Questions on method, order and routine
05-26-2015, 07:44 AM
Quote: (05-26-2015 06:31 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
Quote: (05-26-2015 05:49 AM)Hardy Daytona Wrote:
Workout A report
Bench press - [email protected], 1m rest, 1x5@40, 2m rest, [email protected]
Backoff set - [email protected], 15s, [email protected], 15s, [email protected]
DB rows - 3x21@22 for both sides with no failures.
Rear delt raises - 3x17@16
30 burpees - 3:25
It wasn't my intent to show disrespect or lack of commitment through my actions over the weekend. Though I do think missing out on lunch for 2 days is a setback, it's not an overtly grave one that can't be rectified in time.
As much as I assign importance to this endeavor, I won't compromise the other areas of my life in the process. To do so would be equally as negligent.
With that being said, I won't lie - I did reap a huge sense of satisfaction from yesterday. When I was transcribing your orders I also took the liberty of writing in my logbook, 'He thinks you will most likely perform worse.' That coupled with additional motivation I was nursing from an altercation was instrumental in the intensity of my workout and its results.
While I appreciate the high standard that you hold me to during this program and your frankness therein, do not make the mistake of describing my attitude as nonchalant. If I didn't care I would have quit weeks ago.
This is the point you consistently miss - you do not yet understand what is and isn't an 'overtly grave' setback. It is not so much that two missed meals is disastrous in and of itself, it is the fact that you presume a level of knowledge and understanding that you do not have the results to justify.
If your goal is just to look a bit better and get girls to tell you they think your chest is a bit more toned, then that is what you should have stated as your goal at the outset of this thread. We would then be approaching your training with a different mindset. However, one of the reasons I volunteered to try to help you was that your stated goal was to be a man that could carry a credible threat. The first goal, of looking pretty, requires some consistency and focused training, but is achievable by all in a relatively short period of time, without really having to learn too much about training.
However, the second goal, the goal of being a powerful, explosive, enduring human being does not happen by accident, and it does not come from a mindset that accepts compromise. If I remember rightly you are somewhere around the 6ft mark, and 140lbs. Look around you when you're out and about - those stats make you prey, not the potential predator. Until you internalise that, and make it a major priority to change that (and that means taking a sandwich (or three!) with you if you know you're out and about - seriously, it's not 'compromising your other goals' or some shit like that), then you will not get to where you claim you are trying to get to, and where I have been trying to help you get to based on what you have said.
The whole philosophy is based around being able to outperform and outlast any competition at any moment. This is exponentially harder when you are half starved before hardship has even set in. This whole process is time consuming for me, and I have a lot of things I need to get done in the course of any given day. If my expectations of you are unreasonable at this point you should say, because honestly we're still at the basic end of the training spectrum here where we are simply trying to establish a base before going on to more demanding styles of training. If that is the case, then I would recommend you finish up this week, and then move on to one of the programs given by Strikeback in his excellent 'Novice Training' thread.
H1N1 hits the nail on the head yet again. Man its like reading my own thoughts back to me I swear.
@HardyDaytona Your response was childish and juvenile at best, expertly demonstrating the exact attitude we are talking about and missing the point entirely.
I don't care for how you put 'He thinks you will likely perform worse' in your logbook to serve as some kind of motivation. That was disrespectful and illustrates the 'nonchalance' of which I have been referring. You taking that as some kind of attack on you and spinning it into some kind of fuel for your workout? No man. You motivate yourself from a desire deep within to become a better man each and every day in order to maximise your potential in life.
You tell us you only ate soup for lunch and the day before a piece of fruit or whatever. H1N1 didn't tell you he thought you will most likely perform worse out of spite. He said it because its the truth. He said it because your body needs sufficient calories macro and micronutrients in order to grow and repair. It's clear to me you don't understand nor appreciate the importance of diet in your training, perhaps you think you don't even need to worry about it, I can assure you that is not the case.
I am also willing to bet you have made minimal progress in your weight gain over the last year. 10 pounds or less correct?
I see people all the time who consistently go to the gym week after week month after month year after year and make little to no progress. Guys like you who spin their wheels because of a refusal to acknowledge to vitality of key aspects.
You want to gain muscle and your out here telling us you only managed to get some soup in you on Saturday? Are you fucking kidding me? All this talk about how it could impact other areas of your life? Such as? That is bullshit man. Bullshit. It's like a woman who will use anything as justification for her shitty actions. Your better than that. We all are. Men don't make those kind of weak excuses.
You could have done better. You could have packed proper food. It wasn't because you couldn't it was because you didn't make it a priority.
You may think we are blowing a couple of shitty days of eating out of proportion.
A. You cannot go back in time and rectify it. It's done.
B. More importantly isn't the poor eating itself it was what the poor meal choices represent. They represent a lack of understanding, commitment and respect towards the people who take the time to construct thoughtful and valuable advice for you.
H1N1 has got shit to do. Don't waste his time.
If somebody was taking the time and the care to plan out my workouts for me, offering his time and his expertise you can be damn sure I wouldn't be letting them down. To do so is just lazy and not fair to neither you or them. I would also give them a rep point as a small token of my gratitude. But hey, that's just me.