it strikes me :
EVERYONE talks about how rough the yoke walk is, particularly on the CNS, but manual labor gets you strong cause everything is weighted carries…
What if you yoke walked, say bodyweight, for distance against the clock on a regular basis.
Maybe even an occasional trip walking backwards, the backwards carries up stairs are the hardest ones as a mover.
I’d like to try this. Throw caution to the wind, and really butcher what is normally considered doing the yoke walk in good taste.
Think 40 40yd trips with it on a multiple times a week basis.
Then simply eat enough mozzarella sticks, steak, sourdough bread, meatball subs, and ice cream while drinking thousands of gallons of milk so as to not invoke the wrath of the barbarian brothers by undereating as you play with the yoke odyssey thing.
Considered all I’ve been thinking about, if I’m not joining that powerlifting gym…
Get outside and carry!
Could mix carries with pressing or c&p every rep style in parking lot
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35, 5
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I’d have to ice pick to do this, but…
It’d be fun to bench in the yard.
Put my legs in the air, unrack 205, and see if I’m good for 20+.
I can envision the hilarious statement “I got my first 405 bench lifting in the front yard”.
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I slept in, having dreamt of a giant chicken pot pie!
•10oz steak
•half potato as home fries
•pack of ramen
•strawberry milk
It’s a nice treat finding I had nesquick strawberry powder on hand yesterday – I’ve been enjoying it.
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If you’re trying to gain weight, milk makes it easy, and flavoring the milk makes it even easier.
Who doesn’t like strawberry milk.
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How much activity is needed to get lean without dieting?
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~10°f outside, after yesterday I’m layered up
Lift :
Mismatch Press
x15 kb r = PR
x8 kb l
x7 kb l
KB OA Cleans
7l, 7r
I’m confident saying the mismatch press is worth at least 185lbs in a barbell.
Hitting 15, mind you kb right hand is stronger than in the left, means I’m good for 15×185.
With the mismatch, maybe a minute between sets I’m likely able to go 10×7-8 already ESPECIALLY if I was skewing this exercise kb right, but even alternating sets not just matching 3-4 sets based off the first…
I expect 30 reps in a set.
10 VS 15 Reps – A Philosophy Thing :
With 15 reps you really own the weight.
10 reps feels at least moderate to heavy.
15 is dipping down to moderate at most.
That’s why I want to press 15+ x 185 before training at 205lbs when back on the barbell.
I can stick to 15s progression outside since I’m not putting on an ego show or being able to immediately go grab about what I just lifted.
15s progression is long term steady progress.
It works well lifting outside in the cold.
The Cold Air Barbell Club really has me integrating brief lifts into my day to day.
There’s a zen in the one arm kb clean – I really like the movement, going into it I didn’t know I would, but I do.
It’s a beautiful odd lift hitting parts I hadn’t fully expected it too.
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•soft pretzel
•12oz milk
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I should front squat again.
High volume daily (front or back) squats…how fast could I get 300 reps in with 135lbs?
When the answer is 30:00 or less, up it 20-30lbs, and repeat.
Bryce Lane’s 50/20 on a strength endurance madness.
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40 pushups
20 total gym pullups
•two slices buttered sourdough toast
•12oz vanilla coke
•16oz milk
Had a hilarious memory pop up, cause of this crazy cold I would say – the fact I still get some outdoor activity in regardless…
My buddy and I were high school seniors, we trudged to outdoor dip bars through waist deep snow the day after a big snow storm to get some PT in – a handful of underclassmen who knew us from indoor track were driving by, stopped, talked to us, offered a ride etc, while thinking we were nuts & intense, then talking us up on the indoor track bus on the way to the next meet.
The total gym pullups were strongly bicep, as I tried to fire my lats…seems like kettlebell clean crossover.
As reps go up there I expect pullup reps, real and total gym both, to go up with it.
The kettlebell has crossover to everything.
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Nuts & Intense
I like the sound of that. Some keys to progress there. Strength gain, and hypertrophy by madness.
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I think I’ll have to start cooking 10lb batches of meat – food prep that way, a couple loaves of bread, with milk still forcing me to buy groceries a handful of times weekly anyway.
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Fun Fact :
Soviet wrestlers often became masters of sport in basketball.
In the same way Soviet weightlifters often became masters of sport in volleyball.
Why?
The periodized three month yearly off season was a period of little, light to zero exact sport specific training.
But the coaches wanted their elite athletes to be active, building gpp, the ability to work, work capacity.
Sneak a modicum of spp in…
Volleyball was thought to be the best easy on the body sport for explosiveness which the weightlifting coaches pushed their lifters to play as they wanted their lifters to gain even more explosiveness.
Basketball was chosen by wrestling coaches as the highest cardio demand yet non violent sport, the most beneficial game for their wrestlers to participate in.
There are anecdotes of oddball, national if not international level, seriously competitive/intense games in these two team sports being played by the respective olympians in the two solo sports as warmup before their sports sessions.
Funny to picture the short stocky wrestler or weightlifter as competitive basketball player or volleyball player – and yes, they too were getting to master of sports level in the offseason “play/goof off” sport.
Same time period, when america was competitive at weightlifting…
York Barbell had lifters who played volleyball, basketball, and in at least one case semi pro football in addition their to lifting workloads.
Pickup basketball being played at some commercial gyms is a real good way to get in your cardio, and keep from getting sore.
I miss playing games, sports.
The american adult world doesn’t have anywhere near enough sports play by adults.
You can, and should, do more than just lift.
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8 chins – loose form
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3 chins + halfway down iso hold – strict
25 total gym pullups
25 pushups
•¼bag chocolate covered pb pretzels
•pack ramen w/1oz honey roasted peanuts
•20oz milk
The above stimulus = big biceps
Lightened pullups superset with pushups is a really good upper body workout
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I don’t like the “what happened when this guy did” headlines.
Something instinctive about the phrasing “this guy”.
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•clif bar
•two chicken and cheese burritos (pretty sure I was calling burritos quesadillas earlier this year)
•bowl of ice cream
•milk
the late night quick ravenous meal
up the calories, up the activity, get leaner, stronger, more awesome
to join the powerlifting gym or just go nuts with volume in the yard
tomorrow is warm – tomorrow is more meaningful volume of kettlebell cleans
we’ll aim for 15×7 each side, keep rest to a minimum
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It’d be interesting to have a food log from about age 7/second grade.
How many calories did I take in?
I’d bet over 2000, but have a hard time arguing 3k, though it likely happened on the occasional day…like if mom took me through a wienerschnitzel having me out of school early on the way to my grandparents and if we had pizza out that night, or frankly anytime we had el pollo loco, especially eating there – it was stupid how many sodas I’d down both there and at rubios.
The rubios kid taquitos, 2 wasn’t enough, I’d get the adult order of 3, eat half my mom’s plate too, and in a competition with my dad, friend, or self try to have as many fountain drinks as could be had.
Heck, I remember ordering seconds there. And would eat a good deal of corn dogs when they were for lunch at home.
I ate more at school in elementary school, a bigger sandwich with lunch meat, avocado, and trail mix than I did nibbling on pb&j through middle school and high school.
How little I ate in middle and high school mostly had to do with not wanting to have to use the bathroom there – total germaphobe for a few of those years.
Food went through me a lot faster at 14, 15, 16 than now. It might’ve been symptom of having crashed my metabolism with long stationary bike rides, starvation rations to lose weight, almost 50lbs, in about a semester as a freshman in high school.
Force feeding, and putting on a lot of muscle at 17 really reset me.
I’ve been better able to process food since.
Muscle mass does that.
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15, 5, 5, 10
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Persistence & Tenacity