I really don’t know what the hell is wrong, I haven’t been feeling like my usual self for over a week. Like I said, there are a whole bunch of people at my work that have coronavirus so I wouldn’t doubt that I have been in contact with it myself, I just haven’t had any of the typical respiratory symptoms or a fever but it would explain a lot. The stomach thing is probably something else, but who knows. At least I’m feeling better today.
Friday - trying to deadlift
Pulled 525x1 and it felt like it took some effort but better than last week. Loaded 565 and couldn’t get it off the floor. Then I thought I would do a few reps with 495 but I pulled a single and that was all I had energy for. No assistance work because I have no energy, also seems like I get tired really fast now for some reason. At least bench on Wednesday wasn’t too bad.
I don’t feel like puking anymore, but I still don’t feel normal. Energy is just low and I feel lazy, if I didn’t have to go to work I would go back to sleep. My guess is I probably got infected with the coronavirus but managed to fight it off, except it took a toll on my body.
My bodyweight is about 253, I was thinking of cutting down to about 242 after the meet since I don’t want to fill out the 275 class, I only have another 10lbs to go.
Do you have one of those blood oxygen readers that goes on your finger? They’re pretty cheap I think. If you’re burning through your oxygen faster than you can put it back…I hope you didn’t get Covid man.
No, I don’t have one.
Whatever I had, it looks like I’m better now, I just lost some weight and feel weak. At my work there are a whole bunch of residents with a cough and fever, I think 6 or 8 are confirmed positive for Covid, at least one employee is positive and another 5 or 6 are possible cases. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all if that’s what it was, in fact that’s the most likely explanation.
Like I was saying, this virus is overrated. I work in a nursing home, the residents are old and sick and none are dead or dying from it. They say most people don’t even have any symptoms.
Saturday - trying to bench
Bench up to 365x1 - Kind of slow, Wednesday was better but I think I lost a couple more punds since then. Weight this morning was 252.4. I don’t really mind losing some weight, but I lost more strength than anything and that’s not good at all.
Slingshot bench
405x2 - hard, felt shaky and unstable
405x3 - better, had to strain to lock out the last rep
The funny thing is that a couple weeks ago I was doing triples with 435. Or maybe it’s not so funny.
W shoulder rotation - 2 sets
So I don’t know what to do from this point forward, my lifts are in the toilet and I’m losing weight. I was thinking after the meet (which is cancelled) that maybe I would cut down to 242 since I was basically in the middle of the 275 class and not planning on filling it out but I’m losing weight way too fast right now. I must have lost 5lbs just this week. I also ate well yesterday and still lost 1lb. My legs look noticeably smaller. This past year has just been one setback after another.
I’m somewhat convinced that my wife and I both got it in February going through Miami airport. It wasn’t the end of the world, and if we did it was much milder for us than for a lot of people. I think the real danger of it is just overwhelming hospital resources. It only takes a small percent of cases being critical if the infection rate is high. I think the greatest risk factor is being Italian or of Italian descent (Half kidding here) - which explains New York.
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I think it’s inaccurate to say that it’s overrated, based on your experience. We don’t really know that whatever you have is COVID-19. There also appears to be significant variation in severity of illness. I personally know 2 people (both young and healthy) that contracted COVID-19 and ended up in the ICU. There are over 37,000 people dead from COVID-19 in the US over the past couple of months (a significant portion being younger than 60).
If you think about it, this virus has more global impact than Ebola. What makes this virus dangerous is how contagious it is and it’s relatively high mortality rate. It is more contagious and has a higher mortality rate than the flu. Although the mortality rate is much lower than Ebola, it spreads farther and faster because people can pass on the virus when they are asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic. On the other hand, most people with Ebola get very sick rapidly, and are unable to travel.
I work in a nursing home where a whole bunch of people have had it for the last three weeks, nobody is dying an nobody is hospitalized. There is a study that just came out of Stanford, the death rate is now estimated to be around 0.14%. It’s the same as the flu.
Most people have no symptoms, between 50-80% of infections. A very small percentage get seriously sick, even when its sick people in nursing homes.
