Let me just narrate this one. Combination of a Crossfit regional WOD and Juarez Valley. 95lbs for thrusters. Start with thrusters for 21 reps, then 3 reps of burpees, then 18 thrusters, 6 burpees, etc etc until you end at 3 thrusters and 21 burpees.
Total time was 20:49.
Then knocked out 50 chins, 40 reverse hypers, 50 band pull aparts and 25 band pushdowns via a circuit.
Good chance I’ll be shoveling some snow later today for some extra conditioning, and then eating like a king. Could have done my press deload workout today instead, but this seemed like a better idea. I’m contemplating switching up the press programming next cycle anyway, so we’ll see what happens.
So just the two worst movements combined together, great! (perhaps the king is burpee pull-up, or for my knees, burpees box jump… Anyways it has burpees in it)
Really inspired by those workouts, looking sexy and tough
Much appreciated dude. A big deciding factor in movement selection is things that won’t wake up the entire house, haha. I can set down thrusters a bit more gently than I can some of the more dynamic movements, and the only sound burpees are making come from my joints and a stream of vulgarities.
@ChongLordUno much appreciated dude! That daily work has been good to me.
@mr.v3lv3t Kicking around SVR II or BBB Beefcake. My squat is finally in a good way such that I don’t want to transition THAT lift to Beefcake, so doing the entire program is a bit of a bust, but I may steal it for the press. Or maybe a cycle of SVR II to get me into the new year.
I haven’t done it for a full cycle yet, I’m wondering if either I’ll find that the PR set week is a luxury and consistently look forward to it or if it’s not often enough. Either it’ll keep me very hungry, or something like OG 531 would be more appealing.
I will bite. Back in 2018 when preparing for the Winter Siege strongman contest for months on end my diet was absolutely abhorrent in the name of gaining weight to get stronger. I did a soft version of the special westside diet to gain weight. this abomination:
My version was a Chinese 2 entree meal with an extra appetizer for lunch when I worked. Dinner was usually 2 Big Macs with a large fry or a large pizza from work/dominoes. Washed it down with at least 1/2 gallon of milk a day. Inbetween meals I tried to get as many hershey bars down as possible. I got to 6 per day by the end of this run. Every workout was followed by a quart of chocolate milk. I stopped being able to taste chocolate about halfway through. Did this for about half of 2018 and a small portion of 2019 before my wallet said no more. tried to restart it again later in 2019 which led into me having my gallbladder removed.
More recently started doing 2.5 lb bowls of spaghetti. Got a bunch of free meat (currently have claimed 130lbs, had to buy a freezer chest) from work so I would throw a pound of meat, poundish of noodles and jar of sauce together and eat that after work. I think I am gonna stick with this for a while. Since its gonna take me months to go through this meat, and I will probably be given more before this stuff is gone.
@Voxel Thankfully I’ve never cared about fairness, haha. It might happen. I’m still in an existential crisis with my training. Once I know for sure I can commit to a direction, things will be easier.
@Mr.v3lv3t Absolutely. It’s funny: when you’re young, you have training ADD because you’re so excited about trying new things. You get more experienced and you get training ADD because you just don’t want to do ANY training, haha.
@BEAst_in_I THAT is a bulking story! You totally get it. Anything that results in having to get your gallbladder removed is definitely a sign that you did it “right”, haha. Ted Arcidi was apparently a big fan of spaghetti, so you are in good company.
Strongman fran (100lb log, strict chins)
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Notes: 90 second rests between giant sets. Good to still see progress here. Terrible head spins on the weighted dips: most likely a result of early training and being fasted. Wrenched my left bicep tendon something fierce on the very first set of presses because I misloaded the axle and had it uneven on the unrack. Pain showed up in the dips.
Working the night shift tonight, so will probably get in another quick conditioning workout before heading to work.
Cue night shift. Before leaving the house, I did a Tabata trap bar pull workout with 135 and followed it immediately with 25 burpees. Solid conditioning effort.
Brought my copy of 5/3/1 Forever and gonna look into planning out some fantasy training cycles. I have an idea of SVR II for deadlifts where I use the high handle trap bar for the PR set/Widow Maker set week, axle for the BBB week and deadlift bar for the SSL week. Trap bar lends itself well to pulling stupid high reps, the axle makes ROM longer, which bodes well for a hypertrophy based week, and the deadlift bar is just an awesome bar. Thinking playing around similarly with the pressing, using the axle for mainwork and working the log in for supplemental parts. Also need to figure out where some assistance work will live. Will give me something to do with my time.
EDIT: Also dawned on me earlier that another contributing factor to my elbow pain is that I’m doing more log work. Specifically, I’m catching the log and easing it onto the mats vs just letting it crash, which murders my elbows. Admitting you have a problem is the first step.
I’ve been getting that a lot recently. Before that was John Cena. And before that was Matt Damon. There’s only so many different face templates apparently, haha.
Sounds like a great idea, one of the reasons I’ve added a slight caveat emptor to whenever I mentioned I’m doing SVR is that for week two and three I’m doing a not-back squat after the top set.
And have been thinking about doing the same for deadlifts.
Don’t have a trap-bar, but have two farmer’s handles at the gym. To tighten the collars I actually bring a wrench because they are poorly constructed, so once the weight goes on there I don’t want to touch it and I want to do enough sets to warrant the effort.
Just haven’t wanted to establish a TM yet because, again, changing weights is abhorrent but I realised that from a previous experience I used to be able to use my real estimated max for deadlifts as my TM for rack pulls (below knees) and those two heights are similar enough that I feel confident to use that!
@Voxel farmers handle pulls can get tricky. They’ll start out nice, but can start twisting after that initial pick and something that shoulda been easier can actually turn on you. Making sure you get squared on the handle at the start helps quite a bit too. On an actual farmers walk, you end up grabbing the handles a little further up to let momentum carry you, but on the dead you’d wanna be centered. Curious how it works for you, especially going for PR sets and widowmakers.
@kleinhound It’s amazing how much I enjoy everything about professional wrestling BUT the wrestling, haha. I always want to get into it as just another form of entertainment, but it’s rough. Always dug the characters and storylines though. And Hulk Hogan will always be my hero, no matter how rough his real life goes.
