Anna's Training Log Part 2 (Part 1)

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Week 3: day 4

Turns out, I seem to have spontaneously developed magic recovery abilities.

Deadlift: 1x4-60,70,80,90; 4x5-100kg, 2x6-95kg
Conventional DL: 2x5-90
Close grip bench: 3x12-35kg
Deadbugs: 6x10/side
Leg extensions: 5x10-60lbs
Db lateral raises: 8x12-7.5lb dbs
Curls: 3x5-20kg

  • definitely sore and moving slowly but felt good enough to deadlift, the 100kg sets actually moved very well, rest of it was getting missed work in from yesterday’s bench session
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Candy.

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A couple hershey’s kisses a day makes the soreness go away :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Here ya go.

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In his other favorite spot, doing his favorite thing.

It may seem like he sleeps a lot but his main hours of operation are 2-5 am. when he tears through the house, protecting us while we sleep.

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Much appreciated!

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I just wish I could catch him doing a derpy blep.

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Week 3: day 5 (yesterday)

Front squat: 1x5-50,60; 1x5, 2x2, 1x1 all w/70kg
Good mornings: 3x8-50kg
Lying leg raises: 6x10
Pullups: 4x5, 1x4
Leg extensions: 5x5-85lbs
Conditioning: 20min w/12.5kg in pack
Weighted chins: 1x1-12.5kg, 2x4-5kg

  • felt pretty good going in and it shows- hit front squat rep PR, accessories also felt good, decided to switch things up with conditioning and had some fun with chins- very surprised at what I could do

Also physique update

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I haven’t weighed myself in a bit, but I’d guess that I’m heavier, probably from water retention but also some fat gain since I’ve been looser with my diet

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Another update:
Last week has been the best week I’ve had in a long time.

  1. Crushed midterms
  2. Crushed workouts (see Tuesday)
  3. Crushed an interview for a summer program
  4. Wrote a piece for one of my profs.
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Great posts, @anna_5588. It’s nice to see that things are going well for you!

Edit: I know you didn’t ask my opinion, but you should definitely apply to your school’s grad program. Weather should absolutely not be a deterrent.

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Muscle too.

Crushing it Anna

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Looks mostly like muscle too me. Nice work and excellent job staying away from the scale. That latter part is arguably harder than actually working out for many.

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Thanks everyone for the encouragement!

I find that the secret to not obsessing over body image stuff is just to keep busy lol :joy:

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@dagill2 on the discussion of writing. Here’s the latest thing I’ve been working on

The premise is turning some lecture notes from one of my classes onto a textbook of sorts

This is still a very very very very rough draft

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I’ll try and have a read later. Economics isn’t my thing, but i’m interested in the writing style. Thanks for sharing

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Week 4: day 1 (yesterday)

Advisor wanted to meet today instead of yesterday so I switched things up

Squat: 1x10-50, 1x8-60, 1x6-70,80; 1x6-85kg; 1x8, 3x6-80kg
Pullups: 5x5
Lying leg raises: 5x10
Good mornings: 5x5-55kg
Bench: 1x5-30,35,40,45; 3x5-50kg
Curls: 4x10-15lb dbs

  • actually felt pretty good going in! Squats felt heavy but a lot easier than expected given the front squats and good mornings just 24hrs before. Got some bench in too bc gym empty bc spring break so I didn’t have tk wait for bench
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Your newfound ability to not obsess about the numbers on the scale is paying obvious visual dividends. Really an impressive difference.

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I was thinking the same thing. Lookin swole AF @anna_5588

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The funny thing is that my fat storage patterns seem to have changed.

My arms are definitely softer but my abs and legs look better than ever.

I am up 2lbs this morning, but that’s probably bc Saturday was a high calorie day so there’s still residual from that. I don’t look much different though

I think I’m going to try to push calories up to 2100-2200 next month and see if I can get my body to adapt (heavy training cycle upcoming), then drop to 1800 for the peaking part

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0.5 lb of this is probably scale error (the tolerances on home scales really suck), the rest is just normal fluctuation.

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Week 3: day 6?? (Yesterday)

This is the second part of the swap. Make up bench work

Bench: 1x12-30, 1x10-35, 1x8-40, 1x6-45; 2x5-50kg, paused
Pullups: 1x6,2x5,1x4
Incline bench: 4x6-40kg
Tricep pull down: 4x12-22.5pbs
Btn press: 2x8, 1x9-20kg
Conditioning:4x(2min kickboxing combos+30sec rest)

  • upper back not too happy but got the work in, bench moved smoothly enough

Week 4: day 2

12 days of Christmas type workout except I only use burpees, db snatch/arm w/30lb db and lying leg raises.
Start with 1burpee, then 2snatches/arm+ 1 burpee, then 3 lying leg raises+2snatches/arm+1burpee and so on

This took ~40 min :joy:

  • felt good, got blood flowing and definitely kicked my arse
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