The Pursuit of Mythical Gains

2/4/25 W1D4 - SQ

45/95/125/145/165x10
BBShrugs 145/155/165/175
LE/LP 90/95/100
AB/AD 125/130/135
Preacher Curls 20x10/30x8/40x8/45x8

Had fasted too long, no energy.

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2/5/25 W2D1 - OHP

45/95/105/120x8
IncBPMa 80x10x5
TPDā€™s 40/40
FPs 40/40
OHTE 33/38/43

Low energy, low strength. Not sure whatā€™s up with that.

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2/6/25 - Off

Abs and 20 minutes TM.

Depart for LV in less than 40 hours. But hey, whoā€™s counting?

2/7/25 D2 -DL

45/95/135/155/175x10/205x4/225x4/245x2
CUs 100/100/100
Preacher Machine 30/40
Wrist Curls 25/27.5/27.5

203@17.8

Lost a few pounds, not by design. Figure I will take a few weeks of not force feeding and see where my weight ends up.

Changed the settings on my BF monitor, updated my age and the BF% jumped to 19.2 and offended me. Whatever, it is what it is and I will be using the proper age moving forward, so 19.2 is the new 17.8. Mirror tells me the algorithm is wrong, so there is that.

T minus 18 hours.

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Sat on my ass and drove for sixteen hours today.

Vipassana was a good base.

Vegas baby!

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2-11-25 W2D3 - BP

45/95/135/155/175x8
PD 70/70
TPD 25/30/35
OHTE 35/43

Iā€™m out of sorts after driving and staying in a hotel. Las Vegas isnā€™t like I remember it, and I donā€™t eat well on the road - had one meal yesterday at 11 and am not hungry. Itā€™s tough to leave the hotel - fifteen minute walk to my car parked in the hotel lot, hard to find my way out of the hotel, nothing is convenient and everything is expensive. Two days ago I had a bacon cheeseburger with fries and a Diet Coke at Johnny Rockets in the food court at the Luxor, it was $34.

Iā€™m getting old, clearly. The drive crippled me, felt like I had taken a dozen or more kidney punches and my right knee was sore because I donā€™t have Cruise Control on my ancient truck, lol. I couldnā€™t figure out how to get out of self park yesterday and the gate ate my room card so I had to push the help intercom, then go back through registration later to get a new room card.

The good news is that I am rolling with the punches and keeping a good attitude.

I head to Flagstaff tomorrow, hang out in Sedona on Thursday before driving down to Surprise. Iā€™m staying in an AirBnB in surprise for four days so I hope to be able to eat healthier.

Gym was ā€œI Ainā€™t Doing Jack Shitā€ template, in and out in twenty five minutes.

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Itā€™s changed quite a bit. I was there a bunch in the mid and late 90s. My dad would do business there and take me with him, and it just so happened to be when it was trying to be ā€œfamily friendlyā€, which is pretty goofy to think about now. Still, because of that time there, my dopamine centers light up whenever I happen upon a dingy buffet in a smoky casinoā€¦which probably isnā€™t great.

Looks like the house still wins at the restaurants too!

But good to see you still on the move.

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I was here twenty five years ago when the buffet was a thing. I flew into Phoenix and grabbed a company car to move it to Sacramento.

Warning, incoming bad experience.

Coming up the grade near Lake Meade, a lady made a left turn in front of me and I T-Boned her, killed the passenger.

It wasnā€™t my fault, the other driver was cited, but it hangs over me every day of my life.

The buffet at the Luxor is now $22 but only T-S. Everything is brutally expensive. Itā€™s like Disney.

I am glad I came, glad I saw, and I like the rest of the community, for the most part. I have a friend from NY that is teaching here, but the Strip is no bueno.

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2-13-25 travel day

Drove LV to Flagstaff last night, met an ex for breakfast in Sedona. She had crushed my soul so it was a little awkward. We are still friends, but awkward for me. I was such a different person then.

Drove down to Surprise after breakfast, got to the stadium about 1PM and picked up my tickets for the next four days. Headed to a laundromat and did laundry, shopped a bit, then checked into my AirBnB. Tiny room in a house with the owners, their two dogs and two cats. Wife is out of town so hanging with the husband, heā€™s broish so it is cool.

A little bit of context - I went to Oregon State and have always been a baseball fan. It is a beautiful game. We were pretty good when I went there, but got really good twenty years after I graduated. Currently ranked in the top ten of all of the major polls, as high as seventh in one of them. We have five players that will go in the first round in next years MLB draft.

The Beavs have opened the last few years in the Sanderson Ford Classic in Surprise Arizona and I have been here for it about eight times. It never gets old. Itā€™s 71 here today, 26 and snowing in Portland.

Dreading the drive to Round Rock, outside of Austin, but hey, itā€™s not for another four days so I will dig the warm weather and watching the Beavs in the meantime.

Gym has been elusive so I have been eating less - one meal a day with snacks. I am sure my performance will suffer, but I am digging the travel life.

To an extent - my truck is twenty years old and the check engine light keeps flirting with me. Not a big deal unless you consider being miles and hours from any inhabited city problematic, lol.

Live on the edge or else you are taking up space.

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Mine has been on so long I get startled if it doesnā€™t light up! :rofl:.

I hear you though. I just drive short distances in well populated areas with it. Like, no way Iā€™m taking it down into the deep hollows of West Virginia or anything.

Lol - I left Portland at 9PM, was in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, it was twenty degrees.

I will drive during the day moving forward, will get it code read at a local parts store. I have another 5K miles in front of me.

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