Sort of. I’m improving, but the pace isn’t anything to call home about
Ok. Like I said, just keeping it brief. 
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Maybe lean and strong can be a Z goal but your A, B, and C goals should be more about this
What’s awesome is that strength will follow weight gain.
Reading these discussions makes me very sad almost to the point where I fear that there will no longer be any updates posted, and not because Anna simply chose to leave the website.
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Yeah.
All in due time, right?
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Hopefully. I’m able to linearly gain now that I committed. Anna’s far stronger relatively than I am though so I don’t know if I can use it as a sales pitch.
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I have a long way to go regarding strength. Also, you’re probably a lot stronger than me at this point since I haven’t properly trained for a couple of months 
Week 10: day6 (yesterday)
Press: 5x12/ side-25lbs
Seated press: 5x8/side-25lbs
Rows: 10/side-1/side
- Took it easy, presses and rows Killed shoulders and upper back but a lot lighter than expected, really love the 10sets of press on Saturdays
Until you figure out the why you will be stuck in the same cycle. As others have alluded to, this is where the therapist can help a lot.
I may be overstepping my bounds here, but from some of your posts it seems your parents (who I believe you said are doctors and should know better) are not helping the situation. A while ago you mentioned your mom said your arms might be getting to big. How she can make that conclusion is beyond me.
I agree with the above post that an online support community would be helpful. I use one for dealing with depression (due to my job, if I see a therapist I have to report it) and it helps a lot to have a group of folks dealing with the same issues.
You have a mind capable of making great strides in your chosen field, but that will never happen if you beat your body into oblivion by the age of 30.
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Thank you!
This is a good suggestion. I’d be much more comfortable on an anonymous forum. you guys on Tnation have sort of been that for me.
I was honestly more disappointed that she didn’t say by legs were getting “too big”. “Arm too big” means that my legs have failed to make progress or that my legs have shrunk in proportion to my upper body
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This is the wrong conclusion to draw.
Also given pictures you have posted, no appreciable gains or losses have occurred over at least the last 6 months.
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Week 11: Day 1- off plan…
Sprints: 3x50m, 2x30m
Pistols: 2x3/side
Fuck it off plan experiment: 4x(10sec “car deadlift” isometric+5 squat jumps-25lbs)
- we have a sedan that isn’t very high off the ground so I basically got into a sumo stance (I pull sumo) and basically tried as hard as possible to lift the car, sort of like a double underhand deadlift
Split squats: 2x9/side- 25lbs w/ 3030 tempo
Tabata: burpees
- felt quite good going in and flew on the sprints, but pistols weren’t happening- Really disappointed, felt heavy and form was deviating seriously.
- the experiment was really cool- a LOT harder than expected. legs felt like jelly, as if I actually did a heavy deadlift. This was cool but I’m skeptical of implementing this regularly since I might develop bad habits that I’ll have to undo when I go back to properly deadlifting. @vision1 thoughts?
- split squats just sucked… legs just dead
Note: I’ll make up the split squats on wednesday
@cyclonengineer Laplace has begun…
Forever worrying about the future
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So I can use this technique?
Also, barbell update: not going to happen for now
I don’t see why not other than feeing judged by your neighbours.
Maybe someday you’ll actually lift it
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Make it through this and Fourier Transforms and you should be confident to tackle any math class. It doesn’t really get harder than that, just different.
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Midterm grades are out. 62.5/100 uncurved… pretty much exactly what I expected
note: ppl were scoring in the 80s
That’s probably about average - nothing to worry about. Math is a subject I find is much better taught in person than online (I have done both).
Partial Diff Eqs get a little tricky because the solutions are often a set of solutions based on series, but the techniques are similar to ODEs.
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Where the fuck did this become a thing? All the calc and diff eq classes I took were raw grades…
Hmmm, maybe university and class average dependent.
My undergrad classes were curved less than my graduate classes.
Could be. Luckily I think I got an outright A in all but Calc 1, so it didn’t affect me, but the math classes were the reason for at least 90% of the dropouts we had. Luckily for me math came really easy. Too bad heat transfer didn’t…
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