Why 4am?

[vicarz]

Come sweet slumber, enshroud me in thy purple cloak. Hmph. Doesn't even rhyme.

A rare really good post and more rare good answers about why people can't lose weight - not even if, but especially if they're distance running. http://community.livejournal.com/gymrats/1789861.html

Short version - suicides, sprints, relays, HIIT, go faster-harder not longer. Size doesn't matter, intensity matters?

Did squats and stiffy deadlifts w/o hitting my back as much - I have definitely been curving my back too much, especially as I fight for those last ones. I need to re-flex my back at each drop point to avoid that tensing problem, along with stretching just a little at the time. I try to work out less than an hour, but unless I super-set it's still 1.25-1.5 hours on avg. Intensity is easier on running than lifting, but if I just push myself in the gym even if I am still panting I find while I feel tired I can still push out most of the reps as if I had waited 2 minutes.

Should I make an icon out of trunks? Should I specifically not?

Comments

[greatevil.livejournal.com]

What is your time line in the gym? Could it be that your doing too many different exercises? Doing extra sets? I found it no trouble at all to keep my time down when I was doing the Max OT stuff.

Maybe add a time stamp to your log so you can see where your time is going.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Not a bad idea. Mostly I just rest between sets, but I'm fairly consistent. I have a set list of exericises - first time I've tried anything as a program.

When I've done 6-8 weeks of this (over 4 now) I'm going to do a rest (cut / cardio period, maybe throw in HIIT) and try out another program like HST as linked from the community info in gymrats.

I've only started doing specific research in the past few months - I've just gone from wing-it info until recently. We'll see if the science leads to significatly better results than just effort.

[greatevil.livejournal.com]

Your so Un-American. Of course Science fixes EVERYTHING!