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WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: okay

- warm up

- SVJ and SL SVJ x a few

- superset x 3
-- DB BSS 22s x 10
-- DB RDL 22s x 10

- superset x 2
-- DB OHP 14s x 10
-- DB row 22s x 10

- curlzzzz 12s x 10

- tricep pressdown ?? x 10
forget the weight i used

- band pull aparts

- random core stuff

- stretch

sprinkled in SL SVJ and SVJ throughout during rest periods. couple drop steps, too. a tajik coworker, who's a doctor and probably in her late 30s or early 40s, showed up at the hotel gym in unbelievably tight pants and a tank top. a bit awkward.

there was a major attack last night on a restaurant i've been to a bunch of times in kabul. no one i know was there but something like 14-16EDIT: 21 people were killed, including a friend of a friend who was the country head for the IMF. people die violently every day in afghanistan and pakistan and all the deaths are sad, but it hits a bit closer to home when it's a place i know well and could easily have been at. feeling a bit more messed up about it than i'd have expected.

At least it wasn't a signature strike by an american drone, followed by a second strike to kill the first responders - the people that are trying to help.

like i said, it's always sad when people are killed violently. but don't pretend that people being killed in a place you know, or worse, people you know being killed, doesn't touch you more strongly than hearing about strangers getting killed in a strange place.

I know I know... of course... it's just that for some reason (and hate me as much as you want) - when I see an american complaining about killing I just... I just am not impressed.

Why? Because you guys stand as the pinnacle of freedom in the world and yet you resort in the same terrorist tactics (albeit it with less risk - radio guided drones so that the pilot is not in any danger - he just presses a button).

Is that the fault of the american people? Of course it isn't. But for me, I just... you know what I mean. It's like blaming germans for what Hitler did.

The reality is that Hitler got in that position and the leadership of the USA is doing all these things PARTLY because they have been allowed to do it by their country as a whole.

Not to mention the USA is the only country in the world to actually use a nuclear weapon, and then pretend that nobody else should have it. There's a lot of stuff going on with hypocrisy.

if you can't see the gap between individual emotion and governmental action then i can't help you.

also, raptor, your country was complicit in the murder of hundreds of thousands (at least) of jews during world war ii. so if you're going to go digging up hiroshima and nagasaki as a reason not to feel sympathetic when an american is upset, then at least acknowledge that romanians are deserving of no more sympathy, as an entire fucking country, than anyone else.

raptor, you fucking asstard, you will find no defense from me of the us military-industrial complex or our 200-year-old aggressive empire-building. you won't. american behaves abominably in foreign policy as often as not and we're our own worst enemy in a lot of ways. i spend a lot of time thinking about that. but how does that have anything at-fucking-all to do with the fact that a bunch of people -- only three of whom were american, let me remind you -- just got blown up or shot to death in a place i've spent many hours at at dinners just like the ones they were enjoying until about 90 seconds before their lives ended? and that that upset me a bit more than i'd have expected it to?

fuck you, get the fuck out of here with that shit.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- jumps x ~30 mins

- stretch

- sledding x 2 hours

jumps were a bit low and uncoordinated, as expected, but not catastrophic. probably 28" on the SVJ, 32.5-33.5 on three- and four-step jumps that i didn't fuck up on the approach. sled-worthy snow happens too rarely around here to pass up. it was awesome.

WEIGHT: 174
SORENESS: glutes a little
ACHES/INJURIES: back a tiny bit
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- jumps out to a couple at four-step
33.5-34, not terrible. there were a bunch of other dudes in the gym and that always messes me up.

- paused squat 225 x 5,5,5
super conservative, very easy. went to full-on kingfish depth, though. i always break parallel but paused ATG with explosive concentrics might be another fun way to limit myself on squatting for a while.

- DB OHP 40s x 8,8

- assisted natural GHR x 5,5

- paused low cable row 90 x 10,10

- tricep pressdown 90 x 10,10

- DB curl 25s x 10

- decline sit up x 10

- stretch

kept volume and intensity down for first workout back from the trip. i did pretty well while i was over there about working out but i've overreached too many times on the way back. also i lost 4-5 pounds on the trip but i think they were mostly good pounds to lose. i looked lean in the mirror. plus i have a crucial beard now, gonna get to mountain man status. i have to dunk soon so i can move on to my secondary goal of getting actually strong and competing in PL at a ripped 181. if i gained 10-12 pounds and dropped a few pounds of fat while focusing on the lifts i bet i could squat 425, DL 445 and bench 295. man that'd be fun.

this was my 18th visit to a foreign country for work since i started at my current job. passport's starting to fill up, i've already had extra pages added a while back and now i'm into the back half of them. got a little over two years left before it expires to pack the rest with visas. 

afghanistan x 7
pakistan x 4
tajikistan x 3
UAE x 2
mozambique x 1
turkey x 1