For Your Health (a hunk's log)

[broseph]

12/26/22

Bodyweight 188.9# (down a pound from being sick)

Shoveled a ton of snow yesterday and didn't even die. So that's progress. Still coughing like crazy though which is annoying as fuck.


Bench 255x8x5. These went fine- maybe a little slow. I stopped at 8 sets just because it was halfway between 5 (bare minimum) and 11 (most recent volume upper limit).
(70%, H=444)

Squat 285x5x5. These were going well enough, until my legs started getting shaky/crampy so I stopped at 5 sets. Lame.
(70%, H=278)

Chins BW+90x5x5. Typical.

[broseph]

12/27/22

Titan Bike
21:00
19.3 mph
8.3 Cal/min

First session after being sick- took it nice and easy.

[broseph]

12/27/22

Seated DB Press 50x4x10

Supersetted x4:
Incline DB Curl 25x10
Incline Tricep Press 108x10

[broseph]

12/28/22

Titan Bike x3:
5:00 on
2:00 off
22.3 mph
11.7 Cal/min

Persistent cough reactivated.

[broseph]

12/29/22

Went in to work early, got out early. Have to go back in an hour.

Bench 275x8x4
(75%, H=512)

Chins BW+100x6x4

[broseph]

12/30/22

I've been sleeping a lot lately, and still feeling not great. This illness has been a real doozy.

Squat 307.5x6x4
(75%, H=384)

I took up to 7 minute rests here because I was obsessively finishing a book between sets. It's the 5th cosmic horror novel I've read in the past few months, and I think the genre is starting to permeate my brain and thought patterns because I find myself feeling trippy and empty and gross way too often. The winter solstice and recent illness probably isn't helping.

I need to take a break and read something with a concrete plot and ending. It doesn't have to be a "good" ending, per se, but I think my brain needs some closure and answers instead of questions and interpretations. But at the same time, I feel like it took a couple of those books to get my brain in sync with the style and I want to stay in the haze now that I've found it.

Also, I am at the precipice of becoming an ultra pretentious cringe lord. Do I follow that rabbit hole into a mid life goth phase or just start reading Vince Flynn books? Ah jeez, I'm making fun of mainstream literature- maybe I've already become the ultra pretentious cringe lord?

Deadlift 350x5x4
(70%, H=222)

[augeleven]

…cosmic horror novel … or just start reading Vince Flynn books?

Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series has entered the chat.

Kinda hacky, very pulpy take on spec ops shoot ‘em ups.

Don’t take my advice - I don’t read.

[broseph]

…cosmic horror novel … or just start reading Vince Flynn books?

Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series has entered the chat.

Kinda hacky, very pulpy take on spec ops shoot ‘em ups.

Don’t take my advice - I don’t read.

The bio warfare aspect sounds fun, but those types of series don't usually do much for me. Maybe I should give it another chance.

[broseph]

1/1/23

Bench 315x1, 255x10x5 @ballistic
(85%, 70%, H=600)

Landmine Row 145x4x10

Seated DB Press 50x4x11

Supersetted x3:
Incline DB Curl 25x11
Incline Tricep Press 108x11

[broseph]

1/2/23

Squat 350x1, 285x6x5
(85%, 70%, H=377)

Deadlift 375x4x3. 4 sets of 3 @75% is almost nothing, but my legs were getting shaky. I think it's taking a while to recover from that illness.
(75%, H=192)

[broseph]

1/3/23

Bench 295x7x3, 1x7
(80%, H=700)

Chins BW+100x5x4, 1x6

Hanging Knee Raise 3x10

[JFick]

How's the de-phoning going? This is a goal of mine as well. Trying to keep the mindfulness to a max.

I hate to sound like a red-pill (or is blue pill? which one means I'm better than everyone else?) douche, but it is hilarious how uncomfortable most people are with silence/low stim, and how especially uncomfortable they are around people who enjoy silence/low stim.

word... i feel this in everyway. like do we really need to fill every conscious moment with what is most often useless noise? I get shooting the breeze has it's purpose and place but how bout some Yang to that Yin?

I need to take a break and read something with a concrete plot and ending. It doesn't have to be a "good" ending, per se, but I think my brain needs some closure and answers instead of questions and interpretations. But at the same time, I feel like it took a couple of those books to get my brain in sync with the style and I want to stay in the haze now that I've found it.

Also, I am at the precipice of becoming an ultra pretentious cringe lord. Do I follow that rabbit hole into a mid life goth phase or just start reading Vince Flynn books? Ah jeez, I'm making fun of mainstream literature- maybe I've already become the ultra pretentious cringe lord?

hmm I have an ultra pretentious cringe lord recommendation... just that one of the main themes of the book is annularity of time so the ending actually wraps back to the very beginning of the book... so not much for a solid closure of a plot. However it's a fantastic read full of hilarious passages mixed with true base human condition passages. Written in the mid 90s but set in 2010 if I remember right. The author had an amazing foresight into the future of digital communications and the consumption of your attention via technology. There's actually a chapter about the invention and problems of facial filters on video calls!

what makes it pretentious? it's over a thousand pages and there's a LOT of hipster douchery in the following around the book. but i thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, took me like 6 months to get through. Infinte Jest by David Foster Wallace

[broseph]

1/4/23

Titan Bike x3:
5:00 on
2:00 off
22.5 mph
12.1 Cal/min

Cardio Musings: Taking 3 weeks off of cardio hurts your cardio.

