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This will serve as a rant/manifesto/thought dump for myself

5/3/1 and Living Maximally

Fair warning: This post may seem stupid but I just want a place to layout another attack plan

As a very influential person told me in my life, “If you keep this up, you will be a fucking loser who knows how to fight”. While after getting away from this, I started lifting more, in his words, I can see myself becoming a “fucking loser who knows how to lift”. Now returning to combat sports with more life commitments and responsibilities, I have to take away from something to be able to do what I want.

Posting my thoughts about different things on this training logs is serving to be extremely beneficial to see my growth and maturity (Y’all see the post but I know the circumstances around it). While I’m really interested in making my own programs, I just don’t have that much time to do it. Especially after hearing that Rhino Rants video and seeing @throwawayfitness post on here, I realized I don’t need anything special. Also hearing Jim Wendler say his biggest regret was not doing more, I realized I don’t want to hinder growth by focusing on something like lifting. While these thoughts are 100% coming full circle, I’m going to return to 5/3/1.

Returning to 5/3/1, I want to commit to a year of it. A year boils down to ~15 cycles (rough estimate, I don’t feel like doing math). Some templates I’m interested in are BtM (probably my favorite at this point), 1000% Awesome, 531 with Pause bench and squat (in Beyond), BBB but really sore (on his blog), SVR II, Volume and Strength, God is a Beast, Supplemental, OG 5/3/1, Leviathan, and Krypteia. If I get bored, like @simo74 said a while ago, I’ll plug in variations of lifts using the 5/3/1 formula.

Outside of lifting, I want to do more to find what I want to do for the rest of my life and live more maximally instead of being a “loser” in those areas. Live more maximally meaning with more exploration and seizing opportunities, not the usual college kid definition of living “maximally”.

Appreciate everyone’s input over the time of keeping this log

Let’s get it

Training for today:

  • Mobility work and shoulder health stuff
  • BJJ later. Longer session planned
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Great post, my dude! I wish I had thought like this at your age.

And you know I’m gonna love this part, in particular!

I committed to 6 months of 5/3/1 when I first transformed my mindset awhile back, and guess what?

I’m now in my 23rd cycle of near-uninterrupted 5/3/1 programming, and I’ve never been bigger, stronger, or living more fully than I have these past few years.

All that to say: I love what I see here! And whether it’s 6 months, or a year, or a lifetime of this kind of thinking, my dude: You’re definitely setting yourself up to live maximally!

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First off, I will say I 100% admire your consistency with 5/3/1. Also, thanks for sharing that post. It’s a great read and a reinforcement to know I might be thinking “right”. Relate to some of it and can learn from all of it

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BJJ ~3 hours

Growing Maximally

Tonight marks my 4th session back to the sport of BJJ. One of the most surprising things is my retention of skills and wrestling. While that’s awesome, something more important happened to me tonight. One of my largest issues and one of the biggest reasons I step away from BJJ was I was too in my head about the sport and my ability. All of my training partners and competition records tell that I was somewhat decent at the sport but I never believed it. Largely, I thought of myself as an untalented kid. Part of this was because my confidence was low. Part of this could have been because I was very much angry at the world and had the mindset of “Me versus the world”.

Returning to the sport with some more maturity, growth, and life experience, I don’t have those issues to the same degree. Now I am confident and clear minded during the training. All of this to say, I grew up and dropped some of that teenage anger. Tonight there was the jacked dude who was branded new and I just didn’t want the roll. After some internal debate, I took the roll. I got my ass beat (he had some wrestling background) and one of my training partners said “Stop being a bitch”. I completely understood what he meant. This training partner has directly complimented me maybe 2x in the past 5 years. You have to earn his praise. After a few more rounds, I was put in a back triangle and the other roller pull my heel to my head but I gritted the position out and escaped. After this the other training partner (the 2x complimenter) said “That was some tuff shit dude” and later pulled me to the side to tell me the following “I may act like I don’t like you and talk shit but you are fucking good and you need to know it”. At the time, this didn’t seem like much but reflecting on it, I needed to hear this. I was already getting super confident in my skills again but this reassured my current mindset is what I need to maintain.

Looking back, I tried all of the confidence and mindset builders for wrestling but it largely did me a disservice. It subconsciously made me believe I was a low confidence person. In this year span, I’ve had to grow up and live maximally to a certain extent. Heading back the sport, I’ve realized if I never taken the time off, I would have never built of my confidence by living. Holding high standards, having major discomfort, pushing hard during lifting, maturing, and sacrificing has built my confidence so tremendously no BJJ round can impact it. I think all the above is what “living maximally” means to me. In highschool, I largely felt like I had no purpose. In college, while it may not be my real purpose, I have somewhat of a track to follow. All of this to say, if you have confidence issues in sports look at your life and don’t be afraid to step back to grow more. To end on a humble note, I don’t have it all figured out but I will live maximally and purposefully until the end

“You can never be wrong kicking butt”

Footnote:
My log won’t become lengthy write ups like this but I really hope it helps someone who stumbles upon it to some degree

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Deload

~ 30 minutes of soft tissue/mobility work

Notes:

