Was your workout so brutal, bro, that you can't move your arms to masturbate? Was your leg day so INTENSE that you don't even wanna bother fucking your girlfriend or boyfriend because hip extensions hurt your quads? Cool story, bro.
EVERYTHING IS EXTREME
Today I overheard male gymrats talking about how intense their workouts were and how they were so sore from them and so tight and everything. This doesn't sound productive. Humans should be able to move freely after they train, just as they did before hand.
If you don't test your movements, I will show you how you can do this to make smarter choices in a follow up post to this. But until then, if you think testing sounds like a crock of shit (and if you have not tried it, it does) there are some things you can do to make life easier for you and make faster progress.
Testing sounds akin to homer rubbing food on a surface to see if it will make him fat or not. Like in cartoon land, testing movements in real life works.
1. Stop doing shit with your face. Any tension that you do apply can get redirected and misplaced if you make a shit face.
2. Don't use excessive tension. Train to lift the weight, not to always stay tight.
3. Stop when it gets too hard. Make your movements look easy.
4. Start feeling better.
I haven't written my training out in a while. It has been few and far between, though the PRs come everytime I train still. The glory now, is that I can train some movements whenever I feel like, since I live in a house with a garage. All in all, it's far better than living in the apartment I was in.
A really hot, pint sized olympic lifter schooled me on how to do cleans properly, so I fucked around for a long time doing doubles and triples with 135.
30 Jan
LCCJ, a pair of fifty pound kettlebells. 5x5, in ten minutes. 2500lbs moved.
Close Grip bench- 135x6, 155x5, 185x3x3 3250lbs in 9m
Jefferson deadlift- 135x4, 185x2, 225, 275x2x1 5m55s 1500lbs
Plate Curls 20lbs L/R-2x5, 3x4, 3x3 1240lbs in 9m30s
BBell Military press-115lbs-4, 4x3 1840lbs in 7m50s
Another asymmetrical lift, my stance was slightly different than this guys.
In other news, I will not be able to enter the competition I intended due to moving, and not having any money as a result. I will enter one another time, however.
In the mean time this will suffice to make me somewhat happy.