My new trainer made me cancel my gym membership 🐶
Puppy life is an adjustment in tons of ways. Being able to spend more time with Joy, working out and breathing fresh air, saving money and time spent commuting, getting to spend quality time with those who join me - there are way more pro’s than con’s.
Over the last year and a half, my workout focus has shifted towards functional movement. I’m training for where I want to be 2 years from now - I’m training to be a fit dad. Barbells, dumbbells racks, and cable machines are great for isolating muscle groups and building particular muscle groups, but I don’t want to be show strong, I want to be Dad strong.
We’re hiking a mountain and my little one has enough energy to get to the top but not back down? No worries, I’ll carry you down. Mom’s busy with the little one and needs my help carrying something? Got it, I can handle the load. But above all else, I want to ensure I can handle all the grocery bags in one trip until the little ones are old enough to do the heavy lifting for me.
I’m just scratching the surface with the functionality focus, there is still tons to learn. Moving forward, calisthenics, kettle bell circuits, and mobility variants will be the way. Less is more.
The unconscious stays unconscious until you bring awareness to it. What happened to you is not your fault, but how you move through it is fully your responsibility.
You have to express emotions to process emotions. This shit is hard. It’s painful, it’s difficult. It is choosing to go the opposite direction of comfort in hopes of finding understanding and truth in how you show up for yourself, which directly correlates to how you show up for the people in your life that you care about.
We don’t have to be perfect, we don’t have to be right, we just have to be in pursuit of cultivating a deeper understanding of ourselves for the sake of those around us and the betterment of those relationships.
As for the workout, I’ve just recently taken on trying to implement kettlebell movements into my repertoire. The way they involve your whole body is incredible. Equally as incredible to how moving your whole body can shift and change your mood. I’m not the smoothest with the movement, but I’m smoother now than I was when I started. I’ll be smoother yet as I continue to take on the hard things.
That’s the fucking process. Drop me a DM with your thoughts.
Every quality workout starts with buttery lower back pops 🧈 💥
I’m starting to take the time to document how & why I look after myself physically. I want to help men understand and look after themselves too, so here’s a brief breakdown of todays 45 minute quickie leg day 🦵
Warm Up Stretch:
Lower lumbar twist & hold - lookin for the 🧈 pops
Single leg seated toe touch stretch - I’m personally tight in my lower back and on the backs of my legs, this stretch daily helps me increase my flexibility & range of motion.
Walking Lunges on 30yd track
- there & back, heels don’t touch the ground
- set 1: body weight only
- set 2: 25lb kb each hand
- set 3: 45lb kb one hand over head
Back Squat
- set 1: Just bar, 15 reps
- set 2: 95lbs, 10-15 reps
- set 3: 135lbs, 5-10 reps
- set 4: 185lbs, 5 reps
- set 5: 225lbs, 5 reps
- set 6: 245lbs, 5 reps
Me vs. me, you vs. you. 🥊
#functionalfitness #menshealth
Spring Dump Highlight Reel - it’s all about sharing the stoke. A big thank you to everyone in my life, feeling grateful for where I am and what I have 🌄
P.S. To add a realistic caveat, this is a compilation of 1 second clips from multiple different days. They are excerpts from my reality, but they together do not show my entire reality. This season of life has not been sunshine & rainbows. I made this to intentionally highlight only the good things that I’ve experienced. But to accompany those high’s, I’ve hit some lows that tripped me up real good too. I’ve gone from cloud 9 to not knowing the point of my life in the same day. Ive had demons that I thought I’d dealt with come back to taunt again. But these clips remind me of the good that is to be had amongst the not so good. Ying & Yang, ebb & flow, breathe in and out.
