I didn’t want to keep attacking another user in his own thread, and I grew incredibly bored with the whole conversation anyway, but I had to whine (somewhere) about two things:
“Would you talk to a girl this way??” Harden up, “dude”. My 8-year-old daughter not only can handle coaching, she seeks it out. Let’s not try to place our insecurities on a gender. You’re a puss; own it if you’re so into it.
“I’ll show you all!” Nobody really gives a shit. Succeed or don’t. Complaining about having to do the work sure isn’t getting you anywhere. Is this really what people have come to expect of themselves? I can’t imagine what I would have given for the information available to folks today from the greatest minds in any endeavor: athletics, investments, operations, etc. People hear they have to put some work in and shoot the (world class) messenger.
Anyway, for my own training, I’m sticking with a bro-ish split. I’m finding:
I like jumps and box squats
I like power cleans
Not doing flat bench for a long time has made me bad at flat bench. Who knew?
Long walk in the cold and back workout today. We move in a week. I really feel bad for the kids; change is very tough on them. I hope this ends up being the right decision, but I know how fleeting this will seen when we look in the rear view.
In other news, Cam’s return to the Panthers was incredibly exciting… almost poetic.
Keep pounding!
It started in a thread called “wasted 7 years of training” or something like that, and then went into the author’s new log. I don’t want to keep going to his log to argue with him because it’s his space, he at least started one, and he does appear to be doing his workouts. There was just some entitled whining that rankled me.
My RHR is back down below 60, which I consider a very good indicator. I think changing BP drugs has really, really helped. That first one was wrecking me.
I’ve nearly read the whole thread now and absolutely loving it.
What a joke of a person the OP in that thread is. 7 years and gets no results = my training must be fine just what a joke. If his training was any good he’d have loads of muscle with that bulk heavy diet and all that protein etc.
I’m off to enjoy the rest of the thread while on a works conference call now.
Hope it all goes well mate. After talking about houses my Mrs doesn’t want to move out of this house because we raised our kids here. While I mock her I kinda feel the same, I love the memories of a family home.
We’re in Georgia and had a lovely thanksgiving with my parents. This move has, so far, been as easy as the situation could be (if you don’t count the first buyer on my old house falling through, but such is life). The fact that we went from 20° weather and landed in 60° helped the kids’ optimism quite a bit.
In other news, while I’m trying out gyms here, it’s like I’ve forgotten how to train. I do hours of traditional bodybuilding lifting and cardio a week, and I’m heavier and move worse than I ever have. I read @T3hPwnisher and @SvenG ’s logs and it’s like I don’t even know how to implement that stuff anymore. Like someone has to write down exactly what to do for me. I was never like this; I’m always the “just work” guy. Very strange, I really “need” to feel athletic again, but when I get to the gym I just fall into the same old ramp up leg curls and squats and then do some elliptical.
No joke man: pick 6 different workouts, number them 1 to 6, roll the die after you lift and do that workout. Get more die if you want more workouts. Eventually you will find a groove again
That is so beautifully simple it’s poetic. I love it and I think it’s exactly what the doctor ordered. Thank you; I really appreciate it. I’ll do exactly that.
Not being funny but isn’t this exactly what having a program is for. I find for me I need to keep my sessions simple and limiting exercises helps with that. If I do not have a plan when I get to the gym there are just too many choices for me to make something up on the fly.
@T3hPwnisher with regards to your comment about the dice and six workouts. Would you use this for the lifting component and conditioning? I like this idea for accessories or conditioning but not sure about main lifts? As I wrote that I am already thinking I am overthinking. I guess it depends on current goals and what @TrainForPain is trying to achieve.
For what I wrote for @TrainForPain I said to do it after the lifting as it looked as though he wanted ideas for conditioning, but if you read my blog post of “Surrender Your Fate to the 20 sided die” I offer a prescription for a full on training approach that way.
It operates off the premise that ANY decision is better than indecision
just what a joke. If his training was any good he’d have loads of muscle with that bulk heavy diet and all that protein etc.