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Signs you are a Training Asshole

1. You do more tinkering than training.
2. You train harder than you can recover.
3. You aren’t honest about your goals or your effort.
4. You use the exception to prove the rule.
5. You don’t eat to support your goals...

I messed up my leg (Stress fractures in femur, pelvic bone, and i pulled my hip flexor) When I got back I didn't want to be a pussy though, and immediately tested my bench and did a cycle of 5/3/1 for bench only because my leg still hurt too bad for the other lifts. Now...

About a year ago, I wrote in asking about training while in medical school. You advised to train twice a week doing two lifts per day. I actually started this template a few months before school because I was so busy (work, wedding planning, drinking high beams, etc.) and had great results. Anyway, I just read your update on ASSistance work, and couldn't agree more. For the last six months I have been in class/studying for 16 hours a day, sleeping very little, and probably getting 80g of protein per day. In spite of all that...