Why are pushups more important than rows to you?
Every two workouts you do 8 sets of pushups and only 2 sets of rows. That’s an imbalance.
Edit: or at least 8 sets of pressing if not all pushups
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I’m sure you are familiar with the topics I will again mention, but I feel compelled to rewrite. I think I’ll hold off on these longer ramblings in the future because it feels redundant now.
Again, clearly something is up if you don’t have symptom-free periods. Whether you lack one or experience painful ones, then this is a problem that needs to be addressed. Yes, the therapy idea regarding your relationship with exercise is a good one. I second the idea that right now is an excellent time to reach out as sessions are held via Zoom. This can be a great stepping-stone if your reluctance stems from fear.
But I feel you are neglecting a much bigger issue. As a woman your period is your number one warning sign. Like I and others have mentioned earlier, your body isn’t going to productively adapt to the physical strain you undergo through training. It doesn’t even feel “safe” survival-wise. Perpetuating this is doing your future self no favors. You seem like a very future-oriented person in that you’ve previously mentioned fear of “letting yourself go” if you, for example, adopt less restrictive eating habits. So why are you seemingly unbothered by this? You are seriously increasing your risk of fracture and osteoporosis. I know you mentioned earlier you’d rather speak with someone who “understands” training somehow, as it seems you mostly care about training and want to hear what you’re telling everyone here already. But it’s not until your body feels like it isn’t simply trying to survive that you’ll make meaningful progress. Training doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Maybe you make the case that even a symptom-free period is inconvenient. That’s fine; I don’t think people should necessarily “like” having one. But what’s going to be more inconvenient in the long run – having a period or eventually breaking your hip?
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Week 5: day 4
45min weighted vest walk- 25lbs
- felt good and quick, pack wasn’t tight enough so traps a bit pissed, but not too bad
I saw quite a few very interesting posts about rest times on Flap’s log and didn’t want to clog it up.
I’ve noticed that I gravitate towards very long rests (2.5+ min) and struggle with doing circuits with main movements. I’m always amazed at other posters like Jmaier or Kleinhound who seem to thrive off of short rests. Is this mental, or is there possibly something else ie neurotyping stuff.
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I MIGHT GET A BARBELL!!! I’ve talked my dad into it and he comes to the states in 1.5 weeks and he’s going to try to take another week to talk my mom into it. It takes about a month to arrive. I’ll have 185lbs total (barbell, 2sets of 2 5lb plates, 2sets of 2 10lb plates and a set of 45lb plates)
The garage won’t allow for deadlifting, but I found a good, cheap squat stand
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Compare what intensity you do your lifts to in relation to your rep max and what they do their work at.
I’ve held the belief that I need long rests. I’ve also had the belief that I don’t need more than short rests. But, in truth, it seems to be dictated mostly by what is done and at what intensity level that is at and is also a bit of an acquired “skill”.
The best example was doing the V-diet workouts where the percentage one operates at is fairly high and the rests are super short. Towards the end I wasn’t getting a lot of reps.
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You should be able to deadlift if you’re careful
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I workout early and the sound reverberates → will wake everyone up and piss off my mom (she judges the intensity of my workouts by the amount of noise I make)
Don’t drop it? Buy horse mats?
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I’m so stupid LOL 
Good upper back work too!
I don’t know if you’re familiar with t-shirt benching where you try and bench so that the bar just barely touches the your shirt meaning you have to slow it down just before the chest. Try and do that but with deadlifts. Really emphasise the “touch” in touch and go.
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There’s no reason why you can’t deadlift extremely quiet if absolutely necessary.
Here is a post that I think you’ll enjoy.
The hottest place I have ever trained was in the lower levels of a nuclear missile compartment on a nuclear submarine while deployed.
Certain scenarios would require the AC to be shut off, which somehow always seemed to be during my workouts. We were required to wear the uniform, which was basically coveralls, so I had to train in that. The temperature would reach about 120 degrees with no circulation at all. I would train in a spot where I had “just enough” room between the forward missile tubes, maybe with a 3 inch clearance on all sides, so technique had to be precise. I would easily drink 2 gallons of water during a one hour workout.
The warheads were actually in the top of the missile, which was two levels above where I was training. On my second submarine patrol I brought a bar and about 650lbs of Olympic weights and an old flat bench with no uprights. As I said, the area was very limited. I had to keep the weights in a metal, rubber lined can, much like a 55 gal trash can. Just getting the weights in and out was almost like a workout. Each plate went into the can and then was covered by a sheet of rubber-this was to prevent vibration into the super structure. The diameter of the plates was about half an inch smaller than the diameter of the stowage can, so getting them in and out was a challenge and a test of grip strength. It took longer to get the weights set up and then restored then the actual workout.
I was under strict order to never drop the weights or even set them down roughly, again for fear that the noise would go out into the ocean. I knew if this ever happened, that I would lose the weights. I used to train during the early morning hours, knowing that if I accidentally banged a weight, my buddies in the sonar room could “erase” the noise and I could get away with it. When I used to compete, judges were amazed and how slowly I would set the weights back down after a deadlift-some thought I was showing respect to the meet director in not wanting to damage the platform when in reality I was still scared of making a noise that would give away the position of our ship.
I used to buy 5 boxes of Hershey bars, with 36 to a box and would use them to bribe the other guys to spot me. To do heavy squats, I would dead lift the weight, then have 2 or more guys hold the ends of the bar and crawl underneath and get into the low squat position and then stand up with the weight. I would do my set and then we would have to reverse the process. I once did a full squat with 625lbs in this fashion. I used to claim this as the world submarine squat record. lol
The exercise selection was limited, lots of rows, squats, presses
(cleaning the weight was like playing the old board game, Operation as I had to clean the weight very slowly in order to avoid hitting the missile tubes or forward supply lockers) Towards the end of my workout, I would put most of the weights away and take a couple of plates and go up the ladder and walk to the torpedo room and would use the toropedo loading trays to do dips. We did not have dumbbells, so I used boxes of TDU ( Trash Disposal Unit) weights, which were added to trash cans that was ejected out of the bottom of a submarine in order to make it sink. The boxes weighed 70lbs and they became my dumbbells I used heavy duct tape (known as EB-GREEN) to make handles and straps, almost like a crude kettle bell.
It was very common during a workout to have the sub take an up or down angle. If I was in the middle of a set, I would just have to hold the weight in a static position until the bubble (ships angle) would be at zero. If the sub would go up to periscope depth, there was a constant rocking motion. Despite that, the workouts continued.
I often overhear people complain about their modern gym because it only has 3 different types of a tricep cable machine or the bearings on the rear pec dec isolator sticks, etc, etc, and I laugh and I think back to the days training hard and using whatever was available.
Keith Wassung
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I loved it knowing full well it was posted for someone else’s benefit
no excuses training AND nukes, you know me too well 
That is one insane story, serious commitment to training!
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This is a very important point. I rest 2.5-3 minutes for all my work sets. But thats because it’s heavy weight compound work. required rest depends on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.
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Or go one step further and do hovering deadlifts.
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No…just no…
Why not? Hard-work that makes you stronger and bigger shouldn’t readily be discarded!
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forgot to add the emoji
I’ve tried controlled touch and go as an accessory and even those made my upper back sore for days. I never dropped the bar from the top, but definitely haven’t paid much attention to the last 3-5 inches or so. IDK if I could handle too many sets of hovering. I think I’ll stick with the 4 set format and start with 2 hovering and 2 controlled touch and go
To help reduce noise on the touch and go, some foam pads or folded yoga mat type thing under each end would go a long way.
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