Back home for a leg day and kickoff (see what I did there?) of day one of Grandmaster with @davemccright.
My daughter came with me today, which was incredible. It kept me on a clock so she wouldn’t get bored, so nothing was real heavy (at least that’s my excuse today - it really wasn’t very far off of what I’d do with all day). She also told me I smell bad and I make everything look harder than it really is.
So this morning was the first time my daughter came down wearing something for school that showed too much skin and my wife said no. I like to think it’s because we developed some confidence in the gym together yesterday, but that’s beside the point.
Anyway, she went up to change and she was cranky. So when she came back down, my wife extends an olive branch and asks does my daughter want to go up and shop in my wife’s closet for clothes? My daughter tells her that sure won’t be any better, because my wife wears nothing but dumpy clothes. Them’s fighting words for these ladies, so I just turn around and watch the sunrise and drink my coffee… inconspicuous-like. My wife sees that and won’t tolerate it: “you think you’re just going to look at the wall… like a dog?!”
Anyway, this all wraps up with my daughter wearing something from my wife’s closet, me driving her to school, and her manipulating me into asking her to go shopping with me this weekend and buy new clothes (that I’m pretty sure she’s done like the last 3 weekends as it is). Well played, ladies.
It’s a pretty fun scenario every day at home. My wife sarcastically lets me know “this is what you’re missing!” because I travel, but I really do miss it.
Anyway, today was chest and shoulders.
Slight Decline DB
20/20
40/12
60/8
80/6
100/8
Incline
45/6
135/6
185/6
205/6
Football Bar Bench
They just got this! The guy literally dropped it off in the gym next to me while I was on incline, so obviously I had to be the first to use it. I slid right over.
45/8
135/6
185/10
185/10 + 8 + 6
Cable Flyes
2 x 12 + 10s stretch
DB Rear Delt
15/25 x 3
Band Over and Backs x 30
Smith Seated Press
45/6
95/6
135/10 x 2
135/10 + 5 + 4
Apparently my daughter is “dating” a boy, which is what the outfit tantrum was about, so more stories to come on that. Dad isn’t super happy.
I skipped my rest day because getting activity is more important than progress to me.
One-arm BB Row
-/8
25/8
50/6
75/10 x 2
MAG Supinated PD
Warmup
2 x 10
Rack Pull
Did these MD style, with tons of lat tension, from the bottom pin. Felt pretty good.
135/3
225/3
315/6 x 3
Chest Pulls
3 x 10
DB Pullover
50/10 x 2
DB Shrug
75/30
75/21
Decline Leg Raise
4 sets
Then I did 6x 200m runs on the track. These legitimately took me just about as long as a 400 did in high school - yikes! This is the kind of stuff I actually enjoy doing, and I need to do more of it, but it’s honestly like I’ve forgotten how to do hard conditioning. If I have to think about something (or do goofy movements), that’s just too much for me and I peace out. I don’t have deep lungs right now, though, and I like the hard push, so I need to get on top of this.
Today was a full on arms + 20 minutes of cardio day.
Then I took my daughter shopping for a new outfit. I don’t know if something happened on text or what, but she was a little quiet the whole time. Not down, and we still ate lunch and she talked a little, and she found stuff, but she’s usually very high-energy. She says she’s just tired, and maybe she is, but she wouldn’t tell me she’s talking to this boy even when I prompted (I found out from my wife) and other stuff like that. She did make a comment a week or so ago that I’m always gone and she’s used to it now, so maybe she’s a little upset about that. I dunno.
In lifting news, I’m getting a lot more conditioning-focused. Actually, I think that’s just been a general trend over time. These days, it’s more because there just isn’t enough time in the day to do it all anymore… so I want to make sure I prioritize the live longer/ feel better things.
@T3hPwnisher I admire your “bad ideas” to no end in this regard… “bad” being totally tongue-in-cheek; I’ve always been very impressed how you can throw yourself headlong into new goals/ experiments to a point bordering identity change. With that preamble, to what extent do you think your giant set approach has helped you achieve your extraordinarily low RHR? It’s probably not fair to try to isolate a variable like that; I’m just playing with ideas to better pattern my days but also within the confines of usually being in gyms I don’t know very well.
Thanks man. It didn’t feel great, and I’m about to leave for another couple weeks. Through May, I’m only home like 3 weeks. I think that’s where I’m putting some things in place to put this into something more realistic, but it’s not been awesome for the kids.
Busted - that’s absolutely brilliant.