How many pistols are you doing? I would be interested in a video. If you can do loads, have you thought of doing weighted pistols?

I'll try to remember to video them next time.

In the meantime, can I get a Loco bodyfat % estimate? Nudes below (pre-cut, so at my recent fattest.)

My Dad got the results of a biopsy yesterday - he has an aggressive, fast growing variant of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Chemo starts next week.

I hope lockdown eases at some point soon so I can visit him.

I did hangboarding yesterday, followed by squats and deadlifts. I finished at after 1 .a.m., and it was below 0 Centigrade so my (unheated) shed was a bit nippy. So I didn't do as many sets as normal, getting 1 set of 10 squat (70 kgs) and 1 set of 8 deadlift (100 kgs).

The hangboarding was pretty good. Hopefully I can get a climb in today - the weather has not been co-operative so far.

My cut has gone well, I will probably revert to a proper amount of food next week.

Rough news, I hope that the treatments go well and you are able to see him.

Wishing your dad well

Sorry about your dad.

Best wishes to your father.

Sorry about your dad and hope you get to see him soon

Thanks for the good wishes everyone. The chemo starts on Tuesday.

I played with kettlebells yesterday, doing 100 swings with a 24 kgs bell and 15 goblet squats with a 32 kgs bell.

I'm only in second place in my weekly Fitbit step challenge thing, so I'll probably do a long walk this evening to ensure I win. My average so fate this week has been below 15,000 a day, which is pretty low by my normal standards.

I did an hour's yoga today, and then climbed. I started off surprisingly on form. However, I got pumped quite fast and was falling off jugs by the end. It was good fun, if a little cold (around zero Celsius.) It was about a 70 minute session.

My last weigh-in was 143.5 pounds, which is line with the 7 day rolling average. So there's not been much movement there this week.

In a clear example of FPS, I've bought myself a continuous glucose monitor. I haven't put it on yet - I'll do it later this week. My plan is to tailor my diet and exercise to minimise glucose peaks. There is a very English, coffee, breakfast related video on it here:

I attempted hangboarding yesterday, but I was terrible. So I gave up on it, send also gave up on my planned upper body lifts, since did a 6 mile walk instead.

I will re-try today. It may be that I didn't give myself long enough to recover after climbing the day before.

Dad just had his first course of chemo, and apparently feels OK.

I re-did the hangboarding the next day, and was a lot better. I didn't break any records, but it was a solid session.

I did upper body lifts the day after hangboarding, (Wednesday) doing 3 sets of 6 on the bench (50kgs); and 3 sets of 6 overhead press (35 kgs).

On Thursday, I did an 8 mile walk. I ran for a small portion of it as an experiment. I've never really been a runner, I wanted to see if it could be fun. It wasn't too bad, although I only did about a mile as I'm easing myself into it.

It has rained constantly for a few days, preventing me from climbing. There was a brief respite on Friday, and amazingly I had a full hour over lunch with no meetings. So I got a quick climb in for an hour, although I was out of form.

Today, I did lower body lifts:
3 sets of 5, squat, 80 kgs
3 sets of 7, deadlift, 100 kgs
Farmers' walk, 60 kgs.

Hopefully I can climb tomorrow.

I did an hour of yoga in the morning.

I climbed for 90 minutes in the afternoon. It was really good - I sent a lot the stuff I tried. I did a lot of technique practice, focusing on footwork drills. I was super-pumped at the end.

I finished off with finger curls, working up to 60 kgs.

This evening, I will probably do a 6 to 8 mile walk.

It's been a while since I logged. I've been working out, but logging seems to be hard. My last few have been:

Friday
Miraculously, I had no meetings over lunch and it was sunny, if a little cold. I climbed. It was very good - I was on form.

Saturday
I went round my little brother's, who also has a climbing wall in his garden. It was a good session - my best on his wall for a while (or possibly ever).

Sunday
I did an hour's yoga and a reasonable length walk in the morning. I did upper body lifts in the evening

Bench 3 sets of 10; 50 kgs

OHP, 2 sets of 10; 35 kgs


Monday
I did leg day:

Squat 3 sets of 10; 80 kgs

Deadlift, 2 sets of 10; 100 kgs


It's been cold.

I did some hangboarding yesterday, building up to 15 seconds on the 15mm ledge in a repeater. (I did 15 seconds on, then rested a minute, for 5 reps.)

I then did 3 set of 5 finger curls, 60 kgs; and 2 sets of 10 bench press, 50 kgs.

Your workout partner looks like a cool dude.

He is no more, unfortunately - it got warmer.

Yesterday, I did leg day:
Squats, 3 sets of 10, 85 kgs.
Deadlift, 3 sets of 6, 110 kgs.

