Working Out While at Law School


Mulligan. What I meant to say is: Thanks.

[quote]jasmincar wrote:
It has been my experience so far that people make university look so much harder than it really is. It has been my experience that they dumb down everything for the retards.

One thing I will say to you: people talk a big deal but really everyone is weak and don’t work/do half of what they say. Don’t stress out so much.

I have the time to do everything I want. I would even have the time to do it twice +wasting time on this forum.[/quote]

You do realize that law school/grad school is a wee bit different than college, dont you?

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]jasmincar wrote:
It has been my experience so far that people make university look so much harder than it really is. It has been my experience that they dumb down everything for the retards.

One thing I will say to you: people talk a big deal but really everyone is weak and don’t work/do half of what they say. Don’t stress out so much.

I have the time to do everything I want. I would even have the time to do it twice +wasting time on this forum.[/quote]

You do realize that law school/grad school is a wee bit different than college, dont you? [/quote]

I lol’d.

edit: Because of how true the difference is.

[quote]CC wrote:

While some people just “get it” and are better at law school than others, I happened to not be one of those lucky few. I had to work pretty hard. Law school is not “hard” per se, but it’s an entirely different way of thinking, one in which some people thrive and others struggle. Even if you do “get it,” however, you have to remember this: generally speaking, the school to which you get accepted and will attend will be made up of a 1L class all hovering around the same GPA and LSAT score (and don’t even get me started on the bullshit that is the LSAT). You’re all used to being top of your class in high school and college and grades coming easily. Not so in law school. Generally speaking you have one grade for an entire semester, and it can often be a crap shoot. One test day can make or break your entire law school career. As the associate dean put it so well during our 1L orientation (paraphrasing): “90% of you will not be in the top 10% of your class.” Try to tell that to someone before they attend law school (including me) and you’ll get an eye-roll. “Yeah, that won’t be me,” “I want this more than they do,” “I’ll work harder than everybody else,” “I got the guy who booked the class last year’s outline,” etc., etc. All pre-1Ls think they’re different, for some reason.

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QFT Applicable to most grad programs too in many regards.

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
This morning some pyscho girl went straight to the financial department to pick up the papers to un-enroll. This happened immediately after finishing the 4 hour constitutional law final. A final that I thought she was pretty well prepared for as we studied in the same group for a bit.

semi-pro tip: Dont make decisions about dropping out less than 48 hours after a final.

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LOL after ConLaw?

Damn, I thought that subject was the easiest…I can see someone ditching after Business Associations though…

Derek, Dixie, and CC: I was only half serious about this being depressing. It’s just I recently made my mind up and committed to a major change in order to become a lawyer (I’m only in my 3rd semester of college)Since then, I’ve made the decision, a lot of my peers have basically shit on it, saying law school is horrible, the amount of money I’ll make won’t be worth the money I’ll make, yada yada. So reading some of the posts, especially on the it potentially being a bad career move in today’s economy. It’s not making me change my mind or anything, there’s just been a lot of ‘negativity’ that seems to have come when choosing this career path
/emobitching

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Derek, Dixie, and CC: I was only half serious about this being depressing. It’s just I recently made my mind up and committed to a major change in order to become a lawyer (I’m only in my 3rd semester of college)Since then, I’ve made the decision, a lot of my peers have basically shit on it, saying law school is horrible, the amount of money I’ll make won’t be worth the money I’ll make, yada yada. So reading some of the posts, especially on the it potentially being a bad career move in today’s economy. It’s not making me change my mind or anything, there’s just been a lot of ‘negativity’ that seems to have come when choosing this career path
/emobitching[/quote]

Its part of it man. Youre planning on entering a profession that regularly gets shit on by morons who have got it planted in their heads that every societal ill is in some way related to lawyers.

That is, of course, till they need a lawyer, then we are at best a necessary evil.

Learn to let people who bitch drive you to be even better.

[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
This morning some pyscho girl went straight to the financial department to pick up the papers to un-enroll. This happened immediately after finishing the 4 hour constitutional law final. A final that I thought she was pretty well prepared for as we studied in the same group for a bit.

semi-pro tip: Dont make decisions about dropping out less than 48 hours after a final.

