Much improved already!
imagine you aren’t pulling just to your belt but higher (don’t slow down prematurely).
Is there a reason you are doing all that leg work BEFORE the axle? I could understand it, if you expect your legs to be super tired once the axle comes around. But otherwise you are limiting your press significantly, mate!
Just because I am a man of habit and I have always done squats first. I can switch them around for the next couple of weeks.
Haha please do mate. The axle will affect your squats very minimally but vice versa it’s very different.
Tuesday - strongman conditioning
Sandbag carry with 100KG floppy bag and Dinnie handle carry with 80KG per hand
Did 6 rounds with the sandbag and was pretty happy with these. This is a heavy bag for me and the fact it is not tightly packed makes it even harder.
This was my first time trying the handles and I have to say WTF. These were really hard work. I only managed a few feet on the first round, the weights bang into your legs and the handles dig into your hands. I had my knee sleeves on my knees but realised after this that I needed them on my calves to save my legs.
The rest of the try’s with the dinnie handles were all a struggle. Dropped to 60KG per hand after a four rounds and did 2 at the lighter weight.
All up a good heavy carry session.
Makes you realize just how impressive Leigh Holland-Keen’s effort truly was.
Jan Todd, too before her.
You are not wrong the actual stones have a combined weight of 332KG, that’s nearly double what I was playing with today.
Yeah for a time I was obsessed with them. Still have aspirations to conquer them in Scotland.
We will be back there in next couple of years, and I fully intend to seek out a number of stones while I’m there - The Dinnies being two of them. Want that photo 
I bet your a great dad. 
I really wish that was true. In reality it is not that black and white. As my kids have got older (12, 14, 15) I really struggle to cope with my expectations of them vs reality, and this makes me less consistent than I would like. There are good days but there are also bad days, and often days that no matter what I do I feel like I am failing my family. Pert of me thinks this just a dads curse to live with but part of me also knows I have some issues to deal with.
Well, it bothers you. If you weren’t a good dad it wouldn’t. Shitty dads don’t care if they are good dads or not. 
If nothing else you seem like a good example. Although to be fair, I only have your online persona to go by. 
This is definitely a thing. (Haha!)
(But only sort of.)
I have the same theory about Mom’s. That’s the only thing that gives me hope that I’m a good mom (and wife while we’re at it). The worry that I’m not. Unfortunately you never know if you messed up your kid until they are bitching about you in therapy. Lol
This is just a sign, that you Care. And that’s the bulk of parenting, and wifing, for that matter lol.
Got some things to reply to in parenting in my own log, but in terms of this:
Just from the online stuff I can see you are a) physically present b) financially supporting your family and c) being a role model in those things and physical discipline.
Beyond that the conversations on here over the years demonstrate you are clearly actively involved in your kids life and are raising them with care.
Unfortunately I see a lot of the worst of parenting, caring for children who’ve either been physically or emotionally harmed by their parents or just straight up neglected. We see it when it gets the point where a court rules that the child be separated (and that takes an unbelievably high amount of evidence, it’s genuinely shocking how much damage the system is will allow a child to suffer before removed), but even without seeing that, unfortunately my daughter’s boyfriend is a prime example of just parenting done awful - it’s Wednesday, he’s been at our house since Saturday and his mum phoned him this morning to say that he needs to ask to stay another night because she’s away having a jolly. Not phoning us and asking for the favour, telling her young teenage son to do her job, she won’t have seen him (or fed, or clothed him) for nearly a week and she clearly isn’t bothered in the slightest.
All that to say, from a very removed perspective, you’re doing an incredible job! If you get a chance I’d recommend again the book @SvenG recommended Intentional Father (by Jon Tyson) it is written from a Christian perspective but there’s a lot in there for any dad who’s kids are at or approaching teenage years.
I’ll leave it on a quote that always stuck with me from the TV show Scrubs:
Do you mind expanding on the expectations of them vs reality?
Kids need different things at different times and sometimes need things we can’t give. As long as you are present, trying and caring then that’s all you need. No one can be perfect, so don’t set that as your standard.
I personally constantly feel like i fail my family, its only when i step back that i realise that I’m actually 90% of time doing a good job.
