3 mile run with the pup at midnight last night. 2.5 mile run just now, it’s like 90 degrees and the pavement was hot so I didn’t wanna burn the dog. Made up for it by sprinting the last quarter mile.
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- Buy asparagus
- Remove rubber band
- Cook asparagus
- Consume asparagus with one hand whilst using rubber bands from said asparagus on other hand to train extensors.
BADABINGBADABOOM
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Holy fuck this fuckin guy ova hea
This is exactly what I do!
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Today was a very quick chest day
SUPERSET
Dips
BWx15
+25x12
+35x10
+45x8
Pushups, 5 second eccentric on underhand knuckles
4x10
Crossovers
4 sets. 1st set straight, 2nd set mechanical dropset to cable presses, 3rd set mechanical dropset followed by 50% weight reduction dropset, 4th set mech dropset, 50% dropset with mech dropset again.
100 pushups.
That’s it, had no time for a workout today, just got a hell of a chest pump and worked up a quick sweat. About to run the pup for 2 miles just cause.
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This dog is the shit. He’s not perfect, and he is also almost definitely 50% Akita (used to be a vet tech, he has the Akita tail and lots of protective characteristics as well as his face shape), but he loves me and he will walk 2 miles by my side, jog a half mile, and sprint all out with me for the last half mile. This guy is all muscle. He’s not a complete nut job, he just needed to be ACTIVE and he pushes me every day to be more active and more positive.
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I only just saw this for some reason, but it’s definitely an arm workout up your alley, provided all the weights were doubled.
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Haha you’d be surprised dude, I do curls with 25lb-35lb DBs. Never felt like I needed more. 25/35x100 will light those suckers up and keep those elbows healthy and that peak poppin!
Today:
Ran a mile with Alfie (dog) in the morning.
Went to the gym:
SUPERSET
Wide grip pull-ups x10
Underhand chins x10
BTN NG Chins x10
Preachers, 4 second ecc
60x10
60x8, 30x15
60x7, 30x1
GIANT SET
Skulls on incline bench, 4 second ecc
50x15
60x12
70x10
Diamond pushups, heels elevated, 5 second eccentric
X10
X6
X4
Band tri extensions
3x20
20 incline laterals (lying sideways, one-hand) ea hand, 20 one hand seated laterals ea, 15 side, 15 seated, 10 side, 10 seated, 5 side, 5 seated each arm with 10 lb DB and no rest.
Then swam 800m in the pool.
Went home, ate brown rice sushi and smoked some weed, then went on a 1 mile walk, 1 mile run, half mile hard run and quarter mile sprint with the dog, to meet my wife and kids at the school playground. My son did a mile on the track there, stopping every quarter mile but coming in at around 13 minutes. Ran back to the house - another 2 miles - and just did another mile run with him right now.
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You sure you didn’t take some sort of upper?
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Want to know something funny? Marijuana is an upper! It’s also classified as a mild hallucinogen, but besides that, there’s a reason why people eat a ton and have racing thoughts on weed. It boosts your metabolism and causes your body to release large amounts of dopamine (which can be a bad thing for people with histories of psychosis). It may be hard to believe, but think about alcohol. It often makes people belligerent and wild as hell, but it’s classified as a depressant. I will always say though, weed can have serious consequences for people who react adversely under its influence. Just like alcohol, just like anything.
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It always just made me relax. I never had the urge to do anything.
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Psyched today. Got some gear coming in for my bike that I can try out, gonna ride 40 miles with my friend, gonna go to a state park and go hiking with the dog and my kids, and in the evening i’m taking my 4 year old to the movie theater for his first time to see Toy Story 4, which I’m honestly probably more excited about than him.
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I’m not an endurance athlete. I’m definitely looking at longer triathlons for next year and hoping to get to an endurance stage some day, but mostly my life has changed in a lot of ways recently because I’m always outside and always on the go. Besides just being outside a lot though, there have been a lot of feelings I’ve been experiencing that are hard to put into words sometimes, and while listening to a great podcast this morning featuring Chris Hauth (an endurance athlete and respected coach who casually mentions 100K trail runs and is a world champion Ironman) the host of the podcast read an essay by Chris that spoke volumes to me. I don’t think you have to be an endurance athlete to enjoy it, since I enjoyed it and I’m not even close to being one, but a lot of us have a tendency to spend a lot of time in the gym, and there are more reasons than a simple change of scenery as to why getting out of the gym and into the world is a good idea sometimes.
Anyhoo, here it is.
@pokey you might enjoy this, as a REAL endurance athlete!
“I feel as though there are so many out there looking for meaning not in a deeper spiritual way but instead that they are missing something. Something fulfilling, something that sets their wires straight. I think that is why ultra-endurance and endurance world of adventures, events, and expeditions has gained so much appeal of late. I believe it satisfies these needs; this sense of purpose, sense of living to our potential, this self-realization that there is more to us than sleeping, eating and working/career. Of course, there’s time for family and in more rarer cases, unfortunately, for community and church and more.
But one thing is missing in all of this, the self. The time for self, the time for self-health, the time for spending time with thoughts, reflection, elevated heart rate, muscular activity, and most importantly, fresh air and nature.
Endurance events allow for this and more. A connection with nature, with the environment, with its beauty, its ability to revive us. We are hardwired for nature, to be outside, to live connected with our environment, to feel it to play and struggle in it. To be challenged by it and therefore challenge ourselves. This sense of adventure, challenge, struggle, and realization is what pulls people to becoming endurance athletes to discover their potential.
