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

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Hah! It certainly felt like that if nothing else. Glad to have you along dude, and very much appreciate that sentiment.

@tlgains Thanks dude! You are absolutely spot on: it’s the fear of the unknown, and it holds back so many trainees. They want to be told EXACTLY what to do, because, then, there’s no onus of failure on THEIR part. “I followed the instructions!” Tell people they need to figure it out and they have a meltdown. You grasping that now will be huge, but it will also mean a LOT of frustration when dealing with those who can’t.

Good call on the lack of rituals too. Great for competition, but it can make training get weird.

Got up at 0600. Slept off and on. Took some cough medicine to not keep the mrs up while I slept, but it may have acted like a stimulant. Hit 100 burpee chins fasted. Legs are absolutely hammered. Got the 100 squats I did on Friday along with Tabata front squats, which is at least 64 squats a session if I’m doing 8x8, but since I’m well beyond that we can call it 70. Then, yesterday, 23 and 24 ABCs put me at 69 and 72 front squats respectively, along with another 70 from Tabata front squats.

I seem to recall reading on some forums that you needed to rest muscles, stuff about garbage volume, 1 hard set…damndest thing…

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So much truth in that statement. Pwn is out in front clearing a path into enemy territory for anyone brave enough to follow along.

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Thanks man! Forgot to respond to you as well, but yeah: play based off the book. My kid memorized it when they were young and would “read” it to us. It was good to re-experience it like that.

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This just sparked another Dan John thought, regarding rituals and chaos. Dan always advocates training for the chaotic, because competition is chaotic and you need to be able to perform whenever your name is called. He also advocates a life of habit and routine as a way to clear space in your brain pan for the important things. I don’t know if this falls into the concept of “yin/yang” because i’m not sure i’ve fully grasped that one, but an interesting flash that i thought i’d get down on paper before it went.

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@dagill2 I love it! More duality for sure. Train for chaos, live in order.

Got in my tabata front squats. Went with 24kg, because I’m just tired of changing the weights all the time. Mowed the lawn, and tried out intervals of 5 for the ABCs. Wheels fell off on the 20th, but I think I can make it work when I’m fresh. Would get me to 25 in 5. Still broke my lungs if nothing else. Annoying sickness is on it’s way out.

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I feel a blog article coming on :wink:

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@simo74 if Dan John hadn’t already written it, I would, haha.

DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 5, Workout 2

AM WORKOUT (0320 natural wake up)

Axle clean and push press away
16x181
14x181
14x181
13x181
12x181
11x181
10x181
10x181

Sets of 10 pull aparts between first 5 sets

Immediately after final set, straight into raises and core

DB lateral raise dropset (no rest)
20x20
20x10s
20x5s
20x2.5
20xEmpty hands

Reverse hyper
60x360 (not a typo: first time I felt like puking from lower back work)

Standing ab wheel
1x20

Poundstone curls
100xAxle+5lb plates

CONDITIONING

Tabata circuits of burpee chins, KB swings w/40kg and dips. Doubled up on the burpee chins and did dips until I got to 50. Do chins-swing-chins-dips-chins-swings-chins-dip etc. Got through 24 rounds.

25 band pushdowns

Notes: This was definitely Deep Water. All the ABCs and the cold and other factors came to a head, and clean and push presses was just plain rough. On every set, I had to reclean the axle to get the final 2-3 reps, which was awesome, because it meant getting in even MORE cleans/continentals, but it also just beat the absolute holy hell out of me. I don’t know if you’d call it rest pause, or cluster sets, or “Malcolm X” ala Jim Wendler, but I was thinking of it as “vegetable sets”. As in “you don’t get to leave the table until you eat your vegetables”. I got my goal of 100 in 8 sets, I was broken down to hell when it was done, and I think this was the most “Deep Water” push press workout I’ve ever had. Was taking 3:50 between sets.

