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i'm with t0ddday, ashton eaton is the greatest athlete of all time.

another knock on phelps as greatest athlete of all time: swimming is awkward for humans. we're bad at it! even watching katie ledecky (who is arguably a greater swimmer than phelps, historically speaking, given how thoroughly she's trashed her competition over the last few years*), you realize just how thrashy and inefficient we are in the water as a species. humans are built to run, and even though we're slower than our four-legged friends, at our fastest we still look graceful. i don't know, call it the aesthetic argument to gracefulness.

that said, phelps is still, empirically speaking, the greatest olympic champion. obviously.

*also she went grew up like 20 minutes from me and went to my ex's high school. thanks to her and phelps maryland is still top-5 in gold medals won as a country.

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WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: anterior left hip but went away during warm up
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- SL jump x 5,5/leg

- MB OH toss x 5

- one-step RVJ x 3

- DLRVJ x 6
relaxed, submax because i was not getting up

- broad jump x 3

- double bound x 3

- squat 275 x 3

- RDL 135 x 10,10

- DB push press 60s x 5

- pull up x 10

- TTB x 8

going through the motions a bit but this was better than the last couple workouts.

the 150 repeat workout sounds like hell on earth.

just found out i have HSV. turns out promiscuity comes with risk, who knew! no symptoms, i went and got an STD test on monday and that's how i found out. last time i got tested, in late march, they didn't test for HSV so i got my clean sheet back and was like, great. could have gotten it before then, no way to know. but pretty sure it was in the past few months.

been reading a lot about it over the past couple hours, after my initial heart-falling-through-the-floor feeling. it turns out that the stigma around it is ridiculous. 1/5 of the people in the world have the type i have. 2/3 (!) have the other type. that's fucking common! also, it's really easy to get, like chickenpox and shingles, which it's related to. and even though it's incurable, it's actually not that bad for most people. the main bad thing that can happen is a woman getting an outbreak when she's late in pregnancy. but like i said, i'm asymptomatic; outbreaks are apparently unpleasant at worst for almost everyone who gets them and they get milder over time.

so i've gone from "FUCK" to "fuck" to "what does this mean?" to "oh, okay" in a few hours.

still, it does mean making some awkward phone calls, and a lifetime of having to talk about it with anyone i think i might be having sex with soon. i've only had unprotected sex with one person this year, but she's the one i'm most dreading talking to because she did NOT take it well when i broke things off with her a couple of weeks ago. on the other hand, she works in reproductive health so she's likeliest to understand what it actually means to have it. and anyway condoms don't reduce risk by that much.

on the plus side, i for sure don't have any other STDs. also knowing is better than not knowing. and it's good to learn about something that's so stigmatized for basically no reason.

undoubtable, the deadline thing isn't gonna work for me right now because, like t0ddday said, i'm moving to another country at some indeterminate point in the near future. plus i'll be at the beach for a week soon, friend getting married this weekend, etc. focus is hard at the moment. but it's a good idea in general, certainly helped me earlier this year.

FP i appreciate the point about needing to shift focus to another goal for a little while. you're right about that. but i think t0ddday's idea makes more sense, to pick an athletic movement or two and work on improving them while still jumping.

it is nice out and i've been enjoying going to the track with my mom so to start i think i will work on DL bounds (for max distance) and SL bounds (for proficiency, i'm terrible at them). t0ddday does that make sense to you? or maybe DL bounds and 60m sprints? part of me wants to do longer sprints (e.g. 300) but they take a lot out of me.

something like this:

sunday
- DLRVJ
- bounds and sprints

monday
- various jumps

tuesday
- bounds and sprints

wednesday
- squats and RDLs
- upper weights

thursday
- various jumps

friday
- rest

saturday
- easy DLRVJ
- easy various jumps

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