Unless you were one of the two girls who approached me last time I was in Oakland (a few weeks ago) looking for a CVS.
The one was pretty jacked. Looked like a gymnast.
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Noted
Last week I was in a bad position with crappy old welding coat bunched up, yaddayadda… got a shower of hot weld metal down the collar, neck & chest.
But the weld broke. (See log pic of big tree truck).
So this week doing the exact same thing, guess what happened?
But I did get the broken stuck stuff fixed this time. 
Anyways, they’re relatively small, but severe. It takes a while for the nerves to grow back before they hurt, if at all.
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What a great post, and exactly spot on. Emotional resiliency is an area of particular interest to me - I guess because it’s so damn interesting.
So…yeah. Good post, lol.
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Week 8: day1(yesterday)
Did all sets up to the 80kg beltless, supersetted fb chest flye things with squats, hamstrings were not going to cooperate so wussed out and did good mornings with 30kg
- squats felt amazing after warmups, it’s very trippy when 80kg feels about the same as 50kg, I am pretty sure I’m good for 90kg for at least 4-5 reps, maybe even 100kg at this point given how easy 80kg feels.
- did kind of pay for it later though because hamstrings were dead, also didn’t drink enough water because I had some serious cramping last night.
Week 8: day2
Holy crap my legs were useless. Knees super sore and also just tired in general. Pretty bad cramping last night too.
Take the reps with a grain or salt because I could barely stay awake and most definitely over or undercounted on some of the sets
Superset 1: close grip incline bench- lateral raises
3x(10 bench-30kg+10lateral raises-7.5lb dbs)
Superset 1: incline bench- front raises
3x(10 bench-30kg+10lateral raises-7.5lb dbs)
Superset 3: chin-ups- seated cable row
2x(4chinups+20rows-45lbs)
Superset 4: tricep pushdowns - face pulls
2x(16pushdowns+20face pulls)- 17.5lbs
- workout went by quickly, felt good and got a nice pump
I’m really tired of not getting good sleep. My neck issues are much better now that I have a good pillow but sleep quality still sucks. I’m constantly in a half sleep, dreaming state and wake up tired. I might consider trying the “stay up for 24 hour thing at some point
@SkyzykS @Cyrrex thoguht you guys might enjoy this
Context: I wrote an Econ model with brainpower as a production input and offered to show my friend (that one)
That was his reply
That’s tricky. A dozen mediocre brains does not equal one very good one.
Like mine. I’ve got a Bugatti Veyron between my ears. But the tires are bald, and the mind driving it isn’t supposed to have chocolate, but there he goes with a 1 lb. Hershey bar. 
For real though, if you wanted to quantify the value of brain power, you’re in the right place.
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I think @Cyrrex (and somewhat you) are having a bad influence on me. I thought you would pick up on the “nitpicking model” comment 
nah… I don’t have enough brainpower for that
The model was for the optimal length of time to dedicate to assignments
Cobb douglas
That is brainpower indeed! Hershey’s is not chocolate! I believe there was a rather long debate about this on flame free
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Just because there was a debate doesn’t mean that anything was agreed upon or resolved.
On this continent, Milton Hershey defined chocolate.
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Is that referring to the Cobb Douglas production function?
I’m just googling stuff. I don’t actually know.
It looked interesting though.
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So what type of situation would this be useful to model and improve?
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In the grand scheme of things, it’s useless.
I came up with it because I was frustrated with ab assignment and was questioning whether it was worth it to keep working on it
I also wrote a model for when you skip lines, because I was pissed about having to wait in package pickup
Is it though?
I’ve noticed through the years that sometimes it takes a couple, sometimes many, years of racking one’s brain to come up with valuable, useful change to a process.
You never know. This could end up in some post doctoral work you end up doing 15 years from now.
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Honestly, there is no better turn-on than a good pdf file.
Come on… do you just note those things or do you use the data at all?
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Have you heard of overtraining? I know you have, because I’m pretty sure I wrote down the entire list of symptoms one time for you.
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Last week was the toughest week of a very long Pugh program
After this it’s downhill for 4 weeks until max testing
I visit this diary every 3-4 months and every time I see that nothing has changed. Anna overtrains and she is malnourished…
The problem with these weightlifting programs for me is that for a long time a person can lift weights at the expense of proper form. The human body has an infinite number of compensatory mechanisms, joints suffer and microtraumas accumulate.
(After 2 years in which I halved my workload, I realized that I was pushing in the completely wrong direction. At the moment I can burst with only 20-30 kg. And I look completely different at the gym workouts. I did 70kg bench press for years. Now I totaly quit this exercise and do some dumbbell press with baby weights but with different form of execution)
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I would normally agree, but it sorta seems like…some stuff…has changed over the past few months. I think her weight is up, too.
But yeah, she still goes overboard on the training.
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