dsavage

So I'm still hanging in there. Officially still on the re-entry ramp to fitness. What's happened in the last week? Sit down and I'll tell you. I'm not going to be crushing any powerlifting records soon, but I'm going to try and hang onto the a reasonable level of fitness by my fingernails. First off, I'm going to India. Again. Going to try to make good food choices there. It's the 2nd trip this year. My job is crazy, as we've grown from 3 to 40 people in my group, I end up spending an unreasonable amount of time just sharing context to new team members. I did manage to bike to the gym and get in some cleans and deadlifts. I can do 2 pullups now. Progress! As for the rest of the week, well I didn't have much success getting to the gym but I do have something I'm excited to share with my old NF buddies (Is Brodin even still around? Flex? I don't recognize too many people other than the ever-awesome @RedStone ) As of monday I closed a purchase of over 3 acres of land in the mountains. There's nothing on the land except for a Yurt, a sauna, and a teepee. I work from home, and there happens to be a t-mobile tower across the valley, so I can spend all my time in the yurt once we finish the solar installation and install a signal booster (should take me from 10megabit to 25megabit). The best part? I talked my wife into naming our little mountain place "Stedding Summit". In the Wheel Of Time series a stedding is where the ogier (incredibly strong but gentle non-humans) go when they need refuge and peace. It seemed appropriate. https://imgur.com/gallery/nQqViZ5 That's not particularly fitness related but whatever. I will say that for 48 hours I carried giant stones up and down a hill, and deadlifted a trailer hitch stuck in the mud and pushed it around. I got more activity in a day than I think I've had in the last couple weeks. Mountain life == best life. That's all. Maybe I'll go drop by some of y'alls threads now and say hi. Current goal: actually drop 5 pounds before India.

Cards on the table? Not really. In fact last week I only got one weight workout in (and a couple quick cardio sessions). In the past I have worked with personal trainers who took an approach where you started the session with some oly lifting (cleans mainly), since those... seem worst to do if you're already fatigued. After that we'd jump into deadlift/squat/bench. In the past I've done things like 5x5. Well, the short answer is... I don't really know. About 4 years ago I took a pretty hard crash on my longboard after, and I kid you not, watching The Secret Life of Walter Mitty where he skates in Iceland. I decided I should longboard down my street. I crashed pretty hard at the bottom and had trouble sleeping on that side for a few weeks. It was ok for a while, but later I was doing alot of rock climbing and had a few falls where I caught myself with one arm. Over a few months it just started deteriorating and I decided to see a Dr and a Physical Therapist. So by the time I went under the knife they: Re-attached a frayed bicep tendon Put in 5 stitches for a torn labrum (I think this was from the climbing falls) Filed down a bone spur Examined but chose not to touch a partial rotator cuff tear (I think this was from the longboard thing) It's been a long process. I was in intense pain for about 6 weeks (medium/low pain for quite a while after). At around month 4 I got the clear to do a little scuba diving in Thailand. At month 6 I was finally allowed to start working out. It was a slow process, I couldn't do a pullup or pushup. Lots of atrophy in my bicep. I've tried to stay reasonably active, at least can do 12 pushups and one pullup, which is pretty bad but sort of normal for out-of-shape me.

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Alright nerds. You may have forgotten me. Life conspired to take me out of the game for way too long. I ended up with more responsibility at work (lame excuse I know). I also messed up my shoulder so thoroughly that I needed a huge surgery and almost a year of recovery. But that's all behind me now. I've put all the pieces in place. Protein? Check. Gym membership? Check. A fridge full of Costco chicken? Check. Let's do this. I'm starting out about 15lbs too fat so my plan is to go back to the diet that worked before (Paleo) and ease back into things with a good mix of riding to the gym for cardio and a shit ton of powerlifting/Olympic lifting for exercise. Over the next 3 weeks my goals are: 1. Hit gym 4 days/week 2. Transition back into Paleo 3. Drop 2lb/week I'll update more tomorrow. Also: is there a non-facebook messanger place where y'all chat these days? I miss IRC. Discord? WhatsApp?

When I try to get a 25lb dumbell during prime gym time:

Nonsense comment so I can find this thread.

> Maybe he was hitting on me? Tough to tell for sure. Did it feel like this?

Found a more appropriate mortal kombat character.

Good luck with the stretching.

