I have two theories that would explain this. And I think it’s a combination of the two that explains this.
Theory 1: You are in debt. As in, if you were to train today, and take a genuine off day tomorrow and have a “low” day you’d still be hungry and your mind would try to justify additional food intake because it desperately wants to recover.
Theory 2: when you take a low day in calories, you do not ensure that you are actually also cutting down your activity as much as you’d need to for that level of calories to be enough.
My suggestion. Don’t do low-days for now. Eat 1800-2000 calories on all of your days, rest days included. Or at least 1600 calories, if you cannot allow your self to eat 1800-2000 on an off-day. After a while you’ll pay back your debt and being able to alternate your caloric intake in this manner would become something you could do without your body fighting you.
I do not follow this line of reasoning in the slightest. While I’ve heard anecscience that if you start training for a marathon in your 18s and reach that capability, and maintain it up til you are 30 years old and then seize endurance training you’ll be as capable in your 80s as you were when you are 18 but I’ve never heard any sentiment along those lines expressed with regards to strength. What is your meaning with this statement?
I’ve heard of people working hard to gain muscle and be lean at weight X so that when they age, they can walk around lean and muscular at weight <X (slightly below, how much depends on how big they made themselves from the get-go).
While I do believe that the body has some notion of homeostasis over long periods of time (i.e., body fat-setpoint/weight-setpoint) I think there is a limit as to how low that setpoint can be and if you try to exist below that you incur a health cost.
This is unequivocally your body telling you to fuck off and let it rest. I.e.,
If I went in to the weightroom tomorrow and feel that loading the bar is about to make me pass out, I go home. That session wouldn’t be productive as I’ve just been duly informed that I haven’t compensated for my previous training so I cannot build anything new - I can just destroy further.
What I mean is, I rather do hard stuff now because I’m afraid set a precedent for bad habits later that I know will be twice as painful to correct. I want to avoid the pain.
For example in school, I try to get work assignment done as soon as possible to avoid the painful stress I know procrastination will cause
For some people, learning to relax is hard. These are individuals that sometimes burn-out. Burning out is painful. Try to learn and relax now (do the hard stuff). Burning out will be orders of magnitude more painful.
Source: experience.
In summary, try and find a way to be both this person
and this person
and alternate between the two. Otherwise a part of you will die. Or maybe you will, how are your health markers nowadays?
Me, my heart almost gave out and I managed to convince everyone around me (doctors included) that it had nothing to do with my eating habits and activity levels.
You mean that you do not have anything else right now to keep you occupied? If so, then you do have something to do. The work you have to do is finding something to fill that void. Whether it’d be watching TV, reading books, playing games, sitting out in the sun or sewing masks for other people, it doesn’t matter. Try stuff out, and swap it out at your heart’s content. Listen to a podcast. Call someone you know and listen to them. Bake sourdough everything (not just bread). Volunteer. Draw. Paint. Pick up photography.
Here’s a shitty diagram I drew for you (mouse). Hopefully it conveys the right idea.
LOL not literally, just seemingly significantly less than my peers I still do schoolwork, work as an RA and intern at a startup (remotely of course), cook, write a bit, but somehow still have time to watch hours of youtube/netflix, workout and get to bed by 9:30…
a lot easier than expected and got ALL 50 rep sets unbroken! I highly doubt that the strength exercises took 6min so there’s definitely improvement @flappinit@dagill2 my hands have gotten better but my wrists are killing me…
Occasionally my wrists would ache and it seemed to help when I squeezed the bell tighter so my wrists weren’t swinging back and forth as much. Basically just try not to bend your wrists.
Sorry, I totally missed this. However, @caesium32 gave similar advice to what I would say; I found my fingers, wrists, and sometimes even my biceps would ache if I wasn’t gripping tight enough. The weight of the bell might seem light comparatively, but not when you’re trying to stop it from flying away from you literally hundreds of times.
Also to add to this @anna_5588, the weight stacked on your wrists from press ups could be contributing to the ache/pain? Probably a bit of a reach but every little helps.
