TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 - Page 201

On February 28 2018 14:48 decafchicken wrote:

I train 5-6 days a week, 2-3 hours at a time. And usually an extra hour doing mobility/recovery during lunch. Still find time for rugby, work, social life. I do pretty much plan my day around getting my workout in.

On February 28 2018 23:13 zatic wrote:
This just doesn't add up to me Maybe I am working hours too long. But say I am done by 7pm, with 2 hours gym that's 9pm, commute + dinner 10:30pm. Not sure how much social life is happening at your guy's on a work day at 11pm, but for me after work + gym + dinner nothing is happening anymore (unless it's a social dinner!).

The only way to fit in more is cutting into sleep, but then I might just as well reduce workouts. More workout with less sleep doesn't ... work out for me.

On March 01 2018 04:21 mordek wrote:
Got a little scare after straining my pec today. No fun. I only get about 5 hours a week in the gym lol.

On February 28 2018 08:32 L_Master wrote:


Perhaps I'm not understanding, but why would you have only one major lift on 5 day split vs 3 day? Seems like you can pretty easily have a three day split that looks like:

Monday - Deadlift
Wed - Bench
Fri - Skwaat

On March 01 2018 06:17 L_Master wrote:


Ugh. Is it okay? Injuries are the worst.

Still not totally sure about my lat. I'm gonna test on Friday and still deadlift (not direct lat work obv, but is still involved) and then I think take a week off, time for a deload anyway, and then work back up to it from basically nothing and hope I just never notice any problems on the way back up.

On March 01 2018 06:16 L_Master wrote:



That's actually kinda crazy, unless you're a student or sleepless elite. I'm going to assume rugby amounts to at least an hour a day, which means (unless you only go out on Fri/Sat/Sun and sacrifice sleep for it), you're basically finding 4-5 hours a day + work + social time. That's hard to imagine. Work presumably eats at least 9 hours, and that's assuming an efficient commute, no work breaks, etc. If you use your lunch break for mobility stuff, I do suppose that helps that 9 hour figure to be realistic.

Still, that leaves you with 16-9= 7 hours in the day of which you spend 4-6 of them doing your training + rugby, which leaves you with 1-3 hours of "free time". No way can you eat/shower/clean/dress yourself in less than one hour a day, and that's probably a little optimistic, which leaves you with somewhere between one to two hours to be social; and that includes the driving time to get there.

Seems hard unless you've just a low hour job or are one of the blessed sleepless elite that can cruise on 4 hours a night.




Done at 7pm is pretty late. For someone doing a 'generic' 40 hours/week that means you'd probably be starting work around 10am. If you're regularling going into work at 7-8am in the morning and staying till 7pm...then yea you're working some serious hours and it gets pretty hard to work in all those things around a 60-80 hour work week.

For a typical 40 hour a week person it might look like:

5:45am - Wake up
6:00am - Gym Smash
8:00am - Food/Shower/Ready to go to work
9:00am - Work
6:00pm - Dinner
6:30pm - Hobbies/Social/Whatever
10:00pm - Sleep

For a college student with 15 credits and 20 hours a week part time it might look something like:

8:00am - Wake up, breakfast
9:00am - Class/Work
5:30pm - Gym Smash
7:30pm - Eat, shower, get ready for social things
8:00pm - House Party & Clubbsssss
12:00-2:00am - Drunkenly stagger in door and pass out in the kitchen

But yea, once you start to hit 60 hours a week for work, or god forbid something crazy like 80...then you pretty much have to do the "pick two" of social, work, fitness/hobbies. Weekends can be the savior though. If you take two training days on a weekend, that gives you at least two days during the week where you can go out .

In your example, it might also make sense to go socializing out after work, more in the 6-9 time frame, hit the gym afterwords, and then to bed.

On March 01 2018 14:45 Jerubaal wrote:
My brother got a stress fracture in his sternum and appears to be fucked for life.

On March 01 2018 06:16 L_Master wrote:


Done at 7pm is pretty late. For someone doing a 'generic' 40 hours/week that means you'd probably be starting work around 10am. If you're regularling going into work at 7-8am in the morning and staying till 7pm...then yea you're working some serious hours and it gets pretty hard to work in all those things around a 60-80 hour work week.

For a typical 40 hour a week person it might look like:
[....]

But yea, once you start to hit 60 hours a week for work, or god forbid something crazy like 80...then you pretty much have to do the "pick two" of social, work, fitness/hobbies. Weekends can be the savior though. If you take two training days on a weekend, that gives you at least two days during the week where you can go out .

In your example, it might also make sense to go socializing out after work, more in the 6-9 time frame, hit the gym afterwords, and then to bed.

On March 01 2018 16:43 L_Master wrote:


That sounds pretty shitty.

Why is this a fucked for life thing though? Most sfx you can take time off, often an agonizing several months to a year, let it heal, and then return to sport as normal. Googling suggests this is a common approach, and that athletes have returned to competitive levels within a year.

On March 03 2018 17:38 L_Master wrote:
Had some fun getting after it at our little mock meet today. Need to remember to film widescreen lol

https://youtu.be/QKGhwzlcr2w


Pretty satisfied overall with the results...aside from my comedic untrained squat. Think I'm going to go ahead and start actually squatting now, even if it means I can only get in 2-3 solid workouts a week on the bike. That part is embarrassing. More thoughts on video description.

Did not realize how awkward I am dropping the weight after a deadlift. Have to fix that for the camera

Lifts from my friends:
+ Show Spoiler +
The first guy is honestly kinda crazy. He's been in the gym twice. Sedentary guy. Almost benches 185.

On March 06 2018 00:41 Malinor wrote:


You made some really nice progress in the Bench and the Deadlift, especially the Deadlift.
Just some things to note for your first real competition (as I recall you wanted to do one):

Squat: I don't think this is below parallel.
Bench: In most federations there will probably be a 'Press' command in the competition (like your friend did on one of your attempts). The barbell has to be motionless on your chest before the referee gives the command. So you should do some singles with 1-2sec pauses to train for that.
Deadlift: In IPF, you are not allowed to drop your Deadlift like that. You need to hold onto the bar until it is controlled back on the ground.

I jope this doesn't come off douchy, I am just trying to help so that you can prepaire yourself accordingly.

On March 06 2018 02:44 decafchicken wrote:

Did we watch the same squat? Lol looked good to me

On March 06 2018 02:44 decafchicken wrote:

Did we watch the same squat? Lol looked good to me

On March 07 2018 06:41 Malinor wrote:


3rd one was probably deep, I agree. But with strict judges would have been red for downward motion (in IPF). It shouldnt happen in a local meet, but You never know... as you have experienced with your press outs in the last meet.

For squats, I am rather on the strict side