Health!
My lifts are at the end of the novice-lifter range and about to move into the intermediate range. I’m measuring off of Rippetoe and Kilgore, because. That’s who you measure off of.
Bench Press- Solidly in the intermediate zone! My upper body strength is totally off the charts. Yessss. I blame my obsessive pull-up work.
Shoulder Press- intermediate again. Fuck yeah, strong upper body!
Deadlift- I just learned these. I had been doing all kinds of other backwork, though, so even at the introductory weights this shit is easy. And boring. I’d much rather do good-mornings, or Pendlay rows. So, at the weight I’m lifting, I am in the un-trained range. :(
Power Clean- eeee I love these! But I need a coach before I move up, because this lift is damn technical and I don’t want to hurt myself. That said, I am a novice and will probably remain a novice until I figure out a way to make sure my form is good.
Squat- I fucking love the squat. I am, like, an evangelical squatter. Having been drunk and squatted my partner, I know that probably I can squat more than I usually do in the gym. But I don’t have a squat rack in my gym, (my gym is shit,) so I am still technically in the novice range. I used to clean the weight to get it up to my shoulders, and then do some sort of weird shoulder-press to get it behind my neck. And then roll of shame to get it off, like a boss. Now I put the bench press rest up to the top, and rack up from there. It takes a fair bit of wiggling to get out, though, so my weight-progress has had to compensate for that.
I’m back to running with a vengeance. Average of 9 miles per week, forcing myself to take it slow so’s I don’t injure myself again. Hell, I even added in swimming to complement the running, and I hate swimming.
I’m writing all this because now is the time to start tracking calories and make sure I’m eating good. Proper macros, less beer, more vitamins. Etc. But I can’t throw off this association I have, that calorie-counting = disordered eating. I know that it’s technically unrelated, but I have this image of people judging me and worrying about me and persuading themselves I am unhealthy, if I start measuring my food and tracking it in a quest to be healthier.
Is there any good way to just track macros? I think I could be comfortable with tracking at that level, and probably my macros are a touch off anyway. My guess is that they’re still skewed towards distance running, when they won’t need to be for another month or two until I get back to ~20 miles a week.
Hm hm.
Probably I will decide that calorie-tracking is just too much work, and I’ll put it off until my lifts start plateauing! :D yaaaay.
