africngiant
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i almost died eating a burger, choking otw home. i started to walk slower and everything
Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...
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desjardins
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Thanks for the feedback.
Yea I'm leaning towards just going back to my previous gym that's up the street. I'm often the only black person in there or the only person under 50 but fukk it
At least I can get the weights I want when I want and a total travel time of a hour for the gym is kind of dumb when I have options right around here. I guess the website marketing and people like Jim Jones visiting the other gym had me gassed to try something new
Yea I'm leaning towards just going back to my previous gym that's up the street. I'm often the only black person in there or the only person under 50 but fukk it
At least I can get the weights I want when I want and a total travel time of a hour for the gym is kind of dumb when I have options right around here. I guess the website marketing and people like Jim Jones visiting the other gym had me gassed to try something new
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Thanks for the feedback.
Yea I'm leaning towards just going back to my previous gym that's up the street. I'm often the only black person in there or the only person under 50 but fukk it
At least I can get the weights I want when I want and a total travel time of a hour for the gym is kind of dumb when I have options right around here. I guess the website marketing and people like Jim Jones visiting the other gym had me gassed to try something new
I mean most brehs (and definitely no brehettes) aren't taking care of themselves and staying in shape like that, but I could give af what color the random people in the gym are. 99.9% of non-brehs at the gym won't even get The Nod and I usually have to actively remind myself not to mean-mug people saying what's up or brawds that be smiling.
Also, it depends on how often you go and how long your workouts are. (Lotta cats don't be spending enough time in the gym; the hell you gonna show up for 30 minutes for?)
Unless you're gonna be there long enough to make the drive worth it, you prolly won't show up.
If you ever needed or wanted to do two-a-days, now you've spent two hours just driving back and forth to that bih.
I'm already spending like 20 hours a week in that hoe (with almost no cardio and no cooldowns), and that's without travel time. I'll be damned if Imma spend another hour a day in traffic just for the hell of it. YMMV.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
How are you spending 20 hours a week in the gym? Especially, moving the amounts you do with such little recovery?I mean most brehs (and definitely no brehettes) aren't taking care of themselves and staying in shape like that, but I could give af what color the random people in the gym are. 99.9% of non-brehs at the gym won't even get The Nod and I usually have to actively remind myself not to mean-mug people saying what's up or brawds that be smiling.
Also, it depends on how often you go and how long your workouts are. (Lotta cats don't be spending enough time in the gym; the hell you gonna show up for 30 minutes for?)
Unless you're gonna be there long enough to make the drive worth it, you prolly won't show up.
If you ever needed or wanted to do two-a-days, now you've spent two hours just driving back and forth to that bih.
I'm already spending like 20 hours a week in that hoe (with almost no cardio and no cooldowns), and that's without travel time. I'll be damned if Imma spend another hour a day in traffic just for the hell of it. YMMV.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Average of 6 days a week, sometimes 7. Sometimes two-a-days. I usually don't pull up unless I got at least 3 hours after show time.
How long have you been training this way consistently? How did you get to this frequency?
Average of 6 days a week, sometimes 7. Sometimes two-a-days. I usually don't pull up unless I got at least 3 hours after show time.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Not sure what you mean or how to answer that.
I started lifting with a barbell in Fall of '15. Never worked out consistently before that.
Started with ICF/SL5x5 for roughly the 1st 8 months (@trap101) and then progressed to other things, like 5/3/1 templates, PHAT, PHUL, Bro Splits, nSuns, the Bulgarian Method, Smolov Jr., etc.
Different programs have variables set differently: whether that's endurance, intensity, duration, breadth, recover, or frequency. You manipulate one or more at the expense of something else. Not having any physical hobbies helps a lot.
I've never had a coach or a training potna or a PT. I've tied to bring others along so they could learn The Whey but only one has succeeded. (I don't bother tryna help folks like that anymore.)
I have an 'obsessive' personality; I pick one thing and that's 95% of what I do. It went from being a scrawny couch potato to being The Great Sage Equalling Heaven.
Did that help?
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
Superstar
Not sure what you mean or how to answer that.
I started lifting with a barbell in Fall of '15. Never worked out consistently before that.
Started with ICF/SL5x5 for roughly the 1st 8 months (@trap101) and then progressed to other things, like 5/3/1 templates, PHAT, PHUL, Bro Splits, nSuns, the Bulgarian Method, Smolov Jr., etc.
Different programs have variables set differently: whether that's endurance, intensity, duration, breadth, recover, or frequency. You manipulate one or more at the expense of something else. Not having any physical hobbies helps a lot.
I've never had a coach or a training potna or a PT. I've tied to bring others along so they could learn The Whey but only one has succeeded. (I don't bother tryna help folks like that anymore.)
