{"id":694,"date":"2025-04-14T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavesrollinmythoughts.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:42:06","slug":"what-is-that-dude-doing-thought-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavesrollinmythoughts.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What is THAT dude doing?&#8221; thought no one."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, when I look around the gym, I realize I&#8217;m the only one writing down their workouts. I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about this fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I keep track of every set of every workout so my progressive overload system is based on evidence, not anecdotal thoughts about a prior session. There are times when I wonder what my fellow gym-goers think of me writing in my notebook. 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