[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
dianab wrote:
I’m pretty sure you can compete in a higher weight class. Just think of the fun you’ll have eating your way to 132.
I think it would be a lot of fun. The interesting thing is that there seem to be a lot stronger lifters in the 56kg weight class than the 60kg. At least that’s been my observation when looking over old competitions.[/quote]
Yep, it looks that way in Quebec too, in the Masters II anyway. In Masters I at 132 there are not a lot of competitors. I’m going to stick with 132, I’m weighing in at about 134-135 right now and my meet is in 4 weeks, so it won’t be too much of a stretch. No way I stand a chance lifting in the 67kg class.
With the muscle you’ve added, 123 might be a bit low for you, you’d be stronger in the 60kg class I think.
[quote]cvb wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
pch2 wrote:
Congrats! When are the championships?
They are December 6 in Ottawa. I hope that’s enough time to pull myself together and start learning to use a squat suit.
Plenty of time but I would order it soon. Are you going to use a bench shirt and deadlift suit too?
Claire [/quote]
I’m not sure about the bench shirt and DL suit yet. I’ll start with the squat suit. Our coach is not a huge equipment fan. He’s used it and understands that everyone else uses it but doesn’t want us to rush into it. I think the squat suit will be the thin edge of the wedge.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
cvb wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
pch2 wrote:
Congrats! When are the championships?
They are December 6 in Ottawa. I hope that’s enough time to pull myself together and start learning to use a squat suit.
Plenty of time but I would order it soon. Are you going to use a bench shirt and deadlift suit too?
Claire
I’m not sure about the bench shirt and DL suit yet. I’ll start with the squat suit. Our coach is not a huge equipment fan. He’s used it and understands that everyone else uses it but doesn’t want us to rush into it. I think the squat suit will be the thin edge of the wedge.
Do you have any recommendations for squat suits?[/quote]
If you want a suit that is cheap, not too painful, easy to learn and will just add a little to your squat, I would recommend the Inzer z-suit. I was able to hit depth no problem on my first session with it. I only had two squat session with it before my first meet. Mine was not very tight and it added around 25lbs to my squat. I gained some weight and was able to add around 50lbs to my squat with the same suit.
If you want something more advanced, I’m not sure what would be best for you. I have tried the Inzer Hardcore (hated it) and Metal viking. The Metal Viking requires good form to hit depth (knees out and sitting back are important). I like the suit but it takes a few session to learn it and is more painful than the z-suit.
[quote]cvb wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
cvb wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
pch2 wrote:
Congrats! When are the championships?
They are December 6 in Ottawa. I hope that’s enough time to pull myself together and start learning to use a squat suit.
Plenty of time but I would order it soon. Are you going to use a bench shirt and deadlift suit too?
Claire
I’m not sure about the bench shirt and DL suit yet. I’ll start with the squat suit. Our coach is not a huge equipment fan. He’s used it and understands that everyone else uses it but doesn’t want us to rush into it. I think the squat suit will be the thin edge of the wedge.
Do you have any recommendations for squat suits?
If you want a suit that is cheap, not too painful, easy to learn and will just add a little to your squat, I would recommend the Inzer z-suit. I was able to hit depth no problem on my first session with it.
I only had two squat session with it before my first meet. Mine was not very tight and it added around 25lbs to my squat. I gained some weight and was able to add around 50lbs to my squat with the same suit.
If you want something more advanced, I’m not sure what would be best for you. I have tried the Inzer Hardcore (hated it) and Metal viking. The Metal Viking requires good form to hit depth (knees out and sitting back are important). I like the suit but it takes a few session to learn it and is more painful than the z-suit.
Squat suits for starters Is there a dummies book on it?
The 2 openings go toward the bottom and the 3 openings go toward the top. It’s just like a rowing uni-suit.
TNT[/quote]
I knew I could count on you to simplify things but a diagram would work even better. With arrows. Kind of like laying sod. Green side up, brown side down.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
cvb wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
cvb wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
pch2 wrote:
Congrats! When are the championships?
They are December 6 in Ottawa. I hope that’s enough time to pull myself together and start learning to use a squat suit.
Plenty of time but I would order it soon. Are you going to use a bench shirt and deadlift suit too?
Claire
I’m not sure about the bench shirt and DL suit yet. I’ll start with the squat suit. Our coach is not a huge equipment fan. He’s used it and understands that everyone else uses it but doesn’t want us to rush into it. I think the squat suit will be the thin edge of the wedge.
Do you have any recommendations for squat suits?
If you want a suit that is cheap, not too painful, easy to learn and will just add a little to your squat, I would recommend the Inzer z-suit. I was able to hit depth no problem on my first session with it.
