Bagsy's Training Log

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@Bagsy

Sorry, CWS. I shouldn’t have done this; I don’t need to be told that it’s an ugly rep. Yet at the same time I had to do it. Yesterday was my birthday, which is the darkest time of the year for me. I wanted to boost my ego after several days of despair, to show myself that I could actually pull 2 plates with a straight bar and therefore try proving to myself that I’m enough in some way. Whatever. I’m not necessarily posting this because I’m proud of it. Sure, that momentary sense of validation is nice. But ultimately I hope I can look back on this rep and laugh about it.

You need to cross the line a little bit to know where it is. What’s wrong with doing some crazy stuff sometimes, or challenging yourself? Trying to push yourself to accomplish a feat, even if the form is not pristine?

Honestly the rep was not that ugly at all. I’ve done worse no problemo. And FFS a double overhand 100 kgs is NO JOKE. Girl bar or not you have to understand that. I’m pretty sure that if you were to have a belt and hook grip/mixed/straps it would have been easy and turned into a 90%. You really underestimate how much the grip have an impact on this lift

@Bagsy

Perhaps this whole time I’ve only been proving that I can grind out reps well, and this does absolutely nothing for me strength-wise.

Welcome to my life and congrats on figuring it earlier than me.

@Bagsy

My theory has always been that I’m not strong because I don’t have much muscle.

Wrong

@Bagsy

I’m honestly considering throwing myself into a pure strength program because it’s something I’ve not done in years. This next part will seem silly, but given that my not too irrational theories thus far haven’t worked out well for me, maybe something like Sheiko (swap bench and press) or something from Pavel would work well for me… because, well, eastern European genetics.

Not a bad idea. Honestly I think high frequency would benefit you more, for various reasons.

@Bagsy

I’m surprised people even read this log and tolerate all my nagging about it.

I read it just for the nagging

@Voxel

I don’t think my squats are pretty either but I’ve started to strive for “did it feel strong”. For me, that requires not being injured and squatting wider than what looks athletic.

A pretty squat is the one that suits your body! I’ve measured my leg the other day, according to CT’s guidelines. A leg length of 50-51+% is considered long. Mine is 105 cm so almost 57% rofl. My squat will never be textbook and I have to accept it if I want to progress