realworksuks vs [Focus] - "LIKE DONKEY KONG, SON!"

Typhon said:
Are you still on course for the IronMan in August, Focus?
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Yup yup. None of that partying the night before and sleeping in crap. :rolleyes:

I'm not entirely convinced "what I can" is as much as "enough to be prepared", given where I started at, but I will at least earn my DNF.


BigTomW said:
Focus you really need to focus.
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Is that a family motto? Your mother says it all the time, too. ;)
 
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Diamond pushups - recommended by me

I haven't been able to straighten my arms fully since Monday. And as far as I can tell, I only get sore when I hit hard something that hasn't been in a long time.

The rest of me's just fine, but whatever's the weakest link, there, it's taking some serious damage. :D
 
Arm's mostly not hurting now, is good.

Tomorrow makes a couple weeks of scary strict keto completed. I feel pretty fine, aside from the occasional urge to go down to the corner store and hold the police off at gun point while I devour everything in it.

Fairly chill about things now, though, so if I'm out this weekend (will be, most of it) and I really want to eat some more, I will. It just won't be a mountain of junk food - rather, the stuff I'm supposed to be eating, enough of it it to push a day or two up to "maintenance", at most. But only if I really want to. For the most part, it's easy to just distract myself with something, and I've decided to count adherence (for my 90% goal) in terms of days. Should be intuitive that this means less than once a week, overall. But, uh, these days my power level is pretty high, so.
 
Turned out all I did have was a bite of lava cake, and only because everyone was making a big friggen deal out of it, haha. I was like, "Seriously, you fools know I don't even LIKE lava cake. You want me to waste my specials on this THIS? They didn't even give us any ice cream. :bncry:" I'll never admit it to them, but yeah it was actually pretty good.

Anyway, I've been thinkin' some more (I know, I know) and I just don't feel like I have time to be screwing around with more experimenting. 2 months on keto, then another 6 weeks to transition out properly... August is not that far away, and afaict I can't seem to train for **** without fruit. For serious, haha. Even if I'm swallowing starches by the fistful every meal. Something about liver glycogen and glucokinase signaling, perhaps. ;)

While I realize this may be some sort of a cop-out, I really don't think so. Having successfully completed Velocity and even done extended fasts (not for weight loss, obviously - that would be very retarded), I know I can stay the course. What I'm questioning is whether it makes sense to do so. I need to eat big so I can train big. Right now I'm doing "Tabatas" in the morning (30s max on, 90s "walking", x4 intervals) and a light 20 mile (1 hour) bike in the evenings. The Tabatas, I sometimes (almost always, tbh, haha) want to just go outside and drown myself in a pile of snow instead, but the bike is easy mode and not really doing me any good. May as well be walking. But if I go any harder than that (~ 50% mhr - way below my ideal 85), I run out of steam and feel seriously miserable the next day. My logic is simple - eat balanced and more -> train balanced and more -> be way better conditioned -> not disgrace myself in August despite months of behavioral "success".

Gonna reintroduce fruits and grains and such come Monday'ish, if no one wants to yell at me.


rws, it's you, and boo, and I. The you is missing!! Also, thoughts on whether I am being a wuss!?
 
One thing, though, I forgot to mention. This is the last switch on nutrition for the foreseeable future. I may muck about with carb amounts vs. timing, sure, but I'm sticking with berardi-style until after August. No more jumping around ****. If, at that point, I'm not happy with the results (I sincerely doubt this will be the case), I will have another look at a long-term keto trial (when I have "the luxury" of doing so).

As I said before, I have a problem with staying consistent, so, this is my bargain with myself. I'm just gonna keep at it and adjust calories and timing as necessary, and assume that if I'm not seeing the results I want, it's because I'm not running hard enough or not jumping high enough. Also as before, excited to just be leaving this end alone and training hard. I make some pretty impressive progress when I'm allowed to eat.

After a couple weeks to adjust back the other way I'mma start tracking weight and bodyfat again and take those pictures. Still waiting on my copy of never gymless, but I've got plans there, too. Right now I'm just doing some basic bodyweight laddering stuff. push-ups, rows, erom lunges, hopping all over ****, one-legged squats (!), that sorta thing. Can't wait 'til I can actually do pull-ups, haha. I have this secret goal of getting the front lever before the Ironman. And, y'know, maybe actually being able to to pull my (significantly reduced, one would hope) bodyweight for reps. =P
 
hey guys...! I am just about to head over to the gym for an epic full body workout! wuahaha!

MMMMMMAN, today near the end of the work day my boss called us all into his office for a meeting. Ended up standing there for about 45 minutes.. I really suck at standing in one spot.

I was starving... and I almost fainted.

I got home and totally pigged out. Had a south beach frozen pizza, two chicken breasts, 4 eggs, 4 pieces of bread, and an apple!!

**** huh?!?! Yeah, I wasn't even THAT full, just satisfied when finished.

Now it's an hour later and I am reenergized to hit the gym baby!

RANDOM THOUGHT: I am listening to that song "Taylor Swift - Love Song".... is that kinda gay of me to like that song? What if I almost cried when I saw the music video? Lol

I'm such a softy... haha

With that in mind it's time to hit the weights!!
 
