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Post by M@ on Feb 20, 2020 14:43:39 GMT
This ^^^^ is the legacy of JSF. Mac, a very nice gesture! Agreed! ...although I'm surprised Philly's free stuff detector hasn't gone off yet. Weight: 282.4 lbsI've taken the day off of work because one of my best friends from college is in town with his wife and son who's Alex's age. We're going to meet up with them at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy wing of the Air and Space museum here in NoVA. Alex is excited about it and so am I. Afterwards we're going to have them over for pizza, then go over to the trampoline park so that the kids can bounce and play. Should be a great time. I boosted all the sets in my workout by one so that I'm at the upper-edge of the PHUL recommendations. I feel pumped, but not exhausted. The workout took 73 minutes so I may knock down the rest periods between the higher-rep exercises. Nutrition was on point yesterday. I forgot how awesome the nutrition profile of Cod is. Sara picked up a bunch of vacuum sealed 5 oz fillets at Whole Foods at my request and I cooked up a couple last night to have with brown rice and a salad. Good stuff. Two pieces of fitness gear that I'm loving right now: Zojirushi rice cooker and my Apple Air Pods. The rice cooker cooks massive amounts of rice perfectly every time with almost zero effort and has a keep warm function that lets me get a couple of meals worth of rice before packing the remainder away. I got the Air Pods last week because I got flak at work for watching YouTube videos on the company network (they're getting bitchy about bandwidth) and I needed to switch to playing vids and music on my phone. Don't know why it took me so long to get a pair of these. The sound quality is outstanding and they work great with other functions of the phone (e.g. your video/music will pause if you take one of the buds out of your ear; they make great hands-free calling; etc.).
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Post by shamie on Feb 20, 2020 17:47:10 GMT
I am also a fan of the rice cooker, though I think mine is a Black & Decker rice maker / steamer.
I am been eating canned salmon. One can has roughly 630 calories, 85 grams of protein, 35 grams of fat, and zero carbs. You have to get used to taste. In the beginning, it grossed me out, but now I can stomach it. It doesn't taste as good as sardines or tuna, but I think is healthier (it is wild fish, from Alaska).
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Post by M@ on Feb 22, 2020 2:28:20 GMT
In the beginning, it grossed me out, but now I can stomach it. That's kind of a rough endorsement. I bought a can of salmon once when I was getting sick of canned tuna. The smell of it and seeing all of the bones (particularly the spine rings) stamped a big ol' nope on that food for me. I applaud your intestinal fortitude! -- Weight: 285.5 lbsWe had an awesome day yesterday with my friend and his family. I got a lot of great pictures and our boys bonded. My friend just called and said that his son was asking if he could play with his new friend Alex tomorrow, so we're going to meet them at the National Zoo. I've never been there, despite having lived here for...yowza, coming up on 26 years. Time flies. I only ever see touristy stuff in the city when we have out of town guests. My favorite place so far has been Arlington National Cemetery in the Fall. It's a beautiful, reverent place right in the middle of everything. Adding a set to all the leg exercises really fried my lower body today, and my upper body is stiff/sore from yesterday's increase. It's a testament to how wiped out I was that I didn't even go to the driving range, despite it being a clear, beautiful day. I'm glad tomorrow is a rest day. I got a 1.75 L bottle of Woodford Reserve bourbon this afternoon and steeped it in sugar, maraschino cherries, and cara cara oranges. Now I have about 20+ servings of Old Fashioned in the fridge. I put the recipe in LoseIt and it works out to 250 calories per serving. Not exactly health food, but it beats pounding beers since I'm content to sip one in the evening and be done with it. Apart from that indulgence, my nutrition today has been spot on with cod, chicken breast, lots of brown rice, a protein shake, and loads of green vegetables (celery, broccoli, green bell pepper, and salad greens).
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Post by M@ on Feb 23, 2020 4:18:53 GMT
Weight: 285.0 lbs
Went to the National Zoo with the kids and met up with my college buddy and his family. An extremely fun day was had by all. We are all wiped out. I'm the last one to go to bed in 3...2...
