Part 1 : Stacking PRs, Racking PRs, Getting Jacked !!! Off Of The Press :
10/3/22
Press
2×10 w/165lbs
10×165 is a new 10rm as far as I can recall, getting it for two sets was cool, I did the second set with my mouth guard in – hadn’t been using it for the past couple weeks.
Fat Gripz SLDL
10, 8, 10 w/165lbs
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Typing (Re)Listen :
wes watson – they hated me
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The press is “heavy”, the fat grip sldl is pump, health, feel good, making sure my back, hips, and legs continue strong – at this point the hands are the primary point as far as muscular training in the deadlift’s chain of muscles.
I’ll just pull fat gripz double overhand sldl for pumps, and match my press weight.
By the time I press 300+ for some, and fat gripz double overhand sldl 300+ for a bunch – well I’m already the biggest and strongest man I reasonably come across in my day to day.
It’s fine to take something really moderate at most and just lift for health, weights, as designed, are for building you…
The famous 3×10 protocol, THREE SETS OF TEN was invented to rebuild ww2 army air force veterans with massive burn trauma.
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I’ve found a snack, a quick bite that works for me, something to up feeding frequency with :
rice cakes with peanut butter and honey plus milk to drink
Dinner continues to be beef and broccoli.
Lifting barefoot and shirtless in the fall air (yep), only the press, fat grip sldl, and high rep overhead squat…I’m becoming a bodybuilder more than I ever was.
Part 2 : Rodeo – Riding The Power Of Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors :
10/3/22
Last night at work, I look at the head chef “B, no comment about my regular meal.”
“Huh”
“About this being my usual now.”
“You’ll get sick of it.”
He’s been in this one particular kitchen for 27 years as of a couple weeks ago, he’s sick of the food there for the most part.
However, he underestimates my obsessive compulsive behaviors.
Every night for more than two weeks now I have eaten beef & broccoli, whether it’s restaurant food or from the grocery store – every night – beef and broccoli.
To continue to do so is my intention…for let’s say a while. I’ve found sustainable & “clean”.
I’ve lassoed these compulsions, picked a few that work FOR ME instead of against me.
Beef and broccoli strikes me as as healthy a meal as it’s gonna get.
If I need to lose weight, perfect, beef and broccoli – little else.
Eating for a big press? Yes!!!
Okay – beef and broccoli with mexican mix cheese, and a second dinner of stuffed crust pizza, plus drink all of the eggnog in addition to the usual milk habit.
As far as training I’m pressing everyday.
Obsessive compulsion – working for me.
I like the soreness in my upper back, and genuinely want to train 3x a day at it – full on bulgarian with some sort of heave, cause that’s how I’ve been shouldering all these mid-100s lb bars, and amrap presses.
Obsessive compulsion – working for me.
Who knew I’d get the most into it while working around a dead end kitchen job, lifting, almost nothing but the clean & press, at “The Cold Air Barbell Club”, with an unhealthy level of solitude.
I’m as close to stereotypical “bodybuilding” in these circumstances as I’ve ever been!
And it feels good.
By pressings the barbell overhead I am doing the work I must.
My beard is growing back.
It is fall. I feel great in the fall.
Tomorrow I shall press again. Now it is time for off to the store! for the stuffed crust pizza and eggnog (and another pound of ground beef + more broccoli).
Because we are eating to build a brutal heave and press, eating nutritiously, and just as a decision I had come to as a high school wrestler…I would rather do more, than eat less.
Enjoying the ride!
Persistence & Tenacity
garth brooks – rodeo