Totally. One can want comfort food even during an average week.
Thank you back.
Mental health is impossible to quantify. There is an app called Daylio, where every day you get to input your mood. I tend to use it during bad times, although I’m not entirely sure why. My point though is that, if I were to use it’s highest mood rating “rad” during those days I’m not even sure that qualifies as a “good” day today.
I think that’s why, when a clinically depressed person says they’re “okay” is because we use these words relatively to our norm. They might be doing “okay” in relation to the last two weeks, but in an absolute sense not so much. It’s not too unlike how absolute weight on the bar and relative to BW can tell different stories depending on some small parameter changes.
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Anyway, @anna_5588, I hope that helps you frame your current state of mind and if not I’m sorry.
Thank you so much, you’re thoughts were very helpful ( same for @dagill2 @Koestrizer)
I think it’s probably covid subconsciously messing with my mental state plus my parents fighting. It really means a lot to have people like you guys for support
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A lot of times, I feel like I could be doing a lot more, but just don’t feel like I have the mental energy to do so , which is very frustrating
All this free time is the perfect opportunity to read more on investing or write, but instead I waste it on Netflix
A useful mindset change for me has been to realise that looking after my mental state is more productive than almost anything else I can do. Because I’ve seen what happens if I don’t. As always, your mileage may vary.
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I think this is a very feeling common, and I myself have certainly fallen into the trap.
I wonder if it’s more pronounced now than earlier in history. The internet makes it so easy for us to play the comparison game. We are exposed to a lot of people doing things at the peak of their ability,
- Fit,
- Successful,
- Productive,
- Hustling,
- Travelling,
- …
and it’s very easy to lose sight of that for most of them they get to do that one thing really well, and probably have their life set up to enable them to do so. Our mind isn’t really equipped for this, and compares ourselves against the collective whole and we feel as if we are missing the mark.
I’m paraphrasing one of my favourite “quotes” here,
Every person is, on average, average.
Learning to stay in and watch Netflix instead is a really important skill for longevity and sanity. It’s not time wasted. You probably need as much down-time as time you spend being “on” if not more.
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Perfectly described, I agree 100%
Can I add my little reminder to myself: the goal is to be happy.
Personally, I’ve found that a recipe for unhappiness is having a non-tangible goal. If you can put into words what it means to be happy, then power to you, but I could probably not attain and sustain it as it is too fickle as a concept (for me). I appreciate, or hope, that this isn’t the case for everyone.
From a book in my bookshelf,
What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it?
I should read that at some point.
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Week 3: day1
Time: 36:55. Strength: kB press
- mentally hard, almost quit halfway through but came back to complete it l, humidity seriously messed with grip
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If I may offer something to think about, I have some thoughts on this.
How is KB swing challenge going on? I read some comments that you are mixing it with other stuff, which I d reccommend not to.
See 2-3 years ago I was lifting 5 times per week, playing soccer 3 times per week and wanted to take a boxing fight, thus going to practice at least 2 times per week. All was fine until at one soccer practice my CNS just quit. My whole body was in pain for at least 2 weeks. Every bone, every joint. I was so much in pain that I was scared the ball will hit me…took me a month mentally to get back to normal.
My unsolicited 2c (lol)
I’ll second that it’s
I’m fairly adept to blocking shite out (from practice) but it still occasionally gets to me. Helps to have a couple of outs
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I’d love to hear what you have to say
Thanks for asking
Challenge is going well, it’s still frustrating that I can’t push conditioning as hard as intended because of grip/wrist stuff
I believe Dan John was talking about different rep schemes, so why dont you try smth else? 4x25 with smaller rest periods and a bigger rest period between clusters?
Apparently the rep structure is important to the challenge
I don’t really understand why
@kdjohn any ideas?
45min easy run
- swings were NOT happening today, run felt good and quick
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It’s important to the challenge if you want to say you’ve done the challenge. If you just want the conditioning aspect, Dan John has talked about the different rep schemes he would recommend for most people here:
There’s obviously a whole podcast full of other stuff there as well, but the 10k swings challenge segment is right at the start
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@dagill2 basically summed it up. And Dan The Man himself states it in the video: at the time of creating the challenge, it was simply the most efficient structure they could come up with.
In my experience, I found the progressive build up acted as a primer for the 50 rep sets. I practiced good clean reps, so that I had it ingrained in me when I hit those long sets.
On another note, if you’re not enjoying the challenge (and I may get crucified for this), there’s nothing wrong with just stopping. I got to the start of the third week and realized I hated it and it wasn’t supporting my goals at all, so I stopped.
If you have other things you care about more, then practice those.
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