I watched a nature documentary.
Eagles – what magnificent creatures.
Near that walmart many saw eagles.
There were lots of woods.
Now, there’s strip mall, stores, more and more buildings – the woods shrinking in ever exact contrast…
As this country becomes a larger and larger, never ending suburban strip mall.
There is no woods to the left of the parking lot, nor to the right of the parking lot to see an eagle anymore, just developments.
You won’t see an eagle there like my buddy had been hyped to tell me of that morning.
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I’ve written before that I view watching television as gateway to porn.
After some television, movie, documentary time I watched porn again, twelve minutes til I got off, therefore doing two things that I am against doing.
A month without, then participating in both by making a choice that I’m against.
It’s on me.
I feel…regret.
Yet at the same time, seven hours in bed, and I have plenty energy, the four times I masturbated (three without porn later in the morning during brief wakeups) didn’t drain me like that.
The pros and cons.
Getting off does seem to, speed recovery – I’ll be less muscularly sore.
I feel that I need to eat some healthy foods, steak, grape juice, to replenish, but I don’t feel so drained.
I look in the mirror and know there’s that compulsion to shave, and choose restarting there too.
Twelve minutes of doing what I know not to causes resetting a month of beard growth.
This bugs me.
However, I like being able to say I watched no porn with my beard.
I’ll be clean shaven the day after tomorrow.
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Breakfast :
•two cheese sticks
•12oz grape juice
•12oz milk
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1st Lift :
Mismatch Shrug
20, 20
See-Saw Press
12, 10, 7, 5
Off Center F. Sq
3l + 3r
Two Hand Mismatch Press
10, 10
I’m digging the mismatched double bells.
Matching work on each side via multiple sets, the 1st and 4th sets with bells one way, the 2nd and 3rd with bells reversed on the see saw press for example – today opposite of yesterday I started every set pressing the kb first.
On the final set, kb right, db left, I shouldered both bells at the same time.
I can now solidly triple the f sq with bell at right rack, a shaky single bell at left rack, which is where the right rack had been til today (day 3-4 whether you’re counting day 0 or not).
There’s a bunch of ways to just get two mismatched bells to shoulder. I still need to do dumbbell first to one shoulder, and kb on left hand both to shoulder.
One way, that I’ve only gotten once (arguably twice) out of four tries is the snatch the kettlebell, then squat/bend to get the dumbbell off the ground, pick it up, then shoulder it.
That’s a high tension, real slow and controlled, exercise!
I scheduled a 185lb barbell press rep out test for February 26th, this gives me just about a month of daily mismatch work to see what it does.
I already know from experience with a pair of 75lb dumbbells that they’re worth around a 185lb barbell.
The barbell press will be up.
Bells carryover well to barbells
The see saw and mismatch two hand pressing is a simple, easy logistics, way for me to train frequently, hit the stabilizers not hit by the barbell, and rack up pressing volume with massive time under tension.
Heck, just the bell cleans (whatever implement, one or two handed) gets me used to pulling a longer “bar path” than a barbell requires.
I feel very confident I’d be able to c&p a pair of 100s, whether db or kb.
Maybe I’ll day pass somewhere in a month or three to get this on video.
•20oz cherry coke (mostly between sets)
Or there’s the option of purchasing a 100lb kb or single/pair of 100lb dbs – possibly continuing to mismatch but heavier.
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The kettlebell due to it’s awkward balance, and the very high tension training with it requires – it raises the metabolism.
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The steak and home fries is taking me about a half hour to make, but really it’s just a little activity every five minutes or so then back to reading/writing, repeat, til I have a hearty nutritious meal made by my own hand.
It wouldn’t be hard for me to just eat meat, potatoes, vegetables, drink milk and fruit juice.
Oddly, I don’t feel bummy anymore about having watched porn this morning.
I just know it’s reset, start over, while thinking to myself “be better”.
Finally eating the salad from a few nights ago, as the potatoes cook.
