2025 Life-Poker Goals

are you going to park in the pits? Will you play the lotto? GL

Im 33 years old and living in Scandinavia btw. Dream is to move abroad again, Spain, Malta or new place.

All lifts are in kilograms.

Wednesday 22/01/2025

Wendler 5-3-1 Frontsquats

54x5 (65% working weight)
62x5
70x6 (Still sore after run from Sunday)

These workouts I always do assistance work for higher reps, will not log this. Also not logging warmup lifts before working weight, but usually 3 sets on main lift and maybe some bike/rowing machine/walk.

Friday 24/01

Deadlift

5x88kg
5x101
5x115kg

Assistance work: Did Chest also this Friday and was happy to see my bench was decent.

60kgx12
70kgx5
75x5

Followed by superset Lat-Pulldown and inclined bench press w dumbells, total 8 sets to failure.

Saturday 25/01

Classic Yoga Session 1 hour in Group:
+ 15k steps

Sunday 26/01

Went into the forrest for a quiet walk, 10k steps.

Monday 27/01

Legday Wendler Frontsquats:

58x5
66x3
75x4
+ Joker set 79x3

+ Assistance work

Tuesday 28/01

Bad sleep night before and was tempted to ditch the scheduled Yin Yoga session and just go to the gym, or ditch them both.

Dumbbell Bench Press standard and Close-Grip, Pyramid from 20kg dumbells to 34kg dumbells
And incline Dumbbell Press from 24kg to 34kg - got 4 slow and controlled reps with 34kg and happy with that.

Followed by 1h Yin Yoga session. This is basically only stretching and breathing and I think very good for me, learn to focus on belly breathing.

*I understand this is a poker-site and probably not that entertaining for most folks. I will probably not be updating this in a while, but nice to have something to look back at. I will track progress in chat-gpt/on my computer, and then update here in blog when I have started playing poker.

Also played 5card plo 0.25/0.50$ at iPoker for 2 hours on Sunday, we lost like 32h after losing a big pot w AA77x single suited OOP vs loose button that 3bets 23376 and calls our 4b, flop is 344 and we have nut fd, SPR is like 1 ish and we cbet like 25% and we get it in.

First session since October 2024 where we got 8th place in Level of Each Pot Limit Omaha/NLHE live event €250 buyin with 800 entrants, was nice to hit a FT, but we busted main PLO and main NLHE so breakeven with hotel+flight expenses.

Not sure if I should play PLO, NLHE, PLO5 , cash or MTTS or a mix - I think maybe NLHE mtts and PLO cash/mtts.. as NLHE is kinda boring and my PLO game is not that bad.. 😀

Cheers 😀

Not sure if.

Ty 😃

its a good way to build a roll. Just gotta know when to quit.

Wednesday 29/01
Restday + 12k steps

Thursday 30/01
Tabata session @ gym Strength/Cardio workout.
+ 10k steps

Friday 31/01
Deadlift 5-3-1

3x95kg
3x108kg
3x122 kg (Not too heavy but my grip was failing- will be purchasing grip assistance)

+ Some assistance work for back and biceps.
+ 10K steps
+ Lasagna takeout after workout (here is my biggest issue, takeout food + fat food!)

Saturday 01/02
Chest and triceps workout + cardio
Had popcorn and a lot of sugary junk saturday evening. Barely touching sugar and **** like this, but being 100% sober I mean its ok once pr week for a while...

Sunday 02/02
10k steps hike before beakfats
Now going for Frontsquats Wendler 5-3-1

5x62kg
3x70kg
AMRAP 80kg (4 reps is a 1RM PR of 90kg) - Last sesh I think we did 79x3 so this should be doable....

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*Started reading Atomic Habits. Eager to play poker again after almost 3 months break. Will continiue study pads on pads mtt course before starting playing, then will probably grind MTTs on saturday and sundays as this does not interfere with my work schedule.

*Made a budget with total debts/income/expenses and by September 2025 im officially debt-free
*December 2026 I can buy my own apartment/house

Challenge: Go from spending 2k usd a month on food, nicotine etc to 700 usd pr month. Idiotic to use this much on food when I can save money for future self.

Basically lifting weights 4-5 times pr week, this is a habit and not a big challenge to maintain. Will have to focus a bit more on cardio (running) in the future, waiting for paycheck to buy new shoes and maybe a watch to monitor progress etc.

32 days sober today and sleep is good!!

Saturday 08.02.2025

Sleep 00-10 (10h) but woke up 2-3 times by people partying, but all in all thats a good night sleep..

Breakfast was norwegian smoked salmon, 110g on "rye bread shortbread" some healthy low kcal high fibre thing. Almost mixed in some cherry tomatos + paprica from yesterdays dinner.

11:00 Classic Yoga session for 75 minutes, without any coffee or tea. I usually always start my day with coffee. But it was good and the session put me in a naturally relaxed and energetic state by the end of the session.

After this I went for a quiet walk in the city/neighborhood, bought a black coffee and 'healthy' bread from local bakery. And also bought some SNUS, aka nicotoine, which is a habit I have not been able to kick! I buy the strongest one from a local 'smartshop' here in Norway, so at least I save money on buying this item and not from regular stores. 1 bog is around 8 usd and I can have this for 24hours... In the past I would use maybe 1.5x box pr 24h..

Anyway lets do a recap since our last post. I will just write this and then put it into chat gpt and request for the post to be edited so it will be better suitable as a forum post.. 😀

Sunday 02/02 Frontsquat session
Warmup
5x62kg
3x70kg
4x79kg
+ Assistance work.

Monday 03/02 Restday and only 6k steps ish

Tuesday 04/02 Deadlift session
Warmup
5x100kg
3x115kg
3x128kg
+ Assistance work

Wednesday 05/02

We went to a bhirtday party without alcohol, but we had chocolate cake, 2 pieces after a nice fish meal. Fresh Norwegian cod with potatos, bacon, vegetables etc, so had a very good chest session before this!

Barbell bench
Warmup
60x10
70x8
Dropset 75x4 70x3 60x5

Then dumbell bench to failure with multiple weights, best set was 36kgs aka 72 in total for 4-5 reps.

Then inclined bench dumbells and some triceps pulldowns...

Will have to implement some flies into my routine for sure.

6th of February
Cardio in Nature

7th of February
Miltiary Press session - One my weaknesses, mainly because of bad shoulder in the past.

Warmup
32x5
36x5
38x5

Then assistance work supersetting arnold press with lateral raises and biceps curl etc.

8th of february - The classic yoga session as mentioned before, and then had a good crab meal just now, will go for a hike with my headset on soon, and plan for the evening is to sell items via our national "craigslist" site.

* 37 days sober so roughly 10% of goal is completed (2025 Sober) 😀

I think my new plan of just playing saturdays and sundays will be great, and I just keep my daily job and try to evolve my game and maybe I get lucky and bink something, but I will not be in need of binking anything as im playing with good BRM and its more like a hobby. Still taking a break from poker and not sure when I will play next time.

dont think anyone read all this, but I decieded to just skip the chat GPT and post this.