Augeleven’s log

[augeleven]

207.1/209.7 lowest I’ve weighed since June 7th

Outside-mill, no walksies
3 miles in 34:32
Not trying to run faster, just trying to finish without walking. Gonna for a little hike the youngest, and maybe get in those leg blasters.

[DCR]

207.1/209.7 lowest I’ve weighed since June 7th

That’s great work, especially considering that you accomplished it during winter bulking seazn.

[augeleven]

207.1/209.7 lowest I’ve weighed since June 7th

That’s great work, especially considering that you accomplished it during winter bulking seazn.

For me winter bulking season is from Halloween until New Years, and again from when I start binge eating in April to cope with the fact that I’m terrible at my job* until realizing in mid-august that winter bulking season is probably over.

*there is the possibility that come mid-April, all teachers feel that they are failures and that I might be needlessly catastrophising.

[DCR]

207.1/209.7 lowest I’ve weighed since June 7th

That’s great work, especially considering that you accomplished it during winter bulking seazn.

For me winter bulking season is from Halloween until New Years, and again from when I start binge eating in April to cope with the fact that I’m terrible at my job* until realizing in mid-august that winter bulking season is probably over.

*there is the possibility that come mid-April, all teachers feel that they are failures and that I might be needlessly catastrophising.

As I read the bolded part, I literally was standing over a plate of brownies, having my second one of the morning, and thinking shit, why didn’t I get the New Year’s memo.

*I know you only from this nichiest of internet locales, but am very sure that you’re very good at what you do.

[augeleven]

209.2/209.6

Shoulder felt better before workout, doesn’t hurt after

GGBB 3.1
Band Pullaparts
Red x30
Green x20,15,15
— ss w/—
Bench warm-ups

Bench
225x5@10 third week in a row there’s been a decrease on this too set. Gonna stay steady though and attempt to trust the process
225x2x4 butt lifted bench on one rep
— ss w/—
cable row
100x12
110x12x3,x10

Slingshot bench
225x5x2

NGBP widest grip. I need better naming conventions
150x12,10,8,7

Tri-set

Dip
BW x10x3
cable curl
30x20,16,15
DB flye
25s x8
20s x10,8

Standing abs
70x15,10,6
Lu Raises seated
8s x15,8

Time 73 minutes

Bench continues to frustrate. Gonna keep it at 225x5, x2x4 and push the T2s and T3s and hope that works

Happy that my shoulder is feeling ok after Bench day.

Daughter had a big birthday party on Friday and we brought home several extra pizzas and half a cake. It’s pretty much all gone, mostly due to me. It’s ok, at least there’s no significant binge-eating related event tonight.

Just kidding, I have requests in for Steakums and sloppy Joe sandos, and I want chicken and waffles. Homemade chex mix and a charcuterie board. The girls are excited, despite the fact I don’t think they ever watched a full game before, and complain on the rare occasion when I put one on.

[DCR]

Steakums

Godamnit.

[augeleven]

212.2/209.9
Weekly diet check in
7 day avg calories - 3104 weekend blew up again. Birthday party and Super Bowl. This coming weekend will be a fasting one
Current expenditure - 3084
Down 0.8 pounds in avg weight since last Monday


GGBB 4.2 at the Y

rack was open!

Squat
275x6@8.5
x3x4 third week in a row, but I was underfed and tired
— ss w/—
NGPU
bw x8,5,6,7

Leg Press
3 plates x12
3.5 plates x10,10

Leg extension
170x10
160x8
130x8

Time about 40 minutes

Probably should do some leg blasters later

[augeleven]

211.1/210.0 still recovering from the superb owl

Snow day
Cardio
Treadmill
3 miles in 36 minutes no walksies
Treadmill speed went wonky so I ran by feel for 36 minutes.

Wife already shoveled once.
I’m up next plus taking the girls sledding.

[augeleven]

212.9/210.3 I’m out of control food-wise. On track today though, And I have worked through the BBQ picnic sized chex mix my wife bought me to sabotage my diet.

GGBB 4.3 at the Y

Press out of the rack
115x7@9ish
x4,4,3,3
— ss w/—
NGPU
bw x10,8,7,6,6,6,7

iBench
135x10,8,6,6 reset the weight here

lateral raise machine
60x13,8,8

Preacher curl
50x15
40x10
30x15

Pec deck
140x13,10,6

Facepulls
42.5x20,10
35x12

overhead triceps extension
35x20,10,10

DB shrugs
100s x20,12

Time 55ish minutes

I owe the treadmill gods 15 minutes
1.4 miles in 14:56

[DCR]

still recovering from the superb owl

Not joking at all, twice now this typo caused me to scroll back to the prior entry or two to see what in the fuck you were talking about.

