I haven’t been here in a while. I see that I didn’t log my hill sprints here. Those were part of my knee rehab journey and I see most of that was logged elsewhere. I still have work to do, grr. I think I’m going to stop logging at place #3, not sure if I want to log my w/o efforts at all these days. My journals are as much a chronicle of mental health struggles as training, but current training goals are knee ROM, leg strength and fat loss. I don’t have any specific lifts or times I want to reach these days, just be healthy and move better.
Skimming some of my entries from 2005 I want to yell at that guy and tell him to wake up. I remember 2005, both how unhappy I was and how oblivious I was. I was heading for a cliff, literally, and I didn’t see it or think about it. I didn’t understand. There were very important things about myself and my life that i had no idea about. I try to remind myself that it’s always that time, that I always have to deal with reality, not try to escape into my thoughts. So many things could have been done at that time. So many things I have to do now. I could have saved myself so much anguish. I understand things better now and that’s good but it also brings more suffering since I see my life more clearly.
Journal’s are a great way to see patterns. A training journal is a good way to keep yourself accountable. Public journals are a bit personal in my opinion. The entire point of a journal is to add everything you can think of that influences training. It’s part of the problem with how people view training. It’s about this lift or that rep… So many aspects of our daily living influence training.
By the way, welcome.
I try to think of mental health as BRAIN HEALTH.
I have been looking into TRAINING HEALTH lately. How athletes think they are so healthy because they train hard and training is ‘good’. Masters athletes are particularly interesting. I used to think training hard was the most important aspect of my performance. Thinking we know something is a bigger issue than admitting how little we actually know.