5/1/24
It’s gonna be cool moving up towards 50x32kg bottoms up press.
That much of a base – the barbell press will be strong, but running “overhead press every day” to the year mark or longer…the bottoms up press max will be absolutely mental.
Bonkers. Nuts.
Crazy.
INSANE!
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with building a very large base, and honestly with the ability in the modern world to live a truly and completely sedentary lifestyle it’d make sense for a rank beginner to do frequent volume kettlebell workouts for a year or two then start doing barbell lifts.
Instead of starting strength or whatever else first.
It’s the dudes who can’t recover from low frequency, low volume, trying to increase their totals WHILE BEGINNERS who need the volume that kettlebells and/or calisthenics give naturally.
Years of pushups will mean the bench comes pretty naturally.
Years of pullups are good for you all around.
One who is used to sets of 30+/each leg walking lunges is going to be alright if not better at pound for pound leg strength.
I can only imagine what a kettlebell habit does, well for everything, particularly barbell pulls and the press.
I wonder this ; if I get to repping double 32kgs on the bottoms up press, repping 40kg bup whether one or double bell…
Where would my barbell military press be? …
Exactly.
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“And if you front squat 405+ none of those details will matter.”
(Saw something online derailing front squats vs back squats – not like anyone front squatting large weights isn’t strong as hell – “the rules” are bullshit – front squat 405lbs = you’re plenty strong)
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As I was just about to go outside and lift I saw a squirrel running about with…a worm hanging out of it’s mouth.
lol today I learned squirrels are omnivorous – this makes me wonder more about some of those homeless looking mangy survivalist squirrels I saw at a park in LA – just how exactly were they missing a tuft of hair that large
Cannibalistic squirrels?
Squirrels in packs with sharpened sticks hunting lone alley cats like caveman did the wooly mammoth?
One has to think.
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BUP
1, 2, 4 x24kg left
BUCP
15x24kg right
Soccer Ball
26ct PR
seven minutes of soccer ball ending on that high note, fifteen minutes session total – setup/breakdown included
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Ran errands, put the groceries away (having bought ALL the eggs), then went for a walk.
Thrifty three minute walk – not sure the mileage, I’d have thought more than 1½ (lately a mile walk has been 22:00) but did a more odd route so can’t as easily guestimate with landmarks.
Had an interesting conversation with the guy stocking onions as I grabbed the three largest of the least cost per pound type.
“How’s it going man.”
“It’s good. I’m selecting the largest onions here for my massive three item grocery list.”
“That tiny? Why such a short list? But then again I used to buy giant carts full of junk food and now I’m eating pretty clean, healthy – it’s way less items.”
“Right now I’m eating mostly sausage, steak, ground beef, eggs, onions, milk – borderline keto, but a quart of milk each day, and the onion may be keeping me from ketosis. It’s maybe not keto, but is clean – this after what I’ll call a decade plus of eating forever dirty bulk.”
It was an enjoyable brief conversation.
I laughed to myself after in that I just completely started using gym slang and terms without knowing if he’s a gym goer or not, though…I figured him for about my age, 5’11” and probably between 205 and 215 pounds – he looked reasonably in shape.
Maybe he was a gym dude.
And I unintentionally lied to him, the three item list was four at checkout ; onions, milk, eggs…and meatballs.
I used to eat the brand in my late teens, frankly they’re already cooked, so it’s just reheating – a quick dinner…
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Dinner is about half of a dish of twelve eggs cracked into a pan with the 1lb package of precooked meatballs.
This plus 1c oatmeal with brown sugar, 12oz oj, 16oz milk.
Cooking eggs in bulk, in a deep wall glass pan – you have to stir a few times through the half hour or so cook time.
But it’s a pretty easy way to cook in bulk.
I’d have enjoyed the meal more had I baked the meatballs first, browned them, then removed them and put the eggs in the same pan and already hot oven.
Am I doing one meal a day, just clean, but not keto?
Either way, I ate clean, went for my walk, did both my kettlebell and soccer ball (and realize it may be alright to not have the soccer ball be a daily mandatory)…
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After dark second minisession ;
some more 24kg bup and bucp
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If 1c oats and a spoonful of brown sugar keeps me able to minimize carbs, eat mostly meat and eggs – it’s worth inclusion.
The same effect but with less carbs and less strikingly psychologically applies to onions.
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Pushups
2×5
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Pushups
x25 in under :30 just before midnight
maybe that’s very different from the usual round 300lb human experience
Persistence & Tenacity