aramis Posted February 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2022 Feb. 1st 2x10 40kg single leg DL 1x20 40kg Romanan DL 4x5 24kg Clean&Jerk 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 Feb. 3rd Trying new stuff is fun, but also distracting. Back to basics: 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2022 Feb. 5th 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2022 Feb. 8th 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 10, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2022 Feb. 10th 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg On a different note - motorcycle season can be whole year if you're dedicated... committed... desperate enough 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2022 Feb. 12th 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 Feb. 15th 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 Feb. 17th Nothing actually. Decided to skip this one, and put my smaller motorcycle together instead. Why? Because my wife wants to (learn to) ride a motorcycle and I want to deliver. Besides, on Friday we went to an indoor water park and spent three hours on slides, wave pools and such. Helluva fun! Feb. 19th usual 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 Feb. 22nd 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 Feb. 24th 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 6x1 TGU 40kg 4x1 TGU 32kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted February 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2022 Feb. 26th workout in a hurry: 50 KB clean and jerk (24 kg) 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2022 Mar. 1st Okay. Time to crank things up. 40, 30, 30 Rom. DL 40kg 10x1 TGU 40kg! 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
Sloth the Enduring Posted March 2, 2022 Report Share Posted March 2, 2022 Wow. Quote “We might as well start where we are, use what we have and do what we can." – Caitlin Rivers Sloth: The Man with the Hammer battle log Link to comment
aramis Posted March 2, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2022 Nah, it's fine. But I don't think I'll go any heavier. Those 'Beast' kettlebells are bloody pricy I'm happy I got to this, as it's the level I was last year - I challenged myself to do full (yet untimed) Simple&Sinister routine with 40 kg KB on my 40th birthday. And as 40+40=80, that was my weight goal as well - keep myself around 80kg. My OCD was pleased with such even numbers After that was some experimentation with different moves as swings with anything above 32kg gives me crippling headache (on occasions, even 32kg does). So I finally ended switching swings with RDLs. And got back to TGUs as I like them Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2022 Mar. 3rd 2x50 Romanian DL 40kg 10x1 TGU 40kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 Mar. 5th 30, 20, 50 Romanian DL 40kg 10 TGU 40kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2022 So, I thought about adding back some pull-up movement to my routine (I will need it for OCR obstacles). I will do it on rest days from my main KB routine, so won't end up with training sessions getting too long. Maybe even in Grease-the-Groove fashion, so I can use some scaffolding at work In terms of volume, I think doing at least twice the weeks' number of reps (in sets that I don't break a sweat... 5 rep for now I guess). So now, as we have week #10, at least 20 reps on pull-up day, going up two reps every week up to 50 reps on week #25, when I have my OCR scheduled. 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2022 Mar. 7th 4x5 PU Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2022 Mar. 8th 5x20 Romanian DL 40kg 10 TGU 40kg ... with sooooo much extra rest... Today I feel like crap. Seems like some sort of cold tries to get me. And on top of that, I have my upper abs so bloody sore... I wonder why. May it because of pull-ups? Okay, I raise knees while pulling up (I try not to, but they go up by themselves ), but I doubt 20 knee raises would give me such doms in abs... Sigh... tomorrow will be better. Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 I took some pills yesterday and today I feel slightly better. Hope I managed to scare off the cold. Regarding abs, I thought all core muscles work during getups, but I might have been wrong. Turns out, while doing pull-ups I DO use them so much to explain soreness... but not by raising knees. With sore upper abs I can clearly feel the amount of stress I put on them just by tightening the core [EDIT] Mar. 9th 6x5 PU No better medicine for sore muscles than... more exercise 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2022 Mar. 10th 2 x 50 Romanian DL 40kg 10 TGU 40kg Mar. 11th 3x5 PU done so far. I feel like pull-ups got super easy over last days. Muscle memory kicking in? Today I've ended up with 7x5 pull-ups. 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2022 Mar. 12th 2 x 50 Romanian DL 40kg 10 TGU 40kg 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2022 Mar. 14th Pull-ups: 4x6, 2x5 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 Mar. 15th Stuck at work, came home two hours later. Barely squeezed 30 Rom. DL 40 kg 10 TGU 40kg in family evening routine. Mar. 16th No pullups today. My day at work today was 13 hours of driving across the country. Maybe I'll do some PU before sleep. 1 Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
aramis Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 Mar. 17th 2 x 50 Romanian DL 40kg 10 TGU 40kg Quote I absolutely CAN run on caffeine and hatred. But only with a dash of milk. Challenges' status: Spoiler Not gonna Challenge anymore for now. I took Steve's words and started thinking in days and years. Challenges are just short-term distractions. #16 | #15 (Xmas mini) | #14 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 | #6 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Other activities: Bike build Link to comment
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