Thanks for that additional write up, that makes a lot of sense, you’re right perpetual abundance isn’t good for us as a species, we know it instinctively and we are happy to point it out in others (spoilt kids, obese people, drunks etc. all caused by overindulgence enabled by perpetual abundance) but loathe to recognise and apply it to ourselves, because that would be uncomfortable.
I like the additional information, because it’s speaks to famine and feast rather than the meat and eggs side of it. Incidentally most of my meals are now meat and eggs, lot of bacon and eggs or eggs on their own, or eggs and cheese, it’s a super easy way of eating and like you often say removes the thinking - I’m hungry I want something quick and nutritious, that leaves me with eggs and bacon or eggs and cheese or protein and nuts depending on how little time I want to commit, evening meal a bit more time and more people to cook for but still meat based but often a little more carbed up, it becomes quite intuitive and so simple.
@alex_uk Always happy to chat, and appreciate you giving me the platform to bloviate, haha. And yeah, it’s why I say that the feast and famine portion are independent of “Chaos is the Plan”. The way Jamie laid it out, the feast is very “carnivore agnostic”, and encourages all manner of nutritional debauchery (although there is still a heavy emphasis on protein intake). I’m a big fan of your approach there, and had a similar realization: I really appreciate how “high speed/low drag” this approach is. And there is STILL room for creativity if we want it. If we wanna make a quiche, that’s awesome, but we can also throw some eggs in a glass container in the microwave and have food ready in 2 minutes if that’s what we need.
AM WORKOUT (0520 wake up via spouse’s alarm)
10 minutes of burpee into keg overhead (34 reps total)
BREAKFAST
50lb weighted vest walk w/dog
Notes:
Still just playing it as I go for now. “Program starts Monday”, as cliché as it is, I’m still just in vacation mode, and today waking up next to my wife and getting in a quick workout took priority over waking up earlier for a longer one. I also need to ease myself back into lifting a little after time away from the weights. I can feel how sore I am. I’m just gonna note that I’m also feeling extremely psychotic these days and considering Deep Water in place of Feast and Famine, with the limiting factor being that I won’t have the full 12 weeks to run Beginner and Intermediate, but I think this really speaks to how beneficial that deload was. I was experiencing some severe training burnout, and now I want to REALLY drill down into training. Good place to be in.
In full disclosure, my original plan was to burpee OVER the keg each rep, but it looked like a bridge too far when it came time to do the jump, so I called this audible. That most likely speaks to how much I need to bring jumps back into my training. But I at least appreciated level change into a floor to overhead. Just a classic combo.
Was good to get in that morning walk again.
Tang Soo Do was a decent workout last night. We had 3 bags set up, and would run from one to the other and perform a technique on it. Just constant movement.
Been doing a pretty hard protein sparing modified fast upon my return from the cruise, totally in “non-martyr” mode. After 10 days of eating my face off, my appetite is absolutely satiated and I have no real hunger. I’m basically doing 1 meal a day, with 2 Metabolic Drive feedings and 1 egg whites feeding otherwise (Metabolic Drive in the morning, Egg Whites for “lunch”). I’m starting to feel my appetite return ever so slightly, but I really feel like I figured out the feast portion of the nutrition this time around. Feast hard enough and you will welcome the famine.
@ChongLordUno Oh that sounds absolutely brutal! I’ll have to steal that. And dude, I just saw your video on how you eat, and the comments were such a goldmine, haha. It was good to see so much positivity and support, but that dude that kept saying “I’M LEAVING!” and never actually left was just so hilarious. What a child.
I just posted the workout up. I love these burpee kb overhead combos. They’re a FANTASTIC way to fit in some overheads/conditioning work. They’re like snacks in that respect. 10 mins of work and bang!
Yeah man my eyes have been opened due to that video. I lost about 5 subs but gained about 10 back! I’ve actually got a team of trolls on my case and they’re trying to get a rise out me. YT is weird man
I’ve actually had a few folk tell me they’re sticking with the busy dad program when they don’t agree with my view on things. They think I give a shit. Funny thing is that I’m actually good friends with Max (busy dad)
I am absolutely thriving on this eating style man. I’m laying down muscle that matters. None of this overblown muscle shit. That’s my take on it so far
You’re onto something big there dude, and @LoRez had a comment about this a while back which is also something worth discussing.
When you look at a steak with marbling, it’s a delicious steak absolutely, but what you’re seeing is an animal with fat BETWEEN it’s muscle. Joe Rogan really put this in perspective when I heard him talking about wagyu beef: “you’re eating a sick and dying animal: no healthy animal has that much fat in it’s muscle”.
Well, we KNOW plenty of humans out there with marbling. And how do they get there? On a diet rich in those things that are killing us: refined carbs. The same crap you’d feed an animal to fatten it up so it’s yummy.
Meanwhile, look at a tiger. It’s SLEEK. It has just as much muscle as a big and muscular bull, sure, but it doesn’t have any marbling, because all it eats is meat. It builds nothing but muscle. If you were to have “tiger steaks”, it would be nothing but DARK red, nearly purplish looking meat.
You aren’t building any marbling, because you’re only eating meat. You’re building “tiger muscle”, not “cow muscle”, haha.
And man, that’s just too funny about people trying to get a rise out of you. Once again, so much comedy in that eating this way ALSO just makes you at peace so much more. It’s clear these dudes need to relax, haha.
