@ChongLordUno Appreciate the sentiment dude! Lift provides deloads.
I’ve gotten in 27 burpee chins in 5 minutes and 50 burpees in 4:48 currently. Just doing little chunks throughout the day. The cough is the big limiter: once a fit hits me I’m out for a bit.
Ok, most likely the final bit of training for today. Did a Tabata burpee chin with a 50lb devil press between rounds followed by a 30 minute walk. Good to get some fresh air. Also some light band work.
Having a nasty cough has been great ab work, and eating a bunch of carbs from Halloween candy yesterday just to get in SOME calories has my whole body all swollen up, so I am rocking this “sick physique”.
Travel day. Got up at 0430 and did a fasted workout of 5 minutes of 50lb DB ABCs followed immediately by Tabata burpee chins with alternating DB snatch on the 10 seconds. My cardio is shot, but a big part of being more trouble than I am worth is that, even when I am sick, I can put out more effort than those who are healthy.
Been mainlinning food. Best time possible for a gaining phase. Everything I own has a thin veneer of nuts n more on it at this point since its constantly on my fingers.
Hey you’ve mentioned before that your blood turned to pasta sauce at one point, before you started focusing on the type/quality of your fats and other things.
I don’t know what the threshold for Ragu is but I just got my lipids back: Cholesterol 246 (normal <200), HDL 111, LDL 124 (normal <100). So I’m about 25% above the top of the range, guess I’ll need to back off the heavy whipping cream and possibly the beef?
The first google result for “how to lower cholesterol” is “Reduce red meat and whole-fat dairy consumption”. LOL that’s… a LOT of what I eat.
Guess I get to keep the liquid egg whites though.
Anyway not wanting to clutter up your log but curious how bad yours was, and how long it took to reduce.
Oh, and get well soon!
@jdm135 Good to hear from you dude.
My total was 300, with a 200LDL and 86 HDL, do you’re honestly in a much better position than I was. It’d be interesting to know what your triglycerides are, because honestly, from my totally non-qualified perspective, your ratios look pretty awesome.
It took about 6 months on a statin to the LDL to 66 and add a few points to the HDL, but I got off the statin ASAP and, over 2.5 years, managed to get the numbers even better with lifestyle and bodyweight changes.
Is your doc wanting you to change those numbers?
Against my better judgement, I decided to forego more training for the day in order to put me in a better position to nail Super Squats tomorrow. Still got a fever that comes and goes and a nasty cough, but I should be solid enough for one hard workout tomorrow.
Oh yeah, my birthday gift to myself finally arrived
35, and the range is <150, so good there.
Thanks for the response!
@jdm135 Yeah, those legit do not look like worrisome numbers to me. Unless your doc has specifically said you need to look into lowering your LDL, it’s not a goal I’d pursue. And you honestly might get away with swaps vs full on changes. Grassfed vs grainfed beef/dairy. Pasture raised eggs vs dollar a dozen, etc.
AM WORKOUT (0405 natural wake up)
SUPER SQUATS Workout 3
Axle clean and strict press away
3x10x141
Band pull aparts
1x10
2x20
Weight dips/axle row superset
3x12x60/2x15x188
Breathing Squats
15x325 (pulled my right hamstring on the 15th rep and shut it down)
Notes:
I’m going to call this a completed workout still, given the circumstances, and when the time comes, I’ll up the weight.
And I know it all comes from good places, but folks: please don’t wish me well, good recovery, heal up, etc etc. It’s a pulled hamstring. I’m just documenting it.
As is often the case, I’m enlightened by an offhand post in here. My blood viscosity and lipid panel has become a concern for me the last couple years, and I really believe it’s my weight. Primary care physicians hesitate to commit to that logic, I imagine because I don’t look like the average overweight patient and it’s always a fight to get a patient to lose weight anyway, but I have issues at 205 I simply didn’t have at 185 (regardless of aesthetics).
Happy birthday! The revolver is a classic choice in a modern world. I did not realize you were a shooter.
@TrainForPain Thanks man! I’ve wanted a Python since '98. The 2020 re-release was just a sign, but it took FOREVER to find one. I’d hesistate to call myself a shooter, as I haven’t put a round downrange since 2013 or so, but if given the chance I enjoy the opportunity, and this was just a piece I’ve always wanted. I’m pretty set now with a 1911 and a Python as my “Every red blooded American should have” pieces. Always been pistols too: didn’t care much for long-arms, although I got my pistol grip mosberg 500, which was always one of those “I wish” guns. My 90s is CLEARLY showing, haha.
Bodyweight is really just a cure all for a lot of things. Dropping 30lbs definitely improved my markers. I still struggle mentally, because I really just want to be big, but I have to make peace with the fact that “big me” exists on an alternate timeline, where I never got married or had a stable job and just chased that end. And I’m sure big me is happy, but current me is also VERY happy.
