can you help put this into context? I’m currently in a rough patch. I decided to stop going for weight PRs and instead backed off and am doing a high rep week (or two). Am I doing the adaptation period right, or—following these principles--should I be pushing for PRs even if I know I’ll come up short for a while?

Totally agree. Like shyness, it could really just be a habit to be broken beyond the easy excuse of “well I’m introverted so I’ll just not do the things I want to do.”

Update: weirdly, after years of never seeing this used, I post this and within a week I see someone using it. They were using it to do tricep push backs on a cable machine, gripping the rod like a dumbbell.

I wonder if the CTU would accept a pay freeze if concessions were made for some of their other demands, if this is about the children. The city can’t afford to continue paying them more and more, considering they are among the best paid teachers in the country. I’m pro-teacher and pro-union, but I’m also pro-my home,…

Nope, just a straight bar with a hole at one end?

Its a fad in the same vain of barefoot running. The idea is that your heels can generate more power for squatting/deadlifting when you have increased balance, which is presumably easier without shoes. In reality, it’s fine to just wear shoes without fancy padding/structure (i.e. not expensive running shoes). The same…

I can’t find an image, so I’ll try to explain. A bar for the cable machines. It’s straight, about 12 inches long, and has a hole at one end to connect to the cable. I’ve never seen anyone use it in years of going to the gym.

Being an online person is so dumb. We are so dumb. Will it ever end?

Making money or tricked into thinking that they’re just around the corner from making money.

I love the comments. Reminds me of when Clinton collapsed on the campaign trail and all these same dem voters begged to her to just drop out already and endorse Bernie.

The bit from Mack that he knows Smith will “get better”, coupled with the facts that he wasn’t on the injury report and that everyone within the Bears org is being so secretive about it, tells me this is a mental health issue.

My brain won’t let me type all the letters, I hate it that much.

Pace around, get water, figure out how my body is feeling for the next exercise (high reps-low weight or low weight-high reps? How many sets?), respond to any urgent text messages, read news headlines. In order from most frequently to least frequently.

I hate the word whisteblower. There, I said it.

It’s weird that this story feels so unimportant to me. It’s just another in 4 year long barrage of “holy shit, you can’t do that!” stories from Trump and his team. The fact that they are corrupt as all hell and will lie and cheat however they see fit is so normalized that I can’t help but think “yea, so?” This will…

How does an organization continually screw up from the highest office to the lowest underlings? No one in the whole damn place can do anything right the first time.

It seems like flights from Chicago are never available during these flash sales, no matter the airline. Annoying.

What a crazy coincidence that this woman who has been an outspoken “feminist” twitter activist and has claimed to be a rape survivor since at least 2013 was brutally gang raped (again?) by strangers in a park (rare) in 2017 and then decides to file an extremely high profile lawsuit?

No wonder he turned down the invite to speak at the 2016 Republican Convention. More like Tim TeMao!

There’s no way Barron stands a chance, but I am rooting for him.