I dunno how you manage it, mate, I am worthless if I get as little as 7 hours of sleep.
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I always thought old people needed less sleep. Seriously though who the heck gets 7 hrs sleep every night ?
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I do. I have always needed to sleep more than other people, so I make it a priority. I average somewhere between 7:50 and 8 hours of sleep, and that is excluding the times where I wake up during the night for a wizz or am just tossing and turning. I am positively boring.
Helps my recovery, I probably couldn’t train 6 to 7 days a week otherwise.
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It’s not an old ppl thing. I’m useless without “8”
If I don’t get enough sleep, I feel like I’m not in control of my body. I’ll start doing something seemingly automatically, then my brain registers it. There have been times where I start doing something not too smart and as I’m doing it, my brain starts rattling of the relevant biases causing me to do it (ie hot cold empathy gap, temporal discounting…) but I do it anyways
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@Cyrrex not by choice, I can tell ya that much, haha.
It’s a skill born out of necessaty. Plus, I am well above average when it comes to not letting others see how wrecked I am. So I can power through and people wouldn’t have any idea most of the time.
When I had to quit one of my old jobs due to bad health, my final resume praised my stress resilience as an outstanding skill. It literally said it seemed like no matter how hectic things got, I seemed unshakeable and like I would never lose my cool. That was while I had serious panic attacks and wouldn’t actually see my surroundings clearly because they were reduced to a blur.
At this stage (after a - in relation to my insomnia episodes - short spur of sleep deprivation) I mainly struggle with my memory and voice control (I mumble more if I don’t concentrate actively and I sometimes mess up volume control). I am very controlled with my temper, so I’m aware not to let my struggles out on other people.
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I tend to start slurring, and in extreme cases my vision and balance start going, although that might be a side effect of the accompanying caffeine dosage.
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That is amazing. I’m short tempered as it is, but lack of sleep => all control gone.
There was one time on a class camping trip where some ppl were staying up late and had their lamps on. I couldn’t sleep so I yelled for ppl to turn the light off. Apparently i was sufficiently loud/scary that one of the teachers who had his lamp on quickly turned it off instead of telling me to stop yelling
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I realize that this comes easier for some people than others but I still think anyone can train themselves to a degree to achieve control over their tempers.
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10.09.
DOMS of doom.
1 viking press
3 x 5 @ 129,5 kg - PR, very easy.
2 bent over row
3 x 12 @ 80 kg
3 step ups
3 x 8 @ 22,5 kg dbs
4 rope hangs (for arm over arm pull)
3 x pretty much max.
5 assault bike intervals
4 x 750 m with 30-60 sec. rest
Notes:
- easy session today. I feel incredibly strong on the viking press, even with my tricep soreness.
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Man, I so much want a god damn viking press.
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I was about to say - this was very easy. You had another 3 reps at least even on the lat set.
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They are cool. My go to strong man pressing event now days.
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11.09.
Was a t a birthday party yesterday. Ate ALL the sushi, drank all the beers and was in bed by 4 am. Still felt good today. My body seemingly doesn’t need sleep anymore.
1 yoke walk
5 x 10m @ 245 kg
2 Farmer’s walk
4 x 15m @ 115 kg per hand
3 medley
10m yoke @ 265 kg + 15m Farmer’s @ 115 kg
4 deadlift
6 x 2 @ 160 kg
Completely dead now. We had to load all the stiff in my car, drive to a big parking lot, train there, deive back, unload, then to the gym to deadlift.
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Had an opening and therefore an extra long lunch break. Squeezed these in as Mondays are long days (8-6.30).
1 oh squat
3 x 6 @ 60 kg
2 wsm axle squat
3 @ 171 kg
3 viking press
6 @ 119,5 kg
4 sandbag carry
30m @ 125 kg
5 hollow rocks
3 x 20
Notes:
- My birthday is coming up. Dates like that tend to put me in a bad mood.
- in general the candle has been burning on both ends for a while now. I hope I’ll get some release soon.
- one more session to go. Comp is on Sunday and then I’m looking forward to a pb pull and the diet afterwards
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Didn’t realize that you already had another comp coming up. Kill it mate!
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Yeah mate it’s a small one, just a private invitational only. Very exciting events though, that we don’t typically have in our league.
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That’s not like one of those things where you all meet up in the sex dungeon afterwards? Because it kinda sounds like it. No judgement.
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Nah mate, those are only on Wednesdays. I thought I send you the schedule. Check your spam filter, man!
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Happy birthday big fella, I ate some cake last night in your honor. Hope you have a good day and get to do something you enjoy.
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You got any more of those Wednesday night invitations?
I’m struggling to find a show I want to do between now a Christmas. I’m I’m going to ask my gym owner if I can do something like this. Maybe 5-10 of us. Fun events. Not your standard “log farmer’s and yoke”
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