Lol this is so true my friend
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Agreed on the meat. From what I understand, seafood was considered to have good fats because they eat their natural diet. Farmed fish do not have omega 3 fatty acid and are similar to farmed meat.
Diet is a funny thing. Itâs arguably the most important aspect of your health. And yet people seem to pay virtually no attention to it.
And people simply seem to have no awareness of what theyâre eating. My mom is apparently pre-diabetic. Her doctors tell her to avoid carbs, and the t.v. tells her that carbs and sugar are bad for you. So sheâll admonish the family for eating too much rice⊠only to continually buy and snack on Korean rice cakes.
@magick I became such a fan of seafood during this dietary transition. I used to avoid it, because, again, it had a high rate of screw up associated with cooking it, but once I got over that I found so much good stuff in the ocean. Still donât care for anything bony. If thereâs bones in my food, it better be ribs or chicken, haha.
And very true about diet. People will kill themselves in the gym and then REALLY kill themselves int he kitchen. Itâs not the 1 hour of working out that defines your body: itâs what you do for the OTHER 23 hours that matter.
Itâs amazing the things we take for granted as far as nutrition goes. Even people close to me will catch me off guard. My wife is a lifelong athlete and nutritionally aware, but the other day I was discussing a food product I had (Waldenâs zero calorie mayo) and I said âYeah, itâs pretty crazy: it has no caloriesâ. My wife said âDoes it have any fat?â and I reply âIt has no CALORIESâ, and she says âRight, but Iâm asking about fatâ And I realized she didnât understand that it canât have fat if it has no calories. Just a bit of info I took for granted, but itâs something I had to learn at some point too.
AM WORKOUT (0300 wake up via alarm)
âGut Check and a Halfâ
Took this
For the thrusters, I used a barbell with 95lbs. Whenever I try heavier DB thrusters, it all just goes into my lower back for some reason. Just canât get a decent rack.
But anyway, ran through the full WOD, then transitioned to 20lb DBs and a 4 point burpee (no push up, aka âsquat thrustâ) and tried to do the whole thing again (this time with DB thrusters). Implemented a 40 minute cut off. Was on the 20th burpee when time ran out. Would have had more, but ran into some slight equipment issues with the DBs at first. Had to fiddle with them a touch.
This isnât as awful as Tower/Juarez/Kalsu, but it lives up to itâs name all the same. The Devil presses are really the moneymaker, but the burpees at the end are just a slow death. I think Iâm going to do a workout one day that is just devil presses for stupid high reps with the 50s, because they really are just something else.
Working a 12 today, then I travel tomorrow. Thankfully, Iâll have access to that crossfit style gym this time, so now insane hotel room workouts necessary.
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Man just read the latest blog and have to applaud you for a few things.
-âYOUâRE the NPC in someone elseâs storyâ
dude. Serious bit of philosophy there. Solipsism and whatnot.
And then this one:
- âthey certainly werenât reading a free blog about DnD, so letâs be honest with who is reading this and where they rack and stack: theyâre NPCs, not heroesâ
freakin LOVED this statement - what a well-deserved slap to the readerâs (my) ego!
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Thanks dude! Appreciate the praise for sure. That post has been brewing in my head for a while, and the DnD post the week before just made it too easy to write. It was originally going to talk about how second best is still really damn good, and just kinda morphed into that.
Love being able to merge all this nerddom into lifting, and itâs fun finding all the people it connects.
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And allow me to disclose that while I am as nerdy as they come, I mean really seriously nerdy, I have never played dnd, magic, wow, or any of those things. Probably for the best, for reasons not worth putting here.
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I read the post. Have no idea what all this DnD talk is about but the ânot everyone can/will be a heroâ thing really resonates with me
I donât want to be the âheroâ (ie leadership positions), but whenever I expressed this, Iâd always get strange looks or get criticized for âlacking leadershipâ. I much prefer just to be a solid force in the background
I am a member of that club too.
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You literally just listed every nerdy hobby I havenât had. Although Iâm passingly familiar with D & D through nerdy video games.
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Yes never said I wasnât familiar with D&D, may have even collected lead miniatures at some point, read lots of fantasy novels but never played the game.
@jdm135 WoW was always too far gone for me. Thereâs definitely levels of nerddom, haha.
