A. Weighted wide-grip pullups - +20 lbs x5, +30 lbs x7, +40 lbs x5
B. RFESS - 60 - 3x6/leg
A. Bench press - worked up to 265x3
B. Single-leg RDL - 60 - 3x6/leg
Felt like I may have been able to get 275x3 on bench, but I'll leave the best effort for next week.
A few years back, there was a man by the name of Bill Stewart who was the football coach at West Virginia. While there, a story came out about one of his previous coaching stops in which he apparently had given the advice to one of his players to, "never give them a chance to call you a nigger." Setting aside the crudeness, there is a solid point there. There will always be a subset of people who will automatically see a black person in that light, regardless of how they act; or at the very least, they are looking for any inkling to "prove" that that's the case. It's unfortunate, but it's a reality.
Our brains work very much the same way. We have stories we tell ourselves about what we are, what we're capable of, that we're doomed to fail. And we look for confirmation every chance we get. Seth Godin calls this the lizard brain and it's very real. I have no doubt that it fades in time, but you have to fight it every day. It's just looking for that chance to say, "see, I knew you couldn't do it. I knew you would screw it up somehow." But as with anything, awareness is a start. If you don't realize it's there, you can't do anything to fight it. You simply accept it as what it is. Write a new story.
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