hey thremp,come back to the sportsbetting section,we miss you over there buddy

I guess I always figured even if the parents didn't initially expose their kids to online media or video games or whatever, they would end up at a friend's house and come home crying demanding it in their lives.

10/5: W5D1
Bench: wu, 210x5x4, LsRPE ~9
Seated DB Press: 40s x11x4
Dips (bw): 3x14
Lying Low Incline Cable Flies: 3x15
Cable Lateral Raise: 3x12
Rope Tri: 3x15

45 minutes; had to squeeze this in between another birthday party. Gained some reps most places.

10/6

PP W3D1
C2 Row: 23:35/6000 m (21 spm)

1:57.9/21 spm overall
1k splits
1 - 1:58.5/20 spm
2 - 1:57.7/21 spm
3 - 1:58.1/21 spm
4 - 1:57.9/21 spm
5 - 1:58.1/22 spm
6 - 1:57.2/22 spm

Skipped back day again, but got in the push-ups; given I stayed up until 4 playing cards last night, it seemed like enough punishment. Managed to keep a relatively consistent pace for the row; did a quick 500 m before the work set, so maybe that helped.

10/7: W5D3
Squat: wu, 225x6x3
RDLs: 185x10x3
Single Leg Press: 3x8

35 minutes. Pretty k.

10/8
EZ Curl: 3x13
Incline Curls: 3x15

PP W3D2: 2x2000/4 min rest (4 min warmup)

r4:00 - 896 m
2k1 - 7:42.1/24 spm
r4:00 - 849 m
2k2 - 7:49.9/25 spm
r4:00 - 886 m

Fell back a bit on the second sprint, but managed both at a faster pace than Sunday's row (was supposed to shoot for two seconds faster; got there on sprint 1 but was a bit short on 2).

Grunch:
My kids' school gave them ipads this year and I'm not super k with it. /parenting

Where do you play cards?

Row on.

I dunno. My son has his own iPad and an obvious iPad addiction, but we never got him any console systems, and he seems ok just playing console games when he visits friends, and doesn't seem to have any particular yearning to have his own Xbox.

My sisters kids have their own iPads, but the parents really restrict their access to social media/gaming; and they seem ok never being able to play Minecraft/Roblox/Fortnite at home; although they want to play these games on my son's iPad every time they come over to our house.

In my small empirical observation, it seems kids are generally ok with what they have as long as they haven't been habituated for more; but it is very hard to put the toothpaste back in.

10/9: W5D4
OHP: wu, 115x7x4
CGBP: 165x8x3
DB Incline Fly: 3x13
Skullcrushers: 3x13
Rope Upright Row: 3x12
Overhead Rope Tri: 3x12

45 minutes. Slight progress, still.

Re: school tablets, I'm not sure how I'd feel about that; certainly it doesn't seem necessary where they are now (first grade), but I'm not such a Luddite that I'd begrudge them doing some non-trivial amount of work on them when they're older. They have "station" work now in class, and I think one of those is on a tablet, but it's the minority of what they do.

Re: poker, there's actually a fairly vibrant semi-underground Indianapolis poker scene; this one group runs a game four days per week (two downtown, within walking distance for me, and two up north), and then various other games at random places (one by the racetrack, one at a local Knights of Columbus, a few others I'm sure) that I haven't yet made it to. The games I play in are 1/3 (mostly NL, but some PLO), but it plays more like 2/5 in terms of opening raise size even without taking straddles into account. There's no real limit on buy-in amount, so by the time I arrive 1k is pretty reasonable. There are definitely guys that blast off 3-4k every now and then, and apparently the KoC games are even bigger.

Yeah, I don't see the need for iPads. Idk. It's fine. I am not really mad about it as much as annoyed by more devices. My 9yo had a popup reminder her to play some non-school related game. FFS how is a 9yo supposed to ignore that when adults can't even?

Mix games w/ nl players playing plo & plo8... Wow. Enjoy.

10/10

PP W3D3
C2 row - 6000 m (1:59.3/23 spm)

1.2k - 158.9/22 spm
2.4k - 1:59.3/23 spm
3.6k - 1:59.3/24 spm
4.8k - 2:00.0/24 spm
6k - 1:58.7/25 spm

W5D5
CSR: 3x12
Lat Pulldown: 3x12
High to Low Hammer Pulldown: 3x12
DB Pullover: 3x12

~55 minutes.

Dragged a bit today; couldn't really maintain a consistent pace/stroke rate. Still completed it, even with my innerEV coming out a bit earlier than usual.

10/3: W5D6
Deadlift: wu, 275x4x4
Front Squat: wu, 135x8x3
RFESS: 3x8

45 minutes.

Reasonably k. Probably just going to try to add reps to squat and deadlift for a while given they're not the focus right now, and 225 and 275 respectively seem like barely passable benchmarks.

Legs have been feeling generally heavy lately, but fingers crossed that I keep acclimating as the meters increase.

Didn't you switch to that good pl gym a while back.

To... indoor row?

