Boneflour and I are engaged in a competition to see who can get to 20 chinups in one set the fastest. I’m an inveterate training plan truster, whereas he likes to “wing it” and be “spontaneous” like the unmarried female of the species. He sent me this analysis to demonstrate the superiority of following one’s heart:
He talks a lot of shit for a guy whose head start has been shrinking rapidly since we started. If he wins, I have to write a post about how Fluttershy is a shitpony, and if I win he has to write a guestpost analyzing the MLP episode “The Mane Attraction”.
#FriendshipNationalism
Aeoli Pera 
>Head down, visualizing future.
This triggers my tism.
Chad is the one visualizing the future, with his chin up and his vision above the horizon. Dopaminergic idealized futures flowing through his brain.
Virgin is thinking of the past.
Of all the challenges chad has already DOMINATED instead of him.
Chin up is from serotonin, don’t you know anything about lobsters? Autism credentials retracted.
Read a book nigger 🙊🤔
“The molecule of more” to be exact 😘😏
I wasn’t elected to read. In fact, I wasn’t elected at all!
Ok Vox :)
THAT’S RIGHT BROTHER
I HAVE BEEN TALKING SHIT
ABOUT HOW I AM SCHOOLING YOU
IN
THE CHIN UP CHAMPIONSHIPS
ARE YOU READY TO GET REKT BY A GUY THAT PUTS ICE CREAM IN HIS COFFEE?! WHOOPS! ALREADY HAPPENING!
BRB DOING CHINUPS WITH 20 SECOND BREAKS.
TOO BAD YOU GAVE UP TRUSTING THAT PLAN
OR WE COULD SEE
IF YOU’RE 20 SECONDS BEHIND
OR JUST 15
Nah, I have a good feeling about the modified plan using weighted chinups to achieve progressive overload. It’s like I always tell Patrick: Leaders never quit, they adjust ;-).
By extension, teammates (read: followers) never adjust the plan, they adapt. Trust the plan, do your job, etc.
OHOHOHO
YOU HAVE A GOOD FEELING DO YOU?
FOLLOW YOUR HEART BROTHER
AND FOLLOW THIS BACK AS IT LIFTS ME INTO FIRST PLACE
IN THE CHIN UP CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!
MAYBE ONE DAY
IF YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
YOU CAN STEP TO MY REPS BROTHER
When I was a kid in High School, I wouldn’t need a plan. Now, that I am older, it might be a good idea. If you need some motivation, I found this.
Beautiful.
>When I was a kid in High School, I wouldn’t need a plan. Now, that I am older, it might be a good idea.
It was always a good idea, it’s just that when you’re 18 you have a lot of extra energy lying around to waste on junk miles.
I know that I am not in the shape that I was then. Perhaps, I am wiser to compensate?
Want some more Pony Music Video?
“Livin’ like there’s no tomorrow, but nowadays I’m glad that there is….”
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That guy is a smart guy.
He’s looking better too.
with aeolis new politics® and 6hours of degenerate cardio per day I don’t think he can defeat the Peoples Champion in the chin ups cup, the highest prestige there is to win in the fossilized edenoidsphere
We’ll see :-).
Used to be Virgin Plan Follower – multiple injuries (including surgeries) from not listening to the body
Chad Instinct Follower – no injuries moar gainz.
My thing was I was constantly injuring myself from listening to my body because it thought we were still 17. Then I got on a running plan that told me to go so slow I was basically walking, with maybe five sprints mixed into a 45-minute run, and I started seeing gains.
By far the hardest thing in triathlon training is holding yourself back, no joke.
Yeah that 17 yo guy is an asshole. Don’t listen to him.
I mean look at how many times he nearly got you killed.
Similar. To prevent overtraining I had to develop a way to measure whether I had recovered. Pick two weights 95% and 70% 1RM.
Do 95% 1RM on heavy day to failure; there is not plan but to fail. Heavy day recalculates your 1RM.
Do 70% 1RM on recovery days to failure. Here’s the difference, you aren’t recovered until you can do more than 12 reps. Usually, I find I blow past 12 to 15 or more once I’ve recovered.
Lift 2x per week full body, mostly compound lifts, one set, no warm up sets.
Super broadly speaking, momentum people are probably not undertraining.
Likewise, leverage people probably aren’t overtraining.
Memes aside, some people will benefit from the focus a plan provides, and some people will benefit from listening to the feedback from their body.
The first thing I did to keep my lead on Aeoli was get way more consistent with the good bits of his plan that I stole. :D
Had a good system and technique, just dialed it up to focus on 2 month gainz instead of 5 year gainz.
I would say I had leverage and added momentum, whereas Aeoli had momentum with triathlon stuff and added the leverage of his training plan.
Great analysis.