12/4/22
I’ve got a Wim Hof podcast playing, the title of this post sparked by something I was thinking last night – the day off of work, a buddy cancelled on me for us working out (he’s gotta hook up with a stripper – lol – hoe before bro in this case), and what I just lifted.
Press Ugly :
On today’s best set, a new 8rm of 195lbs (two and a half years since 8×185 which was only recently beaten for reps at the same weight), the form is UGLY!
I won’t be letting the bar go below my chin, it’ll be down to chin height at best, I lean back a little (rippetoe approved mind you), and something I noticed in research of old time austrian and german strongmen – I stagger my feet slightly.
This is more stable.
Fuck strict military form, none of us use strict military form anyway – have you pressed with your heels together? Zero layback, only the head angled (if that) backwards to let the bar pass the chin.
(Funny gym memory – a chick wearing a forward facing ball cap as she pressed – I recall looking over and saying “lose the cap, at least spin it around, you’ll be getting the reps again”.)
No. It’s better to use the looser form (still a muscular challenge), and be fucking strong!
When you put people’s benches overhead you can press however you want.
Emevas at mythical strength is right, Dan John is right, this past year+ I’m right – you can do nothing but the clean and press and thrive!
Ideally you’d have every sort of implement to press overhead, atlas stones, strongman logs, natural stones, sandbags, heavy dumbbells, a barbell, people, random heavy objects, EVERYTHING, etc.
I’ve got a barbell.
I intend to keep pressing overhead, outside, with my barbell.
Like I did today, you can use perfect form on light sets – the 10rm, the 20rm, the 15 rep maxes – today’s set of 15 probably a tad shy of a rep PR at that weight (155lbs – I was looking for 20 reps, as the 8rm of 195lbs was looking for 10 reps).
For heavy, reasonably get ugly, and be the strongest around for it.
I love the clean and press.
Though I no longer military press, it’s now the press, king of lifts.
Eat Pizza Like A Ninja Turtle :
Lifting big, to a degree you’re going to have to eat big.
Pizza.
It’s so easy.
There’s probably no other way to eat a bunch of calories as easily as pizza allows.
Maybe those 90s cartoons were trying to teach me something…how to build myself the muscularity of a 80s cartoon (He-Man obviously).
I’ve got the power!
Drink Milk Like The Tiniest Of Babes :
Arnold is quoted as saying “drink beer, milk is for babies”.
Mark Rippetoe is quoted as saying “babies drink milk, and look how they grow”.
Arnold might be more famous…fuck his outlook, I’m in agreement with Rippetoe – drink your milk!
A half gallon a day is nothing!
At 17 years old I was getting close to two gallons a day for a good six months.
I remember people thinking I insane when I described milk as my hydration drink in the sense of gatorade.
Funny, science caught up with that just now…a decade later.
While I’m not at gomad right now, I’m solidly at about 5 gallons a week.
Lately I’ve been running on apple pie heated up, scoops of vanilla ice cream over it, milk drinking with it.
Pizza may be easy high calorie mixed macros to eat, but milk is your easy high calorie mixed macros to drink!
Calories are easier to drink than eat.
Milk is sold at every gas station.
Hilariously, there is stuff online saying some bodybuilders are drinking breast milk, an article comparing ice cream and breast milk, all the word written about chocolate milk post workout, comparing eating ice cream vs drinking whey…
Drink your milk!
Eat your dairy!
Like the tiniest of newborn babes.
They grow!
I’m 200 something pounds of jacked from milk!
Thank God for the Irish blood in me which blessed me with full lactose tolerance!
Persistence & Tenacity