For Your Health (a hunk's log)

[broseph]

The secret to your hunktitude is eating donuts in sets of primes.

Such vibrations permeate through training patterns and resonate with individuals in tune with the natural rhythms of the universe.

[broseph]

10/20/24

Way too much pumpkin pull-apart bread for 2nd breakfast. Feels like my guts are gonna pull apart.


Bench 215x4x10
I softened the pauses and these still felt pretty good.

Squat 365x5x2
These felt too heavy. I put in about 4 hours of medium-duty gardening yesterday though; a bunch of digging, hunching over, and pulling. Posterior chain was fried enough to cause some serious hamstring cramping while chasing kids through a corn maze in the evening. For your old man experience.

Tib Raise 30x 20, 18, 14

Ab stuff x who cares

[DanCR]

Bench 215x4x10
I softened the pauses and these still felt pretty good.

There’s a brief part in Max Aita’s (now) old squat tutorial with Mark Bell, where he disparages dudes who sort of combine the eccentric and the concentric in the hole, leading to form collapse. He explains that what he’s looking for is down, then up (presumably with a brief enough transition to still get the stretch reflex, although he doesn’t mention it). That’s what I’ve been going for on everything: not a pause per per se, but a distinct down and then up.

Unrelated, my girlfriend is refusing to let me wear a shirt to her daughter’s Halloween cheer party that says, “I’m Only Here for the Boos.” Really needs to pull out the stick, if you ask me.

[broseph]

Bench 215x4x10
I softened the pauses and these still felt pretty good.

There’s a brief part in Max Aita’s (now) old squat tutorial with Mark Bell, where he disparages dudes who sort of combine the eccentric and the concentric in the hole, leading to form collapse. He explains that what he’s looking for is down, then up (presumably with a brief enough transition to still get the stretch reflex, although he doesn’t mention it). That’s what I’ve been going for on everything: not a pause per per se, but a distinct down and then up.

This is the perfect summation of what I was doing. Thanks for the reassurance. Can’t stop #resonating

Unrelated, my girlfriend is refusing to let me wear a shirt to her daughter’s Halloween cheer party that says, “I’m Only Here for the Boos.” Really needs to pull out the stick, if you ask me.

That is the most innocuous Halloween joke shirt I’ve ever heard. Tell her I said it’s fine.

Related: My special needs kid has no fear of typical fear-inducing stimuli, and loves watching videos of haunted houses and Home Depot Halloween displays. So I took him to the local big deal haunted house and he loved it. I wore my rainbow Satanic Temple t-shirt and 2 different actors broke character to compliment me. For your 4th wall.

[broseph]

10/21/24

Titan Bike x12:
1:45 work, 1:00 rest
-59.4 rpm
-12.9 Cal/min

That was a workout.

[lheugh]

My special needs kid has no fear of typical fear-inducing stimuli, and loves watching videos of haunted houses and Home Depot Halloween displays. So I took him to the local big deal haunted house and he loved it. I wore my rainbow Satanic Temple t-shirt and 2 different actors broke character to compliment me. For your 4th wall.

Your kid and I have a lot in common! And kudos, you've got a great eye for style.

[broseph]

My special needs kid has no fear of typical fear-inducing stimuli, and loves watching videos of haunted houses and Home Depot Halloween displays. So I took him to the local big deal haunted house and he loved it. I wore my rainbow Satanic Temple t-shirt and 2 different actors broke character to compliment me. For your 4th wall.

Your kid and I have a lot in common! And kudos, you've got a great eye for style.

Thanks!

As a demonstration of this kid's lack of fear, here's a picture of him at 7 years old:


Disclaimer: that tree is very densely branched (besides the top), so a fall would only result in scratches/bruises, and he's very sure-footed.

[broseph]

10/22/24

Deadlift 455x1, 475x1, 495x1, 515x1, 535x0
515 was smooth enough that I made another 20 pound jump and was fully expecting to make it and then post about how I think the farmer carries have done tremendous things for my deadlift. Even still, I haven't deadlifted heavy in a long time (not including the past few weeks) and 515 is just fine. At least I have a real number to base percentages off now.

Press 165x5
Don't laugh at me but I had some core cramping here and I don't want anything holding me back from BJJ tonight...


Musings: I have not attended BJJ in months. My friend, who introduced me to the sport, is teaching his own no-gi beginner course at my wife's gym and it's invite-only and I'm invited and tonight's the first night and I'm pretty excited. It's much closer to home and he's planning on 2 classes per week, so hopefully I can get more useful exposures this way.

[DanCR]

As a demonstration of this kid's lack of fear, here's a picture of him at 7 years old

I know as I’m writing this that I’m going to be embarrassed but I legit cannot find him. Squinted til it hurt. I’ve never felt this old.

[broseph]

As a demonstration of this kid's lack of fear, here's a picture of him at 7 years old

I know as I’m writing this that I’m going to be embarrassed but I legit cannot find him. Squinted til it hurt. I’ve never felt this old.

I knew I should’ve given a hint. He’s toward the top of the center tree; where it gets sparse.

[DanCR]

As a demonstration of this kid's lack of fear, here's a picture of him at 7 years old

I know as I’m writing this that I’m going to be embarrassed but I legit cannot find him. Squinted til it hurt. I’ve never felt this old.

I knew I should’ve given a hint. He’s toward the top of the center tree; where it gets sparse.

As someone who is paralyzed by heights: what the fucking fuck.

Future stunt guy.