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Doesn't work that way. Fruitcake you use sugared fruit/dried fruit, and still it's mostly flour and butter and sugar for batter, and the flour,sugar and batter aren't good for you. It's like I've chosen to take the red pill, so I see the world as it is, without the illusions of the food industry trying to sugar-coat how junk food is perfectly fine. It isn't. P.S Skip the cake part of the fruitcake and just eat the fruit directly.
After a hard run of 25km we're back to being productive on Gamin again. However my pull up game hasn't been too good and I haven't seen my bonus chin up this week. I think my goals are to get more sleep and try to be kinder to myself. When I was at the mall yesterday I had a "could I just be normal for a day, eat waffles, pancakes and ice creams?
<--ish kitty rug. This is a half trail, half road hybrid ultra so the total elevation was around 500-600m ish and of course my knees are killing me today. Running and strength training are a bit of an odd mix,as in strength training helps you be less injury prone for running, but running affects your gainz. Buckets were bloody heavy today.
I am curious about the effects of Olympic lifts but I was told by the people at the meet my traps would get bigger. I've always felt I was a little bottom heavy(its expectable - what do you expect from kitties who run half marathons and further distances for sh*ts and giggles) I am also curious if it's possible to train them without doing the actual motion as my gym won't allow it as it's too congested. My current project is to continue gaining strength despite on a weekday 500 cal deficit. Or when I can make that 500 cal deficit. Haven't been very compliant. I wonder how much strength I can pack on relatively low body weight, I.e str to weight ratio.
That being said I ran to my uncles weightlifting meet last Saturday and got to mess around with some Olympic bars and an actual weight lifting platform. I tried to do the Olympic lifts - snatch and clean and jerk. I can do the clean and jerk with the bar, but snatch is eh... I don't have the shoulder mobility to swing the bar to the back and have to sort of just substitute an overhead press, which I know is bad mechanics. Again, had I not been practicing overhead press and front squat, I doubt I would even be able to do an approximation of the two lifts. Some 60kg guy managed to clean and jerk 112 kg. Wtf lol.
Throw 'em out. Even if they do stay somehow, they sound like the type to cause trouble anyways.I was close to throwing them out but It is entirely possible knowing our staff that one of them messed up their reservation. They had 2 rooms one was checked in for the right date the other was for tomorrow which was the problem. I basically just changed the room from a single king to a 2 queen and put them both in that one. They did shut up when I asked them too so if they damage anything we have their card number. It seems fair enough to me. otherwise they will have to drive like 3 hours to find another hotel. It's good you're big sized. Gives you bonus to intimidate checks.
My brother said he was exhausted the whole weekend. I am sturdy so not too worried I'm basically Bruce Willus from Unbreakable. If it helps I ran 30k the day after the first jab and I spent the day of the 2nd jab climbing like a krazy loon and the day after running and doing an obstacle course...again I'm not exactly subject to mortal limitations these days.
Just popping up to meow. Yeah I know I haven't been around much but I've been busy doing the sub 1h 10k and the 1.5 mile run in <12 min. Fun part about both is they were done back to back. One on Friday night (55:26 for 10k with pacer help), the other on Sunday.
the wife has been talking about getting this switch fit game "Ring fit" Apparently its a exercise RPG. Which sounds just like the kind of motivation I need. Ringfit is quite fun, my issue is I can squat like a boss so I ramped up difficulty to like level 27,but the moment I have to overhead press I'm so screwed. Also you can't lower difficulty for individual skills - and there's the tendency to cheat later by removing the skills you're weak in and also substituting for easier skills to use. Like I can do warrior pose a lot easier then doing a whole bunch of knee to abdomen. And the result is clearing an entire world with the heartrate monitor still showing as very light exercise. It's the ice water for blood thing. Ringfit makes you run to move in the world and asking me to run is to ask water to run downhill. I can run for hours, and the moment I do any light exercise, I recover superfast(at least the cardio part).
I'm trying to juggle 3h of commute (both ways together), sleep, bringing my own food to work and exercise at the same time. Because my new work place is really in the middle of nowhere and food choices are limited. I'm actually happier bringing my own food anyway since I can cut on calories that way. Everyday it's about 400g cauliflower, 300g brocolli and 200g of chicken breast for lunch and dinner.
I made bean soup with the beans and baked the tau kwa, then fried some onion and used the canned tomatoes as sauce. Had to add some salt and honey though.
My taste buds want cookies. My bathroom scale advises against it Yeah that's why I said cookies are bad for you. Now if people could make non fattening cookies that still tasted good... Anyway one way around it would be to use artifical sweeteners like stevia instead of sugar, but even using almond flour - it's still very calorific, not to mention butter. Or whatever oil you add in.
Still on holiday mood and haven't been very diligent in job searching. I've been messing around the kitchen more, like coming up with salted egg chicken and stir fried pork with curry leaves. And going to the gym (oof my quads, glutes and shoulders ache), as well as messing around with Pavel's simple and sinister workout. I think it was the stuff that preserved the better part of my overhead press when I went to the gym yesterday though. Could almost do up to my usual performance save for the last set, last rep. Unfortunately my front squat and bench press still sucked :(
Paralegal jobs, though I was even thinking of signing up as a cop if I couldn't find anything else to apply for - since I should be able to pass the physical requirements quite handily. Problem is I need to go for a 9 month residential program where I can only book out on weekends and will need to learn the use of firearms. I feel a little lost now that I don't have a purpose(like running around the reservoir).
I don't like being close to fireworks but I can admire them from afar? Anyway the problem with the ultra was that about at the halfway mark I had a sore right paw - so I couldn't run it - but still wanted to do loops around the reservoir to add to the countries tally. So I was stuck with walking the loops taking half an hour more as opposed to running after my paw recovered somewhat. And I could no longer cycle there so the commute to the reservoir took like 1.5h each way instead of 1h each way so basically I'd be adding 1.5h to my reservoir time so yeah it kinda ate into everything else, including forum posting. The ultra was from 12 Dec to 31 Dec.
Happy new year everyone if a bit belated. I was on my paws literally from dawn to dusk yesterday. I power walked 3 loops of the reservoir then ran 1, had lunch, then ran partially(walk only on uphill sections) the remaining two loops, pretty much covering 67km in about 12 h 10 min or so - meals and breaks included.
My ultramarathon has begun.
So far a single loop per day
Having a nephew stay over busy I have been,
It's not an impossible task for it is one I have to do.
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