I'm sure this is mostly boring for most everyone but I like to talk about it. I'll do it in some installments. Today I'll talk about my putters.

I putt with Daggers because Ricky putts with Daggers. They're designed for floaty push putts/drop putts and are really great for lofting up and then crashing into the chains. The main reason I like these putters and style of putting because I never 3-putt. Many people like to spin putt but they 3 putt when they miss so much and I don't spin putt by default. I have to in the wind and from long distances but the push putt is my go to and the Daggers are great for it.

From anything like 60'-200' I throw a Sinus. It's an over-stable putter with a super unique design, there are no discs like it that I've ever thrown. It's the perfect layup disc, at least for the way I play. Due to the nature of it's design, it flies really slow, and really reliably and it just sort of sits when it lands so it takes a lot of the skips and rolls out of play. I also use it for driving a lot. Any sort of straight shot, tunnel shot, small gap or wide open short hyzer line I'm chucking my Sinus. When I'm playing well I can reliably throw it on just about any straight line and nail it. I can throw it almost 300' if I really crush it, but anything past 260 or so and the the accuracy/consistency goes pretty far down.

I'm sort of missing an under-stable putter in my bag. I use a beat up Sinus for that spot now but if I'm throwing a short 100' shot and need a slow turnover it's kind of tough to get a Sinus to turn over on that short of a shot. It's quite a bit easier if it's 200' or so. I can drive with my Dagger but it's a lot less forgiving than the Sinus. Good way to get better with form, though.

Quick pic of the new Daggers I got:

Alright got back out and lifted today. Got back in town last night so I'm going to be starting a 6 week regimen. This is just going to be a pretty strict TM routine without much else. It's also going to be a set based fine program instead of time based. Just mixing it up.

Here is what today looked like:

Low Bar Back Squat 250 x 5

Low Bar Back Squat 250 x 5

Low Bar Back Squat 250 x 5

Low Bar Back Squat 250 x 5

Low Bar Back Squat 250 x 5

Bench Press 167.5 x 5

Bench Press 167.5 x 5

Bench Press 167.5 x 5

Bench Press 167.5 x 5

Bench Press 167.5 x 5

Deadlift 315 x 5

Had Tuna and FairLife for my protein requirements.

I will be doing 220g protein (hopefully) every day this this period.

I also made 40 putts today, so lookin' good there.

Life is good, WIM

Got out again: 2 birdies. Most drives ~175, but got lucky and idk what I did, but threw one 270+. Must have been all the LIGWIMming.

2 birdies and a 270'+ Drive second day out? Must be nice.

Are you throwing backhand or forehand?

Alright got out and lifted today, pretty easy active recovery workout day.

Here is what I did:

Low Bar Back Squat 205 x 5

Low Bar Back Squat 205 x 5

Dumbbell Press 42.5 x 5

Dumbbell Press 42.5 x 5

Dumbbell Press 42.5 x 5

Chin Ups BW x 7

Chin Ups BW x 7

Chins Ups BW x 5

Back Extensions BW x 10
Back Extensions BW x 10
Back Extensions BW x 10
Back Extensions BW x 10
Back Extensions BW x 10

Pretty happy with the back-to-back sets of 7 on chins. I'm a little heavy right now (BW 181 this morning) so it makes it even better.

So staying under calories is seemingly not going to be a problem. Eating a minimum 220g protein throughout the day really just keeps me pretty full, especially trying to space it out throughout the day. Not that I think spacing it out is super important, it seems like it's just maybe slightly more beneficial to not eat all the protein in 2-3 sittings. I'm sure I will quite a few times on this 6 week push.

Today I'm just gonna stop at the gas station and grab some muscle milk or something. Then I'll be doing some shopping for lots of protein. Hopefully gonna make a bag or something to just put all my protein in.

Life is good, WIM

Backhand. Forehand seems weird and when I see people throw it that way, I think "I just saw a miracle occur!" Although, you know, clearly it's possible.

One of the birdies was a lucky ~50-60ft shot. The other I just got lucky and laid up really close. It's fun. Best part is that it's a lot of walking, and the course right by my house has a lot of trees and is a relatively relaxing, peaceful place.

