I feel like I’m getting weaker with dips?
You’re getting heavier, which is adding resistance.
My wrists sometimes hurt, and also that my forearms are weaker than my back in this exercise. What should I add to strengthen wrists and forearms?
This may be more of a technique/set up issue vs a strength issue. If you’re doing a thumbs around/full grip, consider a thumbless grip and see if it takes strain off.
Lots of energy today. Im glad I found Tactical barbell @T3hPwnisher huge thanks for suggesting it to me/
Absolutely dude! I’ve been delighted to follow your progress.
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You’re getting heavier, which is adding resistance
Yeah that makes sense
consider a thumbless grip
I had tried that before, It doesnt help much. The pain is in my right wrist mostly, on the thumb side. It almost feels similar to if you would crack you knuckles but insgteda of being satisfying it just hurts, thats the closest thing i can think of it being like. Its not often, either, only occasionally. I am going to start doing more wrist/forearm exercises though, it would be good.
Snack:
2.5 cups ice tea
2 slices sausage pizza (I had mowed grass for an hour I earned this)
----Total: 673 Kcal, 23g fat, 96g carbs, 21g protein
I went out this morning (about 8:00) so I could study moss outside in cool weather. Well, the weather said ‘Nuh-uh!’. Already really muggy out. I should have headed out earlier, Il keep that I mind for the next time.
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I earned this
I really like Layne Norton’s quote on this subject “Don’t treat yourself with food: you aren’t a dog”. If you want to eat pizza, eat pizza because it’s what you want. When you start employing a reward system for food, it can lead to a damaged relationship with it. It puts food on a prized podium.
For the wrist/forearm exercises, you may appreciate sledge levering
Assuming your family has a sledgehammer you can borrow. There’s a LOT of material on the subject.
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I suppose that’s true, yeah.
Il try that exercise, we have a variety of hammers so I’m set.. I know that’s gonna be difficult.
I’ve also seen rice bucket training, which I’d like to try, we just dont have a bunch of rice, let alone to just put in a bucket. Would sand work instead? We have lots of it around here since we live by a creek
Lunch:
1 Tortilla
Sauteed mushrooms with tomato
1 string cheese
1 cup orange juice
----Total: 437 Kcal, 22g fat, 56g carbs, 14g protein
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Snack:
1 slice bacon pizza
1 gatorade protein bar (I know i said i wouldn’t have one, but it was the last one and i needed to get a good amount of calories in)
1 cup 2% milk
3 raspberries (needed some fruit with this snack)
—Total: 691 Kcal, 25g fat, 81g carbs, 39g protein
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I drew another moss specimen, it was a great specimen. It had roots, leaves, and the spore capsule. I will post it here later
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Putting this here as a reference. Photos are from June 2025, So not up to date, I will probably update at the start of Operator+Black
Will be interesting to see how big I will get by the end of the year, and by next June
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Dinner:
1 double cheeseburger
25 fries
1 grapefruit soda
----Total: 1167 Kcal, 60g fat, 105g carbs, 51g protein
I guess Thursdays are burger night. We get them from local farmers market
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Not a bad thing at all. I’d skip on the fries and soda and go harder on the meat and cheese myself.
I’m excited you intend to see your progress in a year. The Mass Protocol combined with Operator will do great for getting you big and strong.
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July 18th W3D5 Recovery day
Lots of stuff to do today. I’ll be having lunch with an old teacher friend, she was the assistant librarian at my middle school and we become good friends. She taught me a little Chinese, and I’ve tried to remember it all but I’ve forgotten a little.
这是早上今天我吃 （This is what i ate this morning [Literally: This is morning today i ate]）
2 eggs
1 bagel
1 tbsp butter
1/4 cup cheese
5/4 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
8 blackberries
----Total: 775 Kcal, 32g fat, 66g carbs, 55g protein.
I never did attach a photo of the moss specimen last night. I was watching Titanic on DVD. I forgot just how long it was, started it around 7, finished around 10:30. Great movie.
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Change of plans, she has to help her husband do some housework. Tuesday we can see each other. Oh well.
Snack:
1 string cheese
1 pack jerky chew
----Total: 110 Kcal, 7g fat, 1g carbs, 11g protein
As part of taking it easy, Im going to watch titanic again.
Also, have you ever had this happen:
Your rewatching a movie you haven’t seen in a while, and you’re at a part of the movie and you remember something happening, but your waiting and waiting, and it never happens? I could have sworn seeing at the end of the titanic, where Rose is at the edge of a ship and throws off the necklace, that there’s somebody telling her not to jump, and she said something about, oh I’m not going to jump, I was just tossing away a piece of something I didn’t need (or something along the lines, with a conversation and about how shes not jumping). But when I got to that part of the movie I was waiting for it, and then credits. I was like, ???
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This is referred to as “The Mandela Effect”. Much like how Darth Vader never says "Luke, I am your father, but somehow we ALL remember hearing it, or how pitchman Billy Mays never said “But wait: there’s more!”
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Lunch: (Horrible, I know but its what we had and we got some from the mall during shoe shopping)
1/4 soft pretzel
1 cup icee lemonade
5 pepperonis
1/4 cup cheese
1 oz of tortilla strips
1 small dark chocolate bar
----Total: 663 Kcal, 41g fat, 57g carbs, 19g protein
Absolutely horrible meal in terms of health. I did not want to really eat this but its what we had. I wanted sliced turkey, but pulled it out and it was all slimy. Will have canned tuna for protein, and if needed I will burn some calories off so I can eat more to get more protein.
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Happy to hear you did some shoe shopping. Will this allow for more running?
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Hopefully. I think the shoes fit good, tomorrows 50 minute run should turn a week of it having to “stabilize” into just that amount of time. I hope it doesn’t turn out to be a bad pair of shoes.
I’d wear them around for a little bit before taking them out for a 50 minute run. Even if they ARE a good pair of shoes, if they haven’t had a chance to form to your feet, that could end up feeling pretty gnarly.
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Did a bit of what I call PE training: Pain Endurance Training. I was walking on rocks barefoot to toughen the bottom of my feet
Snack:
1 packet protein granola
1 cup 2% milk
----Total:322 Kcal, 9g fat, 42g carbs, 20g protein
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Dinner: Why do we keep getting fried crap…
1 fried chicken wing
1 fried chicken breast
4 small pierogis
1 mini whoopie pie
1.25 cup orange juice
6 potato wedges
----Total: 1109 Kcal, 47g fat, 114g carbs, 56g protein
Days Total: 2979 Kcal, 135g fat, 279g carbs, 162g protein
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