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lucky for me, they had salmon at the dining hall tonight :smiley: Chicken can get a little monotonous.

pretty much just AHHHHHHHHHHHH

I have driven myself into a panicked frenzy, and for good reason… I have an intense neuroanatomy/neurochemistry exam tommorow, plus a lit paper whose topic does not invite an easy repsonse, PLUS a big philosophy paper which also requires a lot of actual thought. I have not slept more than 6 hours any night for almost 2 straight weeks, and this week it has been more like 4 or 5. Last night I was working until 2:30am, slept for about 4.5 hours, and STILL did my hardest running workout of the week:

-brief WU, mobility, sprint drills
-10x200m; 200m walk btw them

I was debating with myself whether it was smart to do this, knowing how little sleep I got and with my hamstring being tight yesterday. But I made myself do it anyway- I figured that it is days like these when a lot of other people would give in and quit but I don’t- that really make me tougher and will pay off later mentally, if nothing else. Also, I promised myself that once I started training that I would not miss a day, to prove my own self-discipline to myself, and so far I haven’t.

SO bottom line, I went out hard and slowed at the end- wanted to cut it short at about 100000 different points, but finished it… and stuffed a banana in my mouth immediately to keep from collapsing.

break for lab where I watched mutated mice and cut up brains hahaha

pretty easy core lift:
-10 min steady bike
-lying low-pulley pull-ins- just like a hanging garhammer but on the ground and pulling weight- 3x12 @30lbs; paired with
-back exts on glute-ham bench: 1x12 w/5k plate, 2x10 w/25 lb plate. 60s btw

-prone ab pull-ins on swiss ball, 3x7; paired with
-hip extensions on swiss ball, 3x7. 60s btw

-side sit-ups w/twist on glute-ham bench: 1x8, 2x10 each side, paired with
-L-overs 3x5 each side. 60s btw

Now I am ready to go to the library- shoulders are tight tight tight and I can’t even fathom how much caffeine I am tanking through right now :eek:

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How much creatine is there per 100g of red meat?

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I think you’re body is trying to telling you something, you should listen!

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It will just have to hush, I ate whatever I wanted whenever I was hungry last year and look what it did to me! I will just have to re-learn how to maintain at about 10 lbs smaller than I am now, I have done it before and I intend to do it again. :cool:

I am pretty much delirious, I stayed up until 3am last night and slept for about 4 hours… for about the 5th or 6th straight night. It is starting to wear on me, my wakeful state is entirely fueled by caffeine at this point- I have two papers to finish, one for tommorow and one for saturday, but I am hoping to do both tonight because I don’t think I can make it through two more late nights like this. I am getting a tiny bit of a cough and a little sniffle which is a sign that I am near the brink of fatigue, so thats another reason to just push through tonight and be able to sleep my little heart out on friday night.

After my exam and 2 classes, I was sitting in ANOTHER class and after an hour of not moving I checked my heart rate, which was exactly 100 bpm! I checked 3 times, and it was true. I know my heart rate should increase a bit as the day goes on, but with a normal resting heart rate in the 60’s or maybe low 70’s in-season in the morning, I wouldn’t think it would be all the way up to 100! This was in conjunction with some hallucination, so really I just need to sleep for a long time.

I cut out the lower lift today, but still did my run:
-5 min WU jog
-12x1 min on, 1 min off- was able to maintain a jog for a few more rest periods than usual this time… maybe the caffeine :rolleyes:
-CD to finish 35 min

Now to shower and go to the library… please please please let me live through tonight, or at least finish my paper without throwing up from stress and fatigue :eek:

I think it is weird that being busy like this actually makes me happiest.

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btw lack of sleep makes you crave fat and sugar more.

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Sarah Hughes said she’s not happy unless she’s being obsessive about something.

thought for the day: Whatever you think/feel, someone else does too. Probably more than you think.

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juggler im sure you are right :slight_smile:

after yet another 3am night, i am finally… FINALLY done with my work for the week from hell- i turned in both my papers, exam is done with, and i am so worn out i can’t stand it. We have a long weekend this weekend (off thru tues) and I will be filming for part of it, and when i am not doing that i will be sleeping… a lot.

went for an easy run:
-25 min. at varying speeds, up and down inclines on treadmill, nothing too fast or overly hard
-5 min CD

I went to start an upper lift and got through only a set or two before bailing. I know I claim to be all about discipline and pushing through tough workouts, but I was feeling foggy, sick, and having trouble at weights that usually would be only moderate. There is no particular reason that I can’t catch up on it tommorow after I have slept properly, so i think it was the smarter choice to just leave it and not risk hurting myself.

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Discipline and pushing through within a reason, no?

Wise decision today! :wink:

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thanks!

I am currently away from school for the weekend doing some shooting, so I am taking yesterday and today off and catching up on sleep as much as possible. After my first night of proper sleep in two weeks, I woke up feeling like a different person!

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Came home late last night from filming/shooting, slept until about 12:30 :smiley: no classes today, which was nice. my ankle is bothering me a bit today, but not nearly as sharply as last time.

treadmill run:
-5 min WU
-13x1 min on, 1 min off
-CD to 35 min

lower lift- pushed a little harder on this one, went up in weight and/or reps for everything:

-snatch grip DL’s from box: 1x7 @45k, 1x7@50k, 3x5@55k; 100s btw

-DB lunges: 2x8 (each leg) @50 lbs, 1x7,1x9 @50. paired with
-leg curls w/5s negative: 1x8 @55, 3x6@ 65. 90s btw.

