[quote]LoRez wrote:
EDIT: did 175 x 3 x 5. Adding 5 or 10 next time around.[/quote]
LOL ninja edit.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
EDIT: did 175 x 3 x 5. Adding 5 or 10 next time around.[/quote]
LOL ninja edit.[/quote]
Haha, yeah. But I’ll take that back to 155 next time for 5x5, and just work into it. No need to rush, especially if adding 5-10lbs a session.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
EDIT: did 175 x 3 x 5. Adding 5 or 10 next time around.[/quote]
LOL ninja edit.[/quote]
Haha, yeah. But I’ll take that back to 155 next time for 5x5, and just work into it. No need to rush, especially if adding 5-10lbs a session.[/quote]
Yeah 10lbs should be very doable for a good while.
IHOP’s Colorado Omelette is $10. It has 1210 calories, 34g sat fat, 70g protein, and only 20g carbs. The flavor wasn’t as good as I’d hoped, but it’s a decent restaurant purchase. Their Big Steak Omelette is pretty similar nutritionally, but tastes better and costs more.
And LOL, looking through IHOP’s menu. The salads have more calories than any other menu category. “Oh, I’m losing weight, I’m just going to have a salad”. You’d be better off the Fried Chicken and Eggs with Gravy than almost any of their salads. Or just get 4 of their massive pancakes loaded with butter.
LOL I just get steak, eggs, pancakes, and bacon.
Ow. Doms. Damn squats.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
Ow. Doms. Damn squats.[/quote]
Relish it.
Your giving old 5x5 training a go eh, goodstuff, it’s all I used with my kids before 531 came along, ( ya I’m an old fucker) Anyway, after years of using it, in the end this is how we’d load it. Once we got our 5x5, I’d add 20lbs, and the first week the kid would usually get something like 1 set of 5, 1 set of 4, 2 sets of 3, and a double ( 5 sets) just for an example. Then he’d keep plugging away for a few weeks until he got his true 5x5, then I’d add another 20lbs. This isn’t true 5x5 training, but it makes progression, and adding weight easy, especially when your dealing with multiple kids. Normally you start at 50% of 1RM, and add 5lbs a week to your 5x5, but I found that we’d hit our max, and then your supposed to back up 25lbs, and start back adding 5lbs a week, and so on and so forth. This is the proper way ( never the way I do things 
I just found our way of doing it, added more to our 1 RM’s over time, and was less boring for the kids than straight 5 sets of 5. Either way is a great system, training in the best rep range for strength. Goodluck !
Those DOMS were crippling. Point tenderness all throughout for 3 days.
Back from vacation.
Squats
155 x 5 x 5
Bench
Ramped from 95 to 125
Stopped mainly due to lung failure/nausea from the squats, and some shoulder discomfort. Cardiorespiratory system sucks right now. Took inhaler after the fact but it didn’t calm things down much.
Food has been shitty since I’ve been back – mainly living on fats and oils right now with some carbs thrown in. I need to make it to the grocery store.
Weight is down to 145.
Will be improving all of this.
Weight at 145 was a fluke. Back up to 148 with some real food and hydration. Still low, but I’ve been in the 148-150 window for weeks and weeks and weeks now. 145 was low. Traveling days screw with my diet; it usually takes 3-4 days after traveling to recover from a day on the road.
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It’s the new year, and a new quarter. I don’t have a good feel of my maxes yet, so coming up with concrete goals right now wouldn’t be too wise.
Rattlehead’s goals of strength, then physique are resonating with me. I don’t really think 3/4/5 is in the cards for me for awhile.
Long term goals are too hard for me to focus on, so I’m going to find a time range that works. Maybe I can do 6 weeks, maybe it’ll have to be less than that. Financially, quarterly goals with monthly milestones seems to work. If I don’t hit the monthly milestones it’s not a big deal, because I just know I have to make it up in the rest of the time period.
But a singleminded pursuit of improving numbers seems to make sense. That way I can simplify things to “ignore” leanness for awhile, and just focus on getting the numbers up. E.g., if I’m stalling, deload and eat more.
Obviously I won’t really be ignoring leanness, but I really need to figure out why I’m having trouble with the food thing. I know what to eat, I even know how much to eat, but I’m having a lot of trouble doing it. Logistics is part of it, and appetite is a really big part of it. It’s not like I have much for external factors to affect any consistency, but right now I’m not yet consistent.
Mostly I just need to sit down and figure out the logistics of it all.
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In other news, I’m going to spend a lot of time this year working on discipline. I’ve gotten very good at acting in urgent, critical situations, improvising solutions and finding my way when there isn’t one… but consistency, routine, regularity are my weak points.
I’m also realizing the extent to which I’ve disconnected from reality. The scene in fight club where Durden tells “Jack” to stay with the pain, to not escape to his power cave… the Marines have a term for this too, called “going internal”/“Don’t go internal”. At some point I disconnected from my own life and have just been coasting. Here and there when I need to take action, I can and do, but I never actually reconnect past that point. I’m basically zoned out 99% of the time. It’s not satisfying, and at the same time, my internal dialog isn’t guiding me correctly.
What is weird though is I subconsciously continue to acquire skills, that I somehow perceive as important, and that are available when I need them. So in a sense, I’m still moving forward. But as far as my conscious mind, I’m pretty zoned out.
