Month: February 2020

On this :

I commented :

“Lately I’ve been meditating at the end of my workout, seated back against the wall, to this in my headphones occasionally standing up from the mediation to mix in my daily PT (mantra pushups and wall sits) before leaving the gym, often hyping myself up by doing so to go do more on the gym floor before leaving.

By mixing the physical and spiritual both are accentuated has been my experience. I’ll sometimes even do an entire session with one of Wes’s videos that speak to me as audio the entire time, video on repeat.

Powerful audio while being physical – a powerful combination.

Give it a try.”

When I first heard of people doing olive oil shots to up their calories I cracked up. Ha! I wasn’t the only one drinking it!

As a high school freshman with only skim or 2% milk in the house, while wanting the calories that come from full fat, I started adding olive oil to my milk, then hiding the funky taste with mucho chocolate ovaltine.

At the time it was soy protein powder (I thought you needed massive amounts of protein), olive oil, and ovaltine mixed with the milk.

Soon after it became whey in place of soy powder. I had gotten scared of soy for years.

Now? All these years later I’ve found fat to be more anabolic than protein.

I know saturated fat’s role in hormone production.

As I type I’m eating a big bowl of cereal with a good deal of heavy cream over it.

I always wanted the milkfat.

There’s nothing as anabolic to drink.

Fat is more important than protein.

Instinctively you want the cheese, milk, and fatty cuts of meat. You don’t really crave protein alone, you crave it with multiple parts of the meal being good animal fats compared to one part protein.

A super high amount of protein isn’t necessary. It’s high calories that lead to size. (With an interesting relationship between calorie level and hormones.)

.66g/lb most likely is more than enough protein. 5000 calories a day is the bigger factor in being big and strong.

Get those high calories from decent quality sources, be high activity, and that’s about all it takes to not be a disgusting fat body.

Sometimes the easiest way to eat more, is to eat more of something else, then go back to the main course.

It’s gluttony, which frankly goes hand in hand with bulking.

People make it like it’s so hard to eat a lot. Motherfucker! If it was hard to eat a lot there wouldn’t be widespread obesity and the people of walmart.

High frequency eating? Hogwash!
The largest eat infrequently, huge amounts, high calories per sitting.

You’re small? Obviously you eat like a pigeon, a tiny ass little pigeon. If you weren’t eating like a little member of the bird family…you wouldn’t be small like a little birdie!

Oh shit! Uncle Vladdy is here! What will he have to say?

When you sit to eat weakling you have 20 to 30 minute window where you put as much as possible down your gullet.

You want big ass bowl, two or three cups, and your gallon of milk, half gallons of juice right with you at table.

The main course must have meat, preferably a few in bowl with your carb.

When you tire of this you don’t stop eating. You eat something else, like candy, something with sugar to rekindle, to again whet your appetite.

A few candies or a bowl of sugary cereal down, again you’re hungry for main course of meat.

All the while you’re drinking milk and juice or two.

One food, liquid to cleanse pallet, different food, other liquid, liquid to cleanse pallet, so on and so forth.

When you sip milk between things, no flavor combination reacts poorly.

While you feast think of yourself as king, 1000 years ago you’d only be able to bulk if you were. Now all can eat bulk, be happy capitalist dogs in usa have grocery store.

And with that vodka swilling, high rep lifting, Uncle Vladdy walked out.

Three minutes of a leg static exercise every day is going to be a thing that brings you the craziest of results.

Wall sit, horse stance, various other yoga inspired, karate inspired, weightlifting inspired positions (among others) will give you serious real world usable athletic strength.

I’ve said it a million times. Simple exercises done with dedication will give you results like most wouldn’t believe.

Just three minutes of training a day will give you a highly functional, extraordinarily useable strength in your legs.

I highly recommend the practice.

In conversation with a coworker we agreed it’d be better to go at 50 sound of mind and body, than at 80-90 years old physically and mentally decrepit having been so since around 40 like the average person is in our society.

The next morning I couldn’t help but think of how by 50 one could have a pension from military, police, fire, and be able to basically start fresh with the pension as better starting out financial means.

I have some assumptions here :

•you’ll have the pension by 50
•you’ve been training the whole time

Hershel Walker fought mma at 50 something. And how old was George Foreman when he became champion again?

