Weight: 208.9lb
Recovery: 19% (3h 48m slept)!
Overdue Progress Picture: 3/6/23
Last progress pic
That sounds awful. I don’t even want to know how you felt when you woke up.
Legs, arms, abs basically all of you looking improved and awesome dude! Good effort!
Looking absolutely jacked and stacked! Just had a few questions about your semantics in your log. First, shouldn’t the tonnage for hammer Curl be doubled since technically it’s 90 pounds for both arms together, the same way EZ Curl is 70 pounds for both arms instead of 35 each arm? My second question, I believe Kroc Row usually refers to a dumbbell about half your bodyweight for a really high rep, max effort single set. Is that what you’re doing, but doubling the set count? Sorry if these questions seemed stupid and I know you aren’t sleeping well, but I’m curious about these details!
I mean it could be, but I’ve only ever tracked the weight lifted if that makes any sense. DB weight is the weight of one dumbbell, barbell/EZ curl is whatever the total weight is there. IDK I could adjust it, but I don’t know if there’s much point with the type of training I’m doing. I just had it as something to fill an empty cell that may prove useful in the future.
Maybe? My understanding of a Kroc Row was that it was literally a DB Row but with body english… If that’s inaccurate - then I’ve been doing whatever that is called lol.
Just following Jordan Peter’s training principles. I think I adjusted this one because I don’t believe in only training one plane of movement for lats, so I did heavy vertical and heavy horizontal - in a way that wouldn’t impact hamstrings for the following leg day.
No need to apologize, ask away!
Thanks for the reply! I agree that if you’ve been tracking it that way forever that it’s best to just continue it, it just stuck out to me when I compared it to the EZ Curl. Okay I see what you mean! I’m also on board with dumbbell rowing! Your use of the phrase Kroc Row was different from the context I usually see it used in, and could very well mean that as well, since Kroc is kind of known for using a lot of body English.
It’s probably also consistent with my lack of availability regarding Dumbbells > 1/2BW too lol.
FWIW, these are all performed with a 1s iso and 3s eccentric.
Getting too thicc to be using the jazzercize weights anymore.
Weight: 210.0lb
Recovery: 78% (6h 23m slept)
Good to hear.
Weight: 212lb
Recovery: 96% (8h 56m slept, incredible)
Home gym today
Toes to Bar
x6
x6
Ab Rollouts
x6
x6
Daughter was ‘given’ a locker at her gymnastics studio because she’s kicking ass. She’s super happy/proud so I’m sure that will dominate conversation for the next few days.
Weight: 212.7lb
Recovery: 55% (5h 15m slept)
Have class on Monday so I wouldn’t be able to train. Went late at night trying to get it in and not miss any training days.
When I finish with Week 4, I’m going to be switching from 2 working sets as written to 1 Rest-Pause set with same exercises. Might keep legs as-is because high rep leg stuff makes me feel like dying.
Directly from the source:
Quick update:
3/13 - rest
Forced due to class
3/14 - rest
Unplanned, started feeling a sore throat and didn’t want to risk crushing my CNS via leg day before getting sick.
3/15 - rest
Was right about getting sick and made the smart decision not to train. A rarity, a assure you.
3/16 - rest
Family got checked out at a clinic and tested positive for Bronchial Pneumonia, I’ve likely got this too. Body aches are very persuasive to make me not train, despite wanting to. If i start feeling better later on, I’ll be hitting legs.
Diet has been okay, could be better. Have been bumping carbs (some were definitely not healthy) to help kick this bug.
Accountability check.
3/16/23 - rest (still sick, almost trained but was probably the right call that I didn’t)
Food
Cal: 1681
P: 153g
C: 164g
F: 48g
Need to do better on protein. Will be adding in Egg Whites when I get to the grocery store, inspired by @throwawayfitness.
Need to increase activity level. Will start tracking steps again (probably not logging, just making a conscious effort to hit 10k) and may start doing stretching routines with the family (daughter needs it for gymnastics, wife needs it for… umm… things, and I need it because I’m too stiff (not like that)).
Weight: 208.9lb
Recovery: 85% (6h 28m slept)
+15min walk after lunch
Home gym today
Squats (instead of Hack Squats)
275x12
275x12
(Hitting 12 for two sets was a dumb idea)
Food
Cal: 1995
P: 243g
C: 153g
F: 35g
3/19/23 - Rest (forced)
Food
Cal: 1935
P: 195g
C: 207g
F: 33g
+Cardio 30mins
3/20/23 - rest
Slept like dogshit the night before, was so tired I just didn’t want to train. Still recovering from this illness.
Food
Cal: 2501
P: 202g
C: 193g
F: 102g
I was bad and I ate ice cream… I told the wife not to bring it home under any circumstance, she did not listen and now we’re here.
Hey Andrew, how long do you have until you graduate?
And that is why you love her. Sometimes they do the right thing
Bachelor’s in 6 months or so. Got my Associate’s the other day.
IDK man, I’ve fired training partners for less 
