4/5/24
Early morning ; I’ve done a few squeezes with the gripper.
Most reverse gripper, one normal.
As is I’m feeling another fail…or success at a 40kg bup today.
There’s always the path of pressing as hard and as long/sustained against it as I can.
Go for height, then hold the failure as high as possible, resist! Until it’s back in the rack and gravity has won.
Unscientific? Shrugs.
Lots of the good stuff is.
“Fail my way to success.”
We’ll see where kettlebells, gripper squeezes, and soccer ball dribbling takes me.
Unrelated, and know this ; that’s the physical side of the equation, the dietary part really is but sausage and onions now.
Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow I’m going to make another big batch.
Probably four pounds, two or three types of sausage, without the steak this time, and a bunch of onions – one pan – two to four days of food.
Give me a quart of milk a day, an iced tea can or two, and I’m content to eat off of that exclusively.
So not keto, nor carnivore, though not far off.
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Now throwing around the kettlebell (s), it makes you gorilla strong.
Right now I’m building that weird real world kettlebell strength.
Some monkey bars would transfer it to bodyweight I’m sure.
It’s interesting, but my training is really becoming back/shoulder/hand intensive, only full body as a side effect.
Funny, cause I used to be a “leg lad” the opposite of the “bench bro”.
Full body – you can’t lift kettlebells any other way.
Hands are pumped often, hands feel more like a beast’s paw, strong, primal.
The way it’s supposed to be.
Somewhere online it was likened to having larger hands – I grok that, as I’ve tended to think I’ve got bowling pins for forearms.
Do a million reps of kettlebell ballistics.
You too will have bowling pin forearms and mechanic’s hands.
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Last night I did a horse stance hold.
They’ve done so much for me in the past.
Plus the idea goes along so well with all this stuff.
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Today’s Lift :
Not a perfect bottoms up press…
I pressed 40kg to lockout!
Yes, it fell after a brief count at lockout, but…it was pressed!
A strict rep with the negative will come.
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And pressed 13x40kg right – that 13/15 of PR, basically right handed I’m always in PR territory.
Left hand?
Maybe I’ll just high rep press 20kg for a long while lol.
24/7 PR territory on the right, the “dark times” on the left
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During today’s soccer ball dribbling practice due to the ground conditions I mostly used my knees.
However, the few times I used my feet – I got a 5ct or two, and a bunch of 4s and 3s with my right, basically every time I tried right foot.
And this is only six days in.
Hip flexors still get sore.
It’s amazing how much this is the case.
The adult lifestyle apparently sees then completely inactive.
The kettlebell, soccer ball, sausage & onions is working for me.
I’m typing with a big batch of kielbasa, andouille sausage, and onions in the oven.
(yep now that it’s tonight I’m cooking the next batch)
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How often should you press overhead?
How often should you work on a fun physical skill?
The Answer :
eight days a week – beatles
Well, technically seven 😁
Persistence & Tenacity
P.S. I really want more kettlebells at this point, but realize I could go really far just getting super high rep with the 40kg press (bring it x25+ would guarantee 35+ x 32kg), actually doing full body (combos, squats, snatches, swings) – letting the fat come off with those, this high fat sausage & onions diet, and actually running.