@anna_5588 I wouldnât necessarily equate being in a leadership position with being a hero. One can be a leader without being a hero, and a hero without being a leader. Itâs good to be able to lead when the time calls for it and to be able to follow effectively as well.
PM WORKOUT (1730)
95lb thrusters/20kg KB snatches
10x5
5x3
5x1 (18:38)
Notes: Someone reminded me I came up with this a little while back so I gave it another go. 5 thrusters, then 5 snatches per side, follow the pattern until done. Traveled today and am somewhere with higher elevation, so this was a fun challenge. Iâm all settled, got a good supply of nutrition packed and should be squared away while Iâm here. Good to have real gym access.
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I would like to be able to say that. Although the home gym is very well stocked so I cant really complain
Yeah, Iâm just glad I donât have to do burpees on hotel carpeting again, haha.
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lmao yes some hotel carpets are not meant to be laid down on multiple times a minute whilst sweating profusely.
Just read the new blog mate and wanted to say I really enjoyed. I love the NPC analogy and it pretty much sums up my approach to training. Just keep adding a little more over time and eventually I will be strong or at least definitely stronger than I was. Heck if I can keep this up for another 20 years I might even break a national record in my 70âsâŠLOL
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@simo74 Hell yeah dude! Thereâs a lot of liberation in not having to be the absolute best. âPlaying the game the way I want to play itâ, as I summed it up before. Itâs far more fun that way.
AM WORKOUT (0300 wake up via alarm/calf cramp)
20 chins
GIANT SETS (press-chin-pull apart)
Barbell clean and strict press away
5xBar
5x155
5x175
4+1x195 (from the rack)
13+3+3x155
Chins
6x5
Band pull aparts
6x20
High incline DB press
Started with 95lbs, then rest paused down to 85 and 75, then stripset 60 and 45
Dips
50
Low cable rows
Triple rest pause and then a dropset
Barbell curls
1x100
Tabata battle ropes
PM WORKOUT (1500)
107 burpee pull ups in 15 minutes
15 GHRs
20 GHR sit ups
40 BW reverse hypers
Tabata sledgehammer on tire
Notes: Real grab bag of stuff here. Using some things that I donât have access to at home and enjoying the novelty, and also contending with the elevation changes. Cleaning a barbell feels like cheating after using an axle for so much. I took 195 out of the rack because I was having some headspin issues. I might actually walk the TM back on this, despite my ego, and really crush some reps next cycle. Was feeling a great connection with my back on the cable rows. Curling a barbell doesnât compare to an axle at all. Resting with the barbell is resting: with the axle itâs crucifixion.
The burpee pull ups were a great bit of conditioning. My rack is on the shorter side at home and a jump into a chin isnât very viable, but here I had a good set-up. I wasnât setting the world on fire with my speed, and had to take 2 small breaks to text the Mrs, but still ended up with me breathing hard and sweating lots. Always wanted to do that sledgehammer thing. It blew up my upper body pretty solid. Was the purpose of this whole thing, since Iâm squatting tomorrow.
Itâs been so awesome traveling while LOSING weight. So much easier.
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I really like this comment. The gym I train in has mostly people trying to get fit or gym broâs trying to look good for the Aussie beaches. I am one of very few members who train for strength. I really like that my training looks so different to everyone else. I am playing it my way and the results are there for everyone to see.
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My friend youâre a poet.
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Wondering what your opinion is on something:
What would you do if you were an adult who had zero experience doing any sort of exercise and you wanted to start training?
Iâm not asking for you to tell me what I or someone else should do (because you donât work like that, haha) but just what you would do if you were in that position.
I know a guy, heâs probably in his early or mid-40s, hasnât worked out since high school PE class, been drinking and smoking since he was a teenager, but some of him and his peers are trying to make some positive changes, and heâd asked if I had any advice.
My personal opinion is to take your time easing into it - maybe do some goblet squats before throwing a barbell on your back, make easy things like walking and drinking water habits, etc. I feel like you had a blog post a while back where you mentioned playing a sport just to learn how to move, and then experiment with dumbbells, machines and bodyweight before moving on to barbells, but I could be completely misremembering.
Any thoughts on what youâd do? What youâd do usually seems like a not so bad idea, haha.
I am so pumped that you gave Tien some love in your blog. When he keeps blasting cell over and over âŠmy favourite part of that series