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Jan. 24th, 2016 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzSo this is day 3 of mostly stuck inside. This is great - kinda wish I could check my houses but V's place is a great one to be marooned in; they have a private bar-club. I'm on bed now while the cat has burrowed into the blankets like a mole. Mole-cat.
I plan to have a blizzard "party" weekend in June or July. Replicate this shelter in place drill only without the snow. Drink for no reason, eat at home food, tv, video games, and no gym.
This week was gym exciting. I secured my prior record squat of 345, multiple single times so it's very much...mine. I own the weight. For the first time I DL 435. I also got a couple singles, so theoretically I could do more, but this is a good measure of my one real 1 rep max. My OP was ok, 4 at 145, so that's probably still 155.
What was interesting was my inner battle on whether or not to then try to set a new bench record. I've done 235 multiple times, but always failed to cross 245. I preach how stupid bench press is, but understand my dream of bench 225 was what propelled me into olympic lifting in the first place. While I stopped caring much about bench, I do still reflect as I do reps with 225 on how this is...a former dream being normal today. Achieved and surpassed. So...it sounded fun to match one max, make a new PR, and then set another record. So I tried to bench 245. I got a stranger to spot and begged him not to touch the thing unless I got stuck. I think I was closer than I've ever been to making a weight and yet not making it. I usually get stuck at the bottom, or make it, but this time I crawled half way up and almost - all-most - had it, but failed. Failing is neat - it's a motivator. I don't feel bad, as it was going to be a record. I feel good, because it was so close I know that soon I will, in fact, make the weight. It was cocky to do it, but it also risked a motivational valley.
My real goal on the bench is to do 275. 275 looks good. I also know damn well when I do 275, 315 is around the corner. 315 looks really cool - not a lot of people can do it. To be my small self and getting 315? That'll be nice.
So now I'm in a motivation danger-land. Not as bad as if I made the bench, but danger. See, once you reach a goal, there can be a motivational challenge where...you wonder 'what now?' Or you've made the thing, the drive, that made you put in more effort. Now you...achieved the goal, so...do you rest? After losing 5-10-25 lbs, do you go back to eating cheesecake?
I'm not too worried because I'm competitive and have set goals multiple times since. I know that on bench 225, after a celebration, the goal was to bench 235 (because I'm too lazy to use the 2.5 lb weights). I made 225 once upon a time, and while I want to do 365 and then 405 on high-bar, this goal is long (pause) long after making a prior goal of 225.
I'm not sure what magic I did to keep moving the goalpost and how that keeps me working in the gym. I'd like to know so I can share that with others. But knowing there is a danger of motivational gaps is a good start.
Posted from bed after not working out because the entire city is closed for snow.
I plan to have a blizzard "party" weekend in June or July. Replicate this shelter in place drill only without the snow. Drink for no reason, eat at home food, tv, video games, and no gym.
This week was gym exciting. I secured my prior record squat of 345, multiple single times so it's very much...mine. I own the weight. For the first time I DL 435. I also got a couple singles, so theoretically I could do more, but this is a good measure of my one real 1 rep max. My OP was ok, 4 at 145, so that's probably still 155.
What was interesting was my inner battle on whether or not to then try to set a new bench record. I've done 235 multiple times, but always failed to cross 245. I preach how stupid bench press is, but understand my dream of bench 225 was what propelled me into olympic lifting in the first place. While I stopped caring much about bench, I do still reflect as I do reps with 225 on how this is...a former dream being normal today. Achieved and surpassed. So...it sounded fun to match one max, make a new PR, and then set another record. So I tried to bench 245. I got a stranger to spot and begged him not to touch the thing unless I got stuck. I think I was closer than I've ever been to making a weight and yet not making it. I usually get stuck at the bottom, or make it, but this time I crawled half way up and almost - all-most - had it, but failed. Failing is neat - it's a motivator. I don't feel bad, as it was going to be a record. I feel good, because it was so close I know that soon I will, in fact, make the weight. It was cocky to do it, but it also risked a motivational valley.
My real goal on the bench is to do 275. 275 looks good. I also know damn well when I do 275, 315 is around the corner. 315 looks really cool - not a lot of people can do it. To be my small self and getting 315? That'll be nice.
So now I'm in a motivation danger-land. Not as bad as if I made the bench, but danger. See, once you reach a goal, there can be a motivational challenge where...you wonder 'what now?' Or you've made the thing, the drive, that made you put in more effort. Now you...achieved the goal, so...do you rest? After losing 5-10-25 lbs, do you go back to eating cheesecake?
I'm not too worried because I'm competitive and have set goals multiple times since. I know that on bench 225, after a celebration, the goal was to bench 235 (because I'm too lazy to use the 2.5 lb weights). I made 225 once upon a time, and while I want to do 365 and then 405 on high-bar, this goal is long (pause) long after making a prior goal of 225.
I'm not sure what magic I did to keep moving the goalpost and how that keeps me working in the gym. I'd like to know so I can share that with others. But knowing there is a danger of motivational gaps is a good start.
Posted from bed after not working out because the entire city is closed for snow.
