Thanks!
I’ll tag you!
Even if it were, my life advice to you would be that when you have an opportunity to express and maintain your boundaries that you do and leave rationale and utility out of it.
Show your body that it can trust you to be an ally.
I’ve let logic get in the way of emotion and as a result have allowed multiple boundaries of mine be overstepped. For me, the consequences have been that it has eroded my ability to trust myself to keep my own best interests at heart. And, made it even harder to express and maintain boundaries.
Lastly, depending on the context in which things happen. The who, the what, the where, the fall-out can be hard to foresee.
There are parts of campus that still sends my heart racing thanks to a certain professor. And since you care about academia so deeply, I hope you continue to tell this guy off.
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Roger that
We are going to work on assignments together today. I’m going to ask if I can bring a friend who’s in the same class.
I start a new program tomorrow. I’m not feeling too great today.
I want to take the day off: no workout, no extra walk(normal off day protocol)
The thing is that I don’t feel THAT bad and I’ve never regretted doing a workout but have always regretted NOT doing a workout
I also don’t have a good excuse
It’s not like you are running the risk of undertraining. Taking the day off shouldn’t hurt your progression at all!
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What will you do if he says no?
Tell him I can’t go.
You don’t feel good + a new program tomorrow so today’s workout does not have a bearing on your progression + missing it won’t cause a back log.
When a window is chipped you sort it out before it becomes a crack.
When your car is low on petrol you fill it before the emergency light comes on.
So why wait until you feel THAT bad to take a day off, why not make sure you don’t feel that bad tomorrow.
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I’m looking over GZCL and realized that it’s a substantial drop in volume compared to Sheiko.
Will this cause detraining?
I’m unfamiliar with the program. What’s the intensity like compared to Sheiko? Sheiko appears to be very volume based, with lower overall intensity (intensity being percentage of 1RM and frequency of pushing to failure). If GZCL is the inverse of that, you’ll be fine.
gzcl is high intensity
Then don’t worry about “detraining”. The general periodization flow is a volume phase, then an intensity phase, so you’re totally on track. Build of tons of reps and tons of practice and fatigue in your volume phase, then cut back on the volume and push hard in the intensity phase and realize the strength gained through prior repetition.
In fact, I would never worry about “detraining” ever again. Just scrub those worries from your mind.
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You never did Sheiko
Sheiko is a significant drop in volume compared to what you were doing.
I’m not familiar with GZCL so I can’t comment but you know my opinion on your lack of recovery days.
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I don’t know GZCL either, but I would echo what @vision1 intimated…you don’t run programs, you borrow rep schemes and then change them up beyond all recognition. Which isn’t inherently bad, god knows I do it myself.
A better thing to figure out is what you are trying to accomplish and find something that fits that. Even if it means you are not doing a ‘program’.
Also, programs are extremely overrated.
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Also, didn’t you just have a successful stretch that got you to 65 and 100? Why change something that was working?
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@Cyrrex Sheiko is a 3 month long program. Winter break is in 5 weeks and I’m not sure how reliable my gym access will be. one cycle of GZCL is only a month long so I’d at least be able to finish something. The other option would have been a 5/3/1 BBB or BTM, but BBB was contraindicated and I’d still potentially miss the last week of BTM+ Idk how I’d get the pullups in.
If I’m lucky, mum will be in China and I’ll have gym access, or I’ll get the job at publix and get gym access that way. In that case, I’ll jump back into another round of Sheiko
GZCL Week 1: Day1
Tier 1 - Squat: 1x3-50,60,70,80; 2x3, 1x4-85kg, 1x17-70kg PR,
Tier- squat without belt: 4x5-70kg
Tier 3- 3x(10 good mornings +20 alternate plank hip drop things)-60sec rests btw sets
Conditioning: 1-5-1 pullups with 2-10-2 burpees between sets ( managed to get everything unbroken up until the set of 5)
- this kicked my arse. I LOVE having PR sets, really didn’t expect to hit 17 considering how tired I was coming in (bad sleep), I feel like I really own 80 and 85 now- always strange when 80 feels the same as 50, never trust the warmups
- I’m adding 30 pullups/chinups and 50 burpees in as daily work. Technically, the 30 pullups are tier 3 on squat days, but I’m going to put them in every day because I want to get good at them. The burpee pullup “wod” is really fun, I should come up with a name for it
Then…do that. No point in starting something else when you have no assurances of equipment or other possible issues.
But understand, one cycle of any program like that accomplishes…pretty much nothing. But if treading water is acceptable, then sure.
That’s the idea
Also, I’d get to have some fun with the PR sets
Well there ya go.
I am a big fan of PR sets and try to do them as often as possible. Because they are literally the only way to set PRs.
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My grandpa (mum’s dad) just died…
Dude was 90 and very healthy. Apparently he just fell asleep and didn’t get up…
Mum is devastated
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