You taking any steps toward that?
If not, while you have some downtime, I would consider reading David Goggins “Can’t Hurt Me” and Jon Andersen’s Deep Water book. Both are great reads on the topic.
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Not program hopping?
I did, and it was honestly depressing- reminded me how much I suck
I’ll look into this
You took away a completely different message than the author intended.
I don’t think I am equipped to assist here.
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Yeah. I probably would have gotten more out of the book without the story of him loosing 100lbs, becoming a seal and running hundreds of miles
I have tried implementing the “never skip reps” principle, but it’s a work in progress ( at least I’m doing some core work 
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the “celebrating achievement with more work” advice was real gold
Grit by Angela Duckworth changed my life
For me, these books all have the same conclusion- there’s always more to be done… so do it. Each one just provides strategies to overcome mental and physical barriers. It’s sometimes painful to read them because they point out weaknesses, but that’s the point
Sorry for the rant
Trying to join in the conversation to frame your take-away from the books currently being discussed,
I’ve read Deep Water. I haven’t read “Can’t Hurt Me” or “Grit”. I am, however, familiar with the concept of grit. I don’t have any additional works to suggest here, but even if I did I would be apprehensive to mention them without highlighting this:
I’m afraid that you, @anna_5588, are stuck in your current mindset. As a consequence, any words that you couldn’t retrofit and repurpose to further justify your behaviour would be ignored.
In your own words, your takeaway is
but truly there’s more to grit than that and the concept can most assuredly be applied to any habit that a person struggles with. Even if that habit is rest.
Because, if grit was as one-dimensional as
reads and exhibiting grit was a quality that results in success then reality would confirm that by having the strongest deadlifters in the world be the people that deadlift all day. And the fittest people would be filling their time with fun cardio, and never resting except maybe to sleep. But, when I observe reality that is not what I see. When I see clips from the Crossfit Games, between the games I see athletes sitting down conserving themselves for later.
Rest and recovery are paramount tools for super-compensation. This is true in intellectual pursuits and physical pursuits. The human body and mind absolutely needs rest and you seem to want to grant yourself none. And, when someone points this out to you, you usually counter-argument.
The counter-argument that comes to mind is usually “I could have been studying linear algebra, but I watched Youtube instead”. Reading between the lines, that counter-argument is meant to take away from the original claim that you aren’t lazy because you give an example of you being lazy (I disagree that this is laziness FWIW).
And I, the outsider, imagine it’s just a fortunate thing that your basic needs for downtime gets to overtake how you want to pilot yourself because otherwise you’d crash and burn pretty quickly.
I imagine if you instead gave yourself time to relax routinely, then you wouldn’t have to be riddled with guilt and feel shame as you would no longer accidentally end up on YouTube when you want to do something else because you’d actually have energy to do the things you want to pilot yourself to do. And long-term, not subjecting yourself to this skewed guilt-ridden negative thinking would do your mental health a great good.
I really hope you get help, soon. I’d hate for you to walk and trodd through what so many others have done before you as they’ve suffered greatly for it. You can still be amazing without trying to force yourself to be amazing every second of every day. I’m arguing it’s a pre-requisite to allow yourself to not push so hard so that you can have a vast amalgamation of having accomplished good things when you are 75 rather than burning out before you are 25.
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This is true. But to be used in a healthy productive way it needs to be combined with self worth and respect for one’s own time and effort.
I used to tell my wife that she was ruining tomorrow by trying to squeeze too much out of today. Usually at about the 16 hr. mark of her day when she was still at the office, head spinning with exhaustion and panic, with a pile of reports that “still needed done!”.
Now if she really valued her own time and effort, she would have been home many hours before, resting and replenishing, maybe sharpening up on a useful concept and getting physically and psychologically prepared to bang out a solid, hard, high performance day.
It’s a tough life lesson to learn. Some people get it early on through various means, some people have to learn it a couple of times the hard way. Others just never get it.
So, it’s true. There is always more to be done. But you also have to know when to say when, and why to say when.
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Still learning🤚🏻
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Me too. 
No harm in that, as long as we’re learning.
Sometimes less is more.
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Week 10: day1
Press: 1x16/side, 2x(12/side+10lever push-ups/side+26 plank hip drop, alternating), 1x(11/side+12lever push-ups/side+26plank hip drop, alternating), 1x(5/side+13 levee push-ups/side+26 plank hip drop, alternating), 25lb kB
3x(8rows/side-45lbs+9curls-25lbs+10kb halos-25lbs)
For time: 6x(150ft kB carry-45lb, alternate side each round+10burpees)-7:55
- felt really strong, definitely pushed on the press, was supposed to be 4x12, but on the third set, I literally could only get the kB 1in up on the 6th rep left side (right could have done more), rows and halos really worked upper back- heavier than expected, took things easier on the conditioning. I want to be able to press the 45 for at least a triple by the time I return
On the nutrition side, I did an audit and realized I was consuming 4-5x the rda for sodium on a regular basis, so I’ll have to cut back quite a bit (Kidney issues). My mom has also gotten into me about my water consumption (floating around 3.5l). Since I’ll be eating less salt, would cutting water back be an issue? @Voxel @SkyzykS
Just going to wheel out a Dan John quote here because it’s been a few days since the last one:
More is not better. Better is better, more is just more.
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I have no idea. Discuss it with a doctor if you are legitimately concerned. Personally, I’d just wait and see if I start having to run to the bathroom more often. Pee is supposed to be without color or slightly colored and if it is and urination frequency isn’t excessive then hydration is fine or so I’ve been lead to believe.
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I only have a cursory understanding of the relationship between the two, but I would recommend that you only change one variable (sodium) at a time, at a controlled rate. The water will help to reduce the amount that you are holding, so water should stay about the same. Don’t cut water.
Consider this a stern appeal given out of care: Please, be very careful and follow your doctors recommendations. Electrolyte and hydration ballance is extremely important and absolutely will kill you if it gets messed up.
Between meds and drastic dietary adjustment, I felt like a dropped lasagna for about 6 months last year. You absolutely can go too far in the right direction. Then your heart stops and you lay there and die, which is an extraordinarily bad feeling.
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I might be wrong though so don’t consider that to be good advice.
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Well, my mom is making me
literally no recommendations
I’m just going to stick to the RDA of 2000mg, so I think I’ll be fine. Ppl complain that sugar is in everything 
If the doctor has no recommendations, why is your mum making you cut back?
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I don’t understand that. Could you elaborate?
I know that there is a lot here that isn’t being discussed, but that is unusual to say the least.
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She thinks I’m drinking too much water and harming my kidneys, I urinate quite frequently, so she might have a point.
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You and her should both consult with your nephrologist.
I did this with my wife so that she could hear directly from my cardiologist his recommendations for exercise and that lifting wouldn’t blow up my stents, and very recently due to viral pneumonia.
It helped her to relax, be more knowledgeable and feel like a useful part of the process instead of a vestigial member of circumstance which were beyond her control. Made a huge difference. Now she’s more of an ally and assistant in my efforts than a skeptic.
I just had to let her in to be part of it.
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I, too, have had the pleasure of dealing with parental disapproval of my involvement in strength training. Still do with most of my family - they think I’m destroying my body and that it’s vanity driving my pursuit. The more you involve them and show them things, while backing up your points with info from experts, the more likely it will be that you’ll get them to understand what you’re doing. I’m lucky that my family isn’t strict, but I would imagine what I’ve talked about is even more important when working with a strict family.
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