I think family is family - just when you have kids and a wife, you have much less of a choice, haha. But I like that Anna is rethinking her priorities with regards to that - there’s always time for a workout, but your family should come first. If you have to be a little late, or leave a little early, that’s one thing, and @dagill2 is right about choosing your own priorities, but I would definitely advise her to consider not rearranging family functions and vacations for workouts.
Rest has never been the full 4 minutes for all sets of any exercise during this program, haha. Bench days are probably 1-2 minutes rest. Deadlift and Squat sets are 1-2 minutes to start, and by the last sets I’m taking that full 4 minutes. I just hit go on a 4 minute timer every time I stop a set, and when I’m ready I go, if I’m not ready I wait til the timer goes and then I go.
Yeah, the dips were satisfactory. If anything, the wobbling was a little ring-dippy with stabilization and made them harder. Not a bad thing. Get a nice deep stretch on them either way, and they’re way more useful than bench dips.
Currently hating you as I’m on week 2 currently doing deads. It’s been around a year since I ran DW and figured since all you guys were running it rn and I only have access to free weight I’d join in too.
We really need to start a party thread like they have on reddit. Where we all run programs together and shit.
Running it a second time sounds even crazier than running it the first time. Especially with actual weight (unlike mine). Do you have a training log? I can’t find it.
Commendable. However, you wouldn’t have to go through extreme gastric distress once a week if you ate more every other day. It must be hell on your digestive tract.
No, you wouldn’t. It’s just not true. The gorging once a week, or whenever you do it, is because of a restricted diet coupled with overexercise. You’re less than 100 lbs - you’d never have to, or want to, eat that much food if you paid attention to hunger signals during the rest of the week. It’s why I want to high-five you for eating a ton, but I also know it’s part of an improper process and the overeating may be as unhealthy as the undereating.
Anyway, I’m blathering on and we’ve done this dance before, so I’ll just say I’m glad you had a good time and that lamb chops are rad, weekly family barbecues are a blessing and a great time, and I miss family BBQ’s with my own family a whole lot.
Nah I don’t keep a log here. I’m pretty bad about updating them even in my normal life. I’ll have to go back some times and fill in 3-5 days worth of training sometimes. If I started a log here, it’d barely get updated
Currently on week 3 day 1 and my 135 10x10 squats weren’t scaring me, so I put 185 on the bar and am at set 5/10 and it’s beating the shit out of me right now. Will report back when/if I finish. Bit nervous about the rest, we’ll see what happens.
It felt like I was wading in the kiddie pool with 135. I don’t know if what I did was blasphemy or not, but I have conditioned myself to be scared of squats and deads in general, and now that I’m performing them pain-free I’ve been building strength with solid form and effort, but I’ve been straight up lying to myself about what I could lift in order to stay in my safe place. Fuck safe places. My deads likely have to come up too, because 185 feels like I could muscle snatch it. I’ll put some more thought into it before I do it, though.
It’s been around a year since I ran DW and figured since all you guys were running it rn and I only have access to free weight I’d join in too.
, solid 1000 cal surplus for the day LOL