One of my superpowers growing up as a fat kid is my stomach capacity. I took down a 5lb cheeseburger in 31 minutes 2 years ago as part of an eating challenge I did without any training
In turn, these meals don’t fill me up, but they satiate me. I eat breakfast, and I don’t feel the need to eat again until dinner, and if I missed dinner, I would be fine until breakfast. But since I’m training to gain, these meals suit the training. Come January, intake will drop.
Speaking of…nutrition recap
Got greek food for lunch. 2 sides of gyro meat and some chicken. Dinner was a full rack of ribs with brisket.
God I love this movie.
Fun anecdote: the closest I have ever come to failing a PT test was because of this movie.
Back when I was in college, the Navy still had us do crunches. The standards weren’t bad, and I’d routinely max them. Well, our semiannual PRT came up, and I was doing the crunch portion. My roommate (and best man at my wedding 2 weeks ago, so I’ve forgiven him for this) was holding my feet for the crunches. As soon as we the timer starts, I do my first rep, and he goes “1 Tubby Tubby” In an absolute perfect impression. I immediately just lose it laughing, but I’m also still on the clock, so I’m trying to knock out these crunches while trying not to laugh, which is WAY harder than you’d expect. He keeps it up with every rep, so I’m still laughing while I try to bang out crunches, totally messing up any breathing pattern and resulting in an absolute ridiculous side cramp and me barely scraping out a low passing score
@atlas13 That is fantastic! That movie had so many great quotable lines. “Surely somebody need some killing” “What you giggling about pop and fresh you find an M&M in yo pocket?”
PM WORKOUT (1400)
Buffalo bar squat
31x225
Notes:
This reminds me of @flipcollar doing some ridiculous number of squats with an ungodly weight.
This is still one of my all time favorite movie scenes
We had a whole rash of that going around for a while, haha.
Nutrition recap
Breakfast was the same as before, minus the chicken patty. Dinner was 6 burger patties with butter at Culvers.
No training to speak of today. Resting up for the comp tomorrow. There are 5 in my bracket, counting me, and I have to sing for my supper being one of the 2 guys that doesn’t have a buy in the first round. Going to be some solid competition. And since I don’t need to worry about making weight…
Nutrition Recap
Breakfast was 2 omelets with 3 whole eggs, jarlsburg swiss, turkey white and dark meat and some ghee, topped with Amish butter, alongside 4 strips of beef bacon and a Teton Water grassfed polish sausage.
Played with the sous vide some more for dinner. Made the Valkyrie a Filet Mignon and some chuck steaks for the kiddo and I, alongside a lamb split breakplate that I seared, pressure cooked and finished off in the air fryer, alongside 3 whole eggs and 5 whites scrambled and topped with Amish butter.
I left behind 2 sections of ribs, but enjoyed the rest and my steak. I truthfully could have put away even more, but I ate until enjoyment. My match is slated to start around noon tomorrow, so I’ll be able to get in a good breakfast beforehand.
Good luck tomorrow! Be strong!
Good luck Bro!!! Know your gonna do great!!!
We’re all rooting for you! Good luck!
They used to call that the Rat Tail match.
Have fun tomorrow.
Appreciate all the love and support folks. No hardware today, but I got 1 win out of my 3 matches, and my first ever win by choke, bringing up the number of submissions I know to TWO.
First match
Second Match (win)
Final match
The fingers in my left hand are swollen, so I won’t type much, but I weighed in at 194.4lbs for a weight class of 195 wearing a full set of sweats with my phone, wallet and keys in my pocket and a belly full of a typical weekend breakfast, so suffice to say I was undersized. Yet this was the first one of these competitions out of the 4 I’ve done so far where I didn’t feel overpowered by the competition. I moved dudes where I wanted them to move and made them not like tying up with me, and in the second match in particular you can see me really imposing my will while standing. I actually wanted to slam the dude when I got his back, but he fell as a defense.
I tapped early to both armbars: live to fight another day. I have some swollen parts, and Specificity Bravo is going to be interesting tomorrow, but considering I came in still undergoing physical therapy for my dorked up right knee and 2 weeks post pec strain, I walked away without much to worry about.
I grappled the same guy for match 1 and 3, which kinda sucked, because dude definitely had me figured out. But props to him: he was the better dude out there. I’m pleased that I never panicked while on my back, but maybe a little more scrambling would have been good.
I met my goal of winning at least ONE match, and did so going up a weight class and 2 age categories below where I should have been. The guy in the second match came up to me later and went “F**k you’re jacked dude!”, which is also cool.
