Bit under two kilos of porterhouse steak for mates rates of $17.50 a kilo and I’m sorted for the next few days
My mouth is watering slightly already
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Will take a rest day today given how yesterday went with the manual labour work and shitty squats and will come back better next session.
So rest day = low carbs no?
Today’s food:
- Shake 45p
- Viet Pork Bun + Rice 5p
- 30g Smiths BBQ Chips Because cravings lol
- 100ml of Coca Cola
- 250g Stewed Pork: Lot of fat on this so ~ 40p
- Something else TBD to finish off protein today
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Starvation*
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whats the name of the app?
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Australia isn’t real, you guys are all trapped in a simulation. Escape while you can.
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You know what, I understand that you aren’t doing this for a living (nobody is) and you have other priorities in life, but it seems to me that peaking to test your lifts while taking a trip, doing physical work that you don’t normally do, losing out on sleep, and compressing all your training into a few days is not a good way to go. There isn’t much use in testing your lifts if you can’t peak properly to do so, you aren’t doing a meet so this is just to see what sort of progress you have made and get numbers to work with for the next training cycle, but if you don’t do this properly then there is no point in doing it. I’m not saying to drop everything and tell your father and girlfriend that you have no time for them because you need to max out in the gym, that would be stupid, but if you aren’t able to do this properly then I don’t really see the point of testing maxes. The whole idea of peaking is to drop accumulated fatigue while getting used to maximal weights, if you are adding a whole bunch of fatigue from outside stuff then it’s not going to go how it should. Maybe ask on the AI coaching facebook group what they recommend doing, if I was your coach I would tell you not to test anything right now.
A couple years ago when I first got into PL I did the RTS “generalized intermediate program”, you are supposed to test maxes at the end. That happened to be the same week that one of my kids started school and the other started daycare plus, I seem to remember some other bullshit on top of that but I’m not sure what. In any case, I had a whole bunch of extra stress that week and felt like crap on test day, I didn’t really max out, I worked up to maybe 95% at most and cut it there because I wasn’t feeling it at all. Based on how things went in training I should have been capable of more, but on that day I was not.
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MY Weight or something like that. It’s free
The Matrix
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I’m not that worried honestly. It’s only for a week though after Christmas should be aight… well then again life happens I guess so I’m sure there’ll be something or another but not as off putting to training. And there’s three weeks to the test so have time?
If it’s only one messed up week then it’s not that bad, the way you explained things it sounded like you are mowing lawns full time all of a sudden.
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You’re just jealous we’ve got a weapon that comes back… And possibly knocks us out (seriously who the fuck knows how to use a boomerang)
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My great great grandpappy took out 3 drop bears and himself with one throw of his legendary boomerang
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Be messed up for sure then lol. Makes me wonder how guys who have full time physical labour even lift. Do they just have to live with the fatigue and make what gains they can?
Pretty much, in most cases they would have to do less volume. If you are used to doing physical labour all the time then it’s not as bad because you are already adapted to that, it’s much worse to add a new stress when you are peaking.
I remember reading an article by Glen Pendlay where he was saying that at one time him and his training partner took a job doing physical labour, I think it was roofing, and at first their lifts were all way down. They still trained as usual after work, after a few weeks they were back to their previous levels of strength and not long after they were setting PRs again. The article was about the Bulgarian method (maxing out every day) and basically the point was that if the stress is not excessive then the body can adapt to it and continue to grow/get stronger. Of course doing physical labour full time is not a good way to go if sport performance is your priority, but sometimes you don’t have much choice.
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Look on the bright side, you get to eat a lot more carbs…
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I guess within reason the body adapts and ups the work capacity. Funny I was just reading the start of Scientific Principles of Strength Training section on Specificity where it was going on about how you should be thinking about priorities for Powerlifting when deciding where to put your recovery resources like excessive GPP tending towards endurance.
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19/12/18
Doherty’s Campbellfield on the way to Shepparton today looking to bounce back from last seshs poor squats.
Wasn’t too long ago (2 months I think) that I visited this gym but since they’ve had a major upgrade. 4 extra squat racks have come in and a fucking belt squat jeezus. I’d loved to have that over at Brunswick.
Actually on closer look some cunt locked up the belt squat lol. Y tho
Metal plates are fun too but they are in lbs and my maths isn’t so much good. Comp style bench isn’t bad either
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Intimidating squats sesh on paper. Moved well considering less than this weight was a top set last week and messed me up lol.
Lemme double check the plate math. 20kg Bar + 4x45 lb plates + 2x35 lb plates = 132.5kg?
Bench
Didn’t really feel good today. Dunno why. Probably partly due to technique. Feels like my technique goes in waves with peaks and troughs. Last peak would’ve been when I hit 120kg and this is feeling like a trough to slog through. Specifically my bull dog grip is all fucked and unstable and my bath path is all over the place.
Now a long drive to Shepparton. Driving makes my body very stiff. But I haven’t driven this way before And it’s nice to take in the sites of rural Victoria or just enjoy cruising along the highway with your music going. Is almost meditative. There is a hella lot of speed cameras and po po though so will stick to under 1fiddy km an hour lol
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Speedy pig
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They’re expensive af. Very easy for some dumbass to load up the weights and ego lift aka fuck with the machine by going too low and banging the thingy on the ground
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