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Week 137

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Monday - 11/21/16

-= Workout Log =-

Bench Press
45 x 20              >> Pretty sure I had 9 in me, which would have been a PR.
95 x 5
135 x 5
185 x 3
225 x 8

Seated Cable Rows
195 x 5
225 x 3
255 x 6 PR

Incline DB Bench Press
85's x 10

Pull Ups
BW x 5
+30lbs x 3
+60lbs x 6

DB Lateral Raises
40's x 5
45's x 3
50's x 15

Rear Delt Flyes
170 x 12

Worked out at my gym's other location. Don't know what it is, but the equipment just felt better here. The weights didn't feel lighter, it's more that I sunk into the bench and felt very stable so I can push better. The grips on the pull up bars were better so I could pull better. Stuff like that. That's why I lifted more.

I wish this location was closer to my home!

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On another note, I have finished all of my assignments for my MS degree ahead of time to let myself focuson on these two 5,000 word papers I have to write, IEEE style. Man I hate this shit. We got a new chair of the dept and he is teaching this "projects & internships" class which has nothing to do with internships at all. It's just paper writings and presentations. This guy wants to make the MS degree less hands on and more research based. WTF. The whole point of my uni's MS degree was to target it towards working professionals: it has weekend only classes, and the majority of the professors are in the industry, NOT phd's. So its more hands on work. Nobody in the industry is coming to this MS program to do research... they can go to NSA-accredited schools for that crap.

let me not even get into the fact that part of our grade is dependent on how "publishable" the papers are. the papers must talk about something *new* in the field, some type of advancement, and be worth something. and if it's really good, he'll help you edit it and put his name second on the paper and get you published.... yeah.... big red flag there..... all this fucker cares about is getting published. reminds me of those professors that assign their own textbooks as the required text.

/rant

Pretty good workout. Start my new job next week, and I'll be taking creatine and a lot of whey daily. I expect some decent squat gains soon.

t's easier to see how negative feedback can make you worse: "Information indicating that one’s performance is less-than-perfect, or even uncertainty about how one is performing (relative to others) due to lack of information, presumably activates self-regulatory processes in attempts to manage thoughts and affective responses." In other words, you start to overthink things, which gets in the way of smooth motor functioning. But to some extent, these "self-regulatory processes" are always present, so the benefit of positive feedback may be that it allows you turn those processes down a bit. In the context of running (and other physical tasks), the result may be greater motor efficiency: "Changes in energy expenditure are presumably a function of increased movement efficiency associated with greater movement stability, minimized co-contractions, and generally more economical muscle activation patterns."

Damn, awesome race man, finally some competition you ran with, were they faster then your previous comps or was it that just this race you were feeling slower then previous race, as you did feel tired a few days back.

How fast were the #1, #2 running was sub 17, 16 or 18.

Congrats