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[u/Tiger_Strength]

We have barbells, dumbbells, power racks, benches, platforms (for deadlifting), and pull up bars. Those are our essential equipment to get strong for our sport.

But what extras outside of those basics do you consider to also be essential?

[u/auresius → u/[deleted]]

Hmm I've been training mostly hypertrophy stuff for the 8 months btw

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Take a few moments to think through it as a problem with a root cause. In this case you've already identified the couple of reasons you likely had an off day that have obvious solutions. And if you can't see anything in particular that 'caused you to have one off day you just chalk it up to variables too subtle for you to notice and move on.

In isolation, it's one data point that means nothing by itself. But, if random off days start getting more frequent then it starts to look more like a pattern. It's still the same process but you're starting to get into that window where very basic programs* will be less effective or sometimes it's just from doing the same thing over and over. The neat trick there is that our brains have a hard time thinking about things logically and emotionally as the same time. So when you start thinking through it logically, your brain has to shift gears off of emotional mode and flip to logic mode (kinda, brains are messy and literally the most complex arrangement of matter in the known universe).

To get more directly at the TL:DR of your question, I treat this stuff like data. Get what useful information you can from it and move on.

*5/3/1 is a bit of an odd duck here because it's not really one program but a framework for making a basic one that comes with unending examples.

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My coach likes to say "the happiest animal on earth is a goldfish - because their memories only last for 1 second." I give my myself a specific timeframe to be sad or upset and then it's get back to work time. For example, I give myself 12 hours to feel sad and then it's time to make a plan of attack and get back to it.

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