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2. Full body three days a week. Heavy weight low reps 4-6. Only five movements and variations of them. Dead lift, squats, bench, overhead press, bi’s/tri’s. Some people get a good feeling from Cardo, but it just makes me tired and depleted. But that full muscle pump is a great feeling for me. Been going at if for a few months now. Seeing good results. Based on a program called Naturally Enhanced. I did it 6years ago before my wedding. Loved it. Trying to change this dad bod I got going since then haha.

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As someone told me recently, that bod is not gonna dad itself. I'm going to start calling you Ben Gains Ziemann.

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Haha that is an awesome line. Gonna share with my old lifting friend who taught me this program

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I might go listen to that podcast episode. Some of the MMA guests are really interesting even though I’m not super into MMA. Also, Dr.Peter Attia is great. I always learn something from him.

Flow is really important to me in my current role at work. I’m an SSR for Cintas. Getting into a flow or rhythm is how I work best. That means working at a good pace, not too fast, but quick enough to do all my necessary tasks but still make time for conversation. If I can be in and out of the business I’m servicing In about 20 minutes, I’m in a a good flow.

My go to exercise right now is getting out and shooting some hoops. I have a couple routines, drills I run to basically just get my heart rate up and keep it up for a while. I love resistance training and mobility drills and exercises but with work and the young children I’m doing well to shoot around twice a week.

I do indeed have my Halloween costume. My daughter (2 years old) is thing 1, my son (4 months old) will be thing 2, my wife is mother of the things, and I am Father of the Things.

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Do it, it's a really interesting conversation.

That's fast, 20 minutes AND you account for chit chat. Nice.

I wish I didn't neglect mobility as much as I do. I also try not to hurt my joints as much while I train but still I should do more. Especially as I'm turning into an old man.

Family costume, I love it! My kids didn't want to do a Mario Kart themed family costume. Now we have two ninjas, Mario, and a fairy. It is what it is.

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Oct 23, 2023Liked by Walther Cantu

I was on Wordpress for 3 years before I came to Substack, and I've seen Inkledeux around my sphere! I may have followed them for a while. What a crazy connection! I really like your description of exercise--volume volume volume, at 70% capacity. I'm trying to swim for exercise for 30 minutes in mornings, and i'm struggling with some basics, like breathing. But I haven't been pushing myself very hard--the breathing makes it hard to do a lot of laps back to back. But I think i'll switch to swimming as many laps as I can with whatever breathing I can, and then recovering with easy swimming. That way i'm moving the whole time and pushing myself to breathe properly.

This was great, looking forward to more smorgasbord!

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It's smaller after all!

Some people may say breathing is essential. Like Dory once said, just keep swimming.

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