I really didn’t have a choice yesterday. Had two drs appointments (insane waiting times) and three meetings afterwards.
Something I don’t understand- what’s the point of a 9:30 appointment, if I don’t go in until 10:30?
Don’t give yourself a choice. Committing to the program now means you’re fresh and strong to hit the barbell when it’s time.
Docs need to have so many appointments a day to not lose money, so they schedule them a bit tight. One or two things go wrong or go long and you’re getting bumped late. It’s definitely worse if you’re going to a health system vs a private practice, too.
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In China, there are literally services where you pay ppl to wait in line for you 
Week 1: Day 3
30min weighted walk- 45lbs
6x(10rows/side-25lbs+ reps of various ab exercises)- circuit style
- walk got HR up, but hardest on traps- felt lighter than expected, rows and ab circuot thing sucked but not too hard
very bad body image day 
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Admitting that the issue is in your imaging vs your body itself is a huge step in the right direction.
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Week 1: Day 4
2x(3/side, 3/side, 5/side)-37lbs, with intensity modifier
- press felt better than expected, legs felt like they were working, still not as much as I’d like
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Is this a typo, or did you only run it through once?
Also, today was supposed to be a rest day, and this workout was supposed to be done tomorrow.
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Typo- fixed now
Are you going to take the next two days off to maintain the same schedule? You didn’t address the second half of my comment.
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That’s the plan- getting work done on the weekdays works better for my schedule.
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Just my own helpful tip here, but I’ve learned I can only include 1 topic/question per post, or else inevitably part of it will be unaddressed.
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Incoming snarky, snide stuff:
@kdjohn translation -there’ll be about 100,000 steps over the weekend, plus some random bodyweight stuff because (insert excuse here) e.g. -needed to get the blood flowing due to sitting too long for schoolwork, so just for health…
just the part that refers to too much activity or too little food (edit: make that nutrition instead of “food”)
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My log would lose it’s character without your snark 
Week 2: Day 1
2x(3/side, 3/side, 5/side)-32lbs w/ lower body intensity modifier
- felt good and pushed hard- got HR up and press harder than expected, not much to report, My legs still aren’t feeling it as much as I’d like
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Remember that it’s a full body, press-focused program. It ends with a day dedicated to trying to PR the amount of presses you can do. Legs are getting worked, but your press is being prioritized.
After this program is done, and you take a week or two to do something simple and reset, we’ll look at a leg-focused program, okay? The goal right now is just to get you concentrated on one thing with intensity, not a million, okay?
Your legs will be fine.
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Week 2: day2 (yesterday)
40min weighted walk-25lbs
Pm
8x(20sec rows/side-25lbs+20sec rest)
6x(20 rep ab exercise+20 sec rest)
- felt pretty good, 25lbs is feeling like nothing at this point, rows fine, abs a lot harder than expected
Notes:
- I notice I’m getting hungry more often. It feel like I always have to have something in my mouth
- I feel absolute shit this morning for no reason. Hopefully will feel better later
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Up the weight.
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Also, why are you skimming time from the rows and abs and doubling the time I outlined for aerobic work?
That’s a rhetorical question; there’s no good reason.
20 minutes aerobic work.
10 minutes back work.
10 minutes core work.
Stop changing things immediately.
My traps get very pissed before I get anything close to decent cardio stimulus. There was no way I could do anything remotely heavy yesterday.
I think I might switch to running
That’s not the point of the GPP. It’s for general heart health and to bolster your ability to make the main sessions feel like a breeze. You can achieve that without crushing yourself.
Moderate aerobic work should have you breathing quickly, but you should still be able to have a regular conversation with someone.
Rotate your chosen method every GPP session. Do weighted vest walking one time, jogging another, stair/hill climbs the next, etc etc.
Fixed that for you.
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