Skyr technically is cheese
Thatās what I thought as well. Itās why I was confused.
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Noticed how much more strength/endurance you have in the gym with painted walls? Your next house will have a 4 car garage.
Seriously, want to be you next time Iām 30.
@biker Canāt say I have. What I noticed is that, upon moving into this house, COVID struck, my health markers became awful, I lost a lot of competition opportunities while in my prime, dropped a lot of bodyweight and radically changed my diet to address those health issues and had to effectively hang up my pursuit of maximal strength above all for the sake of my life and my family, and in turn it caused me to have to chase after different goals in order to maintain my saniety and delay an inevitable existential crisis.
AM WORKOUT (0320 natural wake up)
Weighted chins (various grips) 60lbs
6x5
Axle clean each rep and strict press 136lbs
10x5
Safety Squat Bar Squats
5xBar
5x135
5x225
5x315
5x365
4x405
Band pull aparts
2x50
Axle shrugs against bands
75 against short light bands+25 against light bands
Buffalo bar squat
41+4x255lbs
CONDITIONING
5 minutes of 20 seconds on/10 seconds off KB swings w/40kg bell
Notes: Things are looking real positive. More giant sets to start: squat-chin-press until no more chins, then squat-pull apart-press, then just finished out the presses while I unloaded plates.
I took the SSB squats VERY slow. Was being extremely cautious loading the hamstring. In turn, 405x4 wasnāt my limit, but I was at the point I was starting to strain, and I shut it down to play it on the safe side. Being able to take 400 for a ride is a great sign. The SSB was also gentle on the elbow. This might be how I finish out BtM. Today was all the parts of workout 3, just none of the proper percentages.
Thatās a 1 rep PR on the widowmaker, and as you can see from the video, I wasnāt nearly as ādoneā as usual. Biggest issue was holding in chow on the final reps. Itās an interesting situation.
I forgot just how taxing KB swings are with a heavy bell. It sneaks up on you. Everything is fine until you set down the bell, and then you die.
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Shotgun oā thoughts
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My kid tested and got their new belt in Tang Soo Do, officially promoting them out of the junior ranks and into the ārealā program. Theyāll now be attending 2 classes a week, which means the Mrs and I will ALSO be attending 2 classes a week. Weāll all have 1 family class together and then our separate kids/adults classes. My wife and I belt test this Saturday.
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I appreciated my forced downtime because it gave me a chance to train āinstinctivelyā. Iām honestly thinking that will be the guiding principle during my diet week. Eat and train instinctively, then get back to something regimented. I feel like thatās actually a solid balance. I also foresee the instinct becoming the norm somewhere along the line. I was listening to Jamie Lewis talk about how he has no structure, and just goes into the gym and trains what he wants to train that day, so sometimes itās 3 shoulder workouts in a week, sometimes legs, sometimes full body, etc. I can dig that. I feel like I could make it work well enough. My conditioning is pretty much operating that way.
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I just wrote about eating on instinct next week, but I DO need to make a point to keep in the whole eggs and red meat. Iāll be slashing fats via avocados and nuts.
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There might be a future in squatting heavy with the SSB and then back offs with the buffalo bar.
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Nice. Iām stealing it.
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Steal away. The ātrickā is de-evolution of movement. You break down the cluster to a thruster to a front squat. A snatch turns into a swing. Similar to Dan Johnās āHumane Burpeeā. If I were really high speed, Iād have throw cleans in there, but for the sake of my elbow I was minimizing them.
I thought of a similar one as well going devil presses to burpees, and then you could humane burpee it. And then you could always bring the barbell in and get silly and do clusters to thrusters to cleans to front squats to rows to deadlifts. OR set up a bar in the rack and go low bar to high bar to front squat to good morning.
ā¦man I hate my brainā¦
Definitely some fun stuff you could play with in there. Iāll see what my brain can throw out.
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AM WORKOUT (0331 natural wake up) FASTED
LITVINOPES
45lb KBs
Prowler loaded w/90lbs
Odd Rounds: 5 KB thrusters,tun to prowler low handle prowler push, backwards prowler drag, run back to bells
Even rounds: 5 KB thrusters, run to prowler, low handle push, high handle push, run back to bells
19 rounds in 51:50
Notes: Definitely showing the healed hamstring: I blitzed through this compared to last week, and this was doing thrusters on each end vs my normal breakdown of front squats 1 side/thrusters the other. It was 25 degrees BEFORE windchill this morning. Started off with the NEVERsate hoodie on top of the long sleeve thermal, and by round 10 I was back to berserker mode. This is becoming the workout I look forward to the most. Itās primal and generates a ton of hunger being done fasted in the cold.
