@T3hPwnisher I’ve been committing a mortal sin — training heavy at a commercial gym near my apartment.
Honestly, I only train 2-3x/week due to time and recovery constraints, but I try to really push my limits every time I step foot in the gym. This doesn’t necessarily refer to setting a PR, but I always give 110% when I train.
I’m almost worried there’s a problem with my heart. After my set with 315 x 15, I felt like I was going to pass out and die for 10 minutes. Really, the set didn’t feel very difficult and I got it done in exactly 60 seconds, but maybe my conditioning isn’t on point? I’m too afraid to push my heart rate past a certain limit because I get lightheaded and feel like I’m gonna pass out.
Also, I can deadlift, but even with picture-perfect form it really screws up my back. I’m struggling to find a hinge movement that doesn’t aggravate my lower back.
I pulled 365 x 10 fairly recently — the set felt great, but 5 minutes later I knew I was going to be “out of commission” for a week.
@atlas13 You’ve nailed it dude. Dan John summed it up too: gaining WEIGHT is easy, but gaining MUSCLE is hard. Eating to gain that muscle is tough.
@simo74 Very much on board the lunch prep train. Same reason: no bandwidth wasted. Just make the food, grab it and go.
@ChongLordUno Hell yeah dude! That stuff will change you.
@round2lifting Dude, no shame in getting work in wherever you can. I’ve been doing a lot of balling in hotel fitness centers recently. Effort is effort, and it will reflect. Good that you’re finding ways to move forward. I had something like that with pulls that lasted for 3 years. Can you do partials? That saved me, and it’s how I discovered ROM progression. Funny enough, I’m actually planning on doing a soul breaking deadlift workout tomorrow morning, if everything works out.
The thought of not having meals prepared and having to think about lunch each day and make something would straight up give me anxiety…LOL I dont know how normal people cope.
@simo74 No joke: restaurants prey on that very anxiety. The constantly rotating and difficult to navigate menus compel people to pick more expensive and easier to prepare items because they’re the “easy” choice, and when people show up hungry and exhausted due to a failure to plan, they don’t want to spend any more mental bandwidth than possible. It’s a terrible cycle that just self[-perpetuates. Typically, these same folks skipped breakfast, because they slept until the very last second, because they’re exhausted, because their nutrition is so terrible. They’ll binge at lunch, snack on garbage all day, come home and either grab fast food on the way or make some terrible microwave instant monstrosity, then eat on the couch until it’s time to passout and repeat the whole thing all over again.
AM WORKOUT (0325 natural wake up)
CHAOS IS THE PLAN Week 3, Workout 4
MAIN WORK
Texas deadlift bar touch and go deadlifts
3x155+chains
1x225+chains
1x315+chains
10+4+4x405+chains (12 deep breaths between sets)
SUPPLEMENTAL WORK
20 rounds EMOM
Odd rounds: 5x316 axle deadlifts
Even rounds: 5x225 SSB squats
ASSISTANCE
30 GHRs
40x380 reverse hyper
30 standing ab wheel
POST WORKOUT SHAKE
CONDITIONING
12 EMOM rounds of putting plates away as fast as possible+various band work, but at the top of each minute knocked out 5 chins and 5 dips
32 axle shrugs against strong short bands
Notes:
Because of an unplanned work trip (chaos IS the plan), I made this my last deadlift workout of the cycle, so went straight from 3 mats to floor. Good showing for that. I had some higher ambitions for how insane I wanted to make this workout, but morning of I just wasn’t feeling it, so just made it one big set with the follow on supplemental work. Still a hard pull for me, and my face reflects the effort with all the blown out blood vessels. Having to pull the weight silently definitely adds a new challenge variable.
Made the supplemental work a little easier so I could stretch it a little longer. After that topset pull, deficits weren’t gonna happen, so kept it to the floor with a consistent rep range and rolled with it. It timed out perfect, because by round 20 I was absolutely toast.
The conditioning at the end was cute and answered the mail, but definitely wasn’t as taxing as I’d like. Got the objectives taken care of though. I can run TABEARTA or something similar tonight.
It’s my last day of being 36. I have an idea for something evil to do tomorrow morning, but, with Chaos being the plan, we’ll see what happens.
My advisors have done a lot of research on this. It’s astonishing how “lazy” people are.
The smallest barrier (at be back of the menu, smaller font, in the bottom corner) makes a pretty significant difference on the average order
@anna_5588 George Carlin put it best “Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that 50% of the population is more stupid than that person”. It takes so little to stand head and shoulders over the crowd, and part of that is spending just 60 minutes on a weekend making meals so that you can reclaim the rest of your 10020 minutes for that week. The comedy being that people will spend an hour of cardio 5 times a week to undo the caloric damage of this lifestyle, which doesn’t work anyway AND means more time spent overall.
What speed does your HR get to when feeling faint ?
What do you normally get your HR to in a conditioning session ?
What do you normally get your HR to in big lifting set like 315x5 ?
Have you experienced variability in your resting rate ?
I have experienced an exhaustion/burn out feeling when overtraining in the past. Regularly hitting close to max HR and an unusually high resting HR were both warning signs.
Damn you made me feel old. Have a great birthday Pwn, hope the family spoil you like you deserve and hope you find something suitable horrible to do to yourself.
