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no real workout tonight, did do an hour-long swing dance class with gf, though. was fun, broke a light sweat.

according to that calculator i'm at 10-11% bodyfat and could stand to lose a bit over 2kg of fat and gain about 11kg of lean mass to reach my maximum muscular potential. seems legit but i'll never be that heavy inshallah.

yesterday

- treadmill run 4.2km in 25:11
walked first 2:30 and last 2:30

- GMB warm up

- stretch

so much sweat. good.

I am too lazy to use my head to read thru this and too dumb to understand it real fast. cliff notes please

 

agreed, lost me.

- GMB warm up

- jump rope interval 3 x 3'/1'
no mistakes

- stretch

gentle. no pain. yippee.

Do you take supplements like: MSM + collagen + gloucosamine/chontroitin + fish oil + vitamin c which helps collagen absortion + D3 + magnesium ?

i haven't in a long time because evidence for so many of them is so weak and my n=1 is that they have no noticeable effect on my health or well-being. but i think it's time to start again. i got vitamin b12 yesterday on the recommendation of the doc i saw here for my staph infection, as an immune booster. thinking to add fish oil, C, D, and ZMA. and also to start making bone broth.

lot of wisdom in adarq's post. thanks.

Is it being injury prone or just pushing yourself athletically more than was intended?

I look back at my training history and the injuries that I've had and they all have one thing in common. The repetition of a singular movement through normal ranges and into the stages of pain until the injury occurs. I often think what if I cycled my lifts, had an off-season and a pre-season every year. It almost seems ridiculous that I don't but I'm also scared that if I don't keep lifting all the time I won't progress. A look at my lifts from 7 years ago illustrates this point perfectly.

it's definitely both. the limitation of the "stubborn/pushes too hard" narrative is that it doesn't explain why other people who are also stubborn and push hard don't get hurt so much. hard to measure, but the trend is definitely there. i mean, it's not like i was training or playing harder as a kid in baseball or fencing, but i was always hurt in some way and other kids weren't. the bit about the collagen gene variant that prevents people from getting soft-tissue injuries is tantalizing; i am a walking soft tissue injury. there has to be more out there like that.

hamstring doesn't feel injured today, but def still sore. man those kb swings really fucked 'em up.

- GMB warm up

- scales x 5,5,5/leg

- a ton of mobility stuff and stretching

EDIT: thought about running gently today, then thought better of it given yesterday's alarm.