Wednesday 24 September- week 1
Axle Block pull (14 inch deadlift) - 3 mats
Bar x 10
60 x 5
100 x 3
Mixed grip
140 x 2
Add straps
160 x 1
180 x 1
200 x 3 RPE 9 (440 lbs)
200 x 3 RPE 9
200 x 3 RPE 10 every rep here get like a max pull. But starting to realise that if I just pull harder I can grind them up.
180 x 6 - (396 lbs) left a couple in the tank.
Seriously hard work for an old bloke. This can’t be good for me! LOL
Back Extension 45 degree
Holding 20KG plate
3 sets of 10
Kept these light just wanted to move some blood though the back and glutes
Lateral raise side
12.5 x 12 x 3 sets
A little bit of body movement on these but just working on a pump. Good
Lateral raise rear
12.5 x 12 x 3 sets
More pump
Dumbell seated overhead press
20 x 22 reps
1 pump set , no full lock out, no pausing .
Ab wheel (from knees)
3 sets x 10 -
Ouch
Hanging knee raise (slings)
3 sets x 15
Ouch fk you abs
Glutes were like 2 big watermelons after this session, rock solid. Lower back was wrecked by the end of this, kept locking up and having spasms, oh well as we say down here “she’ll be right”
Overall happy with the effort tonight. Well done me.
Thankyou it is very nice if you to take the time to add some perspective and offer good counsel.
Ok there is probably too much for me to go into without getting sore fingers but I’ll try and give some context.
Firstly let me start by saying that I have a few OCD’s. No shit I hear you all say. I am a very organised and and planned person in both my work and my life in general. 9 years of the same lunch and 7 with mostly the same training program will tell you everything really. I did my degree in aeronautical engineering but now work in Logistics. At work I am the boss and run operations with anywhere from 50 to 400 staff. To say that it means sometimes my day is stressful is probably an understatement. I have high expectations of the people that work for me but at work I am generally very calm natured and good in a crisis.
When I get home I sometimes (most of the time) have similar expectations of my teenage children. By this I mean that when I ask them to do something I expect it to be done without a fuss and actually I expect them to do things without being asked. Now as I type this I understand that this is both sometimes unfair and basically a total pipe dream. I am pretty sure as a 12 years old I did nothing. Heck at 30 I used to call my mum on the way to her house and ask her to put the kettle on and get the bacon sandwiches ready !!!
When my kids largely let me down, which obviously they do because they are kids. I don’t deal with it very well. This usually manifests in me shouting A LOT. This happens regularly enough that when my parents stayed with us last my dad commented to me ‘you can’t run your house like you run your work’.
Hopefully this gives you some idea of what o mean. Happy to talk more just ask away.
Quick reply, about to jump into a meeting - but I wonder if the solution isn’t actually to treat home life even more like the work place?
Would you shout at your team the way you do your kids? I doubt so, if you had performance issues you’d sit them down and talk to them, reset expectations, for them and you and ensure you set tight boundaries around those expectations. Then review performance with them regularly.
Obviously don’t phrase it like that with your kids, but explain the reason why you want things done a certain way at a certain time, then explain that you’re trying to be a better dad and that you don’t want to shout at them, but they’re going to need to keep up their end of the bargain to ensure that it works well for everyone.
Just a thought.
In reality this sounds simple and the right thing to do. Trying to do that in the moment when I walk into the house and my son is growling at my wife and throwing things around the room because she asked him to put his school bag away is another thing altogether.
Ahhhh. The fun of an adolescent boy, or girl for that matter. I have no daughters to compare , but I remember being a fantastic asshole as a teenager. My husband doesn’t deal well with my boys disrespecting me either. They don’t do it much now that they are older. But that was for sure one thing that he would get loud about. To be fair, I didn’t take that well either. I am less loud than my husband, but it takes little more than a look and an “excuse me? I don’t think I heard you correctly” these days to get my point across.
All that being said, it’s easy to forget that you aren’t dealing with a person who has a fully developed brain yet. As ideal as a logical conversation sounds, you aren’t necessarily dealing with a logical mind. As much as I hate it, sometimes in the moment “because I said so” is the correct answer. At least in my experience. Calm conversations usually take place later. I want to have open and loving relationships with my children, but sometimes they are just straight up assholes. I have found very little in life that will test my patience and self control like the eye roll of a 15 year old boy.