Not training is really bad for my head. While I fully prepared for the Strategic Deconditioning, and was even contemplating pushing it to 14 days, last night I threw the whole plan in the trash and revamped a strength oriented training plan to start today! I slept better as a result, but while walking with my boy Eddie Vedder Beagle Dog this morning, I got back on the righteous path.
There’s really no point in making another attempt at improving my strength. I know where that story ends. I’m not going to compete, no one cares how much I squat and/or bench, and I will reach my voluntary strength limit in short order as I have done many times before. I will beat the crap out of myself squeezing out 1-lb improvements with no noticeable improvement in muscle mass.
The reality is my HST plan basically is a strength training plan, just with a different ultimate goal. In other words, I’m still doing the same lifts; squat, bench, overhead press and their derivatives, but I’m doing them within my established strength limits in a progressive fashion after deconditioning enough to hopefully make them useful again.
In other news, I’m writing this from my refurbished MacBook, which I brought back from the grave last year but rarely use due to having a major crush on my Chromebook. I’m dual screening at the moment because I’m faster on my Chrome, but little by little I’m moving all my needed sites over to the bigger, prettier and more versatile Mac. The inability to add software to the Chromebook is what drove me to break the Apple out of hibernation. The Chromebook suits my needs 99% of the time, and I’d still buy another one over any other machine on the market today. But being able to just download Adobe Acrobat Reader and make changes to a PDF Flyer I needed to make is not a possibility on Chromebook.
I’ve also gotten over my romanticized idea of hand rolling my own cigarettes. I don’t want to live forever, but lung cancer isn’t the way I want to go out.
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