I only had two squat session with it before my first meet. Mine was not very tight and it added around 25lbs to my squat. I gained some weight and was able to add around 50lbs to my squat with the same suit.
If you want something more advanced, I’m not sure what would be best for you. I have tried the Inzer Hardcore (hated it) and Metal viking. The Metal Viking requires good form to hit depth (knees out and sitting back are important). I like the suit but it takes a few session to learn it and is more painful than the z-suit.
I ran into one of the guys at the gym that I haven’t seen in a month or more since training at Steel City. He noticed that I’d dropped a bit of weight and kept going on about how slim and tight I looked. I just want my ass back.
I was so shaky after my workout that I went to the supplement store for some BCAAs which I haven’t taken in a while. I ended up chatting with the guy working there for quite a bit. He used to compete in power lifting. He was quite beautiful and he gave me a free t-shirt. I was going to ask he I could sit in his lap while we chatted but then another customer came in
I ordered an Inzer Z suit on line today. I’m getting size 29 although that is a size up from what I think I may need. My weight is at the cusp of 28 & 29 so I went bigger. Thanks CVB for the recommendation.
I was doing a bit of reminiscing after the meet and realised it was September last year that I wandered into the boy’s side of the gym and shortly after that stepped into a squat rack for the first time.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I ran into one of the guys at the gym that I haven’t seen in a month or more since training at Steel City. He noticed that I’d dropped a bit of weight and kept going on about how slim and tight I looked. I just want my ass back.
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I was going to ask he I could sit in his lap while we chatted but then another customer came in
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I was doing a bit of reminiscing after the meet and realised it was September last year that I wandered into the boy’s side of the gym and shortly after that stepped into a squat rack for the first time.[/quote]
Look at you you sex machine! Chatting up guys left, right and center. If you came on here and said “I asked if I could sit in his lap while we chatted” I probably would have peed myself.
As for the squat rack bit, by “stepped into” do you mean grabbed a mat and a swiss ball and did yoga-type exercises in it? I kicked a woman out of the squat rack yesterday for doing just that even though the other one was empty. I can TOTALLY picture you doing that before you learned the art of SS.
[quote]Court wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
I ran into one of the guys at the gym that I haven’t seen in a month or more since training at Steel City. He noticed that I’d dropped a bit of weight and kept going on about how slim and tight I looked. I just want my ass back.
…
I was going to ask he I could sit in his lap while we chatted but then another customer came in
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I was doing a bit of reminiscing after the meet and realised it was September last year that I wandered into the boy’s side of the gym and shortly after that stepped into a squat rack for the first time.
Look at you you sex machine! Chatting up guys left, right and center. If you came on here and said “I asked if I could sit in his lap while we chatted” I probably would have peed myself.
As for the squat rack bit, by “stepped into” do you mean grabbed a mat and a swiss ball and did yoga-type exercises in it? I kicked a woman out of the squat rack yesterday for doing just that even though the other one was empty. I can TOTALLY picture you doing that before you learned the art of SS. [/quote]
Okay, first off, I’m ovulating soon so I may just sit in some guys lap without asking. The guy at the supplement store was mmmmmmm nice. He could powerlift me any day of the week. He also used to bobsled. I’m sure there’s a dirty joke in there somewhere. Do you think it means he likes me if he gave me a t-shirt? If I were to believe my teenage powerlifting assistant, a guy is hitting on you if he’s talking to you. With him, I decided not to ask whether he had been hitting on me last October when he introduced himself for the first time in the grocery store in the protein aisle. I swear he didn’t look 17.
The first time I went into the squat rack it was to hang up some damp clothes to dry while I did crunches on a ball.
It was actually to squat. I had read up a bit on stumptuous.com (great site btw) but hadn’t really seen anyone squat in real life so I was flying by the seat of my pants.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Okay, first off, I’m ovulating soon so I may just sit in some guys lap without asking. The guy at the supplement store was mmmmmmm nice. He could powerlift me any day of the week. He also used to bobsled. I’m sure there’s a dirty joke in there somewhere. Do you think it means he likes me if he gave me a t-shirt? If I were to believe my teenage powerlifting assistant, a guy is hitting on you if he’s talking to you. With him, I decided not to ask whether he had been hitting on me last October when he introduced himself for the first time in the grocery store in the protein aisle. I swear he didn’t look 17.
The first time I went into the squat rack it was to hang up some damp clothes to dry while I did crunches on a ball.
It was actually to squat. I had read up a bit on stumptuous.com (great site btw) but hadn’t really seen anyone squat in real life so I was flying by the seat of my pants.[/quote]
Maybe Wol will come in here with a joke about powerlifting you and bobsledding. He’s usually good for a dirty joke/comment. As for the t-shirt thing, it’s hard to say. If it was HIS store, then perhaps he just wanted you to advertise for him to other chicks at the gym. If not, then maybe. Who knows.
