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Wellness Wednesday for April 16, 2025

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Odd experience:

Training to try to do Murph (Mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, mile run) on memorial day, figure trying it a couple times a week is good conditioning anyway. Working up to it, I'm thinking wow I suck at this, I wonder what the record is and/or what a good time is online?

Normally when I look up CrossFit benchmarks, or powerlifting standards, like Fran or Grace the elite numbers and even normal standards strike me as basically impossible, numbers I can't imagine Hitting.

This time, it wasn't THAT bad. I'll definitely reach mid, which will make me happy at the event.

Just weird feeling. Normally I find out I suck worse than I thought.

Hopefully that carries over to the weekend: I'm going to a BJJ open mat at a different gym while I'm out of town for Easter. Hoping not to be embarrassed.

This time, it wasn't THAT bad

Ah but were you wearing your official ROGUE(tm) 25lb plate carrier with Punisher skull patch?

I have a mucho cheapo vest from Amazon that I intend to use in the final event, I might have been able to stomach the sticker on the Rogue vest then I realized it DIDN'T INCLUDE ANY WEIGHT, which is just insulting.