In other words, if you never fail, you're not pushing yourself hard enough.
Maybe I should call it a Pyhrric victory. Especially in the sense that "one other such pull would utterly undo me", to paraphrase Plutarch.
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I would say “yes” and more.
I’ll try to make this my last post as I don’t want to spam your log. I’m not a “new age” thinker type or anything along those lines but I strongly believe that knowing what you are capable of and what you are not capable of creates the space for greater achievements. There are statistics “Everest 1922 - 2006 Age, Success and Fatalities.”
Fatalities by Age
0-29 1.86%
30-39 1.66%
40-49 1.47%
50-74 1.59%
So my thesis is the older climbers have “achieved” more meaningful failures and better understand what they are capable of and what they are not. This translates to a higher survival rate allowing them to climb more peaks over a longer career. Where the younger climbers have not learned to use failure to fine tune their progression yet.
Sorry on the Plutarch quote I'm just not familiar with it.
Wikipedia is your friend here:
I vaguely remembered the quote, but couldn't have told you it was Plutarch before looking it up.Quote:
The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo him.
— Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus
Squats: 270x5x3
Chins: 6x5
Dips: 6/6/6/6/6/3
Squats (6 minutes rest):
270x5: IMG 2813 - YouTube
270x5: IMG 2814 - YouTube
270x5: IMG 2815 - YouTube
Chins:
As 3x(2x5). 1 minute rest inside the parentheses, 7 minutes outside.
Dips:
As 2x(3x6), 1 minute, 7 minutes. Except, of course, that I only got 3 reps on the last set.
Squats: 135x5, 185x5, 235x5, 275x5, 305x5
Bench: 207.5x4,3 205x4, 200x4, 165x10
Squats:
No videos. This was an abbreviated workout due to time constraints, so I used the early sets as my warmup (after starting with the bar). I'm traveling for a week for work, so I wanted to get at least one heavy set in before I go. No real rest through 235, 5 minutes before 275, 8 minutes before 305.
Bench (8 minutes rest):
I'm not sure if I've hit a plateau or if I just didn't have enough rest after dips on Thursday. I'll see how I do after my rest week.
DB Press: 30x10, 35x10, 40x8, 35x10, 30x10
DB Rows: 40x10x5
Not much of a fitness center in the hotel, but they do have dumbbells, so I did some press and rows. DB press was a little harder than expected, I'm guessing because of the different mechanics of pressing two independent weights.
I did notice, however, that there's some sort of contraption on which I can do dips and chins, so I'll probably do those next time.
Chins: 5/5/5/5/5/3 (meant to do 3x(2x5))
Dips: 6x5 (as 3x(2x5))
A bit worn out from traveling yesterday, so just a light workout today:
Squats: 135x5, 185x5, 225x5x3
Bench: 170x10,10,9.9,8
Squats:
I did these pretty quickly, just 2 minutes rest between (the top) sets.
Bench:
5 minutes rest between sets, which may not have been sufficient. I was shooting for 170x10x4. I just couldn't lock out the .9 rep, so had to lower it to the pins.
I did some intervals on the assault bike.
5 minutes warmup
5x:30/1:30
5 minutes cool down
My "assault bike" is actually my 20-year old racing bike set up on the indoor trainer I had for it. (Yeah, I used to be a cyclist. But Rip used to play soccer, so I don't feel so bad.)
Squats: 255x5x3
Press: 120x4x4
4 minutes rest on squats, 8 on press. My original intention was to do 120x6x4, but I was really tired today for some reason. I'll just restart from my last 120x4x4, which was just a couple of press workouts ago.
On squats, I'm going to work my way back up (LP in big steps) to maybe 305 before resuming HLM on those.
Press videos:
120x4: IMG 2818 - YouTube
120x4: IMG 2819 - YouTube
120x4: IMG 2820 - YouTube
120x4: IMG 2821 - YouTube