Welp, here we are, just sorta quietly doin' our thing, haha.

Discipline's nice and strict and not so energy-consuming. I haven't missed a workout or eaten off plan in a few weeks and am still making pretty steady gains in both strength and endurance. Strength training's mostly bodyweight stuff still and I'm having lots of fun with it. After the move I'm gonna build some of the toys and post pix.

kittyhartman26 said:
And I want to see pictures, so get on it buster.
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I is, I is. :beerchug: I have bunches of them I'm saving for a big dramatic time-lapse thinger. And the next 18 months (starting mid-august 2009) of bi-monthly pics while I bulk will make another one. Wee. :D
 
Looks like rws is having fun, too. I'm so jealous of your being able to eat. :bncry: Maybe not your taste in music. Haha, jk, I don't even know who Taylor Swift is.

Seems like we're both preoccupied with other stuff lately, huh? Maybe I should just forget about all this boring biking and running and swimming and join you in epic bulking. :p
 
[Focus] said:
Looks like rws is having fun, too. I'm so jealous of your being able to eat. :bncry: Maybe not your taste in music. Haha, jk, I don't even know who Taylor Swift is.

Seems like we're both preoccupied with other stuff lately, huh? Maybe I should just forget about all this boring biking and running and swimming and join you in epic bulking. :p
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Ha, ya I have been cutting for like at least a month... :p

I am like a girl in my self consciousness about being fat... I can't stand it.

I woke up at 163 this weekend, I am like Oprah huh? I peaked out like a couple months ago at 183.

I plan to get really lean before I ever bulk again... i'm talking like 8% or lower. I care a lot more about being ripped than I do about being huge, i've decided.

It's all for the shorty's anyway right?
 
realworksuks said:
Ha, ya I have been cutting for like at least a month... :p

I am like a girl in my self consciousness about being fat... I can't stand it.

I woke up at 163 this weekend, I am like Oprah huh? I peaked out like a couple months ago at 183.

I plan to get really lean before I ever bulk again... i'm talking like 8% or lower. I care a lot more about being ripped than I do about being huge, i've decided.

It's all for the shorty's anyway right?
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Oh. :animal:

Hey, man, that's what it's about - knowing what you want and getting it. I guess we're on the same page, then. I just want to look in the mirror and basically see through my skin, y'know? But mannn, **** the ladies. Mine anyway doesn't seem to give a **** what I look like. It's infuriating because I know I'd have been trying harder sooner if I had been worried about it. :rofl: That said, I suppose it's worth doing for the other couple billion out there. :action8: Hey, when do we get a new thread with the current status of your love life? Haha. This place could use some spicing up.

I've been doing some refresher reading and I think if I were you I'd definitely be trying Lyle's UD2 (Ultimate Diet 2.0) if you're not already. Maybe not super hardcore or anything (I'm sure not right now haha I put in my hours but I'm not doing everything at 100% anymore like I was - which interestingly enough makes sticking to it a whole lot less impossible :p ). I has the book if you want to take a look. The more I know the more I think there are lots of very good reasons the anabolic diet style thing works. Looking back I've come to realize that even velocity (way less effective but way harder version of the same thing imo) works pretty well, it's just a matter of patience, and I just never had it. I mean I went from 25.5% bodyfat to 19.5% in one summer while gaining more muscle than I lost fat and I was discouraged. What the hell was that. :rofl: If I had just done that two or three more times.. haha.

Edit: Right now my big thing is trying to explain to people why I'm doing the Ironman training when its slowing progress toward my supposed main goal of fat loss by revving my hunger to unmanageable levels. Girlfriend's like, 'So let me get this straight: you could be sitting on the couch instead of training hours a day and get better results but you're not because...?' The verbal ownage it is most humiliating, haha.
 
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realworksuks said:
I am like a girl in my self consciousness about being fat... I can't stand it.
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I tell my wife that I'm a 16yo girl trapped inside of a grown man's body. I like the term manorexia as it describes my disordered eating. Not to be confused with an eating disorder. I am ultra thin these days so I'm feeling pretty good about myself but I completely understand where you're coming from.
 
[Focus] said:
Looks like rws is having fun, too. I'm so jealous of your being able to eat. :bncry: Maybe not your taste in music. Haha, jk, I don't even know who Taylor Swift is.

Seems like we're both preoccupied with other stuff lately, huh? Maybe I should just forget about all this boring biking and running and swimming and join you in epic bulking. :p
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Focus! My brotha! Glad to see you my friend. :)


Oh......>:action7:

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Best wishes

Chillen
 
whew

im doing my last set of diamond pushups 10 minutes ago and i get to that point where my arms are telling me theres absolutely no chance were going up again and im like "whatever its friday i dont care if i die" and just slowly grind it out over >20 seconds

right near the end i hear myself yelling "BOOOOOOO-AHHHHH!" ( :rofl: ) and feel a sudden heat all over my body

i thought it was my carotid artery i burst but apparently it was only my sanity so onward i guess
 
i have words.. again

So I thought about it some more and made a little comparison chart:

Being By August 2009

costs successful august 2009 ironman
gives over 9000 happy points

Successful August 2009 Half Ironman

costs being that guy by august 2009
gives 11 happy points
 
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