Week 2: day 3 (yesterday)
Bench: 2x10-40kg, 2x8-50kg, 1x4-55kg paused
Front raises: 5x10-10lb dbs
Incline bench: 1x8, 2x7, 1x6-40kg
Flyes: 5x15-10lb dbs
Curls: 3x8-40lb kb
Conditioning: 5x(25m front rack carry/side-60lb db+ 10lying leg raises)
Press: 1x9-35kg; 4x5-30kg EMOM
Week 1: day 4 (yesterday)
Deadlift: 4x8-100kg, 1x8-105kg
Lying leg raise: 5x15
Conventional DL: 3x8-80kg, 1x10-70kg, superset with 20 alt bodyweight lunges
Snatch grip DL: 3x5-70kg, superset with 20alt bodyweight lunges
Physio ball hamstring curls: 5x10
Pendlay Rows: 6x4-50kg EMOM
Conditioning: 3x(20steps duck walk-25lb kb+ lunge back), 3x(20 steps death march+ walk back as rest)
First week of school over: I definitely hit the jackpot with classes this semester. Every one of them is relevant and interesting
Glad to hear it—that’s rare, even for required graduate-level coursework, and especially so as an undergrad!
So how’s your workload going to be? IIRC, you expressed concern about that sometime late last spring. Will it be better than expected, perhaps? Certainly not worse, I hope…
Uhh…. That’s the issue….
It’s going to be freaking insane. I switched from micro to a very cool social networks class. I do not regret that one bit since this social networks class is really relevant to my future research, but it’s also going to be a lot more work than micro would have been, even accounting for the lack of maths
I had a really great conversation with the professor and he was really impressed with my ideas.
Awesome! Because here’s some unsolicited advice from an old(er) dude: Look at this as a great opportunity to practice work/life balance, time management, and prioritization.
And work hard to develop an understanding of when “good enough” is, in fact, good enough.
That last bit is STILL hard for me… But you’re gonna crush it, @anna_5588! Just don’t get in your own way.
This is definitely going to be hard because so much of the work in the classes are “self directed” in that assignment guidelines are a “minimum for a good grade but feel free to do more”
Normally, I’d just do the minimum, but the assignments are things I’ve been wanting and excuse to work on so it’s hard not to get carried away.
For example, in my Behavioural Econ class, the assignment is to write a short essay about our thoughts/ideas on some topic. Easy enough. I could spend 3 hours and get it done. However, the prompts are basically asking us to come up with research questions and methods, which I’d happily do for days.
I’m supposed to workout today, but holy shit, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so shite the day after a workout
First week of school + hard workouts = your body telling you to back off a minute.
Mentally taxing things can tire the body out more than physical work in my experience.
Just two hours later and already one of these:
Your body knows what you need to do—does your head?
I read the work you did in your last session and thought “I really need to start doing lying leg raises and generally some more core work generally”.
Then I remembered the last time I did that amount of volume on my core. DOMs in my abs knocked me back more than anything in terms of feeling shitty. It doesn’t help that I have some digestive issues and I get confused about what is DOMs and what is the thing I shouldn’t have eaten.
@cyclonengineer @SvenG Good point, I’ll take today off.
Usually, I wake up feeling shite, then feel better around 8-9. didn’t happen today…
@cdep89 I’ve definitely felt a difference after incorporating in core work. I feel more stable and notice much less lower back soreness
In my social networks class, the first assignment is to make a graph of connections. I made one of all the professors I’ve worked with/under/was advised by. I’m AF.
This is probably the thing I’m proud of most
Colours represent department. Red is econ, blue is SDS, green are professors in business schools (RS is in HBS, CO is at CMU), yellow are profs who I would want to be my advisor as a grad student. they’re all in various business schools. I’m purple bc I’m a combination of econ and SDS.
there’s a typo. The arrow should go from UG to SS. He was her advisor
Week 3: Day 5 (yesterday)
46min incline treadmill walk: 20min of 2.6 mph 11.5% incline+10min 2.4 mph 11.5% incline+10 min 2.6 mph 11.5% incline+ work up to 3.1mph at 14% incline for ~1min
Week 3: Day 1
Bench: work up to 55kg for 6; 4x2-55kg, paused
Lateral raises: 5x8-12.5lb Dbs
feet up bench: 1x14-40kg; 1x17, 1x8, 7x7, 2x6- 30kg EMOM
Incline bench: 3x5-35kg paused
BB curl: 3x5-20kg
Conditioning: kickboxing: 1/2 of a fitness blender workout ~15min
Week 3: day 2
Squat: 4x8-80kg
Lying leg raises: 4x16
Good mornings: 4x15-0kg, superset with 20bodyweight lunges
Rdl: 2x10, 2x10-70kg
Deadbugs: 4x12/side
Leg extensions: 10x8-70lbs, 1min rests
Bodyweight leg work: 4x50 air squats, 30sec rests
Week 3: day 3
Press: 1x14-30kg; 1x10, 4x6, 1x5-25kg EMOM
Row: 1x14-40kg; 6x5-40kg EMOM
Straight bar pull down: 5x10-25lbs 2020 tempo, superset with 5 burpees
Tricep push down: 1x(12-25lbs+14-20lbs+16-10lbs)
Technique: HS walk practice
Plan for the rest of the semester:
Next week I start 5 weeks of GZCL which will lead right into fall break. After fall break, I have 8 weeks until winter break. I’m thinking of going back to BBB
I should have gym access for most of winter break except for the 1 week family is going to Hawaii.
Second semester I’m going to focus on strength and hit some juicy PRs
Week 3: day 4 (Thursday)
Incline bench: 6x8-35kg, 1x6-45kg, superset with 5 burpees
Db military test: 4x8-27.5lbs
Db lateral raises: 4x10-12.5lbs
Db flyes: 3x15-12.5lb dbs, superset with 50jumping jacks
Week 3: day 5 (yesterday)
Deadlift: 5x5-110kg!!!
Snatch grip DL: 4x10-60kg, superset with 20bodyweight squats
Front squats: 3x10-50kg, 1x10-55kg
Conditioning: 7x(front rack carry up and down a flight of stairs)-45lbs, every 2min, alternate side each round
Holy shit I’ve been so hungry.
Went over 400 kcal yesterday and have already gone 400 over today