had dreamt of ultra marathons of all things – running hard miles and many kettlebell swings
🙂
fell back asleep then dreaming of a trip to a hellish grocery store – the highlight of which was 47¢ single serve truly high quality whey protein, with a silly brand name, and rich piana’s zombie as infomercial guy for the company
woke up hungry both times – that’s a good thing
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quick wake up/feel good shower – every shower this year I’ve ended with the water as cold as it can come out
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•chicken quesadillas
•big bowl of cereal
•milk
it strikes me as a funny imagining one trying to count macros and calories on mexican food – good luck, would make a funny comedy skit measuring out everything precisely
“this much cheese, this much chicken, two tortillas, exactly ___g fat, protein, carbs – oh wait, how much was dark meat, how much white meat”
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I’m looking forward to experiencing that kettlebell, yet I’ll still have no heavier than 32kg/70lb kettlebell reference point.
Thinking about heavy bell work, somewhere out there someone must’ve cleaned the 203lb monster kettlebell.
That’d be a wicked off center front squat, and strikes me as doable, not much different than squatting with a person over one shoulder, which strikes me as the most useful squat.
That is something firemen, military, and wrestlers can use in real life.
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“went to the gym”, didn’t lift yet, just clean up
ice chipper across the particle board and patio tiles, then salt on the particle board, wait a little then scrape it all off – particle board clear ✓ – footing is good
patio tiles though…the ice had formed overnight around the dimensions of a 45lb plate touching, odd I thought as I didn’t leave the bar there – just lifted it as the snow formed around it last night – that snow turned to ice in that shape
I didn’t throw down salt onto the tiles, but used the ice chipper to wedge them out of the ground already having chipped across them to little effect…to the tree, and “chopped wood” hitting the rubber patio tiles against the tree, then left the mostly clean tiles in the sun
that’s a new stimulus – while I no longer have a tractor tire to hit with a sledgehammer, I’ve got rubber patio tiles I can hit against the tree
rotational power/strength WHACK
they’re about $7 each at the hardware store, it may look funny, but with it you’ve got non tree chopping tree chopping…sustainable
while the environmentalists love it, the tree is thinking “what did I ever do to you”, but kept it’s big mouth shut
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Lift :
Fat Grips Deadlifts
33x135lbs in 2:00
rest 3:00
31x135lbs in 2:00
Press
11×165
as I type everyday, what a great glute and lat pump – I get so much from this style of training with this movement – this pump, the glutes locking every step, my back feeling solid, has me feeling on top of the world
knowing how I responded to light smith machine deadlifts it’ll be interesting to see long term how much top end strength this builds – I know of a 600lb deadlift by a bodybuilder or two from pump work
just keep progressing in weight while remaining high volume with the pump
the press is catching up to PRs despite adding in more and more volume before the pressing
I need to get to 300+ lbs being as easy to heave to the shoulders as the mid 100s.
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•six eggs
•1c oats
oats in bowl, stir in all the spices, crack the eggs in, stir together, fry – been making eggs & oats like this for years, probably over a decade
it comes out some consistency of bread, but nicely spiced, and more nutritious
I expect I’ll do a third meal, the first over most likely – been rather hungry most of the day today, no real desire for junk food, the only thing I really want being a sub of some sort, maybe meatball, maybe steak.
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•mexican food, beef dish
an unexpected invitation from my parents to go out to eat with them
was invited to, and watched a movie with my father right after
•dessert w/milk (during movie)
two hours long (the original pink panther) the first thing I’ve watched in almost a month since porn
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Thoughts On Watching Shit :
My feelings are mixed about having watched a movie.
I think what instead could’ve been done with those two hours, as before/during/immediately after I was thinking “do I have to shave for this” coming to the conclusion “no, it’s not porn – but don’t make habit of television either”
Kinda have to laugh about that, considering I’m not going through that train of thought related to all the image searches for pictures to use with posts here.
I had little interest in the movie as it played.
When I got up to get dessert I didn’t have my dad pause the film, I just missed ninety seconds or whatever.
I’ve went years with zero watching anything, 2023 isn’t zero now, but the precedence of not shaving for one thing was set in 2018 during a small family gathering for a red sox game – where I totally saw how most people end up becoming sports addicts, as well as lots of donald duck cartoons as stress release while taking care 8f grandma that fall, then in both 2019 and 2020 where I watched some stuff, mostly movies, occasionally an old tv show, and probably youtube.
I don’t recall watching anything in 2021.
Didn’t in fact.
2022? Well I watched porn a bit most months, television/movies for like the first half the year – and I recall really feeling like I’d accomplished nothing after a couple hours on youtube watching strongman stuff, I had a phase near the end of last year of watching crossfit and strongman stuff.
as pluses of watching pink panther ; it provided a real good bust a gut laugh during the chase scene near the end, and saw me spending some time with my dad
though I’ve long had a hard time considering watching television as time spent together
In life it’s best to minimize what you watch, and maximize what you do.
Action over spectation.
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real gassy, probably the oats – 1c was probably too much, it would’ve been better on the gastrointestinal system to have stopped at ½c
nothing can wreck the stomach like oats, though usually raw doesn’t affect me like that
generally raw mixed into eggs then fried sits fine
oats were where I learned the lesson to trust yourself, trust your gut quite literally, and not follow normal advice for my health – oats are not light on my stomach as so many say they are
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Persistence & Tenacity