Say that again!
Patience!
i know i know 
instead of doing a workout i just took a really long walk in the sun, so nice. i have found i kind of miss lifting, i will have to read up over the weekend and figure out what would be best for me to be doing now. if anything i could get rid of some muscle mass, but i would like to be doing some kind of work. this weekend marks the two-week activity ban 
but i couldn’t get an appt w/the doc until next fri.
finals stress and money worries… not good!
long elliptical and pushup/crunch circuit yesterday. hopefully i will crawl out of the library where i am writing four papers at some point today and get some kind of activity in.
went out drinking last night, moderated myself very well and kept it light and i feel great this morning 
maybe i can control myself after all.
went to the gym yesterday but it was closed, so i did a very strange and foreign thing i haven’t done in a while… went for a long (haha “long” = 30 min) road run by the river. It was very nice, i wish long runs could be part of sprint training because when i get into my little rhythm with my music on i can just lose myself in thought and things seem so much more peaceful.
I am a tiny bit sore today, its been a while since i really ran for a long time. Surgery healing still doesn’t feel 100%, but it’s a lot better. After tommorow i wil be done with all the medicines.
caffeine-loading… out of the 5 papers i need to write and the 1 ten-pager i need to start this weekend i am done with 3.5! yesssss
LOL!
Good luck with your caffeine-loaded papers!
haha they are always the best ones! sometimes i really wonder if i have some kind of attention deficit condition, i have a lot of trouble focusing on things unless i am SUPER-stimulated… i actually used to “sample” small doses of ADD medication in HS because it made me hyper-focused. i saved it for the all-nighter studying nights, but it was very common in my high school… sooo much pressure…
anyway 4 papers done, 5th almost done, and then a monster due on thurs… pray pray pray
I will lose my mind, my roommate seems to have suspended all social consideration in honor of finals :eek: she doesn’t even bother with headphones now, she just blasts awful music and works with her desk light on until 2am cracking peanut shells helppppp
i managed to get over to the gym for 40 min. on the elliptical before it closed, it was extremely easy.
i am trying to figure out what kind of stuff i want to do for tempo weights. i have it in my head that i should wait to start up a speed program until i am settled in a place where i can get into a consistent routine, which would be DC as of june 8th. But at the same time, that is a whole month of work i could get in. 
I know it is a whole month of stuff you could be doing, but I will swear up and down the best thing I ever did was to take a month off while I was dealing with some major school issues over winter break.
several things happened
- I chilled out
- I read a lot
- I came back with a passion
results? 4 months later
50 pounds + on my front squat.
20 pounds on my deadlift (we’ll see tuesday if I can get more)
20 pounds on my box squat
and finally got my bench over 200.
I’ve never been good at gaining weight, but now I’m up solidly 5 pounds.
I’m in as good as shape from a body comp standpoint as I like,
and a nice easy 4.48 40, which is a pr.
The best is still to come as I move to better training for some summer comps.
take the month off.
take the time to heal
take the time to make a plan.
Kras, think about these; they may suit you, too! Concentrate on you studying for now; don’t put too much into your head, only the essentials…
Just keep in touch with training, as you seem to do so far!
Good luck!
i know… it is good advice. especially taking the time to make a plan, i need to sit and really think about what i need to do to get where i want to be, but i am so stressed with end of semester stuff that i haven’t had a chance to give it enough attention. i always bother my coaches to give me programs for the summer and they usually tell me to relax… but what they don’t understand is that the eating/compulsive exercise disorder becomes worse when i don’t have someone telling me what to do. speaking of which, it seems i have lost a couple pounds
as for today, gorgeous weather out, went on a 30 min. easy road run under the sun.
then went to lift easy… for now I am loosely following a program clemson wrote for me last year. I was a little alarmed to see what a difference a couple weeks off from lifting can make… weight which would usually be easy felt a lot harder so i cut sets down from 4 to 3x8 bench, shoulder press, tri’s, DB bench.
