Definitely true. Deadlifts are a little different to other lifts that have an eccentric/ feature a bar on your back/ shoulder/ over your head, since you can just drop them and nothing happens. That’s why I repeat only one thing over and over before attempting a max: “Don’t let go. Whatever happens, don’t let go of the fucking bar”.
I go on between 3 and 7 walks a week, usually between 30 and 60 minutes. I am not a fan of cold temperatures but the snow and sun combination is definitely calling me outside. I really need to pay my parents a visit. They live in a much nicer scenery than I do here in the city.
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I meant warming up as in ramping up the weights. You have an elaborate pre-lifting warm up too?
I have a couple of German friends who are loving the snow right now. I take it that’s also the case for you?
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Well… I am supposed to have one. But in reality: No, not really.
Edit: Ramp ups for log would look something like:
5-10 @ 46 kg just deadlifts, progressing into cleans
5-10 @ 46 kg presses, starting strict
3-6 @ 66-76 kg
2-3 @ 86 kg
1 @ 96 kg
1 @ 106 kg
Top set at 111 kg
It’s really not that much, that it explains the time I spend on it.
Oh yeah, the snow is great right now! Up north we had to get used to dirty slush and just unpleasent snow-rain-mix over the last few years, so to have such clear and lasting snow is a very welcome change of pace. The situation in Munich was obv. a little different.
Snow like this bring back childhood memories and is just in general pleasent to look at. Although I’m not sure why it brings out childhood memories. It’s not like I haven’t witnessed snow as an adult. I was tempted to steal some kids sleigh out of envy though, so there’s that.
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Most people think I’m crazy because I hate snow but don’t mind the bitter cold.
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I don’t think that’s crazy. I have hated it for years. Right now I am just in the position that I don’t need to drive anywhere, so I get to enjoy the sight and don’t have much of the negatives. As far as weather goes, only one thing is really important to me: Sunlight. It has a positive effect on my mood.
You know in 2014/15 or so I had a job in the German “Harz” region. A mountain region in central Germany. An area where you have to deal with a REAL amount of snow and blizzards and such. On that job I had either the early shift, which required me to drive there before the first maintenance crews were on their way to try and clear the roads, or the late shift, which ended long after they were finished.
I experienced some crazy driving stories in that time. One example would be driving up a mountain a couple of hundred meters behind a truck and realizing a few moments later that said truck was not only stuck on the road but his break didn’t hold him and he was sliding down the mountain road directly towards me! There was no way to dodge left or right, so I went “fuck fuck fuck FUCK” while ramming in the reverse gear and trying to get away from the 18 tons of metal about to crush me. Those trips would often take hours because going over 20 km/h in my crappy little car was practically suicide. Other times you would just get stuck. I think at that time I aged excessively.
That was a long way of saying I understand the hatred of snow, haha.
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As for the cold temperatures: My dislike simply has one practical reason. I sweat excessively. When I start to move (and I don’t mean in a way that exerts me), my body goes into overdrive, as if it wants to make sure, I can exert all the energy necessary to sprint for my life. With the warm cloth in winter my problem gets exacerbated and I sweat even more. I usually do so for a short duration, after which I stop sweating but my clothes are already soaked (not exaggerating, I do mean soaked when I say it). That leaves you with wet clothes in minus temperatures, which puts you in greater danger of catching a cold, once my body regulates it’s temperature down.
This has been a problem for years (and way before I was this size). It is uncomfortable, especially around new people but I am adjusted to it. If I go sightseeing and stuff, I always pack tshirts to change. People who know me are used to it. Luckily I don’t smell like sweat, that would be worse.
I’ll admit that I hate the snow less than I did in high school when I had to drive on unplowed icy roads and deal with hundreds of teenagers driving like idiots as they scramble to leave the parking lot before the buses. But I still find it so annoying.
Have you checked your vitamin D levels and or supplemented?
Yes, things like this were definitely things I feared as a young driver during relentless snowy weather. I’m fortunate to have never been nor known anyone in a major winter accident, but stories like yours and seeing cars skidding off the highway or swerving into ditches are chilling enough.
I don’t run warm so I don’t really have this issue in cold weather, but I could understand that. I think I don’t mind the cold because it makes me feel resilient in some way. And it’s nice because after experiencing -50 Celsius more than I would like, negative single digits don’t feel so bad anymore…
When I was in middle school I soiled t-shirts excessively sort of like this but not because I was too warm (or at least I don’t think). I outgrew it, not entirely sure why.
I’m with you on that one. I don’t mind the temperature, as long as there’s no percipitation. Although, snow is preferable to rain, especially freezing rain
I just hate rain
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Not that I can think of (I have a lot of blood tests but I don’t know if vit D was checked with those). That said, it is the pure sight of sunlight that improves my mood. Not only exposure to it. I have taken vitamin D but I don’t know if it was enough or not and I didn’t notice any difference while taking it.
Oh shit. Yeah I can see that, haha. We have something between -20 to - 30° C tops here and not for the whole day.
Same. At least i think.
@anna_5588 didn’t you recently complain about temperatures over 10°C as to cold, haha?
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To be fair, - 50 degrees colder than she’d like may well be - 25 degrees C 
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Yes. I dislike cold, but I dislike rain more. Also, I’ve never had the luxury of experiencing “dry cold”. The places I’ve lived have always had high humidity when temps dropped, which makes it feel a LOT colder
I implore you to check this out.
Thankfully -50 C is more of an exception than a norm. It was a couple years ago and lasted for several days. So cold that undergraduate courses had to be cancelled, which happens pretty rarely in college. I’ll never forget how much my legs burned by simply walking outside.
To be honest though I think it is not too difficult to resensitize/desensitize oneself to cold temperatures. I don’t live in as cold of a place anymore and definitely feel less hardy.
I just browsed through some blood tests but couldn’t find anything. I will ask my doc in our next consultation if that has been checked and I just don’t know.
I actually would like to experience that for once. Just to know what it feels like.
After the pandemic you wouldn’t have to travel that far into Russia. There’s at least one city where temperatures thereabouts are not outliers.
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My ex was born and grew up until the age of 9 in the city of Omsk (northern Siberia). Interestingly she was one of the easiest persons to get chilly I have ever met. This was our bedroom situation: Heater turned up high, I in a thin summer blanket. She in long pajamas, socks, a wool sweatshirt, warm winter blanket, additional wool blanket.
I was covered in sweat.
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@Voxel I asked Paul about the log clean. This was his answer to that: “Yeah the SS log is awful to clean, I hate using one, I don’t have too many ideas for it really as it is a very tricky design! More chalk is definitely a good idea with it though.”
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Today’s walk was extra long, despite the weather being georgeus it did not improve my mood.
If I can get myself to do so, I will add some hip stretching things later on.
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Vitamin D supplementation was honestly life changing for me. I used to get into a very bad funk during the winter that “magically” cleared up in spring. Last winter, when I was in Pittsburgh, I took vitamin D religiously and the seasonal depression was a LOT better despite worse weather.
If you spend most of your time indoors, there is a good chance you are deficient. To put things into context. My mom got a blood test recently and she was slightly deficient. We live in FLORIDA, and she’s out in the sun (or exposed to it) at least 2hr a day
Imagine trying to fight a war in those conditions. I was reading “Stalingrad” recently and apparently, anti-freeze froze
Aren’t you always covered in sweat 
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