4/15/24
Mostly I eat dinner.
Dinner is supposed to be sausage & onions – I’ve not yet locked in the discipline.
What has been happening lately is a big serving of meat for dinner, probably a quart of milk, and some form of a few hundred calories of chocolate for dessert.
If I’m ravenous I’ll eat some smaller serving of carbs, probably with milk, as a midnight snack.
Lately it’s been close to one meal a day, tends towards that way.
I simply don’t like eating often.
And despite that – getting in plenty IS NOT an issue, cause think about it I’m 6′ 290.
No one gets this size without knowing how to put down food, and having done so repeatedly for lengths of time.
A contrast that, I don’t like eating often, yet can eat big, and am big.
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Sausage & onions requires prepping in batches.
A meal of ground beef or eggs is simple to just whip up when needed.
I’ve mentally decided that I’m going to go with the buc&p 16kg idea.
That most pressing for a time is going to be light while still training daily, and that I’ll shift priority to barbell one arm snatch as the “heavy” lift.
The buc&p is looking for a set of 50x16kg.
That’s a lot of stimulus.
35lbs is light they say.
I say do 50 unbroken reps of bottoms up clean and press.
Thus far I’m at like 20, maybe 25. It’s surprisingly good stimulus.
Lots of upper back, lots of the sides, plenty of pressing for the time – my wrist must be solid, my grip endurance will improve.
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Maybe I’ll make these purchases ;
•stuff to rebuild heavy sandbag
•HEAVY sledgehammer (20lber)
I genuinely can see myself getting down a handful of performing strongman type skills, and alongside the kettlebell making it like that.
My 30th birthday approaches, and I can’t see myself just existing – passion has to be involved in my day to day, in my vocation, to have an existence worth writing down.
That might’ve been the major lesson of my twenties, to not just exist at jobs year after year, to go do something cool, unique, that fits me.
(not that I wouldn’t work say firefighting should the opportunity…)
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The rock stays outside, while the light 16kg buc&p is the EASIEST logistical thing ever (as small bell = can go to parks easily, not just yard liftin), and it’s gonna be fun to really make a run at a heavy barbell one arm snatch.
I may put priority on the left arm with it, solely as I had been putting more priority in the right during at the pressing these past six months.
It’s days to the six month mark, and I truly have overhead pressed in some capacity every day.
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What would it take to clean & press 300lbs? 315lbs?
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Today’s Lift :
BUC&P
25x16kg right
20x16kg left
This is the new main training.
Sometimes I’ll barbell one arm snatch looking for bigger #s, though daily or near it I’ll be using the high rep bottoms up kettlebell.
Continuing with daily pressing in this capacity.
Build back up to higher bup #s this way.
Get some serious forearm development and wind this way.
Soccer ball immediately after, only six or seven minutes – got a handful of 7ct, maybe an 8ct, and had one that was foot to foot, pretty well under control.
Half a month, minutes to an hour a day, and the skill is getting better.
Maybe handstand needs this treatment again. I do want handstand walks and a freestanding hspu – I don’t care how heavy I am.
But bucp/buc&p is the main movement, the skill stuff alongside kettlebell primary training is an awesome mix, and already I feel that the buc&p is going to carryover to both pullups and sledgehammer levering naturally in true kettlebell wth effect fashion.
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Finally cooked up the next batch of sausage & onions.
Mind you I microwaved a little with some rice as I had the batch in the oven, otherwise it’s 2lbs of kielbasa, 2lbs of a “philly cheese steak” sausage (which tastes phenomenal cooked up), and just one onion, a little flour in the pan to sop up the fats.
Next time I may try cooking it in the oven with spuds/instant mashed potatoes in the pan to sop up the fat.
Potato is better than wheat.
Two to three days of food is prepped…
If I was a sponsored athlete I’d seriously want old neighborhood as one – I eat a lot of their sausages, then got milk cause I’ve lived a long time on dairy as a connoisseur of milk.
As I was lifting and kicking the soccer ball around today I had a realization that this’ll
melt the fat off of me.
It’s a funny thought ; to be asked how you got lean and answer “I lifted kettlebells for five to twenty minutes a day, then spent time dribbling a soccer ball to develop a skill – it was enough activity to do so”.
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The sausage & onions works for me.
Long have I found that a certain amount of saturated fat, and I just feel more…vital.
It’s actually in contrast to some other experiences.
I remember for a long time I didn’t want to eat much pizza as usually, most pizza places, it just felt too greasy to me, yet the ingredients really are the same saturated fat.
Heck, any amount of soybean oil is too greasy like that. Living on restaurant food ain’t healthy.
I experienced it as a line cook, really cutting my grocery costs with an employee meal every shift and by saving any food waste (basically carbs getting tossed at the end of the night went home with me – LOTS of greasy soybean oil laden rice).
The burger last night, wasting no drippings of just under 1¼lbs of 80/20 ground beef – the meal was too greasy in the end.
I don’t find that happens with steak or sausage.
And as said above I just feel good with the high fat of them.
“Bodybuilding By Bratwurst”
(cool ring go that, though in reality it’s heavily slanted kielbasa)
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