Interesting. I throw both ways (backhand much better) but it gets pretty important to be decent at both, there are lots of players who suck really bad at one of the ways. Even most of the pros are much weaker one way. But if I were you I'd def give a few a toss that way and see what you can do. Most beginners find it much easier to put a lot of power behind it.

Alright, got out and finished off some stuff today. Here is what my Friday workout looked like:

Squat 275x5

Bench 187.5x5

Hang Cleans 145x5x3

Squat was easy enough. Not easy but fine. Form was like a 6.7/10 The bench was good. I just dropped a few pounds on it. Didn't feel like a true 5RM. Good, room for growth. And the HCs were surprisingly easy. Prob gonna make 10 pound jumps on these for a bit.

Finished my putting as well. Not sure about form on putting because I haven't filmed in a while but I'm getting really good at a really smooth and clean release. My putter floats and glides without wobble right toward the basket. Unfortunately I was probably putting at just around 20% from that deep. A little frustrating but I'm drawing metal on almost every putt and with the smooth flight path I feel like I'll be getting it dialed in sooner rather than later.

I think my biggest problem right now is I'm keeping the nose up way too much and it causes it to go to high. I need to try that when I'm really far out (50'+) because it's an effortless way to get lots of distance. But with the way that I putt I really have to keep the nose down. And if I botch the follow through and release on the nose down putt it hits the ground like 5' in front of the basket.

I'm going to play 2 of the most amazing disc golf courses tomorrow. I'll take some pics and vids.

This 'diet' I'm on isn't looking like a winner so far. It's early but I'm sure it's too many calories. The 220g protein/day makes it really easy to stay under calories because I eat the majority of my protein (instead of drinking it) and it's extremely filling. But I'll stick it out through the end of September and see where my lifts and BW are at.

Life is good, WIM

Good volume day today. It might be in my head but it feels like going super hard on protein all last week was enough to get me over the hump and actually progress. It'll probably still take my body a little while to catch up but I like where this is going.

Here is what today looked like:

Squat 255 for 5 sets of 5 reps

Dumbbell Overhead Press 47.5 for 5 sets of 5 reps

Deadlift 335 for 1 set of 5 reps

Notes: My squats felt good. The last set was imbalanced somehow, though. Not sure if I loaded the bar on my back incorrectly or if I have a muscle imbalance that showed up with fatigue. Not sure but I'll monitor it. My OHPs were tough. I hate the movement. It hurts my shoulders and back and stomach and really everything. But I'll keep trying to progress on it because it's such an important exercise. And the DL went surprisingly well. Added 20 pounds to what I did last Monday. The only problem here is that on the very last set my grip started to fail right as I got to the top. So even though the bar got all the way up I wasn't able to get the full back extension at the top before dropping the bar.

I hit 25 putts as well today.

After my squats I had some milk and a fiber bar, after my lift I had 3 small cans of chicken and some more milk.

I'm the current champion. Gonna go try to defend my title today at an extremely short course that everyone likes to play.

Life is good, WIM

If anyone is interested, here is what my form looks like right now on a big bomber drive when I'm just trying to get it down as far as I can:



There are a lot of errors here, the reach back being the biggest one. I'm not reaching straight back and that causes rounding and loss of power/accuracy.

This drive ended up being a lot less powerful, I'm not sure why. But I believe this is much better form after filming myself about 30 times in a row and trying to tweak it further and further:

Alright, got out and lifted today. Active recovery day. Here is what I did:

Squat 210 for 2 sets of 5 reps

Bench Press 150 for 3 sets of 5 reps

Chin ups for for 3 sets of 8 then 8 then 7

Glute Ham raises for 5 sets of 10 reps

Notes:

Squats were easy, obviously. The bench sets actually felt like active recovery. Resetting has been good on the bench, started off a little bit ambitious.

I am extremely happy with my chin work. Not sure what my PR is but back to back sets of 8 was awesome for me and I allllmost got the 8th on the final set. And the Glute Hamstring raises were weird. Oh well.

I'm crushing my protein intake. The only downside is I'm not really being disciplined in saving calories up like I enjoy doing. If I can finish 500 calories under for the the first 4-5 days of the week it makes the weekend really easy. But Getting 220 grams of protein throughout the day I'm usually burning through +2k calories just to get it so it doesn't taste bad. It's filling but I just end up eating more. And with the fantasy draft this weekend I gotta make sure I start really saving calories and burning more. Hopefully I can save 1k calories a day over the next 3 days. That would be sweet!