I have an 'obsessive' personality; I pick one thing and that's 95% of what I do. It went from being a scrawny couch potato to being The Great Sage Equalling Heaven.
Did that help?
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Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
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You are hereby promoted to the rank of #PowdaBoy First Class.
Go in peace to love and serve The Whey. Wheymen.
How deep were you into your lifting journey when you were able to lift heavy 6+ days a week?Not sure what you mean or how to answer that.
I started lifting with a barbell in Fall of '15. Never worked out consistently before that.
Started with ICF/SL5x5 for roughly the 1st 8 months (@trap101) and then progressed to other things, like 5/3/1 templates, PHAT, PHUL, Bro Splits, nSuns, the Bulgarian Method, Smolov Jr., etc.
Different programs have variables set differently: whether that's endurance, intensity, duration, breadth, recover, or frequency. You manipulate one or more at the expense of something else. Not having any physical hobbies helps a lot.
I've never had a coach or a training potna or a PT. I've tied to bring others along so they could learn The Whey but only one has succeeded. (I don't bother tryna help folks like that anymore.)
I have an 'obsessive' personality; I pick one thing and that's 95% of what I do. It went from being a scrawny couch potato to being The Great Sage Equalling Heaven.
Did that help?
Thanks for name dropping those programs.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
What is lifting heavy?
All these adjectives are so subjective that they're almost pointless to discuss. I don't keep logs around to pore over at a later date, in fact I delete my app data frequently because that shyt doesn't matter. Simple things like life stress and work tempo, food intake, motivation, sleep, etc. all affect output so much that worrying about or over-analyzing that shyt. I know I was totaling over 1400 raw with wraps less than two and a half years after I started, and have strived to produce at least one PR each year. By doing that, I usually end up bigger and stronger on more than one lift incidentally.
Six days a week is also pretty arbitrary. If the program calls for 6 days, I do six. If it calls for 4 or 5, I do that. If it calls for 7, I do that. If I happen to have extra chakra and a time-specific goal, I might be doing two-a-days. Is your six days better than your 4 or 5? Can you recover from six heavy days? Can you afford the extra time? Not sure why that metric even matters tbh.
Name dropping those programs doesn't do much if you can't reproduce the same conditions under which I run/ran them. I've been modifying programs probably since month 5 or 6, so invoking a vanilla program versus my specific modifications won't do anyone too much good.
Not sure why this seems so unusual or interesting to you, I simply do what I need to do to accomplish whatever goal I have. If it works, cool. I'll absorb what was useful and reject what was not. If it doesn't, I'll assess where my shortfalls were and re-attack.
I also flow with whatever constraints I have at the time. If I have to change jobs and stay on the move, I'll shorten up the WoDs. If my job isn't pushing me like that, I'll bust out the longer workouts and double-up on days. If my schedule has me moving to where I can't cook, I'll eat out more to increase the macros. Be like water, my (non-friend) friend.
Answering these questions isn't value-added for me so I'll be moving on after this post.
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
Superstar
What is lifting heavy?
I know I was totaling over 1400 raw with wraps less than two and a half years after I started, and have strived to produce at least one PR each year. By doing that, I usually end up bigger and stronger on more than one lift incidentally.
Six days a week is also pretty arbitrary. If the program calls for 6 days, I do six. If it calls for 4 or 5, I do that. If it calls for 7, I do that. If I happen to have extra chakra and a time-specific goal, I might be doing two-a-days. Is your six days better than your 4 or 5? Can you recover from six heavy days? Can you afford the extra time? Not sure why that metric even matters tbh.
Name dropping those programs doesn't do much if you can't reproduce the same conditions under which I run/ran them. I've been modifying programs probably since month 5 or 6, so invoking a vanilla program versus my specific modifications won't do anyone too much good.
Not sure why this seems so unusual or interesting to you, I simply do what I need to do to accomplish whatever goal I have. If it works, cool. I'll absorb what was useful and reject what was not. If it doesn't, I'll assess where my shortfalls were and re-attack.
I also flow with whatever constraints I have at the time. If I have to change jobs and stay on the move, I'll shorten up the WoDs. If my job isn't pushing me like that, I'll bust out the longer workouts and double-up on days. If my schedule has me moving to where I can't cook, I'll eat out more to increase the macros. Be like water, my (non-friend) friend.
Answering these questions isn't value-added for me so I'll be moving on after this post.
Man is using language I only see when I am reading research papers to provide guidance on The Whey..
... I am truly only a trainee... 
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Man is using language I only see when I am reading research papers to provide guidance on The Whey..
Everyone starts out somewhere.