It’s not like men with more age can’t train hard.

When you read of ancient warfare, amongst barbarians it was the norm for all men to pick up axe and spear and march to war.

From teenager to seventies all fought, and all were physically sound.

When you look at physical strength it’s usually not at maximum until middle age. And usually it’s an old man with the strongest hands.

Aging poorly is nothing but weakness.

Persistence & Tenacity

In Mother Russia when pushups are not doing you, you do pushups with no arms to show the superiority of Mother Russia. – old russian proverb

No arm pushups!

I’m fairly certain that his boots are slightly in a hole, improvising something of a nordic leg curl, therefore doing this by use of the hamstrings, but all these years later it skill cracks me up.

I want this ninja crazy russian russian ability!

(No arm pushups, for real, no trickery involved.)

One arm pushups aren’t enough!

Persistence & Tenacity

Forum threads on prison workouts are one of the best and worst places to learn how to workout.

There’s a lot of stupidity in them, but one with an open mind will learn a lot…

You can get jacked. It’s a simple
process. Hardship builds monsters.
Calories > macros, mindset over all. Volume will get you wicked strong.

Persistence & Tenacity

Lifting History : The 3×10 Protocol

Three sets of ten, the famous lifting protocol…do you know it’s origins?

I do. It’s a piece of iron game lore I read years ago.

3×10, the first set at 50%, the second at 75%, and the third at 100% of 10rm was used by a doctor at Walter Reed medical center.

Immediately post world war 2, he had veterans with severe burns use the protocol as a means of recovering to a healthy normal bodyweight.

He also administered synthetic testosterone to many of the same patients.

The two protocols worked wonders.

I imagine the patients for the most part did not continue lifting weights after recovery, and definitely did not continue with the injections of synthetic testosterone.

Speaking with my gym involved coworker I relayed the story. He transitioned the conversation to how he hates the segment of the gym that obsesses over studies and science.

Unless you’re a participant in the study it’s findings may not apply to you.

Part 2 :

The Validity Of Lifting “Science” :

What groups are usually studied?

Elderly and the “average” college student. One old, decrepit, and advised by their doctor to participate, the other a pot bellied dweeb getting some extra beer money…

Go out and be your own study, n=1.

You’ll be able to prove/disprove stuff that way.

The gym is best, both in enjoyment and in results, when you just go and do whatever weird shit you want to.

Weighted Pushups :

Rarely doing these (I can count how many times I’ve done so on my hands), for frame of reference :

10x2p (90)
1x3p (135)
5x2p25 (115)

Heavy Ass Pushup Position Plank :

Having done the pushups I knew that I could hit :30 with 180lbs/4p.
I did so.

I wanted to get 5p/225 for :30. 4p as a feeler said 5p was doable. So I did so.

Moving forward the occasional training of weighted pushups makes a hell of a lot of sense. There’s sky high potential here.
High reps has me able to do a rep with 135, 10x2p is equivalent to repping with maybe a 3rd grader standing on your back.

Girl pushups (meaning with a girl, probably a fitness chick, standing on your back) is definitely on the table.

Today’s training gave upper back doms within an hour or two. Sitting on the couch wasn’t comfortable.

Where I got the idea :
https://www.t-nation.com/training/stuntman-strength-and-action-hero-abs

And last I checked (~2 weeks ago) I nearly am capable of a standing ab wheel rollout cold. (I’ve done the movement in the past.)

“The key is to be socially outgoing, and just expect a good outcome.”

Persistence & Tenacity

I’d be better off calling these “working out dreams”, they almost never actually take place in a gym.

It was freestanding handstand pushups with a few tiger bends mixed in on the walkway to some house. I was about 40 reps in when someone else brushed into me (I think my mother) causing me to lose the balance.

Before bed I’d read a Sig Klein article. It clearly had influenced the dream. The talk of handstand pushups and tiger bends.

Having fallen back asleep, I dreamt more of the same, getting near to 100 reps of both movements showing off for some girls (this was now what seemed to be summertime lakeside).

Of course when I got to the gym I did a bunch of handstand holds.

It’s a solid movement to work on.

My gym dreams almost always involve very high rep sets.

A link for ya :

York Handbalancing Course