Yeah. No offense, @anna_5588, but it’s a little awkward for an 18 year old college student to ask men >10 years older with wives & kids if they want to meet up; even if the intentions are 100 percent friendly and innocent on both sides…well, just consider that there’s risk on both sides to such an encounter.
I’m part of a few mentoring programs for CMU student-athletes, and I really enjoy that, but that’s a structured program where I get matched with student-athletes based on my area of study and theirs. Occasionally, that means I walk into a coffee shop to meet an 18-20 year old female. It’s enjoyable to mentor the students, of course, and I’m happy to be giving back to my alma mater, but I’m a little more comfortable with that because of the structured nature of the program, and even then it’s still a LITTLE awkward to walk into a coffee shop and try to figure out which 20 year old girl is there to talk to me about career goals and dreams.
When appropriately done, there’s nothing wrong (in general) with meeting people IRL that you met on the Internet (as Skyzkyk noted above, we met in person this past weekend) and as you advance in academia, you should feel free to reach out to others in your field to seek advice and mentoring. I’m not trying to scare you off entirely from emailing professors and the like to ask for career advice or advancement. But, please do be understanding that the specific dynamics of an 18 year old college female meeting a 30+ year old married man that only know one another through a weightlifting website are a little bit…awkward to navigate.
Great to meet you, and glad that those old weights have a home where they’ll get some use.
I felt bad that they were sitting there so unloved, now that I have my fancy new toys, so it’s good to know they’ll once again be getting some attention!
I hadn’t written anything about it, but I did an unveiling for the kiddo from the trunk.
Since it involved both weights And math, he went nuts assembling dumbbells and running up and down the driveway. They inspired immediate enthusiasm.
Related- I’ve only been doing unilateral loading on upper body and getting a baseline for how I respond to load and reps. Having a pretty decent idea thus far how I respond, I’m about to start bilateral for overhead press, curls, etc. It should be interesting.
A lot more wood chopping the past few days and lugging around some of those big knobby sucker that won’t split no matter how hard of much you hit them.
There is something great about bashing stuff with an axe. Not like gpp hammer what ever. Just a really satisfying feeling, sound, and effect of exerting force.
Edit: And yesterday- airdyne, 35-40 for 5 miles took about half hour, then legs only just cruising 40 or so for another half hour.
I seem to get these waves of energy then fatigue. When the energy is there it’s there so I run with it. When it ain’t, it ain’t, and nothing (legal, like coffee) will change that. I’d like for that to level out a little, so I’ll have to review what I’m doing on my On days and maybe not over run myself.
Or develop a program for the “off” days that allow for it, and either try to plan them in (a recovery day every third day or whatever) or run the easy day PRN. Your Airdyne “just cruising speed” or whatever.
I think PRN is a medical abbreviation that means something like “as needed” (just from the context I see it in healthcare data). @EmilyQ may have basically meant something like “take it as needed on the easy day” ?
“As needed” is indeed what Emily meant by PRN. Sorry, I thought its usage was more widespread.
I was thinking about you while I was running this morning. I didn’t leave enough time, so I did HIIT for 25 minutes and it reminded me of “The One Minute Workout” by Martin Gibala. He does a deep dive into the benefits of HIIT, and it’s really interesting. A lot of what he talks about is the impact of HIIT vs steady moderate exercise on health issues, e.g. cardiac events or diabetes.
You should check it out.
Edit: Second paragraph was for Skyz, not whang, lol.
Heart rate was 102 immediately upon completion. Felt good, and now I can relax a little knowing I did something. I get some serious bouts of anger and frustration, and could tell I was reaching a boiling point.
Me too, and and I do a good bit of it. Why it came up for me yesterday is that I spent too much time online and ran out of time. I had 25 minutes for the treadmill and for me that means hill sprints. I’d just read your post about fatigue days and it occurred to me that another time they work for me is when I’m tired/sore or resentful and bored that I have to be there (some variation on “no one else gets up early to do this” and “I’m not even fat”). After a couple of hard sprints I tend to feel back to normal regardless of whether the initial problem was physical or mental.
Even on a steady state day I might do a warm up, then say 4 sprints interspersed with walking, a few minutes of walking or hill climbing, then an easy run for a 20 minutes or whatever, with the whole thing adding up to 45 minutes. I do this for two reasons: one is because evidence that the sprints are important is overwhelming, and the other is that I get injured every time I slide back into 5 mile runs. I just do.
I actually started listening to the book again while I was getting ready for and on the way to and from. It’s fascinating a second time around.
Super quick, easy, and tasty. I only used one 4 Oz. can of tuna cuz it was just an impulse snack, but depending on your macro goals or personal tastes you can change up the proportions freely.
Sometimes I’ll skip the salsa and just hit the pineapple with sriracha, or the tuna with a splash of evo/lemon oil.
