4/25/22
I did about 120 dips yesterday.
More than one set before you ask, 10s up til the final set which was an amrap of 36.
Aside from lots of pushups in the kitchen, some pushups in the parking lot at work (which amuses the waitresses to no end – silly girls), occasionally squeezing a gripper in my bedroom, and lifting in the yard at least once weekly…it was nice to get to those bars – still training outside, yet outside the confines of home/yard lol
Damn, when have I last played tennis!
I had a training partner too.
I hadn’t trained with any buddy in about five months.
I haven’t been huge into dips since the “dip odyssey” of now roughly three years ago.
2019-2022, it’s now been three years – damn
I don’t own a dip bar, I probably should – install one, reboot the “dip odyssey”
I’d forgotten how well I feel my lats from them. In my experience they don’t carry over one bit to pullups, but they’re still the highest lat muscular activation I get.
Oft called the “upper body squat”, I don’t disagree.
300+ a day was a game changer for EVERYTHING
For six months now I’ve been lifting a barbell outside, at “The Cold Air Barbell Club”, as known by name to family, friends, coworkers.
While I’ve felt that good gyms should have a name traditionally stylized in such patterns as “Last Name’s Gym”, “City/Location Name’s Barbell [ or Wrestling 🙂 ] Club”, etc, and what have you…
As a humorous (inside?) joke to myself “The Cold Air Barbell Club” would work for name, an apt choice the day I open my own facility.
Such a name alone likely shall suffice to keep the wimps, wusses, sissies, freaks, doofuses, and other such undesirable elements – those unwanted on a good gym floor OUT!
It’s 4am. I reintroduced caffeine into my system around 1am. This choice resulted in this typing, this not being asleep, and this mental state of euphoria.
I started typing intending to say this ; a 135lbs barbell feels like a toothpick in hand now, I don’t clean it any longer, it essentially shoulders itself – all the purposefully ugly shoulderings (ugly ass muscle clean) like power cleans have their use I shall say, and then I press many reps.
You put on shoulders very quickly with this program :
•barbell
•floor (technically ground for me, myself, and I as outside = dirt not flooring of man made sort)
•clean
•press, press, press, and press some more
And a bent row with a rounded upper back is working amazingly for me right now.
This is only a hop, skip, and a jump from what I already know :
You forget and relearn a lot about working out when you do so for long enough.
The key is to always do something (working out) always and forever
-J