Just checking. If so, good trollin' them PLs. If not... missed opportunity. K.

I did, but with the job change, it's too far away for me to get to at lunch, so I gave it up. They didn't have an erg anyway.

I might just buy a C2 and pretend I'm on the loco life. Depends how much I hate myself. Maybe I start on roids.

10/12

PP W3D4
C2 Row: 19:32/5000 m (1:58.2/23 spm)

1k - 1:58.6/24 spm
2k - 1:58.4/23 spm
3k - 1:59.2/23 spm
4k - 1:58.1/23 spm
5k - 1:56.5/23 spm

Felt k.

10/15: W6D1
Bench: wu, 210x6x3, 210x5
Seated DB Press: 40s x12x4
Dips (bw): 3x15
Lying Low Incline Cable Flies: 3x15
Cable Lateral Raise: 3x13
Rope Tri: 3x15

50ish minutes.

Wedding was actually pretty uneventful, thankfully; no real snafus or embarrassments, which was welcome, if slightly surprising. We hosted the morning after brunch for around 60 people the day after, which also went off without a hitch. With that said, I did take two days off from the gym while eating like **** and drinking too much, so not a banner few days from an H&F perspective. I was feeling a bit sluggish today, but hopefully I'll perk up later on this week.

10/16: W6D2

Pullups (bw): 3x8
Meadows Rows: 3x8
Lat Pulldown: 3x12
Facepulls: 4x12
Machine Rev Fly: 4x12

PP W4D1
C2 Row: 26:00.6/6500 m (2:00.1/23 spm)

Used the shitty rower and checked the drag factor; my normal damper setting (4) put it at 80, so I pulled at 6 and got the drag to 105. The pull definitely felt heavier and I fatigued faster, so room for improvement there. No split data, but I was probably around 1:58-2:00 for the first three 1300 splits and 2:00 to 2:02 for the last two.

Good work with Pete's plan! I'm envious of your easy pace

Thanks man. Being built for it helps, obviously.

10/17: W6D3
Squat: wu, 225x7x3
RDLs: 185x10x3
Single Leg Press: 3x8

40 minutes; fine. Up to eight sets of pushups a day; probably time to add reps.

10/18
EZ Curl: 3x10
Incline Curls: 3x12

PP W4D2: 3x1000/3 min rest (3 min warmup)

r3:00 - 650 m
1k1 - 3:50.3 (1:55.1/23 spm)
r3:00 - 674m
1k2 - 3:49.0 (1:54.5/23 spm)
r3:00 - 684 m
1k3 - 3:47.0 (1:53.5/24 spm)
r3:00 - 692 m
Total - 23:26/5698 m

Goal was to meet or exceed the W1D2 interval pace for the 500 m sprints, which I did (I think - I didn't record those splits, but marked 1:55-1:56 for each of the sprints); that I managed to get faster every split was also a nice surprise.

Bit of an adventure this morning, as the fire alarm at the house kicked on for about ten seconds at 5 am, likely because the upstairs heater kicked on for the first time this season. My wife called the fire department, so eight trucks rolled by and verified that there was indeed nothing actually wrong. Then my wife complained about not being able to fall back asleep after things like this for about five minutes before falling asleep, while I laid awake until 7 am. Good times.

10/20

PP W4D3
Total: 25:46.6/6500 m (1:58.9/21 spm)

1.3k1 - 5:09.3 (1:58.9/20 spm)
1.3k2 - 5:08.5 (1:58.6/21 spm)
1.3k3 - 5:09.3 (1:58.9/21 spm)
1.3k4 - 5:09.8 (1:59.1/21 spm)
1.3k5 - 5:09.8 (1:59.1/22 spm)

Kept the pace much more consistent than W4D1, so that was promising. Skipped OHP yesterday to go on a ~2.5 mile hike with the boys, and have a bunch to do today to get ready for a trip this week, so I just squeezed in the row while the wife and kids were at church.

loc-huahua signal: I assume I should get a heart rate monitor if I'm going to keep this up? Just a watch, or something with a chest band? Literally no idea what I should be looking for here.

10/21 W6D6
Deadlift: wu, 275x5x3
Front Squat: wu, 135x9x3
RFESS: 3x6

35 minutes.

Fine; sleep has sucked lately though.

I would just get the polar chest strap and I believe it connects to the C2 by Bluetooth or ANT or whatever that is.

I never really looked up rowing theory. In the 80/20 book it talks about how all endurance sports follow the 80% easy /20% moderate+ intensity guidelines for optimal training.

But sure, if you wanted to be a nit you would find max heart rate and then base all your training on percentages of that. And if you wanted to be more of a nit, you would find your lactate threshold while rowing and base all your training off of that.

Or you could just keep doing what your doing and be pretty close. And that I assume, is following a program based on RPE and most of the training is lower RPE.

If I were a fellow rich like the big 3 whites in this forum (KC, downtown, montecore) I would geek it out and tell the wife I deserve a Garmin 935 for my training. But not sure how much a rower would get out of that.

The nondonk move is always the chest strap that connects to your equipment.