Synopsis… again…
Time passes so quickly when you’re having… well, too much work on your hands.
Instead of boring you with long accounts of what I have been doing, I will highlight some of the more “interesting” tidbits. At least, I hope to do so.
I have been training, needless to say, to avoid allowing any bar I can get my hands on to start to rust (note creative link to slogan). Metal has been my hideout from the blog, as has work. I started thinking a while back, and I might even have mentioned it here, that I should start calculating a bit on how much I lift at work. After all, my work entails lifting solid wood furniture around. Or more to the point; off the truck (the driver just bought a Bigger truck, sigh) and off the wonderful crates that now come from across the seas. Nice.
Just to get the “heaviness” across: next time you see a crate on a truck, go stand next to it. Then, imagine having no platform nor a forklift to make things easier and having to climb up the crate when the doors have been opened (packed to the brim) and getting the topmost furniture offloaded with one hand while clinging with the other to the door. Oh yeah, and they’re packed in cardboard boxes so you can’t get a decent grip. 
After the first wall has been offloaded, it becomes easy. Now there’s only something like 4000 kgs in there, to offload with bare hands (refer to no platform and no forklift). But wait, of course you have a buddy up there to help.
Soooo, it makes 2000kgs (4400 lbs) to hoist in 3 hours (the time the transporting company has allotted for the offloading of a full crate). After which you get to lift some more, since they then have to be neated stowed in the storage area. And that’s what I’m looking at tomorrow again.
If it seems I don’t like my job, then my apologies. I really do like it, although some days are admittedly tough.
About training; I’m currently again on the 20-30 reps speedwork phase, and will be for the next three weeks. This week, I still have two more workouts to do, so I think I’ll have to do a workout tomorrow after work. Nice total for tomorrow liftingwise. Around 3000kgs..? 
There hasn’t been any clips, since I don’t have the privacy of “owning” Metal Gym, obviously, as I have at the Kuntotila, the basement gym area we have where I live. So I feel I don’t really have the right to publish any clips without permission. Maybe one day I’ll ask, though…
Oh yeah, and I will be featuring another recipe soon. Something very finnish.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Quantifying the general workload (lifeload?) does sound sensible. While on the topic of sense, it would be sensless to think that the workload wouldn’t affect your lifting and recuperation. I am quite amazed at how well you are able to tackle it all even if you do miss the occasional workout due to one of those megaton loads having arrived. Perhaps no wonder you have a good raw squat…
I am with you on the clips. Ano has been very happy to grant permission so far, so I presume it is more or less a formality.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Perhaps a list of estimated workloads for various jobs should be drawn up…I can feel new government safety guidelines being generated
June 30th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
I can feel one of those “let’s check the Murphy’s laws on this”-feelings creeping up on me…
This we have noticed at work so far:
-The Law of Storage and Market Forces.
The marketability and sales of any product depends on how difficult it is to get out of storage. The harder the place, the more likely that will be the exact next product to be sold.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Oh, and about the recouping and that… I just eat a lot of calorie-dense foods, such as BigMac’s. That basically covers any caloric deficit I might experience at work…