You’re observing me struggling with a very poor relationship with food brought on as a result of being prescribed a statin due to very high LDL that came about as a result of poor dietary decisions and doing everything in my power to not get back on those drugs.
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I’m not sure what was meant here and whether I should be concerned that you still see weight loss as a non-destructive goal for you, or be confused as to why you believe success has come easily to @T3hPwnisher.
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I appreciated this, for what it’s worth.
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Have you read/listened to Donald Hoffman, Joscha Bach, Daniel Dennett? Really interesting stuff on reality, consciousness, simulation theory.
The way Bach explains certain ideas is fascinating:
I haven’t. I am really not a big fan of podcasts. Appreciate the link
Another upvote for the blog post here, that might’ve been the best one I’ve read from you yet.
All I can think of now is that the next time someone brings up steroids in a negative light I’ll have to inform them that Captain America is juiced to the gills.
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Thanks dude! And absolutely true. Hulk got some gene doping going on too, haha.
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Travel went well. Got groceries on arrival, all the restaurants had shut down, so I wanna brag about the microwave meal I made (shoulda taken a photo).
Riced cauliflower mixed with a package of ahi tuna, egg whites, half an avocado, mustard, salt, and chopped celery.
Deep Mountain kinda sorta continues. Could not get any grassfed butter and I have no way to cook grassfed beef, but scored organic cage free eggs. Avocados and macademia nuts are going to take up the slack on fat intake, although that’s not near the saturated stuff I need. I’ll most likely get roped into going out for a meal at some point. Thankfully, this will be a short trip, so it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it’s been nice coming prepared.
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That actually sounds delicious
You say that a lot, haha. I’m not going out of my way to eat food that tastes bad.
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If I’m being honest, your “dieting” meals sound more appealing to me than your “cheats”
This isn’t a dieting meal.
I’m referring to content. i.e. canned tuna, mustard and rice cauliflower vs cheesecake factory
It’s just what I have on hand while I’ve traveling, but still pretty consistent with my day to day. I’m not dieting at this point.
I’m familiar with your tastes though. Clarification of being honest not required at all.
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Slight derail, but I was helping host a conference in DC about the ethics of biotech- engineering in the military, and my introductory premise was just this. America loves drugs, our token superhero is literally a scrawny nerd on the best (fictional) steroids in the market.
Got a good laugh too, as I got to go all comic-nerd while a bunch of people were spending far too much energy trying to sound smart.
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Hey man, they have cheap “foreman” style grills at Walmart for like $20. While traveling, I’ve used it to cook steaks, chicken thighs, bison, ground beef. It cooks on both sides and drains the grease into a drip pan for fairly easy cleanup.
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Appreciate it man. I got one at home, but it’s not something I wanna fly with for short trips. When I was holed up for 6 weeks, I did a LOT of foreman grilling and slow cooking in the room.
No doubt. I was throwing it out there because it’s likely cheap enough to abandon or small enough to pack, that is if you check your bags. There’s also single serve blenders for about $10 for upgraded protein shakes and I’ve bought and ditched these as opposed to buying another $40 nutri bullet. Either way your determined enough to figure it out. Good luck brosky!
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@jwlake06 Always appreciate the looking out. I was once holed up during the 4th of July, and I did a full on cookout in the room. Burgers, dogs, the whole shebang. I’m sure the cleaning crew loved me, haha.
AM WORKOUT (0315 wake up via alarm)
30 GHRs
SUPERSETS (chins-press) Rest long enough to change plates
Chins
20 overhand
15 rings
15 rings
Barbell strict press
5xBar
5x130
5x150
7x170 superset w/25 pull aparts
15x130 superset w/25 pull aparts
20 GHR sit ups
SUPERSETS (press-row) 1 minute rest between sets
DB flat bench 100s
1x10
1x8
1x7
1x8
DROPSET
8x100
8x60
13x20
DB rows 100
5x6
Dips
30+10+10 (rest pause)
25 pushdowns
PM WORKOUT (1500)
Grace WOD w/barbell
4:15
Paul Carter lateral raise protocol
20x15lbs
15x20
10x25
3 min rest
10x25
15x20
20x15
Tabata battle ropes
Tabata assault bike
Notes: Holy cow this is a lot of stuff. I’m at my work trip location gym and hours are early, so I woke up and got done what I could. Think travel and poor nutrition showed, because I was dragging on chins. Pressing a barbell feels weird after so much time with an axle. Topset was underwhelming, back widowmaker was solid. It just now dawns on me that Jim allows rest pausing to get to 15-20 reps and I shoulda used that. Doh. Next time.
Oh yeah, I had to train in a mask, so that was interesting.
DB benches were all occupied, so called an audible and went with flat bench. Answered the mail.
Squeezed in daily work where I could.
Grace sucked with a mask on, and the bar bounced all over the place (tore my shin up pretty good) so it make the time suck a bit. But I got my shoulders jacked up. Then that lateral raise thing actually worked really well: something I liked from Paul’s approach. Finishing off with the battle ropes totally blew up my shoulders.
Breakfast this morning was 3 organic cage free eggs cooked in my microwave egg cooker, ahi tuna, 6 macadamia nuts and 1/4 of an avocado. Pretty pleased with that.
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