Listening to Dan John 531 does strike me as the epitome of a Park bench “program”.
Hm, looking at the calendar it seems like I could do what I want to do after my deload for 3 weeks (not my intended 4) and then join up on 531 the 7th of January. Or do 4 weeks and join the 14th. Starting with a TM test week to deload from what I did those 3-4 weeks and check I have decent TMs selected.
You’ve probably spent more time with his material as of late than I have, I want to use supplemental lifts that aren’t the main lifts and Jim writes,
If you use a supplemental lift you must find the correct training max. The only
downside to using an alternate lift is some people are horribly impatient and don’t want to spend 20 minutes and test that lift and find a training max.
Let’s say I start 531 with the SVR II template and choose the log press as my press supplemental and I don’t have a decent idea of what my max is on that lift. Would I then, for the first session on that template, try to go for the heaviest 3-5 rep set I can and plug that into the Wendler formula and then multiply it with the 85% TM that belongs with that template?
Or, is the idea that you use the 7th week deload to try TMs for new lifts you want to bring into rotation (not a bad idea, as it’d keep people from swapping too often)?
FWIW, I’d say option 1 seems good enough to me coming out of the gates and then switching to option 2 from thereon. It’s just a single training session that deviates a tad from the plan. Just asking if you know anything explicit on the topic.
If you’re strict pressing the log, just use your press TM, or set it about 5-10lbs heavier. Log isn’t too much different than barbell as far as strict press poundages. It starts to get interesting when you introduce leg drive.
It was just an idea to illustrate an example. Let’s pretend I want to use a supplemental that I haven’t done in quite some time, or haven’t done at all, and just have a very vague idea of what weights I’d sling. Then, what strategy applies? Since he, Jim, writes about it in a very relaxed sense I guess option 1 I presented is good enough but I’d be very welcoming of your thoughts.
I just wing it, since I don’t have the patience to find TMs. I’ll either base it around a workset I had done before or I’ll just pick a number, calculate percentages of it and see if it looks like something I can do.
Still staying out of the gym. Slipped on some ice in the woods today, and caught the fall using my right arm (which has the inflamed elbow). It is not happy, no surprise there, just a slight step backward to be re-stepped forward later.
Contacted the eating disorder clinic yesterday and found out it’ll be at least 5 months before they summon me, that was a bit of a let down. I understand all the factors that go into that wait, and that there are other people that need their help more acutely but nevertheless I felt a bit upset and saddened to know that I’m still on my own for a while further. Continuing to read a book on eating disorders which is helping me frame a lot of my experiences even though it focuses primarily on anorexia, bulimia, and women.
Sorry to hear that. You know I thought about this the other day: The governement here launched a big campaign (to go with lockdown and winter) about mental health. Posters in big cities, social media and the like. And most of it all sounds the same: “It’s okay to not feel okay. If you need help, say something. Get help if … Etc.” I even read a guideline by the ministry of health about stress management in these difficult times, which concluded that if you feel off for more than 2-3 weeks and have symptoms that could be linked to depression, they encourage you to seek professional help.
I mean that’s all good and well but I can’t help and roll my eyes with a cynical laughter. Seek help where? Get help when? Waiting lists for therapy and clinics are ridiculously long. Doesn’t do you much good to seek help because you need it NOW and then hear you’ll get it in 8 months.
I’m not part of the hype, I agree with you, it’s just a tool that sometimes more convenient than the real thing. I’m very happy to read fiction on an ebook but if I’m reading something with the express purpose of learning or expanding my mind I’ll prefer a physical print. I write notes in books, like a lot. Which is why I have problems using the library
You and me both, buddy. The thing is, I don’t feel as if I’m entirely clueless as to what needs to be done, I’ve been at a better place with my problems than I currently am and I know the path from here to there but I’d love to ask a specialist about relapsing.
Me to, for different reasons (continue reading)
While I applaud the idea in a general sense without the infrastructure to support it, that is just doing more harm than good. Launching a campaign with the same sentiment here would be in poor taste because the mental health branch of our health care system is already overwhelmed since before the pandemic begun.
I was, as I wrote earlier, in similiar trains of thought not too long ago. As you know, I live in Sweden, and while I understand from reading news outlets from abroad and having international friends and colleagues the government response here has been the subject of both envy and critique. One detail that explains the soft-handed response is that there simply isn’t support within our legal system for the government to enforce a lockdown. That’s, in part, why the doors to the climbing hall and the gym remain open.
Nevertheless, people do have a sense of civic responsibility, and a few friends of mine were discussing in a joint Signal group to which I’m a member (fuck Facebook) whether or not they should
Seize going
Even hang-out anymore
and so I went digging for numbers on what the capacity is for psychiatric care and what the current numbers were with regards to treatment of Covid-19 patients in my local area (important) [0] so I could offer my opinion on at least Item 2. With regards to Item 1, I believe that if a person can stomach training from home then they absolutely should. I would even consider it, but I’m not playing roulette with my mental well-being if I can help it — I think I’d be alright but I’ll find out the answer to that when I absolutely have to.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find exact numbers on how many in-patient, 24-hour, care slots the psychiatric ward has but I did find 5 Covid-19 patients were in the ICU. I know from having visited the psychiatric unit that there is room for more than that.
[0]: Important because Sweden is quite large geographically. If you are curious, do a Mercator Projection of Sweden and drag it onto the rest of Europe. Check “thetruesize dot com”.
Why does this matter? Because, with as sparse as a population as ours where a city is within our borders influences the culture quite a bit. Regrettably, unlike Norway which has figured out how to be a long stretched-out nation by allowing natural resources benefit the surrounding area, our resources (i.e., taxes collected) are pooled, and then re-distributed from a central location.
Oftentimes, our handling of the pandemic is discussed on a national basis but that is in my opinion a mistake. We don’t however have as much autonomy within our counties as states do in the US and so any decision making tends to apply equally to everyone. But, the efficacy of any would be measures (or exclusion of measures) should be analysed on a county level. Why? Because, what doesn’t work in the South absolutely works well here in the North.
