Justbrooksy

I'm JB, here I will attempt to share my journey. I started at 336lbs and lost over 100 lbs, have yo yo'd the past couple years trying to find balance between a healthy weight and gaining strength. Thankfully, I've managed to keep the bulk of it off. Not a fitness snob, I love weightlifting, crossfit, running, cycling, hiking you name it. Powerlifting is my current sport and passion.

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Go time!

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RIP Toby. I’ll miss you little buddy. Give em hell. 2007-2021

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Happy happy.

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Today I worked on form clean up. I was getting lazy again and rolling the bar and just muscling it up. Today I stripped it down and spent a lot of time under tension and doing it right. Feels pretty good

Two weeks out!

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WIW

Still chipping away at it. I did complete 75 Hard last week. It was a bitch, not just a catchy name. The last two weeks were brutal as my plantar fasciitis was full blast and my knee pain is back. But I hobbled to the finish. I took a couple days off diet and exercise and hopped back on Monday.

I have a usapl meet December 12 but if my knee doesn’t start to feel better this week I’m going to bounce. It’s just not worth pushing it. I know I won’t best prior meets except maybe bench. I don’t know, I’m losing some desire to compete. I love the finish line on things I think that’s why I continue signing up for stupid shit. Something to sink my teeth into, but I feel like I need to focus on my health.

We shall see.

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Wide grip 2ct pause bench to 6RPE. Pretty boring shit, had 3 board press also. Low key day. I wear a belt benching to keep my shirt down. Didn’t work today 🤣

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Holy chit that was cardio. 4x6 final set here. Using comp bar and calibrated collars. This is meet prep day 3.

Oh yeah, I signed up for a December meet about 11 weeks out. Going in with no expectations post bizarro world. Would like to improve on last meets total but I feel like I lost so much time. Also sitting a little heavy to cut to 105kg so I’ll prob just slowly keep losing what I can and not stress about it. I told myself I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing and if I’m at a certain weight by a certain date I’ll cut. If not oh well. 🤘

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Up a little bit since increasing intake. Also not doing near as much cardio due to plantar issues. Other than feeling run down from over training I don’t feel bloated or like my weight is up. 🤷‍♂️

I’m going to dig out a bike today and see how that feels. I keep saying I will, if I don’t today you can kick me in the nuts. Thinking of picking up a trainer for my bike as the weather will probably be terrible in a minute ya know 2020 and all. I’m still walking 45 mins daily but I’m unable to really push the pace, maybe 19 min miles.

That’s all I got.

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Deload week. Sucks when it feels heavy! Dropping everything to 50% rest of the week, intensity is catching up on the old man.

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These are hard haha. Did three sets for my finisher today after 30 mins of sled work. 🤘 gassed.

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Added 20kg to these. Found the blocks. I’m done with sumo for a minute unless it’s light and doing reps.

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This 425 went up faster than 405 last week. Lower box next week. Yeehaw.

Increased my cals, protein and carbs this week. Lowered fat a bit. Feeling a little better with that. Hoping to see some changes.

Edit: I have no idea why my vids are posting upside down. I use media monster to video. 🤷‍♂️

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Birthday Chipper. Took me 27:05. The bike killed me. It was like the slowest calorie burn of my life. Brutal on dead legs.

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That got spicy. Block pulls mid shin. Starting using comp bar recently as it has very little give. Someone stole our nice blocks so had to use bumpers. 😬

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Worked up to 4 wheels today testing my knee with a high box. Next week I’ll prob do this again but work some reps and slowly drop the height over a couple weeks. Plan is still raw squat Monday’s and overload Friday. 🤷‍♂️

My buddy (who is my prior coach) announced a meet for 12/12 today not too far from the house. I’m seriously considering it, but I’d have to drop a solid bit of weight to get back in my weight class. About 1.4/week. Which isn’t crazy. I’m conflicted because I’d love to break the state deadlift record which I’ve hit in training a few times. Or just stay fluffy and have a fun meet. Again 🤷‍♂️

If I sign up I want a short meet prep. 13 weeks prepa are too much for me right now. I’m thinking 9 weeks. So that would give me six weeks to keep rebuilding my core strength and lose fat before jumping in prep.

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Still practicing more strict.

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Oh yeah! I can dig this trend. I feel like I’m putting it all together right now. I may need to increase my cals a little bit as I’m not recovering as quickly as I need to. Moar protons and carbons.

Getting my first massage of the year tomorrow and I can’t freakin wait my body is pissed!