11/16/23
I’m capable of 5 pullups at 290lbs.
The other day I did 2×4.
Today I tried again, got 5 reps.
All extra pulling helps, as I’ll get to later.
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Today I almost ate vegetarian.
Maybe two hours after the density training of the one arm press I ate about half of a loaf of french bread with butter, drank a pint of coffee milk, and a glass of milk.
I boiled up a goodly amount of pasta, shells to be precise, probably 1¼ or 1⅓lbs.
A full box and some left in the box from yesterday.
Now, pasta costs anywhere from $1.25/lb to like $2.50/lb before we get into the alternative choices of flour, the chickpea pasta, the vegetable pasta, etc.
I’ll occasionally have the chickpea pasta, but generally regular old grain – the wheat is good enough.
Unless the generic is sold out, I never pay more than the lowest price point in the store.
No need, it’s all the same semolina, all the same color box, just some say barilla, some the store’s name.
So for $1.25 you get 1600 calories, about 50g protein, and simply I just prefer pasta to rice.
It might sound strange, but rice to me tastes too sugary, while wheat just feels like it’s a builder of greater robustness than rice.
Trust your body. Follow it’s guidelines.
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Almost a day of bread, butter, pasta, and cheese.
I ended up having a meatball sub for a late dinner, drank (another quart probably being too much for good sleep) coffee milk with it as post workout meal from after dark, no warmup, 255lb clean and press attempts.
I made pulls, maybe you could call them high pulls, but they were surely not cleans.
I was pulling high enough for full cleans for sure, but that’s not a skill I really have.
Interesting the difference between 225 and 255lbs on a clean to me.
I feel that I’m close to the 255lbs, and honestly – it’d actually be a backyard PR.
I’ve cleaned 275lbs on a half dozen or so occasions INSIDE GYMS.
As far as backyard weightlifting I’ve done 245lbs…so high pulls with 255lbs tonight, feeling like had I actually warmed up that I’d have made it…
Well it’s PR territory.
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I can taste 255lbs, and have already started thinking of 300, 365lbs.
in a whim going for 255… cause I can taste it…and after dark sounded quite whimsical and fun
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Man do the night’s pushups feel strong lately…it’s all the overhead pressing 🙂
Persistence & Tenacity