It’s nice to train with others and just a social environment in general but during past 2 weeks I’ve had a good time just doing my own thing.
The initial cost turns a lot of people off but is worth in many cases.
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Truly, no-one “is” a nation.
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And time with family and stuff.
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I’m afraid that is going to be a familiar theme this year across many industries.
I really, really hope Jake pulls through (although as a sparkie by trade probably not going to have to worry about earning a living for long if it comes to that). I also hope Club Lime doesn’t close the location I use. I’m hoping the 50-100 thousand dollars they put into it over the last year convinces them to keep it running.
I’m watching YouTube vids rn predicting mucho bad times ahead. Just in Australia alone we may be looking at 1 million unemployed and countless businesses gone. Even after the vaccine has been fully rolled out we’ll still be digging out of this economic hole for a long time.
I hope Danny (gym owner) re-opens down the track as he plans. I’ll do what I can. I’ve never really felt the calling to help out the community but I feel obliged given I’m pulling thru alright and all these gyms and communities have given so much to me.
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@guineapig, if a gym goes under then you might get a good deal on equipment. It’s not something to hope for but no reason to pass up a bargain if it happens.
Here’s the bargain rack I’d buy if you want a full one.
@MarkKO, for a little more than $4000, I could buy this.
The bar on the slides (Smith) can be locked at the top so you can throw in a regular bar. I don’t need it, but it sure is pretty. I also don’t think it’ll fit in my basement. I’d have to dig out the floor and for that price, I could probably pour a concrete pad and build a shed.
@MarkKO and @guineapig
Keep an eye on the auction sites, not eBay but EvansClarke, Gray’s, and many others, I’ve found gym stuff pops up on them quite regularly, however haven’t really needed to buy anything for years. I get training in a gym with other people is great, however lifting at home is freaking awesome once you have a good setup. Your music, noone to piss you off, fridge nearby. Our last couple of houses my wife has just accepted it has to have a double garage and both cars will be on the driveway still, it’s my room, haha. I do like to keep 1 side of the garage easy to move out of the way incase I have to get a car in there to service or fix something.
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Woke at 255.5 lbs, looking similar to yesterday
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I’ve never auctioned on anything in my life lol
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Worth doing. Pretty good for tools sometimes, especially older ones.
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Interesting, in my neck of the woods gyms leases their machines pretty much exclusively. Unsure about free weights.
Our big gyms do that, but the I assume the garage gyms (CrossFit affiliates) buy their stuff. I’m not sure if those big places lease barbells and plates. I think it’s just the machines.
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Extra workout
Decided that this third (or first, can’t decide where the training week ends now) one would be mostly upper body
Two rounds of
25 pull aparts
10 kb bottoms up presses with the 17 lber
4 pullups
25 air squats
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So let’s say the training week is just Monday-Sunday, it runs
Monday - rest, extra workout two
Tuesday - bench
Wednesday - lower body and pullups at home
Thursday - rest, extra workout one
Friday - upper body at home
Saturday - rest, extra workout one
Sunday - squat
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I’m feeling a bit reflective (and you know what that means, so you’ve been warned).
I don’t like lifting weights. It is not pleasant.
What I very much like is getting bigger and stronger. I like being bigger and able to lift more weight than other people, and it irks me that the group of people than whom I am bigger and stronger does not include at least some big and strong people. I am pleased with progress I make, because it means I am closer to including some big and strong people in the group that I am bigger and stronger than.
So I am glad when I can train in a manner better suited to achieving that goal, not because I enjoy the training, but because I enjoy taking more effective steps towards the goal.
I was talking to my mate while we trained. It was an interesting conversation, because we differ on many points of view. This makes for a more beneficial dialogue. We talked about our goals, and the importance of longevity. For me, longevity is important because that is one of the few advantages I can secure for myself against those more talented, dedicated and physically gifted than I - of which there are many.
The longer I do this, the more I learn and the more experience I get. I already have an advatange in my ability to do as I am told, and to have little emotional skin in the game. When I combine those three, it will give me some small edge over a less experienced, stronger but more emotionally fragile lifter.
By the time my total is respectable, I will have close to 10 years experience in the sport. I will be surprised if half the lifters I know now are still there.
I don’t think it can be stressed enough for many powerlifters: do not seek enjoyment in your training. What you enjoy will change with your moods. Seek what delivers the most progress at the smallest cost. You will enjoy cheap progress in any mood.
Yes, I know. A 275er with a sub 1800 lbs total isn’t someone you should really be looking at as some oracle.
Except doing all that shit took my total up almost 200 lbs in two years.
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I think we’ve all learned your experience isn’t to be sniffed at man. Good to hear your thoughts.
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Woke at 255 lbs, looking similar to yesterday
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Whilst I think I understand the intent of this statement. I am not sure I agree with it totally. ‘Getting the most progress at the minimum cost’ this I am 100% on board with.
‘Do not seek enjoyment in your training’ this part I can’t agree with and I think this is the part that is very personal. I know @T3hPwnisher also spoke about not loving the training but liking he results and this seems aligned to your way of thinking. For me though it’s different. I enjoy the training, I enjoy the process of having 2 hours to myself
In the gym doing something very basic and very physical. Maybe it is because all other parts of my life have become so soft that the simple effort of struggling in the gym gives me balance. I get that if you seek enjoyment in training, as in it will be fun. You are probably going to come up empty. But I think seeking some enjoyment in training or learning to at least like it, is possible for some.
Now I have to say that your training level and mine are very different and I am sure this effects the potential for fun or enjoyment in training.
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Perhaps the purpose of the training, or the end goal has something to do with it as well. If you’re training just to train without much in the way of a measurable goal, then yeah enjoyment should be taken into consideration for sure. If there’s a specific goal that must be reached though, that’s when I think Marks or Pwns mindset is more useful.
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If you don’t have a goal and train just for the sake of it, and have no enjoyment then why the heck would you bother.
I don’t have the same goals as Mark but I do have goals. I still enjoy training though. Even when it hurts and I’m tired, I still enjoy it. Maybe I am weird.
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