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It was the milk of paradise talking not me

Have hit McGill stuff 4/5 days this week. K.

4.29.16

Pretty run down from lower kcals this week. Also decent PLO downswing, but that should change tonight.

bw 264

power clean
135 x3
185 x3
225 x3
245 x2
255 x1
265 x1
275 xclark

DB Bench
100 x10x2
100 x5

Pretty beat at the end of this one.

Diet news:
start - 3/28/16 - 269.3lbs
week 1 - 4/4/16 - vacation
week 2 - 4/13/16 - 263.3lbs
week 3 - 4/18/16 - 268.3lbs
week 4 - 4/25/16 - 266.4lbs
week 5 - 5/2/16 - 268.8lbs
I should probably stop pretending that I'm trying to lose weight. I've had a decent recomp. I will give it one more week of pretending, I guess.

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5.3.16

bw 268

Incline Bench
185 x5
195 x5
205 x5
215 x5
225 x4

A) Rack Pull
315 x5 dbl overhand
365 x3 dbl overhand
415 x5 straps

B) KB Swing
36 x10x3

Cervical spine has been bothering me. Too much desk/driving/poker/tv over the weekend. Lumbar spine is feeling good. LIGWIM.

5.5.2016
Incline DB bench
60 x12
65 x12x3

T-bar row
45 x12
90 x12
115 x12

Wide-grip pulldown
120 x12x3

Pec dec
180 x20x2

Cable lat raise
15 x20x2

CGBP
135 x10x3

EZ-bar curl
75 x10x3

A) Cable Pushdown
35(x2) x20x2

B) Seated DB curl
25s x20x2
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Diet news:
start - 3/28/16 - 269.3lbs
week 1 - 4/4/16 - vacation
week 2 - 4/13/16 - 263.3lbs
week 3 - 4/18/16 - 268.3lbs
week 4 - 4/25/16 - 266.4lbs
week 5 - 5/2/16 - 268.8lbs
week 6 - 5/9/2016 - 266.6lbs
I should probably stop pretending that I'm trying to lose weight. I've had a decent recomp. I will give it one more week of pretending, I guess.

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5.9.2016
bw 266.6

Bench
260 x5x2
260 x6 @9

Chinup
2
2
2
1

Seated DB Press
80s x8x2

Seated low row, wide-grip bar thing whatever
120 x8
160 x8
200 x8
240 x8

5.11.16

idk how much I weight, but my stomach is ****ed up and it's messing with me. idk what is wrong. The older I get, the less of a ****ing idea I have on how anything even works. It's fine.

Just wanted to have a wl goof around day, so I did

snatch
45 x5x2
95 x2 lol started to get really tired. hilarious
135 x3
185 x2
205 x1 -power bc I'm terrible
215 x1 -easy power again

power clean + power jerk
135 x1+2 x2
185 x1+2
225
245
265
275

k.

face pulls
35 x15
50 x15
57.5 x15

turns out real lifting is way more tiring than bs lifting I usually do. huh. back to bs lifting then, I guess.

I ate lots of cheese up until my early-mid 40s. Dairy started causing horrible problems maybe 6-7 years ago. I gave all dairy up a couple years ago. The problems I had are way better. If I even eat a tiny bit of dairy now, I have very bad problems. I'm not allergic, but I have a bad sensitivity to dairy/lactose.

idk if dairy is your problem or not, but sometimes as we age, allergies and food sensitivities get worse. I'd try to identify the type of food that is giving you problems and lay off it completely for at least a couple weeks. Then eat a serving of it. If that was what was giving you problems, it will give you a very bad problem, then you will know for sure you should not eat it again. If you dont have any issues, its not that type of food causing the problems, so you can go back to eating the first food and try the same thing with a different type of food.

What Cha said. There is also an option that you could connect with an MD that runs a food sensitivity screening (different than allergy screening)...we have a doc near us that does it and my wife wants me to do it but Im afraid I'll be told that I can't eat eggs, milk, and red meat. That would be a disaster.

man I don't know what I would do with dairy (lactose?) intolerance. I go through a liter of milk a day on average and this does not include other forms of consuming dairy.

Supplement lactase?

Dairy really is the bestest, and not just because cheese is goat and goes well with everything but also as a source of complete protein, calcium, iodine. B-12...

reach emoji:

yeah, my ex did that food screening and it helped her avoid a lot of stuff that was doing bad things to her. Its pretty expensive to have it done, but they did find a lot of different foods that were affecting her. I can get away with eating eggs sometimes, but only if they're fully cooked. Anything with milk in it ****s me up. Those supplements that are supposed to help do nothing for me anymore.

dt, I'm pretending to diet too. I've gained 2 lbs in like 7 weeks.

bs lifting, 125kg pc+pf, FU

dude that's like .5 bw for him.

I think I was just sick, idk. Feeling better. No more farcical dieting log, just gonna be active this summer we'll see how that goes. I'd also like to work in more gymnastics work, we'll see if I actually do anything about that. May be just a fad idea in my mind, but I can see the appeal.

Yeah but contrast with me PCing 135-140(? don't remember) at 5kg less bw 1.5 years ago. Compare with a real lifter PCing 170 or something. idk. All relative.

Although, I will say as I am generally feeling good, it's definitely not worth it (for me) beating my back to **** to get the last 10-20 kg on each lift that I'm capable of.

Thinking of working with your former coach so I can get my 125 PC+PJ up to 125 in a year or two or hard work in a great environment.

lol

5.18.16

I have a cold and I feel like **** this week.

bw 267

bench
265 x5x2
265 x6

walked

I didn't feel like doing anything else. I don't need a reason.

DIZZZZEEEEEEE

oh man have to throw up the OG rascal toooon

5.23.2016

1) I've been working in my yard some in lieu of gym time over the last two weeks. I've never really done this before, always hired someone to do landscaping, but for various reasons I thought this would be a good idea. It's hard work, at least the large amounts of shoveling, digging, axe work, etc.

2) I've been walking a LOT more since it's nice here now. It's good. I've walked over 10k steps the last 8 days. I'll probably take today off of trying to hit that and play some PLO. We'll see.

bw 264

Got a quick bench in at lunch (at home) today

Bench (kg)
110x2
120
130
140 easy
150xf not close
122x5x2

k.

oops. 10k steps/day that is.

Is anyone who posts here using the apps Calm or Headspace? Iirc Aidan, you said you were using Calm? Did you like it? Still using it? I'm finding it difficult to get back to a regular meditation practice, and I feel more disconnected lately.

Gonna throw more questions out into the ether:

What bench program/scheme should I do? Est 1rm 315, would like to aim for 335-365 this year. 2x-3x/week, ideally. I want to get going with a new program so I don't just get bored and regress.

Coan

You should ask Cha imo...

Also, you may want to review your technique.

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Did you ever read the book "Wherever You Go, There You Are" ? It made me understand meditation and everything around it so much better.

If you find yourself thinking "I have been feeling disconnected lately, I need to find ways to feel more connected (more often) again", you're asking yourself the wrong question. The only time you should try to feel connected is right now, because right now is the only moment you can ever be connected.

So in stead of asking "how can I feel connected more often?", ask yourself "am I connected right now?" - and once you ask yourself that question, you already are connected and found your way back.