4/26/23
I was in the mood to lift, though I ended up deciding to bottoms up snatch against the clock.
A brief session, just as it were.
Lift :
10:00 timer, I’d been thinking for a couple days of the secret service snatch test – while with what I have, and to put my spin on it I did the bottoms up snatch with a 16kg bell.
This was my first time snatching against a ten minute clock. I got 144 reps, these done evenly left/right between many hand switches.
(this was hours after work, just put preceding in the post – maybe I’ll start doing a real brief minisession before work, the “real” workout in the afternoon/evening)
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Work :
Work was at the shop today, mostly crating the past couple day’s job – weighing the crates on the scale (you have to before you hand off military/interstate to an eighteen wheeler).
The big shop scale, we were goofing around weighing ourselves.
“What’s J weigh!”
“Hold on, I’m stepping on.”
295, no 294lbs it read as I held still.
Damn! I was fasted, not even a sip of water or anything. The few months at this job I might’ve put on a few pounds, but I’m definitely in a bit better shape as seen by the stairs on yesterday’s job, bodyweight going up would have to be that a lot of my frequent minisessions are new/newer type stimulus – today’s a perfect example, while protein is high = inadvertently I put on weight.
I could pretty easily force feed up to 308+, but I’d have to restructure my life to be okay with being that heavy.
Honestly I’d have to go deep into powerlifting (or somehow rugby/sumo/american football) to consider those scale numbers acceptable.
“Wait, you step on” I say to one of the newer guys, a big black hispanic, of about 5’11”, probably in the low 300s.
He’s a tad smaller framed than me, and has just enough more of a belly than me (he’s not crazy fat), while saying he thinks he’s about 305, 310 for me to expect him to be barely over 300, a tad heavier than I.
We’re all talking and he doesn’t stand still on the scale – it’s bouncing all over the place from 299 to 312lbs
“Dude, stand still!” I say
“Oh yeah”, he stops moving around, and it
levels off at 309.
The lightest guy, who I’ve seen grow from 130ish at 19 to 160ish at 25, he looks at me saying “you’re gonna have to go home and eat J”.
I got a laugh.
“T, you’re saying I need to force feed – get my weight up.”
Then from the new heaviest mover came “but that’s a bit high – I’m wearing this thick ass hoodie, and I’ve got my phone, wallet in my pockets”… so step back on he did, sans hoodie to 307, now 13lbs heavier than I, the two of us dressed pretty similarly.
Upon relay of the force feeding line, the manager got a good laugh, me saying “I’m not the heaviest mover here now, I might have to”, while making a broken puppy dog type face.
Silliness.
Amusing.
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I fully realize that dropping even to as heavy as 265, being that’s a 25+ lb drop, would up pullups, up endurance just from dropping weight.
Some physical performance is like that, you improve solely as the weight is now off – training the capacity isn’t much in play as a factor.
Drop 20lbs and you might be able to run well solely cause you’re lighter.
I know I could still run well in the 230s.
Would PT performance suffice weighing 255-265 after having been 290ish for this length of time.
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I’ve now stepped on a scale very close to, if not exactly 100lbs over any official wrestling weigh in from back in high school.
Funny to recall thinking I’d never get over 200lbs again while force feeding to 197 before wrestling season junior year to wrestle at 189lbs.
(then the post season twenty pounds in ten days growth spurt did, 195-215, in 10 days)
Now I’m curious as to if my bodyweight will naturally swing back down to even below the mid 200s from work, new workouts, and eating a tad more clean.
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PT :
In the evening I did a set of pullups – 10 reps, the first time in double digits in…what a year?
The cool thing was that as I approached the bar, maybe a minute away from parking at the spot – I decided it was time to bang out double digits again.
10 pullups at 294+, I doubt in the evening after two meals is my lightest point in the day.
PT, pretty happy to get an all biceps, ugly, double digit set – I did some 4ct jumping jacks.
Dilapidated shoes might annoy me with jumping rope, but they don’t on jumping jacks.
No excuses.
Pretty cool to be getting okay again with calisthenics at this high bodyweight.
Do lots of kettlebell, add in more by ear – I’ve only done a set or two of pullups a week at most for a year and a half.
Be well rounded dude.
And start running bleachers on the weekend again.
-J