Today, I did an 8 mile walk in the morning. I put out the climbing mats for an afternoon climb, and it immediately started to rain. It had been a week since my last climb, so I cursed and then carried on regardless. It was a pretty good session.

1 February
Hangboarding. It started well, but I needed to cut it short. A friend is trying to become a Twitch streamer, and she beat me up at Dominion on her stream. I nearly got everything I wanted done - I skipped the weighted hangs.

After the stream, I was restless so I benched (50 kgs, 3 sets of 12) and OHPed (35 kgs, 3 sets of 5).

2 February
I got a quick climb in over lunch. Gravity was strong, unfortunately.

In other news, I got around to installing my 24 hour glucose monitor. It's normally pretty low, but I seem to react badly to white rice. Potatoes and pasta are fine.

3 February I hoped for a climb, but by lunch it started to pour with rain. So I made do with an hour of yoga, and testing my max reps unweighted pull ups (I got 17, which is I think a PB). I did an 8 mile walk in the evening.

4 February It was sunny! I got an hour's climb in over lunch. I wasn't massively on form, but I did get some hard stuff eventually. I didn't flash anything, though.

It looks like I won't actually win my weekly Monday to Friday step count challenge this week - I'm only on 63,000 so far, and I probably need around 20,000 more to grab the gold. It's doable, but I will probably not bother.

My weight went through a high patch recently, so I carried on with the diet. This was almost certainly water weight. The high point of the adverse stretch was 148 pounds. My last 5 weigh ins have been below 143, though so it looks like I can actually end the diet. (I'm on 2,200 calories compared to 2,600 maintenance.)

I did an 8 mile walk yesterday, then an hour of yoga, and finally leg day.
I squatted 80 kgs for 2 sets of 5, and then 1 set of 14 AMRAP at RPE 10.
I then deadlifted 110 kgs for 2 sets of 6.

Today, I did a shorter walk (probably 6 miles). In the evening, I did 3 sets of 5 goblet squats with the 32 kgs kettle bell, and then 100 swings with the 24 kgs. I then had to stop for an hour due to agreeing to go on a friend's Twitch stream. I will do half an hour's hangboarding to finish.

My weights and hang board are in my shed. It is damn cold in there at the moment (-4 centigrade.) I start each day with a cold shower, and that is kind of unpleasant when it is this cold as well.

I extended my hangboarding to add in some weighted pull ups. I got +40 kgs, which I'm happy with. (I lost 25 kgs in my diet a couple of years ago, and I could do pull ups when I was larger, but they were really hard. This result implies my pulling strength is at least equal to back then.)

Yesterday, I had an hour's climb over lunch. I was terrible - I got no hard routes. It's possible I was adversely affected by the cold (it was minus 3 Celsius); more likely it was just a bad day.

I got a 7 mile walk in the evening, when it got even colder.

Today, I did an hour of yoga before breakfast. I'll lift some weights this evening.

On Friday, I did a quick bench session. It minus 6 Celsius in my shed, so I kept it brief.

On Saturday, I did a 16 mile walk with lots of hills. I like these longer walks, as I can eat loads afterwards.

On Sunday, I had a decent climb, then did a 10 mile walk.

did a quick workout yesterday. Work was silly, so I started at around 1.30 a.m.

Bench 3 sets of 10, 50 kgs. I've been benching a lot recently, in terms of volume if not weight. The last time I checked, my 1-rep max was around 70 kgs (at a body weight of 65 kgs). I may test where it is now in the foreseeable future.

Kettlebell 100 swings, 24 kgs.

I checked my blood pressure yesterday. It was 110/65, which is not too shabby. My glucose monitoring experiment has ended. The conclusions were not particularly compelling:

• I seem to react fairly badly to white rice, which gave the biggest spike I found over the 2 weeks.
• I don't seem to react to a single potato, but two did cause a small spike
• 16/8 intermittent fasting does seem to give lower peaks and troughs throughout the day
• The impact of IF was small - average glucose of 5.5 mmol/litre compared to 5.6 without it.
• I was generally in a pretty narrow range. Fasting value was typically 4.2 to 4.4 mmol/litre, which is good.
• Over the 14 days, I had one reading which may have been in the pre-diabetic range - 2 hours after eating I was at 7.5 (the pre-diabetic threshold is 7). After 2.5 hours, I as at about 5, so this seems to have been an outlier. This was after the rice..

How is having normal healthy blood glucose levels not compelling?!?

Can you tell me more about the glucose monitoring? What device did you use? I am getting pretty big energy level changes during the day and it could be something I need to do as well.