’s a bit nervewracking. Anyways - I might hear back tomorrow, but if not I’m expecting next friday. I’m headed to PA for a friend’s bachelor party that thursday night and staying at what’s effectively a mansion airBnB til Sunday so if all goes well I’ll wake up Friday morning with an acceptance letter into the nursing school and can celebrate with a bunch of friends by paintballing their faces off.

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I take my kids to the BMX track as well. They have a pump track but it’s pretty aggressive for the smaller kids so we just stick to the main track. They gained a massive amount of confidence when they saw me absolutely eat it in the most spectacular over the bars face drag ever. So, if you need any more ideas for his confidence, maybe just eat it super hard in front of him :joy:

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Continuing my trend of clean + press superset with burpees, today was 5x5 clean and press with 135 superset with 5x15 burpees, again, ouch. Gonna stick with 135 until I’m doing 5x10 clean and press and 5x20 burpees.

Finishing with assault bike again. 3 mile walk with the dog this morning, and have a 5 mile run planned when my wife gets out of work and can watch the kids. Have been getting to bed early and getting up super early to either run, or take my kid to the bike track as the sun rises before he goes to school.

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Not been in here for a while @flappinit mate

Apologies

HeartWarming to see you’re hammering the burpees

Salute brother

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I’d been supersetting stuff with pushups for a while, just to add a conditioning aspect - so it definitely tracks that supersetting stuff with burpees would be even better!

It sucks though.

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Got my acceptance letter for nursing school today!

Very excited, although that will wear off when the extra work starts I’m sure.

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Oh wow I didn’t know you were still in school flap

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I started taking classes again a couple years ago after many years out of school.

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Bookmarked for future. This is a great go-to.

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Congrats man!

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Survived a bachelor party and have managed to keep up my workouts. Got my first Olympic triathlon tomorrow - mile swim, 25 mile bike, 6.5 mile run. Should be fun stuff. Also cold, swimming in a lake. Wife is running a biathlon too. My mom is here being an awesome grandma and watching the kids while my wife and I get after it. Excited to finish so I can attack a legit program again.

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