Alternatively Titled Long Hours, Strong As Fuck, Overtraining My Ass
If you cut off my ears, shaved the skin off the back of my neck and threw the ingredients in a sandwich you’d have a crispy long pork sandwich with extra skin.
The shift was 11½ hours.
Both at a job site and the warehouse. A month or two back I’d probably call it medium. Now it was light.
Stronger.
The truckers coming through the shop were shocked at what I was doing by hand. No tools, using brute force.
(Moving crates around inside the 53′ trailers via manhandling ie pushing/driving them around in every manner, without a pallet jack.)
I drank a few quarts of Gatorade/Powerade at work, plus at least half a gallon of water. And still I’m struggling with hydration.
Hydration : the only physical issue.
Despite the physicality I’ve started to eat a little at work. I can’t eat breakfast as of late, I feel sick in the mornings.
After shift I got an iced coffee, and two donuts. I no longer worry about my $50/week food budget. I eat. Gatorade/Powerade is all I can usually stomach half the day, so I’ve allowed myself a few a day (and the possible iced coffee and treat) to blow that budget.
Like usual I went to PF and just like at 715am, I blasted shit at roughly 715pm.
Stomach is still off, no matter, I’m a worker.
My manager yelled across the yard to me her thanks for my simply working without complaint. I signed up for it, so I work like a man. The job is means to an end, I don’t mind the work, part I enjoy, and it has it’s other benefits.
At PF I’ve upped the volume.
Loads of dips and one arm shoulder presses. I cut out leg work, then added it back in with sets of 20+.
Volume is high like the reps. My physique is improving.
Today I was strong as fuck.
I was out of breath from the caffeine (the iced coffee was ½ milk, about a ¼ creamer, very little coffee and ice, 5 sugars…I’m just high response to stimulants), hyped up on sugar as well, and in a certain mental place from long hours, no days off, and sunburns.
Strong as fuck.
I took 110 a side on machine one arm presses for 30 reps. Later in the workout the stack (155) for 15l/14r. A set of 30+ dips. 5 pullups without specific overhand work.
I’d already done a grip feat at work. Leg press a couple sets of 25 with a narrow stance. I never did 2 sets of an exercise in a row, it was always switching.
The bands with handles I’ve started using for back/bis. I’m getting benefit.
The difference between labor 2017, and labor now?
I’m still in the gym daily.
2017 : squat every day, underpaid, corn dogs, Quaker Oats bars
2019 : pumps, volume, fair wage, kielbasa and…vitamins.
I take zinc, zma, magnesium/calcium, and vitamin d in some combination daily as well as the massive amount of Gatorade/Powerade.
I feel the minerals are making a physical difference.
Today if I was at a barbell gym would’ve been a clean PR, and a military press PR.
I saw what I was doing at work. I felt the PRs in my bones. I did some ridiculous reps on shoulders.
Persistence & Tenacity