Get out of your own head. Do not be a victim of your own thoughts man.
You are a savage. Believe it and be it.
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@aldebaran, Klein has it right. Stop self-deprecating
Everything is possible if u believe
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So i decided to drive to Nîmes. Fuck it, I wanted a therapy session with the iron. Perhaps feeling down because I was tired and overdid it this weekend again? having a crush like a kid? I dunno
Jacked 31 - Day 1 - 06/10
A. Front squats with 7 secs eccentric 1 x 4 with 90 kgs, 3 x 5 with 80 kgs
B. Incline bench with 7 secs eccentric 5 reps with 70, 65, 65, 60 kgs
C. RDL with 7 secs eccentric 2 x 5 with 140 kgs, 2 x 5 with 130 kgs
D. Pull-ups with 7 secs eccentric 3 x 5
E1. Reverse grip curls 8,8,5,3 reps with increasing weight
E2. Skullcrushers 8,8,6,3 reps with increasing weight
You can see weights are all over the place because it was TOUGH AS HELL. I guess I was too greedy? But yeah you’re not used to 7 secs eccentric ahah. This was a baller. RPE 10 on all but perhaps 1 set on the four main exercises.
I trained too hard I guess. Or did I trained like I have to? I really don’t know anymore… Anyway very, very ahrd and humbling sessions. The weights were tiny, excepted on the RDL. But there I really gave every cell in my body to move it. I think next week I’ll do the sets with 80 on FS, 65 on incline, 120 on RDL, and if it’s really too easy I’ll increase, not the other way around.
I met a guy I used to work out with a years ago. A literal tank, and he told me “always so lean!” and I was like really? I’m planning on losing 3 more kgs. So yeah perhaps my image is distorted? But I’m still planning on losing them.
Did the beach window for performance athlete at the end, and yeah it’s true that a little 10 min pump work can have really nice benefits on the mental after a gruelling session. i was begining to being really pumped, and looking actually really good. So I guess I just had a down moment and I have to continue forward, and believe in myself like you said guys. Met guys I hang out with, was nice chating a bit and training really.
But my elbow pain is bad today. I’m guessing yesterday’s work did a dent. i could feel it on the incline bench… I think it’s golfer elbow. Low bar that I did for the conjugate program did a number on it, even with the talon grip. It’s annoying, I’ve been having it for a couple months at least now, and it is really painful.
So yeah, no more supinated work or even neutral at all for the back. Reverse grip arm work wasn’t painful but I think I’ll still cut it, or perhaps do sets of 40+ something. I want this to heal! I miss curls ahahah…
Here’s a pic from tonight, 86 kgs on the dot
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**coughs in agreement**
I haven’t done 7s eccentrics but for 5 second eccentrics I’ll take 70-75% of what I’d use to hit the same number of reps with a normal tempo. Might want to evaluate against 65-70% and see if you went unreasonably heavy (or just right).
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Next week will be sets of 4 with 6 secs so the same weight should be fine
Mate your 86 looks a lot sharper than my 88😂
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Yes. Yes it is.
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I agree. Well to be fair I feel like most people who lift for aesthetics have distorted body image to some degree, especially if they’re into pro bodybuilding.
Thought I just had: isn’t body image technically entirely subjective? An obese person would be happy with just not being obese, a pro BB’er would be concerned about just losing their abs. So I don’t actually know if it is, philosophically speaking, possible to have a “distorted body image” since it’s all relative anyway?
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Not distorted, but if such a person sees themselves as fat then it’s distorted because it’s just not true. @aldebaran has had pics with abs and focused on non-present love handles. That’s distorted. If he just said the goal was to be leaner rather than less fat then that’d be more sane.
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Definitely agree with that.
So, philosophically speaking, one’s body image is distorted when their subjective view is decoupled from objective measurement?
Theoretically that is exactly correct. But we then have to decide what is and isn’t objective, and indeed if an objective standard can be said to exist at all.
In this context: when tons of your peers have a differing view to your own, maybe?
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I disagree. I believe they have a distorted use of language. They have a realistic image of where they are, they just use different words to describe it than the 300lbs tub of lard. This is distinct in my mind from people who genuinely do not have a realistic view of themselves, those suffering from dysmorphia
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Definitely agree. The whole “what is objectivity” discussion is really only theoretical anyway. Practically this is the best view to take.
That’s an interesting way of putting it actually.
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I don’t know man, when someone at 10-12% calls themselves “fat” that doesn’t scream realist to me.
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Tons of peers is actually a fun metric. Take their average bodyweight and calculate how many you need to pluralise the metric measurement of tonne.
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Again, to me that’s simply a distorted use of language. Put them next to someone at 20 or 25% fat and get them to choose the leanest, then you’ll find the real dysmorphia.
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As a follow up to your example would you consider such a person that always uses the appropriate word as merely more linguistically in-tune or someone that has slightly less dysmorphia? I’d argue it can exist on a spectrum and I do believe the words we choose to describe ourselves (even if we’re just being lazy) informs our internal image of ourselves.