Pain is a Reminder of Life (Sunny's Log)

[commanist]

Stats: 27 yo, 5'11", 163 lb, female. Third try at SS, with the first being derailed by injuries and the second by 80-hour weeks.

Goals, in no particular order:

• To keep in mind that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and thus to do my best with recovery while acknowledging that the schedule sometimes precludes ideal measures.
• To go up a weight class; lifting suppresses my appetite and there are reasons why dirty bulking is a poor life choice for me, so this will require nontrivial effort.
• To return to winning against the people I introduced to training with SS, because I'm a competitive little shit (using weight- and gender-adjusted numbers from here.) One of them just went to intermediate programming, but he squats high, so when the inevitable deload happens I'll be ready LIKE PANTHER.
• To get a chin-up. 'Nuff said.

Miscellany: Unix systems engineer, paramedic, INTJ. Addicted to caffeine pills and chamomile tea. Favors BlackBerries, stick shifts, wombats, and Perl.

[carson]

Welcome.

[commanist]

A few notes: Started very light to get my form squared away, as I tend to be hypermobile. It tends to break down when it starts to get heavy, which is why I sometimes repeat weights.

My only assistance exercise is chin-ups. Because I really want a chin-up. Started out alternating negative chin-ups and pull-ups; have switched to only doing negative chin-ups.

Finally, will re-add power cleans once I get to a body weight deadlift. In keeping with that, I tend to get too beat-up from doing sets across of deadlift, but one set is no longer enough to spur progress; as such, I'm currently experimenting with adding two back-off sets at approximately 90%.

-- 5/25/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 65x5 85x5 85x5 85x5
Bench: 15x5 25x5 35x5 45x5 45x5 45x5
Deadlift: 65x5 65x5 85x5 95x5

-- 5/27/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 65x5 65x5 90x5 90x5 90x5
Press: 15x5 25x5 35x5 35x5 35x5
Deadlift: 65x5 85x5 95x5

-- 5/29/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 65x5 80x5 95x5 95x5 95x5
Bench: 15x5 25x5 35x5 50x5 50x5 50x5
Deadlift: 65x5 85x5 105x5

-- 5/31/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 95x5 95x5 95x5
Press: 25x5 40x5 40x5 40x5
Deadlift: 65x5 105x5 115x5
5 negative pull-ups

-- 6/2/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 100x5 100x5 100x5
Bench: 35x5 45x5 50x5 50x5 50x5
Deadlift: 85x5 105x5 125x5 (back rounded; repeat)
5 negative chin-ups

-- 6/4/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 105x5 105x5 105x5
Press: 25x5 35x5 45x5 45x5 45x5
Deadlift: 85x5 105x5 125x5
5 negative pull-ups

-- 6/6/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 95x5 110x5 110x5 110x5
Bench: 35x5 45x5 60x5 60x5 60x5
Deadlift: 85x5 105x5 135x5
5 negative chin-ups

-- 6/11/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 105x3 105x5 115x5 115x5 115x5
Press: 25x5 35x5 45x3 47.5x5 47.5x5 47.5x5
Deadlift: 85x5 115x5 140x5
5 negative pull-ups

-- 6/13/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 105x3 120x5 120x5 120x5
Bench: 35x5 55x5 70x5 70x5
Deadlift: 85x5 115x5 145x5 (back rounded; repeat)
5 negative chin-ups

-- 6/16/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 105x5 125x5 125x5 125x5
Press: 35x5 45x3 50x5 50x5 50x5
Deadlift: 85x5 115x5 145x5
5 negative chin-ups

-- 6/18/2014 --
Squat: 45x5 45x5 75x5 105x5 125x2 130x5 130x5 130x5 (knees fell in; repeat)
Bench: 45x5 65x5 80x5 80x5 80x5
Deadlift: 85x5 115x5 150x5 (back rounded; repeat) 140x5 140x5
5 negative chin-ups

[commanist]

Welcome.

Thank you! I've been lurking for a while now, and your log is great reading. Trying to get my parents, who are about your age, into it as well!

[peez]

Welcome to the forum! Great progress so far!

I'm with you on BlackBerries and stick shifts, but Perl? Have you tried Python? Great stuff in the standard libraries for SEs! (OK, apologies to the non-geeks)

[commanist]

I'm with you on BlackBerries and stick shifts, but Perl? Have you tried Python? Great stuff in the standard libraries for SEs! (OK, apologies to the non-geeks)

No need to apologize. This thread is definitely going to be a Geek Safe Space.

As for Python, I distrust languages with meaningful whitespace. Also, as a systems engineer who scripts to make my life easier (vs. writing code that other people will have to use and modify), Perl's lack of readability is a feature, not a bug!

[carson]

Thank you! I've been lurking for a while now, and your log is great reading. Trying to get my parents, who are about your age, into it as well!

Thanks. I hope you are successful in getting your parents involved. It's the best thing I've done in years. My wife has even recently joined me. Neither of us were jocks when young and I did little to change that over the years. I did run for a few years and even finished two marathons about 25 years ago but mostly we've done next to nothing until joining SS. Keep up the good work.

[peez]

As for Python, I distrust languages with meaningful whitespace. Also, as a systems engineer who scripts to make my life easier (vs. writing code that other people will have to use and modify), Perl's lack of readability is a feature, not a bug!

That's just syntax - its semantically equivalent to curly braces, parentheses and other ways to express a hierarchy. But I realize this is like arguing about religion, so I'll better stop.
You could say that encrypting logic in Perl increases job security.

Around here, your choices are between kg and lb!

[Viola]

Welcome Sunny. I enjoyed your intro entry. Competitiveness is good; it makes training worthwhile. (Oh, and Android, Fortran, minivan (sigh), and real tea).

[sgtroyer]

Around here, your choices are between kg and lb!

I read this and scratched my head for a minute wondering what programming languages kg and lb were. Then I got it.

In my experience there are people that write software and people that write quick hacky scripts to get their jobs done. I'm one of the latter, and Perl is my quick hacky language of choice. Software people seem to hate it.