Press
15×165 = PR
6×165 STRICT
10×165 – FULL BODY – quads & triceps
3×165 STRICT – pauses at top & bottom
Clean Notes :
The first three sets used good power cleans – the basketball shoes I wore were actually very good footwear for the particle board I call platform
The forth set was off a heave.
Press Notes :
PR set pressing with loose press form, shy of a chin height lowering/from higher than chin height some reps.
Second set pretty strict, last set more strict as I paused at the top and below chin bottoms of each and every rep.
The 10 rep set was a real good set, getting reps with very good quad and tricep activation – really feeling the muscles work – loose at the bottom of the rep, only down to chin height, but with some pauses at the top
It’s worth loosening and tightening form throughout the session for a more variable and improved training effect.
Thinking :
I take a day off yesterday, had masturbated a few times this morning (which usually does and today did – tire me – tightens my lower back and feels like life force is emptied in part from my body busting nuts for no reason and note : dude stop doing this, we’ve just delayed beard growth a couple days again by doing.
However masturbation is, in my eyes, a lesser sin than watching porn.)
Cooked a steak for a couple dinners prep,
bought groceries – cranberry juice, milk, salami – the life force refilling juice, and work food.
Got home from the grocery store, and lifted immediately with the last bit of daylight.
And PR’d.
Maybe it was the rest day.
Maybe it was a testosterone boost from getting off via hand – does it work that way, and/or having made eye contact with a cute, curvy brunette in the store which would be a “PR by cute chick” on a half hour delay lol
Maybe testosterone simply was high today, I did after all impulsively jerk off as I had woken up particularly horny
Maybe it was just x 15 reps time.
Work :
Tomorrow I’ve that first moving shift in 2½ years. I’m a bit nervous, and yet excited.
Man, these are basically just me journaling. Anyone reading? I’d be curious to see a sound off/roll call from readers in the comments.
Persistence & Tenacity
Today’s PR Music :
empire roll call – big temps (just the verse time stamped – that’s what I lifted to)
I’ve been reading your posts. Great material. I wouldn’t worry too much about jerking off. It’s use it or lose it especially as you get older so if you don’t have a lady right now; you wanna keep those prostrate muscles strong by doing what comes naturally at your age. I don’t think we are biologically programmed to go without sex without compromising yourself but of course that’s just my own opinion and you gotta follow your own instincts and discipline.
Thanks for sounding off.
I get value knowing I’m giving value.
Is that, the feeling that we are useful – able to and giving value, the most important feeling we have as men?
…..
The pastor at the church I occasionally go to basically laughed at how hard I am on myself about jerking off.
Heck, I kinda have to laugh at myself over it too.
It’s one of those “why so serious” personal disciplines. I’m the only one I know like this on myself, whereas the handful of buddies and relatives who know this about me all find it oddly harsh.
“Dude, twice a day.”
Yeah I did that shit too, and my life went down hill at the point I started.
I can look myself in the eye knowing I’m not – masturbating, watching porn.
Neither act is something to take pride in.
Going without sex? My opinion?
You’re right – humanity is not meant to go without…
BUT
It’s meant to be sex inside of a committed relationship, then having children/progeny as the result – progeny we raise well – as men we’re meant to be patriarchs though there are some who are truly monks.
While there are fewer yet amongst women that are truly nuns.
…..
Feeling a sense of shame from participating in any of my vices, I take as instinctive revulsion.
Instinct guides the way.
Discipline follows it.
But we’re men, we have a sinning nature – we’re not infallible.
We won’t be perfect…
We must, however, strive.
That’s the key. To strive.
We must.
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Thanks for opening that line of thought.
I recall you speaking of training daily.
Is this still the case?