That was me
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This I knew. Just wondered if I went haywire and posted it everywhere
@cyclonengineer
Diff eq is getting really serious now. We start heavyside functions tomorrow…
Those suck. Haven’t actually used them since college, but it’s tricky.
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Week 12: day6 (yesterday)
38min weighted walk -45lbs in pack
- feeling okay physically but mentally just didn’t want to move, body more or less on strike
- walk wasn’t too bad on cardio but harder than expected, wanted to quit around 20min even though it really didn’t feel too hard, got a bit sleepy towards the end
Week 13: day1- off week
Press: 3x(10military press +6regular press)/side,1x10/side
Rows: 3x(5-45lbs+10-25lbs)/side
Curls: 1x30,1x20,1x10- all w/25lbs
- took it easy today, glutes and quads pissed so sprinting and pistols weren’t going to happen but really felt like pressing- will do something fun for the lower body tomorrow
- press felt really good- first time doing 3x16/side, and including a harder variation too
- Rows really worked upper back
- three in curls b/c had extra time but didn’t have the energy to do anything else substantial. Normally would have done some conditioning
Note: Something seems to be quite since last week. I’ve been feeling unusually cold; appetite is very low; unusually bad bloating and looking puffy
I’m going to assume you are not an electric engineer then?
I took a look at some of the problems and all involve some sort of current circuit thing
I am an aerospace engineer. They are used heavily in electrical engineering and a little bit in aerospace for controls development (moving flight surfaces and such). Bit outside my area of expertise.
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I’d imagine they’d also be useful for doing stuff with weird consumer behaviour in Econ
I can see where it would be helpful. It’s a step function so it can be used to represent the acceptance/rejection of binary decisions or in some true/false scenarios; i.e. after a certain time x or after a number of other factors a decision is forced to be made.
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Diff Eq is really cool and econ focus means I won’t have to deal with trig in the future!
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I agree. Aerospace engineering is dominated by Diff Eq (especially partial ones) which is what makes it so interesting to me. If you want to see absolute equation perfection check out the Navier-Stokes equations which can be used to represent all flows but can only be fully solved in a number of conditions.
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Huh?
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“On strike” means I don’t feel like doing anything but nothing is sore or hurting- ie shoulders not sore but when I start to press, the weight feels really heavy and I can barely get 1/2 my normal reps in
“revolt” or “pissed” means stuff hurts
Week 13: day2 (yesterday)- off plan
(2 alternating 1-arm swing- 25lbs+ 2 alt lunges
+…+20 1 arm swings+20lunges)
(50 alt pistols+50pushups+40alt pistols+40pushups… + 10 pistols+10 push-ups)
Shrimp squats: 3x7/side
- felt okay going in - legs still not 100%, wanted to push it but mentally just not there, got hr up pretty nicely, not as bad on legs as expected, felt good
- I find it really sad that my “workouts” to less than other ppl’s “daily work”
Week 13: day3- off plan
Swings: 12x20-45lbs, 2x40-25lbs
5x50 air squats w/30sec rests
- glutes and hamstrings finally back to work, so I decided to try a bucket list workout- 500 reps w/the 45, harder than expected on cardio, swings not too bad but mentally draining- the k-tape was also getting uneven so my hands were tearing, used that as an excuse to quit, took LONG rests
- air squats a lot easier than expected, should have done more.
The moment things are back up to snuff isn’t when you are supposed to obliterate them. That’s when you are supposed to maintain speed. If things feel good, that’s good. Then that means there’s balance between training stimulus and recovery. You should aim for having things on strike, revolt, pissed, rarely.
This might not be the best time to post this but I had the book out earlier today so here goes, because you have in the past shared observations were you wanted nothing more than to stay in bed and do nothing. Just because this isn’t the best time doesn’t mean it’s a bad time.
You’re full.
When you reach those phases where you are no longer “hungry”, then you should take a
break from training. Losing your hunger means losing your zest and enthusiasm for being in the gym and giving real effort. Some will tell you to push through this, and that you need to “quit being a little bitch”. I cannot tell you how many advanced guys I know that have fallen prey to this advice when they were younger and regretted it later. There will always be times over your training life that you need to give the body some room to grow. This cannot happen without rest.To add a caveat to that however, you need to put things into perspective. If sleep is good,
and eating is on point, you’re not missing lifts, and you haven’t been training very long since
a previous layoff, then yeah you may just need to cowboy up or chalk it up to a bad day at
the weight pit. However if you have not felt hungry for weeks on end, then it is a good time to
take that nap, and let hunger eventually restore itself. When you reach the point where you’d rather be at home grinding your ass groove into the couch than loading the bar, and this feeling lasts for a week or two, you have two [sic] options. You can de-load, taper, or wave.
Training isn’t beating yourself into a pulp whenever you are able.
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@SkyzykS
We’re learning how to hit things with hammers in Differential Equations on Friday
tippity tap tap…
Oh, that should be interesting. What is the subject of analysis?
For some things like concrete I like a 10-12 lb. sledge, but for bending and fitting steel I prefer either a 2 lb. engineers hammer or and 8 lb. sledge.
To bend/break some materials like steel a very fast swing from a lighter hammer seems to work better that say a 16 pounder, but with concrete even using a slower swing/heavier hammer works better.
But for wear and tear/fatigue nothing beats someone else doing it! 
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Presumably the motion of the object being hit or the force transfer
Not as interesting 
The same logic applies to math problems 
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Mmm…fracture mechanics.
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Remember, harder, stronger, more brittle, less tough, less ductile.
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