Oh and time for some actual training talk on my training log. Since I haven’t exactly been lifting much, I’ve decided I probably should get back to regular lifting so I’ll be running the Greyskull LP with arms template till end of the year. At least I’ve something to keep me to the task.
I may or may not be doing some olympic lifts and strongman stuff when I feel like it.
Oh and I’ve a PT test on the 21st aka tomorrow so I’ll see how that goes.
You should read some Christopher Hitchens essays, he’s fooking brillaint.
Just because someone doesn’t believe in god doesn’t mean they get to be a dick. You can always, should always, follow the Golden Rule.
Yea, I was raised in a pretty religious family in an odd branch of Christianity (Mormonism). I’ve completely disavowed it but I do my best not to be a dick about it, family gatherings are hard on occasion.
I’m not trying to be a dick about it but that was pretty much the most concise way I could phrase it. If I were to rephrase it I would say that it seems rather illogical to me and maybe even flawed. I’m in no means saying being a Christian is wrong, I’m just saying what my thoughts about it are after thinking about it.
Much like amateur surgery; amateur psychology, even with the best of intentions, can have severely damaging consequences. It’s why I leave it to the pros.
Regarding your crisis/nihilism; it honestly doesn’t look like you’re in the crisis anymore. I think you’ve discovered your answer, now it’s just a matter of refining it.
I went through a similar experience myself. I wasn’t raised with religion, but I was told stories from the Bible and read it as a kid. Got real into it, went to a Catholic High school and university. Went through RCIA and was a week out from baptism before experiencing a pretty major crisis of faith that basically shook everything to the core and left me questioning everything. The deeper I looked, the more questions I had and the less answers I found. I eventually just came to the conclusion that religion didn’t matter to me. I didn’t care if there was or was not a god, heaven, hell, etc. It became inconsequential. Part of me hopes there isn’t a god, just because that would make things far easier to understand, but if it turned out there was one, it honestly wouldn’t impact how I’m living my life. Either he is as forgiving as everyone says he is and he’ll just see this all as angst and forgive me, or he’s as big an asshole as I think he is and I’ll go to Hell but at least it means I was right, haha.
You might dig Nietzsche’s “The AntiChrist”. Nietzsche can be a little tough to read sometime, but in that piece he’s just totally dialed in and on fire. Will show you that you aren’t the first to think these thoughts, and it will give you some solid articulation on it. Consequently, if you are looking for something on the “pro-god” side, you might consider Kierkegaard’s “The Sickness Unto Death”, which goes into detail about how life IS meaningless and only faith allows us to escape despair. I appreciate how little time he spends trying to prove God’s existence and more explaining why we NEED him to exist.
That all being said, I still really dig Christianity as a message. You read the gospels and Jesus had a really groovy message; love people and look beyond their sins. Consequently, part of the reason I gave up the faith was that I wasn’t strong enough to live that message. There are some folks I just don’t see myself ever loving or forgiving.
This is honestly something I can talk on WAY too much, haha. I’ll try not to flood the log too much, as this can be a bit of a tender subject, but know you aren’t alone.
you’re welcome to come stay anytime, brother
You weren’t being a dick, I was generalizing.
Well shit, today is my forum birthday. Hard to believe that I’ve been here for 2 whole years haha!
Happy forum birthday, in that case.
##21/11/16
##Greyskull LP
Barbell Row
supersetted with
Bench Press
2 count pause for bench, was originally gonna be a 2 second pause but I guess I count too fast.
20kgs x5
40kgs x5
60kgs x5
60kgs x5
60kgs x5 for rows and 60kgs x9 for bench
Bench went mostly ok, you can still see the difference in my wrists from the video but eh, nothing I can do about that.
Curls
20kgs x2x10
Squats
60kgs x5
80kgs x5
100kgs x5
100kgs x5
100kgs x6
considering the last time I squatted was on the 28/10/16, this went OK. Squatting for reps really really suck now that I’m used to doing only singles on the squats. The last time I did rep work on squats was on the 20/6/16 so… HOT DAMN. Squats look ok but they felt like absolute shit. Oh and now that I’m writing this the next day and yes, legs are sore.
OH and did some Snatches after
did a few full snatches and a half muscle half power snatch at 60kgs.
LOL, looked through my YouTube uploads and I just realized I’ve 182 videos of me just lifting weights. Now that’s just silly.
Seen my channel recently? There are 364 with me in various stages of beardedness, all lifting things.
Yup, I’ve been watching most of them as you update your training log. It’s funny cause my first few videos, I was struggling with 120 on the bar and I can probably do that with no warm up any time of the day now. Strange to see how ‘far’ I’ve come. Can’t imagine what will happen 10 years from now.
That’s the fun part.
##22/10/16
##Let’s just call this a study break.
Barbell Rows
50kgs x5
60kgs x5
70kgs x5
80kgs x5
form got a bit sloppy at the 80kgs but I’m fine with that.
Squats
did them slowly
60kgs x5
80kgs x5
100kgs x1
basically I took my time to go down to the bottom and might’ve paused from anywhere from 0.5 to 5secs depending on how I felt. All the reps moved fast and pretty much effortless.
Tricep Pushdowns
some for a few
##23/11/16
##Greyskull LP
Press
20kgs x10
25kgs x10
30kgs x3
32.5kgs x2x5
32.5kgs x15
taking the whole start with a light weight and working up slowly thing rather seriously, as usual, I think. could feel extremely slight discomfort in my wrist the entire time.
Chin Ups
3
wrist starting hurting like a bitch cause I might’ve injured my wrist from the 80kgs rows yesterday, can’t supinate fully.
Pull Ups
2
well, this still hurts my wrist so I just didn’t bother
Deadlift
50kgs x1
pulled hamstring and lied on floor in pain for the next 15 minutes. applied some heart rub
slightly over an hour later
Deadlift
60kgs x1
Nope, can’t do it. Quads dying, hamstrings dying. Can’t even get into proper position.
Talk about a bad training day, might finish up chins and deadlifts tomorrow depending on how I feel.
Did you sustain an actual injury or was it just bad cramping? Hope you’re not hurt!
Pretty sure it was just bad cramping! If I’m going to be hurt, at least it’s my lower body, I guess I’ll have no choice but to force myself to work solely on my upper body.
Sometimes I honestly wonder if the gym will let me in to bench/overhead press if I walk in with a full leg cast haha!
Upper body work is always nice. Can’t snatch or jerk what your back, arms, and shoulders can’t support. It has the added bonus of making you look like you lift/look less fat if you are a chubster like me.
fuck that shit, pulled my other hamstring while trying to pick up a pen off the ground while I was at the gym. I think I need to take some time off. Just some… And ease back into it even even even slower.
