9/2/23 – The Early Morning :
About twenty til midnight I’d been doing pushups.
I took a deep breath in through the mouth, did five pushups, then exhaled, and repeated to thirty.
About two minutes til midnight I did a straight set to thirty five or forty, then again took a deep breath in through the mouth, and did five more.
I have some serious upper body push endurance.
Decent strength from it, “strength-endurance” work, almost exclusively.
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There are a million ways to do pushups.
Yesterday I did them earlier in the day than my normal (though additionally later as said above), around 5pm/dinner hour, instead of waiting til near midnight…
Also instead of the “before work” almost requirement that I’ve slipped on for probably three to six months now after more than a year of doing so.
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Late night/early morning will see me in the bathroom flexing, often crab pose/similar.
I genuinely like how my physique is going appearance wise, and am strong.
It’s fit aka wind aka “in shape” aka cardio that needs work.
Partly that’s an “I’m 280lbs right now issue”, and I’ve noticed the 5lbs down from 285 to 280, done by a simple lack of appetite (and possibly caffeine) alongside a bit longer work hours over that past month or so – I feel better a few pounds lighter.
I have the urge to run, which this heavy I picture as run 100m, walk 100m, repeat.
Step 1 – the above.
Step ~4…≤6:00 mile
Running reasonably fast, not track competitive fast, but reasonably civilian or PT test fast isn’t hard to do.
It’s simply ; get outside, run.
Honestly I look back at my mile through 5k times, generally already at heavier than ideal running bodyweights, and laugh.
I did the opposite of what you’re supposed to…
First I went all out for as long as possible.
Then I crashed my speed slowing to a crawl.
THEN I stayed slogging, lactic acid stupidly high, and crossed the line (while metaphorically) dying, at whatever time was gonna be as fast as I could in that exact moment.
The difference between a 6:00 and 6:40 mile for me was whether the second 800m took ~4:00 or ~4:40.
I’d run sub 2:00 800m (the first 400m alsk faster than the second) then slog a jog or below jogging speed (8:00/mile pace in my eyes being a jog) second 800m.
The jrotc sergeant instructor would shake his head “have you ever tried pacing”, “he does – you’d probably beat him every day if you paced like him”.
I wasn’t interested in four equal 400m splits.
I wanted to gun it, as hard as possible, for as long as possible.
This mentality saw me as the 5th or 6th man on the 4x400m relay, in it more than not that year due to no shows.
It also saw me later in high school entered by the coach in the 200m, where at 235lbs I was always way heavier than all the other sprinters.
In the 200m I consistently placed exact middle of the pack, both in my particular heat AND meet wide.
Hilarious.
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It’s saturday.
It’s a saturday I actually have off.
No moving shift.
I like to snatch (said yesterday) some singles, then press some sort of amrap (singles up to 15 reps) for a set or a few on days where I’m fairly far away from moving work or when I feel particularly fresh.
Today fits the bill.
We’ll see later what I actually do.
9/2/23 PM :
The Lift :
Overhead Squat
10x95lbs
1 Pump Burpees
x12 unbroken
Curl
5x95lbs
real quick, get something in session, burpees deserve more attention at present than barbell, really should spend more daily time at them than I am
the burpee will align all things physical given the effort
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My 445am alarm is set for tomorrow.
A buddy and I (are supposed to be) meeting up for am burpees.
Scratch all that, he texted me asking for 6am hour instead of 530am – that’s aokay, means a bit more sleep.
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Tonight’s pushups (during pauses in a marathoned television show) – I have a really good upper back pump from them.
For the millionth time ; you get a whole lot from pushups, far more than just a chest workout.
Maybe I’ll actually have that chick standing on my upper back pushup video to put online – could see that happening soon.
My gut is saying “start over”, and “here – go all out”, maybe I’m moving, I intend to either stop or cut back on job just over broke hours, lift or grapple or both again, and do this all out.
You can’t live other’s crabs in a bucket expectations.
Persistence & Tenacity
immortal technique – third world