First Day Back As A Mover :
There was a piano, I got to carry a piano – an upright, it was not the 800lbs coworkers thought, or maybe it was.
Personally I don’t view uprights as hard to carry – I enjoy carrying them in fact.
Pretty funny how half the guys there were ducking and dodging getting hands on it, and hell I set up on the side where I wouldn’t have to walk backwards.
Mostly we packed. Loaded only a little onto the truck. Under 6h including truck time. Will be back, same job, tomorrow.
Food & Drink :
I went to work fasted.
Coworkers bought monsters at a gas station – most are on the patented laborer’s diet of monster & cigs.
Last night I’d made two sandwiches, ate half of one then, packed the rest.
At work ate ½ sandwich. My patented oatnut bread, butter, american cheese, salami sandwich – sometimes with peanut butter, today without.
The inventor of salami deserves a kiss from the prettiest of girls for inventing such a great work food.
I drank a 16oz bottle refilled with cranberry juice. Had packed two, as well as two filled with milk. Didn’t touch those three bottles.
Had a gallon of water with me – drank ½.
Will bring ¾+ in the gallon every shift – I sweat profusely….even in winter.
This a reason to lose ~20lbs, though I’ve sweat profusely at my every adult bodyweight, from 195ish to 280ish.
I look forward to some combination of steak, italian sausage, and kielbasa for dinner.
Groceries :
I’d have ate cheese sticks at work had I any in my cooler – I prefer them to bars, as they’re more nutritious.
So I picked up my mover foods on the way home.
•cheese sticks
•honey roasted peanuts
•cranberry juice
With cheese sticks throw 6 or 8 into the cooler, I assume eating 4 per shift.
You simply pour the peanuts out of it’s bottle into your mouth. I was doing that last time around working this job. And tomorrow will have the ability to do so again.
Cranberry juice worked real well as work food.
Way more nutritious than gatorade.
It’s striking how bad people eat/drink at work.
As I type there is just a little more daylight to lift in.
Lift :
Meant to neti pot before this, but it’s easier to not really go into the house – to stay outside til time to shower up.
Only went in to put groceries away, bring in the mail.
Lateral Raises ss w/Press :
25×2½s /8×165
25×2½s /4×165 STRICT
35×2½s
I like this program – presses & lateral raises.
No legs trained today :)-
Not like they fire during some presses, not like I have to clean the bar, not like this job involves stairs lol
Did lift today. Didn’t run out of daylight.
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Moving felt far better to me than the kitchen – the kitchen was a rut.
Pointedly do not get in a rut working this job.
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When A Barbell Thinks It’s A Kettlebell :
I’ve fallen back into lifting little more than amrap presses.
Frequency is up – I’m enjoying it, and lifting really gets me into a positive place.
Right now milking 165lbs for all it’s worth, with a guideline of 5 x ≥10 as standard to bump bar weight to 185lbs.
You really own the weight this way, and I don’t warm up – I just setup, shoulder the bar, and press whatever happens.
I imagine with kettlebells you basically just get into it with work weight.
No lollygagging around with lighter warmups.
Then once the weight is easy, you go up to the next size kettlebells.
With a barbell this is a 10lb+ jump.
There’s even the possibility of the 45/25 method, using ONLY 45s and 25s on the bar.
Putting weights overhead for lots is an amazing way to be big and strong.
I realize I have a very big and strong upper body.
Really felt that walking back into the house after carrying the piano.
It was a good day.
Persistence & Tenacity