Per aspera ad astra (strongman Koestrizer)

I actually dropped 3 kg from my heaviest recently. How good I feel about my weight really depends. It ranges from disgusted to kinda pleased. Not even kidding. Sometimes I look in the mirror with my shirt off and think I just look fat and out of shape and other times my muscles look way fuller and I feel good about my appearence.

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From what I observe on these forums, this is how it goes for nearly everyone. Fuck, even people like @Frank_C and @flappinit seem to experience it.

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IDGAF aesthetics as long as I know I building more muscle under that fat. More like eating a bunch is annoying and feel pretty slow and sluggish

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I have yet to experience this. I’d like to but my appetite is like a bottomless keg.

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Go for SHW then. Fuck it.

I am SHW :joy:. Well in German strongman I am, I don’t really know the rules in powerlifting

You’re good considering that I regularly eat more meat than my 17year old brother :joy:
It’s funny because for me, the crappier the food, the less I’m prone to overeat

Flex on him and ask does he even lift.

No… he doesn’t… I’ve been stronger than him since I was 4

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140kg + I think. I have it in my head ur like low hundreds but maybe I’m confused

The strong survive the weak perish… ominous vibes

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Well, he basically did whatever I wanted so there’s no real reason to get rid of him, or flex for that matter :joy::joy:

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I dunno needa assert dominance every now and again to remind dem who is boss. The guinea pig way

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@anna_5588 from what I’ve read in your log, we eat very very differently, haha.

@guineapig: 125 kg this morning. That’s about my setpoint weight this year.

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Ur a light weight. Need to do GOMAD

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That’s because I keep my appetite under wraps most of the time so I don’t get fat.

On average, my brother eats more calories than me, but I’d crush him on meat any day

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I can relate. I see the T-ransformation posts this week and I’m caught off guard. Is it already time to turn in the finished product? I didn’t really have any transformation goals, but I binged Sunday evening and again yesterday. Last night I felt like a sausage. My skin was the intestine and it was over stuffed and tight. I’m considering going low-ish carb the rest of the week and drinking a ton of water to flush my system. On the evening of the 30th, I could load up on carbs and then take my after photo on June 1st with the hope of having full muscles and eliminating the stomach bloat.

And why do this? Because I’m crazy.

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I just had two soft tacos after eating pretty light the last few days, and I feel like a beached whale. But because they were tacos, I feel it was worth it.

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27.05.

1 deadlift (50%)
5 x 3 @ 105 kg - 10 sec rest between sets.

2 weighted back extensions
2 x 15 @ 15 kg

3 reverse hyper
1 x 50

4 pendlay row
5 x 4 @ 90 kg

5 crunches
1 x 50

Notes:

  • little sleep. Very tired. Car broke

  • Still incredibly fatigued. I might just skip the next two sessions. I don’t know if active recovery or just passive recovery (waiting, maybe hot bath) would be the better choice here to recover faster and more thoroughly.

  • life PR: I honestly don’t remember if I’ve told on here or not but I applied for an educational program in which I’ll become a licensed physio therapist and also get a second bachelor title in therapy sciense (in addition to the one I already have). The cool thing about the program is, that they pay you throughout the 4 years (normally you don’t get payed while in physio education, which is why I can’t just do that).
    So yeah lots of people want to get into this one, which is offered by a big university hospital (those are the state owned elite hospitals). I got the mail yesterday that they’ll take me. Goes to show once again that if there is only one thing in life that I can perform well in, it is a job interview. They only offer 25 spaces.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about these news (which is nothing new, I rarely know how I feel about things). Mostly worried and scared probably. For various reasons.
Also quitting my current job will be incredibly awkward because I just started and due to the pandemic have worked a total of 3 days so far. People there are good to me and I like it so far. Feels trashy and ungrateful of me to quit just like that.
And I’ll be back to poor student life. And be 30 when I graduate. And so on and so forth, you get the idea.

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Man, I totally get that that is not a conversation you’re looking forward to, but if they’re decent people they’ll understand your situation. I wouldn’t worry too much about your age when you’re finished as long as the scholarship pays enough for you not to go into any debt. Life’s not a race. Anyway, congratulations!