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LOL after ConLaw?

Damn, I thought that subject was the easiest…I can see someone ditching after Business Associations though…[/quote]

Con law’s really nebulous. I rocked BA (Corporations at my school) like a hurricane, but put twice as much time into con law and still got my lowest grade of the semester.

[quote]blithe wrote:

[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
This morning some pyscho girl went straight to the financial department to pick up the papers to un-enroll. This happened immediately after finishing the 4 hour constitutional law final. A final that I thought she was pretty well prepared for as we studied in the same group for a bit.

semi-pro tip: Dont make decisions about dropping out less than 48 hours after a final.

[/quote]

LOL after ConLaw?

Damn, I thought that subject was the easiest…I can see someone ditching after Business Associations though…[/quote]

Con law’s really nebulous. I rocked BA (Corporations at my school) like a hurricane, but put twice as much time into con law and still got my lowest grade of the semester.[/quote]

Definitely different strokes. I ripped through Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence, but seriously struggled with B.A.

Give me the crime and the courtroom, yall can take all the business and transactional law yall want.

Sounds fair to me. I’m hoping to get into bankruptcy, but first I gotta actually pass these finals…

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:
Even if you have time, all that studying will definitely burn up your brain and nervous system and leave sluggish for the weight room. [/quote]

O Rly?

So now studying definitely ‘burns up the brain and nervous system’ ??

Based on your post, one can make the claim that posting on a forum ‘burns up the brain’ [/quote]

it depends on how hard you think, the more intense the reading/writing/thinking, the more calorie the brain burns and the more fatigue the CNS might become. Usually online forums are more trivial than Law school material and require less energy.

But you have to take into account quantity and quality. If you spend 15 hours posting and answering shit on T-Nation vs studying for Law for 2 hours, then the former might burn your CNS more than the latter.

So really. Thinking is a physical process. The brain takes away more energy than any other organs in the body. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Honestly.

Youre talking to people in this thread that go to law school or have gone. Has any one of them mentioned their CNS being burned out? Or are you saying things that sound cool?

Studying is tiring and mentally fatiguing but that doesnt mean your CNS is getting ‘burned out’. You know what you do when you get mentaly tired? You close your eyes for 20 minutes, eat something, and go lift weights. LIke any other adult with a busy life. [/quote]

I’m saying that THINKING is a physical process that does and can burn calories and can make you fatigue. And the content of your thinking and how stressful the thinking it, whether it’s the thinking itself that creates the stress or the end result of that this thinking leads to stress can all contribute to degrees of fatigue.

From a neuroscientist: "they (grand master chess players) are going through 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day thinking, turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought and doing the same thing with their bodies as if they were some baboon who has just ripped open the stomach of their worst rival, and itâ??s all with thought, and memories and emotions. And suddenly weâ??re in the realm of taking just plain old nuts and bolts physiology and using it in ways that are unrecognizable.â??

It might not be exactly the same kind of CNS fatigue that something like a 1RM squat or depth jumps do to your body both in quantity and quality, but thinking and getting stressed over thinking do create stress.

But my point is simple : mental work is ultimately physical and can create stress that just might make your physical performance suffer.

Will Einstein, after trying to figure out relativity for 15 hours be able to lift weights? Yea, sure. Will Michael Jordan, after jumping around in a game for 2 hours able to lift weights afterwards? Yea, maybe.

But if you do quantum physics for 15 hours, THEN play basketball for another 4, you WILL be more physically stressed out than anther person who did neither and just sat around drinking protein shakes with everything else being equal (which is unlikely, since there are too many other life variables and factors, but let’s just imagine this for the sake of a “thought experiment”). And the person who is the freshest both physically and mentally will most likely have the best workout.

The brain is evolved to conserve energy, that is why in its default mode, it’s “mindless” in the sense that if the thinking isn’t necessary to survival, it’s better to conserve these calories for something else that does. That’s why thinking about math and philosophy can be so hard and might even feel “unnatural”. You just don’t see hunters and gatherers sitting around discussing science and philosophy. They barely have enough calories to figure out where the prey will be next and who wants to take over their territories.

