[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
1- Keep in mind how many people get butthurt on these fora. I’d rather make it very clear that I’m not trying to belittle someone.[/quote]
[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
Good for you. I didn’t ask, but good for you.[/quote]
You intentionally tell me that you’re not trying to belittle me. Then you write the above quote.
Hrm.
[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
3- I did read that post and I know you’ve switched. However, your complaints about feeling tired, sore, banged up continued, so my point stands.[/quote]
They’re not complaints. This is a log. I write how I felt during the workouts in my logs. That’s sort of the point.
I get the feeling that you’re confusing what I meant when I write things like “The squats beat me up real good” and “Every part of my core and lower body hurt by the end of this. Hours later and my back and legs still hurt and feel fatigued. I had initially planned on doing some light deadlifts afterward, but I decided not to.”
Those are intentional. I try my darned best to push myself, especially on the higher rep stuff. I realized a short time ago ago that pain doesn’t mean much when it comes to higher rep stuff, and so I attempt to push through it.
I don’t battle recovery issues. What I do battle is sleep issues. For reasons that I cannot quite understand, I don’t sleep as well as I used to. As a result I don’t do well at all lifting wise on days with poor sleep.
But if I truly battled recovery issues then I wouldn’t be setting PRs most every time I went into the gym intending to hit PRs.
[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
However, to go back to the point why I posted this to begin with, telling someone who’s going into BJJ and MT that ‘the body can take a lot’ while not doing the most productive thing on earth (nothing wrong with that, me posting on a forum isn’t the most productive thing on earth) makes my hair stand up a bit. That’s all.
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You went from squatting 100kgx3 to failing the third rep of 102.5kg in two months. How’s that for “not doing the most productive thing on earth”?
I am honestly amazed that you’re trying to tell me that I’m wasting my time being inefficient when you’re doing the exact same lifts you did back in July.
I try not to preach what I haven’t experienced. I’ve been doing judo as often as my schedule allows it (2x a week), and I’ve never felt that judo and lifting interferes with one another. Could it be different if I did judo more often, or if I didn’t have the luxury of lifting in the morning and then doing judo in the evening? Perhaps, I wouldn’t know because I haven’t done that yet.
What I do know is this- On Saturdays I lift and then do judo 2-3 hours later. At first I felt tired at judo. Then a month or so later, I actually felt stronger and faster at judo.
[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
2- No one around here has a vested interest in your progress.[/quote]
No shit.
[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
If that means no one has a good reason to post in your log but you, that’s the opposite of what you just said about not minding criticism.[/quote]
I never said you don’t have a good reason to post here. I merely asked why are you posting if you have no real interest in my training.
Presumably many, many people thread this thread without ever posting. What I’m asking is, what made you decide to post in my thread?
