Vitality.
You can feel it through your actions.
Maybe some is not in your hands, but you still have the actions, your actions.
Indoors? Outdoors?
Outside you breath the fresh air and feel alive.
After a few hours in front of the television you realize nothing was accomplished, that you just lost time – time you’ll never get back.
You make eye contact, and she blushes.
Bleachers instead of a stair climber –
Your heart is pounding, cardio.
Your upper back is pumped.
Having masturbated, you compulsively shower, compulsively change your sheets – look at your eyes in the mirror.
Where’s the soul behind them? Gone.
Thank God that’s only temporarily.
You eat candy. You get drowsy.
You eat medium rare steak, and you’re chomping at the bit – you feel like going and chopping a tree, lifting again, shouldering a sandbag, meeting new people, seeing new places – LIVING!
You smell, and taste the mood in the air – they’re all miserable, punching the clock…
Drowning in vices.
When you can’t make an entire workday without participating in your vices – that’s addiction.
And sign you need new work.
The western world is one of addiction – television, food, phone, internet, alcohol, tobacco, legalized marijuana, criminalized opioids.
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3 Pullups
(Pro Athlete Status ie paid to “workout” – an old joke I used to make to gym staff working out on the clock)
@ work – the customers house was right next to a playground, waiting to drive off instead of standing around, seeing the bar appeared bout 9′ high and not liking standing around I hopped onto the bar of the swing set.
Just low enough to hop up onto, plenty high to fully hang from I climbed my hands up a little higher to closer to a false grip, real thick grip – like 4″ minimum, probably more, a sturdy bar – I’d love to live 10′ from that playground.
Picturesque house too.
The bar I use usually is real thin, I think I’m better at pullups with thicker handled bars – today’s was an entirely open hand.
The 3 reps on this fat bar were far stricter than sunday’s 5 reps on a thin bar – I left a bunch in the tank today.
The horror! I didn’t rep out.
I should build myself a sturdy, proper height, thick bar outdoor pullup station.
Having one just outside my door, my dip belt, my plates – no reason it wouldn’t be at 10 x bw+100 fast – I love weighted pullups.
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Work :
Easy ~4h, briefly unloading crates from a trailer with pallet jack, then mostly truck time to deliver ONE item
home early = lift early
It’s a beautiful day at The Cold Air Barbell Club!
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Lift :
BUT FIRST!
I should have tomorrow off, so I’m okay with caffeineing up – instant coffee = ass taste, but tastes less like ass in cold water, this time blended instead of shaken or stirred just to try it.
I drove home singing at the top of my lungs to “she had me at heads carolina”, really good mind state, it’d be cool to be in a bumping gym, but too I enjoy the fresh air at The Cold Air Barbell Club which is what I have to do the necessary work in this moment.
A gift.
1st Lift :
1pm
Power Snatch
50 reps in ~18:30 w/135lbs
Decided to go for 50/20 with 135lbs, the “isabel” wod split was in about 12:00 – I should go way harder on isabel.
Maybe do isabel daily til competitive
Funny that the “grace” wod (c&j 30×135) has no interest to me. I’d rather jerk for reps off of one clean per set or clean & press in any permutation – both heavier than 135lbs.
But I’ll do isabel.
While 50 or 100 reps – that’s a solid c&p session!
185+ lbs clean & press sounds like a good grace mod wod
No reason to take a long break, but I’m home for the day, so it’s no hurry, and a rotisserie chicken isn’t enough excuse to run to the store – so long break then…
2nd Lift :
2pm
Deadlift
50 reps in 10:15 w/205lbs
Decided to go for 50/20 with 205 as the 50/20 snatches were awesome – work capacity day – gotta have more ability to work.
First 15 reps as a set, mostly 6s after – the 15 showed me I have better strength than I’d been recently thinking, strength and work capacity, even wind – it all comes back quickly
3rd Lift :
3pm
Press
9×185 = PR tie
Hitting 9 considering all the mini sessions before, not bad. The clean was easy. The presses a bit loose, many to barely chin or a bit high. 10 is very close, while 12-15 is the “supposed to” progression number.
Note that according to that it wasn’t time for 185lbs, but 185lbs was today’s executive decision.
Not 50/20, just presses because press.
I want that 300lb c&p remember THIS YEAR
2023
Tomorrow maybe clean to a max then high pull a bit higher. Build more horsepower for the above.
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Immediately after this lift I did some…
Physical Play :
20:00
•some 10yd backpedaling – probably 75-80% speed – this is a creative way to run – start line, backpedal, walk to start line, repeat
•handstand practice – today I used a pair of bricks as contact point, I liked how that felt, got a couple good ones, but far from being able to hold one comfortably, consistently, and as a skill.
I may do pushups outside with the bricks as handles, I enjoyed squeezing them, a nice addition of grip stimulus.
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It’s funny, working in the kitchen I was all bummy about getting in workouts.
Now again as a mover, as it had been as a mover before, and at the other physical job I had in the interim period between moving and moving – I like training LOTS, and have no issue getting to the gym whether a place where I pay membership dues or at my home based Cold Air Barbell Club.
Today is basically mini sessions all day.
I fully expect to hit one or two empty bar overhead squat sessions before bed.
And some pushup ones are a given.
I do pushups at least twice a day, just normal every day.
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Fat Loss Day!
All the workouts were between at least 13-15 hours fasted, I just hit at least 16 hours.
Only drank water. Nearing a half gallon.
I love that I have energy.
It’s a matter of just doing more and more physical.
You should be able to work a physical job, have outdoor physical hobbies, lift, play sports – do all of it.
And be able to instinctively eat, sometimes little, sometimes big, and be lean whilst doing so.
The backpedalling was a good idea, could easily use that as one of many conditioning things to do – I want strong and in shape.
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4th Lift :
5pm
Overhead Squat (Press Grip)
bar x 20
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Spent the day at working out, went hard enough at it during some sessions, played in another, tied a PR, had a good day.
As I put the bar away in the ohs session I felt something…
“this is what it was like starting out – anytime, anywhere, loving the process”
And I smile.
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In the past and present I love days where I get in a million lifts.
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Ended up fasting, now about 830pm it’s been 24 hours, I’ll end up going til some point tomorrow without calories.
Likely 36+ hours.
It felt right. I went with it.
All I have prepped is ½lb kielbasa as
I see little need to eat carbs except around work.
That may become my usual.
Though baked potatoes sing a salacious song.
With kielbasa as breaking the fast option without having to cook, there is also eggs which are quick – today the first in about six days without having any, the two my intended late meal tonight had I eaten.
I have a pound of steak to cook, and for a few days now a rotisserie chicken has been begging a trip to the grocery store.
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930pm
Pushups :
more range than woody woodpeckers, still not full rom, brought the first set to 100 reps
second set, full rom, trying for high tension – 10 reps
third set, full rom, high tension trying to put it in as many muscle groups as possible, particularly the lats – 10 reps
Not the last pushups on the day either.
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Persistence & Tenacity
Today’s PR (tie) Music :
monica – everytime the beat drop
a middle school throwback – they consistently amp me up while lifting