@dagill2 @kdjohn I haven’t had the chance to do it enough to say this unequivocally as I always get injured (seriously, I’ve blown out a calf several times while trying to make running a thing and then more recently my hamstring has kept me away) but I get no greater sense of liberty other than when I run fast. Jogging at the pace I did today does not scratch the itch, but I would’ve kept going if I didn’t have my injury history. Any activity that I can “undo” and recover from with a bag of chips is a good activity.
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Thursday 2021-03-18
Squat, did 3 reps at TM. 5 would’ve been preferable but I have dealt with plenty of life stress last week but when I’m in it is rarely when my body shows it, and usually it’ll be on a delay. Debating internally about resetting my training max or not as the idea of having one is to have leeway with stressors but this was something extraordinary.
Some lower back work as assistance.
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This is the norm. Your body enables you to deal with whatever you need to for a while (fight modus) and ignores pain and other ‘pathological’ processes. Once stress either decreases or the scale tips over to the point where your body can’t compensate anymore, you pay for ot and your body forces you to give it the rest it needs.
Common example would be that a lot of lifters get sick or hurt shortly after competition.
When I had a new job, was homeless and on 2 hours of sleep for a few weeks, I was fine physically. When I then found a home, I was sick with the flue for a month.
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Since the stressor is removed, would you then continue progressing?
Yes. If you feel like your body is now able to balance all combined stressors, I would continue to progress.
Maybe give an extra rest day or two to feel it out in doubt.
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Still have one more TM test to go, deload isn’t over yet 
Thanks for your input
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Anytime mate!
This wasn’t meant for a specific point in time. Could be bwfore the next phase or at any point in the next phase. I meant it as a deposit in your “recovery account” which needs to balance your “spendings account”. Kind of like the two sides of a company’s balance sheet that need to be balanced or otherwise the company would go bankrupt.
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What @Koestrizer said: that’s normal. Sometimes the delay can be pretty substantial.
Hope everythings ok. You have my email if you need anything.
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Nothing to add, just hope you’re okay
Well, any work is better than anything, and doing it with a big stressor is a victory to me, not a defeat because you did less reps.
Yes indeed. The body has the ability to do crazy things. Recovery isn’t as easy though. It’s the same with food. Sometimes the effects manifest a few days later
@dagill2 @Koestrizer @anna_5588 thanks for the concern. I’m “okay” enough I’d say.
Thursday 2021-03-18
Climbed two easy routes but something didn’t feel right in my hand, persists today. Back too early, pulled on something in a bad way, not recovered since last session, who knows. Lots of conceivable culprits. Will lay off of it again for a few days until pain subsides, resume physical therapy for a few days, and then go back to climbing yet again (as allegedly this is necessary to heal enough to function for this sport).
Bummed, but accustomed to this type of adversity
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I’m always amazed at your stoic attitude
Thank you, it is as much a perk and boon as it is a curse.
I’d say that when communicating externally that I’m very detached from my emotions and that does tend to breed a stoic tone of voice. What happens internally isn’t nearly as calm, but rarely do I stay with an emotion for long enough to have any real catharsis.
Yesterday, and this morning, I was more saddened by it than what that sentence would betray. I, perhaps like you, have an anxious streak in me that makes it easy to imagine worst-case scenarios projecting far into the future and regrettably have to “live through” the emotional response to what is merely a hypothetical. And that’s very unhealthy. Yet, I do my best to try and feel what I need to before I disassociate from my emotions and really focus on experiencing what is real rather than what can potentially be real.
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@Voxel can correct me if I’m wrong, but stoicism is very much the norm for many Swedes (possibly all Scandinavians, but my only experience is with Swedes). Friendly, yes, but very good at maintaining an even-keel attitude, despite an immense amount going on beneath the surface.
I’m like that, my whole family’s like that, and my buddy at work is the same.
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But a few of my friends are Swedish actually so it’d be hard to tell. Also, generational differences apply to those that I do have. Regardless of nationality, most of my friends are highly educated. I’m more or less the only person I know without a degree. Most of my “peers” (do I even get to call them that?) have — or are persuing — a PhD. So I feel any inferences I can make are heavily biased.
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Saturday 2021-03-20
Deadlift TM test day. 4 reps at TM (new PR). It felt as if my back was rounding a lot but the video does not betray that. Do not believe I had reps in the tank left. Given how this TM week has gone, might be wise to consider this,
and just keep that bar speed up and beat some new rep PRs. Decisions decisions.
Did RDLs during warm-up sets, I’ve done this before, and sometimes forget about it. I always like it.
5x10-20 of hip thrusts
4 sets of push-ups and some rotator cuff work.
Oh yeah, did two pain free dips today so all the shoulder rehab stuff I’m doing is also paying off.
Video uploading still.
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I could be misinterpreting your entire post, so apologies if that’s the case.
Though I don’t know any Swedish graduate students, I don’t necessarily think stoicism and being a PhD candidate go hand-in-hand (if that’s what you’re implying here).
Surely your experiences differ from those of your friends, but I would caution against even subconsciously putting them on a pedestal.
Fair point, I just find that my friends and I share the same interests in what philosophy we seek out and such. As of late attachment theory has been making the rounds quite a bit around my sphere of people. Feel free to disregard the degree, my point was “I can’t generalise about swedes in general because most of the ones I know have pursued higher education beyond a bachelor’s”
Are all of the ones you know PhD candidates in philosophy?
None. All STEM. Heavily bio.
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