4/6/24
It’s not hard to look like a monster after eating some empty calories (yogurt pretzels) in the 11pm hour then doing a set of pushups real close to the strike of midnight.
Brushing your teeth right after = yup I’m a big dude.
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Almost every moment I’m thinking of lifting kettlebells.
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I’m not eating keto or carnivore, but a pound or pound and a half of sausage with plenty of onion slivers, some flour in the pan to sop up the fats, to drink milk, iced tea, this is like 75% of my feedings the past week.
I put this together late last night ; the press PRs were there with “Egg Power Diet” (I was eating nine eggs daily), and I’m already noticing this “Sausage & Onion Power Diet” (like 1lb sausage as a daily minimum) is filling the same role.
I’ve never really experimented truly with heavy eating and heavy training at the same time.
When I force fed at 17yo I didn’t train heavy enough with all the 5000-7500 daily calories (depends on where in the year we’re talking) that I was taking in.
Many a time in my early twenties I wasn’t eating heavy enough to really get the strength gains.
It’s my opinion that ; fasting is alright, I’ve operated most of since 17yo on intermittent fasting, but each night a pound of fatty meat and a half gallon of whole milk (or chocolate or strawberry or coffee flavored whole milk) has to be minimum required ingredients in dinner for strength.
Sounds like broken english, but you catch my drift there.
Don’t be so fancy.
Eat a bunch of meat, drink a bunch of milk, live big weights, be big, be strong.
Science geek stay small.
Science geek think too much.
Science geek stay small.
Big man get bigger eating big, lifting big.
Big man make science geek look small and weak, puny and fragile – wimpy framed.
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Today’s Lift :
I got better on the 40kg bup right.
And went 14/15rm looking for a right hand press PR.
Left arm is still barely pressing 40kg.
After pressing on video I really lounged around mixing 2h swings, cleans, front squats (and a single rep of left hand press), just getting some work in – I love the aspect of how easy it is to transition between body parts for full body workouts.
I could see the pistol squat basically just happening from the high tension of one bell front squats – you’re having to be really tense with a bell in one side’s rack, and maybe I’ll play around with foot placement, creeping a foot forward strikes me as making it all more pistol like.
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4+ ct using the knees is pretty common now dribbling the soccer ball.
I’m mostly using knees as with the wet ground I’m in snow boots – don’t want to keep repeatedly soaking my feet and shoes.
Once it’s warm weather I’ll probably be doing this barefoot.
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I flipped the 25lb plate for 15 catches each hand.
I don’t really want to buy at 35lb or 45lb bumper.
I’ve flipped 45lb bumpers before – both the fat black colored cheapo bumpers and the blue colored quality ones.
I’m confident I can catch a 35lb bumper at any given time, while the 45lb bumper would probably need practice.
Hey, flip the 25lb bumpers and the smaller kettlebells – it’s building catch/grasp/quick fire grip, and getting to a solid one hand flip with the 32kg or 40kg kettlebell would be something.
(pretty easily flip the 20kg)
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How to spend saturday?
Why another minisession of course – let the compulsion drive me to another kettlebell press and soccer ball dribbling session.
Got some more knee to knee 4cts, maybe some 5cts – mixed in at least one 4ct between every 5-10 reps or so of left hand press with the 20kg.
Did 50 presses total, mixed presses with the clean and press at random.
It’s kinda fun to ladder or reverse ladder a clean, a few presses, a clean, a few presses – long pressing sets that way.
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I’ll keep working 40kg right press, 20kg left press, 40kg the front squat/clean/combo stuff.
The time under tension is really massive.
Two ideas ;
1. lengthen the combos…for fat loss.
2. lengthen the reps on 2h swing…for fat loss.
Just 12x40kg on 2h swing gives me a crazy metabolic damage type glute pump.
If I got to 10×10 or better yet 20×20 or a set of 100+ unbroken – I have a feeling there’d be a substantial deadlift (amongst other things) from it all.
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Brunch was sausage & onions with coffee milk.
Post (first) workout a can of iced tea.
Dinner will be a repetition of brunch but with milk or iced tea, maybe cranberry juice.
(it ended up being a large quantity of sausage & onions, a bowl of m&ms, and milk – eating – it’s gonna get interesting)
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Some timed ten second reverse gripper holds a couple times throughout the day.
I want to easily be doing these with the 200 or 250lb heavy grips grippers – figure it can only help.
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In only days I’ve noticed more soccer ball dribbling, more kettlebell volume, eating steak or steak & sausage or sausage with onions – I feel far more energetic which means more and more free time goes into the practicing of the two, which means I get better at both, which means I want to do more of both, infinity.
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I’ve got a future in kettlebells.
Persistence & Tenacity
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