  • Try to make sure I’m in “ass kicking” shape to annihilate building the monolith
  • I may not be able to follow the ground beef recommendation directly but there’s going to be a minimum of 6lbs of added ground beef to my 8lbs of chicken thighs a week. More than enough protein and fat
  • Making it a priority to eat

Training maxes for cycle 1 (85%):
Squat- 270
Bench- 195
OHP- 130
Deadlift- 330
Making it a point to drop below what I know I can do because it’s 5/3/1. I’ll push the rep PR’s, pace, and accessories to “compensate” for lower weight. Bench might become nemesis bar vs straight bar but we will see

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Good Friday Wings

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Some were lost to the heat zones but gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette

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Conditioning

30 Burpees- 2:04

Notes:

  • Had way too many chicken wings but there’s no way that’s a bad thing
  • Currently pricing ground beef and Sam’s seems to be winning with a chub for 3.54/lb (90/10)
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Conditioning

25 min on assult bike

Notes:

  • All protein sources prepped for the week. Cooking that much ground beef in a pan is time consuming (6lbs)
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You could do a bunch of burgers, meatballs or a meatloaf. That might make it a little less painful??

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Not a fan of meatloaf. I will try meatballs though, never thought of that. I might get a cheap gas grill so burgers might become super feasible (grill thighs and burgers). Thanks for the ideas!

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BTM W1D1

Time: 1:05

Warm up (~5 min):
Agile 8
Knee floss
Tempo/Paused squat

Main Work:
Squat: 245x5x5
Press: 115x5, 90x10
Chins: 11x10 (110)
Dips: 10x10 (100)
Pull aparts: 100

Notes:

  • Squats felt off. After I finished the main work, I did some body weight ones and noticed my body was shifting more towards my right side. Left knee and ankle were hurting today
  • Squats did move in position well. Felt all of my quads working. I remember reading on here something along the lines of “If you goodmorning a squat, you probably weren’t in your most powerful stance” so I think this highbar style is the one
  • Super proud of my chin and dip capacity. Sets of 10 are super chaddy.
  • Conditioning came in as the limiting factor on RPE of squat sets and pressing ability
  • Compared to my last time running this in October, 50 more BW dips (also done in 10 reps), sets of 10 chins, 15lbs on squat, and slight move back on OHP (haven’t been pressing). All at like ~10-15 lighter bodyweight
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Hell yeah burgers!!

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Extra work/movement:

10 Chins
10 Dips
20 Swings

Notes:

  • Keeping track of all the chins and dips I do just because I’m curios to see how many I can do in these 6 weeks
  • Also putting some salt on nut butters is amazing
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BTM W1D2

10 Rounds (12:31)

  • 5 Chins
  • 5 dips
  • 10 KB swing (70lbs)

Notes:

  • KB keeps hitting my adductors. Annoying but I’m wondering if it’s a form issues
  • Might get myself a new pair of flat shoes for lifting. Not a big fan of the looseness in the Nike Metcon’s I’ve had for a while
  • Prowler coming later. No BJJ bc bio exam tomorrow
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Prowler rained out. Will complete late this week

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BTM W1D3

Time: 74 mins

Bench(Nemesis bar): 165x5x5
Deadlift: 295x4, 275x2x5
Row: 50x2x10, 70: 20,16,15,12,10
Poundstone Curl (50lb axle): 41
RH: 200x21,17
Decline Situp: 20
Barbell hold (135): 40 sec

Notes:

  • Calories are needed. Definitely trudged through this one since I got behind on eating.
  • Prowler on Thursday weather permitting
  • I made a game time decision to drop the TM of the DL by 20lbs. 295 was for sure too heavy for 3x5 but I figured if I went too light, I could just move faster
  • Nemesis bar ended up being my bench (dropped TM) just because I have one straight bar
  • Rows ate my lunch. I was honestly just saying “I’m f-ing over it” while doing them
  • Bio exam later today. I’m feeling pretty condifent. Definelty on the struggle bus for this class but worst comes to worse, it’ll be my one C while having everything else be an A
  • Today seemed to be the hardest day. Not sure why but as @T3hPwnisher said “There’s no good way to superset this day” (paraphrasing). Also trying to hone in on his time for these sessions but that’s an overall goal
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Yup got it dude; it’s a tough nut to crack. You’re doing an excellent job getting after it though.

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Conditioning

TABATA Front squat: Averaging 7-8 reps per round (95lbs)

Notes:

  • This served as a catharsis after my bio test. Got a 65% and I busted my ass for this exam. Went to rate my professor to see most of his reviews were averaging poor to terrible for this class. This explains so goddamn much and only serves to further my hate for college but that’s another story
  • To the above, yes I could study more but when’s the point of diminishing returns for that
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BTM W1D4

Prowler (95lbs): 8 Rounds (45 sec in between pushes)- High handle/Low handle

Notes:

  • Rushed this because of the weather. Then it never rained!
  • Jits tonight and lots of eating between now and then
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BJJ ~1.5 hours

Used Surge during it and it definitely helps with staying hydrated

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