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I think that the two most striking workout tools as far as long term rugged strength are properly weighted kettlebells and heavy sandbags.
People bag on high rep barbell cleans, high rep barbell deadlifts…if you care about the opinion of others…then don’t do them.
However it’s long been my opinion that the highest results do not come from traditional lifting protocols of sets and reps but moreso chunk of time density training or gutting it out emom protocols.
Boiled down men are lifting weights due to a lifetime of ease and missing manual labor, missing physical play – all that in this modern world.
The kettlebell cuts through the air in workouts often over the 100 reps mark.
It’s all of $30 to $50 to assemble a heavy sandbag, and that really is best trained as strength involved conditioning.
“Strong Conditioning”
↑ did I just coin this?
You want to be lifting moderately heavy weights with lots of density.
You want to be doing all these weird movements where you move a good deal through space – the flopping of burpees, the repeated hinging of kettlebells, the down and up and down and up of sandbag shouldering as you wrestle the thing up your torso, the joy of the tire flip…
I couldn’t tell you my powerlift numbers.
Presently I’m unwilling to go lift barbells in a gym.
But I’m more than willing to tap into the feel of how the kettlebells affect me.
I’m building a lot of strength in stuff I wasn’t hitting much inside gyms.
The kettlebell done right does a lot of “armor building” and hits a lot of the grappling and labor muscles.
I keep putting off rebuying a roll of duct tape, a package of contractor cleanup bags, and 300lbs of sand…to density train heavy sandbag shouldering.
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EARLY AM
•two slices american cheese
•half chocolate bar
•12oz milk
~40g carbs
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530am
BUP 24kg
x2,3,6 left
x24 right
That’s a PR on both hands.
745am
•two microwave chicken sandwiches – 85g carbs
•two blueberry muffins – 90g carbs
•16oz milk – 25g carbs
~200g carbs
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Soccer Ball :
30ct about ten minutes in
called it on that high note, was in flow state from about counts fourteen to twenty eight
twenty minute walk soon after
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If I made 2lbs of ground beef into meatballs, or a 50/50 mix with ground turkey – spiced them nicely – I’d be content to go carnivore on THAT as my daily ration.
It’d be $50/week for 14lbs of ground beef, I’m not sure how large a batch I could make at a time.
A week’s worth would be rather nice.
As is I’ve been enjoying meatballs lately, at at around $8/lb for the quality (actually meat) precooked kind it’s not really all that affordable.
2lbs of relatively lean meat, nothing else is definitely cutting, but that’s the way I’m headed – not bulking to super heavyweight (though I’m sure I’d be mad strong that way too).
We can regroup as an all around athlete at, probably still heavier than, 235lbs.
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Dinner
•half chocolate bar – 20g carbs
•my fill of a mix of both beef meatballs and turkey meatballs
•can of baked beans w/cheese – ~115g carbs
•milk
~150g carbs
Have you ever eaten a can of beans cold?
I was camping, it was fall – the only options for eating out that time of night were dairy queen and mcdonald’s, fast food isn’t so affordable, plus I wanted food that’d be there for waking up early the next morning.
But there was a grocery store open late, and for some reason beans sounded good to me.
For under $5 I bought two cans of beans, and a generic half gallon of lemonade.
Ate one can, drank half, repeated five hours later.
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Pushups
x5, x15, x5
Persistence & Tenacity