Man, strong birthday.
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Then you get a big sloppy kiss from chad @SvenG
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@boilerman Much appreciated dude! It was an incredibly awesome day.
@creative_name Thanks man! Great to hear from you. Itās been so exciting watching you grow through your log.
@mr.v3lv3t Only way I know how to roll.
Slept until 0715 and knocked this out immediately upon waking
You can see Iām still in my pajamas
Tabata. During the 20 seconds, get in 4 burpee chins. During the 10 seconds, 1 bear complex.
Tang Soo Do last night was sparring. Iām re-discovering things from eons ago, primarily because the senior student I get to spar against has no fight experience, so he makes the kind of mistakes that you normally only get fed during concept drill. He spent the whole night circling toward my power side, moving straight back, giving up ring control, putting himself in corners, putting all his weight on his backfoot, etc. I got to drill leading him into spin hook kicks, cutting off corners, coming in at angles: it was pretty fun.
Oh yeah, on top of all the training yesterday, also got in a 2 mile walk. ALSO bought a 2020 Colt Python. Iāve legit wanted a Colt Python since 1998, and it was kismet for me to find one on my birthday, so I pulled the trigger (pun fully intended). Iāll be bringing it home on Halloween, and canāt wait to take photos.
My amazing wife, on top of getting me that outdoor Ninja grill, ALSO got me this
I can keep going on and on, but it was just a great day. Really recharged my soul.
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Oh, hell yeah. Now that is an absurdly strong birthday, haha.
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Oh that is sweet. Beautiful gun, I am a huge fan of the classic big shiny revolver lol.
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+infinity Pwn points
For the being gifted a modern sega genesis
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@tlgains Dude, youāll appreciate that itās NOT just Genesis games: itās got Sega CD stuff on it too! I never got the Sega CD: itās a whole new world for me.
@atlas13 and @mr.v3lv3t You know it dudes! Iāve ALWAYS wanted one of those. I actually got a S&W 686 a decade ago BECAUSE I couldnāt get my hands on a Python. Going to sell that now that Iām bringing home the REAL deal. Iām so over the moon: canāt wait to take a photo.
Got in āKINDERGARTENā after lunch. I put my money where my mouth is on this one, as I keep saying I came up with the best 20 minute workout of all timeā¦and I really think I did. My monument was a dandy birthday workout yesterday, but Kindergarten STILL floors me. I actually cut the burpee chins down to 4 and 2 minutes respectively, as I feel like Iām getting too much ārestā doing them. Perhaps the solution will be to keep them on the Tabata timer and get in 3s and 2s per round. Still room to play around, like a real PBJ.
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I tend to follow the Reddit mantra ānever sell, only buyā when it comes to these matters, haha. But Iām pumped for ya man, that is a very cool piece.
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Training Log: Entry 2582
Slept until 0700 off and on, woke up and did another fasted tabata workout of 4 burpee chins on the 20 and a bear complex on the 10. I need to name this, because I do it often enough and itās effective enough.
What WASNāT effective was this early afternoon workout.
Doubles of devil presses into thrusters. It SOUNDED like it would be a real ball buster, but ABCs are better
So I did ABCs
25 in 5 minutes, with 20 unbroken. Matching previous PR.
Thatās a total of about 13 minutes of work in the day, and all 13 minutes sucked pretty hard. Thatās making the most with the least.
And while Iām talking that, here is a dinner I whipped up in a few minutes because I was behind the 8-ball
Chicken burger with an egg white topped, chicken bacon, an onion ring on a keto bun with lettuce, tomato and pickle. Been another great āget to yesā day.
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Dude, I have to admit this is the first Iāve watched your ABC videos (along with that Tabata workout which Iām definitely going to try at some point). Iām now fully understanding why youāve been saying the KB cleans are a great bicep exercise, haha.
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Thanks for that man. Its actually Dan John that said it first: I just agreed loudly, haha
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Man Iāve been looking for the in depth description or video of kindergarten
Help a brother out?
