AM WORKOUT (0600)
Made up my own WOD
Juarez Valley power cleans of 115 with 3 burpees in between sets
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Time: 8:58
Got in my daily work too. I liked this. Had me breathing hard. Trying to actually explode on the cleans.
Gonna ramble for a bit, because Iām at work and bored.
Ok, first, I just saw a KFC commercial and locked onto it like a shark smelling blood in the water. Same thing happens whenever I see a cheeseburger on TV. Cannot wait to stop eating like this. But I also learned through this all that Iām a total fast food addict. Itās not even so much the taste (although fast food is yummy) but the experience. I genuinely enjoy going through a drivethrough or up to a counter, telling someone what food I want, and having them make it for me. Maybe itās because I am just tired of doing so many goddamn dishes. I catch myself just going to get a diet soda these days just to have that experience again, which also shows just how much fast food I was eating before all this, so thatās been eye opening.
But along with that, I posted in the flame free thread that my wife made me some keto waffles this morning and they were amazing, and I loved being able to have a waffle breakfast with my family. My wife is a saint for working around my bizarre eating restrictions. Itās also dawning on me how totally easy it would be for me to go full keto or carnivore at this point in my life, and about the only thing preventing it IS the presence of a family.
Ok, enough about nutrition, onto training. I am continuing to go insane because I have nothing to train for and, in turn, I have a million ideas going through my head about what to do once thatās no longer the case. Part of me is thinking about taking a dose of my own medicine and running my 26 week weight gain plan of BBB Beefcake, BtM and Deep Water. The issue I see is that Iād most likely add way too much onto it in terms of assistance and conditioning work to really make it legitimate, but I may be able to make it work and be a good boy.
Another option Iāve kicked around is to bring back Super Squats and phase it into my current training by ending 3 training days in my training week with a set of 20 breathing squats.
The other thought is to continue to do what Iām doing but actually eat enough to gain weight. Right now Iām just burning everything I eat, which has meant that my conditioning is the best itās ever been, which is cool, but I really need some extra bodyweight.
I am also hearing the sirenās call of 5/3/1 SVR II. 5/3/1 keeps calling to me, and I think itās because it would mean not having to think and just doing the program. Itās just a question of if I can manage sub-maximal training without self-destructing.
I also get the occasional twinge to get back into martial arts here and there, which is stupid, because so long as COVID is COVID martial arts arenāt going to happen in any practical capacity.
This has honestly just felt like the worldās longest weight cut. I am sure itās mostly a manifestation of burnout from COVID.
Oh hey, more rambling, but when I played the original Fallout back in 1997, this was the coolest optional trait ever to me and is still exactly what I aspire to be in life
EDIT: Oh yeah, totally forgot some more ramblings.
Iām considering running my weight gaining phased based off having Finibars for breakfast. I love eating bars for breakfast, because Iām lazy and theyāre easy, and these will get me to eat more carbs than Iām used to and most likely force me to train harder. Iām also becoming a total BioTest shill, keeping up with the Alpha Male and having recently started implementing ElitePro Minerals and Rez-V into my supplement program as well. At this point, Iām just throwing stuff against a wall and seeing what sticks.
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@T3hPwnisher mate, I spent last week dreaming up programs in my hotel room out of sheer boredom
I shall be unveiling an upper lower split of which I have called āThe Holy Gainsā
Watch this space 
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Mate you need to do this. I loved how you amalgamated all these programs to create some super workout plan. It inspired the shit out of me when I read your blog.
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My selfish opinion is this, because watching you smash it would be awesome.
I feel this so much. Martial arts is absolutely ingrained in my soul, but between moving and then COVID happening, who knows how long itāll be before I can start up again. Solo training only gets me so far and becomes more of a mental and technical session, but I can feel the absolute ache to fight someone and be challenged.
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@ChongLordUno excited to see what maddens youāve come up with. Really appreciate the feedback as well.
@kdjohn I just might. I wonāt be able to do the BtM diet justice this go round, but Iāve also been there/done that to be able to be ok with that. Thinking an amalgamation of Mountain Dog and Deep Water. I see myself well exceeding the assistance work, but maybe Iāll just consider the RX prescribed minimums.
And totally hear you on the fighting. I donāt even want to be trained or improved at this point: I just wanna lock up with someone again.
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Ebook available for preorder?
