glad to hear you having fun. i’ve been thinking about giving skipping a shot after seeing nadia on her beam… not sure my feet can do it, but might be fun to try. sorry about the people in the squat rack. i reckon vegie is onto something there…
You could also deal them a single bone-crushing kick to the sternum and fling their pathetic body out of the rack as they gasp their last pointless breath; your rack.
Mean-bitch stare works too I guess, or batting your eyes and asking sweetly how many sets they have left.
And yeah, if you rep 255 you can prob’ly get 265 at least once. Mental blocks are the hardest to break through sometimes, but a good chunk of the Nation is behind you rooting you on. 
Dam Nikki your training is SOLID! Sometimes I forget how small you are when you start listing all the heavy weight you throw around
blush Thanks dday =D
Thanks Puff, I’ll love to assist you with the racking.
That sounds dirtier than I intended, but works just the same.
Thanks KMC. Me, jacked. I’m getting big-headed.
I appreciate it =D
Alex, skipping is actually so much fun. I’m obsessed with it again.
Kris, I think I should try the batting eyes option lol
I can do sweet easy.
I’ll remember the chunk of TN rooting me on next DL session. That way I have to do it so as to not disappoint.
Thanks OMO, such a lovely compliment coming from you.
K, today was back and chest.
Kind of a screwy day, I won’t go too much into it.
Started with pull-ups.
7 wide pull-ups from dead hang. PR. Love it.
Did a total of 27 pull-ups.
Did 2 sets of Pendlays with 135. 10 reps and 6 reps.
Cut it short because some asshole was staring at my ass and grinning. I get feelings about people and I didn’t get a good vibe from this dude. Kind of fucked up the rest of my session.
It wasn’t so much him, sometimes memories are trigged by things like this.
Did DB rows to leave his sight.
50# x 12 each arm
65 x 12 each arm
Wasn’t feeling it.
Did FST-7 Straight arm pulldowns
Pretty good, nice pump
DB incline bench
35s x 15
40s x 15
45s x 12 +1 rep PR
Couldn’t get 50# DBs up. Then again I didn’t try that much. But if I had to grind that hard, it wasn’t worth it anyway.
FST-7
Pec Deck
Very nice
I really wanted to get into some conditioning. I can think too much when lifting weights. I needed some circuits and complexes.
Went to the basketball court and did:
1-arm KB swings with 35#, 12 each arm
Pushed 135# half-court, then pulled it back to start
100 skips with jump rope
Did that circuit 5 times.
I was feeling very good now.
Complex:
DL
RDL
Row
Hang Clean
Front squat
Push press
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 with 85#
Then I played with the hang cleans.
Did a lot of sets, got a lot of fails, but ended up with 105 pound hang clean, a new PR.
Did some skipping between cleans.
All in all a good conditioning day at least.
I can’t wait to grab a magazine and lay under the sun. Have some errands first, but I’m in desperate need of Me Time.
Damn, girlie! Quads and delts are looking mad pumped! Nice! Next time you work shoulders, i’d love to see a front shot of the delts. I’ve been working mine too, imma trying to get hyooge like ma girl Nik!
Good thing to trust your vibes on the creeper. Sorry that marred your sesh though. I understand, triggers, yeah. Sucks.
I’m almost certain I’ve said it before, but if your going heavy with the DB bench, get a spot for them. You’ll prob just need help getting them up, but you’ll be able to rep a few once they’re are up. Then next, you can get them up yourself. Works like magic i tells ya. Altho I swear you got them up before…cant remember.
Anyways, training is ridic as always, mamacita! Jealous of your 105 Hang clean - but congrats! Fucking awesome conditioning day - ME LIKEY!!
For not being into it, that is some killer shyte right there! I got an idea on how we can quell this douchebag oggler! Before your next time your doing Pendlays, make sure you eat Black Beans and Broccolli, let it marinate in your belly, make sure you spot this dickhead, set up in front of him, close, and smile, bend over and start rowing…make sure he is smiling with his mouth open preferably and then blast him with a huge FART in his oggling face. and then turn around and fan it in his face and yell, NICE!
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Thanks Masch, so sweet blush
I’ll get a pic of swole shoulders in a few days.
I did get the 50s up before, but it was flat bench. Hmm, I guess incline should be easier to get up. No not really.
I didn’t like any of the dudes around me for a spot; either old peeping Toms or young arrogant guys who’ll think I’m hitting on them. I don’t like to feed egos.
Ya know, the guys who do some smith shrugs and feel all swole and sexy and think all the ladies’ eyes are on them.
Hmm, I hoped I named it right. Hang clean is when you start in the hang position and the bar ends up in a front squat position, right?
LOL
LMAO Matty. Yeah, Iono about that haha
It seems that there’s always something. I wake up at 6 to go to the gym earlier to avoid the stalker dude, only to find out that weirdos work out all hours of the day FML
I had a pleasant tan. Well sorta. The HOA changed the locks for the pool, and no one has the new key. Thank you so much Fuckers for not giving out new keys for the pool when it’s creeping up to summertime in Florida. Fuck, it’s already summer in Florida!
I called them and they’re supposed to send a form. If I don’t get that form… ah, not even the calming effects of rhodiola will be able to save their asses.
I just layed out in the backyard with my book though, no biggie. Got a nice tan, gonna have to keep it up over the next few days though to get where I wanna be. Muscles lookin’ sexy though <3
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Killing it as always {like}
Sorry about creeper dude. That totally sucks. I hate it when people are obviously trying to make me feel uncomfortable. And I hate the not knowing–is this a really creepy guy or just a regular creepy guy. As a result, I tend to escalate the conflict asap, and on my terms, with a controlled but hostile inquiry like “what the fuck is your problem?” Most people retreat when directly confronted–and if he doesn’t–then you have more information about what you’re dealing with.