PS. You donâ??t have to be a responsible adult to close your eyes, eat, and then lift after you feel tired. I do that all the time and Iâ??m pretty much an immature and irresponsible adolescent who try to sound deep and cool on forums but who come out like a pretentious hipster.

[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
This morning some pyscho girl went straight to the financial department to pick up the papers to un-enroll. This happened immediately after finishing the 4 hour constitutional law final. A final that I thought she was pretty well prepared for as we studied in the same group for a bit.

semi-pro tip: Dont make decisions about dropping out less than 48 hours after a final.

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LOL after ConLaw?

Damn, I thought that subject was the easiest…I can see someone ditching after Business Associations though…[/quote]

Yeah who knows. Our professor was great, I thought my little group was well prepared. Shes just a psycho. Pulled the same shit after criminal law and wound up getting a B. lol

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:
Even if you have time, all that studying will definitely burn up your brain and nervous system and leave sluggish for the weight room. [/quote]

O Rly?

So now studying definitely ‘burns up the brain and nervous system’ ??

Based on your post, one can make the claim that posting on a forum ‘burns up the brain’ [/quote]

it depends on how hard you think, the more intense the reading/writing/thinking, the more calorie the brain burns and the more fatigue the CNS might become. Usually online forums are more trivial than Law school material and require less energy.

But you have to take into account quantity and quality. If you spend 15 hours posting and answering shit on T-Nation vs studying for Law for 2 hours, then the former might burn your CNS more than the latter.

So really. Thinking is a physical process. The brain takes away more energy than any other organs in the body. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Honestly.

Youre talking to people in this thread that go to law school or have gone. Has any one of them mentioned their CNS being burned out? Or are you saying things that sound cool?

Studying is tiring and mentally fatiguing but that doesnt mean your CNS is getting ‘burned out’. You know what you do when you get mentaly tired? You close your eyes for 20 minutes, eat something, and go lift weights. LIke any other adult with a busy life. [/quote]

I’m saying that THINKING is a physical process that does and can burn calories and can make you fatigue. And the content of your thinking and how stressful the thinking it, whether it’s the thinking itself that creates the stress or the end result of that this thinking leads to stress can all contribute to degrees of fatigue.

From a neuroscientist: "they (grand master chess players) are going through 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day thinking, turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought and doing the same thing with their bodies as if they were some baboon who has just ripped open the stomach of their worst rival, and itâ??s all with thought, and memories and emotions. And suddenly weâ??re in the realm of taking just plain old nuts and bolts physiology and using it in ways that are unrecognizable.â??

It might not be exactly the same kind of CNS fatigue that something like a 1RM squat or depth jumps do to your body both in quantity and quality, but thinking and getting stressed over thinking do create stress.

But my point is simple : mental work is ultimately physical and can create stress that just might make your physical performance suffer.

Will Einstein, after trying to figure out relativity for 15 hours be able to lift weights? Yea, sure. Will Michael Jordan, after jumping around in a game for 2 hours able to lift weights afterwards? Yea, maybe.

But if you do quantum physics for 15 hours, THEN play basketball for another 4, you WILL be more physically stressed out than anther person who did neither and just sat around drinking protein shakes with everything else being equal (which is unlikely, since there are too many other life variables and factors, but let’s just imagine this for the sake of a “thought experiment”). And the person who is the freshest both physically and mentally will most likely have the best workout.

The brain is evolved to conserve energy, that is why in its default mode, it’s “mindless” in the sense that if the thinking isn’t necessary to survival, it’s better to conserve these calories for something else that does. That’s why thinking about math and philosophy can be so hard and might even feel “unnatural”. You just don’t see hunters and gatherers sitting around discussing science and philosophy. They barely have enough calories to figure out where the prey will be next and who wants to take over their territories.

PS. You donâ??t have to be a responsible adult to close your eyes, eat, and then lift after you feel tired. I do that all the time and Iâ??m pretty much an immature and irresponsible adolescent who try to sound deep and cool on forums but who come out like a pretentious hipster.
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come on man.

you said that studying will leave you sluggish in the weight room. as if no one who has mentally demanding tasks makes good progress in the gym.