@bjiral Here is both an in depth description AND a video
AM WORKOUT (0440 natural wake up)
CHAOS IS THE PLAN Week 4, Workout 1
Buffalo bar squat
12x405
50 reps of 315 in 8:20 (28 reps in first set)
Straight into belt squats
22x200
Reps of 175,150,125,100,75,50,25,Axle
30 GHRs
Notes:
- With Super Squats happening soon, I took a pivot here and just went for some pain. Day off work also meant I wanted a shorter workout. This was fantastically brutal.
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Thanks man!
@bjiral No problem dude. Rather topical actually, haha.
PM WORKOUT (1430)
KINDERGARTEN WOD
PBJ+5 mins ABCs+.5 PBJ
Got in 32 Burpee Chins in the first PBJ and 11 in the second
Notes:
- Since this morning was so short, I went for something more ambitious, and this continues to deliver. Happy Halloween.
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AM WORKOUT (0420 natural wake up)
CHAOS IS THE PLAN Week 4, Workout 2
9 rounds in 30 min of:
- 10 thrusters w/95lbs
- 5 log vipers w/135lbs
Got through 5 thrusters on the 10th round before time expired
POST WORKOUT SHAKE
Poundstone curls
100xAxle+5lbs
Notes:
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This is the deload to Chaos. Getting more sleep and keeping training light. This was a good combination of greatest hits through the week, and lessons learned as well. My right forearm was still achy from squats, but this selection of movements was far more survivable than the previous run where I was using the barbell the whole time. Real limiter was just training space: you can see how I have to push the log to the very edge of the crash mat to have room to do thrusters without hitting the garage door opener motor. I honestly dig how the confined training space has forced me to become so creative. And in that regard, this is a solid burner for 30 minutes. It ascribes to my āput heavy things over your headā approach to physical transformation, and thrusters and vipers are different enough that you can bounce between them. Quads vs hips. Could do something similar with thrusters and snatches, which Iāve written about before.
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Threw weight on the Poundstones just to make things move faster, as I was short on time. Got a solid pump out of it.
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First, outstanding costume; thatās my favorite Disney character of all time.
Second, I really enjoyed your āminute of mourningā blog. I never employed that exact tactic, per se, but wholeheartedly embraced the concept. I always would rather get to the pain than live in the anticipation (back then, anyway; now Iām quite wussy).
I liked your point about itās the early phase of the āsuckā thatās really the hardest. I remember day four of whatever we were doing always being magical for me - I stopped caring and just accepted that was life now. That was a powerful realization, because it meant I only ever had to really grind through 72 hours.
I have long-struggled with your āI hate training, but love the results;ā I just couldnāt empathize. Then I recently went on an amusement park ride with my daughter that was sky-high and hated every second. She made fun of me and asked ādidnāt you jump out of planes?ā Yes, I did, but I hated that every single time; it was just a prerequisite to be in the units I wanted to be in so I had to do it. Some guys were the opposite and they were in the units to jump, but I was the other way around. Anyway, that finally clicked for me.
Sorry to come in here and share my diary, but your recent writing played a lot of notes in my addled brain.
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You never need to apologize dude: Iām a big fan of what you bring. We were originally gonna do Hercules and Meg this year, but settled on Gaston and Belle to allow for slightly warmer costumes.
I did my minute of mourning this very morning! Haha. Itās been a game changer. Glad you could appreciate that as well. Much better to just jump into the cold water than drag it out.
And that jumping out of planes analogy is so spot on . That totally gets it. For me: itās simply the price of entry. Some folks live for it. I donāt get them, but I āgetā that they exist.
Meant to log, but Iāve achieved the level of leanness that is typically achieved around the 7 week point here at the start of week 4. Itās been an aggressive approach, but still not one where Iām sacrificing. All about small adjustments expanded on a large scale. One of the benefits of a grazing approach to nutrition is it means I can just shave a handful of calories at every graze and total out to something big compared to having to make large slashes to single meals.
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