Time was compromised, so I shrunk the core work. Doing 60 reps of 360 on the reverse hyper was a unique experience and apparently something I need to do more often, because it made me just about lose chow.

Time was also why I pushed up the weight on the Poundstones. Got the desired effect.

My connective tissue in my elbows is screaming a bit from all the KB cleans, and since that’s what’s on the menu tomorrow, I dropped cluster bomb and just went with a classic combo at tabata intervals. Got the job done.

Squats and lawn mowing on the agenda for today.

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I know you don’t drink… but… this is one of my very own brews (my little side project brewery). There’s the straight version and a more recent black version. And fk it’s a great tune. One of my favourites.

Naming is also the legitimate hopping regime used in the brew.

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@raven78 Well played dude! A fantastic tribute.

Got the squats done. They took a fair amount of my soul with it. Cardio is shot at the moment. Got the lawn mowed as well: good extra activity.

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DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 5, Workout 3

AM WORKOUT (0310 natural wake up)

Double kettelbell clean (3:00 between sets)
6x12x65lb bells
20x65
8x65

Axle shrug against short strong bands
1x60

Kelso shrugs 65lb KBs

Neck work

Reverse hyper/standing ab wheel
2x30x360/20

50 dips
25 pushdowns

Kroc rows
20x115

30 GHRs

CONDITIONING: MEAT EATER CHINESE BUFFET

10 rounds of 10 KB swings w/40kg bell and 10 burpee chins in 18:30

Notes; Another solid take on this day. I feel like death warmed over, but such is life. Wanted to get the 100 in 7 sets, but my hands tapped out on the 20th reps: I was just grinding them into dust. Took a 1 minute break between sets 7 and 8 and finished it out.

For the axle shrugs, took to setting it up like it was the final pull of a clean. Really liked that interpretation of it. I was hurting on the conditioning. Just not at 100%. Still good to push it.

Just got the tabata front squats to finish out.

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Tabata front squats done. Cardio is still pretty shot. May honestly delay the deadlifts this week until I’m 100%. I got family coming into town, so it honestly wouldn’t be the worst thing to slide it until they’re away. Staying flexible.

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Life deloads mate, do what you gotta do.

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No deloads; just sliding. Training wont stop. It cant be stopped, haha

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Nothing can stop the juggernaut

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@simo74 You know it!

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DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 5, Workout 4

AM WORKOUT (0335 wake up via alarm)

Axle bench press
10x256
2x8x256

Close grip axle bench press
10x256
9x256
8x256

(3) Incline Dumbbell press
9x95s
8x95s
7x95s

Immediately after final set of DB bench, a set of dips. Then, a set of dips with immediate set of push ups. Then, dips, push ups, push ups w/reactive slingshot, push ups w/slingshot, push ups w/metal catapult, and 25 band pushdowns

Reverse hyper
60x360

Standing ab wheel
1x30

POST WORKOUT SHAKE

CONDITIONING

30 rounds of tabata intervals

Odd rounds: Burpee chins
Even rounds: 40kg KB swing

Notes: 90 seconds of rest between stuff, and 5 sets of 10 band pull aparts between first 5 sets of benching stuff. I’m mostly over my cold. I discovered yesterday that I need to stop eating those Legendary Food Toaster Pastries. I had my suspicions about them, and yesterday confirmed, because I had one on the morning and spent the rest of the day feeling awful. Sapped a bit of my energy for this workout. My hands are still pretty chewed up from the KB cleans yesterday, which forced the change to conditioning from my usual Cluster Bomb, but honestly this was a REAL solid conditioning workout that I may do in place of meat eater if given the chance. It’s more swing heavy then chin heavy, but it kept my heart rate up.

Still appreciate how this day works in the schedule.