(Recently these skills have been focused on mountaineering and climbing, specifically working with ropes. Right now I have ropes set up in my living room to test various improvised self-belaying systems, and some paracord in my bathroom wrapped around the shower rod testing out some self advancing locking knots. Before that, it was the cold weather stuff. Before that, Chinese wok cooking. Etc.)
I’m going to put in some serious work in improving my engagement with reality, and with finding workable means to increase discipline. I think they’re heavily interrelated.
LOL I can’t think of anything hearty to say at the moment.
Well, that was fun.
Just did a workout in my garage. It’s -10 out, with a -35 windchill.
Yesterday I did some incline benching, nothing of note. Today I did some more. Neither of these were very high numbers; ramped to 150 yesterday, and 140 today. Something like that. Then some work sets at 90%, and some higher rep stuff at 60-70%.
I hiked over to IHOP last night for dinner, with 25 mph forewinds blowing snow in my face the whole time. Decided it was easier to hop a fence than go around. It’s only about 1/2 mile away, so not too bad.
Today I scooped out my car and got a path built to the plowed area. They plowed behind it, but the car itself needed to be dug out to get there. I did that between sets.
My protein shake froze before I finished it, it was that cold. Fortunately, I wasn’t.
My biggest issue right now is not enough food. I have rice and oats and stuff to make breads, but things like milk and eggs and meat are all gone. Not really that bad I guess. And if I really wanted, I could walk to the store. I’m just not that inclined to carry gallons of milk back at 8lbs or so a gallon. Then again, I might still have some powdered milk around here.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I got sick too. No fever, but pretty much straight R&R on the couch for a couple days straight. NAC + vitamin C seemed to help. I seem to have gotten over the worst part in a single day.
So, cabin fever sucks. Nearly a week spent almost entirely in my apartment. I might be able to get my car out tonight and the roads might be good enough to be driveable, but I’m not sure yet. RWD sports cars and packed snow aren’t a good combination.
I’m testing out maxes for that bench, deadlift, military, squat competition. I’m going to participate, but probably with a -10% modifier simply due to lower starting strength. To make the 1yr goals at least somewhat realistic for me (albeit still a long ways out there.)
I’ve been doing none of these lifts, so I’m out of practice.
Bench: 170
Squat: 235
Military: 110 (attempted 115 but called it because of my shoulders… I’ve done 130 in the past)
Deadlift: did not attempt
Then…
Slight Incline Bench from Pins, Layers
1RM Ramp: 140
Clusters: 115 x 7; 125 x 7; 130 x 3
Max reps - rest 10s - max reps: 105 x 13, 3
The grocery store ran out of meat, eggs and milk. I’ve had to get pretty creative with calorie intake recently. Like learning that a can of sweetened condensed milk has ~1200 calories, making hong kong milk tea with it, and considering that a genuine food source.
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They did have a few beef roasts remaining, so I’ve been cooking some hungarian goulash all day. Simple recipe:
Per 1lb beef (in 1" cubes, chuck is ideal):
- 1 tbsp lard, suet, or shortening
- 1 medium white onion, chopped
- 2 potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 tbsp Hungarian paprika (sweet paprika technically)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cups water
- Cook onions in fat until translucent, then browned.
- Add paprika, half of the salt, beef.
- Cover and let the meat simmer in its own juices for an hour. There won’t be any juices at first, but just wait.
- Add potatoes, the rest of the salt, pepper, bay leaf and water. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
- Simmer for however many hours until the beef is falling apart and the potatoes are soft. About 3+ hours.
- You can make dumplings out of flour, egg and salt at this point and add them to the broth, if you want.
- Serve with a dollop of sour cream on the side, if you want.
I haven’t eaten this batch today, but it smells great. I added a packet of gelatin to it, since I used beef round instead of chuck… a little more collagen to make up for the cheaper beef.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
The grocery store ran out of meat, eggs and milk.[/quote]
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[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
The grocery store ran out of meat, eggs and milk.[/quote]
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It’s all this snow, they can’t get any trucks in or out. This is the milk section.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
The grocery store ran out of meat, eggs and milk.[/quote]
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It’s all this snow, they can’t get any trucks in or out. This is the milk section.[/quote]
[quote]LoRez wrote:
Per 1lb beef (in 1" cubes, chuck is ideal):
- 1 tbsp lard, suet, or shortening
- 1 medium white onion, chopped
- 2 potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 tbsp Hungarian paprika (sweet paprika technically)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cups water
- Cook onions in fat until translucent, then browned.
- Add paprika, half of the salt, beef.
- Cover and let the meat simmer in its own juices for an hour. There won’t be any juices at first, but just wait.
- Add potatoes, the rest of the salt, pepper, bay leaf and water. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
- Simmer for however many hours until the beef is falling apart and the potatoes are soft. About 3+ hours.
- You can make dumplings out of flour, egg and salt at this point and add them to the broth, if you want.
- Serve with a dollop of sour cream on the side, if you want.
I haven’t eaten this batch today, but it smells great. I added a packet of gelatin to it, since I used beef round instead of chuck… a little more collagen to make up for the cheaper beef.[/quote]
Noted. Sounds delicious.