Pull up / press
75x8, 95x5, 115x2
BTN (55) Raise (5s) / Pushdown (25) /Rear delts (5s)
13,12,8
Curls 2 sets w 10s
Dunno if it’s because my back was tired but the weight felt like ass. Moved decently
Squat 3 sec down, split pause
135x5,
115x 8,5 heels elevated
Few sets of glutes bridges
Surprisingly difficult muscular wise
Finals season now then I need to pick up comp prep and making my ECs not dogshit lol
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Pull up/ incline (3 down) / lateral (10 w 5s) / pressdown
4x10 @ 85 lbs
Press
85x5, 85x 8
Curls
Presses felt slow as fuck - Iĺl chalk that up to feeling less than stellar. And I tweaked something in my trap area - dull/pounding pain. Suspect it was due to ring pull ups.
I’m actually sorta interested in some of my courses, it’s a nice feeling. (Spoiler alert, no not spanish or english lol). My school offers an indepent study, so fingers crossed I’ll be doing some sort of organic synthesis project next year.
Less academically - kicking around the idea of starting a band with some friends, and I still need to find more people to tutor
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Do you have friends that play? I think some of my best memories in high school were jamming with my buddies in someone’s garage. We sounded terrible but it was a lot of fun. It’s definitely different than jamming with strangers now, which is still fun but there’s more pressure.
Guitar playing friend actually suggested it
Also
Nice vote of confidence lol
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If your parents complain, just say that it’ll make you stand out from all the other violin playing Asian boys 
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It was a roundabout way to say you should play with your friends and focus on having fun 
if you happen to sound good that’s cool, but it shouldn’t be the only thing you worry about
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Dead/front foot elevated lunges
225x3, 2
Quick one. DL technique needs work
Spanish/mechanics/BC finals tomorrow so that’ll be fun; likely going to end with one B - chips fall as they do. Appetite has also fucked off to who knows where
Spanish, English - can’t really tell
Mech - bad. I froze and MCQ style was unfamiliar
BC - good
School is over which has left me with the realization I don’t know what I’d do to relax. I’m not hungry for new chem or math so my mind is telling me I need to back off for a bit. And sure I cook/piano/lift, but a whole day of rest seems unfathomable. I need it before diving into math/chem grind (along with looking for internships and such) though, anxiety like reactions have also come up
Also @anna_5588 congrats to your brother for making Uchicago!
Ladder single leg curl 4x8
Squat 135, 2x5
Finally got some snow over here. Time to get back to it
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how’s winter break going?
Have done fuck all so far lol, but I also needed the break
You?
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dicked around for a few days after my exam, and started previewing my discreet/pure maths course I’m going to take next semester. Actually quite fun!
Getting more Asian as time goes on - that’s a new one
I’ve heard discrete can be a hell of a course depending on the uni, good luck
Press from the floor
85x5, 105x2
Pull up / press variation / laterals / press down
12/11 thick DB press 54 lbs
11/6 BTN 40 lbs
85 moved decently, 105 felt slow. Shoulders were shot by the last set of BTN
I got long DB handles for Christmas, so I’m gripping the sleeves and pressing from there
Need to do more rows/rear delts. And conditioning
Happy new year to anyone reading; to new opportunities and the strength to seize them
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Last week
4x8 low incline bench @105
1/16
Press 95x5
Moved alright
Geometry and anything inorganic sucks, cmplx numbers and num theory is cool
There’s something weird with my left calf, almost feels as if you very mildly bumped your funny bone
*My “upper lats” are the only sore thing after pressing lol
No… just no…
I’ve been studying intro to pure math and it’s really trippy when you have to prove that a set is is finite or that multiplication is commutative
That sounds like the interesting type of trippy lol
But yeah I’m not quite there yet
Jump 2/ DL / leg raises 8
205 x3 x 3
3 sets- lunges, single leg hip thrust
DL still feels heavier than it should be- But I’m wearing gloves
My body also has adopted two rather annoying stress responses - less energy, and more physical anxiety.
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What’s stressing you out?