I’m going to move forward with my plan of sliding the deadlift workout. I forgot that, with house guest coming over, they’ll be sleeping directly above the garage, and morning deadlifts are most likely not going to be viable. Kismet really. My work trip will time out just about perfect. I might miss out on the final bench workout of Deep Water, but no love lost there. Deload week will time perfectly, and from there will begin the summer bodyweight freefall leading into a strongman comp. Things work out.

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Love that comic clip, that is deff you sir. ‘Can’t even stop myself’ :joy:

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T-Shirt.

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Who is cyttorak colossus fighting? Can’t make out the other character.

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@simo74 I relate WAY too much to it, haha. It’s been over 10 years and I am STILL having a nerdgasm over Colossus turning into the Juggernaut, haha.

@The_Myth Hell yeah! Maybe that’ll be the retirement plan: I seem to be generating a lot of slogans.

@AnthonyP Oh man, total nerd alert here: he’s fighting Cain Marko, who WAS the Juggernaut, but ended up picking up the Hammer of Kuurth and turned into “Kuurth, Breaker of Stone”. This was part of the “Fear Itself” storyline, where some Norse god of fear created 7 avatars to usher in a world of terror and various characters from the Marvel series took up the mantle. Cain Marko as the Juggernaut picked up the hammer, and at first had the full powers of both the Juggernaut AND Kuurth, because Cyottrak was like “Hell yeah! FINALLY Cain Marko is being the avatar I wanted him to be. He’s destroying everything!” Eventually Colossus and some other X-men appealed to Cyttorak and said “Hey, you realize Cain is actually using your powers to serve ANOTHER god right now yeah?” And as a “f**k you” Cyttorak took his powers away from Marko and gave them to Colossus to use to fight Marko. Colossus ended up keeping the powers for a while and had a pretty cool storyline arc as a result.

He was an absolutely INSANE Juggernaut. Cain was just a big strong bully given godlike powers: Colossus was ALREADY a near tier 100 strength mutant BEFORE empowerment.

AM WORKOUT (0400 wake up via alarm) FASTED

5 minutes of ABCs w/24kbg bells
18 rounds completed (40 seconds on/10 seconds off for 6 rounds)

2 mile weighted vest walk

50 burpee chins in 6:30

Notes: My cardio is still broken. I got in 5 ABCs in the first round, with a goal of going 5 for 1 and 4 for 5 for 25 in 6, but in the 5th round I got through 2 and felt like I was drowning. In previous attempts, it was the press that was where I’d start experiencing failure, but strength was still holding up just fine. I rested for the remainder of round 5, hit 1 more rep in round 6 and hung it up at that point: I was completely redlined.

Had the vest ready to go, so I threw it on ASAP and started walking, so I spent the first mile just absolutely drying with my lungs broken, then spent the second mile wondering how likely it would be for someone to steal the vest if I just left it in the street, got my truck and came by later to pick it up.

Came home and had a few minutes left until I needed to start breakfast, so I got the burpee chins knocked out to keep that heart rate up.

This honestly looks like a Crossfit WOD or something out of Tactical Barbell. I may codify it into something. I dig it: it hits everything, different modalities, misery in weird dosages. Open with 5 minutes of ABCs, go for a 2 mile weighted vest walk, close it out with 50 burpee chins.

On the plus side, my hands have healed up. In turn, I might do another 5 minute round of ABCs today or tomorrow. Deads are definitely sliding, and Deep Water might just wrap early. I’ve got nothing to prove at this point, but we’ll see.

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I think this with my kettle bells. I occasionally do this workout where I walk them for 800m, then drop them and continue the walk with my weight vest, only to loop back around to that spot several minutes later to pick them up and carry them to another spot, eventually making it back to my parked car. So far, they’re always there but I always get a bit nervous leaving a couple of KBs that would cost several hundred dollars to replace.

As much as I love ABCs, they cause me some problems when I do them too fast (fast being a relative term). I don’t know exactly what it is, but my ankle gets tweaky probably from dropping into squats without setting up correctly. I’m not sure that’s it, though.