As much as I appreciate your weakest efforts to encourage me to be a better person with what was your, I’m certain, well intended and strategically placed Scriptures, your spit-and-soil approach is unimaginative and indecent. Your inability to have a real conversation with me is burdensome and uninspiring.
For that reason, I’m going to do you a favor and step away from any renewed efforts to have a real conversation with you.
For your part, I suspect you will continue to do what you’ve been doing with your positively negative, insulting and extremely judgmental posts.
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I’ll just keeping training my way and eating what I want.
That’s your right, of course, but don’t expect any changes or improvements in your results if you’re not going to make any changes or improvements to your methods.
What do you know about lifting weighs?
So you know, your body is failing bad on my body’s stress tests.
My methods are good and so are my gains.
I don’t think I could eat or train with you.
You are not going to successfully play the hanged man card on me with your health and eating. Failed at the table and in bed? Go back to the drawing board, it’s not my problem.
Your posts are all the same. Boring drivel.
Hey I corrected my spelling error.
So on Thursday I hit shoulders at the gym and did a lot of sets with face pulls with a rope and cable from at various heights for rear delts and then tons of upright rows and seated military press on and smith machine with an angled bar path. I couldn’t do much weight but I had some time after so i did dumbbells and suprisingly for the raises I did I had increased output with the blood pump and warming up despite being nearly depleted and with lactic acid buildup. My shoulders seemed to “snap” into place better for a better posture with more width. Problem though when I started freezing up. I took a nap and when I got up I could hardly pick up utensils or touch the opposite side and the pain was incredible. Also my back really started to knot up and cramp so bad I couldn’t even lay down in one position for any short duration.
I solved the problem though. A couple teaspoons of salt and almost zero cramps. Also without doing any stretching or foam rolling just taking a warm shower and applying this lotion. I used a lot an had to use a trash bag to spread it on my back. In a few minutes things started loosening up. In the following hours all the pain disappeared and the skin seemed to stretch more allowing the muscles to creep over the bones and joints and everything got pulled into better shape. It was like pouring liquid rubber or latex.
I think this was originally formulated for cows and I might have posted it before. But I thought I set my mobility and strength gains way back for the year with that freeze. Just took some salt and lotion to undo it.
https://udderlysmooth.com/
They make one specifically for cycling that washes out no problem. One of the reasons I don’t do as much walking or running or cycling is skin to skin friction or fabric and seam friction to skin.
So finally I got some real improvement on my workouts which have been really sucking for a while. I scheduled chest for today and I did go to the gym this morning but late last night I got in a lot of chest work on the floor with some kettlebells. I have been doing nothing but upper chest work and it has been effective overall for lifting the chest and approving its appearance and increasing my strength. But I just did some heavier work with more intensity and reps today and really got a good feel and solid muscle pump. The muscles actually do come out like clams or something and can be some really dense mounds, while other times my chest looks like no development whatsoever, like I have a goat skin on that gets filled with yogurt or something. But I developed a technique that is actually like heart massage and I can even will fully contract my heart muscle with a pec squeeze. It gives a good pump and and that is the key for me right now.
I did abs a few days ago and my abs are way stronger than before and I have more range of motion and speed and force despite my enlarged stomach at the moment.
But this was a very good day for working out. Here was just one of the many, many reasons why. Now shoes with a wide toe box. These aren’t Vibrams but they are a good deal and come in various styles. I was going to get these a size smaller because I mostly need the width but I got an 11 and it paid off. Width was good and I am glad I did not get the ones with the side bracing. There was no fat foot spill over or anything like that. I was till able to wear sox with these and they feel real ninja and I walked at least a mile on pavement and blacktop and even over some soil and bark chips. I did waterproof spray them but they do quite well over all terrain. And worked well in the gym and I tested them on the treadmill and recumbent cycle as well as some of my workout. These are kind of flat footed but you can come up on the toes and run like that. This shape is better for me. And it kept getting better as my foot begin to lengthen and I could feel the joints in the foot even the midfoot popping and sliding into better place. I had to stop on the treadmill because I felt the middle toe bone slide forward like a bird talon and pull a bit. They are a bit harder on the foot but I am very heavy and have bought comfort shoes I put gel soles in that still felt like metal plates.