•salad
I should have more of these.
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Cooking A Healthy Dinner For Men :
1. Make a salad. This can be a premixed bag bought from the store, whichever you like, and I’d cut some beets into it, add a few walnuts, slice up an avocado, maybe some cheese – pea shoots, sprouts.
2. Put a pan on a burner. Turn on the burner. Drop butter into the pan.
3. Put a steak in the pan. Spice the top side. (Whether salt and pepper simple or everything but the kitchen sink.)
After around five minutes flip it. Allow it to cook five minutes or so longer.
4. As steak is in the pan, microwave a potato or two (or four) for five to seven minutes. Once that’s done, chop it up, and having removed the steak from the pan, adding a little butter if necessary, put the chopped up potatoes in the pan, moving around some so as to crispen up all sides.
This too can sit and forget for a few minutes before stirring/flipping the potatoes around.
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All in all you have a salad, steak, and home fries in about a half hour.
It’s healthy, nutritious, man food – and you made it yourself, and probably have two or three nights out of it as well.
(If you’re really time crunched – crockpot, stew)
As time goes on I enjoy cooking for myself more and more, while too finding healthy foods to no longer be a thing viewed as boring and bland, but an enjoyable thing that too tastes good.
Maybe I’m starting to eat right. Meal prep? We’ll see. I’d like to do tilapia for a time, probably tilapia twice a day, eggs once, beef once, lay off the milk and juice calories some, eat a salad more often – just see what an enjoyable healthy fat loss diet does for me.
I’m pretty amped to go lift again. Once the salad is done I’ll do more two hand mismatch presses.
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It’d be cool to have your regular training be so close to what a strongman competition is so as to have the two, a session vs a competition be somewhat interchangeable.
Still thinking about that local gym, still sticking to The Cold Air Barbell Club.
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2nd Lift :
Sig Klein Mismatch Attempts
x8 kb right, db left
x8 kb left, db right
The mismatch Sig Klein challenge is close, now as an any given day type thing.
I can shoulder both with the kb left, db right – the coolest thing about the mismatched double bells is the SHEER VARIETY they’re providing.
This session provided a great upper back pump.
For the cleans you want the kettlebell going between your legs, the dumbbell going to the outside of your leg.
I get why on the kettlebell version it’s suggested between the legs, and why for me it was hang cleans outside my legs with dumbbells when I got it in a hotel gym nine months ago.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ijkJDsYIgg4?
outside the legs hang cleans felt right
The mismatch makes for an interesting pull, the torso twisted a bit with kettlebell going down your exact center, whole the dumbbell goes off to your side.
There’s a cross body aspect to the pull.
That feels right for the mismatched pair, if it was a pair of matching bells I’d do one or the other.
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•cheesy bread thing
•¾lb steak
•home fries
•12oz cherry coke
•12oz cranberry juice
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Work food for tomorrow may just be cheese sticks, I didn’t get salami for sandwiches last time I was at the grocery store.
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I’m reinstituting the policy of “no cellphone overnight in the bedroom”.
Can’t watch porn when the phone is in another room.
I’m finished with watching porn infrequently, shaving because of it, etc.
I’ll just do the disciplines I know keep me on the right path.
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The whey is barely within date. I’d purchased it about 15 months ago.
Walmart cheapo, Body Fortress, in a flavor the internet seems to say no longer exists….
•8oz milk
•scoop BANANA whey (shaken not stirred)
•one cheese stick
A nice 40g protein right before bed.
In that tasty synthetic banana, which I truthfully enjoy to the surprise of everyone aside from myself and one old training partner.
I remember I stopped drinking whey because between protein powder and the caffeine from the soda fountain was speeding my metabolism too much.
Right now with the kettlebell I want a faster metabolism.
Protein speeds metabolism.
I may drink a scoop or two a day until the tubs (I have more than one flavor on hand) are gone.
We’ll see what happens.
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35, 5
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Persistence & Tenacity