Interesting, I’m a physician at Stanford. I’m not sure which study you’re referring to. I know there is a new study (still undergoing peer review) that estimates that the prevalence is about 50 times what is estimated. This study is based on antibody test af about 3000 residents of Santa Clara County, California, that showed that 1.5% tested were positive. The authors then extrapolated that 48,000 to 81,000 of the residents are infected, about 85 times the confirmed cases, and that the mortality rate is about 0.12 to 0.2%. There have been several criticisms of this extrapolation:
- This was not a random sample. Subjects were recruited through Facebook, which biases it more towards those with symptoms suspicious for COVID-19. While we already know that the true prevalence is higher than those tested, this study most likely overestimates it.
- we do not routinely do testing for flu. Estimates of prevalence are based on symptoms. Therefore, CDC’s estimate of the mortality for flu is likely also overestimated. Many people with flu don’t get reported to national databases. So we’re essentially comparing an underestimated mortality rate for flu (based on reported symptoms) against an overestimated mortality for COVID-19 (based on an extrapolation from non-random antibody testing in one county)
- if you extrapolate the numbers to New York City, it would mean that everyone in NYC is already infected ( which is not true).
As I said there is significant variation in symptoms. I would not be surprised if we end up finding out that there are several different strains of the same virus. Right now, we just don’t know.
Anyway, I don’t want to derail your log. Just want to make sure people realize how serious it is, and that we need to keep doing what’s necessary to reduce the spread.
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I think the lack of transparency from China (Shocking, I know) and the seemingly brutal deathrate in Italy is what freaked everyone out. More information sooner would have brought a very different scene. But my little brother is a quadrapalegic and super high risk for anything along these lines, so I’m happy for people to not bring it near him.
That sounds like the same study.
I’m not a doctor or scientist, but if you ask me it should have been handled differently. Shutting down everything (as has been done in Canada and elsewhere) is not much use, and also didn’t prevent those at highest risk of complications and death from getting infected. It would have made more sense if seniors and those with health conditions that put them at risk were told to stay home and the government could organize a service to deliver food to them, rather than paying millions of people to stay home from work.
Also, in Ontario most of the deaths have been nursing home residents. The virus obviously came in from outside, and in most cases through the employees since visitors were banned for several weeks in advance. Nursing staff were told not to wear masks, until it was too late and the home had an outbreak, but this made very little sense. Surgical masks, which there is no shortage of, are more effective at preventing the wearer from infecting others than vice versa, so if potentially infected employees wore them when working with residents it would have reduced any chance of infection in the first place. Instead they wait until everyone is sick.
From my observations, whatever they are worth, this virus looks to be much less severe than the flu. The big difference is that it spreads much more easily, but then again most people have no symptoms at all. Last time we had a flu outbreak at work, people were dying left and right. Right no nobody is hospitalized or dying, and it has been going on for 3 weeks.
Do many people get infected with the flu and not have symptoms? If someone with no flu symptoms dies then what significance is the flu infection?
It’s OK, its much better than the mindless bickering in the other COVID threads.
Also the way the media is reporting nothing but COVID for weeks at a time. Hearing about that mass shooting in Nova Scotia is like a breath of fresh air (sounds fucked up, doesn’t it?).
There is something weird going on with China, Bill Gates, and the WHO. The WHO is pro-China and was vouching for the accuracy of their data, and so was Bill Gates who is one of the main donors to the WHO. Apparently it was only after Gates wanted this declared a pandemic and to shut things down that the WHO made those declarations, and Bill Gates is also in the vaccine business.
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Monday, April 20 - Squat day
Squat in wraps - Kraits - expectations are low so I figured I would use lighter wraps instead
505x2 - felt hard, looked easy on video. Descent was a bit shaky and not quite depth, but it went up OK
505x1 - I thought I would try to make up for it on the next set but this was no better, shaky descent and it looks like I shifted backwards on the way up, which is a new one. Again, it didn’t look too hard but I just have no energy to strain right now. Wasn’t about to push for another rep.
Squat - knee sleeves
365x5 - That was all I had, I was thinking 8-10 reps but not today.
Band bad girl
mini x15x3 sets - the last few weeks it feels like my knees want to cave in when I’m squatting, which was never a problem in the past. Maybe this will help. I definitely felt this in my outer hips.
