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Stretched, did some bike mostly for WAT points. Gym tonight, though I'm not sure what I'll do; I have a paper cut so I probably don't want to be in chlorinated water or to grip climbing holds. Could do random light weights and mobility; didn't do LYTPs this morning. Will see how I feel later.

Pause Squats: Felt shaky in between sets in a way that makes me think I need blood sugar to do these. I got through five reps on the first set okay, would have done the same on the second except I lost tension due to squat farts. Classy! Third set I only managed three and stopped there because I was running a little slow though I did have time for RDLs so I think I could have done another two and skipped RDLs instead. So not sure if I want to keep the volume of 5x5 or just drop to 3x5. 1-arm DB Incline Bench: Added weight, did three sets of five, will try for more reps next time. RDLs: Light, low rep, extra set to keep volume up.

Even if you don't think you contribute in your own thread, you contribute in other people's by being supportive. And you should have your own so we can return the favor.

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Front squats: Up to three heavy singles KB Swings: 200 reps

Awesome job figuring out maintenance calories while avoiding the scale! Also, I figure you are totally entitled to bitch about politics in Kansas this week.

I also had a friend who went to the hospital (not the student health center) and after a few go-rounds of them continuing to ask if she was sure, finally exploded and told them that unless the angel Gabriel came down and declared, "lo, and a virgin shall give birth," she wasn't pregnant.

I feel I've mentioned this before but whenever I hear the word "lady" in reference to myself my brain goes "I'm not a lady! I'm not any kind of a lady!" and continues into Aldonza's Lament from Man of La Mancha.

Anyway, workout! Challenge is over but I don't have you people trained to go look at my between challenges workout log so I might as well keep posting here since it's not really a challenge thread either. Split Squats: Added weight successfully. My brain got to five reps and was all like "done now!" even though my legs were okay for more; I thought about this for a second and decided why not and stopped. This gives me room to add reps without wiping myself out each week trying to reach ten. Bench: Got three sets of eight at my lower weight though it was still harder than I felt it should be. Will add weight next week though I don't know if I want to microload or just go back to my previous weight. DB Rows: Added weight, stopped at five reps here too. Should be no problem adding reps next week.

I have no idea how long the article is supposed to be because the guidelines don't say; I'm aiming for at least 2500-3500 words since most of the papers I've been looking at for reference have been in the 10-20 page range and that'll put me on the short end of that but may want to go longer. I made guesses for how many words I'll need for each section and should have no trouble hitting my minimum though I don't know if I over or underestimated. I enjoyed making the outline; I was all "my brain! I am using it!"

I have a seven hundred word outline, a topic and a title which vaguely suggest a thesis, and sources of information to expand the outline with actual information instead being a list of things I don't want to forget. I'd like to have a more solid thesis statement, but I think the outline has a nice flow and seems like it will wrap itself up into a conclusion nicely, so I'm happy with that.

I guess it's time for a non-challenge non-wrap up post: 1. Lift hard No goals, just lift heavy things and challenge myself each session. If it's easy, I need to add weight. Things are going reasonably well; I'm adding weight to things slowly and while I'm still not consistently getting the singles I was at the end of last year for squatting, I'm also not squatting with the same volume due to wanting to have time for other things and focusing more on weaknesses, so things will be slower. Bench seems to be stuck so I'm deloading a bit and may switch to doing more OHP for a while too since it will help my bench more than bench will help my OHP. 2. Eat hard Weight was being pretty stable lately but has still gone up more than I'd like over the last few years. Though this last year it's only gone up by an amount that says I'm eating approximately 100 calories per day over my TDEE, which is really easy to miss when not counting calories. Actually it's pretty easy to miss 100 calories when counting unless you're being super careful about measuring everything. So continuing to want to figure out how much I should eat to perform well while not gaining too much fat. I could probably stand to lose ten or twenty pounds but that's a goal for the year and not for six weeks. A sensible goal towards that larger goal would therefore be to lose two pounds or so. That's pretty much within the fluctuations of having gone to the bathroom. Yay slow! So really, no goals here either. Weight is actually down a couple of pounds but this past week I've skipped a few meals due to scheduling and not having the appetite to make it up much, so it's probably mostly water weight and may come back when I'm not doing that. On the other hand I have been trying to reduce my intake by about 100 calories a day by only using one scoop of protein powder instead of two, so it may be a more constant deficit, or at least maintenance when I'm eating normally. Who knows, whatever. 3. Rest hard I still suck at rest days. I need to have better rest. So once again, take rest days as needed. I've been resting! Go me! 4. Write hard Having articles to publish would be helpful career-wise. I should write some. Must work on this for at minimum one hour a week. I didn't do anything with this at the beginning of the challenge, but I did make a blog and put some things on it and I also found out about an opportunity to write something recently and spent three or four hours this past week writing up an outline and doing research, so more actual progress on this than I expected.

Front Squats: Nemesis KB Swings: 100 rep minimum May do more stuff later for WAT

Squats: No better than usual, but I threw in the pause squats that I missed on Wednesday. They went okay; not better than the last time I actually did them, but about as well and I didn't want to push too much since everything was so hard last week. 1-arm DB OHP: Still not getting all sets unbroken, but added a rep to another set so I'm almost doing three sets of broken eights. Deadlifts: Too tired! Did a warmup set but failed on my doubles. Pause squats are killer. I may try again later this evening; it's Walk Across Texas time, so more workouts equals more miles.

I'm the same way; I have a ridiculous amount of sick time because I only use it for doctors appointments since I haven't actually been sick enough to throw up lately.

Take a sailing class!

I know, I have no interest in actually doing a detox, that's what my liver is for. Though maple syrup and cayenne sounds yummy.

I'll do a "detox" with you as long as I have all of the ingredients for whatever the hell it is and can eat normally while doing it.

Hopefully!

Yay, good things! A lot of people have threads in which they're not doing the challenge, so you not doing a challenge fits right in; we just all started earlier. Also, I hear "me time" is important when you have small kids so you and Mrs. Roo should actually try to trade off on being alone with them so you each get enough me time.

What, other people didn't call their college health service location the Death Center? Fun story I heard involves a woman who went in for something unrelated to her reproductive health, was asked whether or not she could be pregnant, and she said no. "Are you sexually active?" "Yes." "Do you use birth control?" "No." "Could you be pregnant?" "No." Repeat this for a while until the woman finally says, "okay, but if I am pregnant I hope it's [my girlfriend's!]" Really, this could have been shorter if the woman had said her preferred birth control method was being a lesbian, but apparently she didn't think that counted.

Unintentional rest day yesterday; too tired to get up and do accessory stuff. I had to leave early and slept through my alarm today so I didn't get in a morning workout today either, though I may do something in the evening. But lifting tomorrow, so I also may not.

We recently found dark chocolate covered dried cranberries. They are awesome.

Woot! Sounds like he's promoting minimum getting over 2xBW, though 315 is going to be tough on the tiny women who are well under 125 because that'll be 2.5+. Still can be done though. It'll be a while before I get there myself, but I'm getting there.

Yay for improving shoulder things! Use related pain sounds like it's easier to deal with -- you can rehab instead of needing to figure out how to move in ways that fit your structure.