At first, maybe not a huge step, but seeing what we are capable of, and growing from there to a new potential and all the while connecting to our truest rawest, inner self, how we are hardwired as animals to nature, to the outdoors, to a sense of a feeling alive in it via activity. Everything is active around us in nature. And of course, we as humans are part of this nature, part of this growth and vibrant balance. And as the athlete continues to grow to new challenges, which then add some fear and curiosity and uncertainty to it (which again, brings us back to our true raw self), that human living with the outdoors, surviving outdoors, and feeling most alive when we are truly challenged, physically and mentally by nature and our endeavors in it.
Nothing can replace that as it is our truest raw self. It’s buried deep down there, but the more athletes connect with it, the more they realize how much that dormant self was in them, and they want to unlock and unleash more, it makes them better or energetic, healthier, happier, more creative, more efficient, more connected, and therefore caring.
The stewardship of our environment and nature begins with loving yourself in it and feeling this connection to it. How can one relate to the environment and its destruction if one is foreign when in it. But when we have felt how we are truly part of it, that is a deeply connected and wired part of us, we begin to unlock this hard wiring and allow it to fire more and more in order to feel alive and joyful and happy and motivated in our days. Not only to get out and spend time in it again, but revitalized for work, and family and community and more. Because our own tank of self-care is full, and we are connected and seeing and feeling our potential physically and emotionally. We need the fresh air for all of that to fire.
As I heard the other day, in order to love others we need to love ourselves. We can’t give more love than we are able to give ourself. So knowing that we have this emptiness and missing component in our lives, makes living generously and giving very hard, we are missing something. That huge piece is our hardwired self for outdoor adventure, physical activity. And with that comes curiosity with what we could be capable of awakening the endurance athlete within, the one that is curious if they can achieve that goal and once seeing that growing to a new level of appreciation of that better, healthier, more confident, beautiful, vibrant, energetic self that glows outward, because on the inside the fire of that missing component has been lit.
The challenge is we feel this imbalance, we just can’t identify what it is. We have become so disconnected from our potential that we don’t know how to explain what it is. But most, once outside in nature, training with a healthy fear towards an event on the outer edge of their current capability, start to understand. I was reading the other day about how we no longer have these rites of passage that young men and women used to go on out in nature, surviving on our own living in the world of our environment, off the land for days to really feel it, sleeping it, awaken it, live off of it and immerse ourselves in it. We no longer have this and it might be leaving a curious hole in our soul that is missing.
Why is it we are so curious and mystified by the outdoor life, adventure’s raw ability in nature when we see those pictures or hear the stories and it tugs at us and it leaves us daydreaming? Because we are drawn to it, it is who we are, how we are hardwired from thousands of years of living in nature in balance with it, surviving in it being challenged by it, being overwhelmed by it feeling alive on the ocean, or in the woods in the mountains or the desert. It all has its effect on us. We all think back to the beautiful moments, outdoors, alive.
Have we been sterilized to our fake lighting, fake transportation, fake shelters, fake space we call our property? We have ignored this fundamental part of us for too long. Where is our danger, our use of all our senses, or our unease? Where are we truly challenged in body, mind, and soul? Not at work, not at home, but in play, in the outdoors or anything close to it. Your senses come alive, ever so gradually, all the components and cells of your body start awakening and firing because that is where we are originally from; land, sea, air. Coming back from this dose, it fires all our senses, no treadmill, or gym can replace this. There, time passes slowly, laboriously. In nature, time passes quickly, because we get lost in ourselves, in our thoughts in mind, and spirit and listening to our body and soul. It’s all happening there.
How do you think we feel after a marathon or 50k in the woods, mountains or beautiful terrain? How do you think we feel after a day on the oceans or lake while rowing, sailing, swimming, fully powering ourselves across terrain, mountain biking through hills and meadows across streams. Repeat any of these actions for a few days in a row and our sense of self changes, our priorities shift our soul exhales and relaxes to what it knows is an integral part of it. Nature, challenge, raw beauty and immersive inputs all around us. We all have an impulse to be more, an impetus we often don’t know why or where it came from, but it is there.
Adversity creates morality. It shows our human side, vulnerability and therefore empathy.”
Edit: I also think @ActivitiesGuy and @mortdk might enjoy this, as people who have dabbled in those type of sports.
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You’re turning into quite the endurance man. I’m sitting here in my recliner trying to find the motivation to do my rehab exercises. I don’t feel like doing anything today.
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I will always enjoy a good bumming around!
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This reminds me of the few camping trips we took when I was a kid. It makes me wish I lived outside of the city. We’re spoiled by our nice, big house and being minutes from anything we could need so it would be really tough to move again.
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Yeah, I live in a townhome complex and right near EVERYTHING I need, stores and restaurants everywhere. If i lived in the middle of nowhere I’d just stay there, haha - this forces me to get out of the house and seek nature out.
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Whereabouts do you live?
Looks like you’ve found a sweet spot in your training!
This is the kind of dad I intend to be. I want to be the one to take my kids camping, take them climbing, kayaking, whatever.
@flappinit, I appreciate the post man. Definitely resonates with me, even as someone as far from an endurance athlete as it’s possible to get. I’ve had a long held ambition to walk sections of the Appalachian Trail (not the whole thing, I can’t put my life on hold for 6 months), for exactly the reasons stated in this post.
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