Graduates from my school are good at producing piles of linear algebra and studying common sense
Week 14: Day4- easy day
5x(max pushups+1km walk)- 300 pushups
- best I’ve done so far, felt really good
Man, if only earning a PhD were that quick!
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Week 14: day 5
50alt pistols-25lbs+200m run+40pistols…+10pistols+ 200m run)- somewhere around 30min
Rdls: 2x10/side-25lbs, 2x6/side-45lbs
- not tired or sore going in but digestion WAY off- turns out cheese and yogurt don’t agree with me very much, pistol and run workout very fun- got HR up and pistols slow but finished faster than expected, legs dead after so RDLs not great
How many dudes were there?
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Noted 
Weekly checkin:
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Weight: 97lbs- blocked up big time, high sodium yesterday and went a bit crazy on dairy
- still soft, but not as bad a expected given how I ate yesterday
Note: my appetite has been very low the past week and it was very hard to finish my calories. At the same time, I’ve noticed that my energy overall was lower so I was probably unconsciously more sedentary. The surplus was probably larger than intended
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Week 14: Day7
1hr weighted walk-25lbs
- got hr up a bit, harder on traps than anything, felt good and it’s the longest I’ve gone, 25lbs barely feels like any weight anymore so that’s a nice improvement
I’m supposed to do sprints and pistols today, but I feel crap. Nothing is really sore, but everything feels slow and mentally want a break
I could switch to tomorrow’s workout, but I won’t have time for the full plyo/pistol workout tomorrow
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Take a day (or three) off…
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Dude, you’re looking better and gaining weight. You may think it feels wrong, but you’re making progress toward the most important thing possible - your health. Keep the surplus and work on keeping your activity under control.
In regards to dropping today’s workout, do it. Relax a bit and stretch/recover. Find something to do tomorrow (or take tomorrow off too).
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Why do you think you feel this way?
What is the purpose of your workouts?
What do you have to gain by switching to tomorrow’s workout?
What do you have to lose by not doing a full plyo/pistol workout tomorrow?
What do you have to lose by not doing it at all?
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@cyclonengineer
Is it just me, or does it seem like solutions to 90% of diff eqs involve sticking something on top of e
It definitely applies to a lot of them, especially using separation methods because you tend to get a 1/(something)
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We started systems of diff eqs on Friday and even those just stick eigenvalues on top of e
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@anna_5588 these are not rhetorical btw
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IDK honestly. I slept well yesterday and ate significantly more yesterday (2300)
to get better
Tomorrow’s workout is easier, so I’d get something done.
I’d be off schedule
I’d be making excuses. I’ve noticed that my standards have slipped since lockdown and I can’t allow a further decline
Most of my “workouts” are less than some people’s active rest
Maybe, but your “rest” days involve more activity than most people’s lifting days. You’re “majoring” in powerlifting but are devoting a damaging level of energy to walking and cardio-oriented activities. You’d have more drive to do your heavy work if you didn’t kill yourself to death on cardio and “extra” activity.
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At 19 years old, 1 day is 0.015% of the time you’ve been alive.
99.985% > 0.015%
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Broaden your time horizon. Significantly. Revisit the question. Also consider psychological stress of which you’ve had plenty as of late.
Cool, then the answer as to what to do is evident: rest.
A program, self-designed or not, is not a list of chores you must do; it’s a plan to elicit a physiological response to stimulate an adaptation.
Your body is signaling to you time and time again that it’s had enough and if the body has had enough it had enough… Any stimulation before you have recovered then can not be argued to be aligned with your goals so therefore anything other than rest is off-limits to you. Training despite being in a hole can hurt your progression. It can also deepen your depression.
Will getting something done make you better? See above.
So? Roll your days. Your body has no idea what your schedule is. You can adjust your schedule. You can’t force your body to be more capable than it is.
No. Making an excuse is when you don’t do the thing that’s aligned with your goals out of inconvenience. Not when you listen to empirical evidence with your own body.
This attitude is beyond my aid.
Those people wouldn’t do any active rest if their level of daily activity matched yours. And what does it matter what anyone else does anyway? Unless you have the same experience, circumstances and biological makeup as they do then what purpose other than hurting yourself does this comparison game have?
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