Purposeful Primitive is indeed a great read. Can confirm also couldn’t put the damn thing down.
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I’m up to 14 now. Goal was 12, now it’s 15 lol. These are hard and actually the press is my limiting factor. They get kinda slower as I go. I’m keeping these in on Monday after my squat workout. Haven’t played with the lighter bells yet but plan too. 24/25 is nasty!! I know I’m sucking wind from about half that.
Also I grabbed the books you guys have mentioned. Always appreciate you sharing knowledge and insights.
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Ross Edgley has done some good books - The Worlds fittest book and The Art of Resilience. Got Blueprint as well but not got round to reading it yet
@jwlake06 Sounds like it’s working really well for you dude! It’s been a great addition, and absolutely hammers everything and leaves you dying. Press being the limiting factor makes sense, and Dan has said as such. If you’re looking to keep pushing, he recommends cutting out the press when that happens and just turning it into 2 cleans and 3 front squats.
AM WORKOUT (0330 wake up via alarm) FASTED
LITVERSATES
9 rounds of
8 Front squats w/185
Sled push on odd sets/backwards drag on even w/90lbs loaded
5 burpee chins
Done in 23:08
Notes: Had an early start for work, so a shorter workout, but still quite intense. Been nice bringing back the barbell front squat. The KBs have paid off on it.
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PM WORKOUT (1500)
22 ABCs in 5 minutes w/24kg bells
21 GHRs
20 GHR sit ups
40 reverse hypers
25 pushdowns
Neck work
Notes: 25 in 5 remains my white whale, and I’m most likely getting into my own head about it. I fell forward in the 4th round and had to jump into the front squat, and that was the beginning of the end. Had a few other missteps. But I was still gassed and hurting when it was done, which is what matters.
Got in the daily work.
I walk to and from the gym here for extra activity. When I was done, I noticed my vascularity had returned to my shoulders. I think this has been a solid week of “drying out” from all the overeating. Once I get back home and stabilize my diet, I’ll see what weight is looking like. I’m within water cutting distance of making weight, but I’d prefer to just walk on the scale and make weight. Ideally while eating something.
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AM WORKOUT (0340 wake up via alarm) FASTED
10 rounds of the following
1 ABC w/24kg bells, front rack carry across the gym, then another ABC, turn around farmer’s walk it back, then 5 burpee chins (all one round, only put the bells down for burpee chins)
KB crawl across the gym floor and back with a pair of 20kg bells, 5 burpee chins between crawls
1 round of the previous circuit, this time with 20kg bells
1 round of 1 ABC, farmers walk across gym, 1 ABC, KB crawl back, 5 burpee chins
Total time: 40:58
Notes: Just going wild and trying out stuff. Those first 10 rounds produce an interesting type of fatigue. My front delts were screaming, and I was breathing hard, but my heart rate wasn’t really going up. The KB crawls were agonizing but not exhausting: I think DBs would be a better choice for moving faster. This was a good workout for trying out some bad ideas and seeing what had wings. I get to travel home tomorrow, so probably 1 more wild workout and then back to some sort of schedule while my life continues to be chaos. Planning on a long walk today and then some more ABCs at some point.
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Even with your most excellent description I have no idea what was happening in that work out. LOL.
What I do know is that it would have been pukingly tough and not designed for mere mortals.
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Would love to elaborate. Any particular part confusing you?
You’re good mate, I think I got it. My training is so boring and based on so few movements when I tried to get a mental picture of you doing this is got very chaotic in my head. LOL
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@simo74 Anytime dude! Chaos remains the plan, haha.
PM WORKOUT (1530)
20 ABCs in 5 minutes
22 GHRs
20 GHR sit ups
40 reverse hypers
25 pushdowns
Neck work
Notes: Wheels are falling off the ABCs train, which is to be expected. I also went walking for over 3 hours today since I worked a half day. Got some lunch at a Hawaiin BBQ place, which was awesome, but I’m sure the fatigue was still showing. Tomorrow I travel back. Gonna be another shorter workout due to show time. Thinking Black Jack with KB front squats and burpee chins, or possibly Juarez Valley or Tower.
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combine the two, climb the tower and escape through the valley.
