So you will be really tired and might not lift like you normally do?!? Or your such a beast your strong body won’t even recognize the difference?!? Which is it going to be… 
That’s right, Markko! You gonna let yourself look like a punk in front of countrygirl2016? You little bitch, get liftin’!
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HAHAHA!!! I was just trying to figure out what he’s setting us up for here. Will we be impressed or am I going to give him some bullshit pep talk?!? @MarkKO I am completely messing with you because I’m always impressed even when your hard on yourself.
@Yogi1 I could use some of your comments to kick my booty into gear. I try not to be sensitive and just do work but sometimes could use rough talk!
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@Yogi1 I’m going to have to bring my A game for sure, can’t let the side down now can I?
@countrygirl2016 not sure what I’m setting myself up for either.
Nah, it’s just different. I’ve never trained at that time before (0700 to 0900), so not sure what kind of crowd there’ll be and how busy. I’m guessing busy at first then tailing off, but as long as I get a rack I’m happy.
It’s not like I do jack @#$% on nights right now so at worst I’ll be switched off when I finish work. Coffee and a bar in my hands will change that.
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Thank you for clearing that up for us! I knew it had to be something other then fear of weakness 
Cycle 6, week 2 - 3s week
Today’s training:
Agile 8 and shoulders
Press
3x132 lbs, under 6 RPE
3x154 lbs, 6ish RPE - sloppy
4x170 lbs, failed a fifth because I was being that sloppy. Mind was just not on the job, so fell far short of my goal of seven to eight.
Decided to push the FSL sets to the max reps of eight to make up
5x8x132 lbs, 7 through to 8 RPE - last two sets were the first to feel locked in.
Calf raises after each set:
3x20x176 lbs standing - very different to seated, felt all over the calf rather than one head or the other
2x20x88 lbs seated
Supersetted 176 lbs bench press/132 lbs Fat Gripz Lat pull-down
3x10/12
100 leg-to-leg jump rope after each set
Finished with my first few double unders for shits and giggles.
I’m going to need to get my head and meal timing right for tomorrow, because I won’t get away with this much mental laxity for DL.
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You got it - been meaning to ask if you are familiar with Press 2.0?
Coffee up pre training, if it doesn’t keep you up, and BCAA’s during, you’ll get it done. Consider a mass gainer instead of BCAA’s, nothing crazy, but a few carbs during may help.
How are those hack squats treating you? I think I might throw those in during my off season, though I feel like I am either messing up bad, or the machine I tried them on is awful.
No, haven’t heard of that one.
I just got a few things wrong that combined with mental fatigue meant I didn’t do as well as I could have. I ate too long before training for one; I rushed my work up sets for two, so I wasn’t setting up properly during my working sets; and finally I simply wasn’t concentrating until halfway through.
I’ll do better for DL.
Cutting me down to size. The machine at the gym is a Cybex and it completely isolates my vastus lateralis, medius and rectus femoris. It’s set up so they’re the only muscles that can move the load, it’s awesome and horrible at the same time. I don’t think I’ve ever managed more than maybe seven reps before I need to pause. Combined with the narrow stance squats I’m hoping my quads will grow.
Been trying to rant (sort of) and it’s not quite flowing.
TL;DR:
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I’m an angry SOB. I don’t mean I’m in a bad mood, I mean anger is an emotion that comes much more easily to me than most others.
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Thank $#%@ I’m also a very controlled person, or 1 would probably make my life difficult and me a pain to be around.
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I absolutely one hundred per cent subscribe to the notion that you have to take care of yourself first if you’re going to be able to take care of others.
So, if life manages to mess with my ability to do 3, number 2 suffers and 1 starts becoming a shit ton more obvious.
Honestly, taking care of myself really just means I get to train. Give me that, and I’m good. I’ll deal with whatever other crap that comes up with a smile, or at least without growling.