Hell yeah brother! I’d be honored to hear/see that on youtube sometime. Feel free to use it as much as you need.
And I feel like there has to be SOMETHING to it. I dropped 35lbs when I switched to eating this way, and though I had SOME fluff to lose at the start, I figure some of that weight had to be some of that marbling, because my bodyweight free fell to a level I hadn’t seen since high school, yet I was still looking as muscular as before, rather than shrunken.
Weekend is going awesome, eating well and did another version of the EMOM alternating axle Grace and Fran, this time with kettlebells. Makes it much more viable
Went to a new place for lunch called Cheeseburgers Omaha. First time having a smash burger. Had a funny convo with the cashier.
“I wanna do the build your own burger, no cheese, add 3 extra patties”
“Gotcha, triple hamburger”
“No no, I wanna add 3 EXTRA patties”
“Yeah, no, I get you dude. It comes with one patty already, so we’ll add 2 to make it a triple” he holds up his hand to show me a 3
I hold up four fingers “I want FOUR patties total”
pregnant pause
“…Oh”
“What can I say: I’m a hungry dude”
And it was yummy. Knife and fork of course.
Also, forgot to share this sweet coffee mug I found during my stay in Galveston.
@ChongLordUno Always means a lot from a fellow berserker. I like the phrase “iron sharpens iron”, but we’re out here blunting our teeth from biting our shields, haha.
AM WORKOUT (0545 wake up via spouse’s alarm)
PESTILENCE Week 1, Day 1
GIANT SET (axle-incline-viking-dips-abs)
Axle continental and strict press away
5x161
2x4x161
3x161
Incline bench
6x155
3x6x135
2xAMRAPx135
Viking press
4xAMRAP
2xAMRAP w/triple dropset
Weighted dips
3x105
2x105
2x3x105
Ab wheel rollout
10,8,6,4,4
Poundstone curls
100xAxle
Overhead tricep extensons
100xAxle
Notes:
This is a heavily modified “Famine” from Plague of Strength, so I saw fit to give it a homage/tribute name vs a cover. I slept late, as work was canx due to snow, and, in turn, I cut time where I could in the workout so I could recover my morning. No walk this morning, as I plan to be shoveling a LOT of snow later.
I really like how this went. It was absolutely exhausting for all of my pushing muscles, and I got a crazy arm pump at the end. Jamie’s RX of 15 minutes of curls and extensions never really did it for me, but he encourages experimentation, and this was absolutely what I needed.
Since this is a 2 week program done under a big deficit, I’m not too concerned with chasing PRs: just wanna put in max effort.
@FlatsFarmer You know it! That was MY card back in the day, haha. To the shock of absolutely no one, my strategy in MtG was “I don’t have to win: I just have to make YOU lose”. Pestilence and Pox were my go to. As long as everyone dies, I’ll call that a win.
AM WORKOUT (0513 wake up via dog, slept in due to another snow day)
22 rounds completed, ran out of time after 15 squats from 23 round
Got in 30 push ups to total 250
Shovel snow for 1 hour, then breakfast
Notes:
The storm continues, thus Chaos is the plan. I switched the order of days and did day 3 of Famine for day 2. We had delayed reporting for work and I saw no need to get up stupid early at that point, so slept in and went with the shorter workout, which timed out perfect, for as I finished my final push up my wife came into the garage to start shoveling the driveway, so I threw on my coat and joined her. Gonna count the shoveling toward my walk, and I’m already 300 squats and 250 push ups into today. Good start.
On that note, yesterday I got in 300 squats and 75 push ups, along with a 2+ mile weighted vest walk on top of my other training. Doing my best to comply with the full demands, but not going to kill myself over it.
Supposed to have Tang Soo Do tonight, but we’ll see what the weather has to say about that.
30 minutes of Cindy is pretty solid. The chins were falling off at the end there. If I allowed myself to kip it’d be totally viable. But getting 20 rounds is getting in all the bodyweight work from Murph, so that’s pretty cool.
Yesterday, I got in another round of shoveling and the remainder of my push ups. In turn, this morning I woke up and this was so not on my list of things to do. I am dealing with a minor annoying cold, which I need to recognize that I seem to get some sort of small illness every time I enter a famine. Reduced calories and fats can very likely be compromising my immune system. And I know that, at the end of a famine, my training motivation is totally shot. This one is unique, since I started it upon my return from my cruise last week, so I’m already 7 days in while only being 3 days into the training. What motivated me was the thought that, if I got through the training this morning, it’d mean I’d get to have the evening with my wife and kid.
Getting out of my own head on the squats, the weight is low for heavy triples, but I’m squatting in probably the least mechanically advantageous manner I possibly can. Stance is narrow, bar is high, knees are forward, depth is rock bottom, and I’m not wearing a belt. If I can get stronger from here, I can be REALLY strong when I need to be. That 50 repper was hard to rack, knowing that, if I rested more, I was sure I could pump out even more reps, but eventually I had to wonder when the juice was worth the squeeze. As you can see with the stumbling about after the fact, it still hit hard enough.
Re-learning how to calf raise, and it was good to get back to GHRs. Walk this morning was brutal with the cold, ice and snow. Good to get out in those elements.
Tang Soo Do was canceled last night due to weather. Next class will be tomorrow.
Good sir, your typings led me to that T-bar apparatus. I train at home and was looking for something like that. I’ve since had some unreal shoulder press sessions with it. I’ll try some rows next. Thank you!
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