When I first moved out west, people were so damn friendly I couldn’t tell who was an asshole or who wasn’t. One night I was in line at a convenience store and the guy behind me starts chatting me up–then I’m walking home and he’s behind me–I’m two blocks from my apartment–It’s dark–I’m new to the city–so, I turn around and start cursing him out “are you fucking following me? What the fuck is your problem?”
Yeah, I don’t think he was following me. “I live right over here,” he said. I stood there, unapologetic, and watched him turn down a side street. I waited until I was sure he was not coming back or looking back and then I walked the rest of the way home. Sometimes I’m embarrassed that I’m such a bitch. But mostly I don’t care. And now, after almost 17 years living out here amongst the friendly, I’m probably too fucking nice for my own good.
A girl has to watch out for herself. You’re smart to trust your instincts. And switching up your routine is a good move.
I know people…
smacks baseball to hand
I react very similarly to Nadia. I grew up in bad neighborhoods believe it or not. Maybe that’s where my ‘wall,’ comes from. Don’t make eye contact, look pissed off.
Never thought of it like that before. hmm
I’m not a very easy target to take down though. I’m not exactly tiny.
And I’ll be DAMNED if I let some asshole like you described get away with that shit. Tell him off next time…but hopefully there’s not a next time!
Rock, down boy <3
Dday, thank you, I appreciate it.
Nadia, as a woman lonely in public, you shouldn’t feel embarrassed when you defend yourself like that. I have to remember that I’m not the vulnerable, overweight (well, 200 lb overweight, not 150 lb BMI obese lol) person that I was.
LOL MiM, you sweetie pie. Hopefully there’s not a next time, but I’ve been dealing with creeps for years, it’s not going to stop overnight.
I have a lot of steam to blow off right now. It’s TN bullshit, and it’s not what was said that’s bothering me. Just the fact that I’m trying to be the bigger person and not respond to it. I just think it’s terrible when women tear each other down. I can’t speak for every woman here, but in my gym, there’s no woman supporting that I lift heavy weights and the men say that I need to do something more feminine than bodybuilding and “What’s a pretty girl like yourself doing pumping iron?” TN is an escape from that bullshit, and I love that people can support my training and appreciate my pics which reflect what many people consider to be ugly. Big quads? Broad shoulders? These things on a woman aren’t considered beautiful by society but encouraged on TN. Yet I’m an attention-seeking butterface whore?
sigh I need to lift some fucking weights.
P.S. I do apologize for the rant but I won’t delete it. I don’t care if I offend anyone, I don’t care that the parties or even people who know what/where I’m talking about even read it. I can say what I want in my log. I’m just trying not to ruin someone else’s log.
Say wut?! Whatever was said, fuck that noise. Unless I said something, in which case you can just call my ass out.
First, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Second, there isn’t really any other place in RL or on the nets for athletic women to a) show off their proud accomplishments b) discuss athleticism as females, and there will be conflicting opinions. If its worth the discussion, air it out!
Keep on doing you Nikki, big quads, shoulders and dont forget snickers but, NICE!
Maschy, you’ll never say something like that.
But I feel a lot better after that rant. I just needed to say something somewhere where it will have meaning.
Oh Matty, I will keep doing me. I can continue to do me without problems though if broads didn’t try to call me and 80% of the other Powerful Women on TN out. We’re not attention-seeking whore butterfaces. We just don’t get as much respect as we should by society because we do shit that’s harder than fuckin’ Crossfit.
Oops, guess I didn’t get it all out.
I’m done.
Maschy, dollface, I got you some pics of my shoulders. They’re not crazy pumped (after FST-7 they’re crazy pumped) but I can always get pictures when I train shoulders and arms again. But I did some pressing so snapped a couple pics.
Today I did the Superhero thingie by CT
The complexes… <pass out, not as elegant as swoon>
Squats and overhead pressing
A1) Top Half Squat
275 x 5 x 2 sets, 295 x 5 x 4 sets
A2) Front Squat
135 x 4, 115 x 5 x 5 sets
A3) Hang Clean (supposed to be power snatch but who cares, it killed me)
95 x 3 x 6 sets
A4)Jump Squat
135 x 8, 115 x 10 x 5
A5) Vertical Jump
10 for 6 sets
A6) Pull 135#
6 sets
Of course, I did A1-A6, then repeated the complex 6 times. I just put all the sets for each exercise together.
There’s this dude who came in to do shrugs with the trap bar. I was 1 foot away from him doing my front squats in the complex. What does the mofo do? Takes off 35# off the bar as I was finishing my 3rd circuit. I got 35# from the squat rack that was right next to him and told him “You don’t want to be the guy to get between me and my workout. Especially now.”
He left, I found him in the dark stretching room later on.
Overhead Pressing Complex
B1) Seated Top Half OH Press
115 x 5, 125 x 4 x 5
B2) Standing Military Press
85 x 5, 85 x 4 x 5
B3) Push Press
85 x 3 x 6
B4) Medicine ball push-press throw
10# ball x 10 throws for all 6 sets
B5) Plyo push-ups (supposed to be foot-elevated but I nipped that shit in the bud)
10 plyos for all 6 sets
I was sweating from the first set of the squat complex. I stripped down to my sport bra. Thank goodness I decided to wear it today.
Pic 2 of 2 of shoulder
Looks like you had a good workout. How did you like the complexes?