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* gym during the weekend vacation in tahoe. the bathroom has a cryo bath next to the sauna/steam room. tried dipping into the 40F water bath and completely changed my mind about trying it out. this is not going to help me recover better. il be more stressed out submerging myself in this freezing water bath. don't know why people try to do these cold water baths in the morning for gains. i believe recovery is better when you are less stressed out. a long hot shower in the morning is a lot more relaxing and beneficial than an adrenalin pumping ice water bath.

Yeah, last time I looked at the research, there is basically no evidence that ice baths help recovery (and, iirc, they can actively hurt muscle gain). I think there is maybe some evidence for acute recovery in over-training like situtations (think soccer player playing 3 games a week). Think they're basically popularised due to (1) people think "hard" things must necessarily be good because htey are hard and (2) liars like andrew huberman

23-02-25

OHP
65 x 1
55 x 5 + 3 push presses

Inc Curl
20 x 16, 12

Lat Prayer
42.5 x  11, 8, 6

Inc Fly
20 x 11, 7 + 10 presses

Lateral
20 x 12, 10

GM
110 x 10, 8

Rev Nord
+10 x 7, 6

Bike x 20 mins

Notes

Similar ROM reset with Rev Nords here.

it is from trump 2.0, plus co-president elon, who decided in his infinitely arrogant stupidity to try to destroy my industry. miraculously, i did keep my job (for now). back home from my trip and first day back at work today, seems like everything is pretty much in chaos.

i'd legit been on tenterhooks re your situation, so i'm glad to hear you've kept your job, even if everything else around it is borked

16-02-25

Run - 8.73km, 50:35

Notes

Literally conducted a 10 min phone call during this run without changing pace or feeling out of breath, so I'm pretty sure I am passing the talk test

12-02-25

Reverse Lunge
120 x 5, 3

Incline Fly
20 x 11, 10+14 presses

Lat Prayer
42.5 x 14, 10, 6

Pushdown
42.5 x 11, 9

Pushup
+20 x 10, 9

Notes

Need to rest so long between lunge sets bc the "off" leg does a surprising amount of work (i do all my left reps, rest a while, right reps. alternating within a set feels bad)

10-02-25

Run - 7k, 42 mins

08-02-25

Run - 7.83km, 47:55

06-02-25

Reverse Lunge
120 x 5

Lat Prayer
42.5 x 13, 10 + 30x11 + Pullups @20x5

Deficit Pushup
+20 x 15, 11 +BWx11

Incline Curl
20 x 16, 12

EZ Tricep
47.5 x 8, 5

Side Bend
50 x 8, 6

10 min bike

Notes

Played around with different degrees of incline for the curls and tricep extensions. Conveniently, think a lower incline for curls and higher incline for triceps works better, so I can just do the midpoint and not adjust the bench while supersetting them exercises.

Enjoying that I am getting some slow but real progress even with low-volume/low-freq training.