Storey Strength

Striking the balance

If you have struggled to integrate your physique goals into your social life you are not alone.

Let’s be honest, to build a very decent rig, you need to have periods of imbalance where you are locked in on the goal.

Stringing good weeks of recovery & training together - this is when you are really in the groove.

But once the social events kick off - summer beers, festivals, wedding season - you are not sure how to work these in while also prioritising your physique progression.

I find for most people this becomes an issue when the periods in between the events lack focus & excitement.

If you know every 4-6 weeks you are gonna have an event where you are gonna be drinking, there is so much time there to capitalise on your gains.

And if you can learn how to drink responsibly (not possible for most Irish 😂), have 2-3 drinks - it’s hardly something you need to plan for other than account for it in your daily tracker.

Across the Summer, you don’t have to choose physique & abstinence OR beer belly & getting loose every weekend.

I can teach you the framework to get the best of both worlds, just send me a DM & lets map out your Summer 💪🏼

Quite the week

Started the week in Carlow, ended it back in Marbella after 10 days at home.

My granny passed last Friday & the funeral was Monday just gone down in Clonegal outside her home village.

A hard country woman who farmed up until the age of 94 when her body couldn’t keep up with her anymore 😅

I remember chatting to her with Emma years back saying how it’s mad that even at her age she is still out carrying buckets of feed & bringing the cattle in.

To which she replied “sure what else would I be at but this” 😂

While we didn’t have the closest relationship if there is one thing she taught me is once you have a purpose you’ll be happy in your day to day no matter what that looks like.

Yesterday’s upper session with cues I use 💪🏼

After a very long week training has been a bit on the back foot so to get my session order back on schedule I combined the best of my push/pull sessions into 1.

The main aim being still hit priority body parts & most bang for your buck movements while keeping session quality high.

25 total working sets in the session with some super sets to help improve efficiency w/o compromising focus.

For me anything north of that many sets per session & it’s not that I can’t physically do it, I just can’t keep my head in it.

While I could have just soldiered on across the weekend & do the next 4 sessions in a row, right now I have to focus on session quality above all else as I get deeper into the programme & closer to PB territory!

The work is only as beneficial as it is progressive & this is where balancing recovery + performance is paramount 💪🏼

Bruddahsss