So I went to the gym with already all my chest work done. I only had 55 minutes but I got a lot in starting with a hydro massage for a good 10 minutes. Today wasn’t leg day but I don’t want my legs to atrophy so I did some time pedaling and got a good leg pump and then did some treadmill. I felt really weak in my arms and shoulders and was already tired from walking and cardio and I already did several working sets for chest but I decided I would work on my bench form. I did do some inclines but not that much weight and I was using a very pronounced arc (not arch as I do not arch when I bench) in the bar path opposed to my regular super wide grip (outside the rings) guillotine pressing the work the anterior delt/pec/bicep/tie in. But I worked up several sets without using the collars so I could dump the weight off and I did my normal with 185 (not a lot but I used terrible pre exhaust sets so I don’t have to do too much weight). I decided I would try more despite being at my weakest. That is what I want to know what my maximum strength is at my weakest so I do not rest a lot between sets and do things that supposedly decrease strength in lifts like shadowboxing etc. 195 and 200. I haven’t pressed with 200 for a decade I think and I just stopped at 4 reps. I could have easily done 225 for reps like I used to do as a warm up for 315 and 405 just adding 45’s, but i was cautious. I have had muscle tears before and this includes pectoral tears and it wasn’t worth it as the muscle has the more than enough power but the tendon doesn’t have the conditioning yet. I thought I could get stronger with lighter weights and focus and more reps but when I felt the connective tissues ripping free like mussels on a pier and and dental floss sliding over the pec muscles I knew I had to take the risk for better form. Primates supposedly have this built in safety feature to prevent them from harming themselves or others in their group excessively with their strentgh. Things need to rip out a little first to get optimal leverages and the lighter false connectivity yields to the underlying more powerful.
All in all a better day. Shoulder joints and clavicle still hurts, and I am going to ease up and do something else for chest next week. I was not as weak as I thought it was just the excessive stabbing pain that was a hindrance. Expecting things to get better overall. Working on fat loss.
Just to compare these arrived today they are a wide, but not just a wide an extra wide 4E. I do not have a very long or big middle toe and I really don’t know how my foot will finally develop as it begins to understand it’s purpose. You can see what is meant by wide toe box and for me my foot tends to conform to the shoe so it was been squishes especially at the smaller toes and everything slid back. It almost seems like that ankle is packed with some extra stuff that might belong more towards the tip of the foot. But I can’t make much sense of my feet.
Buy different shoes to learn. There are customizations like toe box and drop that might suit you better than others. If you don’t like the fit you can always add in a banana I suppose.
Almost forgot I did grip training today with my fit beast grip set. Hand feels much smoother and much more structured. Halfway through though I got that weird feeling like there was just bandaids there for fingertips and the hand was a lot less dense and much less capable of supporting weight or absorbing impact. I was able to do more and feel more with each piece and I got a massive pump with 50 rep sets on the main gripper working all the way past the 60 kg mark, but the 60 kg is more like pounds, and nothing like some of the metal grippers I have. Going to stick with what I have for a while before I buy something pricier and more robust.
I got an upper arm measurement cold at 19+ extended and 20+ flexed same with neck and calves. It’s too small for my bulk and I could strip away a little more fat but they are solid. A lot of people have larger arms but they are kind of projected and some of those are not very dense and kind of dead inside.
I got my forearms to 15. I can add a few inches. Same to shoulders where I can add several more. Im a little shy of 2 feet at the narrowest and weakest point.
God, even your feet are fat.
What I would give to see your feet.
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What would you give?
That depends!!! How much can you take?
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I can take anything you got.