I don’t really have taste buds. My wife is always telling me I would eat dog shit if she deep fried it… come to think of it … fk!!!
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1 push jerks
3 x 4 @ 110 kg
2 front squats
3 x 4 @ 112,5 kg
3 reverse lunges
3 x 5 @ 55 kg (per leg. Alternating)
4 pendlay row
3 x 12 @ 80 kg - holy latissimus pump
5 db shoulder press
3 x 10 @ 32 kg
6 hollow holds
4 x 30 sec.
Notes:
- kind of a meh day. The jerks felt heavier than expected. Not heavy but not as light as I would have expected.
- The front squats… those damn front squats! After what happened in week 5 I didn’t trust the straps-setup enough anymore. Coach doesn’t want me to use crossed arms, which I get. So I tried a 3 finger clean grip with lightly wrapped wrists. The result was… not pretty. Didn’t feel pretty either. The thing is, I can’t really concentrate on my legs, I am just constantly fighting with the bar and keeping my t-spine upright. Which makes me angry, lol.
- got my revenge on the dumbbels!
- don’t know if I just lacked a bit of focus or something. I just wasn’t really getting my head into it. Still decent session. Exhausting.
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Have I mentioned that front squats suck?
They absolutely do! I just wanna squat not worry about where the barbell might go if I don’t put all my energy into keeping it where it is, haha
My dad weighs twice as much as me and I regularly eat twice as much as him at restaurants, same with my 17yr old brother 
Btw, how was the sushi
Sushi was delicious. Only complaint would be that we only had a two hour window to order rounds of sushi. We were a party of three and we could order 15 items (one item was often several rolls of sushi though) per round with a 10 minute timer before you could order the next one. One girl threw in the towel after an hour but I still could have stayed and kept going. I felt time pressured and didn’t like that.
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that’s not max effort then 
True. It was more of an intense hypertropy session.
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Curious. In what does does a jerk actually feel heavy? Stability in the hands, slow/less powerful in the movement?
Both correct. Also less “movement control” is a big one for me. And form brrak down obviously.
21.07.
Some easy tennis tonight and a very relaxing epsom salt bath.
Other things to note: I just realized that it’s been 2,5 weeks without any kind of medication at all (no matter what for). Also no supplements, although that was not on purpose, I just forget.
This might seem like the default, especially considering my young age but it’s actually been a very long time that I have been without any kind of medication for this or that and the other thing.
I will most likely start my new medication tomorrow but I’m also a little hesitant to do that.
The reason is, that I really want to be able to distinguish between the effects of hormones and the other medication.
But I’m still waiting on the results from my endo and therefore don’t know if hormone therapy is in my near future (it will probably be one way or another but I can’t say for sure and the details of how it will be administered will greatly depend on the endo).
Even if therapy will start once I get the results, it’s effects might take a long time to become palpable.
Here’s the catch with anti depressants: They don’t actually work like they do in movies and tv shows. You don’t realize you’re fucked and then swallow a handful and feel all better. You need to build up a concentration of the drug in your blood and adjust the dose overtime to reach a therapeutic level. Well that’s the theory. From experience the whole thing seems to be even more complicated in my particular case.
So if I hold off on starting the meds now and later realize I’ve made a mistake, I might be fucked (implying that the meds will actually do something for me).
If I however start them and shortly after start the hormone therapy, I might not know to which I can acredit any potential changes.
If I start to feel better once I am on hormones and find myself in a position in which I dont need psychopharmaceuticals, then that’s obviously the most desirable outcome. Especially considering that I have taken them for about 6 years at this point (damn that’s even worse once I read it).
As is my talent in life, I also find myself in a situation where a lot of big things happen all at once. I will move cities again, start a new education/ job, they discovered a brain tumor in my head, I’ve been laying of hormones and anti depressants at once and some other things I am not going into detail with. That would unnerve anyone and you don’t need to have any predispositions to be stressed and overwhelmed (I am starting to do better these last… 10 days(?) btw.).
So to now make a mistake with golding back on medicine that might help me, could prove to be a mistake if things go tits up.
I just submitted it by accident and wanted to first finish typing, haha.
Right, now that I know you’ve read my response I’ll delete it if that’s okay (actually I’ll delete it regardless 
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Went in quite fatigued but I think the epsom salt bath and actually the light tennis (t-spine movement; active recovery) did me a lot of good to go in as fresh as possible.
1 box squats
3 x 4 @ 147,5 kg
2 box jumps
5 x 3
3 step ups
3 x 5 @ 55 kg (per leg. Alternating)
4 strict press
3 x 6 @ 72,5 kg
5 hip thrusts
3 x 8 @ 135 kg
6 lat pull downs
3 x 10
Notes:
- negative on squats: They continue to feel off and I I can’t put my finger on why! Could it just be that this variation is more difficult than the other back squat variations I’ve used in the past?
- Positive: I did not tip forward at all today and on camera they looked really decent. Maybe I’m slowly getting the hang of these “squats to a lowish box?” They felt better today than the last 2 weeks. Bracing was certainly improved.
- quite thrilled about strict presses. They continue to feel relatively easy despite the fatigue.
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Unsolicited advice. Slow the tempo down and play with pauses and your brain will figure it out for you without you having to think about it too much.
No advice is unsolicited, it’s the reason my training block is online ;). I simply reserve me the freedom of disagreeing or ignoring advice.
The thing is this: The squat doesn’t feel mechanically off. It mainly feels just heavier than I would expect it to. I was never a really fast squatter but it currently feels like I am not generating power very well. The reason might very well be that I seperate the eccentric from the cpncentric by squatting to the box.
So I actually am briefly pausing right now. The tempo thing isn’t bad advice but I am currently not in the roght position to implement it (meaning that my coach selects my weights for me and since we are currently in the strength phase).
It might very well still be a thing of adjusting.
Context: I haven’t done any heavy free squats since my injury in February. To come back, I used higher box squats with briefs. That worked great. Now I use lower box squats and I am squatting raw again.
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I think your squats are looking pretty good. Even with the lower box you’re in control of your knees and you use your hips and legs to drive up vs trying to bounce or rock or cheat the weight up.
I agree about adjusting. Deeper squat, no briefs, etc. I also think maybe it’s tough because you’re using the “right” muscles now vs whatever you did to “cheat” in the past. Like technique is improved and you’re working your weakest muscles instead of whatever compensation pattern you used before to cover for them.
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Thanks mate! I am pretty sure it’s a matter of adjustment. We’ll shortly find out, I hope.
Had two really bad days back to back. Not talking about training.
1 paused push jerk
5 x 3 @ 95 kg
2 romanian deadlifts
3 x 8 @ 135 kg
3 yoke walk
5 x 9m @ 225 kg
4 wide grip shrugs
3 x 15 @ 115 kg
5 Zercher squats
3 x 6 @ 115 kg
6 hanging leg raises (legs straight)
3 x 6
Notes:
- I am considering to add a belt for the romanians.
- head was somewhere entirely else tonight but execution was still fine.
- Yokes were slow despite the weight being light.
- in the end training today still helped me calm down a little bit. Now I need to get my head back in the game. Next training session will be on Sunday and actually with company. That’s unusual, haha. But I think I am looking forward to it.
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