That menu is cheap here too. Its why it was posted. That’s not a reflection of our average prices at alll.
Put the 2 and 2 together on that one
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I do remember some places being on the silly end of expensive around Hawaii last time.
LA too in certain spots.
Had me wondering how locals afforded a good night out, especially knowing the wage differences between Australia and parts of the US…
There are a LOT of people in poverty in those areas: that’s how. Those places are for the tourists. My wife grew up in Maui and pretty much never ate out.
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Hmm yeah.
What a place to grow up though…!
Not when people call you haole because you don’t look “Korean enough”.
But she’s incredible for it all, and has more aloha spirit than anyone I know.
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Maximum Definition Diet recap
For breakfast, I went lean, and had 1lb of piedmontese grassfed steak tips with 3 pastured eggs, 5 whites and some beef liver.
For dinner, there was a good deal at the grocery store I walk on my lunch break, so I ended up buying a 4.5lb pack of beef back ribs and used my Ninja Woodfire to air fry and smoke them at the same time. It’s not as good as a full smoke, but I can cook them in 30 minutes this way vs 3 hours. Paired it with 6 leftover scrambled eggs.
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AM WORKOUT (0355 natural wake up, snoozed until 0400)
Tactical Barbell Operator Cycle 2, Week 4, Workout 3
MAIN WORK
SSB Squat
3x5x305
ALTERNATE w/
Axle strict press from rack
3x5x156+1 push press rep per set
6 chins between sets
(3) Texas Deadlift Bar Mat Pulls (12 deep breaths between attempts)
12+5+5x425
ASSISTANCE
4 rounds of
- 10x80lb rows
- 20x270lb reverse hypers
- 10x53lb axle curls
- 6 hanging leg raises
Notes:
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After having about 4.5 days off of work and my knee and back feeling really awesome and then coming back and the pain returning, I think I’ve identified that sitting too much at work is causing me issues. Going to try to work around that.
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Things felt heavy today, so I was glad it was just 3 sets. I’m thinking about making all of next week 3 sets, in preparation for the comp. I could also do 4-3-4, or 4-3-5 or play around in other ways.
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Deadlifts are really just feeling great again. It used to basically be a competition to see how long I could endure the pain of the deadlift, but now it’s just another exercise. Good to be back to that.
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Made it through the full 4 rounds of the assistance work. After those deadlifts, it’s exhausting.
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Weighed 81.6 again: same as Monday. That was after sweating quite a bit, but it also does mean I have a little wiggleroom for making weight. Balancing act of being confident I can make weight without losing so much that I get weak before the comp. Contemplating just brining a ketobrick to the competition and eating it post weigh in, to have one less thing to worry about.
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Tang Soo Do again tonight. One of our black belts is going to test for the next rank, and it requires being able to do 50 push ups, 50 sit ups and 50 jumping jacks at the end of the test, and we’ve been told we’ll be ending all classes with that same requirement until they test, so that we can all get stronger. That said, we completely didn’t do that last class, but maybe we’ll be held to it for the remainder. Be good to get in a little more fitness.
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Can you get an adjustable/standing desk at work?
Best thing I ever did was put one of those sit/stand desks in my office.
Already got one
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Maximum Definition Diet recap
Breakfast was the normal composition of eggs, with 2 leftover piedmontese 85% lean grassfed beef patties and some beef liver. Dinner was a repeat of yesterday, with the leftover ribs and 6 scrambled eggs.
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AM WOROUT (0355 wake up via alarm, rough night of sleep due to storms)
Tactical Barbell Operator Cycle 2, Week 4, Workout 4
“GO RUCK YOURSELF”
Treadmill walk w/45lb vest
Time: 90 minutes
Incline: 5.0 (12.0 for final minute)
Speed: 3.5
Distance: 5.25 miles
Notes:
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Overcoming my instincts here and trying NOT to become the best rucker of all time with this workout. Just letting it be low intensity and restorative. Kept everything the same from last week, minus that final minute at a high incline. Just a final little challenge there.
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Weather has been sweltering, even inside with AC. In turn, I weighed in at 79.8kg post workout, with a lot of it being sweat I’m sure, but it’s why I weigh myself Mondays and Thursdays to get an idea of where I am at my heaviest and lightest. The definition diet is still working, and I’ve been eating a LOT of beef ribs this week, so that’s pretty awesome.
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On that note, walking to a grocery store during my lunch breaks might not be the best thing for me, as 2 days ago I bought that rack of beef ribs, and yesterday I bought 4 corned beefs and 6lbs of rib fingers. The corned beefs were on manager discount: $3.89 a pound. Couldn’t pass up the deal. I’m going to be in a good place when it comes to time to gain, as I’ve now got a freezer full of lamb legs and corned beef to slice into steaks. The rib fingers will be breakfast next week.
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Tang Soo Do wasn’t quite was active yesterday, due to very intense heat in the dojang. Still got in some activity. Will be going again tonight as well. Beforehand, Valkyrie and I got in a 3 mile walk in the VERY hot/humid sun. It’s beating us down pretty good, and my calves are cramping from dehydration.
