Are you switching back to conventional?
fwiw, my fed is the Y too. Don’t dis them.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Are you switching back to conventional?
fwiw, my fed is the Y too. Don’t dis them.[/quote]
hurts too much, LOL, took a week to recover from sumo
let me fix my wide squat first
I was with the YMCA once!! That’s hilarious…
[quote]dianab wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Are you switching back to conventional?
fwiw, my fed is the Y too. Don’t dis them.
hurts too much, LOL, took a week to recover from sumo
let me fix my wide squat first[/quote]
No kidding about hurts too much. After switching to wide stance squats and doing high volume, I felt like I’d been ridden hard and put away wet. It was a physical impossibility to get my knees together. Just keep hammering away at it. With your muscular butt, I think you’ll end up reaping a ton of benefit from it.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
dianab wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Are you switching back to conventional?
fwiw, my fed is the Y too. Don’t dis them.
hurts too much, LOL, took a week to recover from sumo
let me fix my wide squat first
No kidding about hurts too much. After switching to wide stance squats and doing high volume, I felt like I’d been ridden hard and put away wet. It was a physical impossibility to get my knees together. Just keep hammering away at it. With your muscular butt, I think you’ll end up reaping a ton of benefit from it.[/quote]
I’ve got lots of time. As soon as I break depth again properly. I’ve been put on a diet of singles for now and we’ll see how it goes.
Did 15 miles on my bike yesterday, which felt great at the time but hurts like a bitch now. My butt is sore from DL to top it off and somehow I woke up yesterday all stuffy, which turned into a full fledged snot fest by mid day. So I’m sick, tired from no sleep since I can’t breathe and sore. Today was supposed to be volleyball, but I don’t think so. Maybe just lie in the sun with box of kleenex and some cold pills.
[quote]dianab wrote:
Did 15 miles on my bike yesterday, which felt great at the time but hurts like a bitch now. My butt is sore from DL to top it off and somehow I woke up yesterday all stuffy, which turned into a full fledged snot fest by mid day. So I’m sick, tired from no sleep since I can’t breathe and sore. Today was supposed to be volleyball, but I don’t think so. Maybe just lie in the sun with box of kleenex and some cold pills.[/quote]
mmmm you are super hot 
I hope you feel better soon. I woke up in the middle of the night with a blinding headache that’s kind of in the back ground now.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
dianab wrote:
Did 15 miles on my bike yesterday, which felt great at the time but hurts like a bitch now. My butt is sore from DL to top it off and somehow I woke up yesterday all stuffy, which turned into a full fledged snot fest by mid day. So I’m sick, tired from no sleep since I can’t breathe and sore. Today was supposed to be volleyball, but I don’t think so. Maybe just lie in the sun with box of kleenex and some cold pills.
mmmm you are super hot
I hope you feel better soon. I woke up in the middle of the night with a blinding headache that’s kind of in the back ground now.[/quote]
watch it girly with the language, you’ll turn me on
I’m stuck here, 2 groups did walk throughs today and we are expecting another one in 15 minutes, I hope someone makes an offer…
well, we got an offer, countered and it was accepted, so pending inspection on Friday, the house is sold in less than a week. back to renting ugg.
Monday bench
I am sick and coughing and congested. So did some benching:
barx10
5x85
2x95x3 reps
2x105x3
115x1
120xfail
2x105
3x95
10x75
DB Press/DB row with 30lbs DBs
5x8 reps
A couple sets of 5x95 squats and I am toasted.
Wed. Squat
Still sick, still really tired I did not sleep last night at all and I can’t sleep which NEVER happens, damn. It’s the house and stress and after I ate a huge meal, had coffee and cookies, I weighed in at 131lbs ):
foam rolled
bar x a lot
stretched
2x95x5 reps
5x135x2 felt good
1x155x5, reviewed vids 4/5 good fond the point were I know I’m deep enough and it’s the butt wink thing, I know that’s not supposed to be good, but why, it doesn’t hurt and then I know I’m deep enough.
2x155x6: 50/50, high, 50/50, good, good, good (: feeling better
1x175x 3 all high I think, have to have another look at vids
gave up, shoulder hurts now too and I’m all snotty.
GMs/Pull ups
5x5@105
5,4,4,4
too tired to continue, I’ll hit the DL hard on Friday.
Stressful week so far, I’m happy, sad, excited, looking forward and looking back. Need to get over this cold and try to re-gain some needed focus.
Hope you feel better!!
[quote]dianab wrote:
well, we got an offer, countered and it was accepted, so pending inspection on Friday, the house is sold in less than a week. back to renting ugg.
Monday bench
I am sick and coughing and congested. So did some benching:
barx10
5x85
2x95x3 reps
2x105x3
115x1
120xfail
2x105
3x95
10x75
DB Press/DB row with 30lbs DBs
5x8 reps
A couple sets of 5x95 squats and I am toasted.
