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    Cheers Fred. I'm just moving until I can't. No goals scribbled down and no meets scheduled.

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    6/26/23 - Monday

    OP H @ 5'
    45x5x3
    75x3
    105x1
    125x1
    145x1
    160x3x4

    BP L @ 3'
    45x5x2
    95x5
    135x3
    185x1
    215x5x3

    Music — UK Subs, Party In Paris (live); Bad Religion, Give You Nothing; The Damned, Rabid (Over You); The Rondelles, The Upshot; L7, Shitlist.

    Notes
    - OP - Heavy Triples across. Smooth and steady. All good.
    - BP - Light sets across. All good.

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    6/27/23 - Tuesday

    SQ H @ 5'
    45x10x2
    135x5
    225x3
    295x1
    335x1
    370x3x4

    PC
    167.5x3x5

    Music — Eater, Outside View; War, Lowrider; Static-X vs Motley Crue, Looks That Kill; Tool, Jambi; My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, After The Flesh; Primus, Mr. Knowitall.

    Notes — I'm heading out tomorrow for the rest of the week, leading a saw team as we log out trails in the local Wilderness. Not high mileage days, but long days cutting and clearing everything manually (no power tools). So I need a bit of a respite before we start, but I wanted to get these squats in.
    - SQ - Heavy Triples across. Tough, but all good.
    - PC - Skipped. See note above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Anders View Post
    I'm heading out tomorrow for the rest of the week, leading a saw team as we log out trails in the local Wilderness. Not high mileage days, but long days cutting and clearing everything manually (no power tools).
    Have you read the book The Comfort Crisis, by Michael Easter? You might like it (based on what I read above).

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    Quote Originally Posted by IronMike View Post
    Have you read the book The Comfort Crisis, by Michael Easter? You might like it (based on what I read above).
    I haven't read it. Just scanning the synopsis (and a few reviews), it looks like he'd be preaching to the choir.

    One thing that we are not adverse to in this house is discomfort, both mental and physical. I openly embrace Type II Fun, while my wife tolerates it if there's a point. She really is a tough cookie, but just didn't grow up pushing boundaries like I did, so she's not naturally inclined to seek Type II events out. But when I suggest, as I did a couple of winters ago, that we needed to test our survival gear that we carry while back country snowboarding, she toughed out a +10°F night up on the mountain to make sure we were OK. She immediately followed with a "let's not do that again", meaning "let's never get in a situation where we need to do that." I can't disagree. But she now knows that she can do it if she needs to, and that's the important part.

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    A long weekend of logging out a local Wilderness trail. Each and every one of the trees gave us fits in their own special ways. In other words, we were planning on clearing about 9 miles of trail, but got about half of that.

    Trees like the one that we dubbed "Orange Julius" were the main culprits.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nYEg9B71sVs

    That bugger broke off sometime over the autumn/winter and spent the winter collecting snowmelt down its entire length, quickly rotting the center. What should have been a smooth 45-minute or so cut all the way through would take 2 hours. For four cuts.

    The lifting that I do and log here was an immense help. We had a very dense 24" diameter 20-foot length of cut log that we needed to move that was not cooperating. Two grown adult men had a strap wrapped around the front and couldn't get it lifted a couple of inches to force the front over a log lying crosswise. So I got down, wrapped my arms around it, locked fingers, locked the lats and back, vasalva'd, and lifted it over. It was heavy as hell, but no different than a heavy deadlift. There were several audible gasps from the crew.

    I'm taking a break for a couple of days before lifting again.

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    7/6/23 - Thursday

    BP H @ 2'
    45x5x3
    95x5
    135x3
    185x1
    225x1
    255x1x5

    OP L @ 3'
    45x5x2
    75x3
    105x1
    120x1
    135x5x3

    Music — Eulogy In Blood Vs Slayer, Bloodline; DevilDriver vs Metallica, Holier Than Thou; Tormenter vs Testament, Over The Wall; World Under Blood vs Megadeth, Wake Up Dead; Pallbearer vs Type O Negative, Love You To Death.

    Notes — Back at it. I picked up the program as if I had run it continuously, just skipping those workouts that I would have done during that time that I was out on crew. I only missed heavy triples on Bench last week, plus a Rack Pull session, then earlier this week heavy Singles on Overhead Press and Squats. But during that break, I did get plenty of work in those areas, so I should be good with this, although I apparently dropped 5lbs of body weight over the week.
    - BP - Heavy Singles across. Overall, smooth and steady. The last rep slowed on the way up, but there was never any doubt. All good.
    - OP - Light sets across. All good.

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    Thanks for your encouragement from time to time. It's enjoyable to read about your many exploits. You are a strong young man. Keep it up.

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    That was a whole lot of tree!!! Great work!

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    Quote Originally Posted by carson View Post
    Thanks for your encouragement from time to time. It's enjoyable to read about your many exploits. You are a strong young man. Keep it up.
    Thank you for the kind works and continued inspiration, carson. I look forward to reading your continued successes.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cheesepuff View Post
    That was a whole lot of tree!!! Great work!
    That was a bugger! We've cut quite a bit bigger, but those are usually good wood all the way through, not truly rotten to the core like this one was. Thanks CP!

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