A silly short shift – nailing crates shut – probably need to get other work, this week is slow, too slow.
Bouncing around at dead end jobs at the low end of the american wage scale.
I’m not making enough money, don’t at any of these jobs.
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home early = lift early
That’s the plus to a silly short shift.
As is I’ve been lifting in some capacity daily
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I don’t like downtime, I actually prefer being busy.
In a way I was content when I worked long hours and went to the gym immediately after work.
SoCal last time, ~30 hours weekly taking care of my grandma, eventually daily gym and beach, no financial concerns – that was pretty ideal.
Bro, get the beard to a good length, be in shape, and happy in the off chance that you go back aka SoCal prep work
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Lift :
DB Side Press (each side) ss w/ Overhead Squat ie L+R+OhS
5+5+10
10+10+15
12+12+20
1 Arm OHS
3 x bar each side
75lb db & empty barbell
each ohs set with progressively narrower grips from normal to almost press
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For a few days I’d been realizing the above, working these movements with the 75lb dumbbell and the empty bar would allow for a lot of work in a brief condensed period – a conditioning lift, which frankly have massive carryover to everything.
Also ; a bunch of squats is a worthwhile daily thing – bodyweight if you have nothing for weight, though something could be easily improvised.
I’m partial to overhead squats.
They’re my favorite squat variant.
Especially on the high rep light end of the spectrum, as simply I enjoy overhead squat reps with the empty bar moreso than bw squats.
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When I’m off, around the house, basically I’m sedentary.
I don’t go for walks, runs, etc.
This nags at me internally.
“Get past the mental block”, “go outside (not a problem) and move”
The 2020 lockdown, nearly three years ago now, three years which I feel I’ve not accomplished in – that was the only time in my life I was consistent on riding my bike around.
I’d do a loop just so I could feel the sun and wind on my skin as I bombed downhill.
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•2oz peanuts
•½ salami sandwich
•milk
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nap
I shouldn’t be – it’s basically a sign of nothing to do/depression
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I looked at some crossfit wods and realized it’s the modern substitute for hard labor.
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Turns out my old lifting partner is now going to the local powerlifting gym, this about a week after an old work acquaintance wanted me to show him how to lift there.
Hints from the universe?
It’d be a place to film military presses, and has most strongman implements.
But I’m content with The Cold Air Barbell Club.
Choices to make.
I’d already been sleeping on the idea of going due to the latter for a little over a week now.
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3 eggs with green beans, ~4oz reeses, ~4oz steak, milk
Still clean meals with dessert.
I don’t make myself toss all the junk I have on hand from christmas presents.
Eggs are great. Thing is they’re almost 50¢ each right now.
I bet meat and eggs with green beans is a sustainable clean eating for me.
I’m really enjoying fried eggs right now, they’re an easy delivery vehicle for vegetables, and I don’t put down much meat per sitting right now.
Nicely, if I lay off of junk food and probably milk, I’m easily aimed for fat loss.
But moreso than the aesthetics of fat loss, I’m more concerned with getting my cardio back.
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Notes To Self For Military Pressing :
•lots of quad – to drive through sticking point
•lots of power cleans – to shoulder the bar, and have lots of energy reserve with which to press
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Getting In Shape With Equipment :
I’d be inclined to mostly do conditioning for a period, to not be focused on heavy lifting.
I too have my old coworker on my mind, as he’s, basically at less than square one – two years ago he was 5’7″ 280ish with thick limbs, natural power- since he’s lost 40ish lbs and it’s all from his limbs, he didn’t play sports growing up, etc – sled/prowler and basic calisthenics strikes me as the path he needs.
I am having an unscratched itch for db thrusters and db c&j.
Both, luckily, a way to get in shape, and access to a concept 2 rower would be nice as well – ditto to prowler and stair climber.
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Basically I need to make it that personal training in some capacity is how I make my living.
•outdoor group classes
•teaching lifting in a gym
•online
•youtube monetized
•gym owner
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Psychologically I’d be okay with, not even keto, but as a mover I’d get by on 1 slice of bread with peanut butter on it (½ work sandwich), and 16oz of milk a day as “carbs” some incidentals from cheese, essentially none from meat, eggs, and not counting whatever comes from green beans, broccoli, cauliflower – the three main vegetables I’d be including.
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Nearly zero carbs?
Mind dictates energy, activity levels, mood, etc – it’s mental.
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As long as I’m still at The Cold Air Barbell Club regular deadlifts make sense, but light as worked well for me ~15 months ago…
205 is convenient to load, just double overhand, a bunch of sets of 1-5, real crisp – I know my glutes, the workhorse of the body, pump this way so I get feel good and strong from this manner of training.
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Extra pushups just before midnight, treating them as if they were a military press – really squeezing my quads, thinking to myself “I should be able to squeeze my glutes like this too”, trying to make pushups full body tension.
I did a really good job with quads, a decent job with abs, and oddly wasn’t feeling a pump so much in my upper body though I ended the sets very out of breath.
I assume with this high amount of tension that I was holding my breath.
Persistence & Tenacity