1215am
High Tension Pushups
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I remember at one point during the covid lockdown, inspired by wes watson, I went real minimal on food for a bit.
1000 daily calories
I went about ten days on a can of baked beans, a pack of ramen, and the luxury of (not to be had in the story that inspired this) a 12oz glass of milk for my one daily meal, after reading for a few hours and doing my set of pushups.
At about that ten day mark I was getting real needy for meat, and relaxed the thing a bit.
I remember having a 16oz flavored milk, being a little disappointed I went off diet, yet cherishing the thing as I drank it.
That influx of caloric flavor – immediately I felt far less bummy. I’d been rather eeyore (spelling CORRECTED – the depressive donkey). The drink made a difference.
And that night I chose to have a takeout dish of pork, rice, and beans from a local mexican restaurant.
I went back to a similar diet the next day, but bumped it to 1500 calories or so.
The one pan meal saw the addition of 3-4 eggs, and I upped milk to 24oz.
If I didn’t finish it I allowed one days allotment to be a few bites of food before the next days evening meal.
All in all it was about three weeks of asceticism, then I realized the world wasn’t ending, and went back to eating normally.
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With A Healthy Base Of Physicality You Don’t Lose Muscle :
Last night speaking with my old training partner we were discussing how the body holds onto muscle.
He got hurt injured (spinal), didn’t lift for a little over six months, sedentary or close to it, and basically maintained 15 pullups, and a 10×405 deadlift without activity coming out the other end at 6’1″ 240, and knowing his eating habits I assume he has an outline of some if not a 4 pack of abs.
“I assume you didn’t really change how you ate though inactive, still clean, still high protein.”
“Haha you know me. Yeah. Maybe just a bit less calories.”
A good base of physicality changes everything.
Once you’ve built muscle the body doesn’t just want to waste away.
Those who never played outside as a kid, played sports as a youth, physical work and/or sports/hobbies/gym as an adult – a lifetime of sedentary…
They may lose muscle by dropping calories with their lifestyle as one with the couch, it’s when you have a physical base that shit just doesn’t happen.
For pete’s sake somatotypes change over time, and I’m inclined to say that they don’t change in a negative direction.
Everyone can become a whatever and mesomorph hybrid – that hybrid in either order.
And all those heavy fat fuckers who were athletic at around 6′ and between 185-235 as high school athletes…
Even at 330lbs they’re not far off from getting back to their athletic self of youth.
That motivates me.
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You know, every day I don’t have a full time shift it makes sense to me to get in multiple sessions.
If I join that powerlifting gym I’m still going to have to get my outdoor session in as well.
I really like that aspect of The Cold Air Barbell Club.
Gyms are too coddled.
It’d be a great thing to have racks, benches, pullup bars, dip bars, a tall staircase, lots of plates, heavy dumbbells, heavy kettlebells…outdoors – year round, location ie weather not a consideration.
I’ve been getting it in wintry conditions and loving it.
Wim Hof w/AnnaLynne McCord
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Upon waking I’m a little hungry.
That’s good. I’ll wait til after I’ve lifted to eat some eggs and/or steak.
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1st Lift :
Power Snatch
10×1 135lbs e:45o:45
Lateral Raises ss/w Deadlift
6×10 2½lbs/5×3 205lbs
Deadlift DOH
1×255
1×275
3×300
5×255
Press
6×180 close to strict
4×180 STRICT
Good explosion on the snatches.
I don’t like how quickly the explosive effort gets to my legs – lactic acid maybe.
255 is a good top number for deadlifting right now, can be reps test # for now.
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Oh yeah it’s worth it to do a bunch of light deadlifts.
That was a great session.
Always pull double overhand.
To progress on the power snatches keep adding intervals to 20, then go to doubles.
Occasionally do a high rep set, and when 20×1 is easy add 5lbs.
As I realized on the deadlift if I keep the reps crisp most of the time, occasionally doing high reps or heavier as a test of all the crisp light low rep sets.
With this approach I could essentially never have to buy another piece of equipment or step foot into a gym again.
Double overhand and little black with gloves in the cold – makes the grip have to be strong.
No bumper plates means never dropping the bar.
500lbs is what I can load to, and to get to 20×500 doh, well that scales to a 700+ deadlift, is strongman strong, very conditioned.
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Most sessions of pulls – low rep sets.
Occasionally test reps.
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kielbasa, potato (home fries), american cheese, yogurt covered pretzels, milk
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Checking the schedule I’ve been added onto a couple shifts this week.
A bit more than monday’s really short shift.
Still, need better work, really to make a living with vocation not job.
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I’ve been doing my dishes immediately lately.
Taking pride in having an empty sink, enjoying the act itself of washing them in the moment, and treating it as a daily win.
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glass of holiday punch (spiced juice – not alcohol)
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I’ve never ate clean, nor ever had seriously high protein.
I built muscle on, at most 250g protein a day, generally about 180g, while calories were at 5000, sometimes more.
For all dietary concerns the answer can boil down (heh) to “eat meat”.
Looking back to fall 2018 when I was taking care of my grandma, I’d eat a cheese sandwich for breakfast having woken famished to drink half a gatorade in the middle of the night, if grandma wanted to get lunch we would (generally subway – my usual meatball sub see mover’s food choices) – I didn’t say no to lunch, but skipped it otherwise, for dinner most evenings I had a bag of frozen breaded chicken, drank milk, and late night I’d have another ravenous meal – raw egg shake and a bowl of grits.
A high volume lift, couple mile beach walk, maybe a little swimming, what seemed high stress yet psychologically on a mission, she ~4000 calories a day was a maintenance level with a lot of hunger.
180g protein, ~4000 calories
Felt like starvation rations.
I exploded as I drove back east, I’d say I broke into the 270s, and was leaner for a while.
Rest (physical rest – driving), continental breakfasts, pop tarts, oreos, mcdonald’s, and milk – all the hc&p went to my neck, traps, and shoulders once my body found “recovery”.
Running into a training partner my father’s age at the grocery store he looked at me and was like “obviously the past few months, whatever you were doing in cali worked – I thought you were still out there, when did you get back”.
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Right now, in being kinda needy about a craving for a rotisserie chicken.
Nicely enough they’re sound financially as well.
A person could eat one daily as the starting point of power eating, or allot one a day as dieting down food.
At some point before bed I’ll have a ¼lb steak, 3-4 eggs, make another potato into cheesy home fries, maybe eat the other ½lb of kielbasa.
The type of day that coworkers would look at you in horror for eating.
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2nd Lift :
Overhead Squats
bar x 20
Feels great, gets you breathing and an upper back pump.
Guilted myself into it. I didn’t have a full time shift today ergo two lifts.
The empty bar overhead squats, all it takes is stepping outside – fuck the footwear (yes) get it done.
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¼lb steak, leftover tater tots,
four eggs, one potato (home fries), american cheese, milk, two brownies, finished yogurt pretzels
Microwaving overcooked the steak, it was the second time reheating it.
Eggs are #1 right now – funny since the last time I regularly cooked eggs and regularly enjoyed them was as a high school junior starting to cook for myself after the school weight room wanting to eat before mom got home and made dinner.
Making a weekly batch of baked potatoes is awesome, it lets you have meat with a baked potato, and it lets you make home fries in the pan you’re already using for meat and/or eggs.
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1130pm
Pushups
I don’t log every time I do pushups here, but with it being an all consuming thought while doing the thing – share I must :
“Simple. All in effort.”
It does not matter what you do, it’s how you do it.
Expect awesomeness. Achieve awesomeness.
The journey is joy.
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Persistence & Tenacity