Bedroom.
11pm.
Standing naked at the foot of my bed, these are the best sessions.
Aside from a short horse stance, and a little bit of gripper work it’s mostly pushups, and triceps flexing.
I press my hand, arm outstretched to the side, into the door frame. The house creeks, it’s not the time of night for noise. I’m already not in the kitchen for that reason.
Isometrics, I’ll have to add some extra sessions in, they haven’t been done in a long while. Luckily they can be done anytime anywhere.
Hugely beneficial.
Today I’d been changing the hand position/wrist angle as I flex my triceps. I’ve never before thought to do this, I can feel it hitting different heads.
Back to pushups. With the right hand placement there’s no noise pollution. The tricep flexes have them firing better during the pushup reps. With isometrics in my mind I do some slow and super slow reps. I’d forgotten how beneficial these are.
A shoulder had been buggy for a short while. STRICT pressing reps, pauses, full range of motion…healed it in one day.
For the last two days I’ve had the Sig Klein challenge on my mind. I’ve never completed it, it having the potential to be something I’d actually film at PF.
Just taking a pair of 50s into an antisocial corner for to c&p “all day” is a solid solid idea.
At present I don’t have the drive to lift weights meaningfully* at home. I do my PT, and go to PF. With how well I’ve been responding to the hindu squats, which I do in a style very much like a non strict unweighted hack squat, two things :
•Add high rep overhead squats back in. They work amazingly.
(Primarily at home with a barbell as a separate session, though at PF with a broomstick and kettlebell slid on is a possibility.)
•Do hack squats strict.
(Mostly at pf with the preload barbells.)
Bodyweight is 262. This is my lifetime heaviest, and I’m getting leaner. I feel great, very athletic, very strong…at PF (suckers).
Just about every day it irks me to not have a “real gym” to lift at, I’m making PF work. My brain runs full speed ahead seeing variations, and out of the ordinary things that carry over. I liken it to idiot savant, I’ll always advise to go dumb and just be brutishly strong. Improv works for me. Quit thinking. Only instinctive action.
I’m regularly and easily maxing out the unilateral shoulder press machine now. Still milking it. You can always find ways to milk your equipment for more.
“Maxing it out you say”, says the psychopath late 1800s Englishman split personality (I kid, it’s a joke fuckers), “well that must mean you have done it for at least a set of 50 paused reps”. I shake my head, grumble a little, then clicking my heels in joy giddily run back to the machine realizing it hasn’t been milked bone dry.
40 minutes of typing in…I drop and hit some more pushups.
I started doing egg shakes again. This time 6 eggs per instead of usually 3-4, and for the most part heavy cream in place of milk. Higher saturated fat very well may be more useful than the protein and carbs. I don’t think anyone really ever needs over 200g protein a day, and am confident that 100g-150g a day is an entirely acceptable level. My gut says that enough protein while calories and saturated fat are high is what’s best. Eat real foods, don’t fear fat, don’t fear natural sugar, eat a mixed macro diet based on meat, eggs, and dairy with the rest as side dishes.
If I was to get really serious it’d be 3 dozen eggs a day, mostly drank, plus a meal or two (maybe three) as per usual. My near constant hunger is a good sign. I’m constantly thinking of waffles, sausage, butter, and maple syrup as I lay awake at night.
I’m not very high on volume. More is more and would be better. Something should be added in, but will it?
What?
Long walks? Best on the beach, in new cities, or in winter. It’s about to be winter, plus it’s free.
MMA?
Labor?
I do calf raises as most of my before eating calisthenics. They’re best done glutes locked. The pushups I had been doing simply switched to being done in my bedroom at night. I add a few reps here and there to the calf raise sets.
This gym shit is so easy. Just act on your instincts. Eat well. Train (however).
Persistence & Tenacity
*My definition of lifting weights meaningfully. Bringing my 75lb db or a barbell empty or with only a few plates outside skirts the mental effort issue.