Something Iāve been meaning to log, but I intentionally set the bells away from the prowler so that I have to run between them. I really think itās the final bit that makes this so magical. For one, it gets in yet ANOTHER form of conditioning training: now Iām doing prowler work, KB work AND running, but there also very much a āSisyphusā element to running back to start the whole thing all over again. As far as strongman goes, itās great training for the transition between events on a medley. Shame we got rid of medleys so that we could just focus on static maxes though.
But Iām not bitter.
The patrol car was actually already in the parking lot when I showed up this morning, but in turn, they didnāt even swing by to chat. Maybe I get a free pass now. Or even a police escort. Which is good, because if someone tried to mess with me in the middle of the workout, Iād most likely just lay down and die.
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Absurdism
I mean, when Camus tackles it yeah.
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Love it
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Medleys and things of that nature are what makes the sport the sport, imo. Hate the new direction itās going as a spectator, and as a dabbling competitor it removes the one competitive advantage I had going for me haha.
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@Voxel naming the workouts is all the fun, haha.
@mr.v3lv3t Yup. Weāre rewarding the fat people too much, haha. Bring back the athlete era. Dudes were strong AND jacked.
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You gonna make me post a Glenn Ross picture?
I totally get where youāre coming from though. I miss the wacky equipment, the range of competitors, the medleys and the fact that not everything is for instagram or records or whatever.
Heās actually just outside that era, having last competed in WSM right when it would have just been starting. Heās instead in that weird, wild and whacky era of the 90s, haha.
The internet has ruined it, like most things. I went through this with MMA too.
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More shotgun 'o thoughts
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It just dawned on me that, now that Iāve found a way to make prowler work viable in the AM hours, ā5/3/1 for Hardgainersā has become an option. Iāve always liked the look of that program. Iāll have to keep it in mind.
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Iām also way too excited about my upcoming diet break. Itās been a very weird transition from someone who traditionally gained weight just looking at food to someone that has to fight for every single pound on the scale. Iām just excited about having a more āhigh speed/low dragā nutritional approach, because right now I have to spend SO much time dealing with food. I will be eating WHILE making food for my next meal.
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Swapped out grassfed beef for ground bison in my morning/evening meal. Itās a little higher fat (90% vs 93% lean) and greasier, but thatās a positive for now. If I decide to keep it during the diet break, I might consider rinsing it.
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I have gotten SO bad on energy drinks again, and science fiction food. One positive of the latter is Iāve confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that blueberries are on my āthough shall notā list. I used some Waldenās Farm blueberry syrup, which is about as far removed from a blueberry as you can get, and it still caused a reaction. Part of me is thinking about, as a new yearās challenge, setting aside a block of time to go Paleo-esque. It honestly wouldnāt be a tough shift for me to just go eggs, meat and veggies, and I think Iād permit myself nuts and natural nut butters, but just cut out all the processed stuff, even if itās āhealthyā. If nothing else, that might be a good protocol during the diet breaks. I tend to bring in that crazier stuff when Iām trying to gain.
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Conditioning plays an interesting trick on the brain: the better you get at it, the harder you have to work to get the training effect you want. Sometimes I have to remind myself that just because Iām not sucking wind doesnāt mean I didnāt push myself (double negative): itās a sign the training IS working.
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All of my lifts are free falling, except for my squats, which are the strongest theyāve ever been. I hit a set of 4 for 405 on the SSB Squat as a return from injury. I had to SERIOUSLY work up to that weight in the past. And itās weird, because usually my squats tank when Iām lean because I donāt have the abdominal circumference to make a good base.
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I hate mine too. I just realized a huge snafu.
When we were talking about turkey you mentioned Jamie Lewis.
By some misfiring of synapses, I thought you were talking about Jamie Oliver.
I can see now why you were referring to Jamie Lewis and not Oliver.
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This is how strongman should be and the only reason I havenāt tried training for a competition, itās just powerlifting with hitching around here.
I got into MMA circa 2006 when it was still blossoming. I canāt stand what itās become nowadays.
I was up to at least 3 a day for awhile (back down to 1 to 2). I am tempted to go cold turkey on the caffeine, but it might turn me into a miserable person for a few weeks.
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@SkyzykS I will admit I was a little curious about the exchange, haha.
@cyclonengineer 2006 was right about when I bowed out, but not because I was tired of the scene: just started becoming a family man (2007 technically). That was SUCH a fun time. Everyone was still just kinda figuring it out. Itās so robotic now.
I havenāt crossed the 3 a day threshold yet, but Iām definitely a solid 2 a day guy now. Itās not even the caffeine: I just enjoy the experience of drinking them. It ācentersā me. Bang makes a caffeine free version that I want to get my hands on.
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