This was just my meal. The pizza and a salad. He had pasta. Again, I’m well able to eat the entire thing, and have done with this exact pie, but I exercised self-control. For perhaps the first time! That’s why I bothered posting about it. Here is the remains of the pie in question; see how yeasty and good the crust is, how fresh the vegetables! See how small the portion I ate, after a four mile run and various other efforts! AND we took a walk in the rain when we got home. I am SO DIALED IN right now.
Editing to add that this is why I was confessing an excess of self-approval. I acknowledge that it’s at a level that’s weird. But look how much I left!
Don’t worry, that wasn’t an attack directed at you. In fact, good job on restraining yourself if that’s what you had to do.
I just find it weird when people order something at the restaurant and then they don’t finish the whole thing. For example, I know that in the US it’s a common thing to take home the leftovers, whereas here’s it’s not a thing at all and you’d be looked weird at if you asked to do so.
We’re just pigs and always finish what’s in the plate haha
@anna_5588 There’s actually a really, really fantastic gym like 2 miles down the road from the house. It’s tempting to go there, but I’ve already got a solid amount of equipment.
@EmilyQ Sounds like a blessing in disguise when you put it that way haha.
I was gonna say Seated too since it’s my favorite shoulder movement anyway, but I realized he does strongman and seated pressing has very very little carryover to standing pressing movements, especially the awkward shit those idiots are always picking up and moving around…
I know, right! The only box the house doesn’t check for me is ceiling height though, so I’m willing to make it work. If we wind up in the house I’m going to play around with seeing if there’s space for me to press parallel to and in between the floor joists. Otherwise, it’ll be a steady diet of kneeling and Z press. At least during the winter, once it warms up I can just do overhead work outside.
@mr.v3lv3t: and this is my home-gym
Guest: there’s two holes in your roof about 2m apart @mr.v3lv3t: as I said, this is my home-gym. There’ll be no forgoing vertical pressing under my roof
Guest: again, there are two holes in your roof @mr.v3lv3t: …
Guest: …
Guest: it’s raining indoors
I found seated flat bench pressing to be a good compromise. Lower pressing height, but you don’t get the back support from a high incline bench, but you can still be a bit stable so it’s not trunk stability to that limits pressing weight.
My confession is that I feel pretty good by one of the more unique compliments my co-worker just gave me, where they asked if I am a blacksmith as a hobby. Apparently, my forearms are on point. I assumed he was making a comment that I showed up to work covered in soot, haha.
That plus some other weird stuff like a lunge stance + pressing. Surely it would make pressing with the use of your legs much easier.
This is what I usually do for my seated OHP. I actually like it better than using the back test. It allows me to move my torso and head as needed to get full ROM.
I rarely bring anything home, and we Americans are known for our giant portions. Pizza, though, is generally sized to be shared - though in my family no one would ever get a small pizza for two people unless for lunch and with a big salad.
Some of our restaurants serve pizzas meant for one person - 8" or 10" I guess - and some places sell by the slice. But mostly it’s a shared thing. I can’t really think of anything else we do this way.
Confession - pretty sure I am a giant wuss.
Got a new tattoo on my ribs on Friday. It was a small one next to a larger piece I had previously had done on my ribcage. I didn’t remember the first one sucking so bad (4 years ago). Only some small flash (only about 20 minutes total in the chair) and the whole thing felt like someone was very deliberately and slowly carving up my side with a dull knife. As a big dude, I feel like this is something I should have easily handled, but it just sucked.
If you’re really into pain - get your ribs tattooed.
My metric might be skewed from being a fat bastard but I really didn’t find this was the case when I visited. I’d heard of this before but I don’t think I ever got a meal that was mind-bogglingly excessive.
