The first thing I did was a set of 7 perfect, smooth, crisp, chin ups. It feels like days between sets like that, perfect, smooth reps, not to failure is the way to play it now.
Same principle if weighted.
The incidental training of the same muscles like in the bridge pullovers could be factoring in. It’s quite possible that set of 7 was at over 270lbs, maybe even approaching 280. I’m heavy right now, but haven’t stepped on a scale, and am getting better proportioned visibly.
After the aforementioned and a set of neutral grip I did 50 2 pump burpees at a pace of one rep every 15 seconds.
Big puddle of sweat. Euphoric.
Didn’t talk to anyone during them, just tasted the salty sweat dripping down my face, my glasses a blur.
Rest 3-5 minutes.
I’ve taken to doing half my burpees, waiting 3-5 minutes, then completing them.
Another 50, same protocol. If I hadn’t done it I’d have felt like I bitched out as initially I’d intended 100 2 pumps.
100 2 pumps straight through in 25:00 seems a good goal, and fairly close. Today it was broke in half by a 3:30 song, and maybe 30 seconds in addition to that. Call it 100 2 pumps in 29:00 paced with the break.
The rest was good for my shoulder being tight, bad in that being doused in sweat, I had now cooled off, and was in the gym ac. No matter. Burpees.
Having done not just 50, but 100, I couldn’t help but feel my world is right.
I had the smell of having worked, it doesn’t bother me, plus women notice, and like it.
It’s the smell of testosterone.
You mask that when you use deodorant, cologne, etc.
Rationally I know I’m not the best at burpees, but in my world, my day to day, I’m the only one pushing physically. This pays.
I’ve been going to planet fitness long enough that I make it work.
There’s nothing wrong with planet fitness when you make it work.
At one point in the session I did a set of 50 on the machine curl with 30lbs.
I know you can train 50s, start super light, get massive pumps, and essentially sneak up on using heavier and heavier weight at that rep range, then end up the biggest, strongest man around.
In conversation I said “I tend to like a big ass meal around 1am. You may not be supposed to eat then, but maybe that’s why I’m 270lbs.”
The difference between fat and jacked very well could be just the muscular stimuli. Bulk is pretty easy to come by when taking pages out of what the medical establishment says will make you fat. The medical establishment ain’t expecting the guy eating a big ass meal at 1am to have trained full body, high reps, high volume at 10pm.
The night meal thing was an aha moment for me. Probably playing into why I’m jacked when others can’t seem to gain weight.
I was complemented on having great chest development, and likened to a gorilla. This came from the same 58yo as written about the other night, and he thought I may take the compliment negatively. I laughed telling him that I’ve long realized my proportions do in fact resemble a pale skinned hairless gorilla. I joke about that, and don’t believe I’ve ever posted my “I’m a gorilla” rough draft.
Go do a million pushups, that’s why my chest is so developed, and the massive pushup stimuli is why I am proportioned like a gorilla.
You want a big chest? Go do a million pushups, and eat manly foods in manly proportions.
You’re better off owning what you choose to put in your mouth, than being anal about every little thing, a diet freak.
For me to do the high frequency meals weighed out thing, that’d basically be all into bodybuilding, and possibly require living alone in SoCal.
Earlier in the day I thought to myself : “any training done consistently for over a decade is going to get you jacked, give you functionally the best genetics, and have you levels above all around you”.
It’s not the program, it’s the consistency. Do something you’ll willingly do all the time, do so for a decade, you’ll be Hoss around that time.
There’s definitely truth to a body reflecting the personality. I find myself more laid back in my mind, stressing less, now that I’m in my own eyes heavy, and observing this realized the way I’m acting now is similar to how I’d see big, strong, but not ripped dudes act. For the first time in my life I’m willing to take rest periods on movements that allow for it (ie not burpees).
And this too came up in conversation : “training every day may not be the fastest progress in some cases, but I train daily because mentally I need to for my mind.”
I may be able to take rest periods now, but I never take rest days. PT always happens. And to not go to the gym takes distracting myself, usually doing something out of town.
To me this all makes sense ; I’m the most randomly rigid lifter out there.
Full body daily, the rest of it is filling in the blanks.
PT regardless.
I never know exactly what I’ll do at the gym til after I’ve done it.
This makes it a toss up as to what gets prioritized. For example – I need to be training weighted pushups.
The biggest training goal in my eyes at the moment is to video “girl pushups”, a petite gym chick (or two, or three) standing on my back for a set of 10+ pushups, and right now I’m never weighting the movement.
Until tommorow,
-J