probably tbh
Everyone doing it is talking about how much they’re eating too.
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They’re also all giving the same answer when asked about recovery and taking days off.
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And not to put too fine a point on it, but you are the last person on earth who should be doing two-a-days.
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I actually feel like this is a provocation after all the exchanges that have taken place in here.
You can not possibly have made as little progress on this to arrive at the point where you think about doing two sessions a day.
Or at least you should be at a point at which you would identify these thoughts as toxic and harmful and reflect upon them yourself.
Maybe I’ve just reached a tipping point for myself here but I’ve had a few days to think about it and am still posting this, despite the aggressive undertone.
As far as advice goes: If you haven’t done so, you should share these thoughts absolutely unfiltered with your therapist.
The fact that you write these thoughts down is important. It’s sad to read as a follower but if you can use it to reflect and act on them accordingly (absolutely fucking not doing two sessions a day!), they can be helpful towards your progress.
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+1 on what @Koestrizer says
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It’s a rather amazing act of mental gymnastics to say “I feel lazy” and then decide the solution is to do more training vs more eating.
Training IS the easy part. Training IS the lazy part. RECOVERY is the busy part. You spend like 1-2 hours training and 22 hours recovering. Brian Shaw says it in all of his videos: the training is the fun part: the eating is the chore.
I’m so goddamn sick of all the eating I have to do to support my training. It’s why my weight gain phases tend to be short: it’s exhausting eating so much.
Adding training isn’t addressing laziness: it’s furthering it.
EDIT: Super relevant passage from Deep Water as I’m re-reading it preparing for my next training phase
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I appreciate your honesty. Everyone who came in after my post summed up what I wanted to say so I won’t pile on. I’d just encourage you, if you haven’t yet, to share that idea with your therapist and talk it over with a pro.
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@jshaving I’m eating plenty (according to the dietitian). As a small female, I really don’t think I need the kind of nutrition protocols an active male does. On a tangent, salt helps a lot
@flappinit yep. Makes the decision easier knowing that the advice is consistent
@Koestrizer i guess what I’m looking for is permission NOT to have to do any more work. I generally like training but sometimes I’m tired and just want to do nothing.
How would that permission have to look like for you to accept it? Countless internet people have given it to you, your doctors have, your body screams it at you constantly… I really don’t know what else would need to happen to get the point across.
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I’m going to go ahead and say this is a lie. I’m not sure whether it’s a conscious or a subconscious one, but you’ve gotten the same advice from more than a dozen people, and still asked someone else yesterday, and when people do that after getting consistent advice, it’s because they’re looking for the one person who will tell them what they want to hear.
You are looking for someone to tell you, “Never stop moving, cut calories, work harder, drop weight, lift 2x a day.” You are looking for the one fit person who does all the things we have been telling you not to do.
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You maybe don’t need to eat the literal same amount of food that Pwn or someone is, but if he (example) doubled his food intake to match his activity level than I would assume someone looking to match his activity level would probably double their food intake as well.
Like yeah, a 150lb person lifting less weight but who works as often and with a similar intensity as a 250lb super strong person probably doesn’t need quite as much food, but the ratio should be similar. Or something like that. I don’t know. I don’t like math.
As far as I know (which isn’t much) being a small female doesn’t mean you have a completely different food intake from an active male when you’re trying to match an active male’s activity level.
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I’m disagree
Maybe
No- I’m looking for someone to SHOW me that I don’t have to crush myself every workout or do multiple workouts a day. I’m being TOLD that it’s not good, but I read the training logs and everyone who’s “crushing it” is. It’s hard for me to process that the situations are different…
Update:
- I pushed it a bit too hard yesterday, felt complete crap today. First time I don’t regret not working off
- I’m moving out on Monday so I’ll get to go to the gym Tuesday. It’s 3 miles away (road’s a bit sketchy too) and if I’m honest, I’m not that excited. I kind of want to do the 10k swings challenge
- Digestion’s off again… so basically looking fluffy AF. Also that legs thread made me realize just how crap mine are. I’ll tolerate them as long as they’re still giving me PRs
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You know what the difference is.
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I’m late to the conversations about education, but I just wanted to add that different countries work differently.
In ASIA, that piece of paper is worth A LOT when it comes to employment prospects and eventual pay grades, both in the government and private sectors, even though it seems like it’s not the case in the West from what I’ve gotten from admittedly skimmed through the exchanges so far and will affect your job prospects immensely. If, by any chance, you are intending to work in Asia, you’d better get the best educational certs that are available to you.
I can’t even hire people without basic degrees regardless of how good their CVs are (with some rare exceptions) because CLIENTS expect my staff overseeing their projects to have them in my industry.
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@dt79 my dad literally questioned STANFORD’S value when I told him I wanted to go there for grad school…
Week 5: Day 1
Weighted pistol (test): 1x10/side- PR!!!
18x(2cleans+1 jerk+3 squats)/side, 12x(2cleans+1 jerk+2 squats)/side, all w/ 45lbs, EMOM (basically armour building complex) @jdm135
5x(10rows/side+20sec rest)
6x(20sec plank hold+20sec plank hip dip+20sec rest)
EMOM (Daily work): 4 burpee buyin+ max alt 1 arm KBS, stop when finish 100 kbs- 25lbs, 4rds
- felt pretty good going in, since I’m going back to the gym tuesday, I decided to “test”- finally reached my goal!!! had more left in the tank on the R side, but couldn’t do more on L
- decided not to continue with full pistol workout (would probably not be recovered by tuesday), so decided to give armour building another go- went a LOT better than expected. The plan was 15 full reps, then 15 with only one squat, got 18 rds full reps and 12 w/ 2 squats, only stopped w/ the full reps b/c squat form was going out the window, really intense but felt good
- got the Daily work in and even some core work @kdjohn, really love the swings with burpee buy in thing- might try w/ KB snatches next time
On a side note: I’m really tired of my upper back being perpetually sore/tired…
@loganator I went to Aldi’s today. the eggs were $.58/dozen and chicken thighs were $.99/lb!!! I don’t think I have ever been so excited over groceries. Makes me feel like I won’t have to starve on a student budget or rely on my parents
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Reading your dense notation, is that armor building with 6 squats per round? Or should the squats be in a different set of parentheses?
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6 squats/round- 3 when I do the left side, 3 when I do the right (or 2/ side when I dropped)
The coolest part was that I didn’t have to convince myself to keep going. I just kept going despite the suck
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I once had a partner in a now defunct business who was from Stanford. She was a complete moron. BUT this credential alone took her very far when it came to credibility even though it was a business dealing with the consumer end and people would specifically request for her even though it had nothing to do with the service we were providing. We’d always emphasize the Stanford part when we did write ups for her on our website and other marketing materials.
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