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5/3/1 The Triumvirate Circuit 2 Week 4
Military press deload.
Warm up 3 x 5
40% x 5
50% x 5
60% x 5
Pull-up 2, 2, 1
DB inclined bench
15 lbs. 3 x 15
Again with the bacon! Man. It’s super nice to have a piece to munch on as soon as I get upstairs, but dang, the smell. 
I’m thinking of replacing the pull-ups. I’m pretty sure it’s aggravating my elbow. Gonna have to figure out what I can do in place of them.
Cookie baking did not happen yesterday. My son asked if we could play Euchre and so the four of us spent most of the afternoon and all of the evening playing cards. We changed partners every few games so everyone played with everyone. Let the record show that I am the only person who did not lose a single game. This is an important fact as I am typically the weakest link on a card playing team. It was an absolutely fantastic way to spend the day. I can’t remember the last time my kids (and myself) were that disconnected from our phones. All four of us had fun. I’m hoping that maybe this will be something we do as a family more frequently.
Reading other people’s logs sometimes helps me to find clarity on things that really should be rather evident but I sometimes find elude me.
This brought to the forefront of my mind that we are never done. There is always a new goal. We can always be moving forward if we choose to.
And damn if I can find the post, but @T3hPwnisher said something about season of training. It helped me to make sense in my brain that training is just one step preparing for the next. This helped me to make peace in my mind with the idea of gaining. Gaining weight in the short term will prepare me for a cut that shows the hard work that I put in. And then we cycle back around. There is no finish line. There is only the mile marker that shows how far we have come. There is always something new to strive for.
Cookie baking is back on the table today. Breakfast and a quick stop at the store and then it is on to marathon baking with a pot of potato soup somewhere in the lunch hour.
Today is a good day.