2020-01-03
Push Press 5x4-6
6@55
6@55
6@55
5@55
6@55
Cleaned from floor.
Close-grip Bench 3x10-12
12@50 (too easy)
12@60
12@60
11@50
High Incline DB press 4x6-8
4x8@20/h
EZ-bar Tricep extension 3x10-12
Seated hammer curl 3x8-10
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So, the calorie tracking app I use, chiefly as a tool to plan my week, has a really gnarly bug.
Letās say you input 6 eggs as breakfast along with some other items. Then there is a feature of taking that and defining it as a āmealā for easier re-entry on another day.
The bug is that the total calories for the meal before and after that operation might not be the same. Before it calculates the total calories (and macros) correctly, but afterwards it does not. I just saw it report the total number of calories in three eggs go down to 4kcal total.
Iām. So. Close. To. Writing. My. Own. App.
I donāt really need a calorie-tracker as much as a decent meal planner. I want to basically be able to save an entire day and re-use it at some point. I want to be able to sketch out a daily meal plan without attaching it to a specific calendar date.
Itād be nice to aggregate some micronutrient data over the week too, but thatās just a nice-to-have.
Oh, and defining my own meals as in,
Meal 1
Meal 2
ā¦
With optional labelling to discern between breakfast /snack(s)/lunch/dinner and workout nutrition and review the macro breakdowns for each.
Similarly, I miss having a workout planning app. All the ones Iāve tried are more geared towards adding exercises, reps and sets during a workout but Iād just like to state, tomorrow my goal is this many sets at this weight at this rep range and basically only have to interact with it further if I miss reps or use a lower weight. Exporting into Markdown for the log would be nice. Loading programs from T-nation articles would also be convenient.
And have the app keep track of your best weights for the main lifts regardless of what program you are running.
This sounds like an excel sheet, no? Haha. An app that translates a program into a convenient data form sounds pretty cool though. I know that some online coaches use apps to deliver their weekly program updates to clients. Maybe something along those lines might be what you are looking for?
Yeah, Excel would work but itās not as streamlined as what I have in mind.
What Iām imagining, thatād work for me (not trying to design a product for everyone else) would be something like, you have a planned workout, and then you start it, and the application assumes that you are starting your first exercise on the first set. The screen displays a checkmark, or maybe a 
/
and pressing either one starts the rest timer until your next movement. After pressing you can change the rep number if either one of these two conditions are satisfied,
- You pressed ,
- You pressed and the target number of reps for that exercise is a range.
You can also delay the edits, by clicking a āEdit laterā button.
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Sounds doable and potentially useful.
I am a little less sophisticated - I just type my workout into an app for notes. I actually write my whole tnation log entry while I am still training (the notes that take longer at the end, when I donāt need to focus as much). After I am done, I copy paste it into tnation.
Thatās a) why there are so many typos because my phone badly wants to auto correct everything back to German and I canāt turn that off
ā¦ and b) captures my thoughts as they were in the moment, I was doing the workout (which can lead to overreaction, haha).
I do the same
Cats ability to sleep everywhere is something Iām envious of.
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This is something I would definitely use.
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2020-01-05
Week 1
Front Squat 5x6-8
8@70
6@80
8@70
8@70
8@70
Good Cadence, shorter rest (2:30 instead of 3-4m)
Kept my stance more narrow and now my hip flexors are giving me hate (6hrs after)
Deficit Deadlift 4x4-6
6@120
6@120
6@130
6@130
Dead start
Split Squat 3x8-12
3x10@40
Farmerās Walk 3@130~40m
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Glanced the name of your log. How goes they goals? Isnāt that famous Husfell Stone in Iceland like around 180? Would be pretty bad ass to do a lap with that.
Iām three months into my twenty seventh year and am carrying 130 for 40m. Adding a little less than twenty kilos per year to the carry seems entirely feasible. I can almost hold the front lever without really working on it. So, all in all, pretty good.
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Thatās pretty cool. I hugged some plates once but got awkward quick.
Farmerās Walk and bear hug carry are quite dissimilar
I just tried this,
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiAoBO3FjUs/?igshid=v2gu4ku64bt5
Itās not something I can do. @isdatnutty, something to add in to your yoga practice maybe?
Oops lol I misread it as front loaded carry. I looked back thru my log I was holding a few 25s and change so like 80kg. If I had an implement that could be loaded it would work a bit nicer. Are you using purpose built farmers handles?
Trap bar is what I have access to
Thatās an interesting thought though. How do you feel bear hug carries and the like would translate to heavy squats, in terms of core stability and bracing?
Probably not as much as Farmerās Walks. I suppose it depends on the nature of oneās core weakness. I donāt see Bear Hugs feeding well into back squats because I can back squat a lot more than I can hug. It might improve my front squat, but Zercher squats or Frankenstein squats has the added benefit of fixing my front squat core weakness while also being the same movement pattern.
Donāt really have any equipment to try and load up for a heavy bear hug though.