The pullups and push presses were very heavy. The latter were definitely grindier than they should have been, but they were tough in a “this is exposing my weaknesses and making me better” way rather than a defeating one. It was/is raining a lot, so I skipped jumps and opted for the bike instead of a track workout. The session felt all over the place already, so a shorter conditioning piece felt right anyway.
Whoa. That was wild.
I take it from the screenshot that this was a Rip follower posting on his forum, and rip essentially condoning/supporting it with his comment at the bottom?
Yeah that kind of crap doesn’t thrive without a supportive culture around it. Stands to reason that opinion is scarily widespread… literally the only person I’ve ever met IRL who was (I later learned) of that mentality, was small, weak, pathetic in every way. Not an alpha lol. A weird dude who after a lifetime of rejection had embraced his… rejectedness? Was a keyboard warrior and a real life loser.
Must also be a correlation to those in power positions in powerlifting. Just read up on the shit that is going on in Powerlifting Australia with Robert Wilks at the moment !!
3 split 400s: run 300m, break 45-60s, run 100m, then break for 5 mins between rounds. I ran each 300m in ~65s and each 100m in ~18s.
800m cooldown 3:43
I’m not sure why I feel compelled to focus on my 400m time. I guess it’s something to test. I don’t think I need to go “all in” on this, but I will sprinkle in some of Clyde Hart’s recommended workouts, such as this one, for a little while.
My cardiovascular recovery is very good not only between sets but also between the 300m and 100m runs. 45-60s felt almost too long. Ultimately, my legs tire out quickly on each 300m.
That’s not really how venting is supposed to work. Other people can have your experience, other people can have it worse off than you too, that does not diminish your right to feel the emotions you do about the situation you are in.
Glad you feel that way and have that in your life. Sucks when injuries happen though.
I have seen this argument a lot too and used to buy into it until I met my wife who was abused mentally and sexually by her ex husband (forced to marry due to unplanned pregnancy and old-school baptist families on both sides). The statistics are truly sobering to me. Being a very large guy, it used to bug me when women crossed the street to avoid walking past me because of the assumptions I believed those women were making about me (selfish and stupid, I know), but I get it now.
As a Christian, I hate this approach so much. It does nothing for anybody except the person claiming it so they can appear as “holier than thou”. And worst of all, it doesn’t match any true reading of the good book.
My own experiences. I have only once in my life PR’ed during a caloric deficit.
I’m fortunate to have had only one injury to work through since I started lifting. Maybe it means I don’t train hard enough hahaha
I try to do this less now because I don’t want to be submissive. Yet I still always assume that men who go out of their way to talk to me in public for no apparent reason, which happens often nowadays, have weird intentions. I can only imagine what goes through the mind of someone who has been sexually assaulted.
Your probably correct here. Ill intent is unfortunately more common than one thinks. And like i said, this action now appears to me as more prudent than anything. I know I am big/strong enough to overpower probably 98% of women physically if that was my intention. If roles were reversed I would take the same action.
Plus you never know if they are just going to tell you to “smile more”
Suffering from some paralysis by analysis but also timing issues. I now feel weird changing this template so much that it’s harder for me to buy into it. More importantly, each session lasts longer than I’d like, which is bad during the week. Plus I miss focusing on one barbell lift per day. I think I train better like that.
Something like original 5/3/1 with jokers and or widowmakers would be better for me right now, considering the BBB cycles I recently did. And the main work doesn’t take long, so I can double up lifts on one day and still lift three days/week if needed. So, deadlifts in a bit.