After my workout I had 10 ounces of tuna and some FairLife.

I made 25 more putts today.

Really streaky. I would miss 10 straight then nail 4 in a row. I'm working on throwing them harder, putting more spin on it but keeping the nose down. It's a lot to do but when I execute it, it's beautiful.

Off to try and defend my disc golf title.

Life is good, WIM

Why do you think you need to eat 220 gram of protein every day?

From research the recommended range is 0.8-1.2 grams protein/day BW. So I'm on 1.2 for this go round to see what effects it had. My upper body lifts are really stalling and I'm hoping this does the trick. Everyone's a little different and I wouldn't be surprised to learn I just need to stick on the heavy side. Shrug. I'll know a lot more in 6 weeks

How did your 300g/day experiment turn out?

Haha forgot about that had to look back and see what I logged. I didn't log too much but it looks like I got up to squats 295 for 5x5 before injuring myself somehow and sort of bailing on it and cutting. Hopefully I can stay injury free and pile on the muscle before the next cut.

Today I got out and did a simple workout.

Hang Cleans 155 for 5 sets of 3 reps

My form was really inconsistent but it felt good when I did it correctly and the bar felt pretty light. Something like 1/4-1/3 of of the reps felt like that.

Afterward I made some chicken salad and had some milk for 66g protein. Not bad for just over 400 calories.

I made another 25 putts. I'll get more into this later.

Now I'm off to get some practice in.

Life is good, WIM

Re: pile on the muscle.

Beginner: 1.5 lbs/month
Intermediate: 1 lb/month
Advanced: 0.5 lbs/month


Surplus needed to achieve said gains:
Beginner: 175 calories
Intermediate: 120 calories
Advanced: 60 calories


From lyle's recent article http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/mus...ain-math.html/.

Wow cool article. Guess I'm stuck just getting novice strength gains while I try and lose a little BF. Maybe I'm actually gaining weight. But my daily weigh ins have monstrous swings so I'll know more at the end of this push.

Today I got out and finished up my lifting. It looked like:

Squat 280x5

Dumbbell press 47.5x5

The squats were weird. 1st rep fine, second rep I did really slowly, got almost no hamstring bounce and felt like I was going to fail. I wanted to rack it right there but pushed through it. Did the last three a little faster, got the hamstring bounce and it felt fine.

The press sucked. I loaded up 52.5 did 1 rep then fail. But backed off a little bit and got em ok.

Knocked out the rest of my putts. Man putting is tough. I'll realize I'm not getting enough power on my back leg so I'll really focus on that. Then the keep soaring over the basket. So I'll work on keeping the nose down. Then by the time I got that down they keep coming up short because I'm not getting the leg kick. So then I'll get those three working and then having a bad follow through. But I'll get it.

Had some milk after I lifted. Actually had to drink my remaining supply to get enough protein.

Life is good, WIM

Oh yeah, I worked all night and met up with a reg to shoot our home course, beat the group record! Ended up shooting a -7 which is what a 1000 rated played is supposed to average there. By no means am I 1000 rated player but that was a particular benchmark I was really looking forward to. We track all the records within the group and it's a pretty big deal when one of our local courses get the record beat within our group, especially our OG course. My previous best was -5 and that was a while ago so I'm extremely happy I got in the record books.

I had 4 birdies in a row at one point that started with getting a birdie on a hole that is 405'. My drive was good (short) but I made a putt from about 45' to start the streak.

I was actually -7 on hole 13. I had a really nice drive, landed about 10' from the basket on a tough hole where I take a huge forehand hyzer line. I lined up and executed a great putt but had an insane spit-out that cost me from going even lower. Then I bogey'd the next hole with a couple bad shots so I only had 3 remaining holes to find a birdie on. But I bounced right back and birdied the very next hole and just parred out to get the record.

Boom!

Life is good, WIM

Welp I got a couple fines this weekend. Saturday I came up short on protein. I started off normally, chugging protein shakes and all that. But after the big fight (I hosted a party) I was heading to bed and adding up my protein. I was still 50g short and super full. If I had any milk left I would have chugged it down but I was out of all my liquid protein options and there was no way I could squeeze more whole food into my stomach.

