Anna's Training Log Part 2 (Part 1)

Weekly checkin:
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Weight: couldn’t be bothered but somewhere in the high 96s given my other weigh ins this week

  • I’m getting noticeably softer and it’s not just my imagination because I can literally pinch more stuff.
    It’s really messing with my head :sob::sob:
  • also, nothing else is going great- digestion is off, I’ve been more tired than usual and feeling unusually cold. I thought at least I’d feel better getting fatter

Traditionally, one uses “high” and “low” to refer to a range in the 10s of pounds: not the 10ths of pounds.

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9 days ago you were at 95.2 pounds. 20 days ago 95.6. I think your reaction is entirely in your head. You can check my log for a recent post of what it looks like when one is too aggressive :slight_smile:

I have been feeling better, but I didn’t start out as lean as you either so I found that sweet spot earlier. You still have ways to go. And, don’t expect to feel great if you continue doing too much stuff and again pouncing on your body whenever it gives you any indication that it actually has recovered a bit. In theory, I imagine you could gain weight and still continue to feel as poorly as a consequence of this habit alone.

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It’s ok. If I squint real hard and flex just right and use my imagination I can see my serratuseses. And I’m a pudding sack.

When the muscle is developed it will stand out.

You’re very stressed, and just guessing, but maybe a little scared. I’ve known a few people who have been through that curriculum. It’s a real scorcher.

When finesse just isn’t gettin’ it…

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It can’t be stuck if it’s liquid :fire::fire::fire::fire:

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Hot-tack extraordinaire! :joy:

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@cyclonengineer Dirac delta functions today… went right over my head.

Kahn academy and wolfram are your friends:

Dirac delta is just representing an impulse (units in physics are typically Newton-seconds). Take some time you will be able to get it.

Edit: Very few people understand Diff Eq right away. It takes dedicated thought.

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The good news is that taking the laplace of them seems easy enough. From what I understand, you end up with a heaviside function when solving linear diff eqs with delta functions on the RHS

My biggest struggle with math is that I have a hard time understanding the expressions. I like things written out in verbal form so I get lost when all the explanations are strange symbols :joy:

Week 13: Day 4

1 mile run + 10x(5press/side-25lbs+ 20 alt pistols-11lbs)+1mile run

  • got HR up pretty good, didn’t push run too much, legs dead so pistols were slow AF

Week 13: day 5(yesterday)
30min weighted walk-25lbs
Military press: 5x11/side-25lbs

  • felt decent, not too hard, grill night on Saturday so digestion off, press heavier than expected

Week 14: day 1
Plyo: 5x(5 swings-45lbs+5jumps-25lbs)
Pistols: 4x3/side -45lbs
Shrimp squats: 3x7/side-25lbs

  • felt decent going in but a bit low energy, jumps and swings felt good and got things going a bit, pistols sucked and needed LONG rests, I’ll try again on Wednesday, shrimp squats killed quads

@alex_uk looks like good sleep and lack of stress is bad for performance :joy::joy::stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

It is weird but still seems that way for me, but don’t use that as an excuse to drive yourself into the ground, we know long term that will kill us! Particularly when you couple outside stress with mega gym work, it’s why I stick with 3 a weeks and am mostly sedentary outside this, my step count would average about 2k I reckon!

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I don’t understand how people move so little in a day. Even on “offdays”, I get 5-6k steps in and feel sleepy as fuck.

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I’m at 7k and it’s not even 13:00 yet

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I hit 15-25k on work days, but I feel like my off days are pretty sedentary, all i do is look after the kids and lift (I don’t have my phone in my pocket when I lift, so that doesn’t even count towards the step count). I genuinely find it hard to imagine cutting many more steps out of my day.

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I average 27-30k

I know, you know my thoughts on this though.

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I’m not 100% sure as I care so little to track it. I work from home, in my kitchen, I don’t even have to get up for water, and it’s about 3 steps for coffee, my gym is in my garage, I shop once a week and go to the fire station once a week outside of call outs (in car, but looking at electrifying my bike, I reckon on an electric bike I can beat my time in by car).

I usually go out for walks with the family once or twice a week and end up walking the kids to school maybe once a week, the school is about 5 mins each way. I just have very little reason to walk (yes health reasons aside).

But the purpose of me mentioning that was to subtly say to Anna that Stress PRs are all well and good if you manage recovery in other ways, the purpose was not to point out what a lazy turd I am!

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No one who does every rep of BtM while ADDING lifts AND GIANT SETTING is a lazy turd

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Absolutely wasn’t implying this at all.

My comments were totally self directed, I absolutely can’t wrap my head around that kind of lifestyle but that’s not to say I think it’s worse than my own, or pass judgement. I am spending a fair bit of thought recently on career changes, and whether I could actually thrive doing certain types of jobs which is probably where the thought process came from.

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