-hanging garhammer: 3x12. paired with
-glute/ham raises w/4s negative: 3x8 w/10 lb plate. 90s btw

-SL calf raises: bugged my ankle a bit, but- 2x12 @30, 1x10 @30. paired with
-tibia raises: 1x12 @13; 1x12, 1x10@ 15.5. 60s btw.

I was definitely feeling a little woozy after this, but I had my dinner shortly after and I’m feeling ok now. Taking some time off was probably smart, I feel much better than I did last week- I barely knew my own name by the 14th straight day of 4-6 hrs sleep. :rolleyes:

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went for a half-hour run with escalating hills.

my lower legs are a little cranky, but it was pretty cold, windy, and raining outside and I just couldn’t really face it. Hopefully the weather will be better and I can do my track workout on friday instead.

going for an upper lift later on this evening, and then work work work :eek:

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actually got motivated to go do my upper lift after dinner:

-10 min core circuit, 50s on, 10s off

-4x6-8 mid-grip flat bench, paired with
-2-4 chins w/30s negative. 90s btw

-3x6-8 DB bench 1+1/4; paired with
-3x8-10 ext rotators, tripled with
-3x8 incline powell raises. 60s btw

I am not a huge fan of this lift, I get frustrated because my bench and chins are pretty inconsistent from lift to lift, DB bench is ok, and the other two I feel like don’t really do all that much. I would rather have lats and RR in addition, than make the triple set include that rotator stuff.

and now, to study… last night I was wide awake and physically could not sleep until 2:30am, this is a BAD sleeping pattern to get into. Unfortunately the work necessitates it for the next two nights.

ohhhh what a life i lead :stuck_out_tongue:

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today started out awful but turned out ok. I was so frustrated with studying last night that i was ripping pieces of paper into little shreds and screaming into my pillow, so I gave up on that and went to bed… set two alarms to get me up early to study and of course turned them off and went back to sleep and slept through not one, but TWO classes, AND breakfast! so that was bad. So I had a really good lunch- a WHOLE sandwich instead of half- and tons of caffeine, went to class, took my exam which went fine, then went to run, treadmill again because it is cold and raining still:

-5 min WU jog
-14x1 min on, 1 min off, each interval getting faster. I was able to jog for all of the rests except for the last two, which were slower intervals to cool down anyway. jogged a couple minutes at the end for CD.

I don’t know if it was the sleep, the food, or the caffeine, but 14 is the most of these that I have done, and I have never been able to jog so many rests before.

I have a huge lab report to write tonight so I probably will not go lift, but my professor cancelled class in the morning so I might have time to do both core+lower/ core+upper/ upper+lower… i’ll see how tired my legs are feeling tommorow, and whether or not it is dry/warm enough for the track. My coach wants us barefoot on grass for intervals as much as possible, but at this point that would be sort of like running through a swamp. gross.

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ah hahahaha

my lab report is already 30 pages and i’m not done, and i have to finish it today so that i can get some shooting done this weeked. pretty soon the season will start and i won’t have time for much of that kind of work.

plus it is still f-ing raining outside.

outlook for a workout does not look good :mad:

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back from filming… pretty tired. should be well-recovered for a hard day tommorow.

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ha “well-recovered”… def not. I had to take a short nap in the middle of the day today because I could not keep my eyes open, which is pretty unusual for me. I went to run after class and got through only my warmup, 5x1 min on, 1 min off intervals and another 5 min of jogging before giving up because I really didn’t feel well. I hope I am not getting sick, I have been lucky so far this semester but I feel pretty run-down.

There were about 100000 people in the weight room, so I’m planning on doing some work and having dinner and then maybe going to lift later when it’s more empty. I saw one of my teammates there, who asked me how the upper body strength was coming, and I said it was coming back slowly. He then remembered the summer before last when I trained upper body intensively on a program someone on the forum wrote for me, and told me I had never looked so “beefy” since, including now. :frowning:

Days like today make me really frustrated and really push the point that I need to take better care of myself. It always comes together more in-season, but since I have been out of formal team-training for a while now, I am thinking I need to start getting those habits back NOW and maybe when the season starts in a month I will be healthier and hopefully happier as well.

Among the first things I am addressing is the massive caffeine consumption :eek: and trying harder to force myself to do work, stop procrastinating since I have to do it either way, and sleep more.

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Do you find all this caffeine having an effect, or is it more psychological?

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partly psychological im sure, i don’t want to feel like i HAVE to have coffee every morning.

however, on nights when i need to be up REAL late, I sometimes would be having as many as 6 or 8 cups a day, and some of them at night, to the point of getting a stomachache or not being able to sleep.

in large amounts like that im sure it is also dehydrating, and it would be nice when finals roll around to be able to get a nice caffeine buzz with a smaller amount.

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I got into bed at 8pm last night and didn’t get out again until 8:45 this morning. It was quite nice. I feel a bit better than I did yesterday and was able to run, so thats good.

pretty simple run-
-5 min wu jog
-25 min. steady with a couple hills and a couple longer speed intervals mixed in
-5 min cd jog

break for dinner, am going to lift upper shortly. also got a chance to go to the grocery store for cottage cheese :smiley: and other stuff too.

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upper lift:
-short bike, 10 min core and a couple WU sets

-mid-grip bench 4x5-8, paired with
-chins for 1 set then switched to doing these on the lat pulldown to get more reps- my chins are really inconsistent, and on the days like today when they are down i think it is more productive to do more reps below my body weight than do only a couple @bw

-1+1/4 DB bench 3x6-8 (moved up in weight) tripled with
-ext rotators 3x10 each arm, tripled with
-incline powell raises 3x8-10 each arm

I am still frustrated with the inconsistency, and just generally with the drop in strength. I’m still a step ahead of where i was with the upper body 2 years ago, but i would much rather be back to where i was last year.