Physique Manufactorum December – Training and Christmas Plans
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We're back!
The physique manufactorum checking in with my monthly video log and I'm looking quite thick and juicy if I may be so bold.
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It's my Christmas gift to keep this open.
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Now we're gonna look at some training.
I'm gonna comment some training.
I will first and foremost say that I said to myself I want to have a prosperous and productive training autumn.
And then a voice came to me and said, isn't there someone you have forgotten to ask?
And it's Nurgle.
And Nurgle said, nah, you cannot have a good training autumn, so we'll get into the footage in just a bit.
But yeah, what we want to say is that this is no new heights, no new prs or anything like that.
This is just me trying to stay strong, stay healthy, stay um, you know active, so that when the time comes, if I can actually hit the gym with a good momentum, then I have the, the base strength there already.
So again, no new prs or anything like that but uh, some decent lifts anyway.
So you saw in the intro here, First, some pad work, keeping the fists sharp.
So, the second clip you see there is from a recent deadlift session, and you see I'm only doing a single there, and that is because I simply tested the waters, so to speak, to see if I had it in me to do more.
But I felt you know it was heavy enough.
You can see the repetition is with good clean form, but it's not something I would want to push.
So what I did is that I lowered the weight with 20 kilos and did a few sets, which we will see now.
Different day, different session.
So, here you see before you some good old squats.
Now, this particular session is concise, and the purpose here is to get back into it.
So, as I just mentioned, being Mogmax by Nurgle interrupts my usual training schedule.
So, I haven't really trained all the much squats, I must admit to myself and to you, my dear audience.
So, here we're simply warming up, and I do definitely recommend that when you do squats, you add in one or two extra sets of warm-up, your performance will be better off for it.
So, in some exercises, you can be a bit faster during the warm-up, but when it comes to squats, I would definitely caution against being too fast in the warm-up.
So, second warm-up set done there, as you can see, and then we're moving on to the third warm-up set right there.
And we have 130, which is a decent enough weight.
So, it's getting some blood flowing, getting the machinery ready for action, and yeah, reminding the muscle memory, the central nervous system, about former glories.
So, yes, here we are simply getting ready for the main set, which you will see in but a moment.
And I will increase to 150 kilos and do two sets of those.
And yeah, after that, call it a day.
Did actually get dumps from this session, so even though it's far from the weights I went up to only earlier this year, it's still enough to give a good stimuli to the body.
All right, so two nice sessions returning to form after being mugged by Nurgle, and now we are heading on to the second deadlift session.
So, this is my most recent session I did, and yeah, simply trying to take one step further from the session before that.
So, still no new weights, nothing I haven't done before, no spectacular PR or anything, but just one step at a time, and I will continue to take these smaller steps.
So, we'll get back into the gym now with some more deadlifts.
And as you can see, deadlifts, squats, I do try to focus on the big basic compound movement, so no, no real focus on you know hitting the arms.
You know, the arms will be big and nice anyway, especially if I do some rows and if I handle big weights anyway.
So, the main focus, especially if you're tight on time, which I have been very tight on time, I'm afraid.
So, then I focus on hitting the big, you know, most bang for the buck, and that's what you get with the heavy compound movements.
So, deadlift, squats, bench press, military press, stuff like that, rows also.
So, instead of spending the time with the detailed work, so you know, training biceps curls or whatever, try to hit the big compound movements so you get the most training, the most you know, positive hormones, the most connection with the primordial beast.
So, you get that when you do heavy deadlifts.
And then, also, something I always do is if I have a good group of guys with me, then I try to time it.
So, if we have a group of five guys or something like that, I do always endeavor to do the deadlifts because then I can use the Mennerbund, the shared manas energy from those guys.
Alright, checking in from yet another squat session.
Now, this particular session, the purpose here is to get as much done in as little time as possible.
So, this day I had like 30 minutes or so to get the session done.
So, what can I do?
Yes, I can have a relatively low weight, which you see before it's 100 kilos, so my body weight.
And then I'm simply trying to get as many repetitions in as possible over two, three sets, like that.
So, getting some good blood flow, getting some good muscle connection, getting a bit of cardio as well.
Actually, when you do this high-rep squat sessions, it's quite quite heavy indeed.
I'm sure you all are familiar with the sensations.
So, actually, it can be harder with low weight and high repetition rather than a heavy weight, simply because it comes in with the cardio aspect as well.
So, a nice quick session, so good to do if you're tight on time.
Alright, so that was the training for this month.
I hopefully, hopefully, I will see if I can pray to Apollo and he can keep me safe against the onslaught of Nurgle.
I know many other guys have also been sick, so maybe not a super good training autumn for many of us, but it is what it is.
So, anyway, I thought to talk a bit about my Christmas plans, my Yule plans.
You can see my two Yule goats in the background there as well.
They're guarding my books.
So, yeah, good stuff, good stuff.
So, anyway, I will try to relax as much as possible.
It's been a super bad year in many ways, so I will just try to seclude myself and paint some Warhammer, read some nice books, be with the family, try to not stress, and then I will sort of postpone the stress until January, and then it will be, you know, everything will come crashing down on my shoulders again.
But, yeah, it is what it is.
It's the only way to deal with it is to try to recuperate, try to relax a bit, try to recharge the batteries by doing something else.
So, yeah, that is my plan.
Then I can hope also not only for Apollo to keep me safe from Nurgle, I can also hope that Elon Musk will bankroll me.
So anyway, we have a hectic year incoming next year.
We have an election coming up in Sweden as well, which will be, well, every election is super important, but this one will be sort of make it or break it.
So I will need to formulate a plan how I can be, you know, do as much good as possible as well.
So it will be a hectic year.
So I will just try to relax as much as possible and yeah, again, recharge the batteries.
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