She’s amazing- we just don’t see eye to eye when it comes to exercise
That’s understandable.
What does she disagree with you on, specifically?
Lifting heavy stuff intensely
Why?
She thinks it’s damaging to my health and doesn’t believe in any of the research, she understands that I’m an adult now so turns a blind eye for the most part
Is it possible that she’s right?
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Well regardless of what she thinks, I’m going to workout, form what I understand, heavy lifting is the “least damaging “ whether in terms of bone health, injury risk or otherwise
My 2c is that she’s a concerned mother trying to look after her daughters health. I would imagine that if you could demonstrate a history of smart choices on the health front, she’d be far more trusting about the lifting.
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Least damaging when compared to what? There’s a lot more to health than the few things you listed. I’m just playing devil’s advocate.
I don’t know your health history, nor am I a doctor. I know you had some hormone related health concerns, which were linked to low bodyfat levels. I’m guessing that issue hasn’t cleared up yet. If that’s your mom’s main concern, making fixing that a priority will probably give you more leeway with the heavy lifting.
If her concern is your kidney … Heavy lifting & having more muscle on your body can both lead to higher levels of creatinine but I highly doubt it’s enough to overburden your kidney.
I think most everyone who regularly posts on your thread here will agree that your current approach to fitness is, at the very least, not optimal to your health and can be damaging in the long run.
I remember you mentioning a lot time ago that your hormones are out of whack. Are they back to normal?
Not yet
Weekly checkin
Pic:
Weight: 93.8
- at this point, I’m pretty sure it’s real weight gain and not some water voodoo. Still looking soft and even my arm definition is gone
@Voxel this is really a mindfuck. I wouldn’t feel so bad if I were getting stronger under the bar, but since all I have are my light kbs, I’m getting weaker AND softer. Progressing my current workouts knowing that they’re for maintenance at best is really mentally hard
I think you look better now than in any previous check-in.
At any rate… Hard to do much about the performance goals in the absence of a bar. So, let’s talk about another thing that matters to you. How you look.
Are you happy with how you look? Or, is your end physique goal something that has 10 pounds more muscle? 25 pounds? If yes, you’ll add some fat on your way there.
You could absolutely add muscle mass to your frame even without a barbell. It presumes that you,
- Feed yourself adequately
- Give your muscles cause to grow (triggering hypertrophy)
- Not undo your work with item 2. by breaking down your muscles further with excess conditioning.
Or, 1&3=Nutrition & recovery. 2=Training.
If your honest with yourself, do you have anything other than possibly item 2 figured?
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Thanks, you always make me feel better
I think I have nutrition figured out too. I’ve put on around a kilo (two since I started) and I’m pretty sure not all of it is fat
Just wondering, what do you mean?
Isn’t really a hypertrophy workout. More metcon.
And, if you focused on hypertrophy you’d had more “potential” when you are back under a barbell to translate that into strength.
I mean, I get the mindfuck but, if you work harder at aligning 1,2,3 towards your future goals moreso than simply work hard at working hard maybe when you feel mindfucked you can calm yourself with “I’m doing everything I can to move in the right direction and whatever I weigh, however I look, is merely an instant in time that’s transient on my path towards I’m building toward”
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I don’t know, you just continue looking better physique-wise. 
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I’m following a Brian alshrue style programming- 90sec rests btw giant sets
I mean, it seems like a workout that’ll affect numerous qualities but if you imagine a pie-chart a hefty chunk of change there is towards conditioning. That’s a percentage that won’t go toward hypertrophy. At least as far as my mental model of training goes that’s the “truth”.
I might train like that if I was trying to lean out or develop my conditioning. Why while leaning out? Performance is going to suffer anyway and by doing that I wouldn’t be mindfucked by undoing progress on big lifts. I’d effectively be hiding the regress from myself.
This is not a criticism of Brian in any way, he knows his stuff. He’s bigger, stronger and more conditioned than I am but I’m willing to bet if you asked him to program something that was geared towards packing on mass while putting conditioning on the back burner or even allowing a regress in conditioning it might look differently.
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Yeah, so I’m not giant setting the 1 arm push-ups and heavy pistols
I’m also making pretty good progress and don’t really get a conditioning effect from the set