11/25/23
I decided last night that I’d do the same 5:00 of clean and press every rep style today with a 185lb barbell instead of the 40kg kettlebell.
So I’m going to bed, sleeping on the knowledge of the day’s filmed workout.
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I think “Day #” at the start of the title gives more views, but that’s just think.
It’s not certain.
Youtube analytics doesn’t show all the statistics to you, the creator, when the data is under a certain level.
To a degree, this small everything youtube side is attempted to be done with the idea “it’s fun, and all learning experience”.
However, I do want to monetize youtube, get to that level.
Get to a few thousand a month income from it, and I’m financially free.
It seems like long form videos are doing better for me than shorts, and right now my view hours are at about ⅒ of required monthly hours for monetized, about 75/1000 subscribers, so less than that.
However those stats are a light to me. They tell me that I can, that it’s possible.
The more exposure and the more consistency, it’s a given.
Real cool to be spreading my knowledge to the world.
And maybe I’ll be able to do it in person too.
But right now it’s online, #1 is clean and press performance on video – both conditioning, amap/time style, and low rep maxes.
I laugh.
Saying I’ll clean and press 300lbs within six months is SLOW ROLL reasonable.
The 5:00 barbell every rep style sets alone will get me there.
And this is a video subject, probably I’ve written before, but worth typing up again ;
Strength is gained without specialization.
An early 20s gym floor anecdote – I missed it by moments, but saw the bar left there, my lifting partner told me of it, and I saw the two high fiving/congratulating each other/talking about it.
Two dudes, one my age – 5’7″ 180lbs, and a BIG GUY, 6’2″ or 6’3″ 235-240lbs, both these dudes bodybuilders who work construction – full time labor with a bodybuilding split done hard as a hobby.
They really were 4×10 rep range types.
The smaller of the two didn’t really train legs or deadlifts.
The bigger dude would pull mostly sets of 15 or so, usually 365lb area.
That day the two had a hair up their asses for maxing out on deadlifts.
The smaller, something like 495, off of just heavy upper body workouts, used back machines – back work straining at sets of 10-15.
The bigger, again, pulled like 635, maybe 585, just off of having good strength on squats and deadlifts in the 10-15 rep range.
That afternoon really drove in the fact that you don’t need to go so specific.
There’s a million bodybuilders and crossfitters plenty strong without training for 1rm strength.
Many gymnast types are sick with their ability to hit competitive powerlifting numbers, off of just being small, skilled at gymnastics, and used to high tension.
I genuinely think ; light to moderate, very high tension, which kinda limits the reps and volume, or moderate to fairly heavy – aiming for a rep goal as fast as possible, or as many as possible in a set time period…
Neither of these approaches are specific to 1rm maximum strength, but both work quite well for me on maximum strength anyway…
While giving great pumps, high levels of euphoria (the after workout on top of the world vibe/glow), more fitness, etc.
That’s why I’m just going to have a kettlebell clean and press habit (the awkwardness of the heavy kettlebell is a joyous thing) alongside the barbell clean and press amap in 5:00 approach.
It’s everything!
Good content.
Good effort.
Good pump.
Actually being fit/in shape!
Building strength, top end strength, anyway!
Whether this is negative or not I genuinely think of myself as “the strongest nobody around”.
I’m not telling myself I’m going to win world’s strongest man.
I’m not telling myself that I’d “win the gym” at the nearest powerlifting place…
I’m telling myself that “I have these far from ideal circumstances, but I love lifting, so I do so – and I have the methodology, the ability to soar anyway.”
And I do.
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It’s close to 1am.
I just saw subscriber 74 come in.
Build it. Be consistent.
They’ll come.
I’d actually been wondering when I could say “my youtube channel has 75 subscribers”.
Soon. Very soon.
And if the channel keeps 3x in subscribes every month, or goes exponentially…
Well, build this to a level that it allows me the finances to do this better, that’s ∞ growth, a perpetual positive feedback loop.
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Positive feedback loop.
I’m coming to know (again) that what you expect of the world you’ll get.
That your inner mind dictates the outer world.
Your mind right, and opportunity comes to you.
Your mind wrong, and you don’t see what’s good, right there, within your grasp.
I could’ve built this, with consistency, from Day 1.
The past is gone.
