Anna's Training Log Part 2 (Part 1)

Training Logs
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Week 1: Day 5

“leg press”: 4x20-80lbs
Abductor machine: 4x20-60lbs
adductor machine: 4x16-45lbs

  • entire posterior chain is PISSED, did very quick lower body accessory workout. the gym has a mini leg press thing that I can actually use, it’s great for working quads, was on a fitness discord server and someone suggested working abductors so figured I’d try the machine since gym had one- it’s harder than it looks!
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Week 2: day 1

Lunges: 3x16, 1x18,20 -50kg
good mornings: 1x13, 2x14
BTN press: 3x12-20kg
“leg extensions”: 5x10 w/ 1 min rests
db rows: 3x10/side-20kg db

  • not feeling great but got this done, lunges went well then everything went down hill and was kind of dizzy

Update: so I’ve weighed in at 49kg (108lbs) for a the past two weeks, which isn’t surprising considering how much I’ve been eating. This is faster than I’d like, but I’ve kind of lost control since there’s so much good food around + parents. I keep telleing myself “I’ll be more discipline tomorrow”… then fail. I’m also finding it very hard to bring the required intensity for muscle gain.
it’s not going to get much better in the next month or two considering that I’ll be at grandparents place for a bit next month+ a couple of small trips to visit ppl :sob: I hate this

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Asian grandparents and food…oh boy :joy:

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you get it.

They know I love food + I’m like their golden child + a couple of their former students own farms so they really pull out all the stops

I’ll basically be eating carnivore there but still… probably 3k calories a day easy. It’s very depressing how quickly smoked pork belly and stewed marrowbone add up

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Oh boy. Take out the fat on the pork belly and just avoid the marrow soup

…ok maybe take like 3 sips lol

Strength gains should be awesome though!

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Weighed in at 50kg this morning (same clothes, same time) :scream::skull:

Hopefully just a blip. I’ve noticed that my weight tends to increase in a stair step pattern where it stays flat for a while, then jumps

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Week 2: Day 2

20min AMRAP of:
10 DB bench press-12kg dbs+8 lateral raises-6kg dbs+50jumping jacks
(8 or 9 rounds done, lost count)
seal rows: 1x50, 1x30, 1x20
kbs: 1x 6,7,8,9,10-32kg kb
Conditioning: pushups -20,18,16,12,10 w/10 trap bar DL btw pushup sets -60kg

  • got a good pump and felt good, I like the faster pace
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Week 2: Day 3

so… today was supposed to be deadlifts, Unfortunately, deadlifting would have gotten very messy wrt to gut acting up…

Lunges: 3x10 total-60kg, 2x16-50kg, 1x24-40kg
press: 6x2-40kg
5x(10 glute bridges-24kg db+20 jumping jacks), no rest btw sets
db snatches: 1x3/side, 4/side, 5/side, 6/side-20kg db
“leg press”: 3x8-95lbs, 3x10/leg-50lbs

  • lunges felt surprisingly very good despite gut being off, rest of it went fine but this drained me, weird situation where my mind felt clear but my body kind of just forgot how to move or something bc I stumbled a bit

Random updates:

  • I met a former arm wrestler at the gym today. dude is a fking monster. started curling a 25kg db as if it were 15 lbs. Anyways, he is super nice and we had a bit of a chat about Russian movies and such.
  • I wrote my first very basic simulations in Python. Small step but I’m starting to get the hang of it
  • I thought advisor wanted me to submit a poster at conference, turns out he wants me to try for an actual talk. If they actually accept my submission, I will probably be the youngest person giving a talk since 1) ppl in my field don’t go into PhD straight out of UG 2) it’s very rare for first years to present. exciting and scary
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Week 2: day 4

“leg press”: 2x20,22-95lbs, 3x6/leg-50lbs
adductor: 3x20-45lbs
Abductor: 3x20-60lbs
Bench Press: 1x12-40kg, 2x6-50kg
bodyweight RFESS: 3x10/side, no rest

  • quick lower body accessory+ bench bc some guy left weight on the bar and I figured I’d try, this was not as bad as expected but my fking lower body is pretty dead
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Week 2: Day 5

10x(30 battle ropes+10 pushups+20 alt lunges)
5 min heavy bag boxing
Tricep pushdowns: 3x16-27lbs
face pulls: 3x12-27lbs

  • felt pretty good, got HR up and blood flowing
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Week 2: day 6

Db incline bench: 3x15-14kg dbs
Lateral raises: 3x10-6kg dbs
Db flyes: 3x15-6kg dbs
Back extension: 1x12,13,14
Battle ropes: 6min easy, alternating styles

