Please do, and of course, of course, I agree! I have nothing against faith. I’m not really 100% sure of what I believe in or not anyway.
Most people wouldn’t say I’m successul. I’m 30, no money, no wife, no kids. But things are what we make of it. I’m still happy of what I’ve done and what I will do, provided I work for it.
Keep faith!
Staring at the sun by Irvin D. Yalom. A seriously impressive read.
If you want to read somethibg truly impressive, I would also suggest: Man’s search for meaning by Viktor Frankl (I will never stop suggesting this book, haha).
Couldn’t agree more. Nothing in that says anything about how successful you are in the field, that I desire. I would give “you” anything I posess and a lot more, if you had a solution for me.
What I want can not be bought with money.
Despite owning this book, I’ve only read the first 30-40 pages a couple years ago. But it sounds like it might be up your alley. So if you haven’t read it, The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker could be of interest.
It has been snowing these last days.
Dark, wet and really cold - I felt like I was lifting in the mines of Moria. But those had a roof.
Yeah that was really the first thing I got in mind. My humor is weird and I’m a nerd.
1 oh squat
3 x 5 @ 65 kg - PR
2 deadlift
1 x 5 @ “187,5 kg”
2 x 5 @ 187,5 kg - PR!
3 vertical jumps
5 x 3
4 cdb strict press
3 x 10 @ ca. 29 kg
5 shrugs
3 x 15 @ 115 kg
6 hollow holds
Notes:
05.01.
Today has been a difficult training. Not really numbers wise but I barely slept at all for two nights in a row, the woekout dragged and I started to feel ill. So ultimately I stopped and listened to my body for once.
1 log press (clean once)
3 x 6 @ 91 kg
2 floating deadlifts (slow ecc.)
4 x 5 @ 140 kg
3 floor press
4 x 12 @ 85 kg
4 bent over row
3 x 12 @ 110 kg
Got very liberal with form here, I just didn’t have anything left in me.
5 lunges
Was supposed to do 3 x 8 per leg with 65 kg. Which was really easy with 60 kg last week.
It was super wet and my feet were sliding on the ground, which made the whole thibg kinda dangerous. Also I was feeling pretty bad.
So I did one set with only 6 reps, tried another but ended up canceling thst and the rest of the training.
Wow it has been a while that I chickened put of a session.
Notes:
Also memes:
Paul had a good laugh. I don’t think anyone else had but I don’t care, haha.
It snowed lightly during this training session. That’s a first, lol. I have worked out in snow before but not during snow fall.
1 squat
4 x 4 @ 152,5 kg
2 deadlift
Up to
2 @ 140 kg
1 @ 175 kg
1 @ 195 kg
3 @ 210 kg - PR!
3 vertical jumps
5 x 3
4 meadows rows
4 x 10 @ 32,5 kg
5 aleknas
3 x 10 @ 2x5 kg
Notes:
Good pull but with your history of back injury it seems as if your current programming is asking a lot of your lower back.
Nice PR. Looks chilly there, though the snow looks like rain
It is. So far my back is holding up pretty good tho. We started reducing both frequency and volume on deadlifts (and intensity for the floating deadlifts) this week as I’m approaching PR weights. However Paul wants to focus more on the log, which I’m not too excited about if I’m honest and that definitely is more of a stressor than power jerks. So we have to see how that impacts things.
You’re still the king of stress PRs! Great work!
Yeah calling it snow was generous 
more of a snow-rain-mix.
Deadlifts always feem much much harder than they look tho.
It’ll hold up until it doesn’t. With log tomorrow that’s continuing to ask it to foot a big bill. Hope it manages.
I’d love to be the king of chilled stress free PRs but what are you gonna do, eh? Haha thanks.
The first part is always correct in general.
For the second, I still have a saying in that. I mean that as in I could still skip log if I notice it’s too much for my back.
But in all honesty I am really bad at making such calls, am I not?
Maybe. Hope you’ve learned to discern. Is there any room in your programming for autoregulation?
The program is bespoke but exercises, weights, reps and sets are all set by the coach.
He regulates volume and intensity to manage fatigue
Naaah I feel you mate I did some LOTR jokes with @ChongLordUno and he didn’t get it ahahah
I’m a huge nerd as well, I even read the books before the movies came out, when I was 9, it was a present from my grandma
This is the worst shit. You instantly feel that something is wrong. And on the next set your body wants to compensate on the other side! Anyway, great job on the PRs! Looked easy as well!
No shame here. Sometimes we have to listen to our body. What I do in this case is I just do fast and easy, long TUT pump work to have some feel-good and leave
That IG? Let me give you a follow!
Then… PRing under the snow, now that’s badass! Congrats man! And after heavy squats as well. Was meaning to ask, what’s your rationale for jumps after deads and squats?
For your lower back… I wouldn’t change anything. Moving is the best way to have everything be strong and healed.
I got them from my sad about the same time. Shall we clutter up @Koestrizer log with talk about the scouring of the shire and why Peter Jackson is a dickhead for leaving it out?
I also read the trilogy and the Hobbit, tried reading the Silmarillion but never got into it. I then progressed to drugs and alcohol so have forgotten a lot of the books, I definitely think the film’s were sorely missing Tom Bombadil though!
Loved those books, definitely made me want to take up pipe smoking though (tried it years later, it’s disgusting and that’s from someone who enjoys Cubans).
More importantly though congrats on the PR - I think the best bit of news in the whole thing was this:
Imagine what you’ll do when everything is going well!
I’m confident you didn’t have decent tobacco. Signed, ex-pipe smoker.
I’m not suggesting not moving, I’m not suggesting anything. I’m just highlighting that the programming as it is could result in his lower back not being able to recover adequately and one day it is weak when he does something that requires it to be strong.
