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Ratings are by default questionable and meaningless. Look at the people that vote, me and LBSS have voted 500+ messages, adarqui and Lance have voted 400+ and raptor has voted... 1800 !!! So this forum's ratings is mostly raptor's point of view on the posts. I'm just messing with LBSS and so does he.

lol'd in real life.

last night:

BW = 177
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = head, low back (?)
FATIGUE = moderate

- warm up

- DLRVJ x 8
fast but no power. all around 31.5-32, which sucks. but it's good to feel fast even when my head hurts. not sure where the headache came from.

- MR half tuck x 20,20

- squat 305 x 5,5,5
have video, will post later. last reps on second and third sets were slow but not good-morninged, i managed to keep hips from shooting too badly.

- stretch

stopped there because i'm going to check out one of the new gyms tonight that i'm thinking about joining, and so i'll just do upper and core stuff there. no lower back work, though, gotta save that for 310 x 5,5,5 tomorrow.

Quote from: Raptor on September 25, 2012, 06:34:12 am

I agree with what you said Andrew.

coo

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It's still interesting to read these studies though.

True but it can become a little distracting reading conflicting studies year after year, imho.

pC

true, not to mention the fact the the studies are usually very small, with a very specific population, e.g., "untrained men ages 18-22" or "elite female collegiate volleyball players." they're interesting but should almost never be seen as prescriptive.

be careful with recommendations that exact. i think you know this, but those are ballparks you should be in, even granting that the source is reliable. stuff like that depends on body comp, age, weight, activity level day-to-day, etc.

sweet. question about the third chart: looks like it's at 0 until july 2010. i just realized yesterday (looking at my profile, which i rarely do) that i've been a member since september 2009. is that because you only started tracking in july 2010, or because before that it really was literally just you, me, vag, mike, rip, joe, and maybe raptor and nightfly? i can't remember.

Nope, is it a character from there? I'm saving HP for when I have a child to watch it with haha.

ah well. if you'd read the books, i'd recommend an AMAZING fan fiction* of harry potter that reimagines harry as a math prodigy and dedicated rationalist who refers pretty frequently to bayes. it's actually significantly better than the original books. but not worth reading without having read those first, because you won't get 75% of the jokes.

*no, i do not ordinarily read fan-fiction. i used to read star wars novels as a kid but that was like 15 years ago.

Not too bad. Everyone has their own thing. As long as it's somewhat organized. Your other posts looked a little too heavy on the banter before going into the workout description. Be very brief and precise when you're mentioning things like fatigue and stuff. Not sure what you would mean by rating the workout, but if that's your thing I guess.

+100. the thing you laid out looks fine but i think it'd help you to have a stricter template than that. go look at the way some other people organize their "workout done" sections: adarq's method is the archetype but people find the variation that works for them. dreyth's is good, mine is good, vag's is good.

people on here want to help you and give you advice, myself included, but sometimes it's difficult to understand what you're asking. you're in here putting in work and that's great, but speaking for myself, i don't respond because i'm often not sure what you're talking about. part of that is the language thing, of course, but we can work around that if you just try painfully hard to be clear.

here's one example of a way to organize your workout posts:

DATE
WEIGHT
RATING FOR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) STATUS (just a way to summarize what you meant by "sleep, fatigue, motivation")

WORKOUT:
- WARM UP

- EXERCISE 1 (sets x reps x weight/distance/height)

- EXERCISE 2 (sets x reps x weight/distance/height)

etc....

- COOL DOWN

- STRETCH

COMMENTS
PR'S

that would allow you and us to look at things in a consistent way and more easily make comparisons from day to day. also, you really need to time yourself with a stopwatch. the mississippi method is not a good substitute.