Yeah, I get the whole chase your dreams thing, but for a lot of us, being practical is what’s gonna set food on the table and keep that roof over your head.
Well, if ever you suddenly get a crazy wild idea to start a small business related to training or anything on the side, Dave Tate had some really good stuff to say here. I was planning on skipping this part when I was listening, but it just made too much sense and was down to earth.
Opening line to his answer is just classic Dave Tate. I couldn’t have expected less lol
My personal life experience has taught me that the following statement is false:
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
If you do what you love as your job, it eventually becomes work and you don’t love it anymore. I think you need to find something you can tolerate and make money; you can do what you love in your free time.
Having money can help you do what you love, but the money has to come first. Tim Tebow is a great example. Going to Single A baseball earns about $10,000 a year. Only someone with support or money can afford to chase that dream.
RUNNING Run the straightaway, walk the curve x 12 (6 laps, 1 mile) 10:07
22 seconds slower than Saturday, but it wasn’t surprising. My legs felt heavy and my quads/ hip flexors were tired at the start. I did RFESS yesterday because they always hit my glutes. I thought it made for a good pull exercise. They also hit my quads and I paid for it today.
I think I’ll settle into a push, pull, run routine for the next couple weeks. Running days also include abs and rehab exercises for my shoulder.
After seeing that Alpha released a new program, I went to his YouTube channel and re-watched the Power Building program as well as the Mass program. I used those as a reference to create something for me. I like the three week waves with increasing intensity, and rotating through a low, medium, and high wave makes a nice nine week program. Run that a second time and you get 18 weeks. September 1st through January 4th is exactly 18 weeks. Damn this shoulder!!!
Alpha follows conjugate and uses variations of the comp lifts for the main work and then uses the actual comp lift for the technique work. I like this because it allows me to pick what I want for the heavy stuff (things that don’t hurt me) and use lighter loads on things like squat and bench. His recent program never goes above 70% for the traditional lifts. I think I could survive that.
I didn’t use percentages except on the technique work (and I’ll really just be guessing on those). I like the double progression method so I picked three rep ranges for my heavy, medium, and light work - 4-6 reps, 7-9 reps, and 10-12 reps. It actually looks pretty sensible.
Oh, well. Just another program put to paper that I’ll probably never run. It helped pass the time, though.
I think I’m getting an ulcer. For the past three days my stomach has had a dull burn most of the day. I still get hungry and food makes me feel better (for a brief moment).
It could be in my head, but carbs help more than anything. I haven’t felt any more stress than usual so this is a bit confusing to be. I’m wondering if it’s my food choices. I’ve been eating avocados the past few days.
Anyway, I’m calling a nutritional audible with the hopes of getting rid of this burning. No more official carb cycling. Carbs will be at 35% every day, but I’ll be eating 2500 calories three days per week and 2900 on the others. It’s just a little damage control to get me some credit for my splurges. And no more restrictions on the darn weekends.
Wow that is/was an intense day here in Big J’s log.
Don’t know where to start and end, want to comment on a lot.
Started out with I want to coach/help others being more healthy.
That is a tricky one, mostly because we got gyms and PT’s al around us.
I remember you talked about there could be an opportunity at work to make a side career out of it there. Is that still an option?
I liked the part about taking money in advance, and if people followed the program give them some or all back, that’s a great idea.
I’ve seen the same only talk cop stuff too. With colleagues I’m good, with civilians not so much it always ends up in: I’ve heard about … and some stupid story.
What tricked me a little bit was the
I do that, I’m literally looking forward to go to work I love it, and have been doing it for more than 30 years.
I think the push pull run approach would be fine as long as you’re still restricted and rehabbing.
THEN YOU DID THIS
NOOOOO another shiny object, I must resist the urge to open his you tube channel.
Well always a good read in here J, it’s a good log.
I sent this up the chain and it died. First, I sent it to the Deputy Chief of Support Services. I was working with the Captain of the Training Academy and that was his DC at the time. It was training oriented and we wanted it to count towards our training hours. Unfortunately, I’m assigned to Field Services and I have a different Deputy Chief. My DC decided to have a pissing match and demanded that I send it to him. So I did, and he ignored it for two years. He never even looked at it.
I’ve seen people get their feelings hurt and hold grudges and it’s impacted careers. I just accepted my fate for the time being. That person retired two weeks ago so I suppose I could try again. I’ve kind of changed my mind about it anyway.
My first idea was to just make myself available to officers. I wanted to sit down and do consultations and then develop a plan to help them reach their goals. I wanted to do this on duty and I wanted to send out a department wide notification to let people know I’m available. The first supervisor to whom I presented that pushed it further. He wanted me to be prepared to present/teach at in-service. So I expanded my idea. The end result was one weekly group training session in our new gym. I wanted to run people through a very basic full body workout. The goal of the workout was actually to teach them the program. I’d give them a handout to log their workouts for eight weeks. I was also prepared to help with nutrition.
I’m kind of back to square one now. I’d like to meet with people and coach them on the side. The only blessing I need/desire from the department is to take 30-60 minutes of on duty time to do this. I also need to send out a notification and doing that without permission could ruffle some feathers.
You are fortunate, my friend.
Don’t worry. It’s nothing you don’t already know. I think it’s a linear progression program. The format is the same as Dark Horse, but it’s linear.
I don’ the words “high intensity” and “rehab” go together.
I see the surgeon next Thursday. I’m hoping he says I can train with no weight restrictions. That will be a good start.
This J, start here.
Start by putting out a message, in the line of “do you have any pain or discomfort, then visit the Mighty J” (maybe not that).
Then a few co workers will show up, with some pain in the back, shoulder, knee, hip.
If you’re able to help more than a few, the word will spread, and the DC will hear about it too, and you might get a little extra here.
Sorry to hear that the first experience ended in disaster.
Could @Frank_C be the adjudicator for the #committed challenge? We could all give you a sum of money which you get to keep if we drop out, but your on our backs to stick with it. A conflict of interests for sure, and probably too time consuming for you to do.
I’ll do my best. I’ve already lost track of everyone who has “committed”. I’ll probably ask everyone to make a post on the 1st so I can take note of who’s officially in. After that, I’ll probably post a monthly or bi-monthly post to check in on everyone. Maybe it’ll just be something like “sound off if you’re still in”. And then I can go stalk those who don’t respond and see what’s up.
Here’s an example: @cdmac24, where are ya? I haven’t seen you log a workout in a minute.
I was thinking I’d be cleared to start September 10th. I see the doc on the 7th, but I’m not 100%. I might be cleared but that’s not exactly 100%. I’ll know more after I speak with him. I’m mostly concerned about the stuff I have to avoid. If I can’t do something because I’m too weak or it hurts then I can live with that. If I can’t do something because I’m told it could damage my shoulder then that’s a different story. I guess it’s all about figuring out can vs should.
You’ll be the first to know once I figure it all out.
Have you been continuing the 30 Days of DBs on your own?
And stay safe out there! You should’ve just stayed in Colorado a bit longer.
Thanks man. Yeah, I agree. Could have spent more time with the Fam in Colorado but would have had to get a hotel. Love my in-laws to death but after 3 days with them, I need a break =)
Yeah I’ve not made a workout since the last one I logged on here. Working on that…