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AM WORKOUT (0330 wake up via alarm) FASTED
BLACKJACK: HOUSE WINS
20 KB front squats w/20kb bells
1 burpee chin
19 KBFS
2 burpee chins
…
10 KBFS
11 burpee chins
Terminate workout: 30 min cap reached
Notes: Answered the mail of 30 minutes of work. 20kg was the right weight for the bells. Pulled something in my left lat while breathing in the rack position around the set of 18 reps of front squats. Holding that rack for so long definitely proved taxing. Threw in some double KB snatches at the very end, as I had 45 seconds left to hit 30 minutes: fun alternative movement.
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Finished the day with tabata double KB snatches with 24kg. Just something different after a day of traveling. Good to be home
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Just caught up on your last few blog posts and wanted to say thanks again for taking the time to share your beautiful mind (bad movie reference). Liked seeing the comments about effort, consistency and time especially given I was thinking about and posted about that earlier this week. I love how you make this so simple for people who are willing to listen but as the same time it is so hard for most people to accept… is that duality LOL.
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Lol. I like how you connect such a physical pursuit from a mad genius to a spiritual concept. I actually believe that this is a manifestation of oneness as opposed to duality.
But, what the fuck do I know, lol.
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You are more in tune with the universe than me. After all you are The Myth 
@simo74 Glad you enjoyed them dude! I’ve made many an online “enemy” by expressing the simplicity of the process. When we discover the process is simple, we only have ourselves to blame when we experience failure. When we make the process complicated, we remove our own agency. So, of course, people are in a rush to complicate it, haha.
@The_Myth Very much appreciate the sentiment shared there dude! And hey: perhaps there’s something to be said about the duality of oneness VS duality, haha.
AM WORKOUT (0320 natural wake up)
(6) Texas Deadlift Bar Mat Pull (touch and go)
3x135+chains
1x225+chains
1x315+chains
1x405+chains
8+3+3x475+chains (12 deep breath rest pause)
EMOM: odd sets deficit deadlift, even sets SSB squats
(3) Deficit Deadlift
8x315
7x315
6x315
5x315
4x315
3x315
8x315
SSB squat
8x315
7x315
6x315
5x315
4x315
3x315
8x315
Axle shrug against strong short bands superset w/ 24kg KB kelso shrugs
1x50/15
Reverse hyper/standing ab wheel superset
40x360/1x20
Kroc rows
17x115
50 Band pull aparts
POST WORKOUT SHAKE
CONDITIONING:
5 burpee chins-3 double KB snatches w/24kg-5 BC-5 double KB swings-5BC, repeat until 50 burpee chins accomplished
Total time: 13:06
50 dips
Notes: Back to real training after my deload. Where I was had high elevation and no humidity with high heat: coming home, it’s about 10-20 degrees WARMER with high humidity. I also transitioned from a climate controlled gym back to my garage. I was dying. Pouring sweat through the workout, and that conditioning session took out some parts of me.
Speaking of losing parts: very first rep of the workset for mat pulls had me open up a wound on my left shin which just gushed blood. Served as a bit of a distraction on those sets, as I was trying to move the bar around my knee to keep from getting too much blood on it and making the surface too slick. After the set was done, I had crazy glued my shin back together so I could finish up the workout. I’ll have to remember to do that BEFORE the deadlifts next time.
Big part of this week will be re-learning intensity. I expect to see performance improvements over the next week or two as I adjust.
My conditioning shined through on that EMOM workout. First time I did that last cycle, it absolutely floored me. This time, I held back because it was the smart call coming back, but I had a lot more in me. It’s why I threw in that extra set of 8 at the end. Good to see that there.
Conditioning workout was just some variety. Wanted to get in some more hip hinging, but also digging those double snatches. It’s like a standing Devil’s Press.
Weighed myself post workout/shower and I was 187.0. I have to be 185 for weigh in on 25 Jun…so yeah, I’m clearly going to make weight. I’m too good at losing weight.
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I am so in tune that universe keeps kicking me in the balls, lol. I guess if I am fighting universe, I am one with it.
@T3hPwnisher , reminds me of the Star Trek episode with Frank Gorshin - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
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I guess the question is whether you are fighting it or is it fighting you
That just tells me you are doing something right.