Road to Right: Justin’s accountability tour

The benefits of having a long time lifting buddy: do the math for my first set and it’s 220. Now Slate is stronger than me in all lifts so i know we will have to add weight to mine. I don’t want to waste time with all the extra plates, 10 out of 10 times I’m saying “fuck it, I’ll just start at 225.” I look up to Slate (having grabbed a 25) putting it back in favor of another 45. This man knows me. 🤣  What a fuckin week huh? Dallas got eliminated from the playoffs before they even played this week, the Epstein files were both simultaneously released and not released, my wife came home, and Avatar 3 came out. Really trying to close the year out with bangers. I totally almost fucked up Liz’ surprise on my post last week. Yall aren’t crazy, originally i said she gets home “this week” before changing it to “soon”. Oops. No it was awesome: the dogs went absolutely bat shit crazy for her, we did a no huddle Christmas shopping trip, we are both returning to vans skater chic unironically…i...

 thought about updating last week but honestly it was much of the same. The last month really has been relatively similar week to week: just working and training and cleaning and eating. Funny, eating never used to make it in my “to do” lists…but taking your shit seriously means rearranging priorities until you get what you want. Nobody really talks about the endurance factor of the grind. Fitfluencers are hella quick to toss around the “do it tired, do it whether you want to or not” etc but it takes way more than a catchy slogan super imposed over a dope looking skull to keep yourself on track. Interesting enough (and here comes a principle we all love and recognize) is that the way to keep at it is extremely similar to the way you grieve and process and heal…it takes some grace. Look diet and exercise, fitness and nutrition, these are games of consistency. At work we like to use the 80/20 rule, 80% of the time you’re locked tf in and that makes the 20% of bullshit not as detrimen...

 I keep running into the same situation when i don’t get posts out on Wednesday, the doldrums of the current week start washing out the doldrums of last week to the point that i simply can’t remember shit to talk about. Luckily for this week it was thanksgiving. Certainly not my worst thanksgiving, that one was reminiscent of the seven fishes flashback in the Bear. I won’t get into details. This week was a lot of normal stuff: working and lifting and rolling. Not too much BJJ cuz of the holidays but we’ve already rectified that issue this week. Actual thanksgiving was just Stranger Things, family FaceTimes, and ground turkey. Can not complain, it was much more neutral than anything. Cool news time: put on a couple of pounds of muscle and dropped PBF to like 21%…I’ve been chasing sub-18 for years and this is the most serious I’ve ever really been about  the grind. Results are cool. Once again, the kid that spent years picking on himself so that the bullies couldn’t do it is now...