Today’s Lift & Video :
3/1/23
The entire session was this ;
OAS
95 1x r, l
115 1x r, l
fail 145 r
OAS + Side/Bent Press + OHS w/115 r (the video)
fail 125 r
OAS + Side/Bent Press + 2 reps OHS w/115 r (should’ve been video)
Press
~8×145 while walking around the yard with the bar overhead
Under 20 reps total, but of high tension, mostly one arm, “weird” lifts.
I tell you this ; bout an hour later I felt SWOLE, my lats getting out there into ils territory had I been imaging lats instead of actually having grown them a decade or so back.
Great cross body/cross back activation and tension.
These high tension lifts are worth more than they seem on paper.
Note : if a short won’t upload in wordpress – grab the youtu.be link from the video in browser itself – took me a bunch of url variants to get a good link here, the standard shorts protocol wouldn’t link
Man, seeing the video I thought “damn, my fat fuck gut is hanging out, and how many chins are unhidden without the beard”.
Lesson : The Time Is Never Perfect – Do The Work Now :
That note to myself at the end of the video, there is no perfect time, do the work now.
Being on a few days of stubble isn’t excuse not to make content.
What I filmed wasn’t what I expected to, I was looking to one arm snatch 145 today which would’ve been a PR.
As is the one arm overhead squats with 115 were both PRs.
I’m really digging all these weird one arm and two implement lift variants.
I’ve done a turkish get up with a 95lb barbell, a two hands anyhow with the same and a 75lb dumbbell, and I bet I could with 115bb & 75db already.
Lifting Going Forward :
This is the path my lifting is taking ;
•work on the isabel wod, currently PR 2:10 w/95lbs, 3:00 w/115lbs, as #s hit the 2:00 vicinity then I bump the weight
eventually I want that time of 2:00 one armed at 135+
• both all the one arm, and two arm multiple implement lifts in every combination by whenever the mood strikes just looking to do better and better
one arm snatch is 50/20, though more honestly 50/15, protocol ala bryce lane reps done equally each side
though the idea has struck to do one side only some workouts for even more day to day variety
one arm presses – I’d like to see 185 strict each side, 10+ at 135+ strict, I just bend while training to get more training stimuli than strict alone
walking around with weights at lockout, sometimes at rack/front shoulders
I want to tgu, up and down, 205+.
match alexeev on the one arm snatch
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Pointedly kept myself in a good mood all day, shoveled snow more than necessary, and ran errands both before and after lifting, heck took the video too – all for a sense of accomplishing something today.
A day can be good or bad, it’s how you approach it, look at it, and in the actions you fill it with.
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Taking Pride In One’s Work :
And I’ve been writing and rewriting the following, it’s a point I want to make ;
The “dead end job” I work (delivering houses), had a good lesson, I got real value from philosophizing on yesterday’s shift.
The company had to waste 8 unbillable man hours to send two of us to, literally and figuratively, clean up a different crews mess.
Part of the service offered is unpack/assemble/remove debris.
Some customers want these to various degrees, some don’t.
The customers wanted all three. The crew before us refused, basically ran to the truck and gunned it away, doing none of the three.
It was about 3½ hours of truck time for us to go back, spend maybe 15 minutes taking empty boxes out of their house, and finish the job.
The customers had done the unpack and assemble themselves. We were on cleanup, square away, smooth over status – the customers surprised me with how cordial they were, and having done the first two steps themselves.
They honestly thanked us for coming back and taking the trash.
The other crew, and I’ve heard these dudes say it – they “ain’t tryna” whatever.
↑ even used their vernacular
None of us like unpacking/assembling, but honestly it’s easy pay – not physically challenging, and simply takes time.
We’re being paid to complete a task, that’s the service we provide.
The customer pays us and tells us what steps up to and including all of them that they want us to accomplish on their dime.
No one makes any of us work as movers.
Some of these guys just bitch and bitch and would rather be home smoking weed.
They’re not taking pride in the task at all.
I realized, rerealized I should say, that I feel better emotionally, know I’m a better man by not uttering a single complaint, being cordial to every customer, putting my head down and just carrying whatever, wherever it needs go.
The other day the driver told me to start emptying the basement into the living room as he and the other helper repositioned the truck.
Eventually he asks me “and the basement”, “clear” my reply, and he said “good job” a look of surprise on his face.
A couple of the items were borderline two man, but I carefully sidewards walked up the stairs carrying them myself.
The time it took to reposition the truck was just barely what it took for me to clear the basement without a second pair of hands.
There’s nothing wrong with honest work, and Man needs to get his hands to work, real work – labor, honest labor.
I enjoy carrying boxes, at the end of the day I did something tangible – this was moved from a to b to c.
To my stoner coworkers, the guys who cut corners when they feel like it, I can only say thank you – sometimes I get more hours cleaning up your messes, but more importantly you showed me the value, really showed me it spelled out, of taking pride in doing honest work, and working hard without complaint til what needs done is done.
No job is truly dead end – you can grow from the lessons gained with open eye and heart from anything anywhere.
Persistence & Tenacity
(One Of) Today’s Lift Music :
kollegah – alpha (again)
was reading the lyrics translated into english – real pump up cocky
“fuck lines of cocaine” (you interpret it dude – fuck watching porn, take pride in being clean again – and that image at the top is admittedly temptation)