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You ever thought about competing in some of the bigger CrossFit comps?
Yes mate
Worship at the altar of hard steel and I shall provide purgatory
In other words $300 straight into my PayPal.
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@wanna_be Iām up to compete in anything at this point. The issue isnāt that thereās nothing to compete in: itās that COVID restricts travel to competitions and mass assembly thereof. I was originally drawn to Crossfit before strongman, and it was the gymnastics movements that pulled me away, since my right shoulder is super buggy.
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Yea I knew you had been jonesing to compete in something. From reading your long Iām not sure thereās anything physical you wouldnāt already be good at, or be able to get good at. Be fun to see a meathead walk in an hang with/ beat them.
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Hah, I tend to be pretty bad at things but good at being strong enough to force them. Thatās how Iāve āmade itā in strongman so far at least, haha. Thereās a decent amount of crossover between strongman and crossfit. Seen a lot of crossfit dudes at strongman comps, and one of the most badass professional strongman I know is an avid crossfitter. At the lightweight level, theyāre not too far apart: it comes more down to skillset at one point vs physical ability.
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Along the training insanity thread I went over to my old roommatesā house to watch a football
game, they asked what Iād been up to. I responded āworking, working out and thinking about working outā
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I told the Mrs that Covid is like being in the joint: youāre either gonna get jacked or find Jesus.
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I havenāt shilled for a while(cuz kids are expensive) , but I too used to get a real kick out of Alpha Male. Have also used resveratrol supps separately with very good effect.
This sound like an incredibly good stack. I have to avoid these things at this point, but if I were to do a āperfect stackā this would be it.
I have a whole other rant about my experience with fast food commercials too, but donāt want to dilute the content of your log.
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I appreciate your dedication to signal to noise, but rant ahead dude. Happy to commersiate.
Being 100% honest: I thought test boosters and the like were total bunk. It was honestly Stuās vouching for it that got me to even try it. Almost anyone else I woulda blown off as a shill, but heās good people. It seems like the Alpha Male was working well, so hereās hoping I keep seeing positives.
Ok, so Iām sure you heard my drano story- throat destroyed, in a drug induced coma, all really bad. I couldnt physically eat, and had an iv. line into my subclavian artery that dripped big bags of nutrient into me. I came to, much to everybodyās surprise, but still a lot of damage.
Once I was able I was moved out of the ICU and in to a regular room. In there I was able to receive visitors and conscious enough to watch TV. Literally Everybody that came to visit brought food, always Mcdās that they grabbed on the way, and would offer me some because hospital food sucks. But still, I could not eat. 3 times per day, every day the food carts would roll up, and I could smell them coming for hours beforehand. Then the friends would show up. Even my room mate would get a tray. But not me.
But the absolute worst were the food commercials. McDonaldās crispy golden fries, and worst of all, Pizza Hut. Their commercials were absolute hell. And this was 1992, when they were running full bore and in high rotation. All of their colors, camera shots, every single detail was designed specifically to make you want to run out and get some, And Iām freakin wrecked, stuck in a hospital bed painfully drooling out of a chemically destroyed mouth like a dog while everybody around me was stuffing their faces. Now youād think, considering the circumstances that Iād be distracted by the pain, but morphine took care of that. The biggest suck of all was those damn Pizza Hut commercials.
It was a couple months before I could actually eat something like that, and even when I did, I couldnāt taste it anyways, but it smelled really good. Not as good as it looked though.
I still hate those commercials and food commercials in general. Theyāre just too good. Theyāre like a sensory sucker punch right in a place where we have virtually no defense.
/rant. And thanks for allowing.
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Thanks for sharing it dude. I can only imagine. Itās funny too: weāre of the generation that will REMEMBER commercials. My kid has only known on-demand TV. Weāll travel somewhere with cable and itāll blow their mind that they canāt watch what they wanna watch when they wanna watch it AND they have to watch a commercial in the middle of their show. Meanwhile, I remember afternoon television getting blasted with fast food commercials, walking into the kitchen and making the white trash nachos my dad taught me where you take a bowl of tortilla chips, put a slice of american cheese on it and melt it in the microwave.
ā¦goddamn I can still taste it and itās delicious, haha.
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I think a big reason I donāt miss the unhealthy foods I actually like is that if I think hard enough, I can actually taste them