Nope. But beef also makes up such a small portion of my intake these days that it is just a drop in the digestive bucket.
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You also donāt see them squatting or deadlifting for reps. I also rarely saw anyone doing a decent standing press. If you stick to machines and DBs then you donāt have to brace as much.
Agreed.
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And even among the squatters and deadlifters I STILL donāt see it. Itās why I tell people NOT to āleave some reps in the tankā: most people naturally do that anyway. When you tell them to START doing it, they go from leaving 2-3 in the tank to about 6 or 7.
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Thats right man. Steve shaw (massive iron on the youtube) has talked many times about pushing every set, making every set and rep count ect. This is obbiously glossing over it but i really like the mentallity/approach. There is a reason why my friends dont like working out with me except for my one buddy that i mentioned before haha.
Well, that and youāre tendency to blast Justin Beiber music.
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Haha nice tryā¦its all the taylor swift!
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AM WORKOUT (0555 natural wake up)
100 six count burpees
Time: 5:38 (9 second PR)
30 GHRS
5 round circuit of
10 chins
4 standing ab wheel
10 dips
8 reverse hypers
25 pushdowns
50 pull aparts
Notes: Holy cow those burpees suck. Been a while since I did them fasted first thing in the morning. Got 85 uninterrupted, which is a 5 rep PR. Getting closer to getting it all done in one shot.
May do āDan Johnās mistakeā later today. Otherwise, might get a walk in with the family.
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Speaking of Dan Johnās mistake I remember him talking about a workout he designed that initially had (I think) 250 thrusters. Then they cut it down to 125 and thatwas still too many. Final outline had 75. Maybe its the same story you are referring to but when I heard it Tabata wasnāt uttered.
Not familiar with that story. Dan wrote about this mistake in a few of his Tabata articles in Never Let Go and Attempts. Sounds gnarly though.
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This is what cracked me up during quarantine especially with the āI only have access to X, is this enough?ā I promise you if you can take whatever weight you have and do it for 30 followed by 5 drop sets, an iso hold set and a partial set, youāll be good. You might not be the mountain, but goddamn are your mind and tendons going to get a workout.
I know that sCiEnCe tells us that soreness isnāt an indicator of gain, but itās just not cool to go easy on yourself haha if I wanted to be a nerd I wouldnāt have started lifting in the first place
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@oldbeancam Laughter was definitely A response there, haha. I got frustrated a bunch. If dudes didnāt have a full monolith and calibrated plates they acted like they couldnāt get in a workout. Ever day we drift further from Kazā divine visage.
Finished the day with a 3.5 mile walk with the family. My cheat meal plans sound like theyāre going to get derailed tomorrow, but Semper Gumby.
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Meanwhile, in another part of the forum:
Low volume not to failure is best.
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For what itās worth, I can agree. I got dumbbells and did dumb-as-rock routines. Literally mostly 1 move per body part, 3 to 5 sets, done roughly twice a week. Legs suffered a bit, but upper body definitely has, at the very least, some progress physique-wise. The bigger progress Iām proud of is I didnāt get fat in 'murica over a year of lockdown.
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Iāve been exploring iso holds to work around, and heal, some injuries. They can be harrowing. But to get anything out of them Iāve found it to key to settle for a time beforehand and in the same sense that @T3hPwnisher has talked about the benefits of being afraid of a workout on paper the time should be chosen in accordance with that sentiment. Depending on the movement 3-5 minutes has worked for me. Itās cool, because it is long enough for lactic acid to set in and also dissipate as the body eventually uses the lactic acid as fuel. If I canāt even reach that because the hold is to complex then 3-5 minutes is the amount of total āworkā I have to do, split over as few sets as possible.
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AM WORKOUT (0640 natural wake up, PR for sleep) FASTED
Conditioning: āDan Johnās Mistakeā
Notes: Going to describe this: 95lb thrusters and 45lb kettlebell 1-armed swings, switching hands each rep. Uses tabata intervals (20 seconds on, 10 seconds off) for 16 rounds (8 minutes total). Alternate between thrusters and swings each round. I like this, but think I still need to bring the weight down on the thrusters. Last time, it was the pressing that was limiting, this time it was the front squat element of it. Still got the heart rate up high, and the swings bring in an element of heavy-medium-light to the workout. Room for snatches sometime too.
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BBB BEEFCAKE Week 5, Day 1
LUNCHTIME WORKOUT
CIRCUIT (chin-dead-neck) plate change rest between sets, 2 minutes before final pull
Chins
100 total reps
Axle deadlift (touch and go)
5x136
5x226
5x346
5x401
5x455
Neck harness 55
5 sets
SUPERSETS (dead-dip) 90 seconds rest between sets
Axle deadlifts TnG 345
5x10
Weighted Dips 55
5x10
Axle rows against bands (putting away plates between sets)
5x9
Axle shrugs against bands
1x58
Kroc rows 115
1x14
4 round circuit of
25 band face pulls
5 standing ab wheel
10 reverse hypers
25 band pushdowns
Notes: Family left town this morning, Mrs ran a half marathon, so I got my deadlift workout in early. This went much better than I anticipated: at the last minute my wife switched plans and, instead of having Taco Bell before her race as fuel, she wanted to get the race over with and have it after as a celebratory meal. So I came in hungry and underfed and crushed it. I didnāt ācome aliveā on the third set of BBB like I had been doing, but all the sets before that were strong enough that it didnāt seem necessary. Just firing on all cylinders.
On the Taco Bell front, this is cheat meal, and Iāve got a planned one on Friday now as well. I have a Cheesy Gordita Crunch, which I havenāt had in a LONG time, and then we ordered the nacho party platter with chicken instead of beef
Mrs and I had zero intention of eating the whole thing (although, I can say, with zero hesitation, that I absolutely could have), but I had a handful of nachos and ate a decent amount of chicken and japalenos of the top. I honestly canāt tell if Iām exercising good portion control and better learning how to manage eating ānormal foodā with my diet OR if Iām slamming on the breaks in the presence of ādirty foodā. I pretty much cut out all my daily saturated fats to make room for this meal, and also made it both lunch and dinner. Iām fairly certain it means I underate. Iām not ready to call this a victory yet, but it was still nice to be able to share a junky meal with the Mrs.
Going to get in a run tomorrow. Race is looming. I work 3 days in a row after that, with it going Early Shift-Afternoon Shift-Night Shift. Be a tricky schedule.
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I know itās 200% mental, but I read this and thought the use of āweā could have been a typo. I couldāve crushed all of that.
And cheesy Gordita Crunch is a hidden gem. Iād never had one til my wife told me about them. I donāt even think theyāre on the menu here, but they have them. My high school go-to was three beef Baja Gorditas and a Mexican Pizza. Itās not really a surprise that I didnāt see my abs till I was about 22.
When I include my body in the dialogue, I say āweā, but in the case I meant the Mrs and I.
Nachos Bel Grande was always my jam in high school, but when I was doing scheduled cheat meals I had some feasts at Taco Bell. I ended up calculating one of those meals one time and it was 2000 calories, and I still had room for more.
I miss the regular gordita. Itās not there anymore: got replaced by the Chalupa.
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For the sake of my wallet (see: broke high school / college student), I started getting the Grande Combo - 10 tacos and burritos mix n match any way you wanted.
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These value meal revelations are exactly how my LDL ended up the way it did, haha.
Unrelated but I bought some Rogue 45lb bumpers last night. Excited about the opportunities it will open up.
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