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emohn @emohn.net · 22/09/2026

My family has a shared Note that we all add shopping list items to in our group chat. My daughter was UNAMBIGUOUS about what she wanted me to pick up from Costco. Guess what they do not carry, at the moment…

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emohn @emohn.net · 21/09/2026

If you see this, post a picture of your younger self with a dog. With Molly, on our friend Sally’s farm outside of Düsseldorf, 2009.

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emohn @emohn.net · 18/09/2026

But… Did you DIE?! Body Weight Conditioning never beating the allegations.

Survived 9/18/26 body weight conditioning.

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emohn @emohn.net · 18/09/2026

I’ve felt sick the last day or so, but showed up to Body Weight Conditioning today… Ohhh nooooooo…

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emohn @emohn.net · 18/09/2026

My last saved photo from 7/18/2014 was from 5:54pm (other nights there tend to keep snapping photos until 11+) Apparently it wasn’t all Torpedo.

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emohn @emohn.net · 16/09/2026

Monday - Full Body Strength: legs were still a bit tired from the competition, but good overall Tuesday - MetCon: Super tired. Had to walk it off a couple times to catch my breath. Wednesday - Lower Body Strength: felt like I was back to full capacity again. Good stuff.

Wednesday - 9/16/26 - Lower body strength

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emohn @emohn.net · 12/09/2026

No trophy (no expectation of one) but I held my own and even surprised myself in a couple cases. Laura competed as well and it was super exciting to cheer her and her partner on along with the whole gym.

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emohn @emohn.net · 12/09/2026

If you had told 16yo me, or even 26yo me, that I would voluntarily join an athletic competition at a gym, I’d have told you that you’re out of your mind. But at 46, after 2 years at the gym, down ~30lbs from my peak and reasonably healthy, I entered the 2026 Level Up Games. And… I survived!

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emohn @emohn.net · 12/09/2026

Catching up on last week. Four out of five days - good camps all around. Took a rest day on Friday for reasons that will be clear in my next post.

Monday, 9/7/2026 - Body Weight Conditioning.

Wednesday, 9/9/2026 - Athletic Conditioning

Thursdays 9/10/2026 - Lower Body Strength

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emohn @emohn.net · 09/09/2026

Saturday - Athletic Conditioning. Kinda sucked, but survived. Monday - Bodyweight Conditioning - not the worst? Including a half mile or running inter-mixed. Tuesday - Full body strength - shoulder presses and hammer curls aggravated the shit out of my elbow. Otherwise good.

Saturday, 9/5/2026 - Athletic Conditioning

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emohn @emohn.net · 04/09/2026

Friday accountability check-in. Staying consistent - not heartbroken I missed BWC on Thursday, but camps have been great this week and no real issues to complain about other than the heat and flagging energy levels.

Weekly protocol for 1st week of Sep with my attendance

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emohn @emohn.net · 31/08/2026

Link to details here: www.energystar.gov/sites/defaul...

Official notice of transition of ENERGY STAR ownership, operations, and trademark to DOE from EPA.

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emohn @emohn.net · 31/08/2026

What I haven’t mentioned yet, is that Laura and I signed up in the coed category for our gym’s annual “Level Up” games. It’s still not 100% certain whether we’re going to be competing together or getting split up to balance out some other classes, but this is apparently a thing I’m doing.

Burn Boot Camp: Level Up Games 2026
Workout 1

Burn Boot Camp: Level Up Games 2026
Workout 2

Burn Boot Camp: Level Up Games 2026
Workout 3

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emohn @emohn.net · 31/08/2026

Catching up! Wednesday - Upper Body Thursday - Lower Body Friday - Body Weight Cond Monday - Metabolic Conditioning Whew. Missed Saturday because of cross country and flag football for the kids.

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emohn @emohn.net · 30/08/2026

Man, Will Johnson with Magnolia Electric Co is really something special. Thank you @willjohnsonmusic.bsky.social

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emohn @emohn.net · 28/08/2026

KSP chopper making a bunch of noise over Oldham County today… wonder what’s up.

Flight Radar for Ky State Police chopper N10SP over Oldham County Friday 8/29/26 @ 10:15am

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emohn @emohn.net · 25/08/2026

Tuesday! MetCon - which was rough, but that’s not the big news of the day. The BIG news is, we’ve gone multi-generational!! C joined me at camp today and will go with mom tomorrow at 5:15am. She CRUSHED it and made her dad look wimpy.

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emohn @emohn.net · 25/08/2026

Monday - back & glutes day. New PR for single arm rows. Good times.

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emohn @emohn.net · 25/08/2026

Missed opportunity. Feels like Critter Ridder (Cridder Ridder?) was *right there*

An exterminator’s white pick up truck, with the business name “Animal Ridders” across the back.

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emohn @emohn.net · 22/08/2026

Gonna have to push to hit 150, but today I can be happy about 100. Arm Day - elbow was screaming the whole time, but it was a good day.

Celebrating hitting 100 camps this year.

Arm Day (upper body strength) on Friday, 8/21/26

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emohn @emohn.net · 21/08/2026

Core strength and conditioning. Shockingly one of my better days this week, and I used to hate this workout protocol the most. Elevated side planks were my surprising “that wasn’t horrible” of the day.

Core Strength & Conditioning on 8/20/26.

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emohn @emohn.net · 20/08/2026

Hectic week, what with the A/C out at our house, resignations on my team and such. Monday was lower body strength and today (Wednesday) was full body strength. In between was a hellacious looking Athletic Conditioning Tuesday that I’m not sad about missing.

