You’re right. I just need to find the sweet spot between lifting and real life. I’m trying for 3 days a week this time. Lots to do on the weekends trying to get things back in shape here. Do I want to deadlift Sat? Yes. Can I deadlift and push mow and weedeat the yard? Yes. Will my legs cramp up all night for a week? Also yes. Then I ain’t worth a shit to nobody. So… I will continue looking for a balance.
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The no moneys look like they’d feel good. Do they?
Details differ, but in general, SAME.
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The Ying and the Yang. The universe is governed by a cosmic duality, sets of two opposing and complementing principles or cosmic energies or Why do I do this shit when I should be doing this other shit? Everytime I try and walk away I can’t. It’s part of our life. I’ve discovered over the years you can’t let it cause you anxiety. It’s suppose to be making you fell good and more healthy. If you miss a workout because you have to give time to life that supports you, c’est la vie. Do it when you can. You’re so far ahead of the majority of the people feel good about what you can do. Do what you can, when you can. As we use to say, “don’t sweat the small shit and it’s all small shit”. Sorry for the philosophical rant.
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Yes, they definitely have a different feel than regular BPAs.
I think Harry summed it up. We will continue to do what we can, when we can.
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The beauty of it all seems to be, for me at least, that when motivation hits after a fallow time, it hits hard, and I get to experience all the joy of making strong progress all over again. For me it doesn’t seem to matter that I keep climbing the same exact hill, I’m still excited about the milestones along the way. If Louie and I peel two minutes off our morning 1.5 mile, I come home feeling good about it. It doesn’t matter to me as much as I would expect that once I ran miles with ease.
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Ahhh… the dawn of a new day. Of yardio 
Yes there were a few of hours of yardio yesterday. My tri’s, traps and hands are toast.
But! I’m making progress. Today’s adventure will include cutting, packing and raking mesquite limbs, turkey pear cactus and grubbing up Bee brush. What a mess! She needs her old, dead ass kicked for not letting me clean this up sooner. 
And we aren’t discussing the gopher and fire ant mounds. The new sharp lawnmower blade was good while it lasted, and no I couldn’t find another wheel that fit right 
I will go by the redneck mall (TSC) tomorrow and see if they have that spindle kit they show online.
50/50 is all I’m giving that.
It is 44° degrees this morning which wonderful, so surely this can’t be right?
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109* on Wednesday is freakin’ insane - save that crap for July! The weather has been weird for the last few years.
I can relate about not deadlifting on the weekend. Sunday is my yardio/landscaping/yard stuff day, and I discovered a couple years ago that deadlifting from Fridays through Mondays is a hard no for me if I want to be functional, so when I’m deadlifting, I have to do them between Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesday being the best option for recovery and full functionality.
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Ain’t that the truth!
I’ll will just have to see how it goes on the deadlifting and squatting. May try just a super low volume approach.
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I sharpen them a little differently based on use. For just grass, I’ll make it a more shallow angle, like a slicer. For stemmy crap I make a steeper angle, like a shear. 
. If thats useful to you, you’re welcome to it!
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The whole point of todays operation is to leave only grassy stuff. There isn’t anything that will dull a lawnmower blade here quicker than gopher mounds. The lil bastards push up thumb sized rocks in the dirt.
I will have to sharpen the blade before mowing the southside again. Ain’t nothing pisses me off worse than mowing and have stripes sticking up afterwards 
when I stop at TSC tomorrow I am going to see if they have one of the blade removal tools instore. One of my peeps has one and it works great.
I won’t get it all done but got a big chunk of it.
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Rocks? You can get those anywhere!
Jokes aside, good work!
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109??? Definitely seems early to be seeing those temperatures! 
Sorry to hear about all of the lawn woes… You guys are working hard down there. I’ll stop complaining about my lawn now. 
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Sure you weren’t looking at Celcius? 44 would equal around 111. Be careful work in that kind of heat.
No, it was 44° F Sun morning. 39°F this morning.
It was cool enough a long sleeve shirt felt good.
It’s going to be that big of a temperature swing.
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That’s a hell of a swing.
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