Well, I cannot even attempt the lower body strength test, i have no access to anything like that. But since Wendler says a trap bar can be used, please take me at my word that I could do 2.5 trap DL dead cold, right now.
The press…I mean, did like 97% just a couple weeks ago. Close enough?
The cardio stuff I just refuse to do, at least for now. I don’t currently want to achieve those kinds of goals.
It is indeed the jumps that would be in doubt. I have always been good at broad jumps, so that seems possible. The box jump would make me very nervous, no idea if I could get there.
So for now, challenge not accepted. Will have to think about it.
@simo74 are you getting a little worried I might catch you soon?
@aldebaran I think Cyrrex has a point about lacking balance. I tend to find one or two things that are in my wheel house, push hard at them and let the rest take a back seat. Previously that was deadlifts or pull ups. It’s becoming higher rep squats. I push harder at the things i perceive myself to be better at. I’m “competing with my strengths” but forgetting to build my weaknesses.
@Cyrrex by those standards, I clearly suck. And the cardio and bodyweight goals are the ones I suck at most so work to do. But enough about me, let’s talk about you and your ability to back up your bullshit, as @mortdk says.
Shit, I feel like I talked myself into a corner. This is probably a good time to reveal that I am actually just a sophisticated forum bot, and you fools have been talking to an AI all this time.
@Cyrrex are you suggesting you’ve been giving yourself a good pounding all this time?
@simo74 Thanks man. Never thought I’d consider squats to be a strength, but it turns out if you push really hard on something for a while, you get better at it.
A giant set is like having a foursome with 4 different girls at the same time. I’m joking, they’re shit. I only do them because Pwn and Brian Alsruhe say they’ll make me stronger.
Beat me to it. My boss at one of my former jobs forbid that I ever write anything by hand again, that clients would get to see because it “looks like it was written by a child!”
I don’t know if him writing in my place was that much better though because he was dyslexic.
Work for today:
AM workout:
20 rounds:
Jump rope to failure
10 kb swings (24kg)
Just to clarify: “failure” means technical failure ie. I’m a spaz and hit myself with the rope. Usually about 50 reps but there were some more embarrassing failures in there.
Also did about 30m of broad jump burpees which sucked far more than expected, and hit my quads far more than expected. I’ll be trying them again to try and replicate it.
I used to get penmanship grades in elementary school. Unlike most girls, I always got very bad marks.
My mom couldn’t understand why I was doing so poorly in something “so simple” and always got mad.
I told my doctor and he told my mom I had bad handwriting bc of “poor fine motor skills”- she actually bought it
Handwriting is still atrocious
Penmanship used to be a thing in this country in the old old days. My grandad (90 this year) won awards for it, and handwriting was still picture perfect for years, even after the onset of Parkinson’s.
Did you go to elementary school in the US or in Asia? I guess I would be considered an illiterate in China because I definitely lack the artistic skill to paint those symbols, haha!