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Post by Merk on Feb 23, 2020 4:34:14 GMT
In the beginning, it grossed me out, but now I can stomach it. That's kind of a rough endorsement. I bought a can of salmon once when I was getting sick of canned tuna. The smell of it and seeing all of the bones (particularly the spine rings) stamped a big ol' nope on that food for me. I applaud your intestinal fortitude! Completely burst out laughing when I read this, although a poor time to be doing as such since Maya is in bed (11:31 pm). I may or may not be questioned about this in the morning. Canned salmon scares me, blech.
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Post by M@ on Feb 23, 2020 22:17:22 GMT
Completely burst out laughing when I read this... I picture shamie at his kitchen table with a look of grim resolve on his face and a few drops of perspiration on his brow, spoon in hand, glaring at a pile of canned salmon on a white plate. FOR GAINZ!!@ -- Weight: 285.8 lbsOverall scale weight loss isn't big this week but my measurements have reduced all over and especially in the waist, bringing my Navy bodyfat % down and showing a big reduction in fat (-4.72) and increase in lean mass (+3.22). I think both of those numbers are inflated, but I feel leaner yet somehow bloated. I just hit the part in Total Recall where Arnold starts talking about his time with Andy Warhol, Jamie Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth. This is an intersection of two of my obsessions that I didn't think about. I'd be as starstruck to meet A. Wyeth and A. Warhol as I would to meet A. Schwarzenegger. The late 70's Manhattan was surely a great time to be a 28 year old six-time Mr. Olympia. Two things I'm confident about in this autobiography: 1. Arnold didn't write it. It doesn't even sound like something someone would write from a first-person perspective in 10th grade English class. It was absolutely pulled from a series of interviews with a professional writer. Probably more than one considering how often anecdotes are repeated (e.g. his girlfriend's family giving him Christmas presents). 2. He's lying and/or omitting to put as much of a rose-colored hue on it as possible. He's already talked about how easy it is to lie in service to promotion/marketing (e.g. the anecdote about the Playboy article that he made up for a talk show interview; his psych-ops during the Pumping Iron filming; etc.). The only things that I could categorize as bad that have happened to him so far in the book are his brother's, then later his father's deaths and not being able to get back to Austria for memorial services. There's nothing about the insane focus and determination it takes to do all the physical things he'd accomplished by that age. He also comes across as a person with an incredibly flexible moral character. He sounds like an alcoholic/addict who's ego-driven in the extreme. I don't know if he ever had a substance abuse problem or if bodybuilding was his refuge for that tendency. Either way, the truth is fluid with him.
There's still a lot of great stuff in the book, I just feel like I need to be more critical in the digestion of it. Maybe Education of a Bodybuilder, which I have on Kindle, is more straightforward. I'd really love an unvarnished bio of a Mr. Olympia from pre-adolescence to ascendancy.
EDIT: OMG, I put in a spoiler tag for lulz and it appears that this forum has a spoiler tag by default. Awesome!
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Post by M@ on Feb 24, 2020 19:20:40 GMT
Weight: 287.2 lbs
Had my follow up appointment with my GP and my cholesterol is high. She prescribed some medication and said that I should expect muscle soreness. I'm feeling kind of wary about that.
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Post by M@ on Feb 25, 2020 17:12:20 GMT
Weight: 287.9 lbs
I went way over calories yesterday and I'm not happy about it. I have to get my shit together. None of this is going to work if I'm lazy.
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Post by phillydude on Feb 25, 2020 22:07:01 GMT
This ^^^^ is the legacy of JSF. Mac, a very nice gesture! ...although I'm surprised Philly's free stuff detector hasn't gone off yet. My first thought was... I have a truck and I could drive the equipment from Mark's house to Matt's house.
