Unicorns don't wait around. That's why we don't have any sitting in museums.

Background: I work at OSU as a graduate teaching associate and lift at Ludus Magnus. I am a raw lifter who competes in the 105lb weight classes, and am currently prepping for my next meet (when grad school finally gives me a weekend off) . Currently, I am in the process of trying to accomplish my lofty lifting goals,survive graduate school, and teach undergraduates about what I really love, TRAINING..

GPP Week3: DE Lower_Wed_April 30th

Warm up-general
1. Stepper

Neural Prep
2. Clean from floor to drop downs
3 x 1 + 2

Training
3. Speed Squats 10 x 2
How the sets were done:
Sets 1-3:
High bar close stance
2 sets at 50%
1 set at 50% + 30 lbs

Sets 4-6
High bar wide stance:
2 sets at 50%
1 set at 50% + 30 lbs

Sets 7-8
Low bar close stance
1 sets at 50%
1 set at 50% + 30 lbs

Sets 9-10
Low bar wide stance
1 sets at 50%
1 set at 50% + 30 lbs

Assistance
4. 2 x failure back extension on GHR

Unicorns, coke bottles and lotto tickets

Yesterday Nature (essentially one of the topic scientific journals regardless of topic area) posted something about a dinosaur-unicorn fossil discovery (it really was more bird than unicorn but whatever). I found this hilarious and posted it to FB. My bestie Alex "the Lion" then went on to say some things about unicorn women (see video to understand a unicorn woman).

And then the conversation below followed:
AC: Unicorns do exist, I know two of them

JP: Two? Where did you spot those suckers

AC: Tully is marrying one of them, the other one is a friend and client of mine

JP: Well wife her up!!unicorns become extinct ya know

AC: No, timing is all wrong. It wouldn't be fair to the unicorn

JP: Timing is the most B.S. of excuses: that is like saying, I found the winning lotto ticket on the street (and it says take me); but I have a coke in my hand so it's not the right time to pick it up. So, I think I will just pick it up once I drink my coke and hope it will still be there (setting: a busy street in LA...like santa monica..Just saying).

AC: No, it's not Jenn , and that is the most terrible equivocation example ever lol. Human beings are not lottery tickets and bottles of coke. Or scratch ems lol

JP: It's called a metaphor!

You see, although he doesn't believe, I firmly believe timing is a terrible excuse to not chase your unicorn (whether it be a goal, a person you care about, and experience, whatever!)

For example, when I applied into the biomedical sciences graduate program it created a terrible dilemma for me timing wise.

You see, my university had just hired someone in my department who was doing a lot of things (biochemistry-exercise research) I wanted to do in an area I wanted to study. I had looked up to this person for as long as I could remember, so I faced a real dilemma between staying for a PhD in the current program or switching to biomedical sciences.In theory, the timing was terrible for me to switch programs.

But then I thought about my unicorn (the job I want one day). For my unicorn to be captured, I need to have a genetic-biology-biochemistry skill set. I need these tools so I can one day answer questions about muscles from the cell to cell level all the way to the translational level. And so, despite timing being anything but ideal, I switched programs.

So, I'm sure every situation isn't the same (though I have various examples though of times when I gave "timing" the middle and chased the unicorn though). However, I do believe that "ideal timing" is a terrible concept. The time to take risks is never going to be ideal.

Plus, unicorns don't wait around. That's why we don't have any sitting in museums.

Yesterday

Yesterday, I finished my last final of my  M.S.  Just waiting on grades to be turned in before I can say I am officially done.  I can't believe it is done.  Well, I guess I still have that thing called 4-6 years of PhD study left (minor detail)!

(that right there is an powerlifter sandwich! To my left is the fantastic Lily "Hebrew Hammertime Powerlifting" Starobin)