Fuck you, weekend dip.

Going to bed early is hard, because I’m never tired. I love feeling really tired. Is that masochistic? There’s nothing quite like crawling into bed when you’re really tired, and then drifting off to sleep. There’s also nothing like waking up after noon and not feeling rested at all.

I kind of decided last night I wasn’t lifting today. I felt like crap all last night. I don’t know why. All I know is that I’ll have to be a bit more aggressive. Sitting and wondering why isn’t really going to solve anything. I had a feeling that to fix my sleeping habits (going to bed earlier), I would have to get up earlier. I’m quite a drastic person when I put my mind to it. I got nine hours of sleep at some points last week, but it didn’t make me feel any more energized. I seem to do just right at 8 hours. 7 hours is fine, if I’m waking up naturally, but if I have to wake up via alarm for too long with only 7 hours of sleep, I fatigue in the long run.

I was thinking about how I don’t like getting up on Saturday. I mean, shit, who DOES like getting up on Saturday? When I get up early any other day, it’s motivating. I’m getting up for me. But Saturday, I’m mostly getting up for my dad. And naturally, that’s demotivating. I was thinking of shifting my workouts so I don’t do my regular workouts on Saturday. Which got me thinking about what I could do instead. I should have a day were I just dick around in the gym. No, seriously. Do 100 bodyweight squats, do sets of pull-ups with low rest periods, do some cuban rotations and face pulls, maybe some push-ups. I’m not particularly worried about overtraining. I’ve read enough Waterbury to know that as long as you’re doing something different, you should be fine. Moreover, I’m resting the next day.

And damn it, I’m tired of my pull-ups not progressing.

I’m going to set my alarm for 5 AM tomorrow morning, get up, and go for a run in the snow. (This is why you shouldn’t be browsing wikipedia in the early morning, nor watching old Rocky IV training montages.) Okay, it has nothing to do with training or running at all, but it’s something to get me awake. I’ll take a shower afterwards. Hopefully I’ll be “tired” by 8 or 9 PM.

I’ve also started tracking my moods again. Back to basics.

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I got distracted. I’ll go play Dragon Quest VIII.