Training Log

First failure of the training cycle on bench Wednesday

275x2 - needed to get 3 or more.

Goddamn bicep is all kinds of fucked up. I think I'll keep trying to ice/rehab and stick to push presses, jerks, and floor presses for pressing for the near future. Not sure what I'm going to do for pulling, I'll just have to play that by feel. I've got a few things in mind for what I want to start up doing after tomorrow's military press day, but I haven't definitively decided yet. If I can get my shit together and know that I'll spend my recovery time the way I need to (namely, sleeping), then I know I can push a bit harder. Unfortunately, that's been a bit hard to come by lately.

Motivation has been waning a bit lately, both for the gym and work, but that's to be expected. It's the natural course of things, you're never going to be 100% "into" it. BUT, what truly separates people is those who truly want to achieve push through it anyway. Sure, maybe take a little time off or away, but not too much. And then you get right back to plugging away. For instance, the whole waking up early thing was going great, but lately, it's seemed like such a chore. But, I've got to get over that.
The theme that you see smart people talk about, and granted, this is often about training but applies everywhere, is that motivation is bullshit. The people who are constantly looking to external cues, videos, quotes, etc. for motivation are simply not going to make it. That doesn't mean those things aren't useful sometimes. They absolutely are. And they sometimes serve well as a bedrock, something to always come back to when absolutely necessary. But to rely on them all the time is an exercise in futility, because you're constantly trying to light a match. At some point, it's going to be raining.
But if you're in it for the long haul, be it training, your career, business, family, relationships, whatever, there's an eternal flame. Sometimes, it will be raging hot as all hell, and others, it will be more subdued. But it will be there. You might throw some more gas on it every once in a while, but it's not necessary to do all the time.