This was a real shitty session, strength is way down. Last time I used the Kraits I squatted 545x2 and that was 3 months ago. I probably get 15lbs more out of the Super Heavies, but that doesn’t explain the way I’m feeling now. If I didn’t have coronavirus then I have no idea what went wrong, at least I’m not sick now and I can eat but I’m weak as shit.
You’re probably very dehydrated.
I wish that was the case. I think last Monday I was, and I had barely eaten anything for several days, but that’s not the case now at all. I drank 700ml of Gatorade during my workout today, on top of juice, water and a protein shake before, and I ate and drank plenty the last few days.
It went like this: 2 weeks ago I had one shitty night of sleep, which is usually no big deal, but the whole week I just felt like my energy was down and I had less appetite than usual. Then last weekend my stomach felt all weird and I completely lost my appetite, I had to force myself to eat what little I could but I felt like I was going to puke very time. I called sick to work (where there is a coronavirus outbreak for 3 weeks now) and had 3 days off in a row, I felt better after that but I lost about 6-7lbs and strength is way down, especially on squat and deadlift it seems.
If it’s not coronavirus then I don’t know what the hell it is, but a couple days in the news they said that nausea and vomiting are now considered coronavirus symptoms and if I was sick earlier I would have been eligible for testing, but I was already back to work by then. Apparently a lot of the residents at my work are having trouble eating, we have to blend up the food for some people who used to eat regular food until they got sick.
All I can do is keep lifting and my strength should come back. I would try to cut another 10lbs and move down to 242 but right now I’m already weak as fuck so I don’t want to get any weaker. No way I’m going to fill out the 275s.
I think I would try to eat a lot of soup, the saltier the better. Low calorie load but good for hydration, and hot liquids sit better for me. I’ve even tried hot Jello (Something my wife’s family did when sick). The sugar boost can be nice when you’re dragging too.
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Eddie Hall also dehydrated after all the sweating he is doing watching Thor coming for his record lol
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I feel fine now, strength is just down and I lost a couple pounds. My legs looked like they shrank quite a bit, but after squatting on Monday and eating and drinking after they are almost back to normal size, maybe part of it is glycogen depletion from not really training much and barely eating. Also before I lost my appetite for some reason I was thirsty as hell all the time and pissing constantly, it was like water loading or something. That couldn’t have helped.
Wednesday, April 22 - Main bench day
Bench press - new setup with less arch so my ass stays on the bench
355x2 - went for a 3rd rep and couldn’t lock it out, like I have no ability to grind at all. I don’t know how I benched 385 last week because I felt like shit then, it really makes me wonder.
315x6, 4 - Not sure I could do another rep on either set. I can’t do reps for shit right now, this is a weight I should be able to do about 10 reps with.
Floor pause DB flys
75’s x10, 7
Front raise
75x8 - too heavy
65x10
Side raise
30’s x13, 10
I guess I just have to work my way back up to what I was lifting before, not much else I can do about it. It’s frustrating but at least I’m not injured or something.
Friday, April 24 - Deadlift day
Deadlift - sumo
535x2 singles - This didn’t go well, I wanted to do 3-4 reps but the first one was about RPE 8, I rested for a couple minutes and went for it again and it was harder. I’m working every day right now and doing 2 people’s work at the same time, on top of the previous bullshit the stress and fatigue is getting to me so things aren’t going too good. But this is about 90%, so it’s not that bad I suppose.
Deadlift - conventional - straps/beltless
405x5 - I just went until it felt like it was hard to keep my lower back straight. I have shit leverages for conventional but after I hurt my back in the summer I was pulling conventional for a few weeks (sumo was bugging my hips) and then I made some sudden sumo gains after switching back, I’m hoping it will work again like this. The first few inches off the floor are the hard part for me, I think I can RDL about the same or more as I can pull from the floor conventional.
Chin ups - wide overhand
BW x12
I would have done some rows and curls but I had to go get tested for coronavirus and then go to work so I was in a rush. Unfortunately the test didn’t work out, they have to shove a long swab down your throat while you sit still and I almost puked and jumped out of my chair, the tried a second time but it wasn’t happening. Maybe that explains all the “false negatives”. I would have to be sedated to do that test, and the other option is through your nose, which is even worse.
I’m off to bench now.
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