More Trouble Than I Am Worth: Chaos Is The Plan (T3hPwnisher Log)

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Hey thanks for those kind words dude!

WARNING: Probably too long of a summary ahead

I spent my mid teens through late 20s focused primarily on strength, but up until my early 20s I was also heavily focused on martial arts as well, which allowed me to build the beginning of a conditioning base. When I was 21, I got married, and at 22 I hung up the gloves since martial arts was such a big time sink. I focused solely on lifting for strength from 22-27, with my first ever powerlifting meet at age 25. At my final meet, at age 27, I squatted 502lbs, bench 336 and deadlifted 601 at a bodyweight of 181.

At age 27, I moved from very Northern North Dakota to the central coast of CA, which compelled me to want to stop powerlifting and get outside more, which got me into Strongman, which was the start of me re-discovering the value of conditioning, because back then strongman was more like it was in the mid to late aughts, with more medleys and lighter/reppy competitions, so I had to get in shape again, because I showed up to my first competition thinking I was going to blow everyone away with how jacked and strong I was and, instead, got made a chump of on the yoke.

Strongman ended up being even more beneficial to my conditioning in other ways too. I was training for a competition wherein we had to press a 275lb keg overhead, and I had a 200lb keg press at the time, so in the quest to add 75lbs to my press, I ate EVERYTHING. I was competing up a few weight classes and had room to grow. They ended up lowering the weight to 250lbs, which I hit in training, before the competition was canceled due to the newly spreading pandemic at the timeā€¦and then I went and got my blood lipids taken and clocked in a 300 total cholesterol with 200 LDL.

I had to rapidly turn the ship around, ended up dropping 30lbs of bodyweight and, in the course of that, hard pivoted my training to a large emphasis on conditioning. And that brings us to where I am today.

To sum up my summary: strength came first, and took the longest to build. Once that foundation was there, I was able to dive hard into conditioning.

Hope that helps! And can gladly discuss more as needed.

Came home from work early. COVID booster is hitting me with some fatigue and headaches. Resting up so I can live to fight tomorrow.

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2432

Hey Pwn Iā€™m curious, have you ever heard of Myer-Briggs personality types, if so how do you feel about them?

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Took a test for those my freshman year of college, and then again like 10 years later. They can be pretty fun

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I will chime in here too. They can be interesting and mildly insightful. I usually score one of two types - INFJ or INTJ (1st and 3rd rarest types).

There is also the ā€œenneagramā€ tests which are similar but seem to be more popular with. Christian housewives (donā€™t know why).

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2435

I am seeing that myself in learning the techniques of Crossfit. Iā€™m not as strong as you, but still came in among the strongest in my local CF gym before learning how to execute kips, thrusters, jerks, and all the nuances of getting through WODs quickly and efficiently. Youā€™d be surprised how many never get around the getting ā€œstrongā€ and try to learn these CF-specific moves without being able to crank out strict pull ups, bench press 225, or rep out body weight ring dips. The coaches, though, will pull me aside when I get frustrated with a technique and remind me itā€™s much better to have the strength first and practice the other moves (if I even want to bother learning them) after.

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Dude Iā€™ve scored both of those!!

INTJ in high school and INFJ a couple months ago

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@antiquity Appreciate you chiming in there. Thereā€™s a hint of that in strongman too. Lotta dudes wanna ā€œtrick liftā€ stuff instead of just develop the brute strength necessary to carry them through. We can get better in hours: we can only get stronger in months.

AM WORKOUT (0350 wake up via alarm)

CHAOS IS THE PLAN Week 2, Workout 5

MAIN WORK

3 rounds of:

  • 3x415 low handle trap bar pull
  • 3x140 weighted dip

Tear something in right lat on the 3rd rep of the 3rd round of trap bar pulls

Pivot to

10x10x135 SSB good mornings w/30 seconds rest between sets

ASSISTANCE

25 axle shrugs against strong short bands
50 pull aparts
50 overhead pull aparts
25 pushdowns
26 band curls
20 standing ab wheels

POST WORKOUT SHAKE
CONDITIONING

10 minutes of 1 burpee straight into 1 SSB squat w/135lbs
41 rounds completed

Notes:

  • Chaos is the plan! And at no better time. Iā€™ve essentially repeated the injury I got during BBB Beefcake, but this time on my right side vs my left. Itā€™s less severe, as there was no subluxation to go alongside it, but I tore along the same region. Itā€™s truthfully IN my armpit, high up, but it limits my pulling and bending over, so I think of it as a lat or teres minor. It happened in the same way too: on the eccentric of the deadlift. The fact it was on a trap bar is pretty funny, given thatā€™s the ā€œsaferā€ bar. Ultimately, itā€™s frustrating, but recoverable, and thankfully Iā€™ve ā€œbeen there/done thatā€ with this one, so I know the way forward. Cue good mornings.

  • Had to use a unique style on the GMs. Had my forearms horizontal against the handles. My injury presents when I transition from upright to folded over, so keeping the arm elevated helped. This was decently challenging by keeping the rest periods short.

  • Shrugs had to be taken pretty slow, which had a great training effect. Everything else was just figuring it out as I go, seeing what I could and could not do. The fact I can still do ab wheel and burpees means this isnā€™t nearly as bad as the last time, and in that regard Iā€™m blessed.

  • The conditioning I came up with was decent. I took some video Iā€™ll have to upload later, but the big goal was going straight from the floor into the squat and back again. Level changes galore.

  • Again: no better time to deal with this. Chaos is the plan and will remain so. I feel like I still can continue with the majority of what I was going with here, with a few changes. Heavy weighted chins are going on the backburner.

  • Will grind my way through Tang Soo Do tonight and see what kind of conditioning I can come up with as time goes on.

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one of my friends is obsessed with thoseā€¦ to the extent that she wanted me to ask my advisors what was theirs.

As someone whoā€™s read more psych literature about personality than Iā€™d like to admit, Myers briggs is unvalidated.

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I think theyā€™re pretty cool, but like @magick said itā€™s unhealthy to have a singular definition somethin of oneselfā€¦. (I butchered you words magick, donā€™t kill me!

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Itā€™s why I say theyā€™re fun. Like having a zodiac sign: it can be a helpful lens to view yourself through, but you have to use it more to drive introspection, rather than cut off all self-reflection.

I know too many ā€œintrovertsā€ that decided that they can just call themselves that as a license to be a social outcast.

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Redditors LOL

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It annoys me off at some level bc shite like that is what a non-trivial number of people confuse with psychology.

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Welcome to my life as someone with an education in politics, haha.

@tlgains Redditors abound! And a fair amount of DnDers sadly.

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Hey one of my close friends plays DnD, whenever we talk on the phone I keep jokingly asking him if I can be insert fictional character in Dnd if I were to play.

He says ā€œthatā€™s not how it works, it depends on the campaignā€ while laughing.

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He has too many rules! Haha.

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You didnā€™t butcher anything; you got the gist of it and Iā€™m so happy that you remembered it months, if not years, since I probably mentioned that particular part of my personal life philosophy to you!

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Iā€™m definitely interested to see the video if you end up posting it, this sounds like a circus act or something, haha.

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Ask and receive! Circus act is right, haha.

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Youā€™re getting in like 3 rounds of that in the normal amount of time it takes me to stand up from my couch.

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@heretolog It helps that Iā€™m going from one awful spot to the next: Iā€™m always trying to escape! haha.

Just a PSA, but I got in my first shipment of Spike Hardcore Energy drinks yesterday. Iā€™m having the Blue Raz flavor right now and itā€™s amazing.

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