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I thought you might find this interesting.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/neanderthal-fat-factory-0022242
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Appreciate the share! I heard Dr. Bill Schindler talking about this recently. Don’t know if you’ve ever looked him up, but I feel like you’d dig him. He’s very involved in the food/restaurant scene, and premises most of his approach around how humans evolved to eat over the history of our species, along with current practices of indigenous groups.
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I haven’t, but certainly will now.
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Maximum Definition Diet recap
Breakfast was the same as Tuesday, with the steak tips. Dinner was…breakfast. 2 omelets with 3 eggs, some leftover grassfed polish sausages and piedmontese hot dogs, a slice of colbyjack cheese (leftovers from the 4th) and some grassfed wagyu beef tallow, alongside some pancetta.
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Oh man does this bring back a story
I was 21 or 22 at the time, doing some Navy training in Hawaii. I have an uncle by marriage who is 50/50 Japanese and native Hawaiian, grew up in Hawaii. He showed me around to some great local spots, kind of places tourists don’t ever see.
Well I remembered the food being awesome, so while I was there, I went back to one of the spots I remembered and brought some Navy buddies.
What I didn’t realize is that I was only welcome in that restaurant the first time was because I was with him. A group of Midwest white boys? Not so much.
My 3 buddies and I walk in, and it’s a problem almost immediately. Few local guys start acting real aggressive, throwing out insults and saying we aren’t welcome. Well, one of my (very, very Caucasian) friends responds with “get fucked haole.”
When I tell you I ran out of that restaurant, I do not want you to think for a second that I walked quickly away. I think I hit a 400m PR just getting as FAR away from that place as FAST as I could. It was pretty obvious a fight was about to break out even before my friend spoke up, but afterwards? That entire place was about to beat our asses.
When we stopped running, I look at my friend to ask what the hell he was thinking calling a bunch of locals that. His response? “I didn’t know what it meant, I’ve just heard people say it as an insult around here.”
Moral of the story, cultural literacy can prevent gang violence lol
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@atlas13 Hah! That’s an incredible story. I shared it with my wife, and when I told her the part about “Get f*ked haole”, I saw her eyes grow so wide, haha.
AM WORKOUT (0400 wake up via alarm)
Tactical Barbell Operator Cycle 2, Week 4, Workout 5
MAIN WORK
SSB Squat
5x5x365
ALTERNATE w/
Axle strict press from rack
4x5x156
1x3x156
+1 push press rep per set
ASSISTANCE/CONDITIONING
17 rounds in 20 minutes of
- 5 chins
- 10 push ups
- 15 squats
w/20.4lb vest
Notes:
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We ended up skipping Tang Soo Do last night because we had a tornado watch, baseball sized hail and 70-90mph wind gusts forecasted. In turn, when I went to squat this morning, I felt REALLY good. Much better than I anticipated. I thought for sure I’d need to cut the sets short today, but every rep felt incredible, fast and strong. However, the press was the opposite story: super grindy today, and I cut the last set short because I didn’t see any value in grinding out more reps. Part of it was being gunshy from my neck: it’s still not quite 100%, and I don’t want to keep re-tweaking it.
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Had to get to work a little early today, so I set a limit of 20 minutes for the Cindy WOD. I tried an experiment of performing the circuit EMOM, vs just blitzing through, thinking that taking the extra rest at the end of the round would allow me to finish faster than usual. I found out I was wrong: it still just sucks, and I was on pace to finish the same time as usual if not slower. Next time, I’ll just blitz though, but I’m glad I gave it a try.
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Will have to skip my lunchtime walk today, but I’ve been getting in a lot of steps this week.
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Got in an interesting mini workout yesterday. My kid and I are doing a “creativity open hand form” (hyung) for our dojang’s summer hyung challenge. We named ours “Two dogs in a trenchcoat”, because I put my kid on top of my shoulders like Master Blaster from Mad Max and they do the upper body movements while I do the lower body movements. It ended up being pretty sweaty work.
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Maximum Definition Diet recap
Breakfast was the typical assortment of eggs, a 10oz piedmontese grassfed New York Strip steak, smoker herring (surf and turf) and some beef liver.
Dinner was 20 smoked bone in wings at Buffalo Wings and Rings, chewing off the ends to get in collagen and calcium.
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AM WORKOUT (1000)
Tactical Barbell Operator Cycle 2, Week 4, Workout 6
EMOM sandbag over bar
*200+lb bag
- 50" bar
Notes:
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Very first round was clownshoes, but after that I totally found my groove and hit a PR of 10 sequential doubles. Went for a triple in the final minute and hit the bar on the way up. Really took away a good lesson that the deeper into my hips I got the bag, the higher up I could get it over the bar. Previously, I was just barely getting the bag to my knees and trying to wrestle it over the bar, which was expending a lot of energy. Now, if I get it deep in the hips, it’s higher up on my chest.
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I’m training with a grip shirt, but from what I’ve read in the competition rules we won’t be allowed it for the event. Still, I’d prefer to train with the gear so that the training doesn’t beat me up, because going without the shirt tends to force me to use my biceps more. I’ll save that for show day.
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Getting in a Tang Soo Do class later today, and helping move a sectional into a minivan later as well, so be getting in some general activity.
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