Night shifts are something different.
12 hour work from 2AM til 2PM, difficult to get a workout thrown in there TnT.
You have to make your bedroom totally dark as in no light at all in there. If there’s light the body can’t figure it out and wants to wake up. When dark you trick the body and it will sleep like it’s night time.
Thanks for the advice Mort, I’ll look into them 
And… concussion. Last night, I got pegged in the temple with a thrown package. I immediately felt stunned and increasingly dizzy. A trip to the ER revealed a concussion. Now I’m off with medical leave and a mean headache.
Wtf is a thrown package?? I assume it to mean someone pinged a parcel at your head !!
Exactly right. That’s how packages get sorted - several people scanning then throwing them from a couple pallets into several different steel bins. One slammed my temple, stunned me, and gave me a concussion.
Sorry to hear that mate. Hope there is no permanent damage. How many fingers am I holding up !!
Hahahahaha! Thanks for the laugh.
I appreciate the well-wishes. The doctor ordered one week of recovery; so far, so good.
That’s a rough start. Are you sure it wasn’t some form of hazing for the new guy?
Reminds me of my uncle. When I was a kid he got an overnight job at some printing company. His first (literally, first) night there, he somehow messed his finger up in a machine (like really bad, it almost came off and he had a big ass pin stuck through the whole thing for weeks), had to be taken to the ER, and they had to pay for his worker’s comp. They were real happy after that - brand new employee who never came back but cost them a lot of money!
And I can think of a few other stories too, now that I’m on the topic. Always the new guy 
I also wondered that. I’m starting at a new location in a week, so that’s a mystery I’ll thankfully never have to solve. How are you this summer?
Slowly healing from the concussion so did a little lifting.
Warm-up
BPAs - 2x red x 3 x 15 supersetted with
Laterals, tri ext, curls x 8 lbs x 15
EZ bar rows
115, 135, 155 x 5
175 x 6, 6, 7
135 x 12
Superset
Standing DB OHP
25, 35, 45 x 5
55 x 3 x 5
Rear delt flyes, chest supported
20 x 8, 8, 10
Superset
Incline bench DB curls
30 x 9, 8, 8
Pushups, handles + feet elevated
bw x 20, 20, 20, 15
Superset
Behind back BB wrist curls
85 x 2 x 20
Reverse EZ curls
45 x 2 x 12
I took my time with each set and rest period. I hope to slowly return to regular lifting, staying with the current log title for my go-to exercises.
Pretty good all things considered. Work has kind of sucked. We had multiple protests and some rioting and looting at the start of June. They put us on 12 hour shifts with no days off for two weeks. I had my first and hopefully last experience approaching an angry mob with a plastic shield. The short version is that it didn’t go well.
Training is going good - at least the lifting part. I still can’t seem to do much conditioning.
I read most of your posts about the riots, and I appreciate you calling them what they are - block parties for criminals, not concerned citizens advocating for societal justice. I’m glad you made it through safely.
Your strength, physique, and training/life balance are all on point, so it looks like you’ve found what works for you. And what works for you appears to be focusing on what your actual goals are then specifically addressing them. Who’d have thought THAT would work?!
I’ve also had to reduce the number of goals. It took many months of being hungry to realize that no one cares if I have a six pack. It’s nice to see it when I flex, but it doesn’t have to be poppin all the time.
That’s an interesting point. How many goals are you able to simultaneously pursue long-term?
Well, I’ve ranked them.
Everything else is for symmetry and health. I’m also fortunate that 1 and 2 work together and 3 and 4 work together. They also don’t really interfere with each other.
Yep, goals 1+2 and 3+4 directly feed their partner and complement the other pair, so you have two major, complementary goals with, like you said, health and symmetry as the supporting exercises. It’s a blend of physique, strength, and musculoskeletal health. What helped you determine your actual goals?
I had great success with SGSS, but I felt like most of the muscle growth went to my legs and rear. My upper body didn’t look great. I’ve read a lot of CT’s stuff and he once posted about muscle migration. He has trained differently and looked differently as a result but his weight has been consistent.
I decided that I don’t care about leg size so I thought I’d reduce my leg work. I still love the deadlift so it’s a priority. The delts and chest need to stand out in order to look impressive. My goals really wrote themselves.
I continue doing SGSS for deadlift because it works. Goal 1 was to hit a 500 lb pull again and I succeeded a couple months ago. The ongoing goal will be a bigger upper body. That’ll probably go on forever. I don’t have a current goal for deads but I know that I have to do them to maintain that strength. It turns out that I’m getting more comfortable with heavier weights and I’m continuing to improve. I’ve been unable to do power cleans but now that my shoulder can handle it, I’m pushing it. I have a six week program for that. I’ll just run it twice to fit into the 12 weeks of SGSS.
Once I finish 12 weeks of SGSS, I max on deads and then start over with 5-10 lbs more than last time. If I can rep 100 lb DBs on incline then I’m hopeful that I’ll have a decent chest.
Short story long, I’ve split it training into bodybuild the upper and pull big weights for the lower. No one ever squats an object in real life. You pick things up.
Sorry if that’s not a clear answer. I got distracted with cooking dinner and kind of rambled. 
I read an article of his about it too. It’s a fascinating idea, and I think there’s merit to it.
Your last several months of training are instructive. You’re staying healthy, gaining strength and size where you want to, and not beating your head against a wall or yourself up about the process.
I like your approach. Heavier, lower rep leg work is what’s worked best fo me for the last five years or so. However, I disagree no one ever squats in real life. My dog is on antiseizure medicine, has ballooned up to 104 pounds, and still likes to be picked up and carried around. I Zercher deadlift-to-squat my dog 
7/18/20, Saturday
Treadmill
29:00, 0.0 - 4.0 incline, 1.72 miles
I decided to start going to Planet Fitness again - backyard workouts just aren’t happening for me right now. Too hot? Too dusty? Too lazy? Yep.
To help with my weird lack-of-recovery issue, I’m actually going to try a - gasp! - bro split. I’ve never truly used one, and the bodypart split seems like it’ll be less draining. I’ll figure out cardio as I go.