So, before I plunge ahead, let me first acknowledge that Chuck Palahniuk's novella, Fight Club, and the movie it inspired, is a reductio ad absurdum deconstruction of masculinity in the post-modern age. The ethos espoused by the main character is not intended to be taken literally. The film is a more resonant and rewarding experience than the text, in my opinion; a characteristic that distinguishes it from most other adaptations, which always seem to lose something in translation from print to screen.
I was a teenager in the late 1990's when some people I knew told me they knew people who'd sworn to them that their brother / cousin / some prick they got pissed with last weekend had "started a Fight Club, ay", where presumably there were fewer blood-splattered mattresses on the walls and more homoerotic man-hugging and sobbing than the conveners had perhaps intended. But then, the text was just a big fat Greek allegory now, wasn't it?
The film is rich with toxic, hyper-masculine tropes that belie a homoerotic subtext, and it conveys a self-destructive, absurdist nihilism that is disturbingly relatable. It is not in spite of these themes but because of them that Fight Club is a movie experience unlike any other, and for my money is still a must-see. It occupies the same space on my shelf as Mississippi Burning, Dead Poets Society, the original, unedited Star Wars trilogy, Hotel Rwanda, the Richard Linklater experimental piece Waking Life, and the first season of the high-concept science fiction series Altered Carbon. Plus Underground. And all of The Expanse! But if I start listing TV series we'll be here a while, so I'll get back on track.
My friend's gift to me was a canvas print of Tyler Durden. Since I got it, it has been rolled up in a cardboard tube in the spare room, gathering dust. Finally, this weekend, I'm going to frame and hang it.
BOB'S CHEST EXPANSION PROGRAM Tuesday June 21st
Barbell incline bench press:
20 kg x 10
40 kg x 5
50 kg x 8 x 10
DB incline bench press (p/h):
15 kg x 20
12.5 kg x 20
10 kg x 20
DB incline bench flys (p/h):
5 kg x 5 x 20
Bent over cable flys low setting (p/h):
9 kg x 5 x 20
Cable front raises (l&r):
9 kg x 5 x 10
EVENTS & ACCESSORIES Sunday June 19th
Sack load to 1.3 meters:
40 kg x 10
60 kg x 3 x 10 PR
80 kg x 10 PR
Axle OHP (strict):
20 kg x 10
40 kg x 5
50 kg x 20
45 kg x 2 x 10
40 kg x 2 x 10
DB flys (p/h):
6 kg x 5 x 20 TPR
PRESS & ACCESSORIES Thursday June 16th
Axle OHP (strict):
20 kg x 10
40 kg x 5
60 kg x 3
70 kg x 3
80 kg x 4 x 5
Preacher curls:
22.5 kg x 5 x 10
Triceps push downs:
45 kg x 10 narrow grip
45 kg x 10 wide grip
45 kg x 10 rope
*repeat twice*
Cable side raises (l&r):
4.5 kg x 5 x 10
GOOD MORNINGS & ACCESSORIES Tuesday June 14th
Good mornings w/axle:
20 kg x 10
50 kg x 5
80 kg x 5
105 kg x 5
115 kg x 2 x 10 TPR
Romanian deadlifts:
80 kg x 5 x 10
Axe swings (l&r):
31.5 kg x 5 x 10
Hamstring curls (p/l):
12.5 kg x 20
22.5 kg x 10
17.5 kg x 20
15 kg x 5 - right hamstring / calf pain
DB hammer curls (l&r):
12.5 kg x 10
15 kg x 10
10 kg x 20
SQUAT Sunday June 12th
Squats w/axle (to box):
20 kg x 10
60 kg x 5
90 kg x 5
100 kg x 8 x 10 PR
CARDIO
Assault bike:
15 minutes @ +50 rpm
OKINAWAN KOBUDO Saturday June 11th
PRESS & ACCESSORIES Thursday June 9th
Axle OHP (strict):
20 kg x 10
45 kg x 4
65 kg x 3
75 kg x 5 x 5
DB hammer curls (p/h):
12.5 kg x 10
17.5 kg x 10
20 kg x 5
10 kg x 10
8 kg x 10
Preacher curls:
20 kg x 5 x 10
Cable front raises (l&r):
9 kg x 5 x 10
CARDIO
Assault bike:
5 mins @ +55 rpm
PULLS Tuesday June 7th
Deadlifts w/barbell:
60 kg x 10
100 kg x 5 x 10
Face down bench rows:
30 kg x 10
35 kg x 10
40 kg x 10
45 kg x 10
Hamstring curls (p/l):
15 kg x 20
25 kg x 10 PR
17.5 kg x 20
15 kg x 20
12.5 kg x 20
Seated row machine (free handles):
67.5 kg x 5 x 10
Face pulls:
40.5 kg x 10
45 kg x 4 x 10
Lateral pull downs:
60 kg x 3 x 10
EVENTS Sunday June 5th
PRE-TRAINING MOBILITY
Axe swings (l&r):
36 kg x 3 x 10
Plank on hands:
2 x 30 seconds
Resisted hip flexion isometric:
2 x 10 seconds
EVENTS
Clean-press w/axle:
55 kg x 5
65 kg x 3
75 kg x 3
85 kg x 1
95 kg x 1
Yoke walk:
140 kg x 2 x 15 meters
200 kg x 2 x 15 meters
240 kg x 15 meters
300 kg x 15 meters - with belt
Sack load to 1.2 meters:
60 kg x 5
OKINAWAN KOBUDO Saturday June 4th
GOOD MORNINGS & ACCESSORIES Tuesday May 31st
Good mornings w/axle:
20 kg x 10
60 kg x 10
90 kg x 10
100 kg x 10
110 kg x 2 x 10
Axe swings (l&r):
31.5 kg x 5 x 10
Hamstring curls (p/l):
12.5 kg x 20
22.5 kg x 10 PR
12.5 kg x 20 - misload
15 kg x 20
12.5 kg x 20
Seated row machine (free handles):
60 kg x 5 x 10
Face pulls:
40.5 kg x 5 x 20
Cable front raises (l&r):
9 kg x 5 x 10
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