Week 4 update I'm on track to hit the gym. I've had to work early every day this week, which makes it easier to have a long lunch workout session. Yesterday I killed my legs. Back squatsFront squatsWeighted lungesLeg PressLeg CurlCalf raisesUnstable-ball-planking-thing my trainer told me to do.Some other core stuff. Cardio ummm. next question please. Diet I'm switching up my diet a little. I'm upping the calories with more clean (yes Flex I know you hate that phrase) food. I've been really hungry even though I'm not eating at a deficit. I cooked up a shitload of sausage and rice which I'm eating with milk. Beast mode activated.

That's it. Your bro card has been revoked.

Knocked out my first round of cardio for the week. The snow slowed down my pace a bit, but still kept it around 10 minute mile. Bring on the cardio hate Flex and Br0din.

I think you mean Abpollo.

My trainer made me do these weird exercises that caused me more ab soreness than anything else I've ever had. It was just something stupid like this: Seems pretty easy, but I felt like I'd been kicked in the ribs for the next 2 days after.

Don't forget the PWO!

Loving the consistency of this thread. Keep up the good work.

> Harley on a U-turn and dropped it on myself Wow. That's a pretty crazy wreck. Glad you seem relatively unharmed. > trainer wrote my number on the white board at the gym Sounds like that could be a great motivator. Keep up the good work!

> I hate when an awesome post is lost... write it up in notepad and save it forever Truth. This post brought to you by emacs. #textlife What's up nerds! Time for my midweek checkin. Here's how I'm doing so far. # Day 1: Lifting I hit the gym. The gym hit back. So sore. I did high-rep low-weight deadlifts (135-185lb). Dinner negotiations resulted in pizza. But don't worry, I balanced that pizza with breadsticks. # Day 2: Lifting Doing some cleans and stuff with the trainer tonight. Should be a good workout. Trainer says I need to work on leg contact with the bar when I pop up. Luckily I found a training video on the internet. I'm experimenting with some crock pot gumbo tonight. I'll let you all know if it's any good. # Mood

All right nerds! I deleted my last giftastic post on accident and I don't have time to redo it. Here's a quick update: Got back from New Orleans this morning. My week of hacking was awesome. It was the kind of bad eating that's good. I spent the week sampling creole food and walking the french quarter. Mmmmm. But today I'm back in SL,UT and getting down to business. Same old plan: lifting 3x a week and cardio 2x a week. It's all about consistency. More to come later.

Hey, I'm alive! Don't expect to hear too much from me this week because I'm camped out in a New Orleans mansion hacking. On the bright side I found free weights. Even more importantly for a true bro, my bedroom is 100% mirrors for maximum 'mirin. OTOH I'm working 12 hour days, eating Alligator Sausage Po boys and 10 lb bags of Beignet while cruising Bourbon street. So there's that. I'm committing to getting at least one more run in and one weight lifting session this week! See y'all real soon!

Officially subbing. Massage chair + steak sound like delightful.

Found the right thread. Subbed.

Non-fitness related update. I made a little image proxy to resize images for posts. Works for these domains: i.imgur.com,wp.com,media.giphy.com,memecrunch.com,*.fbcdn.net To resize this image: http://i.imgur.com/2YFRx2V.gifput http://whitane.com/resize/$widthx$height/http://i.imgur.com/2YFRx2V.gif Like this: Isn't programming fun!

Random update. My new protein arrived. Thanks to Flex_Luthor for the trutein suggestion. I've got 8 lbs of cinnamon deliciousness to eat.

All right team, publishing some more awesomeness to stay accountable for the last 2 days. Tuesday: Pull day Knocked out some Deadlifts, lat pulldowns, bicep curls and completed my core work. Wed. cardio I'll just leave this here. I didn't quite keep my pace below 10min/mile but there was quite a bit of elevation gain. So that means I'm done with cardio for the week! Good job me! Just have to keep it up through push day tomorrow. And really chest day is like the desert of working out. So everything is on track. I don't have any "official" goals around dieting, but I'm trying to eat more paleo-ish, and the first rule of my diet is: I struggle with this. I mean I like my spinach but it's tough to work more veggies into my diet. I tried a nice vegetable chowder and it turned out pretty well (I'm pretty sure the secret was the bacon fat I poured into the soup. That's a thing right?). I threw in some cauliflower, celery, carrots, onions and dill. Stay tuned for next week when I attempt to make collard greens for the first time ever. dsavage out!