40 years old, I grapple once a year, and I can still give someone a bad time: that makes me happy.
Sounds like a good day, well done Pwn.
Well done, bringing chaos, and now a 2nd trick with that delightful choke on the win! A little work on mount escape and some grappling rounds prior might help next time. Armbars… bah, hate copping them too. Thanks for sharing mate, ‘jacked’ chaos!
Fantastic! You look so incredibly fit in these videos. Obviously that’s not a surprise, I see your training, but the movement in the vids shows you with nothing but taut skin over muscle, yet still very fluid and supple.
Meanwhile I’m thinking to myself “what an unpleasant thing, to grapple with all those legs and arms and twisting body miseries.” (This thought came with the leggy guy from videos 1 and 3.) And it took me some time, but I realized that it’s like dressing an extremely uncooperative toddler, but a giant one who is trying to conquer you as well.
Well done!
@simo74 Much appreciate dude! We’re not going gently into that good night.
@raven78 Very much appreciate the kudos. I equate this to bull riding for me. I’m just here to see how long I can hold on, haha. I’m sure some training would go a long way, but it’s honestly amazing how much I just plain can’t stand grappling training. I like matches because the intention is clear from the start: we’re both going out to win and it’s on the other guy to say “uncle”. In training, nothing chaps me more than when me and another guy agree that it’s a training roll and we’re there to get better and suddenly I find out I’m IN a match. I’ve gotten hurt worse in grappling training than I ever did in striking. If I could find a reliable training partner, I’d have a blast with it, but I’m just so soured from the years of trying. But I like my once a year jaunt into this to at least get out that aggression and see if “I still got it”.
@EmilyQ Oh my goodness, thank you for knowing exactly what I need to hear after feeling like a bloated tick from all the time spent gaining and thinking I’m moving like the Tin Man with my bum knee. Given that we’re trying to make someone go unconscious, maybe it’s more like trying to put down a fussy toddler that doesn’t want to take a nap. I’ve also heard of grappling referred to as “the art of folding clothes while someone is still wearing them”. That guy in vid 1 and 3 definitely had me figured out, and I really came in with no real gameplan, a true “chaos is the plan” kinda moment.
Postponed training this morning. My left index finger really got in a bad way during the evening, and swelled to the point of uselessness. I really didn’t need to drop a dumbbell on my face during pressing, so I figured I’d slide training a day to the right, or possibly get it done this evening. It’s already feeling better, so I feel like I made the right call. I’ve used some motrin, which is probably also helping my knee.
Just a little more reflection on yesterday’s events, but I caught myself using some high school wrestling in the second match. Crossfaced him out of a single leg attempt, going for a bow and arrow to break him down, was looking for the cradle at one point, funny how those instincts don’t go away.
My elbow is feeling better: glad I tapped as early as I did.
I only felt a little bit of pain in the right knee when I fought off a drag attempt in the final match. It’s definitely healing up well. Sitting is far more tolerable. Still some jumpers knee to overcome. I’m thinking I may start icing it regularly to let off some inflammation, as I don’t want to rely on NSAIDs.
Our schedule was wild yesterday, so I made quick meals for the family, but I DID get to celebrate my win with 4 cookies from the Valkyrie. We figured out how to make peanut butter blossoms but with a mini peanut butter cup instead of a kiss in the middle, and they are just ridiculously delicious. Put some raw local honey on them and went to Valhalla. Took the Valkyrie “I choked someone out to get these!” She appreciated it.
Nice work pwn…well done
This guy had a pretty good game plan. Realized he couldn’t wrestle with you pretty quick. You both had an over/under hook and he was reaching for single leg, which you sprawled back on. I have no idea what he was doing with that spin move that landed him on bottom mount, before he trapped and rolled you.
The guy you went up against looked solid and strong. You had good movement. Quite a few times, you had the perfect set up for a slide by, foot sweep, double, etc. Just a timing and knowledge, but your movement was great to get the setup. You also, nearly had the Americana, just needed to pull the elbow down towards his hip, in addition to elevating. You pulled off the rear naked choke with half a hook, that’s awesome! 100% that opponent went into the tournament with the same game plan as you. Be more physical, pass guard and get an Americana. You just were way better.
This guy knows what he is doing. He’s a solid white belt, who gets in right positions. He had an idea of where he was going, you gave an arm and he had ability to take it. As always, 2 months of training and that guy wouldn’t be effective.
Great work! Really. Typically untrained people who come into the gym, I could sub in 5 seconds if I wanted. Not having formal training and competing purely based off conditioning and strength is a huge accomplishment.
I like this!!!
