Anna's Training Log Part 2 (Part 1)

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Week 1: Day 5

Deadlift: 1x5-60,70,80; 1x5-90,100, 1x6-105; 5x10-85kg
deadbug: 6x10/side
Leg extensions: 5x(10-60lbs+5burpees)
front squat: 1x10-,50,55,60kg - PR!!! @jdm135

  • felt AMAZING- best deadlift workout in a LONG time, everything flew up, only problem was that my upper back was fried and I slept weird so my traps were the limiting factor, leg extensions burned and felt light, KILLED the front squats, bribed myself with the 60kg front squat to see if I could hit 10- no conditioning today
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Nice PR! Congrats.

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Great PR! Very impressive.

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Week 1: day 6

50min weighted walk-30lbs
Db snatches: 100 alternating-27.5lb db, 5:30

  • felt good, got HR up and oMG my new backpack makes such a difference in the trap department, the db snatches felt surprisingly easy- so close to 5min… really intense

Updates:

  1. First week of school over. This is going tk be a very chill semester- the last one I’ll have.
  2. I meet with my advisor tomorrow. I’m really really nervous. We are going tk discuss the future of my project. I should have had this conversation long ago, but I’d been too scared. Wish me luck!
  3. @cyclonengineer @SvenG i met with my game theory prof today. He was very nice and gave me some really good pointers and we had a great conversation, but something really bothered me: he didn’t seem to take me seriously. Not in a disrespectful way, more like how one would treat a child they find endearing. I get this feeling from a lot of my professors and even some of my classmates. One even said that I reminded him of his daughter. I guess this situation is better than not getting attention, but it’s frustrating
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Don’t take it too personally. Many of my math and engineering professors didn’t take undergrads seriously. Worst case he is one of those annoying professors who don’t think women belong in math and science (these folks are rarer nowadays though).

It could be cultural too. When I was in a meeting with a Japanese customer even though I was the lead engineer they tended not to take me seriously because I wasn’t a “graybeard” (yes that’s a direct quote).

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maybe that’s it then.

oh! definitely not

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Week 2: day1

Jumps: 3x5
Squats: warm up w/ 40,50,60,70; 1x3-80,85,90; 5x10-70
Db rows: 5x10/arm
Dead bugs: 4x10/side
Good mornings: 1x15,16,17,18-35kg
Conditioning: 4x(30src squat jumps+30sec squats+30 sec jumping jacks)

  • felt a bit stiff going in, squats moved well- disappointed at top sets though, 5x10was horrid, somehow managed to get it in 18min, good mornings felt great
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Phrasing!

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Must…resist…temptation…

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@hustlinghat93 @SvenG i have come to realize today that my conditioning has really deteriorated in the past year but I’m too lazy to fix it :sob:

I was going power cleans and it was my conditioning, not strength holding me back

I’m technically not supposed to be exercising this much in the first place too, so that’s even less motivation tk work on conditioning

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You are doing 5/3/1 right… Wendler advocates conditioning work so this sentence doesn’t make sense. The program you are following litterally says do conditioning :sweat_smile:

This again doesn’t make sense to me. Power cleans are an explosive movement to develop, as the name implies, power… So they shouldn’t be done with super high reps. I know for a fact you are not so out of shape that a few cleans would fatigue you so maybe you are doing higher reps?

Well considering the bold there’s nothing to be said.

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JW says, “The goal [of BBB] is strength and size - so don’t use this template if your goal is conditioning based.”

Is your goal consistent with BBB?

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I do easy cardio 2x/week and very short burners on lifting days

Sets of 10

My goal isn’t conditioning based. I just want it tk be good enough so that it doesn’t affect my ability to lift/recover from lifting

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I’d like to whether it is necessary to put in the effort

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Then I would make sure my goal is, “strength and size.”

If that’s true, then I would make sure my food intake is consistent with gaining strength and size.

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Conditioning is a very broad term. You can’t be well conditioned for everything. 10 rep power cleans have a very specific need. You can get better at 10 rep power cleans if that matters to you. You could also use that exercise in the way it’s meant to be used …

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What I meant was that it was my cardio limiting me rather than muscular fatigue

lol yeah, I saw Bagsy doing her powercleans and wanted to try

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How did you arrive at cardio being your limiting factor? Are these aerobic power cleans?

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I stopped bc I felt out of breath and my HR was getting hight

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Could it be from a lack of breathing due to bracing?

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