@dagill2 Very much appreciated dude! I think you nailed it: so often I’ll see a “rate my program” topic, and when you ask “for what purpose is this program built?”, it’s crickets. And part of it too is people are just embarrassed or ashamed to say what they really want. ESPECIALLY when it comes to “vanity”: as though wanting to look good is somehow more vain than wanting to be strong. When we try to skirt around our goals and trick ourselves into accomplishing them, we don’t. We have to admit what we are first.
And thank you for perpetuating the barber joke, haha.
@SvenG Absolutely dude! Always happy to chat and share. No reason to charge: all I’m selling is hard work. The more people that buy that: the better.
@hustlinghat93 Glad you enjoy it dude. The Jocko thing may have come up once or twice…
@jdm135 So getting to yes with SS absent milk is honestly easy: just eat a lot of goddamn food, haha. My issue is purely a mental hang up: the milk is part of the program in my mind. Similar to Deep Water’s diet, and similar to Building the Monolith, but to an even greater magnitude. But that’s all it is: a mental hang up. The pure biology of it is all simple enough: that program creates a huge demand on your body, and you feed your body so it grows muscle.
If I were treating this like some sort of nut to crack and I HAD to drink a gallon of something every day as part of the program, I’d probably create a mixture of the drinkable egg whites I use and cashew milk or some other not actual milk-milk product. The eggs provide the protein, the “milk” provides the fats. That said, it’d be light on the carb side absent some sort of sweetener, but you could still get in a solid amount of liquid calories. I suppose even easier would be just mixing the milk with some sort of protein powder, or possibly peanut flour.
And, then, of course, there is the chicken shake
BUILDING THE MONOLITH Week 6, Workout..5?
AM WORKOUT (0615 natural wake up) FASTED
22 rounds of 20 seconds on/10 seconds off burpees over bar
PM WORKOUT (1530)
Axle bench press
5x136
5x226
5x256
5x5x286
CONDITIONING
20x320 Buffalo Bar Squat+20x316 Axle deadlift
Notes: Short on time and figured “why not do a powerlifting meet?” Finished up the benching from BtM and then hit the Deep Water squat/deadlift combo. Man I’m digging this combo. It’s stupid short and totally obliterates me. I’m also thinking of ways to just make it stupid. I had an idea of 20 cleans to 20 front squats to 20 back squats to 20 deadlifts as a way of making 135lbs absolute and total hell. I also see potential with throwing in the log for some vipers at the end of the deads instead. There’s always room for misery.
Tomorrow would be the official end of the gaining phase. From there, transition to a diet break and my intensification block. Already missing gaining and I haven’t even stopped yet, but my guts need a break.