I mean if that’s your excuse, fine. But whats the point of even thinking about that? Should people who study a lot not even try?

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:
Even if you have time, all that studying will definitely burn up your brain and nervous system and leave sluggish for the weight room. [/quote]

O Rly?

So now studying definitely ‘burns up the brain and nervous system’ ??

Based on your post, one can make the claim that posting on a forum ‘burns up the brain’ [/quote]

it depends on how hard you think, the more intense the reading/writing/thinking, the more calorie the brain burns and the more fatigue the CNS might become. Usually online forums are more trivial than Law school material and require less energy.

But you have to take into account quantity and quality. If you spend 15 hours posting and answering shit on T-Nation vs studying for Law for 2 hours, then the former might burn your CNS more than the latter.

So really. Thinking is a physical process. The brain takes away more energy than any other organs in the body. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Honestly.

Youre talking to people in this thread that go to law school or have gone. Has any one of them mentioned their CNS being burned out? Or are you saying things that sound cool?

Studying is tiring and mentally fatiguing but that doesnt mean your CNS is getting ‘burned out’. You know what you do when you get mentaly tired? You close your eyes for 20 minutes, eat something, and go lift weights. LIke any other adult with a busy life. [/quote]

I’m saying that THINKING is a physical process that does and can burn calories and can make you fatigue. And the content of your thinking and how stressful the thinking it, whether it’s the thinking itself that creates the stress or the end result of that this thinking leads to stress can all contribute to degrees of fatigue.

From a neuroscientist: "they (grand master chess players) are going through 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day thinking, turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought and doing the same thing with their bodies as if they were some baboon who has just ripped open the stomach of their worst rival, and it�¢??s all with thought, and memories and emotions. And suddenly we�¢??re in the realm of taking just plain old nuts and bolts physiology and using it in ways that are unrecognizable.�¢??

It might not be exactly the same kind of CNS fatigue that something like a 1RM squat or depth jumps do to your body both in quantity and quality, but thinking and getting stressed over thinking do create stress.

But my point is simple : mental work is ultimately physical and can create stress that just might make your physical performance suffer.

Will Einstein, after trying to figure out relativity for 15 hours be able to lift weights? Yea, sure. Will Michael Jordan, after jumping around in a game for 2 hours able to lift weights afterwards? Yea, maybe.

But if you do quantum physics for 15 hours, THEN play basketball for another 4, you WILL be more physically stressed out than anther person who did neither and just sat around drinking protein shakes with everything else being equal (which is unlikely, since there are too many other life variables and factors, but let’s just imagine this for the sake of a “thought experiment”). And the person who is the freshest both physically and mentally will most likely have the best workout.

The brain is evolved to conserve energy, that is why in its default mode, it’s “mindless” in the sense that if the thinking isn’t necessary to survival, it’s better to conserve these calories for something else that does. That’s why thinking about math and philosophy can be so hard and might even feel “unnatural”. You just don’t see hunters and gatherers sitting around discussing science and philosophy. They barely have enough calories to figure out where the prey will be next and who wants to take over their territories.

PS. You don�¢??t have to be a responsible adult to close your eyes, eat, and then lift after you feel tired. I do that all the time and I�¢??m pretty much an immature and irresponsible adolescent who try to sound deep and cool on forums but who come out like a pretentious hipster.
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come on man.

you said that studying will leave you sluggish in the weight room. as if no one who has mentally demanding tasks makes good progress in the gym.

I mean if that’s your excuse, fine. But whats the point of even thinking about that? Should people who study a lot not even try? [/quote]

Studying and worrying about studying can make you sluggish in the weight-room. So can a lot of other factors. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what negative and stress-related events and experiences contribute to sluggish gym sessions, and it’s also hard to poi-point down exactly what positive factors, can MAKE UP for those negatives.

A law student who studied 15 hours today might have a worse training session tonight than say, if he went to the gym on a Sunday, during a winter vacation… but he might also be extra pumped up that night because he got a new girlfriend, or that he saw a super motivating, life-changing training video on youtube or that he just happened to go to a buffet for lunch and was carb-loaded like never before.

