11/14/23
Waking up my right lat was massively sore, down at the lower attachment.
This was the kettlebell hand for yesterday’s see saw press – the soreness makes sense as ;
1. I hadn’t done the movement in a long time.
2. As I saw during video editing, you do want to lean during the movement – reach at the top of the rep, kinda side crunch at the bottom, and I did a better job of this with the kettlebell side than the dumbbell side – so obviously it hit more lats than the dumbbell on the left had.
This is what puts the see saw press up there ; when all the parts are in motion you’re building shoulders well, and very much working your sides – the lats, obliques, plus your midsection, your abdominals.
I know I’ve read of a 1950s bodybuilder, who won a, one, singular, either mr olympia or mr world, or similar – who at something like 5’11” 195lbs was said to do no upper body work than see saw pressing a few sets of 15-20 a few times a week with something like 105lbers.
Dang!
Slightly over half bodyweight each hand, AND high reps.
I’d say 10 or 15 sets weekly like that WOULD be all the upper body work you need.
Gives me inspiration this anecdote, as I’m much heavier, and my bells are only in the 70lbs range.
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today’s 2x225lb press
I did two back off sets with 185lbs after today’s 2x225lb press.
Neither hit 10 reps, and had I not done the 225lb set – I’d say I’d have hit the 10x185lbs as a first/only set.
Here’s to tomorrow’s overhead press every day video – I’ll go for it again.
Tomorrow I go for 10+ x 185lbs.
I expect to get it.
At some point however these are going to have to change to the 5×5 and talking type video format, allow me some more training than what is a mix of training and showing strength.
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The lat soreness went away as soon as I’d done the first press set.
Soreness tends to be like that.
As I wake up I’ll “flex around”, flexing, and moving around what is sore – that tends to get me functional pretty quickly, and besides we perform just as much as we demand of ourselves to perform.
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My bar speed pressing 185lbs is staggeringly fast.
More speed = more power, which correlates to more strength (which today’s 2x225lbs had the possibility of being a triple, the 2x220lbs just days ago was effort level primal groans – so obviously I’m stronger)… = MORE GAINS!
High frequency training and overhead pressing every day = the gains train, that’s where it’s at!
(a however many powerful sets of 3×185, basically treating it like a speed day – that is an option)
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Like Vince Gironda advised ; after that egg heavy period I’m giving myself a few days without eggs.
Today ate frozen chicken, some pasta with cheese, and a salad.
Drank a BUNCH of coffee milk, and it ain’t cheap.
While milk is $2.59/gallon, coffee milk runs that or more per QUART.
I pay $12-16/gallon for those, today I drank a quart and a pint, saving a quart for tomorrow.
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Note : it’s been 7½ of daily pushups, no misses.
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Lunch : small, leftover pasta, drink coffee milk
Snack : while cooking dinner, leftover pasta, drink coffee milk
First Dinner : most of a bag of popcorn chicken, a bag is $8 or $9
Second Dinner : finish popcorn chicken as I cook more pasta, eat pasta, drink coffee milk and milk, have a couple brownies
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At $8 or $9, and I’m real lazy about chicken, most often eating it as a bag of popcorn chicken for dinner – I’ve done this two days now instead of eggs – well, it makes sense to me to do maybe a week like this, maybe less, and if I’m truly enjoying chicken to the use that same money for 12 or 18 eggs, 1½-2lbs of chicken breast – cook it from scratch for myself, all the while letting the pasta kick and dessert eating run their course.
Hop back on the clean eating, maybe even a little cleaner, and pick up kettlebell work/volume, probably having purchased another bell or two (might as well christmas present for myself to me some implements that can condition and strengthen for life).
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Tomorrow we press, and I can’t be happier.
Persistence & Tenacity