And then yesterday as I was going to bed I saw I was like 1600 steps short with just a few minutes left (making it impossible). I got out and played disc golf and then was on my feet for 3.5 hours but didn't end up getting it.

Usually when I get fines it's willful and I see something like I only have so many calories left for the week on Sunday and say F it and go over. But this weekend I was actually trying to remain in compliance and just came up short. Didn't try hard enough.

Anyway, it's a new week, back on track! Here is what my workout looked like today:

Squat 260 for 5 sets of 5 reps

Bench 170 for 5 sets of 5 reps

Partial deadlift 225x10

Rack pulls 225x10

Squats were fine, cruising right along with some good form, some questionable. The bench press felt solid. Felt like a good volume day weight. My right arm was flaring up a little bit, but not too much that I couldn't continue or anything. And then I haven't had enough recovery time to increase my DL set so I did some accessory work.

I made 50 putts today.

Really happy with that. Usually on a good day I'll only make 30 or so on my rest periods but I was probably shooting around 40% today. One adjustment I made is increasing my back swing really far and low. This really helps me get more power on the shot. And with more power coming naturally I can aim it a little better.

Now I'm off to do some fieldwork and work on form. Lets throw 450' today!

Life is good, WIM

Alright, today is normally an off day but I have an abbreviated week due to plans this weekend so I have to be done by Thursday. That means workout 4 days in a row. So instead of taking today off I did

Recovery day:

Squat 215 for 2 sets of 5 reps

Dumbbell press 45 for 3 sets of 5 reps

Chin ups for a set of 9 then 6 then 4

Back extensions for 5 sets of 10 reps

Squats were super easy but solid. Focused on form. My dumbbell press were far to heavy for recovery day set. Not sure what to do with this lift at this point. Hard to micro-load my DBs. My chins were weird. Not sure if 9 is my all time record but it's probably close. Unfortunately it took everything out of my and I could barely squeeze out my final 2 sets, even with 5 minutes rest. And back extensions are weird. I think I'll replace these with something else next go around.

I made 50 more putts

Pretty strange here. I was extremely stiff when I started out. Like I was having trouble getting my legs/arms/wrist even in just the correct position. And then once I was wasn't able to move very fluidly or smoothly like good consistent putting demands. So I started pretty slow and even when I finally got warmed up it didn't feel that great and the putter didn't look that great when it was flying on my shots. However, I got to 50 putts even faster than I did yesterday and yesterday was super quick for me. So I dunno. I guess I was making about 4/10 which is way better than normal.

After I lifted I had a can of chicken, a bottle of core power protein and some FairLife for 92g protein. If I make sure to get close to my protein goal early it sure makes it tough to go over my calories. If I don't focus and eat too much non-protein it sure makes it tough to squeeze in the protein later.

Now off to get steps and do fieldwork.

Life is good, WIM

Simple workout today. Usually my Thursday workout but I'm doing everything early this week. Here is what today looked like:

Hang Clean 165 for 5 sets of 3 reps

I included a rep for film notes:



It's been so long since I've really done any meaningful amount of these and tried to improve my form. At a glance it looks like I'm pulling with my arms to much in the beginning and not getting enough extension overall. But I like seeing my feet get off the flow in slot motion like that as my body sort of rotates around the bar.

Any thoughts are welcome to help me get better at these. Gotta get more explosive for disc golf!

Ate some canned chicken after my workout.

Life is good, WIM

Grip an inch wider on each hand and refilm from 45 degrees to either side

Ok cool. I'll do that next week. No reason to skip technique critiques when it's super easy.

Today I got out and finished my lifting. I'm a little dizzy and light headed today but I pushed through it.

Intensity day:

Squat 285x5

Bench 190x5

That's all there is to it. Oddly enough my last set of my squat set was the best form. Best hip drive, best hamstring bounce, best tightness. I think I needed it to be pretty good form in order to not fail or hurt myself.

The bench felt like a true 5RM. Really pushed hard on the last rep and inched it to completeness.

I putt a little bit today and although some of them were good, many were bad. I big part is just general stiffness but it went away as I loosened up.

Hooray for fantasy football season!

Life is good, WIM