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emohn @emohn.net · 18/08/2026

I like the Ian Nor stuff. I plucked a few of these out of a sampler playlist recently and have been vibing with them.

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emohn @emohn.net · 14/08/2026

Forgot to log today’s (Friday) full body strength day on my watch. But it was a great workout without a ton of struggle. Yesterday, was Bodyweight Conditioning and it tried to kill me. Wednesday was Lower Body Strength day. Trying to keep the streak going, but I’ll have to do an on-demand camp tmrw.

Bodyweight Conditioning on Thursday, 8/13/2026.

Lower Body Strength on Wednesday, 8/12/2026.

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emohn @emohn.net · 12/08/2026

7th grade and 9th grade today And 7 years ago that seems like 7 minutes ago…

Years ago, a kindergartner and 2nd grader.

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emohn @emohn.net · 11/08/2026

Today was one of those days where I just wanted to quit and walk out. Tuesday, Metabolic Conditioning. Everything was tough, further hindered by my getting up for 6:30am camp to try and get back on a school-compatible schedule. Anywho, finished it, struggling. Also posting some catch-up screencaps.

Tuesday 8/11/2026, Metabolic Conditioning, including a couple of wooziness induced breaks.

Friday, 8/7/2026 Upper Body Strength day.

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emohn @emohn.net · 06/08/2026

Wednesday? Athletic Conditioning! Tough camp, but pushed myself and surprised with how well I did. Box jumps, in particular, were solid today and the half burpee + donkey kicks didn’t destroy me.

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emohn @emohn.net · 05/08/2026

Tuesday! Back and Glutes Day. Managed to work out the last of the tightness in my lower back - or maybe just tightened up the other side so that my soreness is symmetrical.

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emohn @emohn.net · 03/08/2026

Monday! Core strength and conditioning format for camp today. Mix of low rep strength intensive moves on one superset times three rounds, then fast paced cardio conditioning for the core on the other side. Quarter mile parking lot lap as a buy in for each round, and 40 bicycle abs for the buyout.

Core Strength & Conditioning on Monday, 8/3/2026.

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emohn @emohn.net · 02/08/2026

Yesterday (Friday) was leg day and I was a great workout. Legs and particularly glutes are sore today. But… I twisted while lifting a super heavy metal cabinet cleaning out the garage this morning. And really effed up my back. Hoping it’s better after a couple days rest. Anyway, here’s Friday.

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emohn @emohn.net · 31/07/2026

And today (Thursday) was my first day back in since the weekend. Combination of exhaustion from a busy racing weekend plus some evening time constraints. Arm Day - surprisingly tough one. I can barely touch my fingertips to my shoulders now. 😂 Onward.

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emohn @emohn.net · 31/07/2026

Hadn’t realized that I hadn’t posted in this thread since my birthday. Catching up last week for accountability’s sake.

Thursday, Jul 23 2026. Body weight conditioning.

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emohn @emohn.net · 28/07/2026

You know who never gave you diarrhea salad?! That’s right.

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emohn @emohn.net · 28/07/2026

I just think it’s adorable that they’ve turned him into one of those concrete porch geese and every month they’re going to trot out a new picture of him in a new little season-appropriate outfit smiling in the exact same wax museum pose.

Generative AI pictures (sorry, it’s to demonstrate how easily they’re likely doing the same) of Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao in monthly outfits in the style of porch geese.

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emohn @emohn.net · 21/07/2026

Birthday Monday! Upper body strength day. Great workout and a little embarrassing to have my bday celebrated there.

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emohn @emohn.net · 18/07/2026

Sometime Facebook has decent content.

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emohn @emohn.net · 18/07/2026

Saturday! Full Body Strength & Conditioning. All good, and definitely helped work out the soreness from leg day Thursday. Confession, I’m not sad at all that I skipped body weight conditioning yesterday. 😇

Full Body Strength & Conditioning on 7/18/2026

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emohn @emohn.net · 17/07/2026

Thursday - Lower Body Strength day. Walked into the gym angry and frustrated (work shit) and left it in a puddle of sweat, new RDL PR and unfortunately a tight lower back because of a bit of bad form on aforementioned RDLs. The finisher today was murder - wish I’d left a bit in the tank for that.

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emohn @emohn.net · 14/07/2026

Back on my bullshit today after about 3 weeks of travel. Last recorded sessions I had at the gym were 6/22 and 6/24. But I stayed plenty active on vacation. Full body strength day today and was feeling pretty good except a little balk from my right shoulder in shoulder presses.

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emohn @emohn.net · 11/07/2026

On the recommendation of our guide, those 4 filets were quickly iced and driven down the road to Keen Kow Thai in Ninilchil and Ms. Nina was happy to “surprise us with some good dinner options to go.” Fantastic yellow curry poached and teriyaki tempura-fried salmon.

Yellow curry salmon with carrots, potatoes, broccoli - as well as a few pieces of teriyaki tempura salmon.

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emohn @emohn.net · 11/07/2026

On the positive side, Alaska has been amazing. Did a 6 hour drift boat fishing excursion on the Kasilof River today and while the sockeye salmon weren’t exactly surging in a run today, we didn’t get completely skunked. I got 2 good sized sockeye.

Family salmon fishing in the Kasilof River in Alaska

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emohn @emohn.net · 04/07/2026

If ya ain’t first, yer last.

Study shows Kentucky leads the nation in July 4th emergency room visits.

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emohn @emohn.net · 27/06/2026

Let’s goooooooooo

In flight map showing us about 2 hours outside of Anchorage, AK.

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