Absolutely, my dude.
I’m not 100% sure how old you are, but I think we’re close in age—certainly in life-stage, at the very least. My mom’s been “gone” for almost 8 years now, and she actually passed away well over 18 months ago, and I still haven’t gotten used to it.
I don’t imagine I ever will, really.
In any case, I’m very sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss.
My sincere condolences on your loss
@SvenG I’m 43. I’m very sorry for your loss as well. My mom went quickly; that’s likely a little easier for everyone - I know she got irritated everyone talked “like they were at a funeral” around her.
@Friedrich @aholding88 thank you both.
Secondary chest and shoulders today
Machine Press
15, 12, 9, 6 + a bunch of partials
Band over and backs between sets
Pec Minor Dips
4 x 10ish
Stretch Pushups
2 x 15ish
Machine Rear Delt
3 x 15
Rear Delt Destroyer Set
50/60 + 25/30 + 15/10
Spider Crawls
3 sets
This was a pretty brutal sequence
Standing Calf
3 sets of a lot
Superset (4 rounds)
Full on arm workout, calves and abs and then meal prepping with my daughter today. Good stuff
Celebrate this mate, between the family fights and the moments when you wonder if your kids could be any more frustrating, these little bits of gold are worth the earth.
I mean, I still have the boy who hates me
Better than a boy who makes you angry and a wife that hates you getting angry 
Just catching up on logs and so sorry to hear that news. Hope your family is coping as well as they can.
Thank you sir
Did some legs yesterday I don’t feel like writing out - it was a go through the motions one.
@simo74 if you were to start running again, how would you go about it? I’d like to just get back up to comfortable 5k shape, but I’m heavier now, obviously haven’t really run in a good while, and my back and knees start feeling awful pretty quickly. I had a recent experiment of trying to add a day of 400s onto my usual week and it was taking more than it was giving after just a few efforts. I feel like I should be able to accomplish this admittedly minor goal without a ton of investment, but it’s like I don’t remember how to start below intermediate.
I’m not Simo but I just tried to do what you are trying to do, and I let ego get in the way and jumped straight into “I can run 3x a week for 30 minutes straight” after not really running for over a decade, and my Achilles is paying the price. I had to stop for a few weeks and it’s just getting back to normal. I am going to swallow my pride and probably do some kind of “Couch to 5K” run-walk program. I have the endurance - it’s the lower-body structures that need to adapt, as you are seeing as well. Just sharing my experience.
This is probably exactly what I need to do. I always do better just listening to someone else than doing my thing. Thanks!
The simple answer here is “slowly”.
If I was going to run, I would simply do a walk / run program like the couch to 5km.
Start off with 2 min walk, 1 min run for 30 mins. Then just increase the run time and reduce the walk time.
1 min walk 1 min run
1 min walk 2 min run
1 min walk 3 min run
you get the idea.
Couple of other points.
@simo74 huge apologies I didn’t come back to this. I really appreciate the time you put into this advice, and I think it’s spot on. It’s just hard to remind yourself you’re a beginner again!
It’s not just that your are a beginner, it is also that there are adaptions that happen when you run at that low heart rate that will really help you as you increase the pace and distance. The long slow run is the king of runs and supports everything else you want to do. Someone with an athletic background like you, it really won’t take a lot of walk / run before you can just run 3 mile + with ease.
Thanks @simo74!
Got home in the wee hours this morning and then had a fantastic leg day (courtesy Cris Edmonds - I have a theme) with my wife. All muscle tissue misery, no joint pain.
Your “WTF is a kilogram?” shirt from May jogged my memory of an elderly gentleman in a gym I went to nearly 20 years ago. The man had white hair and the air of a former Marine from the Cold War era (I know, no Marine is really former). Picture a fit-as-a-fiddle 70-year-old man with buzz-cut white hair who strode around with his chest out like he was looking for a brick wall to run through.
My friend and I were by a dumbbell rack one evening, and the elderly man was doing curls near us. My friend mentioned the gym finally got a set of kettlebells, and the elderly man, to whom the comment wasn’t even addressed, barked out, “Communist dumbbells! You don’t need those. Real dumbbells have worked for Americans for as long as we’ve lifted weights!” I had to chuckle, for a few reasons, one being he was completely right about dumbbells’ (the real ones) effectiveness.
Nowadays, whenever I walk past a kettlebell rack in a gym, I silently whisper, “Communist dumbbells!”
Haha, that’s awesome! Now I’m going to have it stuck in my head, too.
I’ve been doing BPAs during warmup lately because when asked why @ChickenLittle is doing them, she responded that @OldGoat (I think) told her to, and that’s good enough for her. As far as I know I’ve never interacted with OldGoat and have no idea who he is, but if it’s good enough for CL, it’s good enough for me!