LOG UPDATE:
Trying to take better care of myself all around. Otherwise, just living. It's going well. Best game in town.

Any good floor bourbons recently?

The 2015 version of Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch... uh, it's really good.
37 s out of 37

I've been lifting very light in the most basic, maintenance sense of the term. All the below + walking more again now that it's nice here again have helped to keep my back feeling good, not sure how much I'll push things beyond this. I may have made a goal to bench more (?), but I don't really remember, which is the best way to accomplish goals. I may try to maintain all lifts (maybe FS at 275 or something still light... idk) and just drive up bench or something. Sounds like a great way to get bored though, so idk.

bw a fat and happy 260. Feel better at 240, but currently unmotivated to get there.

Current lifts:
Front squat: 245 x5x3 (maybe aim for 275, then maintain)
Bench 225 x5x3 (aim to increase to 275x5x3? idk)
Press 140 x5x3 (maybe aim to increase this a bit, but I don't want to push this too much I feel like it ****s with my neck too much)
Power clean 225 x3x3

Also doing light rack pulls and KB stuff.

I need meditate more, other than that life is good wim etc. k.

lol **** you man.

Edit: glad you're still alive and stuff, though!

k

260 eh? Pushing tight end territory m8. You a tight end?

Now that Bears traded Bennett, Downton's phone is probably ringing nonstop.

Me too, me too.

k

Fat people are jolly.

Honestly may quit watching NFL for good... seems like good timing. I mean, I legit can't stop watching the Bears but I am trying.

P.S. Go Cubs go!

3.21.16

May start logging again. May not.

lifting in lbs except for times I lift in kg

Generally felt bad today because I played PLO way too late Fri because I was stuck a bunch and the game was GOAT but I am terrible, then ate crappy the rest of the weekend e.g. a metric ton of Chinese food and beer because I usually make up something in my head like "zomg this is the greatest blahblah blah noodles + byo and I brought good beer" and then I overeat and, not as bad about overdrinking, but also overdrink probably... idk why I do this, it's consistent though. It doesn't make me feel great. Then went out w/ some friends and watched basketball and drank more. Then walked a ton yesterday. Accidentally took a nap from like 7-9 last night, then slept poorly after. Really dumb. gg body.

Bench
230x5x3
I've been lifting for like ten years and I still don't know how to even bench. Cool. The benches at this gym are shorter and that sucks. I'll figure it out. Whatever. If I wanted to learn I would have already. Otoh, cognitive dissonance. K.

Front Squat
255x5
255x4, bar slipped and I failed the 5th
I'll probably reset these and work on perfect form. No real reason to worry about pushing this right now.

a) Rack Pull, mid-shin I guess idk (superset)
365x5
385x3
405x2

b) KB swing
24x10x3

"idk why I do this, it's consistent though. It doesn't make me feel great."

That's the nature of Chinese food. It is immutable and its root cause unknowable. It is what it is.

Formerly known as "Ed's Posticker House" now just Potsticker House in Bridgeport. You have been, I assume?

Right now I'm something like Lao Sze Chuan > Sun Wah when it's not in Health Dep't shutdown (but I mean, all Chinese places are like this I imagine or that's how I justify it) > this Suburban place out by me (Katy's) that's actually a great noodle place that I like more than Potsticker house.

3.23.16

All the (5) platforms and racks were taken, mysteriously all by non-****ery, thanks Internet/Crossfit, so I just staked out some spot on the floor and cleaned and pressed. It's fine. My back doesn't feel 100% anyway, so I didn't really feel like squatting or cleaning anyway, just took it easy.

Clean and press
Bar x a bunch
95 x 1 + 5
115 x 1 + 3
145 x 1 + 5 x 3

Machine cable row
120x8
160x8
200x8x2

A) EZ-bar curl
75x10x3

B) Dips
10, 8, 6

Walked

K.

3.25.16

Back being a jerkface. idk. Just took it easy all weekend and ate 43,000 kcals so what do I know about taking good care of yourself anyway. Nothing.

Bench
107/236 x 5 x 2
107/236 x 8

band pull aparts

neutral-grip chinups
2, 2, 1
negatives

Shoulders are getting big. Fat people have big shoulders. K.

3.29.2016

front squat
225 x5x2
just to see how back feels
feels fine

press
150 x5x2
150 x6
had a 7th but layback / low-back stability became a problem on the 6th rep, so decided to quit lifting forever stop at 6

power clean
135 x3x2
185 x3
205 x3
should probably make a plan here instead of just ****ing around, but hey

Told crossfit guy who works at gym to put in more platforms. He says hey didn't we talk last year you should come compete in this cf comp. I say no we did not meet last year. Unclear if they will get more platforms, but they have room if they move some bs smith machine and the punching bag that the loud MMA bros who I'm 99% sure have nfi what they are doing show off with. csb I thought fat people were jolly(?).

face pulls
30 x20
50 x20x2

Now leaving +++ev job to go flip coins at 3/5 deep plo, which makes basically zero sense. k.

I always wondered who went to that UFC Gym.

Unless you work on commission, I'm not sure what the problem is?

idk what this is thank plokj

Just gotta do stuff is all. So it gets done, I mean.

plo

UFC Gym River North. It'll probably end up being where I work-out

ohhh I think cf river north (?) or another cf gym used to be in there. God I can't imagine how insufferable it must be to go there, in it's current form. I'd go if they paid me $350/month. Eh. Maybe $500/month.

TR when you lose 20k please!

I'd like for our gentle giant to win 20k and feel the resulting story would be just as compelling, but that's just me.

Game's way smaller now. Boring.

So you only lost 10k? Hi five!