[quote]2busy wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Congrats on the win. I guess by your driving the drunk guys around means that you all celebrated lol[/quote]
Nikki, it’s more the guys I play hockey with like to drink alot…[/quote]
Actually, I think’s it’s easier to say my drinking team has a hockey problem…
Actually, what I meant to say is I am going to lay out lifting routines more like that of a body builders.
More 12,10,8,6 sets. More isolation routines.
And I need to pick up the pace.
If I split it up right, I can get a lift in the morning of hockey days. That will help increase the amount of time under load for the muscles. And get me to doing 2 a days.
I will find a way to get lean.
[quote]2busy wrote:
Been doing a lot of article reading while waiting for my son’s liberty to be granted.
One I found very useful was:
I’ll admit one of the main reasons I work out is to try to make myself look better.
Granted, I want my hockey performance to improve too.
I really need to focus on leaning myself out more. That is a major issue I have always struggled with.
HOT-ROX has seemed to help a bit. I think I have gotten more vascular in my arms and shoulders.
Wish I could have gotten on that IG3 test, but I had other obligations.
Maybe on the next round I’ll be able to get on.
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Another 7 hours of driving ahead of me, yay.
I’m sure about 20 pages of T-Vixen pics will be posted in that time, lol.
Busy - I just read the article you were talking about up there. I hadn’t seen that. Yeah, I’m sometimes a little torn too. I’m having fun with the strength goals. I’m trying to build a foundation there, and I want to learn how to do all the big lifts with good form because it’s fun. After that, I’m not sure how much I’ll constantly push myself to get a bigger bench or DL or whatever.
Maybe some of this is my age, but I really don’t want to get injured. And, I’ll get flamed for saying this, but I want to look more like a bikini competitor than a female power lifter. 
That’s the truth. I’m kind of thinking along the same lines. In the next year or so, I may switch to working more on mind-muscle connection on my accessories, rather than trying to keep getting BIGGER numbers on the three big lifts. Now I’ll be told to go put up my log on Figure Athlete! LOL! I’m not going over there!!
No flame from me, Puff. You look hot already 
Thursday - 5/27
Travel. Marines released son and drove back to Nebraska.
Hi 2busy
I’m with Puff on the goal stuff, I want to be mobile for as long as possible and injuries can get in the way of that and cause problems down the road even if you recover. I used to be involved in an activity that was very hard on my body and I am already dealing with a grumpy low back and knees because of it. I’m using the 5/3/1 program so I can get good at the big lifts and have a strong strength foundation. Also the big lifts appeal to my love of efficiency. I may change things up later I don’t have any competition goals right now, just lifting for my confidence.
I would not flame Puff either.
Thanks for the lack of flames, Charlie and Busy. I’m with you on not really having the drive to be competitive with my lifting, but I will say that a lot of the female power lifters on this site are looking amazing.
I totally get the desire to keep improving. I just want to be careful about pushing myself into an injury. And cheers to having fun with it for as long as possible. Looking good, and feeling good for the WIN!
yep…
I get hasseled cause I ain’t into the PW as much as some around here think I should be.
I’m shooting for dead sexy, lifting more than this old body should handle runs afoul of that goal!
stick with what works best, and only you know whats best.
(btw…I followed Charley and Puffy in here…now I’m watching them walk away…damn!)
There will be no flaming here, Puff. I get the asbestos suit tested on the other threads.
But… I bet it’s a great view, Edgy!
I spent 15 minutes entering in a log and it never appeared… 
I guess it timed out.
Friday - 5/27
No real plan, decided to do shoulders and squats.
Seated Dumbbell Overhead Press
40 lb dumbbells x 12 reps
50 lb dumbbells x 10 reps - right side felt, well wrong
60 lb dumbbells x 5 reps - struggled to get right side up. Right side failed. Left felt no strain
55 lb dumbbells x 7 reps - again, right side failed.
Dumbbell Lat Raise
25 lb dumbbells x 12 reps - right side twisted. Not symmetrical.
