Mar 5 2026; W2D4 Strength Day
Excited to lift today. Il be having a full period to lift, so I don’t have to worry about supersetting if I don’t want to. Probably will on atleast one of the exercises though.
Not much else to say. 26 minutes until breakfast
Are you doing any mobility work?
No, I know I should though. I just, I don’t know. I just haven’t actually gotten around to implementing it. I really should.
Honestly just start with the ankle stuff since that’s what’s bothering you. Addressing it has it comes is better than trying to prevent all mobility issues but never starting because it seems so daunting time/energy wise
Actually I think my ankle is the least bothersome at the moment, it only gets bothered when I do jump rope. But I will start doing that. I think it might be better if I focus on my back though.
Will update everything in a bit, currently eating.
Days total:
2839 Kcal, 116g fat, 297g carbs, 154g protein
Okay eating today
I had a crappy workout. Only got 3 sets of bench in, 170 x 4, 165 x 5, and 165 x maybe 3 or 4 I forget. I just could not find any strength. I think it might be from the clapping pushups from the day before, and also the clapping pushups, wide pushups, and pushups we did during our warmup (about 40ish total, its not a lot but 12 clapping pushups probably did something). Didn’t squat at all really. I got my pullups in atleast.
I did get to do assistance work. One leg extensions for some time, and some banded knee straigten outs or whatever they were called. I did some hamstring curls, but not really anything major. Did a few things for core, but mostly just goofing off to pass time. Crappy workout really. Oh well
On a better note, my college program was REALLY good today! I really felt at home. I socialized plenty, I felt natural, and was focused pretty well on what I was doing.
What Im doing, at the moment, is finding out a way to get the moss to grow its protonemal growths onto the agar plate. As of yet, I have had ZERO results (moss growth, anyways. PLENTY of molds and bacteria!). Currently I’m trying a method called vortex bead beating, where I place a tubevial with moss, water, and a steel ball, onto a vortexer, which vibrates/mixes the living daylights out of the moss. It breaks up the cells, which should put the organelles and DNA in the solution, more accessable to use. Im doing a bit of work on the more efficient ways to do it. I have the crude solution I make, which is a suspension of sorts, and then I can centrifuge it to crash out the substances. Im experiementing with time with this, it seems that it only needs a few seconds for that. Really, I might just need to let it settle out, without using the centrifuge. Or, I can centrifuge it fully, and take the pellet of matter and do something with that. Or, a combination of methods.
We are also getting a mortar and pestle for a more physical approach, which probably will work better but we will see next week.
Anyways, I had a really good time there today. I DEFINITELY want that sort of environment for my career. I love the whole procedural scientific method and stuff.
March 6th 2026 W2D5 Conditioning day
I think I’ve been getting bad with my sleep schedule. is ~9-5 enough sleep? Should I sleep a little more? Like about 8-5?
Today I should be doing some High intensity conditioning.
Not much else to say. 17 minutes until breakfast
If you are falling asleep at 9:00 +/- and sleep straight through, then probably. Sleep requirements vary per person. Nine hours 8:00 PM - 5:00 AM might meet your needs better. Do you wake feeling refreshed? Are you groggy? How do your sessions feel after an eight hour sleep compared to nine hours? What does your body do naturally?
When I wake up, I feel tired, but the only time I ever really wake up “refreshed” is when I sleep in for a few hours in the morning. I’m not sure if there is a difference in training or not. I guess I should go to sleep closer to 8 though.
I didn’t get my workout in today, because I had to get my hair cut. I look better now.
I haven’t done my rice bucket training in a few days. Il do it tomorrow. I need to make a schedule of some sorts to follow. Maybe I can start doing it in the mornings, I always have a consistant morning. Gets blood pumping, too.
I need to get in some more calories today. Il probably have some Greek yogurt with Hershey’s syrup. Il look for some nice fruit too. Strawberries are probably no good though, and the raspberries. Oh, we have some banana, that might be good. Citrus would not be good, I assume. And apples don’t go with Greek yogurt.
I don’t really want to move though. Im quite comfy in bed. No, I need this food to grow. Il get comfy again later.
One thing I recommend to anyone who doesn’t make their bed; MAKE YOUR BED. It doesn’t matter if its late and your going to bed in a few minutes. Just make your bed. Its so much easier to fall asleep when everything is all made.
Its March already. We are over 17% done with the year… crazy. Soon the school year will be over. 2 months until my AP exams! THAT is crazy. Yet again, I will say: I need to start studying. ESPECIALLY Physics, I’m bad at this current unit. Its rotational forces and stuff. I can handle the equations, but when its the ladder against a wall or something, I have ZERO clue what arrows I need to draw and solve for…
Soon Il go to bed. But I guess I should eat.
I did eat yesterday. Had a banana with that Greek yogurt and chocolate syrup.
