Motivated to Squat - May 14

Motivation is bullshit. Getting better should be something you’re already about. Not something you need to be goaded into. I’m not saying some things don’t light a bigger fire under your ass than others, but if you have to seek out reasons to get better, you’re losing. Meaning, If it requires some outside force to resonate with something inside of you, you aren’t in possession of what it takes to get better all on your own.
How will you CONSISTENTLY get better if it requires the dangling carrot to do make you do so?
At some point you have to decide that getting better is just a part of what you are. What makes you, you. When that happens you won’t need “devices” in order to get better. It will just be something you do. If you were isolated in a room with your weights for 10 years, would you get better without the influence of external forces? I hope you can say yes to that. If not, figure out how to say yes to that. 

- Paul Carter

I feel like a tank right now. I'm a little dinged up, but I can feel the training response this week - tight and huge. Not putting up crazy numbers, just feeling the HT kicking in. I'm going to feather the gas pedal some, but I'm going to stay on this HT run for another cycle.

Squat, in .30 on 2:00

8@135/5@185/5@205/5x5@225

... 5's were pretty much the extent of what I was able to do in .30 today. Felt heavy, went up pretty well. Dropped all of them into the bottom of the hole, that's a win.

15 mins.

- 2 mins -

HT couplet, 5 rounds

Fat bar deadhang pulls x5-4

Press @ 135 x7-5

12 mins.

7.5 hours - 2230/0600. 29 minutes total. 24 hours. PE: 7. 229/15.