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@sevilodorf But… my gym literally uses a 33 pound bar?

@sevilodorf Okay. I hope you, or anyone close to you, doesn’t have to struggle with the shame or stigma that comes with a learning disability. But I appreciate it!

@sevilodorf Okay. Do you have anything helpful to add?

@sevilodorf It’s a 33 pound bar, and maybe, but it’s also a learning disability that makes the actual number irrelevant when you struggle to compute regardless.

Thanks so much to everyone for the helpful advice!!! I wanna cry I’ve gotten so many good recs! I appreciate you all! In other news, though my last class was chaotic, despite that I did do 5 reps of 140lb backsquat so that was really cool. Excited to use these resources to hopefully...

@paulbee I’ve gotten a lot of great suggestions for these!

@aaronemill12 Thank you! I’m trying to keep in mind that I’ve only being doing this a little over a month, and started at 3 days a week. I think I’ll hopefully get there putting some tools in place!

@jackman915 I know everyone has days when they get frustrated, so it’s okay. I think I felt worse because he’s one of my favorite coaches so that made me feel bad— like a bad student in school again, lol.

@chismere That sounds so helpful! I’m going to explore all the apps! Thank you!

As in, if the coach feels I can do percentages, to wait until I can figure stuff out and do them the next time the lift comes up

@deniseoli Yeah I think what I’m going to do next time for a new lift is to do what was already rx’d for me previously and calculate the percentages thereafter for the next class. Even talking about it helps me feel better. I was feeling pretty unintelligent yesterday

Thanks yall!! I definitely will go in prepared; I think the issue is yesterday was the very first day I actually did the rx’d workout. The coaches always had me doing something different because I was new, but when the coach saw what I did previously, (it was like 15 reps of a 113 back squat)...

@nebula1 I just got the beyond whiteboard app! I was only going 3x a week until last week when I upped my membership, and qualified for it. I hear itll all be easier once I know one rep maxes?

@m0rdecai89 Thank you both. I think it was because I actually don’t have one rep maxes yet—my first class was at the end of May, and the first half of June I only went 3 days a week. I think just bc of the quantity of reps I did last, the coach told me to calculate .9 of my body weight then...

@yaoshi I’ve learned that here!! I’m excited to see all the apps! Thank you!!!

@dontspammebro Omg that’s so kind of you to offer!

@nebula1 It really is!!!

@dontspammebro YES, exactly!!! I think a visual like that would really help me. Just sucks I start with a 33lb bar. Who in the world decided that?! I think I might get the 1lb weights to make it an even 35– I think that may help.

@m0rdecai89 Thank you, this was so helpful. Im definitely going to make a cheat sheet, and I think your point to the 117 not being realistic will make my life easier— I think I also got flustered trying to be super exact, which also didn’t help.

@johnbateman So many apps have been suggested here that I didn’t know about!!! Can’t wait to check them Out!