[quote]cavalier wrote:
Why does effort HURT SO MUCH??? Is there something fucked up with my nervous system? [/quote]
It’s genetics, to some degree. Some people have a higher threshold for pain. Some people build muscle easier. Some people are smarter. Some people are more artistic. Accept it and do the best you can do. Or you can spend your life whining and beating up on yourself. Do your best and hold your head high. But no need to be overly dramatic.[/quote]
This.
When I’m putting forth a close to max effort I don’t hurt I just zone out and only start to hurt when the lift is over.[/quote]
Like Joe says. I think that is one thing that can be learned. Either I zone out or tap into my dark place…
When I’m going for max effort I’m always reminded of this saying:
The weight doesn?t care about your problems. It?s trying to kick your ass, and your only choice is to kick its ass harder.
It then becomes personal, there is no pain, there is only anger and hate. I know it sounds lame but it gets me through.
Good luck with your interview.
Meh. I DL’d a mere 180 lbs 4 times and have appeared to pull my back. I think you are doing fine. Just compare yourself to me when you are feeling down.
I guess the way I see it is I am better off lifting very little than nothing at all. My health was at serious risk before I found lifting as a possible antidote. So even f I plateaued at my present maxs not Im still way better off than IF I didnt lift at all. Maybe the same for you (?)
Also, maybe try some to learn some different lifts. You may not hurt so much at the lower weights you may use as your learning a lift.
I think the experience I am missing is “The Pump” I keep reading about. I wonder if skinny-fat geeky guys who dont build muscle easy dont easily (like me) ever get the Pump.
Srpres, I have a prescription for Prozac, but not the money to get it.
OK, I did the interview. Drove almost 200 miles, it was pounding rain every step of the way. Guy sounded positive, looks like I might get the job.
But. It doesn’t pay enough to live on.
It’s teaching at a community college. He had talked as if there were several classes available, but turns out only one needs filling. Which means 6 hrs per week of work - max. Which means I have to find something else.
He gave me a ton of papers to fill out for Human Resources. Guess what, they can’t be mailed in, which means another trip just to hand them in. I’ll have to study them carefully, if they’re an actual offer, then that blows my unemployment benefits.
And the job doesn’t even start until next quarter, in January.
Hi Basil, thanks for dropping in my log. I took the username “Cavalier” because I once did a ton of role playing games, and one of my favorite characters was a martial artist/strongman called Cavalier. I just Googled on images for cavalier and liked this one.
I could post a pic of my own bod, but it’s awfully unimpressive, even considering the 30 or so years I’ve spent on it.
Hey Cav: generic Prozac (Fluoxitine) is twelve dollars for a three month supply.
Sorry to hear about the dissapointing job offer. I wanted to be a small college teacher myself but its really hard to find a job—I would have to look nationally, and there is a good chance it would take me years and a lot of temporary positions to find one. I know someone who has several degrees and wants to teach entemology (bugs ?) and she has been only able to find a job teaching one class in a local community college.
I myself was a high school teacher several years ago but that is stressful work. Maybe a possibility for you.
There is an excellent chance I will be unemployed in about 2 or 3 years, and getting a similar position will be difficult. So Im trying to save money.
Its good that you are weight lifting. I get a nice endorphin rush after I do it, hopefully you will too.
Hang in there dude. Life may not be fun at times, but at least is somewhat interesting. Plus the internet rocks.
Srpres, to teach at community college, you need a bachelor’s, doesn’t have to be in education, but you do need solid experience in the specific field covered in the class. And it takes luck for an opening to turn up. He believes I could qualify for 4 or 5 classes, but only one open now.
I don’t always get an endorphin rush after lifting, if you’ve checked my log, you’ll see that more often than not it leaves me in a worse mood than before. I just push so damn hard, and the rewards are so meager.
Four day weekend - might as well enjoy it. (American turkey day)
Today did some treadmill.
Deadlift
155 x 10 . x 10 . unbelievably hard, turns out it was psychological from yesterday’s stress (you try driving nearly 4 hrs in killer rain for a do-or-die interview and see how many yuks you have)
185 x 9
195 x 8
205 x 8
didn’t grimace and hyperventilate too bady
Pulldowns
70 x 15
90 x 12
110 x 10
130 x 8
Wrist Curl, barbell
55 x 20
85 x 15
105 x 8 . x 8 . x 8
Damn, its always something, I guess unemployment would give more of an income then sporadic teaching. Im sorry it isnt going to work out. Try to have a good holiday.
Thanks, Matty, and you’re right, unemployment benefits pay about twice what this thing will pay, and I can barely make ends make as it is.
But I was planning to move out in any case, and Columbus seems a nice place - it’s the nearest city that’s out of these crazy hills and on sensible flat ground. And I want to move before snow sets in, which gives me a couple of weeks.
The resume writing class I attended recommended listing your hobbies, so I put down my first place finish in the meet last April. That always gets attention, but I have to explain it was in Novice division, my weight class, not the whole contest. Remarkable how many people think lifting 275 is a lot of weight.
At my gym, a couple of guys were just in some meet and set several world records, I think in police/fireman division or something. I feel like I’m training in Westside or something.
My brother sent a dab of money for Thanksgiving - will hit a restaurant.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Hi Basil, thanks for dropping in my log. I took the username “Cavalier” because I once did a ton of role playing games, and one of my favorite characters was a martial artist/strongman called Cavalier. I just Googled on images for cavalier and liked this one.
I could post a pic of my own bod, but it’s awfully unimpressive, even considering the 30 or so years I’ve spent on it.[/quote]
ah, so youre not a fan of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals?
I thought there was something obvious like that. I suspect Big Nurse is, in fact a big nurse, and Farmer Brett is in fact a farmer called Brett.
DaCharming Albino may actually be an albino (or maybe its just a pigment of his imagination), kpsnap has said she was called a whippersnapper if I remember, etc.
sorry DCA, that was a joke,nothing personal was meant.
so you were either an English Civil War re-enactment nut (as opposed to being a Roundhead)or a fan of Dutch painting, or you drove a rubbish Vauxhall car in the 1990’s or you are reckless.
but I wouldnt have guessed the answer
anyway, you will get a job soon. I know these things, take my word for it.
i think it’s brasil and not basil, basil would just be too funny for an englishman (actually brasil is a scot i think so doesn’t count).
can’t work out what bluebrasil might refer too either ?
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Right. Just as Basil obviously makes you the proprietor of a bad hotel.
I’m American, by the way, so Civil War makes me think of Gone With the Wind and Dutch makes me think of cocoa. And little boys with fingers in dikes.
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very true Cav, I’m not blue, brasillian,called Basil or give Maxi’s a damned good thrashing with a tree branch (although happy to be called that on this esteemed organ), so I shouldnt have necessarily thought you were a painting buff.
