I’ve been laughing sbout how the last few shifts my cns must be fatigued, as simply trying to put a handful of croutons on a salad I end up flinging a couple of em – like the fine motor skill ends up way overcompensating halfway through dropping the croutons on the salad.
I did deadlift heavy this week.
Dehydration from work must play a role.
After work my pushups often involve my core shaking very much at the top before “recover, move”, similar to how it’d feel at the top of the final rep of a set of human weighted pushups or when pushing the lengths of time deep on, again human weighted, weighted pushup position planks.
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When you hire movers to move a grand piano, the legs are taken off, then depending on the circumstances as few as two men will either carry the main piece on a carpeted piano sled, held onto my rope loops for gripping (manual labor involves far more hand strength and hand endurance than anything gym), or more easily done – shoulder straps/shoulder harness.
Either way, and even with extra bodies thrown into the equation, the bulk of the work is done by those two men, and the hardest thing you will ever do on your cns is to be the one walking backwards under this half piano load.
Think about how rough some view a yoke walk, farmer’s walk, and the brief step step (step – three tops) of walking out a squat.
Now do this under load, for DISTANCE & TIME.
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I don’t own a sled.
I do have a barbell.
I realized, thinking back on my time as a mover, and having backpedal/sprint/cut some sprints recently – I can carry my barbell in a deadlift carry, and get creative with directions, forward/backward/side to side, even gait as many vary with sled work.
I know on my setup at home I’m giving up 10-20% on my traditional barbell lift maxes, so I’ve gotten creative on just lifting creatively for strength, am trying to not stress numbers in the moment, and just do yard barbell for bodybuilding strongman/strongman bodybuilding.
It’s not specific, but it forces me to have heart.
And having heart with consistency is what you need to train effectively.
Throw a barbell in a backward, now what you gon do with it?
Pay up, pay up, pay up.
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With no intentions of competing in powerlifting, weightlifting, crossfit, bodybuilding, or even strongman (though just walking into competitions would be fun), largely as why bother putting more $$$ into “gym”, partially as I see no need to make “official” totals when you’re not at least within spitting distance of WRs…
Lifting a barbell in the backyard?
I. Am. Free.
Persistence & Tenacity