[augeleven]

211.3/210.6

GGBB1.4.4

DL
406x6@9
Ties a rep or for that weight

I tried this workout twice last night and twice this morning.

Everything is going to shit, so I’m considering this a deload, and I’m starting the second cycle on Monday.
Moving the upper lower split to the old man 3x a week, so I’ll be benching every 9 or so days. I’ll probably also add a healthy dose of upper volume on lower days. Hopefully this helps recovery.

Going to see Scarcity and Sumac tonight. @DCR is jealous

[DCR]

I’ll be benching every 9 or so days.

I made the best bench progress that I’d made in years benching every eight days, albeit with very heavy DB benching on the fourth day in between. I probably should go back to that, seeing as how it wasn’t broken and I only switched based on an idea of pursuing weight loss, which I then didn’t do even a little bit.

Going to see Scarcity and Sumac tonight. @DCR is jealous

Yes. Yes I am.

[augeleven]

GGBB 2.1.1

Bench
185x8 @too light
205x6 @way too hard
195x8 @just right
x4x4

NGCBP
150x12,11,7,8

Cable row
110x15,13,12,10

Triceps Pushdown
40x17,12
35x8
30x10

Cable curl
30x20,12

Time 65 minutes

Going forward I’m going to stick with the too light 185, so next workout will be 195x6
I might workout tomorrow and stuck to the 4 day but with lower t1s

[DCR]

How was the show?

[augeleven]

How was the show?

It was great - they had to move the venue last minute. I missed the first act, which was a trumpet playing noise guy.
Scarcity’s new album stuff has these really delicate textures, which is not something I would expect in black metal. The singer, Doug from Pyrrhon, was super visually expressive, which combined with the fact that I couldn’t really hear what he was doing made for some delightful cognitive dissonance. I would love to hear them again in a non-metal club setting so I can hear the sonics of the dual microtonal guitars better.
SUMAC was fucking awesome, lots of droney loopy stuff, intercut with sludgey doom jams. I couldn’t hear the singer at all, as his low growl was in the same range as the guitar and the guitar was winning the volume battle. But their music seemed to be less about the layers of sounds and more about the sonic mass in general.

Apparently the fucking department of building shut down St Vitus the other night - in the middle of a show!!! - because the venue didn’t have clearly defined maximum capacity signs up. Word on the street is someone in the establishment is trying close Vitus for “reasons”.

[DCR]

Somehow, both times you directed me to Scarcity, I missed that Doug was involved. I really like the Scarcity record, but Pyrrhon always has been beyond my grasp. May try again. I definitely need to revisit Sumac; I recall enjoying them but see nothing in my Spotify library, which tells me that it’s been much longer than I thought since I’ve listened to anything.

[augeleven]

212.7/210.9

GGBB 2.1.2 at home

Squat
255x8 @out of shape for high rep sets
255x4x4

Dips
BW x10
+1/2 chains x8,10,10,9
+ full chains x6

This took 55 minutes. I took a break and did
SALPD
30x15x2
40x20,15,15,12

Still feeling run down and blah

[augeleven]

Yesterday
Outside jog
3.1 miles in 36:07


Today
210.0/210.9
GGBB 2.1.3 at the Y

Press out of the rack
115x8@9ish
x4,x4
— ss w/—
NGPU
bw x10,8,6,7,6,7,5,6

iBench
135x10,x6x4

lateral raise machine
60x13,10,10
50x10

Pec deck
140x15,7
130x7

Facepulls
50x18,12
42.5x12

overhead triceps extension
42.5x15, 5 pain

Preacher curl
50x14
40x10
30x9

DB shrugs
100s x18,15,12

Time - about an hour

[augeleven]

Yesterday
Outside jog
3.12 miles in 35:15
How many data points do I need to see before I declare an upward trend?

Today

GGBB 2.1.4
I have come to fear the deadlift

DL
405x7@10ish.
405x2,3,3. First set I was too far over the bar and the first rep was a struggle

Superset with
Cambered Bench 130x7x10

RDL 275x10
I’m done.

I’m counting the last rep of this DL set, even though it was a very soft touch. Because 405x7 is a rep pr, and definitely because 405x6 + a super deep 405x1 RDL should also count as a pr.

Any thoughts about this set?

[broseph]

I would think stopping just shy of the floor is even more taxing than fully touching down. Your body is doing 100% of the work of stopping the bar and moving it in the opposite direction.

It counts.