Check his log if you don’t believe me. I may be wrong, I tend to gloss over running in training logs.
You write very well
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Yeah: 2 running days a week. One for distance and one for pace.
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That’s what this log should be called
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I prefer punnyguy’s suggestion of “groundlog day”
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Your lifting sessions are a lot more “intense” though
I’m too lazy to do half the stuff you do
My lifting sessions are intense because I don’t squander a lot of my energy on unneeded conditioning work.
You aren’t lazy: you are exhausted.
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My point was that 2 cardio days a week is “enough” for a ~200lb cyborg to run a half marathon. I don’t know what your end goal for conditioning is, but I would imagine 2 days a week would be “enough” for you too.
My problem is that when I’m sore from hard lifting, I somehow can’t seem to muster the mental strength to go and lift again, but I can usually push through easy conditioning to do
Don’t do things because you can do them. Do things because they move you towards your goals.
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And also because submax work isn’t too enticing, no?
I don’t know about you, but I struggle to leave 1-2 good reps in the tank / work at a specific percentage or whatever. Even if that means I get more volume in, I just cannot stomach those training sessions for long. 2-3 weeks, tops. All of the training sessions that I have a memory of as being “good” are all the same.
Not sure what that means in relation to @dagill2 s remark on punch the clock workouts though. Then again, I don’t have much results to show for my efforts either but I think that stems more from underfeeding than poor training.
Perhaps the reason you can’t muster the mental strength is because you used up your reserves pushing through the easy conditioning?
Ounce of prevention pound of cure and all that.
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Nothing in lifting is enticing, haha. I do a fair amount of submax work; it is just part of super/giant sets.
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Maybe we’re just not synced on how we express ourselves, but I disagree. I can distinctly remember sessions of mine that I enjoyed/liked. Enticing might just be the wrong word to convey that idea.
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Thanks, I appreciate the compliment.
I am notorious for hating training. I am a total hedonist.
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In Swedish there’s a saying that’d apply well to you, because I’d argue you are known (on here) for many things. Translated as closely to verbatim as possible it’d be “A beloved child has many names” which seems to have been rendered as “We find many names for those we love” abroad. Both expressions lose out somewhat on the original meaning, but either way I meant to apply it respectfully and not as tongue in cheek as it might come across — and originally is intended.
If you hate training, your hedonism cannot at all be considered “total”. But maybe that’s the point you were making.
Sorry Anna, I fear I’m detracting from your log. Again.
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Punch the clock in this context doesn’t necessarily mean submaximal. It means doing enough work and no more, following the plan.
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1 mile “farmer’s walks”- 5kg buckets
10x 40m ish sprints
Single leg rdl- 3x12/leg-10kg (holding 2 buckets)
- knees quite pissed but felt pretty good otherwise, farmer’s walk got HR up a bit- felt really good, sprints not bad, still slow AF
, RDLs easier than expected but hard on hamstrings and balance
Some fun:
3x(1 mile run+100 walking lunges)
- felt AMAZING, a lot quicker than expected, pretty intense