I agree with every one of these. Please read if you have a few minutes.
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Another quiet day/night. I worked noon to 10pm. Today was a normal work day for me but I’m at 57.25 hrs of OT for the pay period. We received a couple days of paid leave from some Covid stimulus so my team is using that tomorrow and getting a day off! I’ve worked 14 days straight so I’ll enjoy it by doing nothing at home. I’ll probably cook some food because I’m out of meat. I just picked up 40 lbs of chicken breasts today.
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Glad to hear you’re still in one piece
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Thinking of commemorating the experience with some more ink. I’m still working on the flag on my upper arm, but I’ve been undecided on my forearm. I think I’m going to go with something like this.
It suddenly has more meaning now that I’ve stood with a shield on a riot line and taken gunfire with my team. We’re bonded in a new way now.
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Wow, pretty bad ass! That makes me wanna get one myself
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6.9.20 SGSS W2 D3
I’m officially two days behind. This session should’ve been done Sunday.
Giant Set 1
PULL UPS
BW x 5, 5, 3 x 8
DEADLIFT
225 x 5
275 x 5
315 x 8 x 3 sets
DB OHP
45 x 5 x 2
60 x 8 x 3
Cue the nausea.
Giant Set 2
SQUAT
205 x 5 x 3
PENDLAY ROW
160 x 8 x 3
DB INCLINE
70 x 8 x 3
And done. I feel like garbage. I really need to figure out how to train without getting nauseous. I don’t even feel like I’m working very hard. This took 37 minutes and I skipped my delt finisher.
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I prefer to train nausea free as well, but when the urge to puke comes and passes, especially if it’s accompanied by a wretch or two, I seem to have way better output on the following set haha.
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Mine doesn’t seem to pass and I can’t push myself to the point of actually puking. I learned that even my shoulder drop sets can induce nausea. I thought I was going to be alright Saturday and then I did my delt work. It was half an hour before I wanted to move again.
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Maybe there’s something in here you haven’t tried yet:
Guy knows a thing or two about puking I’ve heard.
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While I’m here. Since you’ve dropped calorie counting and took a more by feel approach, what’s a “regular” day of eating for you look like?
I know you’ve been focusing on shoulders for a while too, what’s been your general approach to that? Your year-over-year photos from the transformation challenge are selling your advice haha.
I try to get 40-50g of protein with each meal and I’m eating 3-4 meals a day. A good day of eating would be a double protein shake for breakfast plus a bagel, two chicken wraps (6-8 oz of chicken total) or a 0.4 lb cheeseburger plus veggies for lunch and dinner. Snacks are protein bars (usually around 200 cals with 20g protein).
Some days I end up having a cheeseburger for a snack. We’ve also started shopping at Trader Joe’s and their Kung Pao chicken is pretty good.
I don’t count calories or weigh my food, but I still pay attention. I try to hit the 600-700 calorie mark with my meals. Four of those gets me close to my protein and total calories goals and leaves room for snacks (like peanut butter fill pretzels).
That plan is in a perfect world. My real world is more like the same breakfast, same lunch, and then a high calorie evening with a few beers. I also know when I’ve gone overboard so I’ll restrict myself the following day to balance things out.
I’m back to weighing myself almost daily. The goal is to stay between 225-230. I’m usually closer to 230.
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Right on, thanks for the info man!
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I haven’t checked in here in a little bit, which is my fault. How are you doing with the world’s craziness? Everything ok?
Take care J, good to read things are settling a bit in your part of the world.
You know how crazy it’s been, here in DK we have protests as well, a black woman from black lives matters is in charge… She said that white people not are allowed to go together with black or brown people, they are not allowed to shout the “I can’t breathe” slogan and are may not talk to the press.
Talk about racism, it’s so stupid. She even tried to cancel a demonstration because there where to many white people among.
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This is something I’ve migrated toward also. Read an interesting discussion on the value of building bigger legs for non modern-day BBers (the concept of the classic V-look versus the contemporary X-look). Bottom line was that the vast majority of people lifting for aesthetics will be better off emphasizing upper body development.
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We’ve had a solid week of peace. The criminal group that started terrorizing the town has settled down. Two people were arrested for promoting looting on Facebook and will be charged federally soon. The guy who shot at us in jail. Multiple people were arrested last week for things they did at the Monday night event that turned into a riot. I think they finally took the hint.
They gave us the day off yesterday and now we’re back on 12 hour days through Saturday. We’re scheduled for 10 hours on Sunday.
It’s the same as the recent feminist movement and the LGB-whatever group. They want special treatment but disguise it as equality.
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I’ve worked hard for years and basically stalled. I always made sure to train back and legs hard but I did the minimum for the beach muscles. I adopted this stupid mindset of “everyone trains the beach muscles because it’s easy”. I had to be different…and I looked different.
CT either wrote an article or wrote it on the forum about how his body weight has always stayed the same but he’s looked different over the years. He called it muscle migration. I figured I had nothing to lose and started training differently and here we are.
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I’ve got nothing for you other than best wishes. Society is doing its best to act irrationally in 2020, and now you and your profession are in the middle of an extremely unenviable situation. I hope things stay peaceful, justice is served, and you’re able to return to as much normalcy as your profession affords - the idealist in me hopes we can all start showing you the gratitude you deserve.
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Found this from 11.01.16. I don’t know if this is cooler than a 500 lb deadlift, but it’s pretty close. I think I’d like to be able to do both.
Let’s do this.
295 lbs or 134 kilos for my foreign friends.
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