There’s always next year.
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Better.
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The Barbados are looking for immigrants!
After all that’s happened in the world in 2020, it makes me feel good that British humor is still so dry we answer a joke with a bibliography
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Unlike our weather…
Edit: I’m sorry that was awful but necessary.
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You must be a dad. No-one can make jokes like that without being a dad.
Yup, two kids = doubly bad jokes!
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Zing!
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A lot of my doctor friends who had doctor parents always hated training at the institution where their parents practice. Each time they’d make a mistake, they’d always get compared. My 2c, if I may, is don’t feel the pressure to try and fill those shoes. You can always excel and bring something unique to the table.
Glad to hear about your grades though!
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Agreed, thanks for the insight. I’m definitely aware of how useless it is to feel that sort of pressure, but it sits there a bit no matter what I do. No biggie.
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Had several days off from the gym - just no time to workout between school/work/kids. Kids have been sick too. Yesterday went in and hit some chest and shoulders. Today I went in and started a back day with a PR of 330x30 on trap bar deads. Felt absolutely nauseous and destroyed afterwards, had to sit down for a few minutes and try not to puke. Was pretty hyped about it though, was good work. Went to close grip cable pulldowns for 4x8 with 16/20 on the weight stack, then to wide grip pullups with a 5 second eccentric, only managed about 6, 5, and 3 reps, haha. Just got some good TUT there after that. Finished with preacher curls and hammer curls, and left.
Need to hop back on the regular routine but I just needed to beat myself up a bit. Like with my seemingly permanently changed appetite, I might have switched something in my brain, because no bro ‘needs’ to do 30 reps of trap bar deads in one set.
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Dude that’s intense! Can’t believe you didn’t blow chunks. You do them dead stop or touch n go?
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Touch and go, but with a controlled negative - no bounce. Also, only resting at the top of the movement, and I didn’t use straps. I have never really repped many dead stops, and I don’t think I’d make it close to 30 with them. I can grind out lots of quality reps keeping tension on the muscles - when I completely stop and go to regain a brace and pull from the floor with a really fatigued back, I tend to fuck myself up.
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I was impressed before, but now I’m REALLY impressed. Good golly.
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My gym only has high handles, by the way - these weren’t low handles. I’m pretty tall so it’s probably a comparable ROM to someone shorter, but just figured I should put that out there - the handles are about 3-4 inches higher than a regular barbell would be.
I’ve never struggled with this, but recent circumstances have me reassessing my training in drastic ways. I might be changing to a perpetual maintenance program. Lift enough to maintain my physique, let go of the strength stuff, and enjoy life.
The up side is that I need/want to improve my conditioning and performance and I can still do that with this approach.
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I’m having a bit of trouble figuring what exactly it is I want out of lifting at the moment. A flexistenswole crisis, if you will.
Some part of me wants to be leaner, the other part of me doesn’t care and wants to be bigger and stronger. I just know that skipping back and forth between both is the only way to surely fail, so I need to choose one and go full steam ahead.
But yes, at the moment, and in times of high stress like I’m under (and you as well), just getting in there and working is far better than doing nothing.
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That’s crazy brutal and awesome.
FWIW for several years after the military, while having several kids and going to school (bs and mba) and solely supporting said growing family, I didn’t do much if any physical training at all. I had forgotten why until I read your post and, that’s exactly why- theres only room for a certain amount of stress.
That being said you are so far ahead of average (in the literal, 50% sense) folks like me that you could train 30 minutes twice weekly, honestly for stress relief, and graduate in far better shape than I am.
Its definitely about priorities and family comes before lifting, and school is for family, so it comes before lifting too.
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I’m having to answer some big questions. What are my goals? Why are they important? What’s the cost of pursuing them?
That last question is a big one and none of us will have the same answer. Identifying goals is typically easy for me but I seem to pick some things that don’t make sense when I break it down.
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If no one else will I will commend you in this excellent word play. Quality
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