Aw man it’d be great to see another 700 pull in the forums. Only a couple that I can think of who have accomplished that here. When do you think you would be giving that a shot?
@cstan097 Yeah, I haven’t had any issues with the pancake mix. I could always look into adding it to the shake. I don’t tend to mix carbs and fats in a meal, which is the limiting factor. Usually, for pushing weight gain, I start adding an avocado to the diet, but was trying to play with the carbs around training while I was doing all the running.
@idontbrag123 I wouldn’t, haha. If a competition comes up where it’s required, I’d go for it, but otherwise, it’ll just have to happen when it happens, as I don’t max in training. Most likely a max effort workout would be where it happens. With how I’m structuring my training right now, I do an 8 week wave where I spend 2 weeks pulling from 6 mats, then 8 weeks where I pull from 3 (which I should be doing tomorrow) and then a pull from the floor in the next 8 weeks before the whole thing starts all over again.
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With your ability to tweak any program to fit your desire and need(said with respect) do a deep water approach to some pressing movement that have carryover to the keg press.
Oh just to please @idontbrag123 just pull 700 next time you get to the gym.
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Haha no way man. Competing for the first time really gave me a new perspective into why maxing out randomly is just terrible if you’re competing. But if someone decides to max out you bet I’m gonna watch!
@mortdk I haven’t known myself to have that ability, haha. I’m really not a programming guy. I can swap out movements and stuff, but Deep Water Badass is very much not aligned with the goals of the competition. For getting good at pressing kegs, I need to press kegs, and I’ve got a great one coming in for my birthday soon.
PM WORKOUT
MAX EFFORT LOWER
(3) Mat pulls
5x135
5x225
3x315
1x405
1x495
1x585
1x640 (5lb PR)
2x585
GIANT SETS (dead-hyper-squat)
(2) Axle Deficit Deadlifts 346
3x10
Reverse hypers 360
3x10
SSB front squats 205
3x10
Notes: 3:45 between heavy pulls, 2:00 between giant sets. With my race on Sunday, I kept from doing anything terribly stupid and just went for some grind. I think I’m going to keep playing around with partials before going to the floor. Maybe do 5 mats and then 2 mats. Could even go 4 and floor after that. No rush, and getting plenty of benefit from the ME workout.
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Lol nice work. Good luck with the HM
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Thanks man. You quoting that makes me think that I need to break down my stupidity levels in training. I am always operating at baseline stupid, but at any point can escalate to a whole new level, haha.
I don’t want to buy Deep Water Badass because I’m not planning on doing it anytime soon, but now I’m really curious to see what all it entails.
Get this printed on a training tank top. Lol
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@jshaving It’s a bodybuilding program, through and through. Each week is different from the previous week in terms of training, with changes ranging from movements to set and rep schemes to sometimes the overall structure of the week. Jon is pretty big in always forcing the body to adapt, which we called muscle confusion back in the day which the scientist have said doesn’t work yet John Meadows has made a career out of it. But it still has the Deep Water flair, because the workouts themselves are still absolutely insane on paper. I’m certain they’d be 2 hour workouts at least, but some seem to lend themselves to potential giant setting.
@simo74 Hah! Between that and “Bruce Force and Ignorance” as one of my readers summed up my blog, I’m starting to get my t-shirt apparel line figured out.
Working a 12 tomorrow, and then the race day after. Packed 2.5lbs of ribs, some left over chickpea-pasta lasagna and mashed cauliflower, along with 3 quest bars and a lot of caffeine. Just the stuff you need for distance running, right?
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Food seems ok to me. I never really changed my diet before a race. If you eat well then your muscle glycogen will be fine for 2 hours. Harder thing is hydration depending on how hot it is. If you are not used to rubbing and drinking it can be hard to get fluids in without throwing water all over yourself or choking. Options are to just walk for 10m after the drink station get a good few sips and then run again, otherwise just remember to squeeze the cup a little to make a spout and drink it from the spout. Good luck again mate.
Appreciate it man. More just poking fun at myself for a non-traditional approach, haha. It’s gonna be plenty chilly day of. Maybe slightly above freezing. I’ll have my knit cap and gloves to start.
Right now, plan is no water breaks. I didn’t drink any water during training, and it’s something I’ve never done before. I don’t tend to perform well when things slosh in my stomach. However, we’ll see how well that plan sticks after mile 10 while I’m in uncharted waters.
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Was that me? It’s a phrase I’ve used almost daily for a number of years.
It was someone on reddit. They wrote a comment to the effect of “I love your brute force and ignorance approach to training” and I was SO upset because that woulda been a MUCH better name for my blog, haha. I ended up making it my first post for 2018.
Will it have beer in it?
Helluva time for me to start drinking, haha.
No: Mike Bartos makes a loadable keg similar to his loadable stone, and the Mrs got it for me for a birthday present this year. Kegs are a fantastic implement, but typically, once they’re loaded, there’s no making them lighter. This will make it that, instead of having a bunch of different kegs at various set weights, I can just have 1 keg that I change weights on.
I’ll technically have 2, because this keg weights 150lbs empty, and I have a 100lb keg that is good for technique work and medleys, but I can sell off my other one on the facebook yardsale site.
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If it has beer in it then this is exactly how it works. 
There are many days that I wonder if I retarded my muscle growth with my love of beer. There’s a T-Nation article that says alcohol can have that effect. I even found the article that explained how much they think is safe. I think it’s like 0.5 to 1.0 grams of alcohol per kilogram of bodyweight. I don’t think I go over that often, but I wonder if the lesser amounts still impair the body’s ability to grow. I might replace my old excuse of being tall with “I drink too much beer”. 
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It’s amazing how not heavy most conventional liquids are, haha.
I do think I did myself some favors by never getting into drinking or drugs in terms of physical growth/longevity. With how much harm I intentionally inflict upon my body physically, it may be the answer to how I’ve survived it all. John Meadows has a similar yet different approach too, in that he’s fully aware of the risks he takes with the anabolics, so he’s super on top of his diet. And people say “it’s stupid to worry about grass fed beef and steroid free chicken when you’re injecting anabolics”, but it’s MORE stupid to NOT worry about that stuff when you’re doing that, haha.
Do love me some caffeine though…
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It makes sense and it’s not exactly hard to choose these things over the standard grocery store food. It’s just more expensive.
There are a lot of things that don’t make sense when you look at them as an all-or-nothing scenario. “If you inject steroids then you obviously don’t care about your health so why not just eat the vegan Whopper every day?”
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Aren’t some people prescribed steroids (TRT) for their health?
We all choose to do some unhealthy things, like drive or leave the house.
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