There’s only now.
You smile, work, and know tomorrow (if it comes) will be better.
I honestly don’t recall the exact time, it was within the last year, the pastor spoke of “God had already forgiven you – the past is wiped to God – the urge to punish oneself, focus on past mistakes/sin THAT is sin, us sinning, and continuing to do instead of looking up, forward for a more godly existence of self.”
That soothes me.
I internally know similar, realize it more and more, live it more wholly, more truly.
Don’t punish yourself. Move on in positive works.
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I got 10 reps in 5:00 on the 185lb clean and press every rep style.
Did an 11th rep just after the bell, and maybe a half hour later decided to rep out a 205lb press, curious to if I’d break 5 as rm to 7.
I failed the 6th, though I’d say a set of 5 is probably baked in now.
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Filmed the above with 75 and 76th having come in, so three today.
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I might eat a real meal later, but for now it’s been around a 16 hour fast.
I’m outside breaking fast by eating buttered french bread, a coffee milk, then indoors two cookies – real simple – practicing thankfulness for all that is life.
Being mindful.
I’ll have a kettlebell workout soon.
Back I go outside…
Music on, so off camera.
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Jogged around, played with the 40kg bell – got 7x snatch left – a PR thus far, and found that 2h swings with this 88lber feel better than the movement did with the 70lber at the start of this year, and I’ve done very few swings in the interim.
Running this c&p and kettlebell swing as far as they can go? Maximizing these?
Oh man! How far I can go.
Big, broad shoulders, giant glutes, claws/talons for hands with bowling pin forearms…AND FIT!
Yeah, I’m loving the outdoor sessions.
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Spent twenty minutes at play.
Is it time for mat time?
In addition to jogging around forward and backwards, I hit a few sprawls in addition to some shadow wrestling slow motion lunge shots.
And of course the kettlebell snatch, clean and press, swings, plus bw squats that I did.
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Success with a barbell overhead, and some kettlebells, even some calisthenics on camera.
My strong suit is that I keep lifting simple, I keep eating simple – I get people results by showing them a straightforward a to b way to make their own progress.
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As I put the bell away for the night, then shivered outside watching an eclectic mix of youtube (self sustainability and rugby related)…and though I didn’t follow it…
I had the urge to go for a run/jog…
Get to 300lb press…then simulate a marine corps pft, the 3 mile/5k run and pullups.
Maintain a 275+ c&p, dropping to ≤240lbs, with 20+ (preferably 30, 35) pullups, a sub 21:00 three mile.
Like high school wrestling run ability back again but with 27yo pullup ability, 23yo bodyweight, and lifetime PR upper full body strength.
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Dinner (maybe two hours after that breaking fast snack and the twenty minute session, plus an hour of outside shivering, sitting there watching youtube)…
Microwave the frozen chicken breast strips, the breakfast sausage links on top of them in the spaghetti plate.
Pour the warmed contents into the pan on the burner.
Turn that on, let it all brown, then chop it up real small.
Crack in the eggs.
Cook it all up.
Wash the spaghetti plate as it does.
Mix mexican mix cheese in with the half you take to start. Another chunk of buttered french bread on the side.
A tall glass of milk, a can of iced tea to drink.
I’ll probably finish the other half of egg/meat mixture too.
My diet is pretty simple right now, eggs with breakfast sausage, preferably a second or more meat with them, mexican mix cheese stirred in when I want it, buttered french bread, milk, iced tea, coffee milk, an occasional glass of grape juice.
Pretty sure I can set this to a $10/day hard cost, make myself lean out with that, eating this, enjoying it all too.
It’s all good hearty foods our and ancestors thrived on.
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I realize this 40kg is my second kettlebell purchase (this calendar year to boot), and I have not done any high number of swings for any length of time.
Being that I liked the 2h swing tonight, maybe 150-500 swings/day run as well as press every day as another all around thing.
To build glutes of titanium, fitness, work capacity, and fat loss, all at once.
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You local library, probably, will do such things as an interlibrary loan for books that they do not have.
It’s how I read John Jesse’s Wrestling Physical Conditioning Encyclopedia (more than once).
That’s just a PSA, or a note to self, maybe both.
When did I go to the library last?
What book do I want to read?
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Until tomorrow,
-J