So not only are you part of the middle-age-mom Olympic gymnastic team, but you flirt with 17 year old boys as well? O, we’re gonna have to lock you up soon, letting you out only to powerlift! hahaha.
I guess I take my athletic training in highschool a bit for granted. Before university I was training for varsity soccer camp at a mainly hockey player facility (where I first how to handle being oogled since I was the only female with about 20-25 guys around my age) and that’s where I first squatted, lunged, etc. Nevermind that I gave it up for a few years, but at least I didn’t have to fly by the seat of my pants
PS. Not sure if I ever said it, but I certainly thought it… awesome meet results on the weekend!
So not only are you part of the middle-age-mom Olympic gymnastic team, but you flirt with 17 year old boys as well? O, we’re gonna have to lock you up soon, letting you out only to powerlift! hahaha.
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Well there is a bit of background on the teenage boy. We met for the first time last October in the grocery store when I was perusing the whey protein. He came up to me and started giving me advice on different types of protein. We got chatting about lifting and discovered our common interest in PL. It wasn’t until near the end of the conversation that I realised how young he was. Regardless, it was just a protein chat.
We have run into each other from time to time over the past year. Most recently when I joined the club and realised he trained there as well. This is the fellow who helped me at the meet. Incidentally he did a great job. His skills are wasted in manufacturing.
It was funny on Saturday because any time a guy talked to me he said they were hitting on me and I’d say, no, he was talking to me. It’s his opinion that any time a man talks to a woman, he’s hitting on her. I think I showed restraint in not taking the piss out of him about whether he was hitting on me the first time we met. Maybe he thought he’d try his luck with an older lady.
I kind of enjoyed getting perspective on life and romance through the eyes of a teenage boy.
FWIW, however, I was totally flirting with the guy at the supplement store. It’s nice to talk to someone who is passionate about something.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
It’s his opinion that any time a man talks to a woman, he’s hitting on her.
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This is true, pretty much universally, though many guys will try to deny it.
You did, and he was.
Gross generalizations, as if I can speak for all the rest of us with a broken chromosome (that’d be the Y), I admit. But 9 times out of 10…
I talk with the checkout ladies at the grocery all the time with utterly no intention of trying anything at all with them. I just realize that they never have anyone actually take the time to be nice to them. But if some guy chats you up without any more reason than because he’s standing in front of you, he’s likely measuring.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
It was actually to squat. I had read up a bit on stumptuous.com (great site btw) but hadn’t really seen anyone squat in real life so I was flying by the seat of my pants.[/quote]
[quote]sdspeedracer wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
It’s his opinion that any time a man talks to a woman, he’s hitting on her.
This is true, pretty much universally, though many guys will try to deny it.
I think I showed restraint in not taking the piss out of him about whether he was hitting on me the first time we met. Maybe he thought he’d try his luck with an older lady.
You did, and he was.
Gross generalizations, as if I can speak for all the rest of us with a broken chromosome (that’d be the Y), I admit. But 9 times out of 10…
I talk with the checkout ladies at the grocery all the time with utterly no intention of trying anything at all with them. I just realize that they never have anyone actually take the time to be nice to them. But if some guy chats you up without any more reason than because he’s standing in front of you, he’s likely measuring.[/quote]
That seems to be the consensus among men. The guys I work with said the same thing.
A friend of mine said the protein he was thinking about wasn’t the isolate
It’s nice to know I appeal to the teen crowd. Too bad he isn’t 20 years older.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
It was actually to squat. I had read up a bit on stumptuous.com (great site btw) but hadn’t really seen anyone squat in real life so I was flying by the seat of my pants.
Hey, that’s where I got my first program from![/quote]
Is that not the best site? I absolutely love it. I find her to be funny as hell. I got a lot of my form tips on the ‘dork to diva’ section.
I thought I would do some light squats because my quads were on fire from squatting last night and I thought it might relieve them a bit. I work in a two story building and have to go up and down a large flight of stairs 100 times a day.
Up wasn’t a problem. Down sucked big time. It got to the point where I just wanted to throw the paperwork down the stairs and shout catch.
I find it a real shock to my system to go from heavy triples and singles to light eights.
Rack pulls - just below knee height
205x1x8
225x2x5
T-bar row (This was done with a bar on the floor and weight on one end)
25x1x10
45x1x12
60x1x12
Power cleans
95x3x5
Pull ups
1x8
2x5
1x4
I think I’ll go sit in an epsom salt bath and read Cosmo. Find out how to really please a man and not exercise my brain or my body. Somebody recently called it trans fat for the brain and it’s my guilty pleasure. It’s like mental Hot Pockets…hooot pockets…
Is there a dummies book on it?