"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Shaun's Training Log

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Well, this is my new training journal, I hope you enjoy following it.

I've had a training journal before, but I've always had interruptions just as I was gaining some pace, and as a result I moved slower than I really should've.

I'm now at Uni and there's nothing standing in my way :)

I have the privilege of being trained by EFFORT. My goals are size and strength via eventually working my way up to big squats, bench and deadlifts, hopefully over the next 3 or 4 years.

I hadn't trained properly for 6 weeks due to settling into Uni and my diet's been horrible, so I've lost quite a bit of strength. I currently weigh 147lbs, I was about 152 before Uni started. My maxes at that time were:

Squat, 65kgx3
Rack deadlift, 115kgx3
Bench press, 60kgx3

Overall small numbers at the moment, but I have the dedication to have fun working towards my goals, and a fvcking great trainer.

The current routine is gonna last for the next 6 weeks.

Cheers,
Shaun
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Well well. Welcome back stranger, long time, 'bout time you got back in the gym.

Still with the Mrs?
 
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Monday, 29 October

ME Lower

Lat pulldown, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5

Deadlift, 95kgx4, 95kgx4 (no straps, forgot to take em)

Goodmorning, 40kgx10, 40kgx10


shaun
 
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Good to see you getting back into things, will follow with interest, good luck

Quagmire

Ps-You doing a westside routine?
 
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Cheers Tom, Quag.

Aye, it's a westside mod :)

There's no interruptions now like there was before (i.e. two weeks out of the gym out of nowhere), so I won't be doing two steps forward and one step back like before. I'm looking forward to it.

It's good to see your training is going REALLY well Quag, it's fun following your lifting :)

shaun
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Wednesday, 31 October

ME Upper

Flat barbell bench, 42.5kgx5, 42.5kgx5

Incline dumbbell bench (paused), 14kgx8, 14kgx8, 14kgx8

Dumbbell situps

Not too bad, none of these are PRs, I'll still be building my way back up to where I was before for the next few weeks :)

-shaun
 
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ME Lower

Barbell rows, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5

Squats, 47.5kgx4, 47.5kgx4, 40kgx20

-shaun
 
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shaunuk said:
Friday, 2 November

ME Lower

Barbell rows, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5

Squats, 47.5kgx4, 47.5kgx4, 40kgx20

-shaun
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I'm curious, were the first two squat sets primers for the 20 repper?

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added to training journals thread.

Don't worry about the numbers you have now.. spend your energy on the weight you'll be adding to it next workout.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Hey Quag. Nope, they were worksets, 2x4. :)

Hey Quik, thanks for the support man ;)

-shaun
 
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"Squats, 47.5kgx4, 47.5kgx4, 40kgx20"

Just baffled me slightly. Can you shed any light? 7.5kg drop to add 16reps? What's going on :confused:
 
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Well, it was the hardest set of anything I've ever done..The whole set might well've been 3mins long for all the pauses I took :)

shaun
 
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