This is why you need to find ways to load or use leverage to your disadvantage to make things harder. Either add weight and do things one legged, or find another way to make things harder.
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Would it be the end of the world if I did some cardio stuff too for the mental break?
End of the world? no.
Counterproductive to your stated goals? Depends on the dose.
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Is the sauce just cooking liquid?
Chicken stock with instant gravy mix- used it to braise the greens. Ppl Moving out needed to get rid of stuff so they just put any leftover food in the kitchen as freebies . One girl left an entire bag of ashwaganda, a box of protein bars and 2 tins of ground ginger 
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For time: (50 down by 10- alt pistols+ pushups w/200m run in between+ 50 alt pistols+50 pushups)-19:11
Bodyweight squats: 4x50 w/30sec rests
- pretty intense but felt good and quick, easier than expected- WOW I’m rusty on running
… later…
3x(2x{12 jumping lunges/leg)+15 jump squats+15 jumping lunges+25 air squats)
- really hard on legs, turns out, I have NO endurance for jumping lunges
, not as hard on HR as expected
Dorm building workout
35min- (50 bodyweight walking lunges+20 pushups+ go up/down a floor)
Technique: HS walk/hold
- legs surprisingly sore but felt good, got HR up and felt good and quick
When I started to train technically strict, I can say that it’s hard to do more than 15- 20 reps of slow and paused well braced BW squats and 10-15 reps nice lunges strict enough. Just saying.
3x(15hspu+100jumping jacks)
4x(25 1 leg glute bridge +100jumping jacks)
3x(20tricep push-ups +100jumping jacks)
3x(25 frog pumps+100jumping jacks)
Hspu: 3x6w/3sec negatives and 3 sec concentrics
- knees and legs sore so took it easy, got hr up, felt good
@Pinkylifting this body weight stuff is. quite hard. I definitely didn’t feel like working out today, but as usual, things smoothed out after I got started
That is sooo much work. Do less work but harder work? At least if you want to do what was suggested by @Pinkylifting.
Also, on the topic of not wanting to work out. Paul Carter wrote something about this in Base Building that I’ve tried to be attentive to myself and maybe you should too. I don’t feel comfortable quoting an entire page out of someone’s book so I’ll distill it somewhat.
The metaphor relates to feeling full and being hungry
Full as in feeling as if you are about to burst. Where the idea of one more bite makes you nauseous. Being so full you just want to lie down and suffer through the sweats.
The author argues that training is far more productive when you’re hungry rather than full. That the most productive sessions are the days where you are antsy to squat or dead lift, or press heavy. It is during them the most significant progress is made.
And so you have to balance your training stimulus and recovery to keep you hungry enough “hungry enough” so that mentally, and physically, you don’t find yourself proverbially wanting to lie down.
He also acknowledges that it is inevitable that if you train long enough, you’ll find yourself dozing off into a “carb coma” of training.
Then, either before a training session or during one where you’re loading the barbell and realize, you’d rather be anywhere else than the gym right
now as you’ve been going hard at it for months now, that that’s your cue that you are full (for the sake of the metaphor) and that you should take a break from training. Deload. Wave assistance. Taper volume.
Give the body some room to grow. This cannot happen without rest.
That concludes his words, as rehashed by me.
These words are my own: there’s a time and a place to push through not wanting to train. But it isn’t always. This is especially true with people first adopting the habit of exercise into their life. They should push through to build the habit. You’re at an advanced level. You should take the cue.
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The problem is I never know if I really need the rest. A lot of trainers suggest the “10min rule” ie quit if you don’t feel better after 10 min warmup, BUT, I always feel really good after the 10min so I don’t have an excuse to not workout
If you are concerned about losing muscle mass then I would recommend just doing straight sets to failure. It’s going to be a lot of reps which is more of an endurance effect than anything related to powerlifting, so maybe saving conditioning for “off” days would be a safer way to go. Increasing caloric expenditure is the last thing you want, better if you get a little fat and then lose it when you get back to the gym.
It’s called chronic overreaching, I did that before.
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Not to be cross or short, but, as an outsider looking in that both empathises and sympathises with a lot of behaviour you exhibit: have you considered the possibility that you have some sort of stimulus addiction? Read
for context if you need it.
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Thanks for sharing this. It looks very Interesting. I’ll take a look
Well, if you feel that way beforehand it’s still a cue even if it goes away after ten minutes of exercise. It’s not the first time I’ve seen you post this sentiment with regards to how you felt before going into the training session and maybe my memory is flawed but my perception is that it is something that you’ve mentioned with greater frequency than before.
Report back with how you feel it applies/doesn’t apply to you if you have the energy to do so. Your thoughts would be interesting.
I find that it goes in waves. Most of the time I feel okay, then I’ll randomly have a really crappy couple of weeks, then things will flip and I feel great.
@alex44938
can you get on facebook to chat?
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This is about the amount of conditioning I’d do during peak wrestling season
Just, over 3 practices, not 1
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