7/14/21
Just treat weighted chins as if that’s your real bodyweight.
Despite work today, I still had a three hour volume fest at the gym.
I like working out!
I keep thinking about how I can do more, and I’ve noticed again/am experiencing again the natural inclination to be physical outside of work as much as possible when you have a physical job.
Was intensely asked about my pushup habit on the gym floor today, and spoke of my training philosophies to the two.
Damn that 19yo kid focuses intensely, even though his eye twitched constantly.
No headphones, I left them home on purpose.
You are more observant of your surroundings, and it ends up being more social both by you being outgoing, and others talking to you.
Did weighted pushups :
7x+45
7x+90
5x+135
3x+160
All plates, and exchanged numbers with the kid I did these with.
I recognized him as the late college age dude I teased about doing pushups in the locker room a few weeks back, saw he was training chest, and figured he’d be game.
He was.
Stuff like this is why you should forget the headphones.
Treating Weighted Chin Ups As If They’re At Bodyweight :
Multiple times throughout the session I did weighted chin ups.
Yesterday I thought it’d be cool to do 100 total reps at bw+30, I know I did 2×8 there today, but it must’ve been 20-25, maybe 30 sets at bw+60.
Mostly 3s and 4s, one or two sets of five, and it never dropped below three reps.
I can triple chin ups at 300lbs all day.
Fat boy!, what is your excuse?
I wore a beater, probably the first time I ever have at pf.
My shoulders look good!
Leaning out with lots of upper body and glute work, and regularly training my neck…it’s working aesthetically, this is bodybuilding my way.
As noted via edit in yesterday’s post – I drank a quart of milk at work, refilled an empty gatorade bottle with milk instead of bringing two gatorades, I drank that in three sittings, eating a cashew bar with one.
That fueling made work go so much smoother.
I’m convinced that the constant weighted chins are a game changer.
Another guy told me he’d have never thought to hook the kettlebells over your shoes.
A dude I let work in, probably a buck seventy, impressed me hitting 5 or 6 pullups with the two kbs/bw+60.
He copied me, kinda did it when my back was turned. That gave me a laugh. And another I’ve clued into the kb trick.
Thanked me for the work in – another reason not to wear headphones.
Saw a chick snap herself in the face with the band she was using for assistance on pullups.
Off the foot, into the face.
I didn’t tease her.
Could have. Didn’t.
She acted like it hadn’t happened.
I pretended I hadn’t seen.
Probably a month and a half back I plate bowled a 10lb plate to her when she asked to take one from my smith machine’s storage, and had her spot me on a heavy one rep smith bench turned failed double.
My buddy had walked off, then coming back saw that and was like “you had a girl spot you?”
lol
Yeah bro, you walked away, and she was closest.
Had a blast training.
I love the gym!
Progress comes guaranteed as long as you put the consistent work in.
Persistence & Tenacity