With everything closed down I’ve basically been at home for 48, 72 hours now.
I have a distaste towards discussing lowest common denominator things, yet still am writing on it. I could be doing a COVID gym related video(s) for the views, maybe I’ll still do so.
(Of course I want a 225lb press filmed in an empty parking lot.)
Life always provides topics. Here goes :
Though I’m watching a lot of YouTube, I’ve dodged covid related stuff.
Three guys I would watch usually, and haven’t, dodging the covid content.
•Wim Hof
•Wes Watson
•Savage Studios
Educated Guesses :
Wim – through the mind, and breathing you’ll be immune to this flu variant, able to beat it if you caught it
Wes – stay home, diet hard since the grocery store can be bonkers, do a shit ton of volume on the exercises available to you
Savage – title says it all, he’s saying to do burpees at home with the gym closed
Last night I got a good laugh from reading Operation Werewolf’s “It’s The Plague” to which I agreed.
The sickness cases, and deaths are and will stay statistically insignificant. I doubt I’ll know a single person affected physically.
The person I’ve seen most affected was that scared shut in old woman a few floors below our customer frantically calling and screaming into her phone about every cough or sneeze she heard.
(Our customer had a cough, and a mover sneezing because of dust off of a box isn’t uncommon.)
Hilariously my uncle likened covid’s affecting you in opposite of how one relates to Jesus…this was to the ghetto females at the hotel pool on the 16th. They probably thought him a Bible thumper. “Corona only affects you if you believe, like how Jesus only helps you if you believe.”
While everyone is freaked out over a sickness I feel phenomenal.
There’s food on the table, I’m doing my PT, and military pressing outdoors.
Despite what appears to be daily rain through the duration I’ll be pressing everyday.
PT as usual, ecstacy in the title from doing an extra 3:00 high horse stance hold.
2, 3 days of not leaving the house, looking at near three weeks of this, it reminds me of being depressed, shut in, with my thoughts. How did I waste so much time! I’ll be rip roaring to be outside, social, gym, and working when this has passed.
I’m not eating too much, but despite the pressing, and PT, it’s not a huge energy turnover.
You’ve got to tire yourself out, so that’s why I did the extra horse stance and an extra set of pushups.
I don’t like sitting around. Enough years of depression not social or physical enough makes me very averse to doing so. Yeah, it is what it is, past is past, and it did strengthen me…I’m looking to go put in work.
True work :
I like being outgoing, have noticed I have a positive effect on people, and know! Know, know. That I have knowledge, useful knowledge, on improvement, particularly physical training that can help a lot of people, that I have to get out there.
You know what hurts me?
Giving good actionable advice, particularly to the ones I love, and it being ignored.
It slightly saddens me when an acquaintance doesn’t take it, as 99% of the time I’m pulling for you.
And on the flipside, I felt amazing when that old man implemented my advice, learned to feel his lats, just like I couldn’t help but smile as I walked away knowing my joking about how this is all an irrational fear response visibly calmed down the teenage cashier a few days back.
Everywhere I go I’m making positive impressions, and that’s how I want it to be.
The gym? I’ve got big and strong actionable and teachable figured out. I feel the need to spread the knowledge, and desire seeing it put to use.
“A positive mind is gonna win every time.” – Wes Watson ; I’ve internalized a lot with his audio. Thank you.
Persistence & Tenacity