11/15/23
Unable to sleep (too many amping myself up factors to allow it), at 545am I’m in the kitchen letting my phone charge as I do the day’s duolingo (spanish today), and eat a bowl of pasta with shredded cheese.
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I didn’t end up going keto or carnivore on that, run if you can call it that.
I ate enough desserts to not be on a diet at all, and it had evolved to eating lots of eggs as eating for power.
“Egg Power Diet”
Right now this is probably going to be the third day giving myself a break.
There is Vince Gironda precedence here, to go vegetarian after a protein/fat heavy period.
Last night I ate a salad, and it was delightful.
lol I almost can’t believe I wrote the above sentence.
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Part of my sleepless night was rereading my own content.
I read “eggs are the superfood” laughing that I just recently came to enjoy eating them fried, not drinking a single one, though doing so could be on video during a 5×5 lift and talk type video.
What also struck me was “vegetarian bodybuilding – how I’d go about it”, and honestly I could see myself doing this for a brief period.
And I expand ;
As I sit here typing, leisurely eating from my bowl of shells and mexican mix cheese, having boiled pasta three or four times in the past two days, expecting to do so again later today…
I’m really liking pasta with cheese and/or butter right now.
I had the thought “what if you alternated periods of carnivore with periods of vegan/vegetarian”.
I feel like it’d work well.
Plants for dropping weight.
Meat for the strength push.
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Will I eat primarily pasta and cheese for a time?
We’ll see.
I’m plenty fucking strong right now, and right now whether it’s mental in origin or physical in origin right now my body says “eat pasta with cheese” instead of eating meat.
So I ain’t worried about it.
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You want to be jacked?
Lift some damn weights!
If I am going vegetarian for awhile, well the cleans, presses, and bent rows will continue to build me as always.
My delta look more 3d, the right side angled to the mirror looks awesome – heck seems people in public notice me more NOW with this growing shoulder girdle and press PR after press PR.
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I got between three and four hours of sleep before going for the 10x185lb press.
I’d have been better off having been up ~26 hours by the time I’d lifted.
See, I woke up groggy as all get out – the lift ended up a little later than my usual filming time frame by forty five minutes or so – it annoyed me to be setting up late in my eyes – honestly I didn’t want to lift…
But I made myself, and feeling all tired and shit it was a good test of “just how locked in is this level of strength”.
I didn’t even clean the bar, it was one of those heaves, a bent row into a flick of the wrist.
Makes me wonder…what can I curl?
Five years ago I was silly close to strict with 155lbs, in spitting distance of 185lbs, and that was running similar training at the “SoCal Bodybuilding Gym”.
(you know clean and press press press almost exclusively)
The sleepless night? The general tiredness?
lol too much coffee milk – I am still like a squirrel having no tolerance to caffeine 🙂
Had I actually been well rested… probably a 15rm.
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I think tonight I’ll eat lightly.
A little pasta with cheese, maybe a salad, probably three fried eggs whether I have a little meat with them or not.
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Yep. I ate pretty lightly tonight.
Some more pasta with cheese, then three egg sandwiches, a tad of meat on those.
I could still eat. We’ll see.
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715pm – Conditioning After Dark
Burpees & 20kg KN OA Sn
15:00 of :15 work/:45 rest
Odd Minutes : 4-5 one pump burpees
Even Minutes : 8-10 snatches alternating hands each period
last :15 of the final rest I did the missing hand’s snatches
the combination of the two results in the oft spoke of in the 1950s “rib cage expansion”
you feel.your sides, your intercostals, your lats from the combination
your glutes depending, your hands/forearms pumped on delay
I might be 290lbs, but there’s no reason I can’t be in shape – burpees and kettlebell snatches with monitored rests and rep goals per work period… that’ll sort it out.
I can’t be out of shape.
Fitness is mandatory.
on repeat :
J Vengeance – Rep City
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I wore a long sleeve shirt that I hadn’t, possibly in years, for this session.
I was filling it out! Completely!
It’s a a big shirt.
I may have a gut, but I’ve definitely put on shoulder girdle size with all this pressing.
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10pm – A small bowl of chicken stew with cheese mixed in, some triscuit crackers, a glass of milk – maybe dessert after
(no dessert after all)
Persistence & Tenacity