People should study hard, and work out hard as well. There’s no excuse for not doing one just because you are pre-occupied with the other. All I’m saying is that, abstracting all the other factors that might act as variables such as other stresses and different people’s different personal goals and motivation at different parts of their lives, for thinking and studying and other mentally stressful experiences can have an affect on the physical body.

The poster is asking whether making gains in the weightroom can be hard for Law Student. Yes, it can be hard for a responsible adult like yourself as well if you spend 10 hours a day in front of the computer thinking and getting stressed over deadlines. I am not advocating that people should think about this all day long and use it as an excuse to not lift.

But knowing this can be a plus. Let’s say if you want to break a PR, and that tomorrow just happen to be a big exam, then knowing that studying too hard can take a toll on your fatigue level, then you might move the workout to the day after the exam. That way you get to study harder today, and work out harder tomorrow.

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:
Even if you have time, all that studying will definitely burn up your brain and nervous system and leave sluggish for the weight room. [/quote]

O Rly?

So now studying definitely ‘burns up the brain and nervous system’ ??

Based on your post, one can make the claim that posting on a forum ‘burns up the brain’ [/quote]

it depends on how hard you think, the more intense the reading/writing/thinking, the more calorie the brain burns and the more fatigue the CNS might become. Usually online forums are more trivial than Law school material and require less energy.

But you have to take into account quantity and quality. If you spend 15 hours posting and answering shit on T-Nation vs studying for Law for 2 hours, then the former might burn your CNS more than the latter.

So really. Thinking is a physical process. The brain takes away more energy than any other organs in the body. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Honestly.

Youre talking to people in this thread that go to law school or have gone. Has any one of them mentioned their CNS being burned out? Or are you saying things that sound cool?

Studying is tiring and mentally fatiguing but that doesnt mean your CNS is getting ‘burned out’. You know what you do when you get mentaly tired? You close your eyes for 20 minutes, eat something, and go lift weights. LIke any other adult with a busy life. [/quote]

I’m saying that THINKING is a physical process that does and can burn calories and can make you fatigue. And the content of your thinking and how stressful the thinking it, whether it’s the thinking itself that creates the stress or the end result of that this thinking leads to stress can all contribute to degrees of fatigue.

From a neuroscientist: "they (grand master chess players) are going through 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day thinking, turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought and doing the same thing with their bodies as if they were some baboon who has just ripped open the stomach of their worst rival, and it�?�¢??s all with thought, and memories and emotions. And suddenly we�?�¢??re in the realm of taking just plain old nuts and bolts physiology and using it in ways that are unrecognizable.�?�¢??

It might not be exactly the same kind of CNS fatigue that something like a 1RM squat or depth jumps do to your body both in quantity and quality, but thinking and getting stressed over thinking do create stress.

But my point is simple : mental work is ultimately physical and can create stress that just might make your physical performance suffer.

Will Einstein, after trying to figure out relativity for 15 hours be able to lift weights? Yea, sure. Will Michael Jordan, after jumping around in a game for 2 hours able to lift weights afterwards? Yea, maybe.

But if you do quantum physics for 15 hours, THEN play basketball for another 4, you WILL be more physically stressed out than anther person who did neither and just sat around drinking protein shakes with everything else being equal (which is unlikely, since there are too many other life variables and factors, but let’s just imagine this for the sake of a “thought experiment”). And the person who is the freshest both physically and mentally will most likely have the best workout.

The brain is evolved to conserve energy, that is why in its default mode, it’s “mindless” in the sense that if the thinking isn’t necessary to survival, it’s better to conserve these calories for something else that does. That’s why thinking about math and philosophy can be so hard and might even feel “unnatural”. You just don’t see hunters and gatherers sitting around discussing science and philosophy. They barely have enough calories to figure out where the prey will be next and who wants to take over their territories.

PS. You don�?�¢??t have to be a responsible adult to close your eyes, eat, and then lift after you feel tired. I do that all the time and I�?�¢??m pretty much an immature and irresponsible adolescent who try to sound deep and cool on forums but who come out like a pretentious hipster.
[/quote]

come on man.

you said that studying will leave you sluggish in the weight room. as if no one who has mentally demanding tasks makes good progress in the gym.

