I’ll give it a look/ listen when I get the chance, thanks mate!
I felt so targetted when he talked about sleep (10:47). Also made me appreciate that maybe I’m not doing as hot as I think I am!
Friday, 2020-09-11
Committed Week 2, Day 11 committed2020
Weight: 75.8
Another night of not sleeping alright. Also, my lower back has been achy since my bad deadlifting Wednesday. Nevertheless, I surpassed my previous week. But this workout was so on the nerve. I felt like going home so many times, skipping accessories, wanted to vomit, just hated every second of it. To put a positive spin on it, this means that the weights today can be done even on the worst day so I’ll adjust my TMs so the planned weights are just below this because I don’t want to have to pull my soul out of my ass just to hit my targets.
Concentric Day and Delts
Squat
8@70
8@85
8@???
8@110 (belt comes on)
6@120
4@130
Will upload a video from the 8 set on 110 where I did 4 reps with a wider more hip.dominant form and the latter 4 with a more upright narrower stance. It was evident that the right call for my leverages is the former, aesthetics be damned.
Bench
8@40
8@50
8@55
8@60
8@65
6@70
4@75, moved slow
No improvement
Deadlift
8@90
8@110
8@120, belt came on
6@130
4@140
Improvement
D1. Seated DB Clean & Press
D2. Chest-supported rear delt raises
2 sets to failure 8-10 reps
Now I’m going to eat extra and hopefully maybe sleep. Got a new tablet that’s supposed to keep my under while I actually fall asleep. Usually I’ve been waking up 2-4 hours after with the worst stress response taking a long time to fall back asleep. Blegh. How sleep deprived am I? I tried unlocking my apartment by “blipping” my gym card against the lock 
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Your squat seems surprisingly strong compared to your deadlift considering your tendency to be good at pulling and dislike for squatting.
You build up fatigue on the deadlift by doing squats first I guess. That’s one thing I dislike about this training style actually. I can deadlift 160, but I don’t get to do that, because squats. By smearing out the workload across the weak I never really get the “competitive” spirit that I do on a lift-specific plan.
And I don’t dislike squatting, I’m just not built for it.
As in 160 would be a max?
Nah, like 3-4 reps for sets.
Ok, that makes more sense.
respect to positive mental attitude
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Life would be a trial and a half if one stays with focusing on the negative.
Curiously, through life, I haven’t been the best at doing this. I remember vividly practicing my basketball shots as a kid, and my dad told me as I hit a three-pointer to do that celebratory gesture you sometimes see athletes do (bent arm, closed fist, sort-of in front of the chest) and accompany that with a “Yes!”.
At the time, and for many decades, that didn’t work for me. My expectation on myself was to hit the goal. I’d focus on missing rather than focusing on when things panned out. Successes and achievements have previously yielded a neutral emotional response, so I managed to live through a life where I was only focusing on the adversities. Really fucks the brain.
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Bro tell me about it. I need practice gratitude and mindfulness more
These are some solid squats. Congrats!
When you manage to do the work even when it sucks, this is when you really progress and bust your plateaux
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Amazing effort!!!
What is it with French and sticking useless letters at the end of words . There’s and x now?!
I’ve come to accept are brains are complete morons and really easy to trick. Yes, there’s a biological aspect to mental health as well but I see value in telling myself “awesome” whenever I step on the scale and weight is up. Do you like to read books? The Anatomy of Peace helped me a lot with regards to gratitude in a social sense.
Video from yesterday, depth can be a little better but I’m just sharing because I think this is video proof that I should go all-in for the wider stance. Just plays into my leverages better although I’ll freely admit to feeling slow out of the hole.
And, going slightly deeper also sometimes triggering my hip impingement so this feels deep enough I guess. Should maybe just start squatting to a box at this point to remain consistent.
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Im not much of a reader I like my TLDRs and takeaway points. Thnx tho but I kinda get the idea, doing a bit and having relatively good time
Hmm hip impingement wise there might be some combination of toe angle/stance that lets u go deep-ish. Couple of tests u could play with.
I’d be curious to see how this looks from behind. Anterior pelvic tilt as part of an overall extension bias wud reduce the space at the front of the hip so impingement wud occur earlier
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I totally get if you don’t have the patience to watch all that
@j4gga2 I see you tend to reply to lots of threads started on this topic but I don’t believe you frequent my log but I’d be much obliged if you had a look as well.
My own conclusion is “yes, squat wider than shoulder width”
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@aldebaran sorry no power cleans today. Went climbing outdoors. Still waiting for pictures of my own time being vertical so nothing to share. Might do power cleans and some touch-up tomorrow. Won’t do the prowler at least, want to be pristine on Monday rather.
And I hear resting is important, that training alone isn’t the only thing one needs to do
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Hey man, I appreciate the tag!
Hip impingement can be pretty easy to deal with, but super annoying. I look at it as a like of IR and an ability to shift into the symptomatic hip. Try doing this between your warm-up sets.
- Adductor pullback:
Adductor Pullback - YouTube
Do your symptomatic side on top, 10 reps - Camporini DL:
Camporini Deadlift - YouTube
Symptomatic side stepped back