Early in, early out.
Easy job. Too many of us on it really.
The manager does this, puts all hands on, on most days to keep the laborers there through the slower winter to still be available come when it picks up in spring.
Bout an hour twenty commute each way. The load went slowly between having too many of us trying to work in too small a space, and the customer standing around us going “oh take this, no don’t take that, actually take this, no wait not that”.
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I have a ways to go, to get good at wrapping.
I’m fine carrying stuff, though still I want to be better at that.
And I don’t like it when I don’t get hands on the big pieces the majority of the time.
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It lightly snowed off and on today, I’ll do light deadlifts in it.
Light deadlifts and/or light overhead squats daily, bleachers on the weekend to get my “sea legs”.
I already see my ability to work improving, but this is the time I want to ride it to lean –
abs in 2023
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The footing required to shoulder the bar can be sketchy in winter conditions.
Winter could be a time to just do lots of deadlift, raise the horsepower ceiling for a transition to power work come spring/summer/fall.
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Thumbless SLDL
3×165
Thumbless Wide Grip Sn SLDL
3×165
Thumbless Sn SLDL
3×165
Thumbless SLDL
3×165
Thumbless Wide Grip Sn SLDL
3×165
Thumbless Sn SLDL
3×165
Thumbless SLDL
3×165
Thumbless Wide Grip Sn SLDL
3×165
Thumbless Sn SLDL
3×165
Fat Grips Deadlift Hold
~:45 w/165
~:20 w/165
Press
11×165
Fat Grips Deadlift Hold
~:20 w/165
Press
14×165
Hard to read that log – it’s 9 sldl sets, all with varied thumbless grips, 3 deadlift hold sets, and 2 press sets.
On the second press set 10 reps were done on one breath, then a pause, almost a new PR set – left me breathing, feeling good – try to get as many as possible on as few breaths as possible.
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Funny to clean and press anyway.
I had brushed off the particle board and patio tiles, and may not be jumping my feet at all on cleans, definitely not on heaves, and I’m working with 15rm press weight – it’s silly light to shoulder.
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The idea of lifting after work is so as to be used to more and more work.
Getting back my sea legs.
It’d be amazing to have access to 10+ flights of stairs to run.
I’d run that. I like bleachers, but the ones I can hit are only a flight or so.
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I’m pretty content to just press and deadlift.
All the varied grip widths, the use of thumbless, or fat gripz – it’s all to stretch lighter weights.
I know lots of good work with light weights gets me strong.
It’s a matter of pumping the glutes, firing the quads, training the hands heavier than the system, and surprising yourself.
I’d like to pull 405+ with all the disadvantaged grips.
This allows you to be in a nice place of light, strong, and much in the tank.
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If I was to go to the local powerlifting gym I expect that I’d do much more volume.
Gotta make a trip indoors costing gas and dues worth it.
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An Idea :
To keep from overeating, the first thing you are allowed to have is a carton of egg whites.
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If I could, I’d buy yolks only.
I have eaten yolks only before, my buddy was tossing so many eating bodybuilder strict – “dude I’m hungry too! I’ll fry the yolks you’re tossing”.
He looked at me aghast, but a handful of times that year I ate yolks only.
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Anyone ever try Gaston’s diet?
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At 16 my friends sister by complaining kept his mom from buying an ostrich egg.
That was the opportunity (thus far) for ostrich egg.
I have not had ostrich egg.
I’d love to do an ostrich egg a day diet.
Gaston’s diet in about two cracks over the frying pan.
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Two nights in a row I’ve had eggs.
Remember – fuck inflation, eat right anyway.
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You reach a point, then realize it was simple all along.
I ate eggs tonight because I craved fried eggs and not steak.
I had no potatoes in the house, and next week believe I will prep 10lbs of baked potatoes – hopefully enough to not have to make again or run out of potatoes to go with dinner.
What do I crave?
Each night I want steak and/or eggs, both of which I spice amazingly, and most nights would like a baked potato with it.
Sometimes I’ll fry broccoli and cauliflower in the beef drippings.
That’s the best vegetables.
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You don’t need vegetables.
Steak and eggs will provide everything you need.
Just make them at home.
You take pride that way, and they’re then not swam in/with soybean oil like in a restaurant.
It’s amazing how bad restaurant ingredients are.
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I realize a fat loss diet, keto if not carnivore, likely would work well for me.
18 eggs and a pound of steak would be low calorie, definitely fat loss.
It’s amazing how much mixed macros, ie including carbs, really ups calorie count.
Good luck eating too much meat.
I got heavy by drinking milk.
The mixed macro drink.
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My chubby acquaintance and I could use the tennis courts for the simplest of things :
Getting up and down from the floor.
Me burpees, him just standing up.
Mix in some laying on the back, maybe emulate the “front, back, up” drill of military smoking sessions.
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Getting In Shape With Bleachers :
The other day I set a five minute timer, made it only about a minute running up and down, but finished the period without rest by walking with the occasional run.
As a senior in high school, at between 225 and 235lbs I pretty quickly got to where I could run bleachers for twenty minutes without stopping.
I recall that running the length of the bleachers and all the sets of stairs in one direction correlated time wise, about 1:1, with my 400m time.
I could treat it in terms of reps of flights.
10 sets. 3 flights. Run all the ups.
1:00 rests.
Ride that weekly or so up to 10×10.
Then start aiming for running 100 flights as one set.
Somewhere along the lines making it all run.
And a trick to keep count…yell the rep count every rep.
My first wrestling coach had us yell 1-18, occasionally 1-36, as we did our miles around the basketball court.
You can’t skip laps when you’re expected to sound off full volume.
“Okay E, you skipped two – called fourteen instead of twelve, go do two more.”
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With a barbell and plates to 500lbs, I’d like to be able to pick it up like it’s nothing on a daily basis.
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Today’s lift, and a horse stance the other day – I’ve been getting great glute pumps.
This helps with everything physical.
It also reminded me : horse stance is magic.
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Ate the whole salami sandwich throughout the day, four cheese sticks, five fried eggs,.some tortilla chips, some ritz bitz, some snickers, a milky way, cranberry juice, milk, and peanuts.
I did not eat steak, though I had some cooked.
I’m definitely on a fried egg kick, 3-6, spiced right is really hitting the spot.
Tuna is on sale this week, maybe I’ll cook my personal, first just started cooking for myself standby, of eggs and tuna for healthy dinners.
Persistence & Tenacity