I mean if that’s your excuse, fine. But whats the point of even thinking about that? Should people who study a lot not even try? [/quote]

And to answer your original question. No, people on here probably don’t go around saying they " burned up their CNS" while working or studying, just as people who never go on T-Nation and read about CNS fatigue don’t say the same thing when they haven’t’ slept for 2 nights because they were out partying (they say “I was so fucked up” and “wasted” which is exactly what CNS fatigue feels like lol), just as professional athletes who maxed out in a training session usually won’t say “My brain is fried!”

These are just semantics. different words to describe similar phenomenon - namely that external stresses can cause both the brain and the body to be in states of fatigue in a dynamic feedback loop that will affect both thoughts and actions. Brain, nervous system, and the body are all connected. So are thoughts and movements.

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Derek, Dixie, and CC: I was only half serious about this being depressing. It’s just I recently made my mind up and committed to a major change in order to become a lawyer (I’m only in my 3rd semester of college)Since then, I’ve made the decision, a lot of my peers have basically shit on it, saying law school is horrible, the amount of money I’ll make won’t be worth the money I’ll make, yada yada. So reading some of the posts, especially on the it potentially being a bad career move in today’s economy. It’s not making me change my mind or anything, there’s just been a lot of ‘negativity’ that seems to have come when choosing this career path
/emobitching[/quote]

Eh, we’re seeing classmates with $100K in debt who either 1) can’t get a job; 2) can’t get a job that pays well enough to service the debt; or 3) realize they hate lawyering but have to keep doing it to service the debt. If you really want it, you should do it, but keep your eyes open.

[quote]pushmepullme wrote:

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Derek, Dixie, and CC: I was only half serious about this being depressing. It’s just I recently made my mind up and committed to a major change in order to become a lawyer (I’m only in my 3rd semester of college)Since then, I’ve made the decision, a lot of my peers have basically shit on it, saying law school is horrible, the amount of money I’ll make won’t be worth the money I’ll make, yada yada. So reading some of the posts, especially on the it potentially being a bad career move in today’s economy. It’s not making me change my mind or anything, there’s just been a lot of ‘negativity’ that seems to have come when choosing this career path
/emobitching[/quote]

Eh, we’re seeing classmates with $100K in debt who either 1) can’t get a job; 2) can’t get a job that pays well enough to service the debt; or 3) realize they hate lawyering but have to keep doing it to service the debt. If you really want it, you should do it, but keep your eyes open.[/quote]

I spent about 5 hours with our family lawyer last week dealing with my 20 year old son and his problems. This guy has been a lawyer for over 30 years and has a solid clientele base in medicine and business owners in Texas. He was commenting on the state of affairs in being a new lawyer, and it sounds like a very saturated market.

However I will say this, people can excel in a saturated market if you are a top 1% type of person. Dont let internet warriors talk you out of anything.

But I would listen to PMPM on two things, Legal and lifting heavy.

Some of my best workouts came after taking a major exam and on very little sleep. I guess I was just still so wired that I was able to use the excess energy for the workout. Granted, the next day after doing that I feel pretty zombyish.

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

But knowing this can be a plus. Let’s say if you want to break a PR, and that tomorrow just happen to be a big exam, then knowing that studying too hard can take a toll on your fatigue level, then you might move the workout to the day after the exam. That way you get to study harder today, and work out harder tomorrow.

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I mean, most of your post is just theoretical bullshit but this takes the cake.

  1. the goal should be to set a PR everyday.

  2. you dont NOT try just because you THINK you may not get it. Fuck thats the pussiest thing Ive ever heard of. You go to the gym, do your workout, if you dont hit your goal you try again next time. What youre doing isnt ‘training smart’ its called making excuses.

  3. analyzing such a simple concept as being a student and lifting weights in the same lifetime is causing you to not see the big picture. I hope that changes. For your sake.

I was very strong in law school and worked 20 plus hours a week while carrying a full load of classes. you can find time to train hard and go to school. how many hours a week to you need to train?

its after law school that you need to worry about training. if you work at a firm (big law) that requires 2200 or more hours, you can sort of forget about training.

if you are like many graduates and cant find a job after you graduate, you will have lots of time to train in betweeen occupy protests.