Sorry I was away for the weekend.
Don’t be afraid to take a day off when you need it.
What did you do in the Thursday workout that hurt your knees? Getting sore muscles after a workout is fine, if a specific exercise is causing knee pain, drop the exercise. There are too many options out there to continue doing something that is harming your body.
2% of daily recommended, whatever that is, is negligible
Week 8: day1
Sprints: 5x50m
Pistols: 4x3/side-45lbs
1arm Push-ups: 1x(5/side-3/side), 1x(5/side-3/side with 5low rows/side-45lbs between “sets”)
, push-ups felt pretty good, had some fun with it, got a nice pump@vision1 what do you think?
Also, the quantities of mustard I would use if given the liberty are FAR more than 2% 
Here’s what I find most important: what do you yourself think?
^^ What he said.
You should find your workouts “fun”, at least fun enough to stick with them.
If you’re not progressing with pistols, you can consider switching exercises for 4 weeks and then coming back. Perform them off a box so your trail leg can hang down, perform rear foot elevated split squats, reverse lunges … plenty of other options that are easy to load.
You may also just need to put more muscle on your frame. 4x3 pistols with an additional 50% bodyweight is no joke. Gaining weight should allow for more improvements.
I did a 4 week “block” with the 25 and incorporated various tempos, pauses etc. the problem is that I wasn’t tracking progression so idk if there was progressive overload- after this week, I will be more dilligent in this regard
I’m just very disappointed that I could easily do 4x3/side a month ago or so and was even doing sets of 4, the regression sucks
I’ve been alternating the pistol workouts with random stuff. I think I’ll use rfess with the 45 and stick with that. The biggest pain in the butt with those is holding onto the kB in front of me for high reps, my upper back gets tired
Working on that
Two things:
@anna_5588, you need to be honest with yourself. You have zero interest in putting on muscle. All you care about is being lean.
Once you admit that to yourself, your training will take off.
No. I got lax with tracking progression and likely did a lot less volume even though I felt like I was working hard.
I would not say zero interest, but this is definitely something I need to think hard about. The lack of anything resembling a proper setup makes it very easy to make excuses. Also, I already eat more than a lot of women my size (and bigger) eat, so it’s hard to accept that I need more when I already feel like I’m defying physics or something
It’s worth noting that there aren’t many women your size, and certainly not many who could hit your alleged lifting goals.
That is because you are not being honest with yourself, as I wrote.
I mean it looks like you did a session this morning and yesterday (or maybe yesterday and Saturday) without resting.
I took yesterday off, but Saturday might have messed things up even though I didn’t feel sore or anything
Also, I’ve noticed that I’m having a harder time recovering from workouts from when I started quarintine even though I’m doing less and eating more
These confusions would only be warranted in a trainee that’s operating from a point of normalcy. I wouldn’t be surprised if you regressed by eating more and moving less as your body leaves survival mode and isn’t fueling your workouts with a life-and-death response. It’d set you up for progress further down the road so it’s not something that should be fretted.
How do you know what someone else eats without diligently watching them 24/7?
Even if you hypothetically lived in a collective of powerlifting women all your size it wouldn’t matter what they eat, or what they have on the bar. It might serve as an idea, and a frame of reference, but ultimately what’ll matter is your body — not theirs!
All that matters is relative force vectors applied to your current position with regards to anything, be it training, recovery, diet, hell even school. You can’t train where you want to be, you have to train where you are. And if you mean to progress in any dimension, the only thing that matters is that it’s something of a challenge relative to where you are!
If someone came onto these boards saying they wanted to pound for pound match @T3hPwnisher s deadlift, it’d be really bad and inapplicable advice to tell them to load up the bar with the same weight he lifts and go lift it unless they’re already able to do that.
Do any of them even approach half your daily activity level? 
You’re obviously bright, Anna. I wonder, if someone came to YOU and said “I can’t gain weight, I think I eat a lot but I do ridiculously high volume workouts and walk in excess of 30 THOUSAND steps per day”, would you even take them seriously?
Again, all of this is just smoke and mirrors until we address the need for therapy. The damaged mindset is the only reason you could possibly operate like you do without alarm bells ringing.
This is actually quite an interesting question since apparently the body adapts quickly to low intensity activity
I was thinking more about some of the fitness ppl who workout quite a bit more than me (double days, hiit/cf…) and have more muscle and weight more but eat the same, or only slightly more. I guess they’ve adapted too???
That’s what I’m confused though- my volume is very low now and I’ve basically cut out conditioning
Have you heard of performance enhancing drugs? Or even better, eating adequately and exercising in moderation? They don’t do 2/days and walk 30k steps. They do 2/days, nap, and maybe take test/tren/clen. While also eating adequately. And not being underweight.