I’ve seen a huge change just by dropping a few pounds, and my strength didn’t bottom out like “big me” assumed it would.
How’d you drop 30? Lifting is easy, leaning out with a kid/job/etc is rough!!
Enlightenment indeed up in here.
I don’t understand. But you do you lol.
Thanks again for taking the time. I agree, though im completely unqualified to make medical evaluations. My dr is new and didn’t put thought into her response; it was automatic- “you’re above the range, so lower it, oh by the way your ratio is fine.”
To be fair, my last blood work 22 months ago had everything in the normal range, so im very confident this was caused by my absurd diet. And my wife knows. So I’ll drop Heavy Whipping Cream, and allow more carbs. More white meat, less beef. The eggs are already top-shelf or Liquid Whites, and those are cholesterol free anyway.
Aw, shucks. Get we-
Wait, no.
Beatings will continue until hamstring improves.
I appreciate your thoughts on this. In terms of the bodyweight, I think it’s one of those “what I want to be true vs. what is true” kind of things. Obviously I freaking hate losing weight, but I think it’s time to suck it up and maybe get to see grandkids…
You eat essentially the opposite of what general practitioners recommend, with which I’m onboard - the general population has horrific markers. Were you monitoring variables closely enough you feel like you can say changes like grassfed beef made a real impact? Im not questioning you; I’m curious.
I used to be pretty solid with a medium-range rifle, even relative to what I was doing. I was never more than average with pistol; it’s tough. Shotgun expectations were always low enough that it was just fun! I’ve shot a few times the last several years, and it’s so freaking expensive I don’t know how people could spend both the time and money to get good when it’s not their job. The 1911 is, hands-down, the best-looking piece of Americana there is… and you have to have Punisher grips.
Only thing I’ll be wishing you is a merry Christmas, as soon as the day comes.
@bjiral Honestly, losing the weight was the easiest thing I’d done in a LONG time, which proved to be an issue, because I’m so driven that I just started chasing after this leanness dragon. I do imagine part of that contributed to my overall hormone issues. But all I had to do was not eat and be hungry. That’s INACTION. I’m CONSTANTLY in a state of not eating, so I just kept that up. When I DID eat, it was not much food. I had shifted food selection toward Mountain Dog and Deep Water based approaches, but really, just not eating is all it boils down to.
@jdm135 For the wishing well thing, it boils down to something Nietzsche wrote in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: pity is the greatest of man’s sins. I don’t want to be pitiful. I don’t want to be pitied. I don’t want to be reminded of my weakness. And I understand that’s not the intent of people, which is why I get out in front of it so that I don’t get upset by the good intentions of well wishers: this is just a personal hang up of mine. But I impart it outward to. I don’t tell people to get better soon: I tell people they’re going to come back strong.
Sucks your doc is just running a playbook, but it sounds like you’re making some decent swaps there. Hope it works out well!
@kdjohn I’d fully expect you to sweep the leg, haha.
@boilerman Dude, just wait until you see what I’m about to post…
@TrainForPain The bodyweight thing is too true. It’s why I pivoted and shifted focus hard. If I can’t be huge, I’m going to be more trouble than I’m worth, haha. Finding my own approach to nutrition was about figuring out how to make what works for me “work for me”. I was getting enough frequent blood lipid scans to be able to see the difference, but a big part of those swaps is the “barrier to entry” they created in general. Beef was my default meat. I ate it pretty much daily, many times multiple times a day. You start saying “all beef must be grassfed”, and suddenly your wallet starts speaking up. And good luck finding a “grassfed whopper” at BK, haha. Same thing with dairy: suddenly it’s either fat free or it’s pricey. But I also think quality food results in quality outcomes. It just makes sense from a biological perspective. We were meant to eat these plants and animals…but AS THEY WERE, not as we made them. It’s kinda like how you can’t even actually do a paleo diet these days because all of our fruits and veggies are SO different than they were in the paleo era.
And oh man, Punisher grips on a 1911 ARE slick…but god help you if you ever use it and they find those on it, haha.
@tlgains Always appreciate it dude. I got my copy of Super Squats one year on Christmas. Same with “Complete Keys to Progress”. It’s a great time of year.
PM WORKOUT (1800)
SUPER…GOOD MORNINGS?
Breathing Good Mornings/pull overs
20x325/20x20lbs
Poundstone curls
155xAxle
Notes:
At first I thought, “Not even Pwn’s that stupid.”
Then I thought, “Probably a joke; his squats are super low-bar so that’s probably it.”
And then I watched the video.
This is the level of utter lunacy I love you for, you insane bastard.
Dude! As I was putting the weights away I said out loud “F–k me why am I so f–king stupid?” Haha. I love the narrative you laid out there! This is what happens when left to my own devices
I was going to make a max effort trap bar pull joke, but that ship clearly has sailed, haha. Need to check back on my laptop to catch that video.
Every bit of that was awesome