Making cardio more difficult by reading Job! Not an easy book.
Good to see you sticking to that pattern of reading and focusing on God before training though.
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The Mrs and I started a Bible in one year plan together. We picked a chronological one and it jumped to Job after Genesis 11. I’ve read the entire Bible but my retention wasn’t great. There’s no reason not to do this year after year.
By the way, the cardio was easy! I’ve found that I’m doing better with the audible approach. I can lock into it better which blocks the cardio out.
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My favorite book!
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Man, if you ever feel like life is being unfair then look at Job!
My personal favorite piece of the Bible is 1 Kings 18 when Elijah defeats the prophets of Baal.
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My favorite verse remains Joel 4:10
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That book resonates with me so much.
Sorry for the upcomming long post. Definitely feel free to skip reading.
The context is that Satan was accusing God that Job only follows Him because he kept blessing Job materially. God says go ahead, and Satan takes everything away from Job. Despite all that he lost, he doesn’t stop following God and even his own wife tells him to curse God. His friends all tell him that he must have done something wrong, even if his questions were simply genuine. After a lengthy discussion with his friends, God finally answers and all He says were things about Himself, not about Job.
I really like it because
(1) in today’s mainstream Christianity, prosperity gospel is becoming a huge problem. Follow God so that you will be blessed financially, which is totally wrong.
(2) It also shows that there’s nothing wrong about genuinely questioning Christianity/God/Religion.
(3) God always has his reasons. Job didn’t know that while all this was happening, God used it to prove Satan wrong. I honestly believe that even if the book didn’t end “happily,” that Job would be happy to know that God used him to prove Satan wrong when he gets to heaven, and that would be more than enough.
(4) God never addressed Job’s questions or insecurities by telling good things about him. All He said was about Himself, and Job realized that our confidence should be in Him, and that was enough for Job to keep following Him no matter how hard it got.
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Great post, good insights, I do love God’s reply, he waits for all Job’s friends to finish their accusations and for Job to finish his questions, then turns up and shows them all how big He is, and there’s nothing left to say after that. Reminds me of Psalm 68:2.
I think we’re in the same plan, I’m in Joshua at the moment, I tend to do it every 18(ish) months I find it a great blessing to read cover to cover but you lose the detail and study, I like to follow it up with a few months or longer of more in-depth book studying. A good analogy here is like beer Vs whiskey, sometimes you want a drink; you have a beer you go at it and have a long drink and finish it quickly, it’s refreshing and it’s good but there isn’t much savouring, sometimes you want a whiskey, you have a small amount and drink it slowly appreciating all the nuances and flavours.
I find a good way to continue doing this and really benefit is read various translations each year.
My favourite in this vein is Proverbs 20:29, I am unfortunately transitioning to the latter part of the verse much quicker than I’d like!
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Yep. Typical of religion to make up its own rules instead of just following the Bible.
I constantly remind myself that I have a human brain. It’s flawed at its core and I can never understand God. That’s kind of why it’s called faith.
Job went on to double his previous wealth and had seven sons and three daughters. I kind of feel like 10 kids might have been his wife’s punishment for telling Job to curse God. 
That’s probably next on the list. It blows my mind how my pastor creates 30 minute sermons on one verse by breaking it down word by word and explaining the meaning of each. He tells us the original word and its meaning and we don’t get that in the English translations.
It just tells me how much I miss by reading it like a book.
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12.14.20
Took the day off. It’s cold and I didn’t want to run outside. I found this gem while browsing Instagram. 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIyEnr_D7-O/?igshid=1vlkuedpzd4fn
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Oh man, I was really disappointed to see that first dude didn’t fall off the bench while doing that.
Also, I feel like I could just as easily make up some dumb crap like this guy and pass it off as intelligent training. Might have to make some vids.
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Have you seen his air bicep curls 
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And all the comments sucking his d*ck, seriously, this the worst fitness guru in the world
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12.15.20 Daily Dose #22
ELLIPTICAL
15 minutes, 1.15 miles - I normally do an interval of 2 to 1 of Level 1 Incline 15 : L4 Inc 20. Tonight I did L4 at Inc 15 most of the duration. The goal was to make my legs burn and then continue moving. Goal achieved.
Super Set
SQUAT
135 x 5
185 x 3
225 x 5 singles
DEADLIFT
275 x 3
325 x 5 singles
CURL TRIPLE SET
65 x 10/8/12
65 x 5/3/7
Lean back/upright/lean forward
18 minutes
@Voxel, in response to your question, my diet is pretty repetitive. Chicken, burgers, steam in the bag veggies. My bad diet is that with chips and salsa, pizza, and lots of 4.1% alcohol beer (95 cals for 12 oz).
My wife made mashed potatoes this weekend and a good helping of those will fill me up. My “good” lunches at work are a chicken sandwich or wrap with about 7 oz steamed veggies. It takes the edge off and then I’m hungry again in 90 minutes. I added a protein bar to that today and it stayed with me till 5 pm, so 5 hours.
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Then that was a good addition, imo. If I can get five hours of activity from one meal, I consider the meal a success.
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I’m guessing that is very low on fat, so insulin would go up and down fairly rapidly potentially making you hungry. Meanwhile a bar depending on the brand night have some 20g.
I’m no nutritionist but I imagine there’s a pretty big swath of things that you’re potentially not getting. My first guess would be some of the fat soluble vitamins such as Vitamin E unless the bag of veggies contain avocado. Potentially low on fats too, not necessarily in grams but getting enough of the different kinds.
Like, I’d argue that if you removed the pizza and the chips you’d conceivably have an even less healthy diet.
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Best nutritional advice I’ve ever read!
You are correct about the fats. My fats come from red meat and a little cheese so if I’m not eating red meat then it’s pretty low.
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How much fat would you consider a baseline per day? I probably miss this target by a mile, I tend to be pretty protein and carb heavy. Not helped by the fact that eggs give me pretty bad digestion, avocados are gross and I’m not really that interested in eating nuts.
Thoughts on nut butters? I recently posted a photo in my log of my fat source being primarily nut butters, primarily because nuts seem to come out of me in the same form they went in, which can be unpleasant.
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I dislike them. If you told me that was a game changer between me achieving my goals and not, I’d choke them down. It would be unpleasant though.
I do not know if I have ever not understood another human more up until this very point.
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