Anna's Training Log Part 2 (Part 1)

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I would say that the feelings still occur: this just allows you a mechanism to not actually deal with/address those feelings. Nietzsche would refer to this as a “life denying philosophy”.

In truth, I find misanthropy more appealing than sociopathy.

You may enjoy Rand sometime.

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The heart is for everything but the Rand part.

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Mine is for the Rand part… Uh-oh, what does that say about me!?!

(Edit: That’s a totally rhetorical question, BTW.)

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To be totally clear, I’ve never read any of what Rand has written herself, only heard second hand (from fans and critics). I have some on my reading list because so many people I massively respect seem to be fans however it’s going to take a massive effort on my part to keep an open mind going in because my impressions so far have been pretty awful.

Edit: totally open to a good “jumping off point” by the way, given my lefty liberal tendencies.

Becoming Canis dirus - SvenG's Training Log
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I’ve only read Anthem and didn’t like it very much

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I was saying she’d enjoy her writing: not necessarily that the writing is enjoyable. Her perspective on human relations mirrors well here.

Perhaps Atlas Shrugged sometime

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A girl stabbed me in the back of the neck once like that in 10th grade. Looking back, I kinda wish she had said something prior to that instead. She was definitely in the ballpark of types I go for.

Anyways, to date she has not done that to anybody else and as far as I know has enjoyed a pretty good life with a husband, a couple kids, and runs a pretty successful local business.

Anyhow, You and people you like are probably safe now, and it’s overly harsh to hold yourself guilty for the actions and emotions of a 7th grade girl.

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I was breathless over Atlas Shrugged when I read it in my early 20’s and exploring ideologies.

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I’ve agreed with this for a while now as well.

Definitely great for that. More people need to engage in that.

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Week 1: day 4

Deadlifts: 1x5-60,70,80,85,90,95, 105(joker); 2x(5x1-cluster)-95
Front squat: 5x5-55, super set with 5,4,3,3,2 pullups and 5 burpees
Good mornings: 5x10-40, super set with 30sec plank and 5 burpees
Squat: 1x20-70kg @SvenG
Conditioning: 4x(40sec db devils press-20lb dbs+20sec air squats)

  • work really does contract/expand to fit the time allotted, this took me about as much time as my gzcl deadlift days but I did much less work. I appreciate the back off, the good mornings just happened- planned to do 3x10, but I kind of shut off mentally and ended up going to 5, really really happy w/20rep squat- it didn’t feel too bad on conditioning until AFTER I finished, had a few more in the tank but form was breaking down and my lower back was hurting
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Nice!

Sounds to me like you did it right, then, haha.

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Week 1: day 6 (yesterday)

Deadlifts: 2x(5x1-cluster)-85kg
Conditioning: 16x(40sec on+20sec air squats)- alt btw db devils presses, renegade rows, jumping jacks, high knees, mountainclimbers

  • that’s all for today, damn this was very very hard- everything hurt…, the intervals went better than expected but was spent afterwards so cut it short

Supposed to bench today but my upper back is somewhat pissed… oops…

Update:

  • I’ve found that I like fats more, but I seem to get a “crash” effect when I eat high fat vs higher carb :sob: with that said, I’m hungrier now, and can’t tell if it’s because I actually need to eat more of if it’s because I’m eating higher carb. I don’t want to gain weight but I suspect my weights been creeping up. I wish I could just eat pounds of meat everyday and not get fat
  • turns out one of the guys in my maths group is interested in Econ and game theory stuff. He studied physics (undergrad and PhD) and runs a tutoring business so I didn’t know. I’ve been giving him advice on business stuff since my mum runs a tutoring company. He said he’d be happy to discuss Econ stuff with me.
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You can :slight_smile:

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@hustlinghat93 the daily deadlift thing isn’t going to work.
I feel trashed today. I’m not sure what’s going on. I’m able to do less work than just a few weeks/months ago

I’m actually considering taking today off…

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Below are two clues:

The work may be too much considering you are doing:

  1. 5/3/1
  2. The extra deadlift protocol
  3. Conditioning
    While not listening to your bodies signals of needing more food.

You only have 4 days to go to the gym and 3 rest days… Why not take today off?

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These two don’t reconcile well.

You won’t.

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Try it and see what happens. I will express my hypothesis in math form

strength >> current strength

Weight = (current weight) + (new dense muscle mass) + f

Let f = fat mass gained == 0

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Eat tons of chili!!!

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Week 2: day 1
Got my arse to the gym after all. I did skip conditioning and the deadlifts though

Bench: 1x5-20,30,35, 1x3-40,50,55, 60(joker, but questionable bc butt got off the bench for last rep)

Giant set: incline bench-pullups-cable curl-burpee
5x(8bench-35+4pullups+10curls-22.5lbs+5burpees)

Giant set: rows-face pulls-burpees
5x(5rows-40kg supinate grip+15 face pulls-22.5lbs+ 5burpees)

  • tired but felt pretty good once I got going, took it slow

Update:

  • game theory exam is tomorrow… enough said
    On that subject, the professor is seriously awesome. I wanted to set up a model for the confessions paper I’m “coauthor” on (purely for fun). I sent him a really long email describing my intuition and asking for help.
    He actually got back to me about it, gave me some advice, linked a couple of papers and said that we could talk about it after exams are over!!
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I managed to gain fat (and apparently muscle) over quarantine WITHOUT ostensibly changing nutrition or activity level. Obviously something did change or else I wouldn’t have gained weight.

I do not thjnk it’s possible not to gain fat in a large caloric surplus, even if I trained my arse off