Got in the remainder of my squats at work, through out the day. Been good for recovering from that run too. Appetite is very slowly returning.
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Just catching up, and I saw it in the other thread, but really impressive on the run to just have the general condition to get out there and knock it out - nice!
I canāt wrap my head around this. How did you keep it a walk and still move that fast? Or am I just a d-bag and thereās a typo/ I misunderstand in here?
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Hey thanks for that man! Means a lot coming from a dude who has done some serious rucking and humping in their time. It was definitely a great experiment in bad ideas, haha.
The latter, haha.
Should read āI got in a 1.5 mile walk. After that, I got in 300 prisoner squats in under 9 minutesā
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Ha! I thought someone divided by 0 and time had simply lost all meaning, but I know not to underestimate you.
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Actual video of pwn taking off on his walk:
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I love the groupies
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That show is timeless. And I miss the 90s, haha. And Iāll gladly take the compliment @TrainForPain wherein your first assumption was that I accomplished the impossible and THEN you wondered if maybe it was a translation error, haha.
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Read your post from 3/30 on your blog.
I think you are definitely onto something key when it comes to strength and hypertrophy
What youāre good at is proportionate to strength and what youāre bad at is proportionate to hypertrophy. I hadnāt thought about it that way but it definitely works like that.
I have been working on my pull-ups (something I have always been bad at because I am hulk-sized naturally) and have noticed more growth in my Lats than ever before even though I only do maybe 20 reps a week or less.
Really gave me something to ponder with this one.
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Hey thanks for saying that man! Glad you dug it. I was really pleased with how it turned out. People keep saying ātrain what youāre bad atā, but āWHY!?ā becomes an interesting question. Or, specifically āwhenā. It canāt be ALL the time, and itās good to know when to do just that and when not to.
And I bet, as a combat athlete, that gels with you as well. Prior to fight training, weāre building up our weaknesses, but when it comes time to prep for the actual fight, we have to also remember our strengths and play to them and make it part of our gameplan. Weāre not going to go out there and do what weāre BAD at when itās time to win.
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This is one thing I have noticed with my sons cross country/track coach. She has the āwhenā Down perfectly. I watched as her athletes all got progressively better over the seasons peaking right before conference meets at the end of the season. Other teams seemed to push too hard too early and their runners actually got a little slower. Interesting how one can predict what the body is going to do and leverage that into performance.
As a combat athlete, my goal with the weak points is not to get taken out by them to give myself a chance to use my strengths. I had one of the longest reaches in the gym so the coach made me spar with the middleweights and under to get them used to getting inside someone with a long reach. Which simultaneously taught them to use their speed advantage and improved my sluggish reaction times to faster punchers.
I havenāt put as much thought into training as you have but I feel I would reach similar conclusions (though I donāt have the balls (or energy levels) to attempt what you do on the regular).
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Weāre all fighting our fights dude, and you are fighting yours hard. And I feel like that fighting is what links you and I. I wasnāt near the combat athlete you were, but we still have that bond of thought which most likely vectors this conclusion finding. It was a great testing and proving ground, and a good way to keep in mind ākeeping the goal the goalā.
Itās easy to go off tilting at windmills when all youāre doing is trying to get jacked, but when youāre trying to keep someone from tearing your head on, there is a moment of clarity when you think āwhy is it Iām training again?ā
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Iāll jump in - I also liked the recent blog post. I had a boss a long time ago that was really good at finding our limits, and then asked us to do that for our teams. He would say āyou canāt really push yourself; you have to find someone else to do it for you.ā I think that more or less aligns with the seeking fear theme and the value of the programs. Someone has put the time into creating this situation that will push you (or you yourself did writing it out ahead of time), but weāre not likely to take it that far ourselves in the gym without a roadmap.
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@TrainForPain Appreciate you swinging by to say that. Thereās a lot of truth in that. I remember experiencing that with combat sports as well. Iād have all the equipment I needed at home to train, but it wasnāt until I had someone really pushing the pace that Iād feel myself really progressing. Left to our own devices, weāre going to veer away from that pain and fear, but thankfully many will willfully guide us! Haha.
AM WORKOUT (0355 natural wake up) Semi-fasted: 1 scoop Metabolic Drive shake at 0100
PLAGUE OF STRENGTHāS āFAMINEā WORKOUT Week 2, Day 2
SSB Squats (1:50 between sets)
3xBar
3x135
1x205
1x325
2x4x405
1x3x405
1x4x405
43x205
No, seriously, Iām going to stop logging for a second so we can all just take a moment and reflect on that. That was absolutely nuts.
