10/14/22
If you asked me “do you workout”, the answer is “no”.
I don’t workout.
I haven’t stepped foot in a gym in about 10½/11 months, a day pass at a place I may never go to again (it changed owners, who got rid of it’s strongman equipment – what incentive now), haven’t had a gym membership in a year less a week and a half.
I don’t workout…anymore.
Yet, pushups are done daily, I’ve been into wrestler’s bridges and deep knee bends for weeks of daily mini sessions, and after every work shift in this no gym membership period I have swung my tree branch mace in the yard.
I’m sure the neighbors, should they turn away from their flashing television to look out the window, think I’m nuts.
I swinging a tree branch around my head with a purpose.
Regularly.
Heck, I’ve lifted some this year at the “Cold Air Barbell Club”, where I hit my first 225lb+ military press.
But I had the option to lift today, twice, and skipped it both times.
Wasn’t feeling like a lift by the time I was at home and had the time to.
Left work early hyped up to power snatch after a rinse the smell of kitchen off of me shower, then let it get dark before bothering to, and moved on.
My mental configuration is changing entirely as to “working out”.
Fuck it, done enough of that shit.
I’ll lift if I feel like it, consistently enough even, but…
DAILY PT!
mandatory.
mandatory – young dopey
That’s not an unhealthy compulsion.
I broke myself of the “I have to lift” compulsion! I’m no longer a “lifter”, a “meathead”, I’m. Just. Me.
mandatory PT – the pushups have been like this for forever and always.
I’m liking that wrestler’s bridging and deep knee bends have shifted into that outlook.
Probably long term, though I let everything be free to change aside from the mandatory pushups.
There will be a solid deep knee bend video, bare chested at least, in the snow this winter.
I’m putting some focus on it, one of the simplest of movements.
Could go get good at pullups again, heck there’s even a pullup option or three that would be simple to include on a daily running routine.
Route? Routine.
Routine.
But we don’t workout anymore. And fuck “training”. Who gives a shit?
There is only PT.
Connotations? Definitions?
We PT. We do not “workout”, and it’s no longer “training” in that lifting sense.
PT
Big biceps from all the mace swings?
Side effect of PT.
STRONG AS SHIT!
Side effect of PT.
It’d be to go box or get some mat time if I bother to pay gym dues again.
Heck, even a rock climbing gym over being a mentally unhealthy lifter (though I may join a powerlifting gym to film myself lifting – it’s a different mental approach, I’ve moved on, I’ve become free).
We’ve thrived this past year with a barbell and tree branch in the yard, pushups in the kitchen!
I’m free.
P&T