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Post by M@ on Feb 26, 2020 15:36:48 GMT
My first thought was... I have a truck and I could drive the equipment from Mark's house to Matt's house. ...actually I'm leaning more towards the gym membership now. I want to use so much equipment that I wouldn't be able to fit it all in my basement even if I got rid of all the other junk that's down there. I can always use my home set up for the stuff that's hard to get access to in the gym (i.e. squat rack and bench) and go to the gym for the specialty stuff (leg curl/extension, ab machine, calf machines, etc.). -- Weight: 288.0 lbsI put a lot more effort into yesterday's lower hypertrophy workout and I'm feeling it today. It's amazing the difference greater focus makes with the same weight. Good stuff.
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Post by M@ on Feb 27, 2020 16:46:04 GMT
Since everyone's posting avatars of their pets, I'm posting one of my Siberian Husky Orion (RIP 4/24/2012). We have two cats now and I like them as pets, but Ri was the most important thing to me until I met my wife and had my kids. Miss you, buddy. -- Weight: 289.4 lbsThe first gym I ever belonged to was the Pennsylvania Karate Academy run by Don Garon (now employed as a hand-to-hand combat and firearms instructor by a U.S. counter-terrorism agency). He had an excellent, minimalist weight training area set up in a small room in the back of the dojo and upstairs in the back balcony. The walls were covered with framed posters of Arnold and Frank Zane. One of the posters was Arnold laying on his side on an incline bench and doing a lateral dumbbell raise with what looked like a 5lb weight. There was a look of complete agony on Arnold's face. Don loved that photo because it showed this huge guy who had pushed himself to the point where a tiny weight was all he could stand and there wasn't any ego about it: Just get the job done. The posters of Zane were all of his classic poses with that gobsmacking physique. Arnold's physique has been gone for a while and I assumed it was all old age. I just found photos of a 65+ year old Frank Zane and he doesn't look like he's lost a goddamned thing. It's amazing. New hero. I cooked frozen cod fillets for dinner last night. Sara asked if she could share and she made some sauce before I got home. I think she was astonished that I was able to get everything cooked and on the table in less than ten minutes.
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Post by seltzer on Feb 27, 2020 18:01:42 GMT
M@, I am seriously surprised that Orion died almost eight years ago. FWiW, you have a great avatar.
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Post by M@ on Feb 27, 2020 18:53:43 GMT
M@, I am seriously surprised that Orion died almost eight years ago. FWiW, you have a great avatar. Yeah, kind of blows my mind. I still have dreams where I panic because I haven't taken him for a walk in a long time and I go searching for him. I wish I'd had my current DSLR back then. The photos I have are so low-res it's odd to look at. Not like he would have stayed still for pictures.
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Post by M@ on Feb 28, 2020 18:38:51 GMT
Weight: 286.2 lbs
When I went downstairs to do my Lower Power workout today I heard a squeaking noise that I thought was creaking wood. I was looking at the exposed joists in the ceiling to see where it might be coming from when I looked down and realized it was two chipmunks that had made their way into my basement. They were about five feet away from me on the cement floor, squeaking and annoyed with me being in their territory. This is like the fifth time we've had them in the house. I tried to ignore them and keep working out but they were running around my feet while I had 270 lbs on my back, so I went upstairs and got our boy cat, Fitz. He had the best morning stalking them through all the stuff down there. He recently came back upstairs and just sat next to me, purring and begging for pets. Hopefully he got at least one of them. If not, he'll have entertainment for days until they're taken care of. I need to contact a guy about patching the hole near our front bay window where they're getting in.
I made chocolate chip cookies for a work dessert pot-luck on Wednesday. I only left a few at home so that we wouldn't have this big surplus of cookies, but so that everyone could still get a treat. Somehow, my son didn't wind up getting any. He was crushed yesterday when he realized they were all gone. I felt awful, so I made another batch last night. I plugged the recipe into LoseIt and they come out to 375 calories per cookie. Yikes! There are probably 28 left. I need to figure out a way to get rid of them that doesn't involve me eating them.
I have to go drop my car off for routine maintenance in a few minutes. I'm going to walk back home (about 3.5 miles) because it's cold, but clear and sunny out. Should be a good opportunity to get a little exercise and listen to my audiobook.
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Post by phillydude on Feb 28, 2020 18:57:56 GMT
I wonder if chipmunks like chocolate chip cookies?
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