4/21/24 – Six Months Overhead Press Every Day Update :
The next steps in what I think of as bodybuilding (after seeing how muscled up I look in the bathroom mirror) are :
1. to give myself a break, I’ll continue overhead pressing on a daily basis but skewing it light with mostly 16kg one arm pressing, both regular and bottoms up, both pressing and clean & pressing
2. to up kettlebell clean volume – look for rep PRs with 40kg cleans and overall training volume as “main movement”
3. to up 2h swing volume with the 40kg – to include more glute than just the first two
I feel very strongly this will continue to put muscle onto my shoulders and upper back, while increasing lat size/strength + biceps size/strength (the clean), and lat size/strength + glute size/strength (the 2h swing).
Frankly I have no desire to train pullups, and expect the kettlebell to carry them through it’s what the hell effect from all this lat and bicep stimulus.
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Last night after cooking the sausage & onions, in the same pan (the sausage removed, the second half of the onions remaining) I, for the first time in my life, made “fried” eggs in the oven.
First time cooking a dish isn’t always the best result.
I’d actually mixed instant mashed potatoes into the onions and fat (with a tad of added water – the pan was still warm, all I had to do was stir) then decided to crack a dozen eggs into the pan.
15:00 total at 425°, stirring every five minutes.
I’ll have to figure out my exact method for doing this still (I actually like mashed potatoes and eggs fried together – did it with “last night’s leftovers” for breakfast as a teenager), but with a rough draft type success now know I can cook eggs in bulk.
That big pan probably would’ve cooked them reasonably with 24ct in it, and more than one pan can fit in the oven.
Food prep keeps getting easier and easier, and I had a eureka moment of breakthrough…food is fuel!
Heavy on meat, some eggs, some potatoes/root vegetables, and dairy is workable for me, definitely passes the good enough test…and I’m getting it to where around forty minutes every two or three nights will keep me “in food prep”.
All the years eating frozen foods, etc – the switch to doing it right, the mental switch, takes however long it takes.
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Soccer ball first for a few minutes, then mixed it with 16kg kettlebell –
The kettlebell mostly the vertical/floating clean and rack hand to hand transfers to press from both regular c&p and buc&p styles (mostly bu), some bu hold squatting – this is all enjoyable to play with.
Did about an hour of this unstructured stuff.
A 16kg kettlebell moved in weird manners can cause the leverage/foot pounds/tension to be off the charts.
Yep, I try muscling out the bell bottoms up 🙂
Really it’s not even able to be told, it’s more of a show this manner of training, but I tell you this – it will get you very strong especially if you’re adding to the leverage and increasing bell size over time.
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Extra minisession :
cleans 40kg 5 (well 6) x5/side
+ a little extra soccer ball, got a 15ct on only a handful of attempts and called it on a good note there
Persistence & Tenacity