Month: December 2020

Last month I put weight overhead daily, doing standing dumbbell press variants most often.

I’m close to the Sig Klein challenge, have decided to mix it up some, and will still be focusing on shoulder work.

The decision : daily handstand pushup work.

I’ve decided consistently being good for one rep head to floor isn’t enough.

Instead of constantly maxing out on what is temporarily a low rep movement for me, I’ll be training it.

•Timed Holds
•Progressive Partials*

Amongst other things.
(Freestanding practice, walking, negatives, full reps, etc)

This will function as calisthenic bodybuilding while base building for the barbell clean & press.

Hands raised for full “off the shoulders” range of motion starting from the bottom is harder than a bodyweight military press.

My key is going to be doing progressive range of motion.

*Partials the first stage of increasing range of motion.

Day 2 was a set of 10 with two thicker books under my head, cutting rom to 60% of head to floor.

That ~5″ shortening brought me from 1 rep to 10 reps.

It’s a short range of motion, and reps build fast in short range of motions.

Somewhere in the 20-50 rep range I’ll replace a thicker book with a thinner book, and repeat the process.

First head to the floor, then putting books under the hands.

A cool side effect is the short range of motion for reps is a serious tricep builder.

I’ve noted in the past that more triceps means to more handstand pushups just as more biceps leads to more pullups.

This month I’m training handstand pushups.

I’ve heard stories of navy seals falling asleep running with a boat on their heads.

Being that spent.

The other night I discovered I can get drowsey and nearly doze off during pushups.

11 something pm, I’d run myself that low that day.

Doing that, spending yourself that much, man does it feel good.

The thing is, I know I can do more.
I know it.

I’ve sat around enough already, I need to do more.

That was just off of lots of overhead pressing, and daily intermittent fasting.

On sleeping 10 hours a day, luxurious.

While wrestling sophomore year of high school I maintained high honors on at best 4 hours of sleep a night.

If you want to lose bunches of weight, just don’t sleep.

Sleep has been the biggest factor I’ve noticed, a good deal more important than eating in comparison, between myself at lighter bodyweights, and heavier bodyweights.

Every middleweight dude can put down 5000+ calories a day.

So can heavyweights.

But the middleweight out eats the heavyweight in most cases.

It gets absurd when you add in combinations of youth, sports, and labor.

But sleep is the bigger deal, the teenager shoots himself in the foot not getting enough of it.

I’d bet anyone struggling to bulk isn’t sleeping enough, especially when calories are already high.

Sleep over 8 hours a day, and you’ll be heavier. I’ve found it to be the largest factor in recovery.