Thank you! I’m developing a rhythm and balance of cardio and lifting. It looks like you’re getting back into the swing of things for this last T-ransformation push.
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good to see you still working hard
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Thank you, and congrats on your new position! It looks like a good and much-needed change for you and your family.
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No gym exercise but lots of manual labor this week, hauling furniture, making dump runs, and fixing to move three tons of gravel. In retrospect, I should’ve listened to Dan John’s advice and been training all five basic movements; namely, loaded carries. But no matter, the wheelbarrow and I are gonna become close friends again.
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4/23/21, Friday, Cardio
Elliptical
- 22:00, 2.44 mi, 7-9 resist
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The wheelbarrow is a vastly understated conditioning tool.
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Especially if the tire is flat.
We have mesquite trees, this happens every time you want to use it 
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Absolutely! Especially when pushing the bugger uphill or across soft ground.
Heck, there was a Crossfit Games event several years ago where they had to load sandbags into Rogue-made wheelbarrows that could hold nearly 1,000 pounds, push them across a stadium, then carry the sandbags up the stairs to the top of the bleachers. EVERYONE was dominated by the end. Farmers and regular-old tradespeople do that type of work all day, every day 
Ugh, right?! I don’t have mesquite trees, but we have “goatheads”, yuccas, cactuses, and myriad other stabby plants. I keep a tire pump nearby and have to inflate my tire at least once each session.
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Oh man, yeah. I did concrete for a while, and a lot of it was on steep terraced backyards, patios, steps-lots of places you couldn’t get machines. We’d run it in 5 gal. buckets. Tough, tough work.
Ridiculously jacked/ripped from it though!
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It’s been nearly two weeks since I last exercised. Since then, I’ve reacquired intense dizziness every time I move. I finally went to a doctor, who found I have “significant” congestion in my eustachian tubes and has prescribed a few different meds to address it. Hopefully they work, the dizziness gets lost, and I return to feeling normal.
I’ve decided to move most of my exercising back home, where I have a barbell and dumbbells. Machines don’t motivate me, plain and simple.
I also acquired a new-to-me weight bench! It has a leg curl and extension attachment, which opens up squats and posterior chain training.
I virtually gave up on the T-ransformation challenge in April, when I first got too dizzy to move. However, I learned at the doctor’s office I’ve lost five pounds since January. My big, bloated gut leads me to believe I’ve only lost muscle. Whatever, I’ll take it. If I can weigh in at an even 200 by June 1, I’ll consider the T-ransformation sufficiently successful for my goal of catalyzing change in my diet and activity lifestyle.
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I hope you can get some relief from that, and soon. My wife gets something similar. She has “bad tubes” and has occasionally had to do a course of meds for it.
Maybe you can chalk it up to one of life’s little rest periods soon enough. 
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Thanks, I appreciate it! I’m allergic to the desert in which I live, but things have been much worse this year than previous spring seasons. I agree, hopefully this will soon pass, and I’ll roar back from an unplanned (aren’t they all? haha) deload.
Well poop! I thought you were feeling better. 
I hope the meds work and you get back to normal soon. The new bench sounds fun! We will be looking for some serious gains now.
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I was feeling better… for a week. The I got slammed again 
Thanks! I’m again leaning towards some simple OLAD-style system, with cardio ummm… I’ll figure that out as I go
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5/5/21, Wednesday, OHP
Push press
- 65 x 10
- 105 x 5
- 125 x 3
- 145 x 1
- 155 x 3 sets x 4
- 45 x 12, 11 (strict DB)
Push-ups, handles + feet elevated
- bw x 80 total, supersetted with
Lateral raises
- 20lbs x 40 total
BPAs
- 2x red x 3 x 15
Felt pretty rough, so kept it short and sweet.
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Still ticking along ya big hunk
Need to get you on the TB and shake it up
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I was looking into TB templates last week. I can only squat and deadlift once a week, because the (post-crushing) length difference between my legs messes with my hips. I’ve been toying with the idea of something like TB, but doing squats, deadlifts, and rear-foot elevated split squats instead of just squats or deadlifts.
5/6/21, Thursday, Pullups
Pull-ups and chin-ups
- bw x 60 total
- 20:00. Not an EMOM workout, but I might keep the template next week and do more in the same time.
Barbell curls
- 65 x 50 total
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Sorry to read that you’ve been feeling unwell. Glad to read you’re training again and hope that means you’re feeling well.
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