Clinical · 11 Nov 2025
Member since May 2024
Lena
Barbell first, everything else second.
Their journal
46 entries, and Lena is still writing.
No project
week 103settled energy 4
Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, competing again, journal reads like a training log. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have…
Iron and B12
week 80pleased energy 51 reply
Notes for the week. A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. Blood pressure normal without medication for the first…
She stopped the room
week 61warm energy 34 replies
Notes for the week. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. Started co-holding…
Both bags, one go
week 47pleased energy 3
Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at the top for a second like an idiot. Nobody saw. It counted. Squat back to her previous best at a…
No news
week 38steady energy 31 reply
Recording this for the record. Steady. That is the whole entry. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Losing a session a week and keeping the two that matter
Athletes and lifters
Recent check-in answers
Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.
It looks like not thinking about it. That is genuinely all it is now.
My GP, who read the diary I brought in rather than glancing at it.
Same as last month, and the month before, and I have come to like that.
Buddy
ongoingStrength
The gym and the chair
Lena lifts heavy things in Munich. Wilf, in his seventies, does eight minutes and a chair. Ren regards this as the ideal pairing.