  • was feeling shite so got in a quick and easy upper body accessory, felt pretty nice by the end

Rant:
Mum’s side of the family is very bought into woo woo shite and tries to drag me into it. it pisses me off. Examples:

  • burial rituals that require driving 5 hours to some random Buddhist mountain and take a whole day
  • going to her home village and kow towing in front of graves in front of burning plastic/heavy metal lined paper shaped as money/ingots used as an “offering”
  • forcing little bro and I to spend over 2 hours at the phone store picking out a number bc she had to confirm if the number is “good”. Without the number BS, the process would have taken 30mib max

She then gets mad at me when I seem far more willing to go to visit relatives on dad’s side (they don’t do any of this). This does not include the large quantities of second hand smoke I’ll be subjected to bc all mums cousins smoke and it’s “disrespectful” to tell them not to. Fuck them

This might come off as crass, but they’re DEAD! Breathing in second hand smoke and sitting for hours in a car isn’t worth it. There are much better ways of remembering/celebrating relatives who have passed. For example, regular donations in the persons name, putting up family photos, family gatherings….
Also, great if mum believes in this stuff, let me opt out!!!

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Week 3: day 1 (yesterday)

Lunges: 1x20 total-40kg, 1x16-50kg, 1x12-60kg, 1x4-70kg
Good morning: 1x15,16; 2x10w/3 sec eccentric, all at 45kg
“Leg press”: 2x6-110lbs, 2x14-95lbs, 2x6/leg-50lbs
Btn Press: 3x8-20kg
Kbs: 4x8-32kg
“Conditioning”: 10alt db snatches-16kg+100 air squats+ 10 alt db snatches-16kg

  • felt awesome and this went very well- happy w/ lunges, am definitely feeling it today….
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Week 3: Day 2

2 sets
50sec- 40 sec…10 sec battle ropes, 10 pushupss +10 lying leg raises btw sets of battle ropes
2 min rests btw sets
tabata battle ropes
seal row: 3x20-9kg dbs

  • quick and very intense, got HR up and felt very good
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Week 3: Day 3

Deadlift: 1x10-80kg, 1x8-90kg, 1x6-100kg, 2x4-110kg, 1x2-120kg; 2x2-90kg paused
snatch grip DL: 1x8, 3x9-60kg
“leg press”: 3x12/side-40lbs, 3x12-85lbs, 1 min rests
Back extension: 3x10-10kg

  • wow this was…… very hard, 120 was a lot heavier than it should have been and kinda felt wiped out the entire time, made it through- little work done in a long time
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Today was shite. Didn’t sleep well and was super sore. Ended up eating too much and the minimal activity, not even the extra walk used to replace workout on rest days

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Week 3: Day 4

in 10 min:
20 alt DB snatches-14kg db, 16 snatches-16kg, 12-18kg, 20 alt bodyweight lunges btw sets

“leg press”: 2x8-110lbs, 2x12-95lbs, 2x16-80lbs, 2x20-65lbs
abductor machine: 4x20-70lbs

  • quick but intense workout, really burned!

feeling better today but had extra cheese… oops, super bloated and fatter than i’d like to be

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Week 3: day 5

Press: 10-1-25kg, 5 24in box jumps btw sets
Btn press: 1x9,10,11
Db flyes: 1x10-9kg db, 1x12-8kg…… 1x20-4kg dbs, switch db as rest
Tricep extension: 3x20-21lbs
Air squats: 200

  • moved quickly and got HR up and a pretty good pump

Coming two weeks are not going to be so great. Gym closed this Thursday - Saturday for holiday, trip from 30th to 7/2 with no gym access, another short trip from 7/7 to 7/9 where even getting steps in might be a problem…. And of course…. Family gatherings = too much food……

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take this back. Gym owner is giving me a special pass so I can go :sweat_smile:

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Week 4: Day 1

“DO hard legs shite for an hour or so”

KBS: 10x10, 90sec rests; 1x20,15, all w/ 32kg kb
“leg press”; 3x8/leg-50lbs, 3x20-65lbs, 2x6 w/5sec eccentric-80lbs, 1x5 w/5sec eccentric-110lbs, 90sec rests
air squats: 5x50 w/30sec rests
Core circut: 20reps each of lying leg raises, deadbugs, frog pumps, plank hip dip things

  • this was really fun and hard, got and kept HR up and killed legs
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I’ve weighed in at 49-50kg for the second consecutive week and am a bit fatter than I’d like to be. The plan was to gain about 1lb a month (~1% body weight) and I overshot
Can I start slowly cutting starting 7/10 (after the last of the trips) or should I stick it out until august