Seemed a traditional sauce. The menu said there was cheese on them, but none that I could discern.
Interesting, sounds like a good night out man.
Absolutely dude. Forgot to mention the chips and salsa, haha. Chips were ok. Salsa underwhelming. My spice tolerance seems to be pretty high these days.
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Once again another motivating as fuck article mate. I felt like smashing my digital scales off the wall after reading it
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@ChongLordUno Hell yeah dude. I always like to say āRemember that scene in āPumping Ironā where Arnold was meticulously weighing every gram of food he ate before he won the Olympia? Yeah, me neither, but I DO remember THISā
Still one of my favorite scenes (and a shame it was cut): a bunch of jacked dudes destroying food after a workout, with no worry about macros, percentages, calories, etc.
BUILDING THE MONOLITH Week 2, Workout 6
PM WORKOUT (1300)
Prowler sprints: 10x40 yards w/90lbs loaded
45 seconds between sprints
Notes: Glad I could get this in: weather was getting ready to turn. Short rest times really turned it into something gnarly. Always just dig the prowler: canāt speak highly enough on it. Definitely going to keep it a feature after BtM. Be useful once summer hits and I can just use school parking lots without worry.
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Trolling crossfit wods to decide on my workout tomorrow morning before my shift. Liking the looks of these. Wanted to keep them somewhere.
Iāve done a few of those before, but this should be a good resource to break up the monotony. Looking for things that are more thruster heavy, less deadlifts, donāt require multiple bars, that I can do in one place. Some will have to be adapted as well, but I dig the spirit of them.
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What is an āover the bar burpeeā? Burpees by themselves are rough.
With my set up, it most likely will just be burpees
What site did you pull these from?
Wodwell I think. Just used Google image search
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Ah yes, the old āworkouts to break mortalsā query.
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@mr.v3lv3t Hah! I DID have to sort through quite a few to find those. Primarily because Iād see things like āsquat cleansā and nope right out.
AM WORKOUT (0315 wake up via alarm)
EVIL EMOM+
Odd minute: 10 95lb thrusters
Even minute: 1 arm alternating 45lb KB swing
20 rounds
Transition immediately to
11 rounds of EMOM workout (described below in notes)
20 standing ab wheels
25 pushdowns
50 pull aparts
POST WORKOUT SHAKE
30 GHRs
10 neck bridges each way
Notes: Had to really fight my self-destructive urges on this one. Woulda been a prime opportunity to blow my brains out on some stupid conditioning workout, but tomorrow is going to be one of the toughest workouts of the cycle and I wanted to use this to prepare for it vs take away from it. Evil EMOM fit the bill. I took it 6 rounds longer, to get 100 thrusters and swings total, and it worked out about right.
After that, I wanted to get in the daily work, and figured I had a good sweat going, so I kept the clock running and would do 5 burpees at the top of every minute followed by either chins, dips or reverse hypers. Got 50,50 and 40 done through 11 rounds.
Got a good sweat going. These mid-intensity workouts tend to be pretty unsatisfying, but itās taking my vitamins.
Regarding my tough workout tomorrow, I realized how broken my brain is as I was divising my nutritional strategy coming up for it. I was contemplating having a grassfed ribeye steak in the morning vs my ground beef, so Iād have something a little bigger and fattier for energy. It then dawned on me that most people would be thinking ācarbsā to get through a workout. Funny the paradigm shift. I may actually break out the carbs for tomorrow depending on how I feel coming off my 12.
Food DOES need to increase. Weight is holding constant, which is at least better than regressing, but gaining needs to continue to occur. Still lots of room for play in that regard: just need discipline. I think breakfast and pre-bed meals are about as big as I should make them, so the next step is to start eating more at dinner.
The body plays tricks on the mind during times like this. I constantly āfeel fatā just from all the eating Iām doing, and my guts press up against my skin, but Iāll look at myself in the mirror and just be jacked. In full disclosure, I actually avoid looking at myself in the mirror because I donāt want to f**k with my head through this process, but itās actually giving me good feedback. They say ālisten to your bodyā, but honestly, fāk that: the body lies. I AM noticing a thickening of my mid-section compared to my waif-like waist I had at the end of my fat loss phase, but thatās also correlating with my strength going up well on all my primary lifts, which works well enough for me. Seems less a result of increased abdominal fat and more food mass in the gut and most likely a return of some lost muscle.
Was driving to work and out of nowhere I wanted to rip the steering wheel off. I then found myself unable to stop smiling, primarily because I havenāt felt that aggression in a quite a while. I keep seeing signs of improvement bouncing back from that low fat phase. Good to see, but also a big learning opportunity on my part.
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Only went back a couple hundred posts Pwn, but absolutely insane work from you. Iām not surprised but your work ethic and capacity always impresses me. Your widowmaker squats and 100 rep continuous burpees are just a couple that stood out and indicate how fit you are at the moment.
I understand that COVID would have fucked with your strongman comps. Any indication that they will be coming back now that the vaccine is being rolled out?
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Appreciate having you back on dude, and the kind words that come with it.
The biggest issue Iām running into with strongman comps is non-compliance with protocols from competitors. Every single comp Iāve seen is a room packed full of people with no mask in sight. Iām fully vaccinated, but the family as a whole isnāt there yet, and my employer would be quite miffed if evidence broke out of me subjecting myself to that environment voluntarily. Unfortunately, until the world as a whole gets itās collective sh*t together, itās going to be a bit.
The sport in general has gotten kinda stupid too. Every comp is just max deadlift and axle overhead. The spectacle aspect is quickly fading in light of standardization and records. The powerlifting influence is really showing through.
Getting back into martial arts has been a fun distraction at least. Weāre going to test for orange belt in June! Haha. Itās just cool to have something as a family.
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Itās pretty badass that youāre using aggression as a marker for progress haha.
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Hah! No joke man: I was pretty much dead on the inside for a few months back there. Super robotic, going through the motions of life. I legit thought I had some sort of depression going. I got ātoo goodā at cutting fat, haha. Itās been pretty awesome to rediscover myself through this.
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More Costco shilling, but they started selling these and I need to buy a WHOLE lot more of them
Grassfed beef, zero sugar, no carbs, equal amounts fat and protein. Saw John Meadows give it a thumbs up, so it even fits in with my āDeep Mountainā thing going. Been packing them as work snacks, along with all my other traveling circus stuff. Got just a little kick of spice to them too, and donāt leave the mouth too greasy like slimjims/other beef sticks.
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The evil emom one immediately jumped out at me man.
Wonder if some of these are child-nap friendly
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Thatās exactly why I shyed away from anything with deads, haha. Didnāt wanna wake up the house.
As long as you control the thrusters, they wonāt make too much noise. I was setting the bar down rather than dropping it. That ā50sā workout in particular would work well with your KB set-up.
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This bad boy
Donāt throw down the gauntlet man. You know I will crack this one out tomorrow you sadist
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