Every evening at the same time it passes. Every time you’re home you hear it.
It’s whistle, it’s click clack on the tracks calls to you, the train on the tracks so close by, yet going who knows where. It sparks a wanderlust in your heart and in your soul every single time.
You want to time it, be next to the tracks at the right time and hop on.
Do hobos still ride the rails?
You want to find out, brave the heat, the cold, the wind, and see.
See what? What are you searching for?
The land, so much of which few else shall ever see. The destination doesn’t even matter so much be it west coast or somewhere in the middle.
You simply want to explore. Get out of here and do more.
You hear the whistle blowing. That opportunity is now past.
That’s the second opinion (by someone stronger than me) now to say my mid 4 squat is an insult to the lifting gods.
The second opinion to say I should be squatting 625+.
“I know a guy who is built very similar to you that squats 675”
How many times have I been told to recover, to allow the gains to come? To allow the rebound and supercompensation?
Yet I’m working labor, and squatting daily ala John Broz.
The gym owner working on my biceps did a good deal for the tendonitis, apparently my biceps and forearms were far past overly tight.
Front squats went well. Fairly easy to 225×5 and an easy 275 single.
To allow the biceps to heal up fronts and SSB squats for a while.
After a week or so add in some wide stance squatting.
“Use your hips, the reason you’re leaving so much on the table is that you’re all quad.” Am I? I’m uncertain here.
Maybe rotate through more variations than my 7 day a week schedule of back squats.
The gym I’m at has ALL the specialty bars, plus an ok lever squat machine. I may as well mix the stimuli up more. See if my narrow stance is still ideal for my leverages. I’m thinking that I may now be solid in wide stance squatting.
In my mind I’ve been mad dashing to get back 455, then to hit 495, and 545 on my squat. Why not make this goal 635 and please the lifting gods?
Once I’ve sorted the biceps out and fully adapted to the labor I can pull again. It’s not like my deadlift is in danger of dropping below my squat. If I can squat it I can pull it, and generally the next 45/25 increment.
Some Inspirational Stuff:
1. Reading tnation years ago there was a log by a guy with the username Alpha (search Alpha’s log there) who did grappling, powerlifting, strongman, and conditioning at high levels while running on very little sleep. He also opened his own gym.
Inspiration
2. Also on tnation I remember a guy running a 60 minute 10 mile, and squatting over 600(meet) at 198 on the same day.
Inspiration
Neither one was a crossfitter. They just had goals that they trained for. No reason you can’t be all around.