30 lb dumbbells x 10 reps
35 lb dumbbells x 8 reps - right side twisted. Not symmetrical. Can not stop it.
40 lb dumbbells x 6 reps - same thing.
20 lb dumbbells x 12 reps - right side twisted a little.
Something went wrong with my right side. Not real pain, just does not feel right. I estimate it is 20% weaker then my left side. Had something like this happen before 3 years ago. Right side lost 50% compared to left. MRI revealed nothing. Doc thought I pinched a nerve, gave me steroids. Dropped weight, slowly worked back up past where I was. Looks like I get to do that again.
Dumbbell Front Raise
25 lb dumbbells x 12 reps
30 lb dumbbells x 10 reps
35 lb dumbbells x 8 reps
40 lb dumbbells x 6 reps - this was not so bad, still not quite symmetrical.
Rear Lat Machine
70 lbs x 12 reps
80 lbs x 10 reps
90 lbs x 8 reps
100 lbs x 6 reps - right shoulder had some pain.
Squats…
0 lbs x 12 reps - form, form, form. Thighs to parallel.
55 lbs x 5 reps
105 lbs x 5 reps
125 lbs x 5 reps
145 lbs x 5 reps
165 x 5 reps
185 lbs x 5 reps - 1st rep was not quite parallel, corrected for the other 4.
Guy in the cage next to me loaded up 315 on his bar, but never got his thighs lower then 45 degrees to horizantal. I have been paying a lot more attention to how people do it since the flaming I got. Seems there are a lot of people do not have good form on squats.
25 minutes sauna. iPhone overheated just as I was trying to see SP’s “Off for a 3 day weekend” pic on T-Vixen 14… So my iPhone confirmed SP’s hotness.
10 minutes in the whirlpool, jets on right shoulder and legs.
Weighed in at 183.
My shoulder had a dull throb in it after the 14 hours of driving to bring Sebastian back from Ft. Leonard Wood.
Maybe the drive and the lousy seats in my beater car caused the issues with my right side.
I get to do it all in one day on Monday to take him back to the Marines.
It’s my right shoulder that hurts during overhead presses.
I was thinking of trying this thing from the TN article.
There is also mention of trying light resistance band pull-apart for the shoulders every day.
The shoulder pain sucks!
Thanks for the link, CH!
And thanks for checking my log!
Saturday - 5/28
Arms and Abs
Tried the Crazy 8’s as described by John Meadows
http://www.T-Nation.com/strength-training-topics/1110
Tricep Cable - 70 lbs
Barbell Curl - 50 lbs
Tri Kickback - 20 lbs dumbbells
Hammer Curl - 20 lbs
Bench Dip
Rope Curls - 60 lbs
8 reps each, 1 minute rest between sets, Made 4 sets. Arms were pumped.
Abs
Cybex Ab Machine 90 lbs - 4 sets, 15 reps
Roman Chair with 25 lb plate - 4 sets, 15 reps
Sauna 25 minutes, Whirlpool 10 minutes. Right shoulder still sore/weird feeling.
Sunday - 5/29
Did nothing. Taking my son back to Ft. Leonard Wood, so I have 14 hours of driving ahead of me for tomorrow.
Survived the driving, missed the thunderstorms.
Tuesday - 5/31
Lunch - Chest
BW Dips 20, 11, 9, 6, 7 - 1 minute rest between sets
Bench Press 135 lbs x 8, 135 lbs x 9, 155lbs x 5, 155lbs x 4 - right side felt off, weak
Dumbbell Flys 20 lbs x 12, 20lbs x 12, 25 lbs x 12, 30 lbs x 12, 35 lbs x 9 - Right pec/side hurt.
Pullovers 35 lbs x 12, 40 lbs x 12, 45 lbs x 12, 50 lbs x 12, 55 lbs x 12
Close Tri Pushups 10, 9, 8, 9 - feet on balance ball
Hockey Skills - 75 minutes