Viking row/leg extension/leg curl supersets (extensions for first 3 sets, curls for final 3, 90 seconds rest starting from completion of Viking row)
6x20x60lbs on row
3x25x50 for extensions and curls
Calf raise/leg raise superset circuit (no rest, just bounce between the two)
2x25x65
1x25x55
2x25x35
5xAMRAP leg raise
Completed in an hour, shaved 10 minutes off previous time
Immediately followed up with 2 mile forced march, 100 push ups, 50 bodyweight squats
Notes:
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I am all that is squats. Seeing the progress between these two weeks, while bodyfat continues to drop, and the fact I hit this the day after a protein sparing modified fast of nothing but protein shakes: I am absolutely more trouble than I am worth. That deathset was absolutely nuts. I am such a fan of how this is unfolding.
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Pretty much just held on for the rest of the workout. Playing around and saving time where I can, which is invaluable this week. I liked the supersets I came up with. I could see doing a Brian Alsruhe giant set here, going row-legs-hanging leg raise repeat.
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To get my 2 miles in, it was a combination fast walk/slow jog, and then the last lap was me actually going for a full out run for the sake of time. Working 12s, making it work. That also meant I was hustling around the neighborhood in my pure 90s get up of headband, red hot pants, blue cut off and knee sleeves. Maybe they think Iām trying out for pro-wrestlingā¦
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On the āmaking it workā part, I also had to mainline my coffee this morning to get in my caffeine. That was fun. But it all got done. Push ups and squats arenāt going to be a big obligation.
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I am seriously just over the moon with how awesome this has been. My body feels fantastic as well. Very much healed from Super Squats. I could hit those heavy squats and feel some discomfort and pain, but then it would pass, whereas before it would basically set me up for agony for the rest of the day.
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Agreed. Incredible.
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Thanks man! Laying down was SUCH a mistake, because I did NOT want to get up after that, haha. The garage floor felt so cool and welcomingā¦like the embrace of the void, haha.
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I think many of us would find 43 body weight squats to be quite difficult, this many reps at 205 is amazing.
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@littlesleeper Thanks for that man! Itās high praise from you.
Doing a little spitballing here, thinking about the next step. Jamie suggests a 2-4 week run of āFamineā before moving on to āFeastā, and I feel like I might actually be willing to give that a full run. My time on the Velocity Diet has really gone far in helping me re-think food, and planning the nutritional strategy for feast is becoming enjoyable in and of itself.
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I can see myself bookending with the Velocity Diet. Still do a wake and shake and still start and end my day with a Metabolic Drive shake. I could take @Chris_Shugart 's advice here and add some sort of nutbutter to the shake to increase calories.
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But beyond that, I can see myself going paleo-esque/keto from the gaining front and having zero issues this time around. Real food is amazing. It doesnāt need tricks. Iām thinking I could just batch make some ground beef/turkey/lamb/pork and mix it with avocados/avocado oil, pasture raised whole eggs, egg whites and nut/sunflower seed butter and have that during the work days. Rather than having to pack some sort of traveling circus of exotic and bizarre Frankenfoods and spend all of my free time shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc, I could just whip this up for the week and eat it through the work day. Iād mix up the animal protein source to get in a wider variety of fats and nutrients. Iād also allow myself some instances of rotisserie chickens/chicken drumsticks/thighs/etc, some piedmontese beef in some sort of configuration, etc.
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I feel like the 2-3 week cycle of this approach and then back to a stricter Velocity Diet for 2-3 weeks, alternating Jamieās programming as directed, would really answer the mail. And, if nothing else, Iām once again excited about eating and training, which is always big. Weāll see how this unfolds, but I think thereās a lot of potential. I also have a LOT of Frankenfood that I need to get to a foodbank at some point, because I donāt think Iām ever going back.
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Got all my push ups and squats in.
Iāve had a salty taste on my lips for the past few weeks now. Iām curious if this is the infamous āketo breathā I hear about. Iāve poked around online and it seems like a split between āmetallicā and āsaltā.
Paging any of my log readers that have gone legit keto (as I havenāt actually used glucose sticks to verify at this point): did you experience a salty taste in your mouth while on keto?
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I canāt come in here and NOT comment on this:
soā¦ AWESOME work!
I donāt know about āketo breath,ā but when I drink even more coffee than usualālike when doing OMAD, i.e., nowāI often get this sensation.
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Thanks on both accounts man! I am putting away a ton of coffee, so maybe thatās the culprit.
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