This article is golden :
Mythical Strength’s “No Respect”
The premise groks with me, and the idea struck me the other day between sets of military press that…
Frequency is my way of respecting the lift, falling into it’s frame.
I’ve never really done infrequent for any length of time. While I don’t hold it against myself for getting into the place (the bodybuilding gym in Cali), having lasted 2 or 3 weeks at 2x weekly before upping it to ~5 since I dug the atmosphere (it’s amazing what crawling with hot chicks can do), in the yard the infrequency comes naturally.
(Aside : Maybe I feed off of “show mode” when lifting, and prefer other training styles in solitude.)
I’d been worrying about that (frequency) and my lack of squat rack a ton.
Mythical strength’s article changed my perspective.
Already I don’t respect the “lifting knowledge” that getting injured is a given…as to me it’s not even a possibility.
I’ve always disrespected the idea of needing time off to recover. I got great results from 6-9 months of daily squatting, and my lifetime deadlift PR was after 21 or 23 days and ~30 deadlift sessions in a row.
I already know that for me to squat sub-405 it would take a full fledged smiting by God. I’m always good for it. ALWAYS.
Perspective change : all my lifting can be like this.
Not only will they not drop, but they’ll progress without being trained.
My self imposed daily PT takes care of it all. (I’ve felt this a while actually.)
I may simply lift once a week, and very likely only one lift.
The opposite of my frequency love sounds like 52 sessions in a year, one lift per session, and a few lifts total.
The initial idea was alternating military press week and sldl week.
Pretty close to the ultimate of disrespect to frequency.
Ditto to no barbell squatting at all…which still will have me at 405+, though I’ll likely hit some overheads, or drop the bar to my back for some…whenever.
(There’s also goblet squats. Have I posted the one dumbbell workout yet?)
Needing everything gym and gym related to be pristine is…prissy.
That petite chick telling me ” yeah, but all the guys at this gym are bitches” (related to tire flipping) was just so…right. I’d made myself gym persona non grata for roughly that belief before, and hearing it come out of a sexy little thing was admittedly a hilarious and well appreciated external validation. It’s hard to not like a place where a hot chick mocks the gay & metrosexual thang that is ingrained in male gym culture… absolutely hysterical!
(Girlie had no idea why that statement amused me so much.)
While I’m yard lifting that bitch (the barbell) deserves the worst of me, neglect, and utter disregard/disrespect while still going my way (getting stronger).
Maybe this made sense, which coincidentally the linked article wholly did, well at least to me anyway.