Yesterday’s total: 2833 Kcal, 114g fat, 292g carbs, 162g protein
Rude 5:40 wake up today. Car flipped on its side a few doors down the street. I heard the noise and first thought it was the cats getting up to something, but then I heard my mom open the front door and I knew something happened.
Turns out he was drunk, and the guy got arrested. And since it was so late, we can have a good probability in guessing he came from the motor club up the street.
What I presume happen; He was driving down the street, and since he was drunk, was turning right a little. Seeing the cars on the side of the road up ahead, he quickly swerved left. Since the road was wet, it caused the car (a Pontiac something, I heard) to turn over on its side, with the wheels facing the right side of the road.
Anyways, I’m not getting back to sleep, and i’ve just eaten breakfast.
I will finish up my homework today, and then do some other things I need to do.
Todays eating was absolutely crap! But I ate this way for a reason.
The local pizza place is closing down tomorrow, so we got a pizza. Last time il ever have one from there. I had 4 slices, and I decided to get a soda too. MAN that’s really sweet… been a little bit since I’ve had root beer soda.
The fries were terrible. Oil wasn’t hot enough it seems like, and I tasted the flavor of the oil, which was not good. Oh well. Pizza was tasty, just like it should be.
Im going to start a club at my school. Il call it CALLM. Coalition Against Large Language Models. Its all against AI. So I can’t use it at all anymore. Good.
I used my type writer today. I wrote on how I think the US should be. A few pages of text, but I’m still revising it. Its not a project. Just a thing I have done and want to continue
I got more yarn today, so Il have to find something to make. Some was nice and thin, so good for socks or something. Not sure.
March 8th 2026 - The only 23 hour day of the year
Typing on my chromebook feels so weird now, it doenst take any effort to push down the keys. I don’t like it. I make so many mistakes I have to correct on here while on the typewriter I don’t make that many.
I finished by 7 page booklet or whatever. I call it “A New Nation of Greatness”, and it outlines my critiques of the US, and how we could fix them. Its not finished but on Tuesday I might run it by my english teacher and see how she likes it.
When this is fully finished, I will post it on here.
I find trying to type on chrome books is like trying to type on M & M’s. The keys are so tiny.
I never thought about that before. Yeah, they a bit small. I like the type writer keys because they are large.
Well today was fun. I got to go on the neighbor’s trampoline with the kiddos and we put orbeez on it, so that was fun.
ITS WARM OUT. ITS 67 DEGREES I CAN BE OUT IN A TSHIRT AND SHORTS AGAIN! WOOHOO!
TUESDAY IS SUPPOSED TO GET UP TO 80??
Anyways, I’m a bit tired, which is good.
I might crochet something. I have all this new yarn to use, so I want to make something
March 9 2026 W3D1 apparently
I have the option to add more time to my sleep really. I only started wake up so early when I had a really elaborate prayer rule I didn’t/shouldn’t have been using. I have the ability to wake up at 5:45 and I will have enough time. Need to go to bed earlier.
In my dream I had, I started playing this game/sport I forget the name of. It envolved skiing, and you had this ball, bigger than a soccer ball, that you either kicked/used your stick to pass to another person. My friend in the dream said they had to pass it and get it into a net to score. What was weird; we skiied on the side of the road where a bit of snow had frozen to ice. But this inspired me. Next year when the skiing club starts I might think about joining it. If it wasn’t for that dream I would have never really considered it, but when I think about it, it seems really fun and exciting.
Anyways, today’s strength workout, which I hopefully will be able to do? We will see…
Bench: 190 x 3 for… how many sets? I think it was 3.
Squat: 250 x 3 for sets
Pullups: 3 with +25 lbs… hm. Seems like way too much but Il try…
If I can’t get these weights up, then what Il do is just decrease the weights from my maxes. Its mostly bench that is weak… I assume because I’m lot limiting the number enough from when I did a 225 survival rep. Il base it on 205.
Breakfast in 12 minutes
Im thinking I might take a break from lifting or something. Well, heavy lifting anyways.
My body just needs to recover I guess. I don’t know what to do. Something that’s relatively easy on my tendons, or, focuses on the tendons. I want to do some higher rep stuff and try some stuff out. I want to do a bit of variety. I guess, in a way, I want to take a break from planned stuff for a bit.
So, in a way…
Chaos is the plan!
Would this be good to do?
Maybe do the Mass Protocol base building. Or base building in general if you need a full break
I think I might do Mass protocol base building.
I know this is probably stupid to say but… the percentages seems really small. I know its supposed to be high reps but… I would be benching less than the bar. ??? I don’t feel like that would actually help, I’ve done 135 x 18 on bench. Do I have to follow the percentages? Or should I just estimate a weight and do it?
You JUST said you needed a break from lifitng…