Escaping Tartarus

Tag: Weight-Training

  • Day 6: Building a 2nd Brain

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    Yesterday was pretty uneventful, spent some time as a family and then came home before it got too hot outside. Welcome to Summer. As far as cataloging information, I took some notes on some “100” workouts from Athlean-X on YouTube. I’m going to try some of the workouts after my de-load week this week. Making…

  • Day 5: Building a 2nd Brain

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    It was a good workout today, again writing my workouts down prior to going to the gym is the way to go. I commit to it before hand and it gets done. Shit I should do that for getting out of bed and shit in the morning. I keep telling myself I’m going to get…

  • Day 3: Building a 2nd Brain

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    I hit the gym and got everything I planned on done: Yeah, I’m going to stay at 170lbs on press until I get all 3 work sets to 5 reps. Deadlifts and Squats, I’m going to stay at 355 and 315 respectively. My right side was refusing to engage properly today – I need to…

  • Weight Training – 6/16/24

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    Writing down my workouts the night before seems to be helping with my mental fortitude a bit. If I plan them out when I’m not tired, then I have more ambition. When I show up in the gym the next day I just get to work. So what did I get done today? Right at…

  • Weight Training – 6/14/24

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    After Kenpo last night, I ended up sleeping for an extra couple hours this morning. I had grand ambitions of going to the gym early this morning – but after sleeping in that didn’t happen. But I still made it and I tore it up aside from cardio – my calf started cramping up a…

  • Weight Training – 6/12/24

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    I was a bit behind schedule this morning, so I got in the gym and did an abbreviated “lighter” training session: By the time I got to the shoulder taps, my shoulders were shredded from the bench and carries. By the time I sat down for lunch with the Mrs. a few hours later, it…

  • Beginner Hacks to Change Your Life

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    I haven’t decided on a new 30 day challenge yet, but I’d like to keep my writing everyday going. So I thought I’d do a write-up on the changes I’ve experimented with that have had the biggest impact on my life so far. These are roughly in the order of difficulty from easiest to most…

  • Day 21: No Alcohol

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    Got my weight training in this morning, although I forgot to do cardio – but oh well. I tried an asymmetrically loaded RDL today – it’s pretty intense with only a 25lb plate on one side. I can definitely feel the imbalance in my core and posterior chain on my right side. Oh well, the…

  • Day 20: No Alcohol

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    I slept pretty good last night, although I jammed my finger pretty good while I was training with my teacher yesterday. I’ll get some ice on it after I get done writing this. I came across some recommendations for carb consumption and training earlier. I’ll give it a shot tomorrow – eat some carbs about…