How are you so good at those, @Cyrrex ?! These are so much harder than pressing in front of the head.
5 vertical jumps
5 x 3
6 one arm t-bar row (?) - supposed to be db row but I don’t have a sufficient amount of small plates
Only plate weight listed
12 @ 20 kg
12 @ 30 kg
12 @ 40 kg
Notes:
I have been looking forward to this triple the whole week and it was pretty much perfect! Most importantly no pain but also execution felt brilliant.
my cleans are pretty artrocious technique wise but they are a perfect deadlift primer.
Did you ever scroll to the beginning of your log? Pretty fun to draw a comparison.
Compared to December 2015
I gained 7 kg of body weight (as of right now)
50 kg on the squat (+80 kg if we count my equipped endeavor)
55 kg on the deadlift
45 kg on the overhead
20 kg on the strict press
25 kg on the bench
36 kg on the log
40 kg on the front squat
I got no point with this, just wanted to share my findings.
Yer I think @dagill2 talked about this the other day. In the moment it feels like progression is slow or even static. Look back over time and it’s very clear to see.
I really didn’t think deadlifting 4 times a week would be possible but so far it’s going great.
I should have warmed up more but was super lazy. Have been the whole weekend and I honestly think it’s doing me good (not the warm up part). So far I have been sitting at my desk, playing computer games and watching netflix for the majority of time. Still it feels less like aversion and more like just doing it for leisure. It is a distraction but less of a flight this weekend. Will meet people this evening though.
posterior chain dead. 2 days of rest and go again. If nothing else this period will give me a huge back and a boost in posterior chain strength. Which won’t hurt at all.
The cold has finally caught up to me, so we’re looking at a few days without training and presumably without work.
Annoying after such a good week of training but we’re going on winter, nothing one can do.
117,0 (10.11.) 116,8 (11.11.) 117,7 (12.11.) pizza 117,8 (13.11.)
116,6 (16.11.)
I didn’t weigh myself and ate like crap over the weekend (I’m talking giant pizza, ice cream, chicken nuggets). Still lost weight somehow
79 Leg (+1)
122 chest (0)
108 belly (+1)
45 arm (0)
Weekly average 117,2 (-0,1)
I have been somewhat consistant with meditation. Wanted to maybe try yoga but honestly my room is so tiny I can’t do it there. Maybe on the weekend when I visit my parents.
In life news I don’t have much positive to report. As I could have known from past experiences, the panic/ anxiety stage led to an even darker burst of depression, which right now is overwhelming. This is a familiar pattern. However just because I’ve been there doesn’t mean I know how to handle it.
The thought that this is just going to be my life and I’ll never be able to have a fulfilling career or life on my own comes to mind predominantly.
I would really appreciate it if I had the ability to hibernate like a bear. Maybe next summer will look better. Although I don’t see why it should
Glad to read this, I’ve been meaning to write up a post on my yoga and how I believe it is my form of moving meditation. Was going to @ you. Or I will, when I get the peace of mind to write it out.
Yoga, shouldn’t take a lot more space than the size of a mat. If you have the space to lie flat on your back and stretch your arms overhead, and the space to stand straight and raise your arms overhead you technically have enough space. It’d be a squeeze, but it should be adequate.
Is there perhaps something positive to report?
My sympathies. I’m not anywhere near my deepest depths, and whenever I’m not I lose touch with just how bad it gets for me but I know from experience how disorienting it is at is an entirely different mode of existence once the bottom drops out from underneath you.
I know you’re well travelled in your own health care system but, if it were me here’s what I’d tell me (despite being well-travelled enough to not believe this is an avenue but trying has better odds of success than not trying):
I’d go to the ER/psych-ER. I’ve been hearing rumors that the US has started using alternate drugs to get at what is known as “treatment resistant depression”. Maybe you need something like that, as opposed to the ordinary prescriptions of which you have a history of not responding to. Ketamine seems promising, and might be something that could be prescribed here in Europe. The other options, not so much.
That depends on how little it csn be and still count. Nothing the size of the bad news unfortunately.
Not the worst idea. I have a phone consultation coming up on the 30th with my psychiatrist. Maybe I can move that up. Although medication so far never was the answer.
I appreciate it. It’s great knowing you!
Well I was never worried about having caught covid. My physician was insistant on getting me tested
Literally the only thing I would want to be rich for. I live in a stellar health care system, maybe the best in the world, but still things would be much more and faster accessible if you’re wealthy.