[broseph]

How's the de-phoning going? This is a goal of mine as well. Trying to keep the mindfulness to a max.

Super great. I still occasionally reach for my back pocket for no reason, but I stop myself before actually grabbing the phone. I also stopped allowing myself to do the infinite scroll thing with reddit and insta- even though I only ever did that when I was legitimately bored, I don't think it's good for my brain.

Oh, and I quit looking at the pedometer.

hmm I have an ultra pretentious cringe lord recommendation... just that one of the main themes of the book is annularity of time so the ending actually wraps back to the very beginning of the book... so not much for a solid closure of a plot. However it's a fantastic read full of hilarious passages mixed with true base human condition passages. Written in the mid 90s but set in 2010 if I remember right. The author had an amazing foresight into the future of digital communications and the consumption of your attention via technology. There's actually a chapter about the invention and problems of facial filters on video calls!

what makes it pretentious? it's over a thousand pages and there's a LOT of hipster douchery in the following around the book. but i thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, took me like 6 months to get through. Infinte Jest by David Foster Wallace

Lol, that book has been on my list for a while, but the length scared me. Breaking it up and reading different things in between seems like a good idea. That was the only way I made through the Dune series- they're good books, but I could not read 2 of them back to back.

I'm reading Fight Club now. It's one of my favorite movies, and the book is even more satisfying than rewatching movie when you already know the ending. Like, every other sentence is hitting you over the head with what's going on, but I could totally see myself still not putting it together until the end. I wish I could go back and read it without having seen the movie.

[broseph]

1/4/23

Seated DB Press 50x4x12

Supersetted x4:
Incline DB Curl 25x12
Incline Tricep Press 108x12

[broseph]

1/5/23

Titan Bike x18:
0:30 on
0:30 off
27.2 mph
16.6 Cal/min

[broseph]

1/5/23

I'm tired of dreading squats. They never feel right; knees often hurt, hip flexors always hurt, and sometimes it seems like my hips simply refuse to be flexible. Every other lift I do, I can perform the movement correctly on the first warmup, but not squats. They'll sometimes start feeling "ok" by the time I get to the work sets, but never as well greased as literally any other exercise.

I value squat strength, unfortunately, so not squatting is a tough pill to swallow. And lifting at home, I don't have many other leg options beside variants of the squat. And variants often hurt more than regular squats.

I'm not sure what to do, but I wish there was someone you could go to who would evaluate your technique and test your mobility and diagnose and fix your squat. And they'd yell at you when you did it wrong and give you a nice pat on the bottom when you did it right. Maybe they'd carry a whistle or a clipboard or something to further enforce the idea of their authority. I don't know what you'd call this person, but I'll bet those pats on the bottom would feel so good.


Deadlift 405x8x2
(80%, H=400)

Purple Banded Landmine Goblet Squat 135x3x16
For your novelty.

[cgeorg]

I go through the same feelings on squats and I think I'm going to just do SGDLs (maybe a little deficit) as a good "close enough". You might be able to do pistols (holding weight if it gets too easy?) to maintain some semblance of a squat movement? They're janky as fuck but in a much more fun way than back squats.

I'm not sure anything else will really get you that "the bar will crush me if I don't do this and every inch of my body needs to be so tight right now" feeling though.

[broseph]

I go through the same feelings on squats and I think I'm going to just do SGDLs (maybe a little deficit) as a good "close enough". You might be able to do pistols (holding weight if it gets too easy?) to maintain some semblance of a squat movement? They're janky as fuck but in a much more fun way than back squats.

I'm not sure anything else will really get you that "the bar will crush me if I don't do this and every inch of my body needs to be so tight right now" feeling though.

Last year when I crossfitting, I had the mobility to do alternating pistols. But they hurt my knees even more than barbell squats, lol.

I think my dread is mostly because the squat never feels right. At first, my ankles and hips don't want to cooperate and I'll fall forward if I don't round my back. After sufficient warmup and stretching, I can do the movement, but my hips still aren't happy about it and it feels like I'm forcing my body into unnatural positions (because pain).

[broseph]

1/6/23

Bench 240x11x7
(65%, H=628)

Landmine Row 150x4x10


Musings: I had the day off work so I took the children out for breakfast this morning while my wife was at the gym and it was great. The restaurant is super basic (not bad basic, just not fancy or niche) and family friendly and the kids can turn in their coloring book menus at the end of the meal to enter the "coloring contest" to win a free meal.

What the kids don't know is everyone wins. So a couple weeks later each kid gets their free meal prize ticket in the mail. They are blown away that they all keep winning, and it's better than Tooth Fairy or Jesus or even Santa Claus as a parent/child magical experience. Especially because they try really hard with the coloring while we wait for the food so they can win again.