Flow 1 :
Earlier in the day I was
referring to the job as working in hades, it’s probably 95° on the line and the smell sticks to you.
I’d spent half the day desiring to call out for no reason other than “I don’t want to go there anymore” – psychological “life is hard boohoo”.
By the time I was free to call a manager, it was way too close to shift start – I’d consider it unfair to do so, so I went to work, reframing it mentally to “at the very least it’ll get my mind off of some negative stuff in my personal life”.
I went in with the attitude that nothing there is gonna bother me, that I’ll have a smile on my face/enjoy the shift regardless since it’s gonna allow me to refocus
And that’s what happened!
I had a fun time with this shift.
After Work :
Upon parking – I did my mace swings in the rain no less, weather really just doesn’t affect me anymore….
Others can stay inside.
I won’t.
The awesome in human history didn’t come from letting the weather dictate what you do or don’t.
Daily PT? It’s [insert weather} out?
Fuck yeah, let’s get it!
Pushups in the kitchen.
Shower up.
I still smell slightly of kitchen, maybe it’s in the stubble on my face, facial hair holding in the food proteins that saturate the air there. Shrugs.
No matter. I swung my mace, I did 200 pushups thus far on the day.
I’ll sit down to a nice employee comped meal in a minute.
My sternum is cramping. The mace swings are a high activation pullover, amongst other things.
I’d benched outside yesterday. I have a bit of sunburn from it, but I got vitamin d, and look massive.
I’m a firm believer in training, always training, when it comes down to it…
I’ve got a full body workout of mace swings with a tree branch (free – done most days), pushups (also free – done every day), and deep knee bends (and also free – done every day right now) that I hit repeatedly with heart and the buy in.
You can’t stop me…
You want to be jacked too?
DO SO
Persistence & Tenacity
Flow 2 :
It’s a rickety setup – PERFECT!
Go online, I recall photos of a bunch of jacked africans training with pipe, railroad wheels, and concrete in what appears a dirt floor courtyard.
Someone somewhere is doing more with less. Be that someone. Do it.
People really look for every minute detail as excuse instead of :
•what you have
•where you are
•with effort
It cracks me up – the dudes who say they can’t gain weight. I force fed 7000-8000 calories a day for the entire summer at 17.
5000 calories a day, the near universal big/bulking #, just is normal after such an experience.
I swung a sledgehammer, and skipped rope daily.
I did not lift anywhere near enough, and did not sprint as I should’ve.
This caused me to enter senior year of high school with fatceps…but at 253 whereas a year prior I had seriously doubted my ability to hit/break 200lbs.
(disregarding that I entered high school a fat 212, which was oblivious to me at the time on the ability to gain weight note, before seeing sub 170 on a meet scale as a sophomore…breaking 200lbs actually happened lickety split – from 195 to 215 in ten days upon junior year wrestling season ending, I growth spurted in the season, going force fed to 197 before, down to 185 by the first meet so as to not have to cut for 189, and back up to 195 by mid season managing to be starving – not eating, high activity, and yet gaining weight…then exploded the second the season ended mostly off a lunch biscuit tossed to me at lunch each day from a buddy who didn’t want it – a massive number of the school lunches came with a biscuit for some reason, many went in the trash, my buddy tossed me the one off his tray – I was thankful, apparently it was perfect muscle building macros and calories – one chick just about pissed herself upon seeing me “ten pounds in a weekend!?!?!?!”, my buddy, whom gave me the biscuits, had used to wrestle, understood, and corrected her “eight pounds in four days – two pounds a day”, he and I had just been discussing it.)
I’m looking forward to benching feet in the air, straight legs, 50+ x 225+.
High reps, especially on upper body, work really well for me.
And that’s an attainable goal.
Train for years. No ability is unattainable by then.
It’s no more than years of commitment to training.
Persistence & Tenacity