Wed. Squat
Still sick, still really tired I did not sleep last night at all and I can’t sleep which NEVER happens, damn. It’s the house and stress and after I ate a huge meal, had coffee and cookies, I weighed in at 131lbs ):
foam rolled
bar x a lot
stretched
2x95x5 reps
5x135x2 felt good
1x155x5, reviewed vids 4/5 good fond the point were I know I’m deep enough and it’s the butt wink thing, I know that’s not supposed to be good, but why, it doesn’t hurt and then I know I’m deep enough.
2x155x6: 50/50, high, 50/50, good, good, good (: feeling better
1x175x 3 all high I think, have to have another look at vids
gave up, shoulder hurts now too and I’m all snotty.
GMs/Pull ups
5x5@105
5,4,4,4
too tired to continue, I’ll hit the DL hard on Friday.
Stressful week so far, I’m happy, sad, excited, looking forward and looking back. Need to get over this cold and try to re-gain some needed focus.[/quote]
You’ve been here before. So have I. Use the time to evaluate. I’m not talking lifting either. You already know this but i’ll say it anyway: Take advantage of this time to be who you are. When we are with someone for a long time we become who we are with them. That’s not necessarily a bad thing but now’s the time to enjoy the freedom to just be who ‘you’ are.
Also, maybe you can drop a weight class
Thanks Tootles, feeling a bit better, just stuffy and tired!
Now Jules, you know me better than that, to quote Popeye, I yam who I yam LOL.
Someone told me recently that people never change who they really are at the core, we just make compromises to in order to accept one another, since no person is perfect. That is about the most truth I’ve ever heard.
Now freakin way I’m dropping a weight class, too damn skinny as it is and I don’t want to lose my ass. Or compete against you LOL.
[quote]dianab wrote:
Now Jules, you know me better than that, to quote Popeye, I yam who I yam LOL.
Someone told me recently that people never change who they really are at the core, we just make compromises to in order to accept one another, since no person is perfect. That is about the most truth I’ve ever heard.
Now freakin way I’m dropping a weight class, too damn skinny as it is and I don’t want to lose my ass. Or compete against you LOL.[/quote]
I guess I know that about you. Still, take the opportunity right now to not compromise for anothers’ imperfections. It’s pretty liberating. I’m a bit more of a chameleon or have been in the past which is why I do better alone.
It’s part of the problem I guess, not enough compromise from either side. I’ll give stuff up, but not big stuff, greedy like that and we are the same in that way. Think I’ll stay single for a while though and just have fun, been a long time.
So yesterday was Montreal Power Wars, a CPO meet and it was a blast! Big boys, big lifts and a few 700+ DLs hitting the floor, the best sound in the world. I never got to meet this guy, this is a close to 1000 squat, he broke 1000 on his third attempt with white lights. This is my motivation for squat day now!
Sunday, Deadlifting day and I’m up for it
some warm up stuff
2x145x5 reps
2x165x5
2x195x2
2x215x1
235x1
255x1 not a PR but close, last week 245 would not budge so I was happy
275x0, missed lock out by an inch, I did 271 at the Nationals, but in my suit
got stubborn about it and put on my suit hoping that some spring off the floor might give me enough power to get lock-out
275x0 in suit, same shit as the raw lift
did this exercise 2 more times and gave up on 275 for today, next time
235x1
195x3
145x5
here is the 255
275 raw, happy even though I missed, my best raw lift is 265
275 in the suit, same shit as raw LOL
pretty tired and sore freaking hands by now
Pull-ups
3,3,3 slow eccentrics but even with those little mouse pad things for grips, my hands are shot
DB Press/DB Row 30lbs DBs
5x8 reps
Had my friend Genevieve DL 8 reps at 145x2 and 165x1 LOL she thought it was 10lbs lighter than what it was because I had the 55lb bar set up on the platform. She can pull like hell but is scared of the weight.
Foam rolled, went home, sore ass.
Squattin on la fête nationale, hot and fucking humid, but depth found me, finally.
bar x a bunch
2x95x5 reps
2x135x5
5x155x2
5x175x1
195x0, just sat down with it, too hot and tired to grind out that bitch
I don’t know if it’s my CNS or the heat or both, but I’m not used to heavy weight on my back anymore, or I felt like that yesterday at least.
155x2
135x2 LOL planned on doing reps, not happening
Pull-ups, 5,4,4,3
Did GM’s between sets of pull-ups
5x105x5
That’s it, came home and got nekid in front of the fan for an hour before I could move at all.
Barry said to bring my gear to Ottawa, just in case. I’m thinking I’ll do that (:
a couple vids, depth is right there I think, but I know in my suit it’ll be fine, feeling positive about that.
SInce it was a holiday, my gym was closed so I picked a random gym on my way home from work, paid $7 and trained there, it was peaceful and I like it, may even go back.
In other news, I found an appartement I think, it’s in an old decrepit building, just how I like 'em LOL and right on the river. I can have my dog and my dishwasher, and the rent is cheap. House was signed off today, we have officially sold it now.
Squats looked really good. As for the miss, it was likely the heat because that 175 looked very smooth.
Nice work!
Please bring your gear to Ottawa. I’d love it if you were competing with us.
You’ve had an eventful week. Can you show pictures of the apartment? Hopefully it doesn’t smell like cigarettes, b.o. and fishsticks