Anyway, the cause of the rant is that I’m not completely sure I’ll get to train tomorrow. My other half isn’t working for this and next week, and that means I’ve got less ability to do whatever I need to do during the day when I need to do it (currently on night shift). Couple that with being on day eight of 11 and I’m getting close to the borders of what I consider adequate control of my general pissed-offness.
Anyhow, I’ll go home this morning and figure out how I’ll manage it. I really fucking want to train, and I’d happily do it right after work but I know the young fellow was upset I’m not home tonight so I want to catch him before he goes to day care tomorrow (putting that before training doesn’t even register on my scale of stuff that grates, it’s a no brainer because he comes first by a country mile); but I’m hoping then I’ll be able to nap and head to the gym in the early afternoon and then come home without my other half minding. She doesn’t like spending time by herself - never lived alone, so I guess that makes it tough to enjoy time off.
The realisation I had coming in to work is that these days I pretty much go 100 miles an hour from about 0400 to 1900 Monday to Friday to get crap done (training, errands, stuff around the house, etc) so I can be completely available as a family guy on evenings and weekends. I’m happy to do it; more, doing it actually makes me happy.
Problem is, when that window gets drastically shrunk because I’m on nights AND you add my other half being home instead of working it kind of stops being so easy to do and the prospect of having to forego something that helps me keep a lid on my tendency to get royally fucking pissed off really knots my guts.
So, essentially, trying to help my other half deal with a legitimately stressful job as a front line social worker (her work gave her the two weeks off because she was about to walk out the door) becomes harder when I feel like I’m getting stretched pretty @#$%ing thin.
That’s the issue. I love my other half and stepson more than I ever thought I could love anyone, but I’ve been me long enough to know what I need to do for myself to allow me be a decent partner/father who doesn’t snap every two seconds - but, I’m still unsure whether I’m being a precious, selfish arsehole by doing that or whether it’s acceptable behaviour.
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I feel ya Mark. Its tough to make training a priority around family. Got 2 very young kids and a wife myself and I have alternated between training very early (5 am) or very late after the kids go to sleep in order to share my time equally. Its tough man but my wife has come to understand its a part of who I am and something I care a great deal about. I’ve had a few days that I had to suck it up and miss training. I wasn’t happy about it but I got over it and my strength didn’t suffer.
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I know, not the end of the world. I have zero concern over my strength in that respect, I got over that bugbear a while ago. Right now it’s more getting an hour and a bit of headspace that I’m focused on.
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It sucks that everything is so crazy for you right now 
I agree it’s important to see your little man before daycare especially if he is used to it. As for your other half that’s important too but my opinion (I hope it’s alright to give)… you should still go to the gym and clear your head and even if it means sacrificing some time together at least it will be more meaningful when you are together because you will be happier!!
I’ll probably end up going, but if I don’t the world won’t end. The way things are shaping up it’s good I’m not training straight after work because it’s slow AF right now and I’m getting sluggish. I’d be hard pushed to switch on. A few hours sleep will make all the difference.
@countrygirl2016 feel free to opine. If I’m going to bitch and moan about trivialities I’d be foolish to object people offering opinions.
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@MarkKO well there are things I don’t want to overstep on if I don’t agree like you taking time away from the gym if it’s not necessary. I don’t think what your upset over is silly at all because each thing is very important. You deserve to vent and you deserve some you time at the gym or you will explode over something stupid later. (or at least I have)
It’d be hard for you to overstep anything from where I sit. Anything I post here I’m aware is essentially fair game. Venting is the word. I was more surprised at how irritable I was when I got to work. Much less so now, which is nice.
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My brother had a saying, “You have to look out for number one, or else, you’ll step in number two.”
He meant that you have to be happy and healthy to be available to provide for others. If you aren’t, you can’t.
He passed in 2001 and I memorialized him with two tattoos - his initials, and a symbolic representation of this saying.
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@The_Myth LOVE IT!!!
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@The_Myth thank you for sharing that. Puts how I feel eloquently.
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