my hamstring started getting sore while i was running, i REALLY want to get in the pool tonight. However, in the spirit of trying very hard to not do too much too fast (and also because i need to research and write a 10-page paper by thursday ) i think i will try to make tommorow a core/pool day. if i swim now i will get really hungry and i already ate, so if anything i will go on the elliptical for a bit… and so the compulsion starts…
edit: 30 min. of elliptical, felt very easy. and now MORE caffeine-loading to start researching this goddamn paper on jury systems :mad:
30 min elliptical, 15 min. core circuit 45s on 15 off
now class and dinner before either pool or bike tonight, then another late caffeine night at the library :eek: once this paper is done then i just need to deal with 3 finals which is manageable. going home in 11 days
weight is down… even bigger
today con’t-
40 min. walk
30 min. bike workout: 5 min. WU, 14x30s on, 1 min. off, 5 min CD.
3x max pullups
deliriously writing my paper at 1am :eek:
my brilliant legal discourse is done with time to spare
went for a half hour road run, then hurdle mobility and 10x100m barefoot runs in grass, running straights and walking curves. Was flying, felt excellent!
i was planning on going and doing an easy lift and some stretching after dinner but then i got absorbed in a conversation w/someone and now i have kind of lost motivation… i have a knot in my shoulder that hurts like crazy, too much tension the past few days, but no need to caffeine-load tonight! I have my last 3 classes of the semester tommorow, then a week of studying/3 tests, then homeeee
What was the legal discourse on?
It was a comparative analysis between the jury systems of the US, England, and Australia in terms of use of peremptory challenges and the tension between representative vs. impartiality ideals It is pretty fascinating if you find that stuff interesting, the systems all originate from common law but they deal with the issues of jury selection soooo differently…
anyway, as for workouts-
-40 min elliptical this morning
lunch and finished up classes for the semester, then came back to my room and fell asleep for a couple hours. I’m not feeling that great even though i got good sleep last night, hopefully the sore throat will go away with more good sleep tonight. I almost never fall asleep in the middle of the day unless i am getting sick.
woke up, was really hungry at dinner and ate more carbs than usual… usually i am pretty low on carbs but i guess my body needed it.
then a quick session-
-15 min. bike
very short lift, everything 3x8 except DB bench which was 3x12, everything a little lower in weight: lats paired w/cable row, DB bench tripled with bi’s and tri’s, lunges
-12 min. core circuit
classes are over, i have a long quiz and two finals left and a lot of time to prepare for them so i can stop drinking so much caffeine. the new stress now is trying to deal with going to DC and having no $$$… it’s extremely difficult and a little intimidating :eek:
going to see the surgeon tommorow as well, things seem to be back to normal so i guess i’ll find out for sure.
didn’t feel too well, took the day off.
went to see the surgeon and everything is great from that perspective, but i think im tainted in a whole different way.
depressed about my life… it seems like last year i had everything and now… not so much. time to drown my sorrows with rum 
slept a lot, hung around doing nothing much today.
gorgeous weather in the evening, so i dragged my butt out to do a 30 min. run, followed by hurdle mobility and 10x100m form runs barefoot on grass.
now 10-20 core circuit and stretching… something i have neglected lately.
30 min. elliptical, high intensity up hills
all i had time for
had a cup of coffee at dinner, went to the gym and had so much energy i didn’t know what to do with myself.
-65 min. fast hill intervals on ellipt.
-20 min. core circuit, 50s on, 10s off
-max pullups paired with 3x8 lats, 90s btw
-DB bench + tri’s + bi’s, 3x8, 90s btw sets
got kicked out of the gym, it is closing early because finals are this week :mad: now for an art history marathon in the library until the end of timeeee
-30 min bike workout: 5 min WU, 12x30s sprints w/high resistance, 90s btw, 5 min. CD
-pushup/crunch circuit: 10 pushups-20 crunches, 9-19, etc down to 1-1, no rest
-40 min. fast hill intervals on elliptical
The damn elliptical is really just… not all that hard and it can get boring after a while. Another 4 days and my finals will be done and I will be home where I am not surrounded by shit food and I will have time to figure out a program. Please just let finals endddd
Sorry Kras, may have missed the boat on your earlier posts, but why are you doing so much eliptical work?