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that's the awful part about throwing away my notes with pushup/workout tracking for the week; now it's a blank slate and the next week I gotta do it all again!

I have a spreadsheet that I've been tracking everything on for 5 years. Keep those notes

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nah, the SN record is enough for me.

I'm not that much of a hoarder -- or rather, I already hoard enough shit: books, clothes, diaries etc.

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It's just a document on Google sheets. And let me tell you, there's nothing more motivating that going back 5 years and seeing you maxed out on bench press at 155lbs for 3 reps way back then.

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that's interesting. Perhaps would incentivize me some, I guess

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Where It helps me is when I feel weak. I'll hit a plateau or just feel like I'm not making any progress, so I go back and look.

A weird thing happened to me while lifting. I started feeling weak up until I benched 225. At that point I felt extremely strong compared to people who don't lift, but then as I got towards the 250s I realized that I'm extremely weak compared to people who are actually strong.

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Always a bigger fish, haha. compare yourself to who you were yes, not who someone else is today

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It's hard, when I hit 300, my first thought was "Hell yea!" Followed closely by "it's not 315 though"

I'm sure I'll eventually hit it, but the next big jump is 405 for 4 plates on each side, and that doesn't even seem like a real number. People do it all the time though.

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Shit, crazy.

But yeah, I know this feeling from doing pull-ups with more and more weights: once you hit X, you're like "maybe X+5 is possible!!"