Not taking rest days feels stoic, but in my experience it also slows down progress. Finding the balance of when to push and when to back off is hard, but vital.
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This lifting thing is an odd beast.
Sheiko test day for squat and bench yesterday.
I had no reason to expect PR’s based on my recent training, I’ve got a 4 month old baby, I’ve dropped from 4 days a week to 3 days a week for the last 6 months or so, with a number of lay offs. Im in a high fatigue part of the program, have got a bit of a cold and am less trained than when I set my previous PRs.
My confession is that, despite having no basis to expect PRs, and going into the session consciously knowing there wouldn’t be PR’s, I was still super annoyed at myself for failing what would have been a 2.5kg bench PR, and it put me in an uncharacteristically bad mood for the rest of the evening.
I did salvage a 10kg squat ‘PR’, in that its the first time I’ve ever squatted 250kg, but it was with wraps vs my naked knee 240 PB.
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My old school mentality can no longer stomach the thread I mentioned yesterday. Time to avoid it.
Well, there is a lot of toxic comments in there. Lmao
Yep very toxic. Can’t help it… My toxic masculinity is showing through.
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Wife wanted a dog. I didn’t. I like dogs but I’ve very little spare time.
So, she got a dog, a male Labrador. Now I love the dog and she doesn’t. I know this is sadly ironic, but I don’t care. She may have to go.
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Your wife or the dog?
Well, he said it was a male Labrador, and then said “she may have to go”.
This might not be an Encyclopedia Brown level mystery…
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Like it’s always the same with women lol. My mother and sister wanted a dog, I said NO I knew what would happen. They got the dog. Only a month later I was the only one to ever walk him out etc
He’s now my dog. I love him.
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I want a dog and my husband doesn’t.
Hmm.
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Until you get one and he’ll love him!
Anyone know any good breeds for young children?
Lab, golden retriever, poodle, border collie
But I’ll hate the miserable thing! lol
I seriously believe there are millions of us with exactly the same story.
I’m going out now in the cold rain to walk him.
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Please don’t get a Border Collie unless you have sheep or are willing and capable to invest a shitton of time into really challenging them mentally. They are working dogs and too smart to be treated like your average family pet and will suffer if all they get to do is go for walks and fetch balls from time to time.
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Mine are both British, but there’s some Thai ones they at playgroup that seem pretty well behaved.
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It really depends on the individual dog but my German Shepherd is amazing with small children, small animals, etc. the cats love her more than they love me.
I’m almost through my first week in the university dorm and it was all good, until today.
Today’s been the shittiest day in a while.
Last night we had a little bit of a birthday party going on and I drank a reasonable amount. I had a good time and went to bed at around 2, not before sharing a pizza with my buddies from the party.
I woke up at around 4 with a severe stomach ache and nausea, and had to throw up. The pizza I had was pretty low quality, and I’m pretty sure that was the cause rather than the alcohol. As I threw up I felt a whole new exciting feeling I’d never experienced: I felt like PURE ACID was rushing out of my stomach, burning my throat and leaving it sore for hours. Ah, gotta love tomatoes!
I went back to sleep and woke up a couple of hours later feeling the same; had to throw up again.
Shortly after, I got ready to go to class, still feeling severe nausea and with 3-4 hours of sleep. After a 30 minutes walk during which I went back and forth from feeling burning hot to freezing cold several times, I got to the class.
Those were the longest four hours of my life. I did my best to fight the feeling of nausea and to listen to the lecture, but after a while my lack of sleep started to become a problem. I really have difficulties to stay awake when I’m idling if I haven’t had much sleep, and sitting on a chair staring at a fixed point to fight my nausea is kinda the definition of idling. So my eyes started closing by themselves and I caught myself slipping out of consciousness briefly several times (my head would literally drop for a split second). Still, I somehow managed to take notes and actually follow through the lecture. The teacher even noticed I wasn’t okay and asked me if I was feeling ill.
After thinking I would be nauseous for the whole day, there was a breakthrough at around lunch and I felt the feeling moving out of my stomach and down to my gut–I had fucking managed to digest whatever was left. I’d take gut pain any day over nausea.
But now it’s 11 pm and I’ve had that pain for the whole day. I took buscopan and it only helped marginally. It doesn’t even feel like the kind of pain you have when you have diarrhea, it’s more like my organs are being torn from the inside. I can feel it getting slightly better and I’m positive that I’ll wake up feeling better tomorrow.
I’m only upset because this was a shitty day, I wasn’t able to go out in the evening like I had planned on, and I also had to skip the gym because I wasn’t going to be able to squat when even standing up was a challenge. I also barely ate anything. I tried my best with that. I had a meal at lunch and then several hours after I had dinner but as soon as I got done with it I got that pain back so I’m done with food for today.
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Psh, people said the same thing about kids until Spongebob Squarepants got on TV.
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