10/28/22
Ain’t no reason I won’t thrive as a “weekend warrior”.
The connotation gets unnecessary negativity. A Man training seriously once a week on the weekend will do just fine.
A once weekly serious lift ISN’T the entirety of your physical activity. Viewing the gym as your only physical activity is a mistake, there’s a whole world, and a whole life for physicality.
There’s daily PT!
It may not be the quickest strength increases, but once a week consistently over a decade is going to beat high frequency for a year or two, which then quits entirely.
I realize a 225lb press is nothing.
With my current plates, I expect to power clean (or heave) and press, if it was a regular gym setup with regular gym math I’d expect 365lbs, but with this setup 335lbs, a pair of 100s, a pair of 45s.
Anywhere in that 335-365lb range.
gym math 🙂 shrugs
Keep it simple.
It’s so few pushups now, not keeping track of daily reps. Around half as many deep knee bends.
If I stay awhile longer at this job, I may starve myself whippet lean. It’s amazing how little I eat on the days spent in the kitchen!
The calorie burn must be at least moderately high standing there sweating.
Combined with not eating, a bit of daily PT, and we’ve got muscle sticking to the frame on WEIGHT LOSS DAY!
I’ve continued to train the mace briefly every night after work. A year of doing so has made it real easy to continue – I wasn’t thinking about stopping.
From the longer, lighter, thinner one, I switched to the shorter, thicker, heavier tree branch.
So far this means harder work for the fingers, while the whole thing is more movement than muscle – it’s pretty heavy, therefore I’m just getting the rotation not yet focusing on feeling the muscles work.
A man could do little else but serious grip work, and thrive!
Do your pushups.
Do your deep knee bends.
Do your neck work.
Do a bit more, squeeze your hands, get your head out of your ass (the gym), and win the physical game in life.
I’d rather a rope in a tree and 300lbs of sand in a duffle bag than a gym membership.
I train in the kitchen and fresh air.
-J